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flosofl posted:Wait, firewalls between units in townhouses isn't a thing? Huh, I'd just assumed it would be not just for restricting the speed of combustion but for the acoustic dampening as well. This is the main reason I'm happy to be renting a normal house even though my last (townhouse-style) apartment was nicer and cheaper. In the townhouse I had the wall pounded on a few times when I decided to listen to something a bit too loud. Not like "feel it across the parking lot" levels, just a bit loud. In the normal house I can crank my system to cat-hiding-under-bed, uncomfortable to be in the same room levels and no one cares. It's barely even six feet outside of the house. edit: Just to be clear, I'm not talking about late at night or anything, I work from home so I tend to do that sort of thing in the early afternoon between calls. wolrah fucked around with this message at 01:35 on May 23, 2016 |
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Our house has minimal windows on the West side because 1. The rooms already have big windows facing South or North 2. Harsh hot late afternoon light 3. Closets and storage 4. Privacy on a small lot
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All my bedrooms have one window, just enough to meet firecode ( but gently caress jumping from my 2nd story windows. . .) and I like having windowless walls so I can hang poo poo. Keeping with the one fire window per room, it just makes sense to have the windows overlook the large front or backyard instead of the neighbors house. That said, one room in my house has a side firewall, and I can stand in there and stalk my neighbor since their living room and dining room windows face that window. I will say the lovely thing about my house is it only has two front windows, one is over a staircase and the other is above the master bathtub. I guess my kids will have to stand outside to watch for the school bus, but that's not my problem. Fake edit: aren't
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Crotch Fruit posted:I will say the lovely thing about my house is it only has two front windows, one is over a staircase and the other is above the master bathtub. I guess my kids will have to stand outside to watch for the school bus, but that's not my problem. Your kids will use IP cameras through their phones, gramps.
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May 23, 2016 02:30
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Platystemon posted:Share a wall with the neighbours. gently caress that ever again, sharing a wall with the neighbors is how we got mushrooms growing up out of the living room carpet and outlets. Wanting a separate home isn't just about noise, it's also about preventing your neighbors' poor decisions from ruining everything you own. When the houses aren't connected at the hip it takes a lot more trouble to damage someone else's. I consider yards to be a combination moat/firebreak.
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May 23, 2016 05:07
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How did they pull that off? Ignored a water leak?
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May 23, 2016 06:47
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I have friends that live in a weird house, it's part of a square of 8 pairs of semi-detached houses with gardens in the middle, they all have few and small windows on the outside of the square, many and large on the inside. Turns out they're old RAF staff houses and partly designed to be easily defended in the event of a ground invasion.
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May 23, 2016 08:57
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flosofl posted:Wait, firewalls between units in townhouses isn't a thing? Huh, I'd just assumed it would be not just for restricting the speed of combustion but for the acoustic dampening as well. Double 5/8" drywall (minimum code for separation) isn't really much for soundproofing. It's been a long time since a block wall was required as a firewall.
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Motronic posted:Double 5/8" drywall (minimum code for separation) isn't really much for soundproofing. So glad my place exceeds that by a good margin. I can somewhat hear the grand piano that sits by one shared wall. No biggie-- she only plays during the day and she's rather good. The important thing is that I can't hear the screaming baby through the other shared wall.
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May 24, 2016 02:17
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Do you know how hard it is to drill peepholes through brick
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frozenpussy posted:Do you know how hard it is to drill peepholes through brick Not very if you use the correct drill?
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May 24, 2016 06:34
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Discretely though. You can drill through drywall with a spoon.
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May 24, 2016 14:50
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Cakefool posted:Discretely though. You can drill through drywall with a spoon. A hand drill and a jig like you see them use in the movies for safe cracking.
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frozenpussy posted:Do you know how hard it is to drill peepholes through brick The harder part is getting it to line up exactly with the eyes of the portrait on the other side
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I did admin and contract draft work for a small government contractor who also had residential maintenance contracts, and in the first two weeks I spent time in the field with the technicians. This is an attic of a condominium where the air handler was in the ceiling above the shower. Someone had not only Hulk smashed their way through two layers of drywall, they had also put their foot through the ceiling above the air handler. The condensation made all the drywall around the bathroom soggy and droopy, and the resident was disgruntled as he could be. To cover our asses and also because he was being a colossal douche, we visited the leasing office over break to show them pictures of what was apparently a DIY LAN cable install. These are just two pictures from the set, it's more of the same type of shots of LAN cables running all over the attic on top of the insulation. The condos didn't come with any LAN installs. 
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May 24, 2016 16:40
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I can't help but wonder what is going on here:
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CopperHound posted:I can't help but wonder what is going on here: that was one of our adapters for a phone, I think.
