|
Trilineatus posted:So, I'm visiting some goon friends who just bought a house in Massachusetts. Built in 1975, it has some... interesting aesthetic features. But overall, it seems as if it was constructed attentively and competently. At least they used a screwdriver. In my parents house they used a hammer to find studs so there are giant hammer sized holes behind most of the cabinets.
|
#
¿
Jul 16, 2013 04:03
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 14, 2024 07:46 |
|
|
His Divine Shadow posted:This reminds me, I read of a couple locally that got scammed on a house, the house was in such bad shape it was worth 0 euros after they had someone go over it. The courts judged in their favor and the seller had to take the house back and give all their money back and pay their lawyers fees. gently caress yeah. It would be cool if any kind of justice like this existed in America but a large part of our economy is based on pulling one over on the buyer so every law boils down to "You should have known better than the experts in the industry!"
|
|
#
¿
Jul 7, 2022 18:45
|
|
|
Arrath posted:My parents granite counter tops have lil risers onto which the faucets are mounted. There was actually tons of stone left, it would just require them to swap out all of the stone with new pieces. The installers didn't want to take the loss for their fuckup and instead had your parents settle with an inferior installation. Hopefully they at least got a discount on it after that. This has happened several times to my mom including with her granite countertops, and she made them rip everything out and do it again according to the contract. She got called some colorful names by them but she has the installation she paid for.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 11, 2022 18:45
|
|
|
Arrath posted:You may well be right. The story we were fed was that my parents picked some unique stone and they hardly had enough of in the warehouse for the area of countertop in the first place blah blah. Who knows, I was like 9 when they were building the house so I had more important concerns. Yeah I don't mean to be mean but it irks me so much when people are like "Well that's just the way it is and I guess I have to take an L because the professionals I'm paying to do it right screwed it up!" I've done it myself once and it's one of those memories that makes me cringe at in hindsight, and filled me with rage every time I looked at it until I fixed it myself. It's just mind boggling how bad a lot of contractors are at their profession and then when you call them out on their terrible job they're just like "Well you're the only one whos ever complained!", and they're probably not even lying judging by the butcher jobs I see when I tour open houses.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 11, 2022 19:21
|
|
|
Post poste posted:Literally all of that is stuff you can see in rural Michigan. I was about to say I've seen all that in semi-rural Texas. There's a reason there's a lot of house fires outside of city limits.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 12, 2022 21:03
|
|
|
Those mirrored glass windows are going to be matte frosted glass after the first sandstorm hits it.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 26, 2022 20:27
|
|
|
Orvin posted:Um, 170km long, and able to get from one end to the other in 20 minutes? That seems a bit much. If I remember my high school physics, assuming linear acceleration to midpoint, then same decel to destination, wouldn’t that put the vehicle at like 1000km/hr at the midpoint? Maybe it crosses a time zone and it actually takes 1 hour and 20 minutes.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 26, 2022 22:46
|
|
|
You just need to zoom out a little more to see it's a recreation of the Big Dipper constellation.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 4, 2022 19:59
|
|
|
GotLag posted:It has the proportions of an old Counter-Strike map No toilet with a turd in it, 0/10
|
|
#
¿
Aug 5, 2022 02:02
|
|
|
`Nemesis posted:i actually like this Yeah this is cool. I'm actually working on a similar but less cool hidden bookshelf door for my laundry closet. Although the bookshelf will only be for installation/removal of the machines because of a series of complications with the space they need to be fit into.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 9, 2022 23:36
|
|
|
Next owner is going to sheetrock over the cavern and turn it into a 4th bedroom
|
|
#
¿
Aug 10, 2022 19:44
|
|
|
Think of all the Creepers and Skeletons they have around their property at night.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 10, 2022 20:33
|
|
|
Needs an "In case of emergency, break glass" box with an angle grinder in it
|
|
#
¿
Aug 12, 2022 18:01
|
|
|
Window Salesman: What kind of windows you want? Just gently caress me up fam Window Salesman: Say no more
|
|
#
¿
Aug 18, 2022 22:37
|
|
|
That house would be half as ugly if they'd kept the garage roof from protruding higher than the rest of the roof.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 25, 2022 18:32
|
|
|
He has such strong confidence while making so many wrong decisions I just assume he's a Doctor or IT professional.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 30, 2022 00:43
|
|
|
HelloIAmYourHeart posted:It's a dog kennel! My dad built the deck and shelves. The cat door is in a plywood panel in the sliding window (it took about a week for the cat to figure out how to use the cat door. She is dumb). Is that one of the cat doors that uses a magnet on their collar to unlock? We got one of those for our cats and they couldn't put it together that their head has to be in it to unlock it. They would stand back and try to paw it open, but not be close enough to activate it. So we had to sort of force them through for a few days before they finally put together that head-in-door=open door
|
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2022 21:47
|
|
|
