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glynnenstein posted:This is what happened in Arlington County, Va about a decade ago. Guy did a tear down and acted as his own GC to build his dream house. There were some problems. He kept running out of money and the lot would sit un-worked for months with construction poo poo all over, which didn't make the neighbors happy. It took about 10 years, but once he actually got something built, it was a nightmare. ...am i not getting something? It's just a big house with 10 foot ceilings. It helps with summer heat. That was common in the south before AC was invented. The outside is a little plain and the kitchen cabinets are plywood, but that's it.
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Wouldn't that huge mass of rock help regulate the temperature of the house? I seem to remember reading that or someone mentioning that was one of the reasons in building single levels around huge 10-15 ton boulders.
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Jan 8, 2017 23:02
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There's more of these guys??? FCKGW posted:Looking at houses today and I found one that is a bit off. Can you spot it from this listing?
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Jan 8, 2017 23:04
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 Get one now!
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 OH YEAH! e: video of the aftermath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZtxHlProWo Platystemon fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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Jan 9, 2017 04:59
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My dream home would be brutalist, but I can easily imagine the poo poo-fight that would ensue if I built it on any property that didn't have trees everywhere to block views of it. That "sci-fi prison" aesthetic just doesn't appeal to everyone.
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Jan 9, 2017 05:54
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I love how if you look at that hill you can see rock slides all down it that are new enough not to have regrowth on them, and theres already a house sized rock in the paddock there, but someone thought "Nah, Wont happen again!" and built a house there anyway. Whoops!
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Jan 9, 2017 06:08
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flosofl posted:Wouldn't that huge mass of rock help regulate the temperature of the house? I seem to remember reading that or someone mentioning that was one of the reasons in building single levels around huge 10-15 ton boulders. In a vacuum, yes, but the rock has a huge amount of conduction with the ground, so it acts more like a sink.
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Jan 9, 2017 06:13
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Ferremit posted:I love how if you look at that hill you can see rock slides all down it that are new enough not to have regrowth on them, and theres already a house sized rock in the paddock there, but someone thought "Nah, Wont happen again!" and built a house there anyway.
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Jan 9, 2017 06:16
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Ferremit posted:I love how if you look at that hill you can see rock slides all down it that are new enough not to have regrowth on them, and theres already a house sized rock in the paddock there, but someone thought "Nah, Wont happen again!" and built a house there anyway. "Mountain's gotta be outta rocks by now."
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Jan 9, 2017 07:59
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I was hiking along the side of a mountain and it looked like that. Smaller chunks but it was dense forest and a lot of the rocks had trees on top of them or around/behind them, but some had clearly come down recently because the trees behind them were barely saplings. A couple of the rocks didn't even have moss on them and the earth around them looked freshly disturbed. Felt fun knowing a small car sized boulder could come tumbling down any moment. I'm sure we'd have lots of warning what with all the trees crashing.
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Baronjutter posted:I was hiking along the side of a mountain and it looked like that. Smaller chunks but it was dense forest and a lot of the rocks had trees on top of them or around/behind them, but some had clearly come down recently because the trees behind them were barely saplings. A couple of the rocks didn't even have moss on them and the earth around them looked freshly disturbed. Felt fun knowing a small car sized boulder could come tumbling down any moment. I'm sure we'd have lots of warning what with all the trees crashing. You'd think so but giant rocks are more agile than they seem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtoWoT45VkM&t=21s
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Jan 9, 2017 08:38
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Synthbuttrange posted:You'd think so but giant rocks are more agile than they seem FTFY Why would you cut out the part at the beginning where we can see the rock fly from its perch?
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Jan 9, 2017 08:43
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kid sinister posted:...am i not getting something? It's just a big house with 10 foot ceilings. It helps with summer heat. That was common in the south before AC was invented. The outside is a little plain and the kitchen cabinets are plywood, but that's it. The size doesn't quite come off in those pictures. When it was build it was actually more than 6 times larger than all the other houses in the neighborhood but on the same lot. 6,800 sq ft vs 1,000.
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Jan 9, 2017 12:58
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 How can you build a huge stadium and not understand basic drainage?
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I'm more impressed it isn't collapsing.
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th vwls hv scpd posted:I'm more impressed it isn't collapsing. Seriously. I'd want to be far away from there.
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They saw Everbank here in Jax and got helly jelly of our spas.  Not clearly pictured: The Jaguars sucking. edit: Wait, just got curious and looked up the image, it's from 2011. The pools came in 2013. Perhaps someone saw this and the lightbulb went off. Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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Jan 9, 2017 18:22
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This isn't terribly in Sweden when houses are built into hillsides because of how rocky a lot of the country is. Usually the rock will either be in a crawlspace or cold storage room though, since as said the mountain is quite a good heat sink.
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Jan 9, 2017 18:50
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I got yer thermal mass right here!
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Suspect Bucket posted:They saw Everbank here in Jax and got helly jelly of our spas. Chase Field where the Arizona Diamondbacks play has had a pool since the stadium was built in 1998.  Every now and again someone splashes a home run into the pool which is  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTe50pCEFDM There's an improvised wood chopping machine that doesn't look nearly as deadly as these types of things usually do
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canyoneer posted:Chase Field where the Arizona Diamondbacks play has had a pool since the stadium was built in 1998. Yeah, that looks downright sane. Needs a housing around the blade, probably. Reminds me of the 150-horsepower wood lathe.
