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TooMuchAbstraction posted:The thing that keeps striking me about that is that he's wearing socks. Shoes would make sense, barefoot I could understand, but he's in socks! Why would you worsen your traction like that? Maybe he's not very smart? Just thinking out loud here.
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Also lol, the air conditioning is running and the plastic is all puffed up. The vent is in the ceiling. Who knows what is coming up through the floor. edit- this is what it looked like before we bought the house, so that stripe is old 
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Jul 22, 2016 18:09
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drat Packers.
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Jul 22, 2016 18:47
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you did save the clay matthews fathead, right
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Jul 22, 2016 18:49
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So at one of my agency's buildings (no where near me, thankfully), a water fountain was being replaced yesterday. The plumber removed the old fountain and the p trap yesterday and then left for the day. This building is staffed 24/7 (and must be for reasons). So this pipe has been venting sewer gas into the building since yesterday afternoon. The staff apparently stuck a rag down the pipe which reduced but did not eliminate the smell. State government people.
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Jul 22, 2016 18:51
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nm posted:So at one of my agency's buildings (no where near me, thankfully), a water fountain was being replaced yesterday. you're lucky they had a budget for a rag
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Jul 22, 2016 18:53
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:you're lucky they had a budget for a rag They didn't, they just pulled the rag out from another project.
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Jul 22, 2016 18:59
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FogHelmut posted:I have no idea what it is. It's in two of the bedrooms. Maybe 5" or 6" from top to bottom. It's got some chunky seemingly random patching, and built up paint lines at the top and bottom. I scraped down what I could, and am just making a smooth transition over it so theres no weird shadows or anything. The walls are all textured, so I'm just going to blend it all in with more texture spray. 
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Jul 22, 2016 19:14
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Wolfsbane posted:Some people put horizontal bands around their rooms, with wallpaper below and painting above. Had to deal with that in our spare bedroom - it's a bugger to get off. Something like this, only uglier: Yeah those dinosaurs are pretty rad
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Jul 22, 2016 19:16
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I wish I saved a picture. Imagine gold, dark red and olive green vertical stripes, topped by a horizontal rope/curtain motif. The rest of the room was painted pink.
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Jul 22, 2016 19:31
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nm posted:So at one of my agency's buildings (no where near me, thankfully), a water fountain was being replaced yesterday. When my in-laws were building their house (while living in it) the people installing the washing machine just left an open sewer gas leaking pipe right in the kitchen. They complained it made the whole house smell like sewer, the workers hated it too and for weeks would complain the dish washer guy still hasn't come. I arrived, saw the pipe, jammed a nearly perfectly fitting piece of foam insulation in there, and everyone just stood dumbfounded that they never thought of that. The smell went away within a couple hours. But the were dealing with it for WEEKS and never thought to just put something over it.
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Jul 22, 2016 19:44
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:you're lucky they had a budget for a rag I'm sure it was an employee's from home. We don't have budgets for rags.
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Jul 22, 2016 20:47
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FogHelmut posted:I have no idea what it is. It's in two of the bedrooms. Maybe 5" or 6" from top to bottom. It's got some chunky seemingly random patching, and built up paint lines at the top and bottom. I scraped down what I could, and am just making a smooth transition over it so theres no weird shadows or anything. The walls are all textured, so I'm just going to blend it all in with more texture spray. I think the other goons nailed it then, picture rail, especially if your house is old enough to have plaster. nm posted:So at one of my agency's buildings (no where near me, thankfully), a water fountain was being replaced yesterday. Try a plastic bag and a rubber band for a better seal.
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kid sinister posted:I think the other goons nailed it then, picture rail, especially if your house is old enough to have plaster. Its not plaster. It's 1970's Southern California tract housing. Texture sprayed on drywall.
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Jul 22, 2016 21:29
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FogHelmut posted:Its not plaster. It's 1970's Southern California tract housing. Texture sprayed on drywall. SoCal? Maybe it was a manacle rail.
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Jul 23, 2016 00:24
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kid sinister posted:Try a plastic bag and a rubber band for a better seal.
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Jul 23, 2016 00:35
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FogHelmut posted:Also lol, the air conditioning is running and the plastic is all puffed up. The vent is in the ceiling. Who knows what is coming up through the floor. Most likely, either a wall cavity or floor cavity has a duct in it. This duct is naturally not well sealed, because most residential HVAC installers are violently allergic to anything resembling quality work, so that cavity is pressurized. That blows some air out the gap between the bottom of the drywall and the sub floor, and/or gaps in the subfloor (or maybe even through the subfloor - not all OSB is airtight).
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Jul 23, 2016 01:38
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FogHelmut posted:Also lol, the air conditioning is running and the plastic is all puffed up. The vent is in the ceiling. Who knows what is coming up through the floor. It's a feature. The carpets will dry so much faster when you shampoo them this way, and all that pesky lint and carpet fiber is freed from it's builder's grade prison and into the wild blue yonder of your respiratory system.
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Baronjutter posted:When my in-laws were building their house (while living in it) the people installing the washing machine just left an open sewer gas leaking pipe right in the kitchen. They complained it made the whole house smell like sewer, the workers hated it too and for weeks would complain the dish washer guy still hasn't come. I arrived, saw the pipe, jammed a nearly perfectly fitting piece of foam insulation in there, and everyone just stood dumbfounded that they never thought of that. The smell went away within a couple hours. But the were dealing with it for WEEKS and never thought to just put something over it. The dishwasher in my sister's lousy rental died a couple years ago. The handyman turned off the hot water tap (shared with the sink), removed the dishwasher, and left. Running cold water in the sink would cause some of the water to work it's way out of the dishwasher supply. This also went on for WEEKS until the new one arrived and no one involved on my sister's side knew enough to get a screw on cap for the hot tap. I didn't find out about it until the day before the new dishwasher arrived.
