Crappy Construction: The Four POs of the Housepocalypse

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Eikre: May 2, 2009

Collateral Damage posted:

The whole "3d printing a house" isn't a terrible idea, but the design they used to showcase it is stupid as gently caress. Curved walls suck.

The device is a giant compass. Curved walls are thing it can do particularly well.

The floorplan of their demo hut still sucks tho.

Why do you not like curved walls? The difficulty in decorating around them, or upkeeping them? I can think of a bunch of ways to appropriate them in the face of the former, but don't know enough about the latter to comment.

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Queen_Combat: Jan 15, 2011

Are couches curved?

Are beds curved?

Are hanging picture frames curved?!

Holy poo poo, is it that hard to understand?

# ? Mar 6, 2017 20:25

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

I�ll just hang this picture on the wall.

�gently caress

I�ll just push this desk up against the wall.

�gently caress

I�ll just install these blinds.

�gently caress

# ? Mar 6, 2017 20:25

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Eikre posted:

The device is a giant compass. Curved walls are thing it can do particularly well.

The floorplan of their demo hut still sucks tho.

Why do you not like curved walls? The difficulty in decorating around them, or upkeeping them? I can think of a bunch of ways to appropriate them in the face of the former, but don't know enough about the latter to comment.

A round house utilizes less of the available lot :shrug:

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FCKGW: May 21, 2006

Round houses are only good if they are also restaurants and spin

# ? Mar 6, 2017 20:29

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Lemme just buy a round lot.

�gently caress

# ? Mar 6, 2017 20:34

brugroffil: Nov 30, 2015

Scorpio: Say, before we continue our tour would you mind hanging my coat up on the wall, please?

Homer: Hmm... mm-mm, lets see um... oh, no. Well, uh...

Scorpio: ( laughing)
Relax, Homer. At Globex, we don't believe in walls.

Matter of fact, I didn't even give you my coat.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 20:36

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Platystemon posted:

Lemme just buy a round lot.

�gently caress

I spent a lot of time attempting to master the dark magicks of circle packing. It was not a good time, it's a forbidden knowledge that was not meant for humans to comprehend

# ? Mar 6, 2017 20:40

Bunni-kat: May 25, 2010; Service Desk B-b-bunny...
How can-ca-caaaaan I
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DrBouvenstein posted:

Good lord, I need to find the previous owner of my home and smack him.

He did almost nothing right with any of his projects. The bathroom is the worse thing...one of these days I'll take pictures of everything in there to post here (I think I've done a few, but almost every inch has something wrong, I swear.)

But today, it's the half set of stairs leading from our entrance to the basement. My GF is home today and we talked about ripping up a crummy rug that was on them and then just re-painting them, since some paint is chipping/peeling off the edges of the stairs.

Here's what it looks like post rug (and also post-caulk, since there were some LARGE gaps, according to her, which probably also contributed to the massive drafts/coldness we always felt.):

Like...holy poo poo, how loving lazy are you that you avoid what is probably a whopping 2 extra minutes of painting because you're going to put a rug down? A rug that, I might add, was not properly installed, either. It was just a regular hallways running rug that almost, sort-of, fit on those stairs. You see how the top riser is painted white? That's because the rug stopped short by like 6 inches. It was also just lazily stapled in a few times on each step and riser..no tackless strips, no padding, nothing.

Check for blood, I think you found a murder site.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 20:54

Catatron Prime: Aug 23, 2010; IT ME; Toilet Rascal

Mercury Ballistic posted:

China has the empty buildings. Everywhere. They are building to keep the economy afloat and people employed, but it is all slowly falling apart and anyone who could sent their money to Vancouver or other such places.

There's even speculation that the rise in buttcoin value is due Chinese citizens seeking to sidestep new capital controls

Regarding luxury condos, it's simply more profitable for developers to add a few bucks of amenities like dog showers and granite counters, and then be able to double the price per unit, especially as people are willing to pay that.

Heck, here in Columbus we're experiencing the fastest growth in new apartment construction, and something like 77% of the units are already leased out within three months of completion.

DrBouvenstein posted:

Good lord, I need to find the previous owner of my home and smack him.

He did almost nothing right with any of his projects. The bathroom is the worse thing...one of these days I'll take pictures of everything in there to post here (I think I've done a few, but almost every inch has something wrong, I swear.)

Honestly, if that's the worst you've got, I'd be counting my blessings. Some invisible unpainted area is much better than miswired outlets arcing, plumbing/exterior flashing screw ups or notching load bearing floor joists, all of which compromise the structure itself.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 21:08

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

DrBouvenstein posted:

Good lord, I need to find the previous owner of my home and smack him.

