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NancyPants posted:This gently caress ugly bookcase: Hey, his heart is in the right place and he is trying, I can't hate that. He just needs tools and practice.
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Splizwarf posted:He could also use a hand plane and a handful of sandpaper. Wood that old and reclaimed will look old even if you plane it though. Something like a coffee table would be a more appropriate use of the wood I think. Or looking at the photos - anything built by someone who knows how to use a square would be a step up.
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Nov 21, 2015 21:26
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I'm all for recycling old wood, but you have to at least try to make poo poo square. And don't use it for structure.
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Nov 22, 2015 00:30
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Shifty Pony posted:Wood that old and reclaimed will look old even if you plane it though. You sure about that? I made a picture frame out of some wood from our 100+ year old barn, and everywhere that I cut it ended up looking like brand new lumber.
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Nov 22, 2015 00:39
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Man, my first couple of projects looked pretty crappy; I just wasn't as ambitious in terms of scale and didn't post them on the Internet. As long as the dude's trying to improve I say good for him.
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Nov 22, 2015 00:44
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That bookcase wouldn't look out of place as a shelf for storing hardware in a garage or workshed.
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Nov 22, 2015 01:01
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thespaceinvader posted:Because it hides the inevitable mould, duh.  Perfect.
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SynthOrange posted:
Even if the pattern didn’t involve brown splotches, the way the fabrication process stretched them seems like it would make any design look bad.
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Nov 22, 2015 01:20
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SynthOrange posted:
I'm assuming this is salvaged from the fossilized floor of a jurassic hair salon. I wonder if I can get a toilet in the same material, that'd be stellar.
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Nov 22, 2015 01:40
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Goddamn, my brain keeps bouncing back and forth between "it's hair" and "it's poo poo" every time I focus on a different spot. That is a masterstroke of disgusting design.
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Nov 22, 2015 05:59
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Where would you want to see that pattern
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Manslaughter posted:Where would you want to see that pattern Hell
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Nov 22, 2015 06:26
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Looks more like scorpions or huge spiders imho
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Nov 22, 2015 06:32
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SynthOrange posted:
What a lovely sink
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Nov 22, 2015 09:29
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http://imgur.com/a/bCdpE A few more.  The entire Campus out here, was build from essentially ricefields, into full campus in around two years.
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Nov 22, 2015 11:34
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More active neglect here, but my hoarder neighbor who has moved elsewhere but still has the house is also letting it go to poo poo: The front is not much better. He cannot even enter the home anymore due to the vines around the entrance. For background, this is in an area where if he wanted to sell (and has refused numerous offers) he could get half a mil if the house was in good shape. Mental Illness is no joke.
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SynthOrange posted:
at last a sink that contractors can use and not get bitched at for leaving a mess
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Nov 23, 2015 00:08
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Living room: Huh, that looks odd. Basement:  oh.
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Nov 23, 2015 03:24
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I have to say, I'm impressed by the apparent amount of work that went into fitting that fan onto that vent. I mean, it looks quite well done, except it's just, you know, a loving oscillating desk fan. e: I want to imagine they left the oscillation on and the base forever waggles back, and forth, back, and forth, back, and forth, as if it is slowly struggling in futility to break free. Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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Bad Munki posted:e: I want to imagine they left the oscillation on and the base forever waggles back, and forth, back, and forth, back, and forth, as if it is slowly struggling in futility to break free. 
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Nov 23, 2015 03:36
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Now I regret not switching it on.
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Of course, if that were the case, it'd officially be art, and destroying the beautiful creation would be an affront.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:More active neglect here, but my hoarder neighbor who has moved elsewhere but still has the house is also letting it go to poo poo: You can call your local bylaw enforcement people and they'll start dealing with it.
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Nov 23, 2015 03:56
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Antifreeze Head posted:You can call your local bylaw enforcement people and they'll start dealing with it. I think it's more that he more feels bad for the guy, rather than wanting to get him evicted. Although I might just be assuming, there.
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KillHour posted:I think it's more that he more feels bad for the guy, rather than wanting to get him evicted. Although I might just be assuming, there. There's no being evicted. Dude doesn't even live there anymore. He just owns the property at this point and won't/can't do any upkeep.
