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No new posts for a few days, I’m worried it blew up
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More likely flooded
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Mar 5, 2024 09:59
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if not for those foundations i would say the whole house had simply sunk into the mud
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Mar 5, 2024 11:40
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Flooding washed away the real estate and left the house itself perched atop a forest of 50-foot-high stilts.
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Mar 5, 2024 18:46
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So I dunno had to go a bit backwards. There were some weird wet patches turning up?   Some sort of complicated science condensation bullshit? Hmmm have a big think Turn on the MVHR to get rid of moisture  Which means climbing up in the loft loft. Ohhh nice and cold up there.  need to fix the valves  oh so yeah, painted that room dark blue  still damp though  Thats weird though?  and wet? investigate  yeah  so should have just checked the hot water manifolds. Not tight. leaking but also the humidity in the house is like 90something percent so need it on anyway. see what happens  2018. hmmm needed to test all the other plumbing. so temping up some loops to test the woodburner pipe work  which is fine but the hot water warm return leaks all over. balls.  this is all over complicated anyway as I was expecting pipes in places they werent. The bits I had to undo did not want to undo so I had to wreck them. And they were internet bits so took a few days to replace.  all good. Now need to drain everything down, remove the tanks to get in behind and insulate pipework  Didn't want to show this yet as I havent finished yet and Its going to look really awesome but anyway  then move othr tank  I'm sticking double sided tape, that I have to trim down to the insulation to close it up    and all these different lengths/girths of floppy coddling Silver taping the joints I guess to achieve some insulation but also just to look really cool. Then colour coding with tape to make it look all technical   tanks back into position so I can turn back on heating as its got really cold again and is loving up all sorts of things  Still need to insulate all the pipework this side of the tanks. that'll get done tomorrow. And so off we go again
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Mar 5, 2024 23:16
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I think you’re qualified to do the plumbing on a nuclear sub now
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Mar 6, 2024 00:58
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Someone get Zachtronics on the horn, we've got a new game idea here for PlumbingPunks.
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Mar 6, 2024 01:06
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I would back the early access game "Plant Room Plumbing Simulator 2024" from L-Shaped Studios.
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Mar 6, 2024 01:28
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https://youtu.be/tCpnDTzRAjE?si=ucVL92hSqJyk_v_e
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Mar 6, 2024 04:09
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How many times per day do you consider that if you'd built a normal house you could have been living in it for some time by now?
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Mar 6, 2024 09:53
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sebzilla posted:How many times per day do you consider that if you'd built a normal house you could have been living in it for some time by now? 
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Mar 6, 2024 12:11
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sebzilla posted:How many times per day do you consider that if you'd built a normal house you could have been living in it for some time by now? What is the point of going to all the trouble of building your own house if you're just going to make it normal? If you want a normal house just buy one.
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Mar 6, 2024 13:28
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sebzilla posted:How many times per day do you consider that if you'd built a normal house you could have been living in it for some time by now? Things George Clark should really be asking
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Mar 6, 2024 14:20
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Splode posted:What is the point of going to all the trouble of building your own house if you're just going to make it normal? If you want a normal house just buy one. Gotta agree. If I built a house I would definitely go full bore on it. Okay, probably with about 1/4 the wiring of this one, but still.
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Mar 6, 2024 14:35
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Where has OP been living during the build, and what's the planned cutoff for throwing a mattress on the floor and moving in? ... assuming they haven't been living in a tent on site this whole time.
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Mar 6, 2024 18:46
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Need the bloody internet first
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Mar 6, 2024 18:49
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Cat Hatter posted:Where has OP been living during the build, and what's the planned cutoff for throwing a mattress on the floor and moving in? I believe at one point there was a period of sleeping in a big bed with someone else's wife, but that might have been a different F1 poster
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Mar 6, 2024 19:40
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Unfortunately Britain has not discovered Mining In Front of Pubs yet, so the full AI death trap experience will have to wait
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Mar 6, 2024 19:43
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CancerCakes posted:I believe at one point there was a period of sleeping in a big bed with someone else's wife, but that might have been a different F1 poster lol I have not been sleeping with anyones wife
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Mar 7, 2024 00:21
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You'll find that actually, when asked what you do on social occasions and you finally get it teased out of you that youve been building your own house for 5 years you tend to not really sleep with anyone. Its why the bathrooms need to be on point.
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Mar 7, 2024 00:23
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Ngl it feels like a big part of the issue first came with the engineer that told you that you had to have skyscraper piers for your goddamn house. That caused a lot of initial delays (and massive costs you didn't expect) then covid happened.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:46
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NotJustANumber99 posted:lol I have not been sleeping with anyones wife Sorry it was a different F1 thread poster, my bad. Conversation has turned to bedroom planning though, what are your plans for storage? are you going with IKEA builtins, freestanding, bespoke homemade. In one Cory Doctorow novel the protagonist RFID tagged every item they owned and then had a series of boxes with sensors, so they never needed to sort anything. Seems like a suitable method for this house.
