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GreenNight posted:It’s a painted wall that looks like it’s dripping. Was anything else installed at the same time? Some solvents can discolor paint or cause it to flow, maybe something that was used in a different install?
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So, our warehouse is a janky, jury-rigged piece of poo poo that was, for legal reasons, once three separate buildings, now jankily smushed together. After the latest "renovation" they managed to gently caress up one of these joinings so it leaks every time it rains. Instead of getting some tradesmen to fix it properly, instead the management solution has been the installation of new rain gutters... on the inside of the building, channelling the water into a trough, because there are no floor drains inside the building. The new Interior Gutters(tm) are held up by string, and have not been "capped" at the ends rain is not meant to go out of. I cannot WAIT until the next proper rainstorm.
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Just need management to commit to calling those joining sections 'breezeways' to set expectations and then it's 'good enough'.
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PurpleXVI posted:So, our warehouse is a janky, jury-rigged piece of poo poo that was, for legal reasons, once three separate buildings, now jankily smushed together. After the latest "renovation" they managed to gently caress up one of these joinings so it leaks every time it rains. Wow, they went with actual gutters instead of a drain tarp?
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Now is that plug input for the outlet or vice versa?
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H110Hawk posted:Now is that plug input for the outlet or vice versa? Yes.
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H110Hawk posted:Now is that plug input for the outlet or vice versa? Probably for a light fixture on the ceiling. '20s - '30s era had a lot of stuff like that.
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Judging from the old 2 wire socket installed in the baseboard I think the lamp cord plastered into the wall is just as safe as the knob and tube inside the wall.
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PurpleXVI posted:So, our warehouse is a janky, jury-rigged piece of poo poo that was, for legal reasons, once three separate buildings, now jankily smushed together. After the latest "renovation" they managed to gently caress up one of these joinings so it leaks every time it rains. Lol they did a similar hing in our warehouse with an old trough dumping into an upside down traffic cone to funnel water to the door
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devicenull posted:Wow, they went with actual gutters instead of a drain tarp? Yep! Even inexplicably used the zink gutters instead of the PVC ones, don't ask me why, but I guess someone wanted to really show off their DIY chops.
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Concrete bags stay winning, they didn't break when the wall did
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It should be one bag of cement, two bags of sand and three bags of gravel.
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Azza Bamboo posted:It should be one bag of cement, two bags of sand and three bags of gravel. You just forgot the water canisters 
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I think I found the problem here, that cord needs to be plugged into that there outlet there.
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I appreciate the use of the new in wall disconnects and the flying splice, but those wires should be secured to the stud. It's all garbage and the house should be nuked from orbit.
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GreenNight posted:Appreciate the optimism! the composition of the photo makes my brain think "it's a picture of a textured glass shower door with some condensation beading on it". i can't see it any other way
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Yeah it’s tough to take a picture of. All good, it’s a brand new bathroom and they’re coming back to repaint that section.
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That's art
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Scarodactyl posted:That's art It seems deliberate, anyway.
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It’s a moth  attractor.
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e: gently caress, wrong thread
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If this is crap I might have a deeply embarrassing kink.
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GreenNight posted:Yeah it’s tough to take a picture of. All good, it’s a brand new bathroom and they’re coming back to repaint that section. I had to get the fitters to come back and redo an entire set of sealant because they'd somehow left gaps in it. I'm still not 100% happy with it but that's mainly because the tile surface is rough so whatever you do, the sealant looks weird in corners. That said, maybe if they'd used great instead of transparent it'd have been better idk.
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What do you mean the tile surface is rough?
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Tell them you want those tiles smooth, like a shark.
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Nitrox posted:What do you mean the tile surface is rough? It's slate like so not totally smooth, there's probably a better word for it (rectified idk). It means that at corner joints where it needs sealing the actual mating surfaces don't perfectly align. I kind of wish we'd gone with flat ones but it does look good and we'd been burned on the old ones that the PO had that were a slippery death trap when wet because it's a wet room shower. This is the same PO that got clowns to relay the floor and who somehow laid it lower than the old one leading to the shower drain being misaligned such that there was mould growing under the tiles. Also they filled the sink waste half full of grout because they were just dumping it down there and got adhesive all over the trough drain so it didn't actually drain properly. It cost a goddamn fortune to get ripped out to the joists and redone but it needed it.
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Azza Bamboo posted:When I worked in a hardware store, the bane of my existence was customers asking me which light bulb they should buy, without bringing in the dead bulb or giving any indication of the fitting used. Just "it's my living room light" as though that's a standard. When I was 17 I worked a summer in a locally owned hardware store, and the number of people walking in thinking a 17 year old knew ANYTHING about home construction/repair was shockingly high.
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But you must have had training to get the job, right? Right? My first job was at a place called Maplin Electronics, kind of a UK Radio Shack, and it was the same in there. People asking me questions about things I didn't even know existed 2 seconds earlier.
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We need to add a slope to the side door on grandpa's house. Please share success and horror stories of home modifications for wheelchair and accessible use.
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peanut posted:We need to add a slope to the side door on grandpa's house. Please share success and horror stories of home modifications for wheelchair and accessible use. Remember to have a platform in front of the door that's big enough for the wheelchair and for the door to swing (if it swings outwards). Also remember that the ramp needs to be pretty drat shallow to be navigable. I forget the recommended slope, but it requires a lot of space to cover any significant step height. The ramp should also have securely-attached handrails, both for any shaky people walking up it, and to help keep the wheelchair wheels from slipping off the edge of the ramp.
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Max ada slope is 1:12, or 12 horizonal inches for every 1 vertical inch.
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brugroffil posted:Max ada slope is 1:12, or 12 horizonal inches for every 1 vertical inch. Oh my god I thought it was 12:1 I need to make some phone calls, poo poo poo poo poo poo
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