Crappy Construction: The Four POs of the Housepocalypse

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Hobbies, Crafts, & Houses > Crappy Construction: The Four POs of the Housepocalypse

«‹›5 »

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

It�s pretty common in McMansion construction to have a patch of field or flag stone so it looks like you bought a castle... sort of.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2018 23:26

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 13, 2024 22:01

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Two trees enter, no tree leaves.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2018 20:53

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Atticus_1354 posted:

Going to make those for my kitchen corner. I hate the drat spinner in the corner that is so popular.

We got around having a spinner corner cabinet by not having any corners in our galley kitchen.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2018 20:39

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Using your disposal for anything beyond small bits is uncivilized and I won�t hear of it.

Compost your scraps you heathens.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2018 07:52

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Bird in a Blender posted:

Yea, but that's not really a garbage disposal problem since you can dump grease down any old drain.

I've had a disposal in my house practically my whole life. I actually get really annoyed not having one because then you have to scrape off bits into the garbage. I have learned not to go hog wild with it though and dump big stuff down the disposal. I've also gotten a lot better at composting, which takes care of a huge amount of my food waste anyway, but if you don't have a garden, then composting is pretty pointless.

Lots of cities collect compost as part of trash and recycling services.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2018 21:04

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Platystemon posted:

More disguised mobile home photos: https://imgur.com/a/IGdSd

lmao is that an internal vent stack?

# ¿ Mar 23, 2018 06:06

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Dr.Smasher posted:

Does it have a hot chicks room?

Bucket Of Truth or it�s no deal.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2018 07:37

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

A lot of listings will call it a bonus room if it doesn�t have legal fire egress out of a window and/or if it doesn�t have a legit closet in it.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2018 16:15

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Want to see those stairs after five years of renting it out.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2018 08:40

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Since company bonuses came out last month I am seeing a rash of brand new big-rear end trucks at work. Lots of shiny chrome. I call them Fisher Price War Boys.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2018 19:21

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

This is the crisis of the 21st Century Man Child: �I can fix my own poo poo?�

# ¿ May 3, 2018 08:18

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Jaded Burnout posted:

IMO the true crisis is "Can I fix this, or does it just look easy when done by someone else on youtube"

Def watched a yt video of a guy removing the interior panel of my car and said �that dudes forearms are like 3x mine� and decided otherwise.

# ¿ May 3, 2018 08:45

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

And if I show up with a slip of paper saying I read ten Encyclopedia Brown books, you gotta give me a free personal pan pizza.

# ¿ May 21, 2018 18:59

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Collateral Damage posted:

It's now waterbottom property.

# ¿ May 22, 2018 07:00

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

dumb. posted:

From the funny pictures PYF

Psst

Psssst hey kid

_{piss tape is real}

# ¿ May 24, 2018 20:54

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

I imagine they just need to build a deck and haven�t done so yet. I�ve seen this in new builds before.

# ¿ May 24, 2018 21:03

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Why wouldn�t you just make a custom cutout for the rear end end of your car like a regular person?

# ¿ May 26, 2018 04:23

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Can someone repost the truck_garage_ass_cutout.jpg

# ¿ May 29, 2018 03:53

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

God bless you.

# ¿ May 29, 2018 04:31

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

We just trained our cats to gently caress off at night. Took us like six weeks and we replaced the bedroom door afterward.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2018 01:31

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Beasts? gently caress that those are my familiars.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2018 03:48

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Same here. I can�t look at any sort of rod or pole and not think �how can i grease that sumbitch down and shove it up my butt?�

# ¿ Jun 10, 2018 05:34

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Looks like an upscale prison

# ¿ Jun 14, 2018 19:14

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Is that siding? Instead of brick?

# ¿ Jun 15, 2018 01:36

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

I took the ornamental shutters off my house almost immediately. They look tacky as gently caress in addition to being stupid as hell because they don�t actually do anything.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2018 05:54

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Why are you putting any of your own time or money into a rental?

# ¿ Jul 23, 2018 00:43

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Yeah but are you stripping wallpaper?

# ¿ Jul 23, 2018 16:50

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Blew their budget and couldn�t get a patio set lmao

# ¿ Jul 23, 2018 20:35

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Great shot from 2mi away my man. Frame that one.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2018 20:52

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

That�s literally the entire show except for when they�re fighting. Then they talk to other folks a ton instead.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2018 08:12

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Those doors are gonna look tacky and dated as hell in four years or less.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2018 04:40

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Less of a water closet and more of a water alcove.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2018 05:48

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

JoshGuitar posted:

I've re-tensioned those a couple times (after having to temporarily remove a door). You do have to be careful, but being careful with those is pretty easy:
1) Use the correct tool (either a pair of officially licensed Windin' Sticks or a couple of 18" pieces of round stock of the correct diameter).
2) Make sure one tool is fully seated in the socket, before you remove the other tool or apply any force to the tool you just stuck in the hole.
3) Be absolutely certain the set screw is tight before removing your officially licensed Windin' Stick.

You don't even have to put that much force on the winding bars. The horror stories I read lead me to believe I'd be balanced precariously on a ladder while using my entire body weight to wind the spring. When they're fully tensioned you're putting, I dunno, 25 pounds of force on an 18" lever? It's been a while and I didn't measure or anything, but it's somewhere in that ballpark.

That�s about 450 in lbs of torque. I don�t know how this helps but I do a lot of torque calibrations at work and I took the day off so my brain doesn�t know what to do with this information.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2018 18:41

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

shame on an IGA posted:

minor nitpick, metric thread pitch specifies the distance between threads. M8x1.5 has threads that are spaced 1.5mm apart

I recently had to deal with getting measurements for a unit manufactured in Sweden and realizing that metric thread pitch is calculated in a completely different manner than standard measurements was one of those things where i had to look at the wiki for multiple minutes to suss out wtf was going on.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2018 04:19

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

My house is a literal cube with a slight roof pitch. Anything else is affront to my civilities.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2018 06:51

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

I grew up living in suburban neighborhoods that were comprised of houses that were always always always built within three years of each other.

Now I live in a neighborhood where the houses span between 1930 and 2009 in build year and it is such a nice change.

The one interesting effect this has is that it makes the house prices fluctuate wildly from house to house. Growing up it was understood that your friends house down the street was almost identical to yours in layout and amenities and they were probably worth the same amount unless someone put in a pool or something.

The house on my street that was built in 2009 is the most expensive house on the block by over $200k. There are a few houses worth about half of its last sale value at this point.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2018 21:11

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

You couldn�t pay me to get a car with a sunroof. I would refuse the payment.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2018 00:27

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

No that owns.

I just had my own fence built almost identical to that one so I might be biased though.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2018 05:29

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Sloppy posted:

No HOA should be involved in anything aesthetic ever, just repairs.

There's a house on my street with a front door that has glass panes in it. One of the panes has been shattered since I moved in. That was 2012.

Gives the block character if you ask me.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2018 08:22

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 13, 2024 22:01

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

sneakyfrog posted:

i like the noise metal makes when it rains i love mine, and just checking that the gaskets on the screws are still good is about as much maintenance to it as i want to do

I have a metal roof that is absolutely silent indoors because we blew in a bunch of insulation into the attic when we did it.

But if you step outside (or open a window) while it's raining, you can hear the pings and whatnot.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2018 17:55

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Hobbies, Crafts, & Houses > Crappy Construction: The Four POs of the Housepocalypse

«‹›5 »