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PainterofCrap posted:Gravity is not your friend on jobs like this. "Eat a dick, gravity." -Archer, latest Archer episode, after falling down a rocky hill
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Javid posted:It's not scrap, it's upcycled wood ftfy
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Baronjutter posted:Those posts look lovely (and no footings???) but it's obviously just a wheel chair ramp they added in, no need to remove the stairs. The next people to use the house can then just demo the ramp and have normal stairs back. I see that all the time with old people "aging in place". A lot of these olds get their kids to come build them a ramp or something, so they're not always built to the highest standards. Specially because the people building them don't expect the ramp to be needed for long That's a particularly bad example of a wheelchair ramp, because there's absolutely no way in hell EMS is ever going to get a stretcher through that door; there's just not enough room to take that corner with a long stretcher. It also looks like it's tight enough to be awkward with either a wheelchair or a power scooter. Would have done better to have the ramp coming straight away from the door.
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Khizan posted:That's a particularly bad example of a wheelchair ramp, because there's absolutely no way in hell EMS is ever going to get a stretcher through that door; there's just not enough room to take that corner with a long stretcher. It also looks like it's tight enough to be awkward with either a wheelchair or a power scooter. Would have done better to have the ramp coming straight away from the door. Unless straight away from the door overlaps a driveway or goes directly into the neighbor's house. No comment on the quality of the construction, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they chose the best option they had available to them. Having built a proper ramp for my mother, you need a loooot of real estate for a proper incline that won't result in hilarity/disaster.
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Someone post that picture of the city that built a wheelchair ramp with 15 switchbacks to the kids house
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canyoneer posted:Someone post that picture of the city that built a wheelchair ramp with 15 switchbacks to the kids house  Safety first
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Apr 7, 2016 02:16
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This is why wheelchair lifts were invented
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Apr 7, 2016 02:23
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At least there's no yard to mow
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That house has to have some sort of back lane that would have been much easier access.
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Apr 7, 2016 05:33
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That looks British, are we sure it's not one of those British humor jokes?
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Apr 7, 2016 13:19
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Buff Skeleton posted:
skateboarders love this guy.
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SneakyFrog posted:skateboarders love this guy. Because they can buy his house after they injure themselves and end up in a wheelchair. 
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Apr 7, 2016 13:32
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SneakyFrog posted:skateboarders love this guy. I don't know if you were joking, but you aren't wrong: quote:The eyesore 'slalem-style' ramp winds its way over 60 metres and is proving a long way round for Clare and Katie. Perfect in every way
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Ashcans posted:I don't know if you were joking, but you aren't wrong: I wasnt. I saw that and was like holy poo poo. I would break my legs so many times as a kid trying to do something stupid on that.
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My bizarro house reached a new level yesterday when I was able to wrestle the blinds in the addition down and discovered that one of the windows is installed vertically (as is traditional), but its mirror image partner is installed horizontally. How do you even install one window one way and its twin the other? How could you possibly not notice that before you start caulking? How could you see that and not care?!! I know it's a rental, but the urge to gut it and start fresh is strong.
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Brennanite posted:How could you see that and not care?!! Brennanite posted:I know it's a rental There's your answer
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Buff Skeleton posted:
Reminds me of this.
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Anorexic Sea Turtle posted:Your cat clock kicks rear end. I've got one of those. They still make them new. https://www.amazon.com/California-Kit-Cat%AE-Clock-Original-Size/dp/B00AFXXJR8 It runs on C-cells. When the batteries get low, the eyes and tail stop but the hands keep working for a few more months. Right now I think it goes through a pair of batteries about once a year. I love it, though.
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Leperflesh posted:They still make them mew. Ahem. 
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CopperHound posted:Oh Hey, a door: what is this, a door for ants
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packetmantis posted:what is this, a door for ants Clearly the uncle is using it.
