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Unironically true, google "builder grade." In other words, "this fixture will hold bulbs!! And also turn on!!! For $10."
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Kenny Logins posted:Why not the side of the stall? Because there was a fully-functional casement window right in the middle of it. It came furnished with cheap painted metal 1/2" venetian blinds, for our privacy you see, and a crank that had totally seized. After the first year we noticed the windowsill was pretty much constantly mildewed due to being soaking wet most of the time, so the landlord's solution was to mount a tension rod with shower curtain high up on the wall to cover the window down to the edge of the tub. Not only did that eventually get pretty gross, but where the tension rods touched the wall it greatly accelerated the paint removal process (pictured above) to be even worse than depicted..
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Even something as simple as an apartment-sized microwave seems impossible to find. I have a 1920s apartment with a small stove, and the cabinet above it is just over 26" across. Good luck finding anything you can mount there. You're looking at RV poo poo that costs more than a TV 
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ColHannibal posted:My old apartment had one of those Microwaves, took 10min to heat water for tea in it. I also had to put my plates in at an angle as they where too big.
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I'm in New York so I'm afraid I win this horrible competition. I really want an over-the-range microwave because between the sink and the stove, I have 14" of lateral counter space (one dish rack). That's it. That's also directly above the one drawer I have.
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The Human Cow posted:One of my bathrooms has a window into the other bathroom! Why? Who knows! It's all the way at the top of the wall, so you can't even really see through it.
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I have a hollow door that lets in a lot of noise. I'm thinking about drilling a hole in the top and filling it with foam. I of course have no clue exactly how much empty space is inside or how it's laid out. Is this a crazy idea? If not, would that be the best kind of foam for the job, or is there something even more low-expansion/sound-reducing?
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Apr 10, 2014 17:21
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Leperflesh posted:Keep in mind that Simple Green, especially undiluted, is fantastic at stripping latex paint. Over in the Trad Games forum we use the stuff for stripping the paint off of tiny man dolls.
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Unfortunately I rent, and it's the door to the hallway, so replacing it isn't an option. It's a metal door and frame, if that helps. I've seen it suggested, so I'm not just making poo poo up, but obviously I'm skeptical too.
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Apr 10, 2014 17:25
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They would notice if I replaced the door and it didn't match the 20 others in the hall. They wouldn't notice if I spent half an hour squirting foam into it. I'm open to any other suggestions too. This is a long-term rental, I'll be here for like 10 years, so I don't mind fixing it up in easy/medium ways, but obviously I don't want to gently caress anything up.
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It's the latter. The door and frame are both metal. The metal of the door seems thin enough that in the center, you can push on it and the layer you're touching readily flexes. It's a big 1920s apartment building, and many elements are still original, so the doors may be too (no idea). The walls are super thick plaster and lath that transmit almost no sound, so the door problem is especially obvious. I definitely don't want to be a pain in the rear end to the management company. If I can't do anything without involving them, I'll probably skip it, unfortunately. Amykinz posted:Simple Green EATS the stuff that makes the paint hard. The paint is effectively ruined, there's no way to 'fix' it. I'd strip/scrape the area down and sand over the existing paint edge and repaint. You don't have to strip the entire thing, unless you really want to. 
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I wasn't pulling this out of my rear end, it's brought up a bunch on the internet. The product we were discussing is called Window & Door with minimal expansion, so it wasn't exactly clear it would expand too much for a door. Anyway, I'd like to see a door explode in slow motion, but not my door. I'll probably go with Nitrox's suggestion unless anyone has anything better. I can take pics if that would help at all. I'm still not sure the door has a chambered interior, or if it does, it doesn't seem to be attached to itself given the way the sides flex. Anyone know what the hell they were putting in 1920s apartment buildings?
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I have hardwood floors, it seems easier to start burning there. Will report back next winter.
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It isn't a fire safety door, or at least it has no sticker/writing to that effect. It's hollow, flexible metal. The more I look at it, the more I think it is 1920s original, so who knows what fire code was like then. But this is all hypothetical because  I'm not filling it with foam. I guess it's not clear but I gave up that idea after one naysayer; I'm not fighting back. I have no desire to do dumbass poo poo, make my management company hate me, and live in a burned-out post-apocalyptic cave.e: I do hope someone else does it and youtubes it, though Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jan 16, 2017 |
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Apr 14, 2014 01:46
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A showerhead like this buys you a foot in five minutes. With a handheld option like that, you could also get a separate holder that sticks anywhere on the wall with a Command-esque strip. You could definitely pay $50 (or $500 or god knows what) for a showerhead, but I really like this one.
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Vindolanda posted:Are you the same person who wanted to fill your fire door with expanding foam?
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Oct 22, 2014 07:15
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My family's house is about 95. I'm pretty sure there's more corrosion than copper at this point. It also sweats like crazy.