He did almost nothing right with any of his projects.

The previous previous owner of my house was the type of guy who built things out of pieces of stuff he must have found on the side of the road. Every set of screws is mismatched.

The most recent previous owners were just too incompetent to be that malicious in their home improvement projects. The worst I had to deal with from them is off level towel racks and sloppy painting cut-ins.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 21:15

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

You should probably look out for loadbearing drywall

# ? Mar 6, 2017 21:16

DrBouvenstein: Feb 28, 2007; I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

OSU_Matthew posted:

Honestly, if that's the worst you've got, I'd be counting my blessings. Some invisible unpainted area is much better than miswired outlets arcing, plumbing/exterior flashing screw ups or notching load bearing floor joists, all of which compromise the structure itself.

Oh, it's not the worst by a long shot. As far as I know, nothing is bad electrically or structurally, at least. Some of the plumbing in the bathroom might be crummy, since everything else in there is so bad, though.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 21:21

Eikre: May 2, 2009

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Are couches curved?

Are beds curved?

Are hanging picture frames curved?!

Holy poo poo, is it that hard to understand?

Houses have several other functions than as galley space for your various couches and picture-frames.

Exterior walls with lots of windows which wouldn't have lots of furniture pushed right up next to them, such as in living rooms, dining rooms, and breakfast nooks, can all be curved. Countertops and cabinets can be fabricated to install against curved walls. Bathtubs and entire-waterproof-rooms-as-showers feel fine next to curved walls. Indoor swimming pools and saunas can have curved walls. Spiral staircases can go in round turrets. Nobody gives a poo poo about the walls in a basement devoted to children, exercise equipment, or storage. And, notably, the most famous home office in human history is literally defined by its curved walls.

I've seen a lot of baleful quadrilateral floorplans. I don't see the inherent sin in gettin' your curve on.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 21:24

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Curved walls work if you have the money for wasted space and/or bespoke furniture.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 21:25

canyoneer: Sep 13, 2005; I only have canyoneyes for you

Platystemon posted:

Curved walls work if you have the money for wasted space and/or bespoke furniture.

Right. Curved walls doesn't jive with "cheap and efficient permanent structure"
No disrespect intended to any yurt dwelling nomads.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 21:27

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

Iron Crowned posted:

You should probably look out for loadbearing drywall

Honestly, I'm pretty certain this is the front half of my garage due to the termite damage.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 21:28

endlessmonotony: Nov 4, 2009; by Fritz the Horse

canyoneer posted:

Right. Curved walls doesn't jive with "cheap and efficient permanent structure"
No disrespect intended to any yurt dwelling nomads.

I'm offended anyway. Yurts are meant to be portable you insensitive clod.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 21:38

Queen_Combat: Jan 15, 2011

Eikre posted:

Houses have several other functions than as galley space for your various couches and picture-frames.

Exterior walls with lots of windows which wouldn't have lots of furniture pushed right up next to them, such as in living rooms, dining rooms, and breakfast nooks, can all be curved. Countertops and cabinets can be fabricated to install against curved walls. Bathtubs and entire-waterproof-rooms-as-showers feel fine next to curved walls. Indoor swimming pools and saunas can have curved walls. Spiral staircases can go in round turrets. Nobody gives a poo poo about the walls in a basement devoted to children, exercise equipment, or storage. And, notably, the most famous home office in human history is literally defined by its curved walls.

I've seen a lot of baleful quadrilateral floorplans. I don't see the inherent sin in gettin' your curve on.

But in your floorplans is EVERY wall curved?

# ? Mar 6, 2017 22:10

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I'll meet you 1/3 of the way, make the rooms hexagonal.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 22:37

canyoneer: Sep 13, 2005; I only have canyoneyes for you

endlessmonotony posted:

I'm offended anyway. Yurts are meant to be portable you insensitive clod.

nomadbro?

# ? Mar 6, 2017 23:17

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

The odd curved feature wall or window can be a neat show of extravagance but I've worked on projects where everything or most things are curved and it's the worst. Trying to jam a huge cubicle farm inside some architect's amazing artistic vision is a nightmare. So much wasted and strange spaces you're paying rent on. Office layouts often change and since everything has to be custom fit into weird shapes it makes the space so much less flexible too. Big square shapes are tops.

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there wolf: Jan 11, 2015; by Fluffdaddy

There needs to be a pintrest smiley.

there wolf fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Mar 6, 2017

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Polio Vax Scene: Apr 5, 2009

"Hope shelf" is such an appropriate name.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 23:36

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Polio Vax Scene posted:

"Hope shelf" is such an appropriate name.

You realise it actually spells �HOPE�, right?

