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This just makes me wonder if anyone has ever tried to fake floorboards/joists on their ceiling for a more rustic look.
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there wolf posted:This just makes me wonder if anyone has ever tried to fake floorboards/joists on their ceiling for a more rustic look. Much like rule 34, if you can think of a questionable design or construction decision, someone has decided it sounded like a great idea and done it.
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Sep 28, 2016 01:35
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Ashcans posted:- The built-in freezer/fridge is located on the opposite side of the breakfast bar from the stove and also, somehow, both kitchen sinks, which is just poo poo for ever actually using the space. Two sinks is the telltale sign of a kosher kitchen, they aren't just doing that to be ostentatious. Dairy and meats have to be prepared separately. If they were really hardcore and/or rich they'd have two gas stoves (gotta be gas for shabbos reasons), two dishwashers and a double fridge, and a separated countertop.
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Sep 28, 2016 01:45
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Ashcans posted:I can't decide if this is worse than the penny tiling I like it  people are too serious. It'd take 500$ to replace with poo poo linolioum if that your deal.
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Sep 28, 2016 01:50
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Youth Decay posted:gas stoves (gotta be gas for shabbos reasons) Wait, what? I thought electrical appliances were only forbidden because of the supposed similarity between electric phenomena and fire. But gas stoves use literal fire. Plus, how you you light a gas stove in a compliant manner? Must have a pilot light?
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Sep 28, 2016 01:55
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Magnus Praeda posted:Much like rule 34, if you can think of a questionable design or construction decision, someone has decided it sounded like a great idea and done it. Should have googled. There's a site that sells them. http://www.fauxwoodbeams.com/blog/ceiling-systems Youth Decay posted:Two sinks is the telltale sign of a kosher kitchen, they aren't just doing that to be ostentatious. Dairy and meats have to be prepared separately. If they were really hardcore and/or rich they'd have two gas stoves (gotta be gas for shabbos reasons), two dishwashers and a double fridge, and a separated countertop. Hate break it to you but big sink under a window and mini-sink somewhere else is a common Mcmansion feature that has nothing to do with religious dietary rules, unless 'let's shove this in here on the off chance a conservative Jew will buy it despite being miles and miles away from any synagogue' is a thing. A lot of my friends' houses had that second sink. It was supposedly for washing vegetables and stuff right next the counter where you'd be cutting them up, but usually it was just a place to wash your hands when the big sink inevitably got filled with dirty dishes. there wolf fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Sep 28, 2016 02:57
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Ashcans posted:I can't decide if this is worse than the penny tiling That's actually pretty cool. I have no idea how durable it would be, even after trying to seal it, but if you can make it wear well, why not?
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Sep 28, 2016 03:03
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Kenlon posted:That's actually pretty cool. I have no idea how durable it would be, even after trying to seal it, but if you can make it wear well, why not? Is this hard for this subforum?
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Sep 28, 2016 03:08
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Ashcans posted:I can't decide if this is worse than the penny tiling The only good thing about this is you can tell at a glance how many dollars per square foot that was to install.
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Sep 28, 2016 03:32
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Platystemon posted:Wait, what? I thought electrical appliances were only forbidden because of the supposed similarity between electric phenomena and fire. But gas stoves use literal fire. A gas stovetop can be used with a blech (metal stove cover, often with water in between two aluminum sheets) which is the sneaky workaround for keeping food warm on shabbos/holidays. There's an entire industry devoted to making household appliances and accessories to comply with the letter of the Jewish law.
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Sep 28, 2016 03:38
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Youth Decay posted:A gas stovetop can be used with a blech (metal stove cover, often with water in between two aluminum sheets) which is the sneaky workaround for keeping food warm on shabbos/holidays. Makes sense. I knew about the “don’t turn off the lamp, just slide a cover over it” trick.
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Sep 28, 2016 04:02
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New porch https://imgur.com/a/HM2SD
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Sep 28, 2016 04:08
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Dillbag posted:The needle thing is pretty standard junkie behaviour. Who gives a poo poo where you dump your rig after shooting that sweet, sweet H? City electrics workers here in Vancouver's downtown east side have to wear puncture proof gloves when they open panels on streetlights and poo poo like that because they are invariably filled to the loving brim with spikes. OK. Now explain the porn.
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Sep 28, 2016 04:35
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I can't tell if this is genius or stupid. Maybe both?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I can't tell if this is genius or stupid. Um, genius, because clowns need jobs in this post-circus society and unicycles have inherent stability issues. FCKGW posted:New porch https://imgur.com/a/HM2SD Now THAT's stupid. Christ, look at all those nails.
