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jammyozzy posted:Welcome to the UK. Australia is the same. I found this out when I was up in my roof, and trying to figure out why there were so many copper pipes. Turned out to just be a mis-mash of hot water and gas, each in identically sized pipes with no labels on anything. There's no way to tell which is which, other than just cranking on the hot water taps and feeling the pipes that get hot.
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JBark posted:Australia is the same. I found this out when I was up in my roof, and trying to figure out why there were so many copper pipes. Turned out to just be a mis-mash of hot water and gas, each in identically sized pipes with no labels on anything. There's no way to tell which is which, other than just cranking on the hot water taps and feeling the pipes that get hot. Simple to tell, really. Compare the specific heat of the two pipes. The one carrying water will have a far higher one! To test by hand, of course, you'll need to apply a small, intense heat source like a blowtorch. 
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there wolf posted:When my dad was working for the auto plant, they had this guy who did electrical maintenance for the shop floor whose preferred method for testing a live wire was tapping it with a screw driver and seeing if he felt a tingle. One day he got a call order to check out something on a line that was not running (by not running I mean it was not in operation which meant there was no one around.) He starts poking around with his screwdriver among the power supply for industrial welding robots, and what do you know he gets a shock. A big one that makes his fingers clench and his arm jump, burying that screwdriver right in his chest. They didn't find the body till shift change. my dad likes to tell me tales of injuries hes heard while he's doing similar things. never gonna drill into a wall without a breaker thing after walking outside one day to find him drilling a wall, only to turn off the drill and tell me how someone he went to school with died after drilling into a power line by accident
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Tunicate posted:Simple to tell, really. And given that gas only burns in the presence of oxygen, you can happily take a blowtorch to a gas pipe for a short amount of time. So long as you don't do it on a join where you might melt the solder...
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Nov 23, 2016 14:19
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peanut posted:Virginia suburbs. Aww, he dressed up his McMansion for Renn Faire Edit: The truck didn't get dressed up because it didn't want to go in the first place. Actually it did, but the other trucks would laugh at it for admitting that.
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peanut posted:Virginia suburbs. I hope it is at least actual stone.
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peanut posted:Virginia suburbs. It looks like a converted 1960s school building. E: or that \/ Dagen H fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Nov 25, 2016 |
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Nov 25, 2016 13:41
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peanut posted:Virginia suburbs. McNational Guard Armory
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peanut posted:Virginia suburbs. So I was going to respond with a picture of a local castle house, a puny one-story ranch fitted out with crenelations, but apparently there is another more famous castle house around!  It has a swimming pool that doubles as a moat, and according to legend a mostly subterranean living space. Go big or go home, Virginia suburbs.
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there wolf posted:So I was going to respond with a picture of a local castle house, a puny one-story ranch fitted out with crenelations, but apparently there is another more famous castle house around! I can't find any pictures of the moat in your post.
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HardDiskD posted:I can't find any pictures of the moat in your post. It's there. https://goo.gl/maps/qHMKrZScJ742
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That reminds me of this cock-end: and the dumbass castle he built on his farm.  Under UK law (or at least the regulations in the area) buildings that have been standing for 4 or more years without any complaints are considered to have valid planning permission - it saves a lot of hassle with old buildings that may not have paperwork, and generally means that for rural areas if your neighbours are happy you can get away with small things without worrying too much about it. So this genius decides to build his house behind a giant wall of hay bales, then leave it for 4 years.  Once the hay bales were removed his neighbours were pretty upset, to which he said "haha, tricked you! It's been there for four years so it's legal." The council then replied "lol, gently caress off" and bulldozed it.
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Wolfsbane posted:Once the hay bales were removed his neighbours were pretty upset, to which he said "haha, tricked you! It's been there for four years so it's legal."
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Slugworth posted:I mean, that's obviously the dumbest thing he could have ever tried, but what exactly was everyone's issue with the building? It doesn't look particularly large or garish. If I were on the council I'd have had it removed simply on principle of the owner being a gigantic cock. As I recall they ruled that the removal of the haybales constituted a large enough modification to the property to require papers. Anyway, we can't see the interior and have no idea how competently it was made. The kind of guy that things they can sneak around government regulations is probably not the kind of guy that builds properly.
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They even have a little courtyard. And the back turrets are garages and they have drawbridges for the cars. 
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It's green belt land, so no new development without meeting pretty strict rules. Plus it's not the sort of precedent you really want to allow as a local planning board. I tried to find pictures of the interior, but there don't seem to be a lot out there:     It looks OK to me (not my taste, but competently done), but I'm far from an expert. e: He also tried to stop it being torn down on the grounds that there were endangered bats living there. Also that he'd sold it to an Indian businessman, so it wasn't his to tear down any more. e2: more inside shots here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-35121380 Wolfsbane fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Nov 25, 2016 |
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Nov 25, 2016 18:34
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Just noticed he seems to have several tanks on his property. I feel like he's not super into rules.
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There was some bigass log house on a TV show today that cost something like 5 million bucks and it cut to the old dude who paid for that monster like "when our first heating bill came in it was over $1k!! That was way too expensive. So we decided to build $500k worth of solar panels!"