They also have leg shortening surgery where they cut out some bone and then you can use all the showers.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 4, 2022 23:04
|
|
|
Ah yes, mimicking the look of quality stonework with....1-1/2" thick mortar joints with cutting leftovers tossed in.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 15, 2022 18:03
|
|
|
It looks to me like he's using a flat wire clay sculpting tool of some sort
|
|
#
¿
Oct 15, 2022 20:57
|
|
|
I can't tell where to aim my torpedoes in this bathroom
|
|
#
¿
Oct 18, 2022 00:29
|
|
|
Nitrox posted:The "specialists" are going to be immigrant day laborers, who have no idea what asbestos is and how to handle it. But they sure will break it with mallets and throw it on the trailer with bare hands. Then you'll be left rummaging through the grass to pick up little pieces, that you won't realize are there until several days later. I love how the bigger home repair/contracting companies always have clean cute white men from the 1950's in their marketing and signage, but then when the van pulls up in front of your house it's always a group of scraggly sun burned Hispanic laborers that pile out. You know they've received no training and are being paid not nearly enough for their work. I hired a big firm to replace my waste plumbing and the guy they sent to back fill the hole for the plumber brought his pregnant wife and children with him. Clearly they hire only the best! e: And for the record I was not going with the cheapest option for this work. I actually hired the company I thought had the best plan and I had prior (better) experience with. SpartanIvy fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Oct 21, 2022 |
|
#
¿
Oct 21, 2022 19:05
|
|
|
That's like looking at one of those illusions where the faces have 2 sets of eyes.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 29, 2022 18:57
|
|
|
Nitrox posted:Is that abs adhesive? Could be PVC conduit adhesive since this is clearly an electrical job.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 28, 2022 05:09
|
|
|
Fallout 76 has broken my brain because this is all I can think of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhE6_FEREA
|
|
#
¿
Nov 29, 2022 05:23
|
|
|
My friend excavated his sewer line to replace it because it had failed and he discovered that the person that installed it didn't bother to use couplings to join the 4" to 3" PVC and just jammed one inside the other and buried it. No wonder it failed.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 7, 2022 23:04
|
|
|
value-brand cereal posted:https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rmu0pxrCLP1wlks8j_720.mp4 Another advantage of PEX water lines: non-conductive
|
|
#
¿
Dec 15, 2022 21:29
|
|
|
MetaJew posted:Risinger's company told him, back in 2019-ish, that they don't take on builds and remodels for less than $400 per square foot. That seems outrageous for a house in Texas but maybe I'm just too poor to understand.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 16, 2022 05:13
|
|
|
On the bright side, it's very serviceable!
|
|
#
¿
Dec 16, 2022 19:16
|
|
|
Vim Fuego posted:the gently caress is that A public safety issue. They should have at least put a thick layer of clear epoxy over it.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 18, 2022 03:28
|
|
|
I've been in late 1800s houses that looked like that. No subfloor, just those planks, and if you shine a flashlight between the boards you can see the dirt crawl space underneath.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 23, 2022 20:44
|
|
|
Nitrox posted:I'm pretty sure this is their solution for mitigating the ridiculous pitch of the stairs. Standard size steps would need like three more feet of length total. It is but it's built wrong unless that's a really wide stairway. Each step should alternate in depth so that the foot put forward has a shelf to step onto naturally. The way that one is designed is that you have to choose to have a foot swing to the middle of the stairs every other step.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 10, 2023 16:20
|
|
|
This is basically how my old houses fuse box looked when I moved in. All 30 amp fuses in 15 amp circuits 
|
|
#
¿
Jan 21, 2023 01:17
|
|
|
You know there's at least 1 wire but in there too
|
|
#
¿
Jan 26, 2023 16:23
|
|
|
My old boss did something similar. He has an enormous house and is obsessed with having even more room so he's working on converting his attic into a store room or something similar. He went through his attic and chopped out a bunch of 2x4s he said were left over from construction but not needed. He did not have an engineer check it out beforehand and I'm pretty sure he removed framing that was supporting a long ceiling span. It'll be interesting to hear what happens when he eventually starts piling junk up there.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 11, 2023 20:25
|
|
|
Oh god this is me. It was the back of a closet though. 
|
|
#
¿
Feb 12, 2023 04:57
|
|
|
I don't see how the occupants couldn't have foreseen this happening. I mean it's called an AirBnB after all.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 14, 2023 20:19
|
|
|
My favorite thing about the waterfall bed is how lovely the falling water looks. He probably just drilled some scattered holes in a run of PVC and called it good. If you actually had a good and even distribution of water it would look marginally better, or at least that you know what you're doing.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 16, 2023 01:08
|
|
|
Coming this summer: Load Bearing Cocaine
|
|
#
¿
Feb 19, 2023 00:49
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 14, 2024 07:46 |
|
|
My friend bought a flip and continues to find janky poo poo, but this takes the cake. Somehow neither he or the inspector caught that a window on the outside didn't match up to any window on the inside. Also the window wasn't even locked before they walled over it!
|
|
#
¿
Mar 1, 2023 03:05
|
|