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I think I'm reading too much McMansionHell because I can't help but notice the tiny, fake shutters.
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Apr 25, 2017 18:34
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They're really bad looking fake shutters too
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Apr 25, 2017 18:39
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It bothers me more than it should that each building in the last pic has a differently-oriented sloped roof. edit: Also, isn't that little pocket behind the archway just going to collect water when it rains? Where could a gutter fit in there that would lead the rain water away??
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Apr 25, 2017 18:49
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It's ok. The cosmetic deficiencies are inconsequential compared to the gross structural deficiencies, so sooner or later it's all going to rot and collapse and then it'll be back to the original house!
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Apr 25, 2017 18:51
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CJacobs posted:edit: Also, isn't that little pocket behind the archway just going to collect water when it rains? Where could a gutter fit in there that would lead the rain water away?? He did put rain gutters in place in some locations. You'll notice in the current pic of the house on the far right there is approximately 12 feet of gutters with a downspout at the last porch column. Obviously the cost of the tower was taken out of the gutter budget.
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Apr 25, 2017 19:03
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There was a tree about a foot from my house. I decided to chop out the stump with an axe. I am the crappy destruction tale  I hit two sprinkler system lines, which the roots were wrapped around anyway. One was pressurized as the supply line for the back yard. Also the control wire for the rear sprinklers was buried with the pipes, which I also chopped. I still blame the previous owners for burying it so shallow and putting a stupid tree on top of it.
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Apr 25, 2017 21:30
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The tree was going to destroy those lines eventually, you just accelerated the inevitable.
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Apr 25, 2017 21:36
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TBH, I couldn't pry the stump out until I accidentally cut through them, they were holding the tree down. Oh well, took about 5 minutes to fix, just PVC.
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Apr 25, 2017 21:58
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We removed a tall tree that was against the foundation a few years ago. Now every winter the soil or clay or whatever under where the tree was swells a bit and the entire foundation along that part of the house lifts a fraction of an inch. Just enough to cause some cracks inside, nothing dangerous but it's really annoying. What I'm getting at is if you removed the roots you may need to do more to compact the earth or something. Also keep in mind the dead roots might attract termites. Seriously gently caress previous owners who plant trees up against houses, god.
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Apr 26, 2017 02:46
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There's a house in my neighborhood that has those fake shutters on the basement door, full length. I just... don't know.
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Apr 26, 2017 04:35
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Theres a house near where I live that has a massive pine inside of it. I'll try to get a picture of it tomorrow because I spotted it from the road and immediately went 
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Apr 26, 2017 06:37
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The house that I rent is becoming a crappy construction tale and will continue to get worse as time goes on. When we first moved in the towel rails fell off the wall in the bathroom but that is small bikkies compared to what has happened since then. The shower stall was never fitted properly so it leaks into the wall outside of it. On top of that all of the silicone in the shower has a nasty case of mould and the owners won't fix it because it cost money. On top of that the bath decided that leaking out of the gap between the tile and the bath was a good idea. I'd fix it myself but this poo poo isn't mine and son't give enough of a gently caress to bother fixing the crumbling shack that I call a home at this point in time.
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Apr 26, 2017 12:19
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HardDiskD posted:I think I'm reading too much McMansionHell because I can't help but notice the tiny, fake shutters. Quick question, because I see this complaint a LOT around here: What's with the hate for fake shutters? Obviously, the ones on this house are too small (as are the ones on most McMansions because it seems people love GIANT windows), but don't MOST homes have fake shutters? Surely you don't suggest someone put REAL shutters on their house, do you? Unless you live in hurricane or tornado country, seems unnecessary. And having nothing on the sides of the windows looks more out of place/"naked" to me than even the small, fake, shutters. I took a look at the houses in my block and they have either fake shutters, or nothing. The ones with nothing look worse. So what is one supposed to put on the side of their windows? 
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Apr 26, 2017 15:55
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DrBouvenstein posted:Quick question, because I see this complaint a LOT around here: The clearly fake shutters that don't even match the size of the window just look wrong and ugly. Even if they're fake they should at least look like they would actually cover the whole window.
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Apr 26, 2017 16:30
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DrBouvenstein posted:don't MOST homes have fake shutters? lol no Sorry you live in a town with no taste.
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Apr 26, 2017 16:38
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you put trim or casing or nothing around the windows. fake shutters are tacky as hell and that's on my list of dumb crap to fix about my house this spring. real shutters are cool but pretty unnecessary aside from aesthetic purposes these days.
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Apr 26, 2017 17:07
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DrBouvenstein posted:What's with the hate for fake shutters? Obviously, the ones on this house are too small (as are the ones on most McMansions because it seems people love GIANT windows), but don't MOST homes have fake shutters? If it's a colonial style house, yes put shutters on them. If you have money to burn then put real shutters on them. The cost for real functional shutters isn't much. If you are putting plastic Menards glue-on shutters or even crappy painted pallets then your house can look no worse than if you left them off. FWIW, colonial-style homes are poo poo. The style of this house is a saltbox-style bungalow. The original saltbox homes sometimes had shutters and sometimes didn't. Bungalows never had shutters.  Functional shutters on a colonial-style house. Neutrino fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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Apr 26, 2017 17:06
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Apr 26, 2017 17:22
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WHY THOUGH
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Apr 26, 2017 17:24
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The duct warms the cold water in the pipe during winter, and the cold pipe helps cool the air in summer.
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Apr 26, 2017 17:24
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A plumber could have easily routed around the ducting so my bet is that this is the work of whoever ran the ducts, and the pipes were there first.
