NotJustANumber99 posted:

Its not a self build if I pay someone else to make all my mistakes for me though.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

I keep telling myself this at every level of house but eventually... The house has to be visible

Hadlock posted:

"local man dies of broken spine: apparently the man was leaning against the wall when suddenly a chain reaction of every stud twisting loose caused a shockwave that ran down the drywall causing his spinal cord and spleen to burst from the shockwave"

"It was just too fast to get out of the way. The whole house was wound up like the tightest steel spring. There was a creak, a pop, and half a second later it was over and all the drywall was crooked. You could feel the shockwave move through the air and through you"

"It was like living in the most resonant, tightest wound drum" one family member was overheard commenting

News and weather at 7

Jaded Burnout posted:

blew his own back wall out

NotJustANumber99 posted:

No its one of my issues with the lightweight block. It defo wouldn't have happened cos the mario bricks at the other end didn't blow over.

His Divine Shadow posted:

My suggestion is to build houses from wood.

Jaded Burnout posted:

One disadvantage of the dense concrete block is they really are tough as hell. I had to get a proper SDS drill and was grinding through carbide bits just drilling holes for screws.

When they cut the core out for the boiler flume it took a full hour to get through both leaves.

Salisbury Snape posted:

Shuttered poured concrete makes me think you live in an underground bomb shelter

NotJustANumber99 posted:

I kind of suck and it would be much better, although slower for me to use these screws than hamfistedly mash everything up with a hammer and nails.

Salisbury Snape posted:

You know those road plates I suggested? You could dig a pit in the drive and fill it with vipers, drag road plates across it while you are there, cover with inconspicuous branches and leaves when you are not

Gasmask posted:

my fuckin 1 year old saw off the longest reigning monarch, bitch

Ratjaculation posted:

CancerCakes posted:

Was doing some work on our central heating, which made think of your system plan.

What happens if all the water in the store is at 60 but the back boiler is on? Does the back boiler have its own safety valve?

Also, speaking from experience, if you vent very very hot water into the header tank the boiling hot stream will melt a hole in the header tank and release the water in to your house, and the cold feed will piss out indefinitely until you turn it off because it is trying to refill the holed header tank, leaving you with a massive mess leading to replacing all ceilings and floors in the path.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

The board was good for the whole drive there and back and only snapped a mile or something from home. And yeah if some arsehole wants to come steaming up behind me and sit an inch of my back bumper because I'm only over taking a truck at 70 then yeah lmao at them collecting a bit of OSB board.

TheMightyHandful posted:

Towards an L shape architecture: we talk about poo ITT

BonoMan posted:

I love these home inspection accounts on insta/TikTok

Meaty Ore posted:

I've heard of houses on stilts, but Stilton houses?

Honest, this is probably the best thread on this sub-forum. It really makes me appreciate everything that goes into constructing even a relatively simple structure.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Potemkin rear end housing. I read that a bunch of banks won't even offer mortgages on them now.

aniviron posted:

I'm generally pretty dulled to anything I read online but the guy just ramming the wheelbarrow over the floor heating pipes raised my dander a bit. (why is it this, of all things?) I guess because I see people being lazy and lovely regularly and it bugs me there too. But it's like god drat, come on, there was obviously a lot of work put into making those even to spread heat properly and ensure that nothing would leak etc.

Salisbury Snape posted:

I'm hedging my bet on architect

Salisbury Snape posted:

Hadlock posted:

In the UK because you drive on the other side of the road, does that mean the drive thru runs clockwise around the building? Because it looks like you're setup for cars to wrap counter clockwise around the building like they do in the states

Bobby Deluxe posted:

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“A vast and L-shaped house of stone
Stands in the village... Near it, on the sand,
Not sunk, a great foundation lies, whose floor,
And heating track, and aerate bricks out fanned,
Tell that its builder well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The thread that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is not just a number, ninety nine;
Look on my house, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The surprisingly level foundations stretch far away.”