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Mar 7, 2024 20:19
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Please don't encourage him to hurt himself further.
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Mar 7, 2024 20:25
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CancerCakes posted:Sorry it was a different F1 thread poster, my bad. He should go the Amazon warehouse route and just have stuff on completely random shelves but all their locations are tracked by the house brain. If he wants something a little robot can go fetch it.
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Mar 7, 2024 20:26
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CancerCakes posted:In one Cory Doctorow novel the protagonist RFID tagged every item they owned and then had a series of boxes with sensors, so they never needed to sort anything. Seems like a suitable method for this house. Didn't realize we were building the Torment Nexus in this thread. In hindsight it seems obvious.
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Mar 7, 2024 21:02
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I've said before that the optimal house would have no visible storage but an ocado warehouse robot in the loft that would fetch whatever item and drop it through the ceiling to which ever grid square of the house needs it.
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Mar 7, 2024 21:05
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Love a lot of drawers and shelves, me.
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Mar 7, 2024 21:07
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Sadly, this house's construction is not compatible with shelving.
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Mar 7, 2024 21:09
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The Mansion by Ezekiel Boone. https://www.ezekielboone.com/styled-5/styled-10/
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Mar 7, 2024 21:27
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If you go to the full extreme, you just need like one big empty room and the house can fetch whatever furniture, appliances, etc. you need at any given moment and have them drop out of the ceiling or rise from the floor so basically bruce willis's apartment in the fifth element
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Mar 7, 2024 22:07
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Ngl it feels like a big part of the issue first came with the engineer that told you that you had to have skyscraper piers for your goddamn house. That caused a lot of initial delays (and massive costs you didn't expect) then covid happened. Yeah. Not like to chuck out excuses or anything cos there really arent any big enough but yeah The initial foundation setback and covid basically shifted the entire build from quick and easy into long and laborious. The more time I had to stew, the more internet holes I could fall down and the more obnoxious I could make the whole build. There have been some other work/life/death issues that have also impacted things I guess. Also like I was just totally naïve about how long poo poo would take. Like I have spent the last almost full week just sellotaping. There was no week of sellotaping on the original Gannt chart and yet in reality this has been like the probably fourth full week of just sellotaping. I hate wrapping presents but I've really enjoyed this. Like if I could be a full time pipe insulator I think that might be my dream job. Get the pickup sorted, do a website, stick some decals on it(truck). I'd happily do that for the rest of my working life. I really love this box. With the ruler on it. And all sorts of foreign lingo  anyway still been plugging away with the insulation and tape  Shall I paint the whole great room and ceiling this colour like the colour consultant said? I don't think so. Like it will undermine the oak in the ceiling if nothing else. Ruin the contrast against the white.  Flooring is delivered. But not to site so have to do 3 trips to transfer it from rental house to site.    This si for the bedroom wing. the great room wing will be the tiles or stone or whatever. What I havent figured out is if I should use an underlay or what? Like forums seem to suggest the underlay is about sound transmission which isnt really an issue on the ground floor. But I kind of think a slightly squishy underlay might be a useful thing to have to average out the imperfections in the screeded slab rather than trying to lay directly on it? Also they seem to be suggesting you should glue this stuff down? I thought thse things were pretty uch exclusively done as floating floors? Hmmm. Pretty much finished in the plant room     Its running a bit weird. Like really doesnt want to heat the hot water much. But time to gently caress about with it. Still need to put the inhibitor in. But need to keep the house at a somewhat constant temp now I've got several grands worth of engineered wood flooring stored in there.
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Mar 7, 2024 23:00
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I want you to know that I really appreciate the clean organization of these pipes. I have seen tons of "professional" installations of like, a basic eyewash with one supply line and no drain, that look like they were done by a drunken ape. This is cathartic. You may want to add some flow direction arrows though. Once it's all working and you can ignore it, your mental map is going to disappear.
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Mar 7, 2024 23:17
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cheers, yeah. It needs some labelling. Like for what all the valves and stuff are.
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Mar 7, 2024 23:29
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now _thats_ a plant room
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Mar 7, 2024 23:34
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Wood expands and contracts a bit, mostly sideways to the grain as the fibers absorb and release moisture. Don't glue it down if its real wood. e wait the boxes say engineered wood flooring. Is it basically plywood? In that case w/e it won't move so you can do what you want
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Mar 7, 2024 23:44
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yeah its engineered oak as in plywood sandwich with 3mm of oak glued on top.
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Mar 7, 2024 23:46
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yeah plywood is very dimensionally stable so there's no issue with gluing it down. That said I dunno if it's necessary whatsoever, find out what the actual manufacturer recommends and then just do that IMO
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Mar 7, 2024 23:48
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Don't glue it down, make a giant slidey puzzle out of your floor that unlocks the boss level, The Loft That Drops Things On You.
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Mar 7, 2024 23:56
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plumbing or field hospital triage
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Ratjaculation posted:plumbing or field hospital triage gonna black tag this whole build
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