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Nov 23, 2015 06:02
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There's a house like that in my town, except it's right in the main pedestrian zone, in a huge tourist area. Whoever owns the place could probably make a killing in rent for the apartments and ground floor shops, instead it's falling apart so badly that the town has had to put up a sign saying "it doesn't belong to us, we're trying to do something about it but our hands are tied." And also "for the love of god don't go in." Granted, that means at this point it would probably take a considerable outlay to get it fixed up enough so you can rent it out again.
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Nov 23, 2015 10:23
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The owner is nice enough. The county has various actions pending against him. Myself and the neighbors think eventually he will sell or lose the house and a developer will put in a McMansion. No one wants the McMansion.
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Nov 23, 2015 10:45
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I drive by this house everyday, the previous block wall was built without interlocking the blocks so each block was right on top of the block below it. Apparently, the wall also had no foundation as over the years portions of the wall would slowly lean and then fall over. My favorite part of the leaning wall would lean right against the tree in the foreground. The owner recently got a contractor to tear out the old wall and replace it with this rock wall. Of course, the contractor didn't dig down below grade and pour a foundation for the wall. 
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Nov 23, 2015 10:52
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The Gardenator posted:I drive by this house everyday, the previous block wall was built without interlocking the blocks so each block was right on top of the block below it. Apparently, the wall also had no foundation as over the years portions of the wall would slowly lean and then fall over. My favorite part of the leaning wall would lean right against the tree in the foreground. So wait, the house looks like that, but the owner decided the most pressing concern was the decorative wall that held up the mailbox?
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Antifreeze Head posted:So wait, the house looks like that, but the owner decided the most pressing concern was the decorative wall that held up the mailbox? The wall hides their shame. Wtf is going on with that roof/wall?? Also, this not worth posting anywhere else and it's kinda a crappy construction tale. One of the sub contractor's helpers is over sanding my drywall today, it's 40F out, and the idiot left my back door (50ft from his work zone) wide open. Go right ahead buddy, the heating bill is all on me today. It's not like I wanted to keep my indoor cat inside today, how loving stupid do you have to be to leave the door wide open in an occupied house on a cold day???
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Crotch Fruit posted:Wtf is going on with that roof/wall?? Looks like a little greenhouse-style extension there with a corrugated metal roof. It's clearly not the same kind of construction as the rest of the house. Of course, it's also totally full of junk, from the looks of it.
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I'm embarrassed by how long I stared at this before I noticed the outlet. But not embarrassed enough to keep it to myself.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Looks like a little greenhouse-style extension there with a corrugated metal roof. It's clearly not the same kind of construction as the rest of the house. Of course, it's also totally full of junk, from the looks of it. Looks like it may have been a 3-season porch/entryway at one time. I'm guessing they're also hoarders.
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Nov 23, 2015 19:28
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People are over-complicating the whole dog washing thing.
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Dick Trauma posted:People are over-complicating the whole dog washing thing. "We used, uh, stomach grease."
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The best thing would be to have a double outlet cover, where bottom is a 20A outlet and top is a hose spicket. I may mock that up and put it outside just to gently caress with people
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Nov 23, 2015 20:23
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Don't forget a USB charging port.
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NancyPants posted:This gently caress ugly bookcase:  I'm imagining his right foot on the other end of that board. Shady Amish Terror posted:I admit, the idea amused me, but why wouldn't you at least plane and sand them to be more uniform? Cut them down to more uniform lengths? Maybe not use the fully-rotten timbers? 'Rustic' is making a bookshelf out of recycled wood, 'exotic' is managing to put one together out of driftwood, 'ramshackle' is about where those appear to be. I'm sure they're reasonably functional, but they just look so out of place in that room. Javid posted:[img]http://i.imgur.com/bS7xAwll.jpg][/img]
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Magnus Praeda posted:Looks like it may have been a 3-season porch/entryway at one time. I'm guessing they're also hoarders. I have a lot of sympathy for hoarders after I learned my neighbor was a hoarder because she realized as a child that if there was so much stuff in her room no one could get in, she wouldn't be raped.  In crappy construction, my roof of my favorite burger joint is failing, causing the ceiling to collapse from water damage. It was then that I saw the "wiring" in the ceiling was actually a large number of extension cords running from who-knows-where. The water was dripping off them. I wish I could have taken a picture.
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