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iForge posted:Was doing some electrical in a house today and came across this gem of a repair under the basement stairs. Yes that is a cracked stringer. Yes that is pipe strapping and a ton of self sealing sheet metal screws. Oh good, i thought it was from an old erector set.
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Slanderer posted:It took me a while to find it, but it was called VICTORY CITY! It was truly a brilliant idea--a 102 story, 3 square mile reinforced concrete wonderland! I just wrote up a big post in the failed thread I made in PYF for the purpose of collecting interesting poo poo like this: The funniest part is how he seems to think that people would want to live in such a place. It makes the Peach Tress Megablock from Judge Dredd seem like a cozy aging brownstone near a neighborhood pub.
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They were all the rage in the 70s. My city built something quite similar and then tore it down once they realized it was a dumb loving idea.
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That's amazing. I know I fantasize about having a 300 pound washing machine hanging over my head when I poo poo.
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Aug 25, 2014 03:54
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Washing machines are like 150lbs at most. Dryers are well under 100 iirc. They're just big and dumb and annoying to move.
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Aug 25, 2014 04:01
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Cold water wash only, constant sewage smell from open plumbing stack, vibrating washing machine supported by 2 shelf brackets. What's not to love?
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Also: You know how you'll always drop a few socks or underwear when loading/unloading a front loader? Now add a lack of a lid to the toilet into the mix. Hell just loading/unloading it will be a pain.
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Aug 25, 2014 04:22
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There's got to be a easier way to set up a gray water supply for your toilet. Like, a non-retarded way.
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NancyPants posted:There's got to be a easier way to set up a gray water supply for your toilet. Like, a non-retarded way. It's a fresh water supply?
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kastein posted:Washing machines are like 150lbs at most. Dryers are well under 100 iirc. my washer is 4kg 
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Nitrox posted:It's a fresh water supply? Then it's extra retarded with no redeeming quality
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Nitrox posted:It's a fresh water supply? That has to be gray, why else have the fill on the top connecting to the washer. I refuse to believe people are that stupid.
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kastein posted:Washing machines are like 150lbs at most. Dryers are well under 100 iirc. And they tend to vibrate and move around quite a lot when on the spin cycle (mine always tries to run across the room). That cant be good when on 2 small wall brackets. I'm assuming it is bolted to them - but I wouldn't like to trust them to stay intact or securely attached to the wall forever especially when i might be sitting under them! ColHannibal posted:That has to be gray, why else have the fill on the top connecting to the washer. You can see the washer waste going into the sewer drop. I think it is just being fed from a water line that is on the wall behind the toilet cistern. You could put the grey waste water from the washer directly into the cistern which would be kind of neat yet crude (but not surprising in this case) but you wouldn't go the other way.
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kastein posted:Washing machines are like 150lbs at most. Are you also accounting for water? I guarantee that thing will be much heavier with a full load of clothes and water. Edit: Front loaders seem to be around 0.113267 m3 (4 ft3 ~30 gal) The density of water is 999.97 kg/m3 That's 113.26 kg (249.7 lbs) of water alone. xergm fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Aug 25, 2014 |
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Nitrox posted:Cold water wash only, constant sewage smell from open plumbing stack, vibrating washing machine supported by 2 shelf brackets. What's not to love? Over here, washing machines have built-in heaters and require only cold water. (And I guess fear of the vibrating machine of doom overhead would be quite effective at distracting you from the smell.)
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A 4 cubic foot washer is pretty big. That one is probably just 3. And the major advantage of front load washers is that you don't have to fill that whole space with water; there's not likely to be more than 10 gallons in the washer at any given time, possibly quite a bit less.
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I've mostly only ever used top-loaders at home, which fill all the way to their capacity. I guess like other things, Americans like their things larger than most. I just pulled a random sampling for front-loaders from home improvement sites, and most used 4 ft3. At the very least, a good amount of water could easily double the weight of a washer. 0/10, would not poo poo there. xergm fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Aug 25, 2014 |
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Slanderer posted:A wet room seems like an absolute nightmare, unless you're living in that one weirdo's conceptual FUTURE CITY where everything is perfectly waterproof and automatic steam cleaning systems deploy while you're at work. They work out really well, believe it or not. To give you an idea of what they kind of look like:   Mine, when I lived in Japan, looked like the second one. The door was water proof and had vents angled so that water wouldn't escape. My walls weren't tile but were the plastic that your bath unit is likely made of, so yes, it was completely water-proof. You had to give everything a bit of cleaner/sponge every month, but it was really easy since you could just spray, scrub, and rinse without worrying about water getting everywhere.