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Motronic posted:Double 5/8" drywall (minimum code for separation) isn't really much for soundproofing. when I was doing town house construction the code was a block wall every 4 units for a fire wall, but drywall otherwise.
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May 25, 2016 00:22
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Anyone want to take a guess as to why a 3-year old water heater would be leaking like that?  They used cast iron connectors
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Why don't they build ROW houses anymore? Not "townhouses" that are just glorified condos with lovely party walls between them but still one building with a shared roof and structure, but just narrow independently built buildings that happen to have 0 setbacks on the side walls? No strata, no common property, 1 lot, 1 building, side walls touching but separate structures. It seems like the best of both worlds. You can design/build/own your own house in what ever style you want, but still enjoy a dense walkable neighbourhood.
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May 26, 2016 01:31
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Baronjutter posted:Why don't they build ROW houses anymore? Because people like windows.
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May 26, 2016 02:10
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kid sinister posted:Because people like windows. He said ironically, following up a multipage discussion about how so many houses built today have no or hardy any windows on 2 out of 4 sides. Or did I spring a  trap?
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Baronjutter posted:Why don't they build ROW houses anymore? Not "townhouses" that are just glorified condos with lovely party walls between them but still one building with a shared roof and structure, but just narrow independently built buildings that happen to have 0 setbacks on the side walls? No strata, no common property, 1 lot, 1 building, side walls touching but separate structures. It seems like the best of both worlds. You can design/build/own your own house in what ever style you want, but still enjoy a dense walkable neighbourhood. Because people don't want dense walkable neighborhoods, they want space.
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Khizan posted:Because people don't want dense walkable neighborhoods, they want space. An unusable sliver of it between their house and the neighbour’s? 
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Platystemon posted:An unusable sliver of it between their house and the neighbour’s? Yes. Same reason people aren't rear end to dick when standing in a line. Some people like yards too.
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May 26, 2016 04:00
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Khizan posted:Because people don't want dense walkable neighborhoods, they want space. I grew up in a rowhouse in Upper Fells Point, Baltimore Maryland in the 60s, and it was awesome.
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FCKGW posted:Yes. Same reason people aren't rear end to dick when standing in a line. I don’t lean against walls. You never know if someone is leaning on the other side. That would be gay. 
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FCKGW posted:Yes. Same reason people aren't rear end to dick when standing in a line. Maybe not your lines...
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FCKGW posted:Yes. Same reason people aren't rear end to dick when standing in a line. Where do you live cause fuckers crowd me like crazy.
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from reddit House had no proper ground, Electricity grounds out through Gas line  
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frozenpussy posted:from reddit Is it... glowing?  Who stands around long enough to take one picture, let alone two?
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Baronjutter posted:Why don't they build ROW houses anymore? Not "townhouses" that are just glorified condos with lovely party walls between them but still one building with a shared roof and structure, but just narrow independently built buildings that happen to have 0 setbacks on the side walls? No strata, no common property, 1 lot, 1 building, side walls touching but separate structures. It seems like the best of both worlds. You can design/build/own your own house in what ever style you want, but still enjoy a dense walkable neighbourhood. I just laid out a subdivision similar to this this last week. Auckland has a massive housing availability problem atm, so a lot of the usual restrictions that prevent densification have been relaxed in new build areas. The houses were separate, but with a block firewall on one side placed right against the boundary, so that they can get an increased yard space in the sunny side of the section. It also stops your neighbors on either side from seeing into your house. Private open space is still a joke though. Had some crappy construction there, I first surveyed it out in march, 16 houses, 64 marker pegs, took a day and a half to get it all done. A little bigger than normal job for me, but so far so good. Then last week I get told to go out to the site and fix up any pegs that got knocked out. Turns out the earthmovers built the site 300mm too low so they bowled every marker putting in more fill. I wonder if the client will notice the extra $4800 for all the houses to be surveyed twice?
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frozenpussy posted:from reddit Federal Pacific strikes again!
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Why don't they build row houses with zero setback? Probably zoning in most places.
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Magnus Praeda posted:Is it... glowing? Someone who places entertaining the internet masses above their own safety. A true patriot!
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I'd like to believe they cut power first. But the lights were on.
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That's the kind of thing you risk your life to take a photo of, simply because no-one would believe you without photographic proof.
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spog posted:That's the kind of thing you risk your life to take a photo of, simply because no-one would believe you without photographic proof. Even with photos people won't believe you. 
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Gummi nuts. They're tools, AND candy!
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GotLag posted:Even with photos people won't believe you. My favorite part of this picture is the extra termination on the bolt next to the glowing one, but one bolt left the wire is cut and it could have been used instead.
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