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Baronjutter posted:I've seen stairs like that before, 100% of the time in the former soviet union. I saw a set like those in the old Soviet Embassy in East Berlin actually.
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I didn't even intend to that is just honestly where the math landed.
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I was worried I was going too far back or dredging up too old a joke but then I remembered what thread I was in.
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Onto some crappy construction: Reddit DIY has someone's wonderful new master bath: http://imgur.com/a/65IQa As you'll see by the time you get down to the 20th or so picture, they forgot a key layer. And call me paranoid, but that much unsealed wood in a bathroom doesn't seem like too hot of an idea.
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The tan on the boards sure looks ugly peeping through that grey.
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ManlyWeevil posted:Onto some crappy construction: Not familiar with US building code, but shouldn't there be a plastic sealant below the mosaic and floor? Or is the cement board good enough?
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5 different wall/floor surfaces to suit your mood!
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Things like this make me question why I'm spending so long trying to prove to building control that putting a double door into a stud wall won't destabilise the entire building. Also it might be my eyes or the picture but is the building bulging out above the stone? That floating lawn chair or whatever it is is pretty cool though.
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ManlyWeevil posted:Onto some crappy construction: Is it just me or did they not actually seal behind those two shower niches other than grout? That whole place is plaster and lath, they're going to find out wonderful things when that leak finally makes the wall next door let go. Also, did anyone see an exhaust fan in there to deal with the humidity from that huge-rear end rain shower head? Edit : Oh, god, they just laid that ship-lap unsealed on top of the old plaster. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Feb 10, 2017 |
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ManlyWeevil posted:Onto some crappy construction: Oh my god did they not add any additional noggins between the joists before putting that much dead load onto the floor? I guess the deathtrap wet marble floor will probably kill them first but gently caress. Also I suspect that fitting wet wall board is not as effective if you cut it all into pieces to maximise the number of joints and then don't tape them....
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You need to: Hang board * Cement Tape Cement again Seal (rubber goop) Rubber floor basin And only THEN can you Tile adhesive * Tile * Grout * Grout seal Grout seal Grout seal Looks like they did only the ones I marked? Like, skipped EVERY waterproofing step possible.
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Has this blog ever come up before? http://uglyhousephotos.com/wordpress/?p=37564 Realtor posts photos of the strange/bad listings he finds around town. Some gold but you have to wade through a lot of "why would you put up pictures of a messy house when you're trying to sell it?"
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:You need to: Is the end result just that the wood in the walls rots away? How long does that take to set in?
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I don't see any moisture exhaust fan in the room either, so I'd say that bathroom will be destroyed by moisture and mold within a year. e: Unless the floor collapses first, like Powerful Two-Hander said.
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Collateral Damage posted:I don't see any moisture exhaust fan in the room either, so I'd say that bathroom will be destroyed by moisture and mold within a year. The fan is fortunately not one of the steps they forgot (you can see it in the last photo as well as a few others). I don't think that's going to save this room from moisture and rot though.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:You need to: I kept scrolling down looking for the section where the mistakes started, got to the first tiling picture, instant  face
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GreenNight posted:Hmm. When your precariously balanced TV finally falls off, it can also leave a giant hole in the drywall on its way down. 
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there wolf posted:Has this blog ever come up before? http://uglyhousephotos.com/wordpress/?p=37564 My dad bought a really big house/former restaurant combo a while back. I wish I had gotten a picture of it before he started tearing everything out, but it had this interior garage which had a toilet, hooked up and everything, just sitting in the middle of the interior garage. And this wasn't the only thing odd about it: every living space had a toilet sitting smack in the middle of it. And it had the only kitchen I've ever seen ready made for someone who's seven feet tall(this being the one in the living space). I'm 6'3 and there was no way I could reach the top cabinets without a step stool.
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A White Guy posted:My dad bought a really big house/former restaurant combo a while back. I wish I had gotten a picture of it before he started tearing everything out, but it had this interior garage which had a toilet, hooked up and everything, just sitting in the middle of the interior garage. And this wasn't the only thing odd about it: every living space had a toilet sitting smack in the middle of it. And it had the only kitchen I've ever seen ready made for someone who's seven feet tall(this being the one in the living space). I'm 6'3 and there was no way I could reach the top cabinets without a step stool. Was there a toilet in the kitchen? For someone 7 feet tall?