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Chitin posted:This is called a "wet room." It's super common in many of the more crowded Asian countries and in ridiculously contemporary designer bathrooms that show up in architecture magazines. A lot of those designers do it in really big bathrooms. In theory the whole thing is wet, but you don't ever use the shower side except when you are showering, so the other side can stay pretty dry. Not like the tiny Asian ones that totally soak every inch of the walls when you take a shower.
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I actually love wet rooms to give a spa feel. Check these out: http://i.imgur.com/LUZ0tgf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/patXtjA.jpg
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I've tried vertical shower heads like that, and they're dumb. Your options are either to stand entirely out of the flow of water, stick limbs in, and get cold, or stand under the water and get your head covered in water (which can be irritating for any number of reasons). A traditional shower lets you aim the flow at your chest so you stay warm.
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If you look, it also has wall mounted, detachable shower heads too. I'm with you though, I got a rainwater style one and I am just about ready to switch back.
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I like our rain water style shower, it also has a detachable head but I prefer the rain.
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This is the best showerhead I've ever had.
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Javid posted:This is the best showerhead I've ever had.  e: 
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How well do those heating shower heads work?
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Nitrox posted:How well do those heating shower heads work? Shockingly well.
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Yeah, I laughed. My standards are low - as long as the showerhead is above 5' I can't complain. My current place is a joy to live in because even my house guests over six feet can stand underneath the stream comfortably. Well except for the fact that the west-facing siding is infested with ants. And the tub has needed to be resealed since 1994. But I killed the rats, at least those are dead ok. All nine of them.
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Nitrox posted:How well do those heating shower heads work? "I could see it, glowing red, raging inside the plastic shower head. Black smoke started streaming from the holes in the plastic, and the heater raged on, squealing a more and more high pitched death knell."
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Years of living in crummy student apartments resulted in me thinking the best part of building my own bathroom in my house was that I could choose how high the shower head was. So I put it like 7 feet in the air. Suck it short people  It's incredible to actually be able to get under the shower head without inducing scoliosis.
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Here's what my bathroom looks like ATM, under construction but usable, it's still lacking the divider, a cabinet and a wash basin.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Here's what my bathroom looks like ATM, under construction but usable, it's still lacking the divider, a cabinet and a wash basin. is your toilet paper soaked after you shower?
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No it's far away enough, also installed a toilet paper holder and other stuff after the pic was taken. Everything is still under construction.
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Motronic posted:You could put down peel and stick vinyl tiles in a few hours for under $40. From waaaaaay back, but! I thought of that, but I figure, in a bathroom, water is going to get under the tiles through the joints and lift them. In our bathroom, with my kid, water everywhere is inevitable. It would probably do temporarily, I suppose. I can tile it - it's just my wife and I being lazy on picking out tile(s), mainly.
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Zemyla posted:HOW THE gently caress It's art. That's how. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2518206/Alex-Chinneck-Margates-sliding-house-makes-upside-building-Merge-Festival.html
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edit: ^^ That's incredibly awesome. You don't even need a handrail, because you can just bounce off of the walls. And it's not like you can roll/fall far in a straight line, so we're good! Darchangel posted:From waaaaaay back, but! Yeah, don't do this. We've got this in our bathroom, and I'm slowly adding additional silicone beads in key always-wet tile gaps, trying to deflect any water flows from the shower. (Silicone won't bond to silicone, you say? Why, I hardly see how that's relevant!) Can't wait to rip this lovely floor out.
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Raised by Hamsters posted:edit: ^^ That's incredibly awesome. You don't even need a handrail, because you can just bounce off of the walls. And it's not like you can roll/fall far in a straight line, so we're good! I like the design but looking at the transition from underneath it looks as if it is something someone bodged together and I'd be curious how (probably badly) the upper support column was attached to the ceiling.
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