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Per Reddit, it's been fixed: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.087...12!8i6656?hl=en
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GreenNight posted:Per Reddit, it's been fixed: "Fixed." That still only looks marginally better and would still be a nightmare if there was any packed snow or ice.
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Apr 12, 2016 00:30
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Magnus Praeda posted:"Fixed." That still only looks marginally better and would still be a nightmare if there was any packed snow or ice. I seem to remember seeing similar pictures, possibly the same development. If so, it was in Arizona per my memory.
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Apr 12, 2016 00:32
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My driveway is around that steep, but it's got 5 feet more on the bottom and the top to even out the ride. I wouldn't want to try that smooth driveway in the rain. Mine has these chevron shaped grooves cut into the concrete for grip.
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Apr 12, 2016 00:43
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I bet the neighborhood kids loving LOVE it though. When I was like 10 I used to love riding my bike/skateboard/wagon down the steepest driveway on the street.
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Apr 12, 2016 03:49
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I got two words for ya, freezing rain.
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Apr 12, 2016 04:02
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ExplodingSims posted:Bad connections you say? JUST ONE MORE HARD START
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Apr 12, 2016 04:08
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Hey, at least their drainage should be fantastic, right? Right up until it freezes. God forbid anyone who lives in that house need a paramedic evac in the winter, someone'll die.
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Apr 12, 2016 11:53
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The Gardenator posted:My driveway is around that steep, but it's got 5 feet more on the bottom and the top to even out the ride. I wouldn't want to try that smooth driveway in the rain. Mine has these chevron shaped grooves cut into the concrete for grip. I visited someone with a similarly steep driveway and grooves cut into it, and still had to gun it a little on the approach to be able to climb without wheel slip. Not pleasant.
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Apr 12, 2016 12:41
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Lime Tonics posted:I always thought this was fake. Seems like an easy fix. Just put a winch in the garage and pull your car up.
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Apr 12, 2016 12:56
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GreenNight posted:Per Reddit, it's been fixed:
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Apr 12, 2016 13:19
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Vulture Culture posted:I'm not sure what this is linking to but no way is that the same property Look at the bit of random stone façade with wooden spokes on the neighbor's house. If that's not the exact same house it's definitely the same builder.
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Apr 12, 2016 13:30
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Vulture Culture posted:I'm not sure what this is linking to but no way is that the same property Yeah it is. Move down the street one step. Look at the tree limbs if you still aren’t sure.
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Apr 12, 2016 13:35
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The distance between the sidewalk and the street is wrong and the street curves the other direction
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Apr 12, 2016 14:05
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Vulture Culture posted:The distance between the sidewalk and the street is wrong That’s how they fixed it. 
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Apr 12, 2016 14:11
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Vulture Culture posted:The distance between the sidewalk and the street is wrong and the street curves the other direction The sidewalk got moved, and road construction isn't complete in those pictures, although you can see where they've cleared the trees for the road curve you're intent on. Everything matches, down to the terribly ugly street lamp on the corner.
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Apr 12, 2016 14:14
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"Turn around" Look at the s-curve in the sidewalk - that's where the fix started.
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Apr 12, 2016 14:49
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You can see how great of a solution the existing changes are by the oil drips in the one spot in the driveway and the parking spot in the street. Hitting an oil pan multiple times on the concrete will gently caress up your car real quick.
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Apr 12, 2016 16:15
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wooger posted:Never been used!
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Apr 12, 2016 16:35
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kaschei posted:It's like misspellings on well-made signs: they'll offer to review your design for a fee, but if you're only paying for the product they'll make it exactly according to your specification, no matter how dumb that design is. Having worked in a sign manufacturing company, no, that's not the case. The signwriters are just as bad at spelling as everyone else these days.
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Apr 13, 2016 02:56
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kid sinister posted: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. I checked today - no ground on the boxes except a few in the kitchen. Where some of the outlets are also wired backwards. I did not know about the switch outlet combos. I will have to see what the circuits actually do in the walls but that looks like a good solution.
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Shifty Pony posted:I checked today - no ground on the boxes except a few in the kitchen. Where some of the outlets are also wired backwards. In that case, check your bathrooms too. That's also how grounding first started: initially, only kitchen countertops and bathroom outlets were required to be grounded. Also, when I said "look closer", I meant look really close. In the old days, electricians would sometimes use cables with ground, but then just snip the ground wire off right where they removed the outer sheath. Get a good flashlight. edit: here, I wrote up a big 3 prong upgrade post awhile ago. It includes a bunch of tests you can do to see if your boxes are grounded or are easily upgradeable to such. edit2: yet another option you could do for your bathroom would be to cut the existing box out of the wall, enlarge the hole a bit and install a 2-gang old work box. kid sinister fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Apr 13, 2016 06:27
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kid sinister posted:In that case, check your bathrooms too. That's also how grounding first started: initially, only kitchen countertops and bathroom outlets were required to be grounded. No luck. The kitchen has ground and new romex because the new breaker box got placed directly outside of it. The old wiring is definitely two conductor. I peeled back some more of the jacket to confirm. But both bathrooms are on the same circuit. Considering that the GFCI receptacle/switch combos are about $30 each but the correct GE GFCI breaker is $42... I might just go that route. Also there is a whole hell of a lot more room to work in the panel than those tiny old boxes. Here's another oddity- the front bedroom has outlet boxes which stick out from the wall, and at the bottom of the boxes a cut off ground wire comes out (which is connected to the outlet ground terminal). There is also a grounding stake right outside that room with the wire going into the wall. I'm guessing hospice required grounded outlets and they got put in in a hurry, and they just cut the ground wires instead of leaving them running along the floor in a rental.