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Jan 9, 2017 21:36
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DrBouvenstein posted:They'd be slightly better without that "old lady" valence at the top, but yeah, still not great. That orange doesn't go with vomit-green walls. I would have turned the ladder 90 degrees, connectint to the side closet to the outside door, which would have allowed it to almost be a staircase, and added a hand rail on the left (back, in the pictures) side. Possibly with a bit of handrail that came up with the lid. Hell, I'm an AI Goon - I would have built a dumbwaiter-style elevator using a Harbor Freight winch. Oh, and I would have stained and sealed the ladder, at least. Synthbuttrange posted:
I can't hate this. I would have gone with not astroturf, and not gravel, but the basic idea of movie watching pit is sound. FogHelmut posted:This would have been awesome to have when I was 19. I'm 47, but I refuse to grow up (apparently.) endlessmonotony posted:That's a low bar to clear. A controlled demolition would improve it substantially more. Hell, an uncontrolled demolition... Bad Munki posted:
It took me a minute to realize that it hadn't been built that way purposefully al'a The Upside-down House or whatever. TooMuchAbstraction posted:At first I thought this was an intentionally-built-sideways house (like that one upside-down house), but then I saw it had ripped out its foundations. And also realized what thread I was in. e: f, b.
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canyoneer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTe50pCEFDM Well, there's no autofeed to suck you in, but there's also no auto shutoff, nothing to keep hands and clothes away from the blade, the area around the PTO on a tractor is one of the most dangerous areas in all of modern industry, and dude was wearing gloves. I give it two missing digits out of five for severing hazard.
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Jan 9, 2017 23:34
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Not as bad as The Wheel of Debt. The owner replied to Youtube comments calling him an idiot by telling everyone that the machine is "Like a wild animal, if you show fear or apprehension you're done" https://youtu.be/92ejWHlPLaE
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Sormus posted:Not as bad as The Wheel of Debt. The owner replied to Youtube comments calling him an idiot by telling everyone that the machine is "Like a wild animal, if you show fear or apprehension you're done" I've done still do a lot of stupid poo poo in my time but I wouldn't get anywhere near that thing.
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Jan 10, 2017 06:26
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The animal analogy is sorta fitting because watching that thing activates a primal fear in me that's probably the same thing a gazelle experiences when he sees a leopard's glowing eyes in the tall grass
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Jan 10, 2017 06:33
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Baronjutter posted:
I'm the waterfalls in the background.
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Sormus posted:Not as bad as The Wheel of Debt. The owner replied to Youtube comments calling him an idiot by telling everyone that the machine is "Like a wild animal, if you show fear or apprehension you're done" I wonder what it's like to go through life assuming you'll never be sleepy, or sick, or anything else that would effect your reflexes. I won't stick my hand down into the garbage disposal without turning the power off at the breaker.
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Darchangel posted:I can't hate this. I would have gone with not astroturf, and not gravel, but the basic idea of movie watching pit is sound.
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there wolf posted:I wonder what it's like to go through life assuming you'll never be sleepy, or sick, or anything else that would effect your reflexes. I won't stick my hand down into the garbage disposal without turning the power off at the breaker. I mean, there are days when I think to myself "no woodworking today, I'm too tired to use power tools or sharp objects". One would hope that this guy just wouldn't use his horrible death machine on such days. Then again, his mental facilities are already impaired to the extent that he thought it was a good idea to build a horrible death machine, so maybe not! Also, Jesus loving Christ that thing is awful  I've seen similar versions in the past, but they rotated more slowly and had more inertia, so you had several seconds between each axe head pass to position the log, and the impact wouldn't send wood flying everywhere. Still awful in terms of lacking safety features, but something I could look at and go "someone could use this for years without injuring themselves, if they were careful". Which is more than I can say for that video.
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Yeah, the correct design with that style is to have a really hugely fuckoff heavy wheel with the majority of the weight on the outside so that it doesn't turn fast at all, but there's no stopping it, so it just calmly presses through a log without much fanfare. That guy, though, he saw that design, had no understanding of the required physics whatsoever, and just cranked it up to 11 to make his incorrect design work anyhow. It could be fixed more or less, just take a whole poo poo ton of iron and weld it to the inside surface of the ring all the way around, make that thing like 2" thick or more, then turn the speed waaaaaaaaay down.
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Correct design is a hydraulic splitter (slow and powerful) with controls far away from blade (cant reach into while operating) , with conveyors that you can safely drop logs onto (dont actually need to go near it).
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Jan 10, 2017 18:22
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Another redditor builds an awful bathroom without permits.
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Ever wanted to bathe in a closet? Now you can!
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Some locales require that a room have a closet if it is to be designated a bedroom. Have fun selling the house with one fewer bedroom and an unpermitted re‐model. quote:Shower in all its glory. The curtain only covers the long side but I actually like the openness, the water never goes past and it keeps the bathroom the same temperature so none of that "I don't want to get out because it's freezing out there" feeling. Plus the bathroom is so small it gets/stays warm very easily. Also took a two hour bath with the water still being very warm when I got out. Insulated tub + tiny room = magic Magic mushrooms, that is. The shuffle space beside the tub is terrible and someone is going to break a leg navigating it.
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Jan 10, 2017 21:25
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Sounds like he tore out the full close then rebuilt half of it, so there's still some closet thing in that bedroom.
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That bathroom is so bad. Center the mirror over the sink? Naah, let's put it centered between the sink and toilet. I know the perfect place for the only electrical outlet in the room. On the wall opposite the vanity, 6 feet off the ground. That's electrical planning by grover  . Although at least he would have put 5 or 6 others in the room and one of them might be in a useful place.That tiling is an abomination How much do you wanna bet it doesn't have a vent fan?
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Jan 10, 2017 21:45
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Also, stuffing insulation under the bathtub? That can't possibly be a thing can it?
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canyoneer posted:How much do you wanna bet it doesn't have a vent fan? Were you not paying attention? That’s a feature!
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