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That moat/pool doesn't look very safe to me. There is no fence or wall around the pool itself. There's a short fence around the property as a whole, but the stone pillars look easily climbable. If a neighborhood kid snuck in and drowned couldn't he be on the hook for having an attractive nuisance? Or, you know, just their own kids playing in the yard could easily fall in and drown. I guess that's the price you have to pay to be ready for the zombie apocalypse.
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Slugworth posted:Just noticed he seems to have several tanks on his property. I feel like he's not super into rules. I hadn't noticed the tanks. They cause this to, imo, wrap back around. This dude's a free spirit who knows what he likes. Not to say he isn't a cock, but I'm self-aware enough to realize most of the contempt I feel is jealousy.
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Facebook Aunt posted:That moat/pool doesn't look very safe to me. There is no fence or wall around the pool itself. There's a short fence around the property as a whole, but the stone pillars look easily climbable. If a neighborhood kid snuck in and drowned couldn't he be on the hook for having an attractive nuisance? Or, you know, just their own kids playing in the yard could easily fall in and drown. It's suburban Georgia. The kids in those neighborhoods have a clubhouse pool to drown in instead.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhXKxEm8P_0
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...and? How is this crappy?
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kid sinister posted:...and? How is this crappy? That's not how elevators are supposed to work.
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kid sinister posted:...and? How is this crappy? Imagine living in any of the apartments around that track.
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Thats a pretty light vehicle, it's probably no worse than a car driving by. It's not like it's a freight train or a even a big heavy metro. It's like a couple minivans on a monorail track.
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Baronjutter posted:Thats a pretty light vehicle, it's probably no worse than a car driving by. It's not like it's a freight train or a even a big heavy metro. It's like a couple minivans on a monorail track. Just a half-dozen minivans on a monorail track driving through your neighbour's apartment, built to the most stringent second-world noise and safety standards, every 5-10 minutes. Sounds great. I'm sure after the first couple weeks you'd hardly notice it any more.
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Those could be offices, and the track actually looks pretty isolated from the building structure. It could really depend on how the track is supported and tied in, but if it just floats like a bridge through the building rather than sitting on top that floor's slab, it might be fine. Otherwise it would be like my friend who had a house where an old concrete road used to turn like 100 years ago. The road moved but they just built the house on top of the old concrete road, which was still connected structurally to the new road, so any time a bus or truck went by their house shook like crazy to the point of cracks forming. The city had to finally come and dig a trench and jack-hammer a break along their lot line.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIWUqJRUd7A First time I saw this thing whilst riding a train, I thought it was someone's idea of art. In reality, it's kind of a Japanese spite-building, but done in the kind of begrudgingly polite bureaucratic style that pervades Japanese spite outside of things like Pearl Harbor. Also they engineered it with noise reduction as a priority, which makes me wonder who gets the really cool offices where you can see all the cars driving underneath, and how much more awesome those offices must be. http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gate-tower-building
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Dillbag posted:Just a half-dozen minivans on a monorail track driving through your neighbour's apartment, built to the most stringent second-world noise and safety standards, every 5-10 minutes. Sounds great. I'm sure after the first couple weeks you'd hardly notice it any more.  Also, my doctor drove the Monorail while she was in college. She once got stuck over Lake Buena Vista in a lightning storm and refused to drive there ever again. Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Nov 26, 2016 |
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Suspect Bucket posted:
Oh is that when she decided to become a doctor instead of a monorail driver?
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"I can't take the Ogdenville to Shelbyville runs anymore, I'm going to medical school!"
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Oh dear its me - I just filled in some small holes in my livingroom walls and only when I finished did I then notice I used ready mixed tiling grout instead of polyfilla (spackle)  The tubes do look pretty similar !Assuming it dries and can be sanded then I'll just go with the flow and paint over it 
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DC has at least one road through an office building on a non surface level floor. Is it not that common?
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Baconroll posted:Oh dear its me - I just filled in some small holes in my livingroom walls and only when I finished did I then notice I used ready mixed tiling grout instead of polyfilla (spackle) It's going to be a little harder to sand but it should be just fine, are we talking like nail holes or doorknob holes?
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NancyPants posted:"I can't take the Ogdenville to Shelbyville runs anymore, I'm going to medical school!" She worked at Disney while doing pre-med in Orlando. After the lightning storm thing they switched her into finance. Then her college dropped the medical program she was working towards and she had to leave Orlando to pursue whatthefuckever-ology.
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 A few more... https://imgur.com/gallery/mVm0J
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This thing on my dad's house worries me.  The end of that 4x12 beam rotted off, so somebody.... bolted two 2x6s to it, put *something* in the space where the end used to be, then slapped quarter inch plywood over it to hide their shame? I don't know how you'd actually replace that beam, anyway, I think the entire second floor of the house sits on it.
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Isn't that's typically how you're going to repair beam ends? You cut off the rot and then sister another one over and past the damage. The fasteners are huge gently caress-off carriage bolts and aren't going anywhere soon. The only question I'd have is the 2x6's, but it's not like that part needing the repair is holding up anything other than that tiny balcony. The support beam simply extends past the house to act as a cantilever for the balcony. I'd be more concerned with the Prince of Darkness-level poo poo with the bugs in the second picture. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Nov 27, 2016 |
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