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Wasabi the J posted:What about if you fill your ears with expanding foam? As long as you use exactly 400 pounds' worth.
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LonsomeSon posted:As long as you use exactly 400 pounds' worth.  I got this.
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I am going to be redoing my deck. I pulled up some boards to take a look at what was underneath as the sides are closed up. 2 x 8 joists spanning 3' too far for a 40/10 snow load? Check, but whatever, okay. 2 x 8 ledger not flashed correctly? Check. 4 x 4 footing span too large for the joist span? Check, but hold on a second. Where.. where's the beam carrying the joists? There's no loving beam carrying the joists?! 3 of the 10 joists are resting on the 4 x 4s directly? What in the gently caress!
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Apr 7, 2015 16:32
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gently caress's sakes people, start a goddamn thread if you really have to discuss soundproofing that much. Unless it's to post pictures of the last tenant's hilariously awful fire trap solutions for sound proofing.
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Apr 7, 2015 18:42
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Wasabi the J posted:What about if you fill your ears with expanding foam?
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Tim Thomas posted:There's no loving beam carrying the joists?! 3 of the 10 joists are resting on the 4 x 4s directly? Fill the space beneath the deck with expanding foam. That should hold'er up.
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Apr 7, 2015 23:06
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High Lord Elbow posted:Fill the space beneath the deck with expanding foam. That should hold'er up. Well that'd be a lot better than the.... structural air? holding up the other 7 Give us some pictures of your construction travesty, that we may point and laugh as the thread did in days of yore.
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High Lord Elbow posted:Fill the space beneath the deck with expanding foam. That should hold'er up. Worked for us in Afghanistan. 
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Apr 8, 2015 10:37
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So what happens if that foam barracks catches on fire or gets hit by some sort of explosive? Do the occupants melt to death ?
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Sylink posted:So what happens if that foam barracks catches on fire or gets hit by some sort of explosive? Do the occupants melt to death ? It's SUPPOSED to be flame retardant but it's dubious how effective it really is, considering how the tents are usually partitioned up with plywood. What's more fun is trying to tell the base fire department how to FIND YOU on base before the inferno points it out. Had to do this on Camp Dwyer, when the building next to mine had the smoke alarms blaring and smelled of hickory while I was alone on night shift. It was an unauthorized cookout that I couldn't see because it was hidden in between some sheds in their little fenced off area. For added pucker factor, here's a bonus shot of how a room is built in those tents. FOB Lagman  No siree that ain't no fire hazard. FOB Shir Ghazay 
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Apr 8, 2015 13:11
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I just found this at work. The roof leaked at one of our locations about 2 months ago and the landlord sent out one of his stooges to replace ceiling tiles that had water spots on them: Who can tell me what's wrong?
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kid sinister posted:I just found this at work. The roof leaked at one of our locations about 2 months ago and the landlord sent out one of his stooges to replace ceiling tiles that had water spots on them: Well, first off, there may or may not be an actual hole for that fan to suck air out of. Also, in my house, we usually put the faceplate of the fan on the people side of the room. It looks purtier that way.
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Apr 9, 2015 02:24
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Sylink posted:So what happens if that foam barracks catches on fire or gets hit by some sort of explosive? Do the occupants melt to death ? Straight out of the box, those tents burn down in 5 minutes and that doesn't even cover the added plywood and bedding.
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Wasabi the J posted:FOB Lagman Oh gently caress you're giving me flashbacks. I spent 3-4 months living on FOB Dragon, which is essentially a multilevel shanty town built into the skeleton of a partially-completed powerplant which the...I think it was a Russian company, but anyway they wisely loving split as soon as the US invaded. That loving place, man. I have no idea what any of that poo poo would have looked like if it was finished, but there was a 5-7 story structure of a pretty respectable footprint, concrete flooring placed but no walls. Naturally it was completely loving honeycombed with rickety plywood structures, powered by haphazardly-interconnected and -hung extension cords over the course of a couple of years by resident soldiers. Apparently the unit we replaced had actually done a semi-thorough retrofit on the whole goddamn thing in order to run a bunch of wireless nodes; no connectivity to the outside world, but you could share porn or run network multiplayer games over it. Oh, and the best part: half of it was whatever the standard voltage is in America (110, right?) and the other half was 240v. Both systems ran off of midrange-capacity diesel electric generators, but someone swapping out a couple of extension cords three floors below (or above) you could result in which power strips in your shanty were 110 and which were 240 swapping. Then there's that one motherfucker in my platoon who is loving incapable of understanding that, because we're off in another shanty nearest the 240v generators, we only have one loving extension cord that's 110, it never changes for loving First Platoon just for Second and Third and the other companies. That guy wound up having to have three different Xbox 360 power sources shipped in because he kept frying everybody's poo poo. e: VVV yeah, I was mildly flabbergasted at that myself when he ruined the first one. What in the gently caress is going on in that brick that there's no room for that capability? LonsomeSon fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Apr 9, 2015 04:16
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The 360 doesn't have a switching power supply?
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Apr 9, 2015 04:19
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Leperflesh posted:The 360 doesn't have a switching power supply? i know the original Xbox didn't, when I blew up mine when I was deployed.
