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c0ldfuse posted:Someone please explain these windows to me. How? The uneven sides are meant to confuse attackers.
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"I can't tell how many houses there are or what their heading is!" - Attackers
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Different floor heights in different rooms seems par for the course
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Alereon posted:I found it interesting to learn that modern window AC units spray condensate over the condenser coils in order to benefit from evaporative cooling to the outside environment, which boosts the efficiency. The fan that blows over the condenser has little scoops on the blade tips that dip into the condensate pan to pick up water and hurl it over the coils. The area of the yard around my window AC stays very well watered from running it on humid days. That's also a great way to deal with so many units installed with no thought for where the condensate will drain. Better a well-watered patch of lawn than a green line on the wall where water is always running c0ldfuse posted:Someone please explain these windows to me. How? Maybe there's an interior wall between the windows. One of them might be at a stair landing. Maybe they positioned their new windows based on what furniture was in the room. Maybe people suck at building decisions.
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The Twinkie Czar posted:Maybe people suck at building decisions. haha maybe.
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I think one window is in the hall and one is in a bedroom... but that doesn't make it ok.
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The old window unit at my old house in New York would form icicles over humid cooler nights sometimes. That was weird. Long Island is basically a swamp though. Now I live in a swamp with nice winters.
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Crappy construction tale or mob hit?
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 "Hey Jeff, let's step out on the patio and have a smoke.... no, you first, I insist"
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xwing posted:My experience in Florida is that's absolutely not true... the condensate line would never be sloped properly to drain. I have a friend that lives in Southwest Ranches, house built in the early nineties. His condensate line backed up and flooded half his house, ruining two rooms worth of laminate flooring, that had been laid on top of carpet. Soggy laminate on top of soaked carpet, on top of a sea of waterlogged carpet padding. It was like a giant Petri dish.  After pouring bleach into the condensate line, and then failing to blow it completely clear with compressed air, I had a hunch... I measured with a plumbob from the opening of the condensate line to where the plumbob touched the bottom of the condensate line; A PVC 90°, IN THE SLAB. (The vertical runs directly into the slab.) I went outside and measured how far below the slab the condensate line exited. After a bit of math, and making the blatant (and probably false) assumption that the slab is level, I found that the 3/8" PVC condensate line sloped UPWARDS nearly six inches over ~25ft. 
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Wait laminate on top of carpet? How is that even stable?
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MrYenko posted:I have a friend that lives in Southwest Ranches, house built in the early nineties. His condensate line backed up and flooded half his house, ruining two rooms worth of laminate flooring, that had been laid on top of carpet. Soggy laminate on top of soaked carpet, on top of a sea of waterlogged carpet padding. It was like a giant Petri dish.  What do you even DO to fix that? Drain the water, then flood it again with bleach, then burn the house down and collect the insurance?
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SynthOrange posted:Wait laminate on top of carpet? How is that even stable? 
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Buff Skeleton posted:
Make a new drain line for the condensate, I'd guess. And yeah, strip out all of the floor down to the slab, and maybe replace the sole plate for the walls, and the lower parts of the wall studs, since they're probably hosed.
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Also buy/beg/borrow/steal every fan you can to dry what you can't rip out, and dehumidifiers for the mold. Any flooring that isn't slab/tile is probably hosed, but if you get the water out fairly quickly you can salvage a lot.
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Also, in the future, don't pour bleach in your condensate lines. A hose blast is enough to clear out all the slime that forms in the line, and bleach is bad for the evap coils. Not much that can be done if the line isn't sloped properly though. Time to run a new line!
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Make a new drain line for the condensate, I'd guess. And yeah, strip out all of the floor down to the slab, and maybe replace the sole plate for the walls, and the lower parts of the wall studs, since they're probably hosed.
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Buff Skeleton posted:
No need to burn it; most homeowner's insurance covers condensate leaks. SynthOrange posted:Wait laminate on top of carpet? How is that even stable? I had a loss at a house where they laid a really thin laminate over w/w carpet & pad. I felt like I was drunk. I just had a condensate pan leak issue that I traced down for the building owner. The side-draft furnace/AC was hung dead-level. Unfortunately, a little dust/cat hair/whatever clogging the line results in an overflow of the pan. I suggested that they re-pitch the unit a few degrees down at the drain end. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Aug 8, 2016 |
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PainterofCrap posted:I had a loss at a house where they laid a really thin laminate over w/w carpet & pad. I felt like I was drunk. I looked at a house a few years ago that had linoleum over carpet. Squishiest floor ever. It was so ripply that it looked like a puddle of water.