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GreenNight posted:Hmm. Well, that's annoying. Now they have to buy a TV rated to hold up the wall.
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glynnenstein posted:Well, that's annoying. Now they have to buy a TV rated to hold up the wall. A load-bearing TV? Well that's new. Would that make this, "A load, bearing drywall?"
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Wait, I'm feeling dumb, what's with the tv mount? What am I looking at? It looks like a tv mount.. screwed to a wall? Is that... wrong?
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They have it backwards. The part screwed to the wall is suppose to be connected to the TV.
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The part that goes to the TV is attached to the wall, the part that goes to the wall is waiting to receive a TV.
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Slugworth posted:Wait, I'm feeling dumb, what's with the tv mount? What am I looking at? It looks like a tv mount.. screwed to a wall? Is that... wrong? The part that's in the wall is usually connected to the back of a monitor.
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Oh you're right, I thought the joke was that they were going to mount a TV onto a flimsy piece of drywall which would eventually rip a giant hole in it.
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Polio Vax Scene posted:Oh you're right, I thought the joke was that they were going to mount a TV onto a flimsy piece of drywall which would eventually rip a giant hole in it. That is ALSO likely.
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Ohhh, ok. *sneaks away to check his tv mounts*
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there wolf posted:Has this blog ever come up before? http://uglyhousephotos.com/wordpress/?p=37564 The one that you linked is a doozy. Like, they really had trouble defining uses for each room. You've got a bedroom with a bath in it (not a bathroom, a bath. the sink is literally next to the bed), a bedroom with a kitchen in it, and a bathroom with a laundry room in it (or vice versa). The kitchen is pretty ill-defined as well, what with the doorless cabinets and big TV on the counter. They certainly went all in on the "western" theme. Bonus points for being in Canada. edit:   edit2: I tried. The page doesn't support https. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Feb 8, 2017 |
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GreenNight posted:Hmm. I saw this same image at the beginning of this IMGUR gallery, which includes a bunch of other tech stuff. Some of the more construction-y highlights here:       There's a ton of other, really cringe-inducing, stuff in there that just doesn't quite fit this thread so well.
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Ignoranus posted:
And to think, people laughed when they made this connector: 
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Guy Axlerod posted:Was there a toilet in the kitchen? For someone 7 feet tall? No, no toilets in the kitchen but every toilet in the house was for someone with an absolutely gigantic rear end. I'm guessing the woman they bought the house from was simultaneously 7 feet tall and about 400 pounds. I'll have to ask my old man to send me some pictures of his kitchen for giants, because seriously, the highest cabinet needs a ladder to reach. DrBouvenstein posted:And to think, people laughed when they made this connector: Garden hose to HDMI connector. 
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DrBouvenstein posted:And to think, people laughed when they made this connector:
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This reminds me of a time when I was called into work at 9 PM. Our office was a converted warehouse, and the hot water tank that served the kitchen and the bathrooms was mounted in the ceiling above the women's restroom. Our server closet was the next door over, and the water heater sprung a leak. I found the shutoff (ceiling of the break room) and called an emergency plumber. We later discovered that whoever put in the bathroom vent fan didn't bother extending it all the way outside; no, fart gas was dumped straight into the server room. quote:I went to school at Georgia Tech, and the lecture halls in the basement of the College of Computing Building were very underground. Once, during torrential rains, this exact thing happened and water was pouring out of the electrical outlets.
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DrBouvenstein posted:And to think, people laughed when they made this connector: Can I actually order one of these? I want to put the package in our break room.
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Safety Dance posted:We later discovered that whoever put in the bathroom vent fan didn't bother extending it all the way outside; no, fart gas was dumped straight into the server room.
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DrBouvenstein posted:And to think, people laughed when they made this connector: This was essentially the sarcastic joke connection I used to explain to people that the things they wanted to connect were not compatible, back in my days as a RadioShack manager. Jesus, it was scary how often people just wanted an adapter to connect totally bizarre unrelated things together.
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Phimosissy posted:This was essentially the sarcastic joke connection I used to explain to people that the things they wanted to connect were not compatible, back in my days as a RadioShack manager. Benus in vazzina??!?!??!
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