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My parents have a hyper-powered toilet (my dad's 6'6", it was the one with the tallest seat). That thing is terrifying. You could absolutely lose a cat or small dog down it.
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neogeo0823 posted:IIRC, it was about some guy who wanted to sound-proof a fire rated hollow metal door, and suggestions ranged from "hang egg cartons/heavily towels/etc on it" to "drill a hole in it and fill it with foam". Much stupidity was had, and we were all worse off for it.
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I would actually like to see it too. The product is Window & Door Foam. It's supposed to provide excellent insulation with minimal expansion, and it specifically says "This low-pressure window and door foam will not warp or deform windows and doors." I think the chance of a fuckup is too high to risk pissing off my super/landlord, but I still want to see it done with a spare door in a backyard.
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No, it just wasn't intuitive to me that a hollow metal door would be way, way more prone to warping than a hollow metal doorframe would be. v I got it now, thanks, I am not foam-exploding anything 
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LEDs aren't $30 anymore. The best 40- or 60-watt equivalent is around $10, less if you get a six-pack or wait for a sale. One question for me is what to do when you move. I live in NYC, so people move a ton, and I don't think anyone will want to leave $50ish in bulbs behind. When I upgraded to LEDs, I spergily set aside my old incandescents in the back of a closet.
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Whoa, can you check your wiring? They aren't enclosed, are they? Cree is supposed to be the best, and I've had mine way longer than four months.crazypeltast52 posted:When I moved into my apartment, there were crappy incandescents in the sockets. When I leave, there will be crappy incandescents in the sockets. Between then I'm using my LEDs/hybrid bulbs.
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Tyson Tomko posted:That's awesome I didn't realize how cheap LEDs had gotten. Any suggestions on what to use in say a fancy bathroom light fixture? I think the proper term is makeup table, like this: That said, Cree has this "soft white true color" thing, where the color you see it shed looks normal and warmish, but the colors of items it illuminates are much more accurate than under incandescents. I use them in my kitchen and it's really neat. That's just considering the aesthetics of the light, though. The aesthetics of the bulb are a different story, because they probably aren't going to love the look of a dozen exposed LED bulbs. I have a similar strip, and I actually stocked up on those incandescents before they were discontinued, because I don't think anything else looks right. I always do daytime makeup by natural light, though.
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Our Home Depot stands are all Dunkin Donutses. God bless New England  Never saw popcorn in a hardware store, though, what a disappointing lack.
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spog posted:if you are spending that kind of scratch on a custom house, why design it so that you'll get a door handle in the small of your back every time your partner wants to ask you what you want for dinner when you've finished playing with your toys? ...I would love a tub that deep, though, I would absolutely do dumbass stuff like that if I were ludicrously rich. In the meantime I also want bookcases that shallow, but in no other way similar to those bookcases.
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Nitrox posted:That brown paper floor will have cracks in the varnish along the plywood edge lines in under a year. But we'll never hear about it
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Here's the link. Tl;dr in general it looks fine, there are a few scratches and spots of wear under the crib wheels, and a mystery patch where the poly is flaking off. She did her guest bedroom to match, and at the same time she resealed the bedroom with a different product. She hosed up, though (didn't let it dry between coats -- she acknowledges it was all on her), so the new finish is blistering.
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Splizwarf posted:You grew up without MAPP, that and a wire brush cleans a Man Stove in under a minutes.
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Splizwarf posted:e:D'oh, I meant to say 3 minutes in the above post.
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) and the wire brush is to break up and dislodge the resulting fragile crust. Doing it with MAPP is just Overblown Internet PosturingTM.
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The only actual kitchen pantry I've seen was my grandma's, which was also super shallow. Pantries are mostly for canned goods and dry goods like spices and stuff, which would all be shallow. For sugar and flour, there are tall narrow tupperwares that keep them airtight and safer than leaving them in bags. What else do you put in there?
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Surely you wouldn't want your servants using the same staircase as you, gross
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I had never heard of the bathroom fan timers before, but now I'm positive my parents need one for Christmas. Please tell me if I'm going to kill myself or them if I do it myself. I got this model with no neutral. I know to cut power at the fuse box before loving around. The only complication I see is that it's a two-gang box, but one is just lights and the other is just the fan, so I think I can swap out just the fan switch (I hope). Any other potential pitfalls? I've swapped out toggle switches for dimmers before, so hopefully this is on the same difficulty level. Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Jan 16, 2017 |
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Qwijib0 posted:Looks as straightforward as you assume.
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Bad Munki posted:The augur should have foreseen this problem
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A separate sink would use too much space and money, so let's include a urinal?
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You want to see an old-school human staple gun, check out spitting tacks: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LOKMhoIS9ck (super slow because it's a demo) http://youtube.com/watch?v=oCviBqqWAv0 (more of an explanation) Not construction but still nuts.
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Shouldn't picture rail be higher?
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