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So how do women that need a half hour to get ready and have a bathroom full of toiletries live in Japan?
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Mar 30, 2016 00:56
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In normal residences, the toilet is in a separate room from the bath and sink. The family shares one bath.
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Mar 30, 2016 01:05
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I honeymooned in glorious Nippon and the sink on top of the toilet thing is totally fine for washing your hands unless you are so fat / gangly / retarded that you couldn't straddle a toilet bowl with your feet slightly more than shoulder width apart. You could even AC Slater the loving thing if you were really lazy.
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Mar 30, 2016 01:28
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Random guy on Imgur standing in a dirt hole... you know this isn't going to end well It turned out super cute and all, but drainage? Waterproofing? What the hell is that?
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Mar 30, 2016 02:08
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30 Goddamned Dicks posted:It turned out super cute and all, but drainage? Waterproofing? What the hell is that? Dunno about drainage, but he definitely thought about waterproofing. quote:Closing and sealing the structure was a great step forward - the previous work had taken a very long time to complete so to get a nice watertight hole was a great relief, especially as there had been a few water related problems early on. quote:The corrugated iron was used to seal everything in and the panels were all seam welded from top to bottom once in position and then finished with plenty of waterproof barriers. The base concreted with waterproofer and finished with further waterproofing and finally a levelling compound so there was a lovely clean finish inside. Taken from the companion tumblr - http://ukhobbithole.tumblr.com/
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Mar 30, 2016 02:54
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ulmont posted:Dunno about drainage, but he definitely thought about waterproofing. Uhh, that's wood directly on the dirt, before he applied any waterproofing. That thing is going to wick up any moisture and become a moldy mess. It's a good thing the UK doesn't have termites...
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Mar 30, 2016 03:26
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Dillbag posted:I honeymooned in glorious Nippon and the sink on top of the toilet thing is totally fine for washing your hands unless you are so fat / gangly / retarded that you couldn't straddle a toilet bowl with your feet slightly more than shoulder width apart. You could even AC Slater the loving thing if you were really lazy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6HMi3jHaCI
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Mar 30, 2016 03:26
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Boogeyman posted:
Repair the pipe with hose. 
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Mar 30, 2016 03:57
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kid sinister posted:Uhh, that's wood directly on the dirt, before he applied any waterproofing. That thing is going to wick up any moisture and become a moldy mess. I think that may be scaffolding. Look at the rest of the pictures.
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Mar 30, 2016 04:10
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peanut posted:This is the toilet room (2.5x5 feet) where we're staying now.
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Mar 30, 2016 08:28
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The 70s were crazy times
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Mar 30, 2016 08:30
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SynthOrange posted:Repair the pipe with hose. I had something similar in my basement when I moved in... except they took the time to solder on two hose faucets and use a garden hose between them. It was the oddest thing I've ever seen done.
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Mar 30, 2016 14:04
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SynthOrange posted:Repair the pipe with hose. You're saying hose, but all I see is condom.
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Mar 30, 2016 16:58
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From the China thread... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeLyr5hh9Uc Even I can make better concrete than that.
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Mar 31, 2016 00:04
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 So uh... there's steel holding the building up, right?
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Mar 31, 2016 00:28
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I remember there was a medium earthquake in china few years ago and the death toll was pretty shocking for the magnitude of the quake (the same quake in japan would have 0 deaths generally). A big problem was nearly every school in the area turned to a pile of sand. The problem was of course so many of the buildings, specially anything built by the local government, was built out of barely or totally not reinforced "concrete" that was mostly sand. Kids were tunneling through walls of their school with pencils.
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Mar 31, 2016 00:32
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`Nemesis posted:From the China thread... That's not concrete, that's loving sand
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Mar 31, 2016 00:51
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Ignimbrite posted:That's not concrete, that's loving sand Well... concrete with no water, which is a good portion of sand.
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Mar 31, 2016 01:07
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`Nemesis posted:Even I can make better concrete than that.
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Mar 31, 2016 11:29
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Enourmo posted:
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Mar 31, 2016 12:55
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xwing posted:Well... concrete with no water, which is a good portion of sand. How do you forget to add water?
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Mar 31, 2016 15:03
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spog posted:How do you forget to add water? They forgot that slide when they gave the migrant workers their printed instructions on how to make concrete
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Mar 31, 2016 15:18
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spog posted:How do you forget to add water? Pumping water up a tower to pour is expensive? No oversight? Don't give a crap? Lawsuits not an issue? I doubt they forgot, probably negligence. There's no one there to perform a slump test that cares.