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Sep 28, 2016 04:59
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Youth Decay posted:There's an entire industry devoted to making household appliances and accessories to comply with the letter of the Jewish law.  It was slightly disappointing the first time I saw this to learn that it wasn't a switch to make the music better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat#Practical_applications for the curious, prepare to be amazed at the ingenuity of people when it comes to playing rules lawyer with their god. I wonder what the day-by-day energy usage looks like in a heavily Orthodox Jewish community compared to the local average. Does the fact that they're not driving, watching TV, using computers, doing laundry, etc. balance out the wasted energy from leaving lamps, ovens, and elevators running all day?
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Sep 28, 2016 05:06
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Remember that the whole rules lawyering thing is considered to be good and pious, because Y__H gave humans cleverness and intelligence, and it pleases Him when we use the faculties He gave us.
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Sep 28, 2016 05:48
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I can't tell if this is genius or stupid. You've never seen drywall stilts or a banjo before?
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Sep 28, 2016 06:40
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welp. Mom's complaining that the neighbours are doing dodgy construction poo poo. I look at the photos she sent and there's a brick wall built right over where the fence used to be, there's workmen in the yard, working on the neighbours extension which goes up over the retaining wall, the fence is dumped on the ground, no one's been notified about any construction and someone's looking at huge rear end fines and tresspass?!    
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Sep 28, 2016 06:48
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legendof posted:Bought a new construction house in July; spent some time last night relabeling the breaker panel. Gas stove? My parents house has something similar. It has a blank electrical box under the gas range, and there's a double pole 240V breaker in the garage labeled "STOVE". That breaker does absolutely nothing. There's also a normal 120V duplex outlet next to that box, which the igniter on the range is plugged into - that one is tied to one of the 20A kitchen outlet circuits. Every house in the neighborhood seems to be the same way, with the original buyer of the house seemingly having the option to choose between a gas or electric range (I've seen both, but most of the houses seem to have opted for gas). I'm assuming the blank cover is covering up a 240V run that's connected to the breaker. To be honest I'm kinda glad they offered the option to choose between gas or electric. Also uh, what the hell kind of water heater do you have that runs on a 120V breaker?
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Sep 28, 2016 08:45
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I can't tell if this is genius or stupid. The stilts? I sheetrocked for years, used em all the drat time. They're surprisingly easy to walk around in. The feet articulate a bit, but you REALLY have to watch your footing, and falling over with an extra 4' of height sucks. Extension cords are the worst. Had a guy on one site fall down a flight of stairs wearing a pair of those, broke both wrists.
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there wolf posted:This just makes me wonder if anyone has ever tried to fake floorboards/joists on their ceiling for a more rustic look. Yes, I saw a house recently that had a bunch of joists on the ceiling in the living room that, upon closer inspection, were some kind of dense textured foam with brown paint. The mind boggles.
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Sep 28, 2016 11:40
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Dave Barry books posted:welp. She can call the town zoning board to see if they have violated any code (such as setback) or not permitted work which could be dangerous, if for example the retaining wall cannot support the weight of those bricks. On the other hand trespass would require her to actually tell the guys that they shouldn't be there and please leave, after which if they stay it is trespass. Usually the town wants people to have access to maintain their property so they might say the workers being there is ok, but maybe your mom could delay it awhile (and make it cost more) with a lawyer or something. In any case if they are going onto her property and putting things there she should have a talk with both her neighbor and the guy in charge of the workers to make sure that anything that is damaged is repaired, and she should take pictures of things that are. Then if they don't fix it she could call her homeowner's insurance and they'll subrogate. But to me the important thing is: is that retaining wall going to collapse? It would take a trained eye to know... (I tried to find a youtube of Steve Coogan in In the Loop ranting about his retaining wall but you'll just have to get it yourself!)
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Sep 28, 2016 12:09
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Terrible Robot posted:Yes, I saw a house recently that had a bunch of joists on the ceiling in the living room that, upon closer inspection, were some kind of dense textured foam with brown paint. This was extremely common in the neighborhood in NoVA my family moved into in the early nineties. Anyone renting just had to deal with it. The room in our house that had those beams also had fake wood paneling, too. I have no idea who thought that looked good.
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Sep 28, 2016 12:10
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I like how the bricklayer just gave up once he reached the windows.