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Jul 23, 2016 08:36
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The Twinkie Czar posted:The dishwasher in my sister's lousy rental died a couple years ago. The handyman turned off the hot water tap (shared with the sink), removed the dishwasher, and left. Running cold water in the sink would cause some of the water to work it's way out of the dishwasher supply. This also went on for WEEKS until the new one arrived and no one involved on my sister's side knew enough to get a screw on cap for the hot tap. I didn't find out about it until the day before the new dishwasher arrived. Backflow because it’s a mixer tap? Do I have that right? Britain feels so validated right now. 
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Platystemon posted:Backflow because it’s a mixer tap? Do I have that right? Two words--ring mains. Boom, now you can go back to feeling bad about your country's plethora of poor decisions Suspect Bucket posted:The 1905 paper's cool, do you have any bigger patches you can get pictures of? I like old wallpaper. I thought it was pretty cool too! I was able to peel off a large swatch of the wallpaper on top, so I zoomed in for a better pic:  I think underneath is probably whitewash, and judging by the red color, I suspect the room the kitchen is in now used to be a dining room (with the kitchen in a detached building). Would explain the coffee grinder I found in the garage.
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Still trying to figure this one out:
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Jul 23, 2016 16:46
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If you try to take the stairs from 3 to 2 do you find a locked door, forcing you to continue to 1?
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Jul 23, 2016 17:29
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Where else would it be? You wouldn't want the exit on the third floor, would you? That would mean you'd fall 2 floors to your death or at least serious injury.
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Jul 23, 2016 17:32
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I would assume it means you exit on the first floor, and not continue following the stairs to a garage or basement where you burn to death. Unless you want to . On the topic of vent hoods and that, mine currently has the disposable filter, which is all it takes. I replace it every so often when the colored lines disappear or whatever, which generally helps to keep the vent hood itself and the area above the outlet free from grease. However, everything else gets greasy still from the grease smoke because it is a weaksauce fan. I'd been using one of those box fans when cooking a steak or whatever to blow the smoke out the nearby window, which works top notch. However, over time dust has clung to all the grease so the fan looks dirty as poo poo even though it is all thoroughly stuck to it. Short of spending an hour with a toothbrush and simple green to try and slowly clean it all up, is there any sort of general spray degreaser or similar (tried 409) that you could use on the plastic guard and blade to .... degrease it? Other than that I would seriously just budget to replace the stupid thing because it is arduous to try and clean it up.
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My neighbors spent some absurd amount for a nice new massive (80') concrete driveway. From what I could tell, there was no dampening after the pour. It was my understanding that concrete benefits from a damp surface for a few days. Is this not needed? Depth was probably 6" or less from what I could tell.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:My neighbors spent some absurd amount for a nice new massive (80') concrete driveway. From what I could tell, there was no dampening after the pour. It was my understanding that concrete benefits from a damp surface for a few days. Is this not needed? Depth was probably 6" or less from what I could tell. They most likely used a spray on cure. It goes on as soon as they are done finishing the concrete. This alleviates the need for curing blankets, etc.
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Jul 23, 2016 23:12
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Hope that is the case, they are the type to do their homework for hiring contractors.
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Jul 23, 2016 23:49
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Partycat posted:I would assume it means you exit on the first floor, and not continue following the stairs to a garage or basement where you burn to death. Maybe just use a heavy-duty/professional degreaser like Zep?
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And that is how you set your breaker panel on fire.
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Jul 24, 2016 20:59
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Bah, that bolt isn't even a little red!
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Edward_Tohr posted:Bah, that bolt isn't even a little red! It's not there to conduct electricity, it's there so that the breaker can't stop conducting electricity.
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Jul 24, 2016 23:22
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When you really need to make sure power gets to whatever you happen to be doing.
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Jul 25, 2016 01:01
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Good breakers just trip internally anyway.
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Do you honestly expect that someone that would do something like that, would know that?
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Partycat posted:I would assume it means you exit on the first floor, and not continue following the stairs to a garage or basement where you burn to death. I'd personally work my way up the solvent strength chain, eventually you start taking the paint off things. As a side note, you should remove that under powered fan and replace it with a stronger one. All you need to know is the size and what the DC or AC voltage is for it. Once you do, find a stronger replacement here: http://www.digikey.com/product-search/fans/en Make sure you call in the order over the phone too. Digikey is based out of Northern Minnesota (not that the parts are) and support a ton of people in a small community area where my father grew up. I'm in and from Minnesota and the accents from Thief River Falls make even me lol every time I do. I replaced the janky broken fan in our $60 humidifer with a $15 high powered one. When I first started it up I fell to the floor laughing. The slowest setting is like a watching a jet engine blowing the ultrasonic mist into the room. It's not loud, just lots of flow.
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Jaguars! posted:Amazing. Do these rural places in the US allow amateurs to draw up and submit their own subdivisons? Any surveyor in NZ (and likely 90% of US jurisdictions) creating a landlock situation like that would have their license revoked immediately. Landlocked sections are certainly a thing that exists in NZ, especially in rural areas and with Iwi land settlements. We had a ~30ha piece of land in my family up in Northland that my cousin ended up buying out the rest of the family to develop, and he's so far spent somewhere in the realms of $150k in legal fees to get an easement from the road across neighbouring land. (Because the neighbouring land is Iwi, it has to go through the Maori Land Court or something). He only needed about a 50m x 15m easement too.
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Nice. Guess I was wrong. Do you know hold old the title is?
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Geirskogul posted:Good breakers just trip internally anyway.
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