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House shopping today and found the lightswitch mothership. This was the worst room, but there were at least 8 separate light switches in EVERY room of the house. Most only controlled a single bulb.

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

kid sinister posted:

Good lord. That must have been a nightmare for the electrician to keep track of where each wire goes to while he was running them and putting up the boxes.

kid sinister posted:

https://i.imgur.com/X7YdqnM.gifv

there wolf posted:

ExplodingSims posted:

I have a feeling an electrician was not involved in this

Kilo147 posted:

loving hell, I would hate to hit my elbow on that fucker.

Sylink posted:

is that an amethyst crystal

there wolf posted:

Bad Munki posted:

I don't even care, I think it's awesome.

Also how weirdly built are you people/your houses if a counter is at elbow height? Mine's just barely above wrist height and I'm only 5'9".

Bad Munki posted:

I don't even care, I think it's awesome.

Also how weirdly built are you people/your houses if a counter is at elbow height? Mine's just barely above wrist height and I'm only 5'9".

Ashcans posted:

If you think elbows are bad, wait until your kid runs their forehead into that.

Sagebrush posted:

Bad Munki posted:

I wonder how you'd even go about sourcing a stone slab like that with a sweet geode in it. I also really like the idea of filling it with a clear resin to keep the profile/surface but make the geode visible, as Ashcans suggested. Then, hell, you could get a countertop pocked all over with those bad boys.

Bad Munki posted:

I wonder how you'd even go about sourcing a stone slab like that with a sweet geode in it. I also really like the idea of filling it with a clear resin to keep the profile/surface but make the geode visible, as Ashcans suggested. Then, hell, you could get a countertop pocked all over with those bad boys.

Bad Munki posted:

Oh, that's vastly less exciting. I thought they'd somehow found a slab that had an inclusion. But I ain't learned nothin' in no geology so I don't even know if that's possible. Oh well.

kid sinister posted:

Well, amethyst comes from geodes that form in volcanic, igneous rock. Amethyst is also a form a quartz, which can occur in granite, so it's possible. However, you'd be talking about finding a geode buried in a cliff face at a quarry, chopping that chunk out of the ground, then slicing it down to this specific section and throwing away the rest.

Up until the 18th century, amethyst was very expensive and included in the 5 cardinal gems, but the price crashed after massive deposits were found around the world. They are now one of the cheapest gemstones. How massive?

Bad Munki posted:

#3 there will make a fine coffin, I'll take it!

kid sinister posted:

Up until the 18th century, amethyst was very expensive and included in the 5 cardinal gems, but the price crashed after massive deposits were found around the world. They are now one of the cheapest gemstones. How massive?

c0ldfuse posted:

Reddit Post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/46xzz3/i_decided_to_destroy_a_wall_with_a_hammer_to_open/

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Could you do us all a favour and pull off that ceiling grill and take some shots of the joist space. This is killing me.

The one wall should be load bearing because it appears that there is an exterior wall above it (the wall with the gunslot windows). It's also clear that the doorways have 2x10(probably) headers in it because you cut the stud supporting the cripple out with a sawzall and used a prybar to pull it off.

The other wall seems to have some sort of mezzanine or bridge over it, so it could be possible that the floor is designed to span the whole room, but it could also be possible that there is one beam spanning the room and the joists run between that beam and the wall (short way).

What specifically did your Structural engineer friend say?

It is honestly possible that you created a major future issue with your house doing this. It would be well worth it to pull the drywall off the ceiling and have a look at what you actually just did. If you can't afford a few hundred dollars of drywall then you can't afford the (potentially) thousands it would cost to repair the damage that could result in the coming years.

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Engineer and home remodeler here. Those were absolutely load bearing. I base this on the second to last photo showing the hallway and the upper area. There is no way to frame off the left/right upper areas without needing support here. Whether the entire wall was required or just the columns I can't say. That depends entirely on which direction the joists/rafters are running, what size they are, and what is in that area. (Second floor or roof) but 90% certain both of those walls should not have been taken down. Cracked drywall may not be your only issue here. Load bearing member sizes are calculated not off simply keeping the roof from collapsing but from collapsing with snow piled up there. Add 3-4" of wet snow to any roof and it now weighs more than double what it did in the summer.

Strongly recommend having a REAL structural engineer come in to evaluate. They will need to look at the structure under those two areas to evaluate. Simply walking around saying "yep, them are walls" is not sufficient.

To those in this threa stating the framing indicates load bearing: not always. Bear in mind 1. How much work is done by homeowners (read: those that have bo business doing it) and 2. This is pretty much just the standard way to frame anything off in many regions. The double header just makes it easy to tie a wall into a perpendicular wall by overlapping the upper header. (Source on that- worked with Habitat for Humanity for over a decade now in 3 states)

Side note for anyone wanting to do a job like this in a matter of minutes (the demo part anyway) get yourself a Fubar 3 from Stanley. Absolutely the single greatest demo tool ever made. Only available thru Amazon from what I've found. Firefighters use them to brutally smash thru your house to get your rear end out of there.

c0ldfuse posted:

Photos:
http://imgur.com/a/10DS3

photo captions posted:

here's what i arrived at. we're gonna reinforce the columns more, plus reinforce the ceiling. originally i was going to do two 2x9"s for the headers, but, that poo poo was really heavy and i was doing this entire project solo, so, shortcuts were made.

Collateral Damage posted:

Isn't amethyst also relatively easy to synthesize nowadays, and for all practical purposes indistinguishable from natural ones?

Phanatic posted:

So's diamond, hasn't stopped the deBeers people from manipulating the price through monopoly power and an amazing marketing engine.