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theacox posted:Well, first off, there may or may not be an actual hole for that fan to suck air out of. We have a correct answer! Seriously though, this landlord is a tool. He sounds like the nicest guy on the phone, but is completely incapable of getting things done. Speaking of swapping out ceiling tiles, this location had an 8 foot ladder in the back that was tall enough to get up into the drop ceiling. When his stooges were swapping out tiles and forgetting/refusing to cut holes for the exhaust fans, they borrowed our ladder then took it with them when they left. So we told the landlord and he replaced the ladder with a new one... a 6 foot ladder. So we called him back. It only took our GM, owner and me calling him a total of 5 times to get him to replace what was stolen.
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Apr 9, 2015 05:57
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The hits just keep coming at my work: Our new breakroom!  It's been like this for five weeks now
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Wasabi the J posted:The hits just keep coming at my work: Somebody ran out of money and does not want to buy their granite slab.
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Apr 9, 2015 08:51
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ColHannibal posted:Somebody ran out of money and does not want to buy their granite slab. Pretty close; there was an issue with the install (there WAS a formica top previously) where the sink wasn't built to code, so they decided to rip everything out and since they're "upgrading" the breakroom anyway, they're waiting for a granite slab.
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Wasabi the J posted:Pretty close; there was an issue with the install (there WAS a formica top previously) where the sink wasn't built to code, so they decided to rip everything out and since they're "upgrading" the breakroom anyway, they're waiting for a granite slab. Granite tops are not long lead items, chances are they are waiting on standby for somebody to gently caress up a larger piece to get a discount as they only need a little piece.
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ColHannibal posted:Granite tops are not long lead items, chances are they are waiting on standby for somebody to gently caress up a larger piece to get a discount as they only need a little piece. No it's already made and sitting in a different room
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Wasabi the J posted:No it's already made and sitting in a different room So get 4-6 people and a tube of caulk. Will take all of 15 minutes
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XmasGiftFromWife posted:So get 4-6 people and a tube of caulk. Will take all of 15 minutes Our management can be described as mercurial at best; they have many deeply contradicting ideas they hold passionately. I'll not risk it for my relatively easy job. I'll get a picture tonight. They had the time clock mounted six inches to the right of where it was, with no explanation.
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Apr 9, 2015 19:11
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ColHannibal posted:Sound dampening drapes or a shotgun. Train horn, pointed at their patio. Give it a blast when it's time to break up the party. `Nemesis posted:http://www.movingsoundtech.com/ Every line of that description reads "get off my lawn you dang whipper-snappers" to me.
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I was looking at houses down in Austin and one of them was an old lady special, ugly as hell but looked like it was well-maintained. Thanks to this thread I remembered that some breaker panels were bad, but I couldn't remember which, so I snapped a picture... STAB-LOK 
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Darchangel posted:Train horn, pointed at their patio. Give it a blast when it's time to break up the party. Train horn too small. Get a ship's horn. Skip to 1:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMy0H_ySfp0
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Laminator posted:I was looking at houses down in Austin and one of them was an old lady special, ugly as hell but looked like it was well-maintained. Thanks to this thread I remembered that some breaker panels were bad, but I couldn't remember which, so I snapped a picture... So, I had to look it up, because I was unaware of the STAB-LOK brand. From the 2nd article (the 1st being warnings about overloads NOT tripping breakers and fire hazard) of googling 'stab lok problems'. quote:So why don't I recommend having an electrician evaluate the panel? There's no point. The gist was don't bother with testing, if you see the brand STAB-LOK anywhere just have it replaced outright.
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Yeah, federal pacific stab-lok breaker panels aren't an IF but rather a WHEN. Replace immediately.
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kastein posted:Yeah, federal pacific stab-lok breaker panels aren't an IF but rather a WHEN. Replace immediately. Also, typically uninsurable. Most mortgage lenders won't pony up the cash until they're removed and replaced.
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Magnus Praeda posted:Also, typically uninsurable. Most mortgage lenders won't pony up the cash until they're removed and replaced. This happened to me. I had to replace the panel within a month of moving in, which I had expected.
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Laminator posted:I was looking at houses down in Austin and one of them was an old lady special, ugly as hell but looked like it was well-maintained. Thanks to this thread I remembered that some breaker panels were bad, but I couldn't remember which, so I snapped a picture... I was living in an apartment complex where all the apartments had these... they weren't replaced until last year. There were like 300+ apartments, it's a wonder they weren't continuously on fire.
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Leperflesh posted:The 360 doesn't have a switching power supply? It does not; not even on the Slim. Dunno about the 'Bone.
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~Coxy posted:It does not; not even on the Slim. Dunno about the 'Bone. Also not switching! I bought a cheap Chinesium knockoff for my US XBone when I was in Indonesia. It looked exactly the same, was quieter, and switching. 
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I'm shocked by this Thai pedestrian overpass  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDgP8cdrV6w
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kid sinister posted:I'm shocked by this Thai pedestrian overpass  So, uh, any idea what sort of current is going through those lines? Are they full-on power lines, some sort of communications, or what?
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kid sinister posted:I'm shocked by this Thai pedestrian overpass You honestly shouldn't be.
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So at some point there was a guy drilling through the middle of a stairway to run wires and thought to himself, "This is totally legit"
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Gounads posted:So at some point there was a guy drilling through the middle of a stairway to run wires and thought to himself, "This is totally legit" No, he thought "I'm getting paid to run these wires. I'm not getting paid to tell my supervisor he's wrong." It seems to be a common sentiment in Asia, from what I've heard.
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