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Sagebrush posted:Remember that the whole rules lawyering thing is considered to be good and pious, because Y__H gave humans cleverness and intelligence, and it pleases Him when we use the faculties He gave us. Is that for real because if so that is excellent
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Bozart posted:She can call the town zoning board to see if they have violated any code (such as setback) or not permitted work which could be dangerous, if for example the retaining wall cannot support the weight of those bricks. On the other hand trespass would require her to actually tell the guys that they shouldn't be there and please leave, after which if they stay it is trespass. Usually the town wants people to have access to maintain their property so they might say the workers being there is ok, but maybe your mom could delay it awhile (and make it cost more) with a lawyer or something. In any case if they are going onto her property and putting things there she should have a talk with both her neighbor and the guy in charge of the workers to make sure that anything that is damaged is repaired, and she should take pictures of things that are. Then if they don't fix it she could call her homeowner's insurance and they'll subrogate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5kdOvsyv98 Also that wall is hilariously terrifying: the top level with the angled layer of bricks cannot, surely, be up to code anywhere outside of Haiti or Uganda? They've just stuffed in mortar and half-bricks to fill gaps up to four inches in size. Diagonal bond is hard to do - I'd just not try, myself - but that looks like they just got bored doing stretcher bond and wanted to get finished as soon as they could. Also, the running bond on the right of the top picture is weak, because they've been too lazy to cut two bricks on every second row and so they've hosed the bond up with an inadequate offset. Edit: wow the vertical bricks beside the window and the missing one above one of them and the lintel that's sitting a row of bricks above the left hand window etc etc. Endie fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Sep 28, 2016 13:16
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some texas redneck posted:Also uh, what the hell kind of water heater do you have that runs on a 120V breaker? Might be a gas water heater with an electric blower on the vent rather than a normal chimney
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coldpudding posted:I like how the bricklayer just gave up once he reached the windows. *autocorrected to verucally, which also works
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Kenlon posted:That's actually pretty cool. I have no idea how durable it would be, even after trying to seal it, but if you can make it wear well, why not? Mostly I think that copper-plating your kitchen floor looks terrible no matter how you do it. I think its particularly bad in a kitchen because unless you manage to get the finish very smooth its going to be a pain to clean (like having lots of tiny tiles) and even when its clean it looks kind of grubby. It's like one of those mixed stone backsplashes, but for your whole floor. I wonder how it would hold temperature, too. Maybe the sealant helps, but I'm imagining a freezing floor in the winter. I think it would be pretty neat for something like a bartop or maybe a table or something, especially when people use the pennies to make designs and patterns.
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TheDon01 posted:The stilts? I sheetrocked for years, used em all the drat time. They're surprisingly easy to walk around in. The feet articulate a bit, but you REALLY have to watch your footing, and falling over with an extra 4' of height sucks. Extension cords are the worst. Had a guy on one site fall down a flight of stairs wearing a pair of those, broke both wrists. Huh, so that is a real thing then. Okay, I've learned something today! 
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0toShifty posted:Might be a gas water heater with an electric blower on the vent rather than a normal chimney Yep. Heat rises, carrying all that exhaust gas up the flue and out of your house with a regular heater. Well, high efficiency gas heaters (and furnaces for that matter) can extract so much heat from the burnt gas that it doesn't really rise anymore. They need a fan to push that exhaust gas out of your house, otherwise all that CO and CO2 would sit in your house. kid sinister fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Sep 28, 2016 15:37
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kid sinister posted:Yep. Heat rises, carrying all that exhaust gas up the flue and out of your house with a regular heater. Well, high efficiency gas heaters (and furnaces for that matter) can extract so much hear from the burnt gas that it doesn't really rise anymore. They need a fan to push that exhaust gas out of your house, otherwise all that CO and CO2 would sit in your house. This blew my mind when my dad installed a new propane furnace at his house. The flue is plastic and the air is apparently reasonably cool feeling due to the draft.
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I don't have a picture, I was too astonished to whip out my phone. You will have to imagine: One man standing on an overturned 5-gallon bucket with his hands on the back of another man standing on a rickety ladder. The man on the ladder is very delicately cutting away a fascia board from the front of the house... with a HOLY poo poo LEATHERFACE ENORMOUS STIHL CHAINSAW. End result looked nice. Shocked they aren't both dead.
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Dave Barry books posted:welp. This is the time to reinstall the fence but make it higher so they can't open their loving windows.
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there wolf posted:A lot of my friends' houses had that second sink. It was supposedly for washing vegetables and stuff right next the counter where you'd be cutting them up, but usually it was just a place to Oh wait, this isn't the bachelor thread now, is it...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFJd_VjqTu0&t=145s I'm not sure if epoxy floors everywhere is awesome or cringe-worthy, thoughts? baquerd fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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High Lord Elbow posted:I don't have a picture, I was too astonished to whip out my phone. You will have to imagine: My brilliant high school boyfriend nearly lost a hand in a similar accident. Trying to fix a window, he decided it would be a good idea to balance a kitchen chair on top of the AC unit. He slipped and severed everything in the wrist that you can sever with a piece of glass short of cutting off his hand. In retrospect that should have been a sign.
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Splicer posted:How much mobility did he have in it after that? Immediately after surgery, almost none. About a year or two out he could just about grasp well enough to hold a shirt to fold it with the other hand but could not make a first. I would be very surprised if he could type with it today after 10 years. He skipped a lot of occupational therapy initially. Use a ladder, kiddos.
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