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People get really weird about mine and thine in lots of places. Adding money (or unrealized gains from real estate) to the mix is like pouring gasoline on the dumpster fire of a personality a lot of these people have. Big overlap with the type of people who think everybody is trying to rip them off because that what they would do. So instead of taking a moment to sort things out amicably they try to bulldoze you with (legal) threats and poo poo, basically bullying you into giving up without a fight because their claims often don't have a loving leg to stand on. Lots of misguided anger too, but surely, going to great lengths to annex a dozen square feet of the neighbors garden will fix your lovely relationship and career, and alleviate their petty middle class anxieties.
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Construction grade softwood is a ride. Rushed through the kiln to get it just dry enough to stop it from dry rotting and planed, which introduces all sorts of stresses into the wood and still leaves it wet enough to lose a bunch of moisture before installing and therefor move in exciting ways, even in a humid place like the UK.
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Aug 1, 2022 15:22
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I know gascrete/aircrete blocks have somewhat of a load-bearing capacity, but not that much and I've only seen them used for internal, non-structural walls and such where especially the sound-insulating qualities are a nice thing to have.
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Aug 5, 2022 09:25
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200? mm square French oak posts are some tasty (and probably pricey) bits of wood. Ninja edit: France has apparently been doing the managing forests for a steady supply of quality wood esp. oak for a few centuries now (at least that's what I was once told). Timber was one of the premier resources extracted from the American colonies by the UK, so concurrent or even predating Age of Sail I think. Just Winging It fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Aug 11, 2022 |
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Aug 11, 2022 01:20
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Tenon and mortise are the wood toucher words for knobs & holes.
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Aug 20, 2022 01:14
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Conservative government structuring building energy efficiency incentives so that it ends as basically a corporate subsidy by funneling the money into the pockets of lovely, corrupt contractors? I'd never.
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Sep 21, 2022 23:20
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What are the odds some very gusty winds blow through the UK? Surely that'll never happen at the most inopportune time.
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Oct 4, 2022 23:33
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kecske posted:I'm here to post a big preemptive lol, having been called out to a site once where both the duty and standby pumps in the sewer pit had failed due to no solids capability. The whole pit top to bottom was just a solid formed turd obelisk, patterned with toilet paper like fine Italian marble. Towards an L shape architecture: a solid formed turd obelisk, patterned with toilet paper like fine Italian marble
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Nov 22, 2022 02:23
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It's either copper wiring or pipes but the latter is less common with PEX and such, or tools that they're after. Cordless battery-powered tools in particular have such a particular habit of walking off site they might as well have legs.
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Nov 30, 2022 13:12
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I'm obviously not a professional brickie, but aircrete/gascrete (or whatever it is) blocks being like that is uhhh weird? And those only got used for internal walls that carry some load, but aren't load-bearing load-bearing too, not exterior walls. You could at least just screw into them without them coming apart or the plug just coming out. Might just be a poorly designed product.
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Dec 15, 2022 17:46
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Jaded Burnout posted:That might explain some things about how chilly my house is until spring. Yeah, in the Netherlands they really started to do insulation after the first oil crisis hit in 1973. Similar climate, and just cramming every void with insulation without regard for ventilation at first. Which predictably led to a whoooooole lot damp/moisture issues because as leaky as those houses used to be, that at least allowed moisture to get out too, and now they became more like plastic bags, where there's no heat losses due to escaping (warm) air, but also trapping all moisture.
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Dec 16, 2022 17:44
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Just replace that with the "indestructible" cybertruck glass, problem solved.
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Mar 3, 2023 01:15
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I don't know about that. I've been reading this thread since it started, and the head-scratching has only intensified.
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Jul 20, 2023 03:18
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I can't wait for the electricity price arbitrage shenanigans featuring code bought from some bloke off ebay at a motorway services.
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Jul 24, 2023 14:50
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Leaving the horns until the very end on is pretty standard for paneled doors. The horizontal members are tenoned into the vertical, and leaving the horns on allows you to chop the mortises in the vertical member without the risk of breaking out the relatively fragile end piece.
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Jul 26, 2023 16:01
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Minimizing heating/cooling demands is something I can only get behind, but from what I've read about Passive House design it's always left me with questions. For one, it feels to be much more about the branding and Officialness of it than actual savings. Two, at some point you're going to run into diminishing returns, and Passive House feels like it goes to great lengths (and expenses) to get those last few percents of savings, to the point where you'd have to wonder if it makes sense. Lastly, it feels like a very theoretical & engineer-way of approaching buildings, blind to how actual humans live in them, they like to open a window, or a door to the garden, to have a connection with the outside, or let some actual fresh air in. (Mechanical ventilation with energy recovery is cool as gently caress, especially in the cold season, but it has its limits, even when installed & maintained properly.)
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Aug 10, 2023 21:52
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The combination of penny pinching on things like fixtures & fittings on one hand, and casually dropping thousands on other bits never ceases to amaze.
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Aug 20, 2023 00:30
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Polyurethane wood adhesives are a foamy mess at the best of times yes. Don't like them for woodworking, but have no experience with using them for gluing down particle board (or whatever that stuff is) sub-flooring.
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Sep 9, 2023 02:49
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I've had candy bars that looked just like that when you bit into them. Probably more structurally sound than these blocks though.
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Sep 14, 2023 17:32
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Given the average tradie's diet, that'd vastly improve the structural integrity of the walls.
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Oct 11, 2023 20:48
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It's what gets me so often about these people doing super duper mega eco builds, they go to enormous lengths and costs to make them efficient, all while building something with more floor space than a half dozen family homes for just themselves.
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Nov 9, 2023 23:16
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I meant it like, they don't even seem to consider a house that's like 1/4 the size, which is still very spacious, before going off the deep end chasing efficiencies.
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Nov 9, 2023 23:37
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Completely hidden toilet tanks have always felt like a foolish preposition. Maybe you get it right during installation, but at some point it'll need maintenance. Rubber gaskets, just to name a particular common failure point, have a working life. Over time they turn hard and brittle, and stop working. I've lost count of the number of leaky tanks I've dealt with where a perished gasket was the culprit. (Also, perfect 45 degree miters for a waterfall style cabinet is uhhhhh... ambitious as your first woodworking project, to say the least.)
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Dec 2, 2023 16:07
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Yup, I've lost count of the number of otherwise capable tradies absolutely hamstrung by skinflint wanknozzle managers. Because the savings of not , say, having your boiler & heating maintenance people have all the common tubing & joint pieces in their work van surely makes up for the oodles of mandatory return visits and sheer loss of valuable work time from not having it available and having to order it for every loving job.
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Dec 15, 2023 20:29
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That's my experience yes. It's really the big companies that pull this poo poo. Probably because they have the spreadsheet jockeys on staff to ~optimize~ their inventory.
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Dec 16, 2023 18:45
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Obtuse switchboard puzzles go well with the air-tight Resident Evil house vibes.
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Feb 8, 2024 02:41
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Soaking steel wool in vinegar produces iron acetate, which ebonizes oak when it comes into contact with it by reacting with the tannins naturally present in it. It's a well established, old school method to ebonize oak, but fell off with the invention of aniline dyes sometime in the 19th century. Like all stains it's not a finish on its own, once you have an actual finish on it the color and appearance will probably change for the better.
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Tradies don't get paid that well though, most of the money usually ends up in the pockets of the general contractor or company owner and not the tradie who's doing the work as a sub-(sub-)contractor. It's a big part of why so much of them are terrible, because all the competent ones gently caress off to better paying jobs.
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