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Apr 26, 2017 17:28
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Bad Munki posted:WHY THOUGH I'm not going back to Lowe's again. gently caress it!
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Apr 26, 2017 17:28
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The Bloop posted:I'm not going back to Lowe's again. gently caress it! New thread title? Because this describes every half-rear end homeowner-implemented fuckup I've ever seen (or done).
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Apr 26, 2017 19:32
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yes except substitute walmart for lowes
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Apr 26, 2017 19:34
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Leperflesh posted:We removed a tall tree that was against the foundation a few years ago. Now every winter the soil or clay or whatever under where the tree was swells a bit and the entire foundation along that part of the house lifts a fraction of an inch. Just enough to cause some cracks inside, nothing dangerous but it's really annoying. My house has two coastal redwoods inches away, and several others a few feet away past those. They've been there since the 30's though, so fingers crossed they're basically stable at this point... Nice thing with redwoods is the branches are pretty small so even if one gets dropped it won't necessarily destroy the building. If the tree itself starts to lean tho... Dr. Garbanzo posted:The house that I rent is becoming a crappy construction tale and will continue to get worse as time goes on. When we first moved in the towel rails fell off the wall in the bathroom but that is small bikkies compared to what has happened since then. The shower stall was never fitted properly so it leaks into the wall outside of it. On top of that all of the silicone in the shower has a nasty case of mould and the owners won't fix it because it cost money. On top of that the bath decided that leaking out of the gap between the tile and the bath was a good idea. I'd fix it myself but this poo poo isn't mine and son't give enough of a gently caress to bother fixing the crumbling shack that I call a home at this point in time. Reasons to avoid buying former rentals in a nutshell Zip tie? Shameful. Should've used a velcro strap.
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Apr 26, 2017 19:42
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Progressive JPEG posted:My house has two coastal redwoods inches away, and several others a few feet away past those. They've been there since the 30's though, so fingers crossed they're basically stable at this point... It isn't the stuff above the ground that causes serious issues...
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Apr 26, 2017 19:45
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Progressive JPEG posted:My house has two coastal redwoods inches away, and several others a few feet away past those. They've been there since the 30's though, so fingers crossed they're basically stable at this point... Redwood trees just keep growing forever. Those trees are eventually going to destroy your foundation, sorry. They are also massive water hogs and the first six to eight feet of trunk off the bottom of the ground hold hundreds and hundreds of gallons of water. This is why redwood trees are always logged like 8 feet off the ground, if you cut them lower they kind of explode and splinter as they tip over. Anyway it might be the case that since they're sucking up every drop of water available, you're not seeing much seasonal shifting in the soil under your foundation. But the root system of a mature redwood tree is pretty big and wide and eventually I think destruction of your foundation is inevitable. Talk to a foundation specialist and an arborist, though. Maybe something can be done.
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Apr 26, 2017 19:51
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Don't redwood root systems specifically grow not deep, but massively wide, to boot? So even if it weren't right next to your house, it's gonna have roots under the whole drat thing regardless.
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Apr 26, 2017 19:59
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I've actually seen this in a commercial construction job. Tight ceilings in a skywalk and an owner with more more money than sense, the fire protection sprinklers were dropped through the ducts. ambient oatmeal fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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Apr 26, 2017 20:26
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DrBouvenstein posted:Quick question, because I see this complaint a LOT around here: I also don't get it. I would say 85% of houses in the DC area have them. They look pretty normal to me.
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Apr 26, 2017 21:09
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glynnenstein posted:I also don't get it. I would say 85% of houses in the DC area have them. They look pretty normal to me. Imagine a gigantic fat man with a tiny bowler hat. Funny, eh? Now your house is the fat man and the hat is the shutters that can't cover the windows, even if they weren't fake.
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Apr 26, 2017 21:15
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lots of homes have them, doesn't mean it's not tacky
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Apr 26, 2017 21:16
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Here just read this http://www.mcmansionhell.com/post/149622740651/mcmansions-101-windows quote:Shutters: Plenty of houses have shutters that meet all the above critera, even if they're not real, and they're fine. Some building styles basically require shutters in order to look right. But boy howdy are there a lot that get it wrong.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:22
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Somebody employs solder the way porn features jizz.
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Apr 26, 2017 23:30
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That's not solder. That's that plumbing repair tape that you wet and it cures after application.  As an aside, you can always tell when a HVAC guy does plumbing. The HVAC guys don't wipe the solder joint down, leaving a small drip of solder. The plumbers usually always have a wet rag, and wipe the freshly soldered joint smooth.
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Apr 26, 2017 23:52
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I've seen loads of plumbers just leaving the drip.
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Apr 27, 2017 00:18
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As an HVAC Guy, IF I have to do plumbing I use either sharkbites or just brazing rod.
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Apr 27, 2017 01:17
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Leperflesh posted:I've seen loads of plumbers just leaving the drip.
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Apr 27, 2017 01:20
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The house next to mine is a rental with ownership split twelve ways in multiple estate hell and there are 9 now sizable oaks growing inches away from it and maybe 15-20' from my house. Every day I pray to god that it and everyone involved spontaneously combusts.
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shame on an IGA posted:The house next to mine is a rental with ownership split twelve ways in multiple estate hell and there are 9 now sizable oaks growing inches away from it and maybe 15-20' from my house. Every day I pray to god that it and everyone involved spontaneously combusts. I will pray with you. Here's hoping the spaghetti monster does requests.
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