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Don't worry apparently there are people out there to help you with installing flooring over carpet! http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/covering-up-the-ugly-rental-apartment-carpet-with-laminate-flooring-164872
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I will never understand why so many renters are willing to spend money to make structural and cosmetic improvements on property they do not own.
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It could possibly be related to the phenomenon of people wanting to like the place they live, but being unable to purchase a house for whatever reason.
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Some of the Sheep posted:I will never understand why so many renters are willing to spend money to make structural and cosmetic improvements on property they do not own. because people generally dont like living in a shithole? because landlords wont spend money on it? because it doesnt cost much?
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Because they’re snake people.
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Frogmanv2 posted:because it doesnt cost much? No kidding. A 12 pack of annuals costs under 
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I'm a fan of persuading/bullying the owner into reimbursing via a discount to rent any improvements made to the property. In the case of plumbing, landscaping, and pest/mold abatement, it's actually legally defensible! But that's just for my state (Washington) so don't go in guns ablazing because I said so.
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Some of the Sheep posted:I will never understand why so many renters are willing to spend money to make structural and cosmetic improvements on property they do not own. Let's say you're going to sign a two-year lease on an apartment. Pick one: Unit A doesn't have in-unit laundry, so you're going to have to find a laundromat. It does have the world's ugliest light fixtures. The bathroom is pretty dingy; the floor is ancient tiles, discolored with a few broken, and lots of grimy grout. The showerhead is crappy builder-grade and there's not much storage. Rent is $1000/month. Unit B has a portable washing machine. The light fixtures are just your taste, plus it has dimmer switches in the bedroom and bathroom. The bathroom also has a great fancy euro showerhead, and a clean new floor of those wood-look vinyl planks that can handle water and looks like the rest of the apartment. There are a couple of perfectly placed shelves. Rent is $1011/month. All else being equal, who wouldn't go for Unit B? The thing is it's never on the market. Landlords will offer you Unit A, or they'll do the upgrades in Unit B plus bullshit like granite counters and then offer it for $2000/month. If you want B, you have to rent A and make the changes yourself. It's such a small amount that it's super worthwhile if you're going to stay for a couple years. Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Aug 9, 2016 |
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Some of the Sheep posted:I will never understand why so many renters are willing to spend money to make structural and cosmetic improvements on property they do not own. Same.
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I would never improve place i'm renting, only sectretly make it worse over the course of my lease (removing stuffing from the couch, knocking a hole in the dry wall and hiding trash in there and then re-sealing the dry wall, dumping buckets of water in the air conditioning duct work). It's pretty hilarious and no one has ever noticed before
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Maybe it's an expensive city with a real estate bubble and rents are insane and house prices are even worse 
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Sagebrush posted:It could possibly be related to the phenomenon of people wanting to like the place they live, but being unable to purchase a house for whatever reason. I spend $180/mo on internet service alone, I've spent maybe $1500 over the course of approaching three years now on things that'll stay with the house. It really doesn't matter in the big picture.
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 Hey, look. It's a voltage drain.
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Taking the water circuit/electric circuit analogy a bit too literally. e: I have taken the liberty of creating a proposal for a symbol for such a construction, for all your schematic drawing needs.  "groundwater" Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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Bad Munki posted:"groundwater" Genius.
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I've got a customer at work who is having wooden posts on his lanai changed out for aluminum. We originally specified 3"x3" aluminum post, engineering is calling for 4"x4" with angle clips and/or internal castings with big-rear end loving screws into the concrete and 2"x6" wooden header to meet uplift from 160mph winds. Now this loving idiot is telling our general contractor AND the engineer that did the drawings for the building permit that we're wrong, the engineering is wrong, this is how HE would do it. He with no loving construction experience, he's just worked with architects before and helped them with ideas. 
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Is he saying it doesn't need to be that strong, or wants it stronger? Or just different?
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We're in a 140mph wind zone and our GC specified to the engineer that it be built to withstand 160mph...idiot customer doesn't think the post connections are robust enough and designed his own little dumbass thing with a .125-gauge gusset plate holding the posts to the header. We already have the permit based on the original engineering. And the engineer that the customer emailed to say "hey you're wrong" is the one who's gonna lose his license if this thing is underbuilt and blows away in a hurricane. Yes, you're worth risking my license just to gently caress you over! 
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 Some facebook DIY wtf tiling. Let's jigsaw these 6 pieces all together with no gaps. Let's also not tape and mortar the gaps, just start slapping the 18x6 tiles right on top of it. Hope they had fun doing it, because they will get to do it again in a few years.
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Hey, conduit = metal. Downspout = metal. At least he isn't exceeding the maximum number of conductors allowed. 
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