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packetmantis posted:what is this, a door for ants  Oompa-Loompa compliance is the latest thing in ADA regulations
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I just dug up some old photos that I think belong here. This isn't exactly a crappy construction tale, but it's either this or the wiring thread and I think this post is more  than "help how do I electricity".So, my day job involves working on microscopes in an academic environment. These things tend to get jury-rigged by the more adventurous researchers -- they'll bodge together whatever they need to get their experiments working, and then leave the hacked-together system in place so that some poor I was brought in to investigate why we were getting bleedthrough in the 488nm (blue) laser line whenever someone activated the 405nm (nearly ultraviolet) laser line. The boss of the lab (principle investigator) insisted it had to be a software problem, because he personally vetted all the hardware and there is absolutely no way, categorically, that it could be at fault. So I showed him the software controls, demonstrated that they were telling the hardware to do the right thing, and then noted, hey, I can hear the 488nm laser's shutter opening every time we trigger the 405nm laser's shutter. They're high-speed shutters, and very noisy (the lasers are left on continuously, and the shutters open/close to expose them). So we trace the trigger cables that open/close the shutters, and look what we find:  Is that a bunch of unshielded screw terminals for 5v TTL lines just kind of hanging out next to each other on the wall? I think it is! Could changes in one line be inducing a current in the other line, causing the shutter to flick open? Just take a look at the oscilloscope:  Isn't that some pretty ringing there?
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Suspect Bucket posted:The next party of adventurers come through and find your corpse. They inevitability get to arguing how much the block weighs, and take it along with them because that one rear end in a top hat in the party thinks it's funny. Nobody ever thinks to cast Detect Curse on it. Crikey, that whole thing had me laughing until I teared up. 
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Run out of breaker slots? No problem!
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kid sinister posted:Run out of breaker slots? No problem! See, the problem here is the wire is wrapped around the screw the wrong way, there is no way that would self tighten. Rookie mistake.
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DocCynical posted:See, the problem here is the wire is wrapped around the screw the wrong way, there is no way that would self tighten. Rookie mistake. Why didn't they just put in the lug clamp? I think that the icing on the cake is the copper peeking out of the wirenut waiting to give you a wakeup!
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Bad connections you say?  I'm done. Nope, not even diagnosing the system. New compressor time.
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morethanjake32 posted:Why didn't they just put in the lug clamp? I think that the icing on the cake is the copper peeking out of the wirenut waiting to give you a wakeup! Not the live screwhead?
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ExplodingSims posted:Bad connections you say? That's...sort of impressive. Someone put some effort into that horrible hackjob.
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Cakefool posted:Not the live screwhead? No, because thats the danger you know and stay away from. The extra bit of exposed copper is just hanging out there waiting to grab you while you are distracted by the drywall screw with copper wound the wrong way screwed into aluminum wire, all the while wondering 'who the gently caress?'
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Moving to a new house from my current handyman clusterfuck. One of the first things I do in a place is break out the trusty three light outlet tester. I got a really odd reading so I pulled the outlet to see what was up: That is an impressive amount of wrong in one place.
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Is that outlet self-grounding? I can't see the back of the bottom screw. If so, at least the outlet may have been grounded (if the box is), even if hot and neutral were reversed.
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The box is not grounded. The house has 1950s 2 conductor cloth covered wiring, not BX armored. When installed the not-screwed-in ground and (hot) "neutral" screws are close enough to each other and come close enough to the steel box to become inductively coupled. It doesn't have any current carrying ability but it is enough to cause the DMM to read a voltage (but not an analog meter - the needle takes too much current to swing). Looks like it is GFCI time, although I might check with the landlord to see if he'd be ok with me paying for an electrician to come out and install GFCI breakers to protect the entire circuits, as the the bathroom lighting has an integrated outlet and I doubt the lighting is daisy chained behind an outlet where I can insert a GFCI receptacle.
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Shifty Pony posted:The box is not grounded. The house has 1950s 2 conductor cloth covered wiring, not BX armored. The 1950s is when ground wires started appearing in residential installs. Look closer. It's possible that you actually have the ground wire, but it isn't hooked up. Also, they make single outlet GFCIs with a switch. That would be cheaper than a breaker.
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I always thought this was fake. I was wrong.  Rest of the album here. http://imgur.com/a/fy3o2
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Maybe he has a lifted truck, that he can't fit into his garage?
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I'm actually kind of impressed how nice the concrete pad looks.
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Tigntink posted:I'm actually kind of impressed how nice the concrete pad looks. Never been used! Can't believe for a second that the people doing the pour didn't know how stupid this was. Maybe humoring an idiot foreman, or doing it as revenge of some kind? It looks like part of a planned development of multiple houses, so this is not just one eccentric owner losing his mind.
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Hey, at least their drainage should be fantastic, right?
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