# ? Mar 6, 2017 23:37

TehRedWheelbarrow: Mar 16, 2011; Fan of Britches

Platystemon posted:

You realise it actually spells �HOPE�, right?

and that you hope that rickety looking POS stays upright.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 23:42

LordSaturn: Aug 12, 2007; sadly unfunny

canyoneer posted:

nomadbro?

are we allowed to emptyquote in this forum

# ? Mar 6, 2017 23:43

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Instead of having that dumb limb connecting the P and E, they should have swapped they way the letters alternate (i.e.H & P on the right) or run the leg of the P down to the ground and across from there.

227/538: poor execution

# ? Mar 6, 2017 23:50

crazypeltast52: May 5, 2010

There is only one definition of flat (excluding previous owners), but curves can come in infinite radii, plus if someone wants an elliptic curve, so it's going to be more expensive barring a magic 3D printer.

# ? Mar 6, 2017 23:51

Some of the Sheep: May 25, 2005; POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?

DrBouvenstein posted:

Good lord, I need to find the previous owner of my home and smack him.

He did almost nothing right with any of his projects. The bathroom is the worse thing...one of these days I'll take pictures of everything in there to post here (I think I've done a few, but almost every inch has something wrong, I swear.)

But today, it's the half set of stairs leading from our entrance to the basement. My GF is home today and we talked about ripping up a crummy rug that was on them and then just re-painting them, since some paint is chipping/peeling off the edges of the stairs.

Here's what it looks like post rug (and also post-caulk, since there were some LARGE gaps, according to her, which probably also contributed to the massive drafts/coldness we always felt.):

Like...holy poo poo, how loving lazy are you that you avoid what is probably a whopping 2 extra minutes of painting because you're going to put a rug down? A rug that, I might add, was not properly installed, either. It was just a regular hallways running rug that almost, sort-of, fit on those stairs. You see how the top riser is painted white? That's because the rug stopped short by like 6 inches. It was also just lazily stapled in a few times on each step and riser..no tackless strips, no padding, nothing.

I've got you beat. None of the studs in my house were painted before they hung the drywall!

# ? Mar 7, 2017 00:53

Collateral Damage: Jun 13, 2009

there wolf posted:

There needs to be a pintrest smiley.

Is it called a Hope Shelf because that's what's holding it together?

# ? Mar 7, 2017 01:06

therobit: Aug 19, 2008; I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Collateral Damage posted:

Is it called a Hope Shelf because that's what's holding it together?

No, it's because you put all of your daughter's household things on it that she is saving for when she gets married and moves out. Then you "hope" she will find a nice contractor to marry who will take one look at it and offer to renovate your home out of pity in exchange for yor daughter's hand in marriage. The problem is that the only contractors that would not call off the engagement after looking at that provide the content for this thread.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 01:26

Space Kablooey: May 6, 2009

there wolf posted:

There needs to be a pintrest smiley.

I really want to set this thing on fire.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 04:54

BonerGhost: Mar 9, 2007

HardDiskD posted:

I really want to set this thing on fire.

Careful, it was probably made of pallets

# ? Mar 7, 2017 05:49

atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq5guqp7BIk

# ? Mar 7, 2017 05:49

Poisonlizard: Apr 1, 2007

Structural (All Purpose) Silicone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkLzqZzjJ8U

Was really hoping for a follow up vid on how his house suddenly had 200 gallons of water on the floor a couple months later. I'm sure it's coming.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 06:29

Fender Anarchist: May 20, 2009; Fender Anarchist

crazypeltast52 posted:

There is only one definition of flat (excluding previous owners), but curves can come in infinite radii, plus if someone wants an elliptic curve, so it's going to be more expensive barring a magic 3D printer.

Curves of infinite radii are flat, problem solved

# ? Mar 7, 2017 06:38

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

The only problem I see with that tank is the drat tank bottom. Resin covered plywood? D:

# ? Mar 7, 2017 06:40

there wolf: Jan 11, 2015; by Fluffdaddy

HardDiskD posted:

I really want to set this thing on fire.

The sad thing is this is just one of several of these crappy letter shelves that came up on the specific buy/sell ap I'm using. The others were hung on the wall which is a little better, but only in the sense that it's feasible to put enough nails into each letter so the whole thing doesn't just fall over from a slight wind.

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 21:35

Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

Poisonlizard posted:

Structural (All Purpose) Silicone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkLzqZzjJ8U

Was really hoping for a follow up vid on how his house suddenly had 200 gallons of water on the floor a couple months later. I'm sure it's coming.

I mean an acrylic sheet isn't even expensive.

# ? Mar 7, 2017 06:53

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