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Mar 31, 2016 15:33
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We just moved into a rental sight-unseen and it is an unholy mismash of solid and spectacularly crappy construction. There's the usual suspects: uninsulated addition, original 40s wiring (no new-fangled overhead lighting for us!), etc. Then there's the extra-special touches: painted cardboard covering the old air-return in the hallway instead of drywall, the overlapping outlet covers in the addition because two outlets were placed too close together, the sink that is not flush with the wall behind it which is also partially undrywalled and has plumbing running on an uninsulated exterior wall in a place where temperatures are still not above freezing. But the piece de resistance is the front door. At some point, someone decided they wanted to have glass panels in their front door. Rather than get a new door, they cut out two sections of the original wood door and put in two glass panels, held in place by molding. However, the molding was way too short to fit. So they filled in the quarter-to-a-full-inch gaps at the corners with caulking, then covered the whole thing in joint compound and tried to paint it.
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Mar 31, 2016 16:46
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Brennanite posted:moved into a rental sight-unseen Were you desperate?
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Mar 31, 2016 16:49
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NancyPants posted:Were you desperate? My brother (who tells people "you can take that wall down, but it's going to cost you $X to reroute all the plumbing" for a living) checked it out and said it was fine. My brother is no longer allowed to talk to me.
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Mar 31, 2016 17:17
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Brennanite posted:My brother (who tells people "you can take that wall down, but it's going to cost you $X to reroute all the plumbing" for a living) checked it out and said it was fine. Sounds like he should no longer be allowed to talk to his clients
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Mar 31, 2016 17:40
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Brennanite posted:original 40s wiring (no new-fangled overhead lighting for us!) I've seen my fair share of knob and tube overhead fixtures. So it was a thing, just maybe not in your house/area.
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Mar 31, 2016 22:31
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spog posted:How do you forget to add water? The thing with dry concrete is that it has a shelf life. Given enough time, it will wick enough moisture out of the ground or humidity out of the atmosphere and set. I've heard of people relying on that for fence posts. Dig a hole, put in the post, pour in the dry concrete, wait. Setting time estimates may vary for multistory Chinese shanties though.
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Mar 31, 2016 23:23
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kid sinister posted:The thing with dry concrete is that it has a shelf life. Given enough time, it will wick enough moisture out of the ground or humidity out of the atmosphere and set. I've heard of people relying on that for fence posts. Dig a hole, put in the post, pour in the dry concrete, wait. Yeah, I've done that myself. But building a sandcastle skyscraper and hoping for high humidity is a slightly different league
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Mar 31, 2016 23:31
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Baronjutter posted:I remember there was a medium earthquake in china few years ago and the death toll was pretty shocking for the magnitude of the quake (the same quake in japan would have 0 deaths generally). A big problem was nearly every school in the area turned to a pile of sand. The problem was of course so many of the buildings, specially anything built by the local government, was built out of barely or totally not reinforced "concrete" that was mostly sand. Kids were tunneling through walls of their school with pencils. You're thinking of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake which was an 8.0. Chinese people referred to those collapsed schools (among other casualties) as "tofu dregs buildings" because of the shoddy quality of the construction and materials used.
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Apr 1, 2016 03:39
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Maybe they thought if the buildings were so weak and lovely, less people would get hurt as they fell apart!
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Apr 1, 2016 04:04
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 They tried.
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Apr 1, 2016 05:58
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Platystemon posted:
I'm going to assume those are just foot-flush urinals? The only failure I see is that only one has a paddle instead of the usual handle, but even then, that seems like a pretty cool setup.
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Apr 1, 2016 07:15
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Boat posted:I'm going to assume those are just foot-flush urinals? The only failure I see is that only one has a paddle instead of the usual handle, but even then, that seems like a pretty cool setup. Yeah, that was the main problem I saw with it.
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Apr 1, 2016 09:36
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They're blatantly assuming that all men are right-foot dominant, which is discriminatory, and I'm triggered.
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Apr 1, 2016 16:46
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Your right-footedness privilege is showing, by assuming that the flusher under the urinal corresponds to that urinal, rather than that the flusher to the left a urinal controls it. Now I am also triggered.
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Apr 1, 2016 16:52
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Last time I was in a restroom like this some dude flushed me midstream by hitting the wrong pedal, the pedals were kind of in the center between urinals- must have been one of those liberal lefties like you.
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Apr 1, 2016 17:13
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Vulcan posted:Last time I was in a restroom like this some dude flushed me midstream by hitting the wrong pedal, the pedals were kind of in the center between urinals- must have been one of those liberal lefties like you. What a sinister act.
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Apr 1, 2016 17:24
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Well yeah, the water can splash down your back when you're trying to take a dump
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