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Apr 14, 2016 04:11
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GreenNight posted:Per Reddit, it's been fixed: They should have fixed it by putting the garage in the basement.
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Apr 14, 2016 16:18
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totalnewbie posted:They should have fixed it by putting the garage in the basement. Ooh, a drive-out basement, that'd be new. I mean, I love a walk-out, and that's just a perfect setup for "Find my keys and we can DRIVE out of here!"
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Apr 14, 2016 16:19
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Bad Munki posted:Ooh, a drive-out basement, that'd be new. They're quite common around these parts of Wisconsin. I not only have a drive-out basement, but a "walk-in" basement - the main entrance to my home is in the basement. One of my neighbors takes the drive-out basement a step further and has a two story garage. Not two story as in garage + bonus room, but two story as in two garages stacked on top of each other, each with their own garage door and driveway.
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Apr 14, 2016 18:24
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Zhentar posted:They're quite common around these parts of Wisconsin. I not only have a drive-out basement, but a "walk-in" basement - the main entrance to my home is in the basement. I'd love pictures of all of this.
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Apr 14, 2016 18:26
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Liquid Communism posted:God forbid anyone who lives in that house need a paramedic evac in the winter, someone'll die. This is part of the reason I'm seriously considering installing a snow melt system in my driveway (it hits 25% grade near the crest  )
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Apr 14, 2016 18:29
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I assume it's on a grade, so that the bottom opens in one direction and the top opens in the other? Or do they actually have a suspended drive over the lower's opening?!
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Apr 14, 2016 18:30
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Garage in the basement?? That's easy! How about garage in the 3rd floor attic? Basement garages are super common around where I live, they can get steeper and deeper too. 
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Apr 14, 2016 18:39
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See, that's why flat-roofed houses are superior. Look at that slope, all that wasted space where you could stack cars.
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Apr 14, 2016 18:42
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MrYenko posted:I'd love pictures of all of this. Not my house but go nuts: https://www.google.com/maps/place/F...39d6c901b5fad43 If you go to the street view on Baumer Pl, it's mid-construction. On Main, it's completed. E: They have a 4 car garage and still park cars in the driveway. Guy Axlerod fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Apr 14, 2016 |
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Apr 14, 2016 18:53
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Baronjutter posted:Garage in the basement?? That's easy! How about garage in the 3rd floor attic?
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Guy Axlerod posted:Not my house but go nuts: https://www.google.com/maps/place/F...39d6c901b5fad43 Ah, yeah, so they're not something insane with the door actually above each other or something. That's pretty reasonable and cool since the roads were graded to make it not crazy. I dig it.
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Apr 14, 2016 19:08
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Shifty Pony posted:Here's another oddity- the front bedroom has outlet boxes which stick out from the wall, and at the bottom of the boxes a cut off ground wire comes out (which is connected to the outlet ground terminal). There is also a grounding stake right outside that room with the wire going into the wall. I'm guessing hospice required grounded outlets and they got put in in a hurry, and they just cut the ground wires instead of leaving them running along the floor in a rental. Thats almost certainly a no-no. Your home's grounding system is just that, a system. All grounds in your house must be joined together, usually at the panel. Having separate grounds can cause an issue if there is a short between the hot wire and that separate ground. That situation can energize the box it's in, yet not trip the breaker.
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Apr 14, 2016 21:33
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I have a basement garage. Tremendous pain in the rear end when you want to haul in groceries or something. It's below the kitchen so we thought about putting in a dumbwaiter but there's a little thing about fire-rated doors, so that's impractical too.
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Apr 14, 2016 23:22
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High Lord Elbow posted:I have a basement garage. Tremendous pain in the rear end when you want to haul in groceries or something. It's below the kitchen so we thought about putting in a dumbwaiter but there's a little thing about fire-rated doors, so that's impractical too. Uhh, hello, that's why you get a car lift in the garage. Sure it's good for changing your oil but a few minutes with a sawzall and it'll deliver your car straight into your kitchen for the ultimate in grocery unloading ease.
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Apr 14, 2016 23:28
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Bad Munki posted:Uhh, hello, that's why you get a car lift in the garage. Sure it's good for changing your oil but a few minutes with a sawzall and it'll deliver your car straight into your kitchen for the ultimate in grocery unloading ease. Reminds me of a video I saw once showing off a fancy apartment building (probably somewhere in either Asia or the Middle East), where you'd drive your car into a special elevator, which would take the car up to the 30th floor or whatever and display it in a nice glass-walled "garage" adjacent to your apartment.
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I haven't found hauling groceries from my basement garage to be that much of an inconvenience, but if I did I'd just get a cart to carry them up. TooMuchAbstraction posted:Reminds me of a video I saw once showing off a fancy apartment building (probably somewhere in either Asia or the Middle East), where you'd drive your car into a special elevator, which would take the car up to the 30th floor or whatever and display it in a nice glass-walled "garage" adjacent to your apartment. I was going to guess Japan (car elevators are a common parking solution in Tokyo buildings), but apparently it's Singapore: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...thouse-pad.html
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