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Samizdata posted:Can we find a way to work electrical current in there also? Absolutely. You can make glass go from clear to opaque electrically. It's called PDLC film and it switches with regular household light switches.
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MisterOblivious posted:Absolutely. You can make glass go from clear to opaque electrically. It's called PDLC film and it switches with regular household light switches. But what is the potential safety hazard? I want to make the thread proud!
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Samizdata posted:But what is the potential safety hazard? I want to make the thread proud! everything is a potential safety hazard if you try hard believe in yourself i realize for DIY this is actually almost literally true
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SoundMonkey posted:everything is a potential safety hazard if you try hard believe in yourself I think I can! No... I KNOW I CAN!
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I was working at company with multiple facilities here in Finland that made full houses with foundations in one piece, and we would just ship them on trucks to the lot. We got a house that was on the property for 2 years, and insulation was poo poo in one particular room and house was cold, they picked it up and shipped it back to us. At this point I should mention they had a "atmospheric" fireplace, that was not meant to warm the house, but give a little ambiance with cozy fire, very common practice. They tried to use it to warm the house due to issues with cold coming in, so lot of tiles were cracked, metal sheets bending wildly, and we replaced the thing. The problem with insulation was stupidest thing I've yet to hear in my 5 years of working in construction. They decided to embed the outdoor switchboard about halfway through the wall First -30 degrees celsius week came, and cold just rushed in, helped in by less than half the mineral wool required by building standards, and cold metal right against it. The switchboard was also right next to fireplace, which meant no matter how much they tried to warm up the thing, it would just suck more cold through. We fixed wall and fireplace, and sold it for less to the next victim (the previous owners got a new house for free of course).
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Samizdata posted:I think I can! DIY&H: "I think you can't, but I'll say you can!"
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SoundMonkey posted:DIY&H: "I think you can't, but I'll say you can!" Look, man, that video on YouTube from x31337xh0m3xh@xx says I can, and who am I to argue with them? Next project? A countertop with a surface made from vintage $5 dollar bills! SO CLASSY! EDIT: I suck at l33t5p3@k.
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Platystemon posted:You’re right. The master bedroom is elsewhere.
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Samizdata posted:I think I can!  I believe in you friend. Just remember to wear ppe and pull all necessary permits. Or Else.
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Splicer posted:Those stairs are very short, it's like it's a two story house split over three floors. And one floor is devoted entirely to pooping.
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SoundMonkey posted:So my ex-neighbor (just moved) is tearing down his outbuilding/garage/shitheap and building what is honestly a pretty nice looking barn-roofed... what the gently caress ever. Anyways, so they're tearing down the old thing, and I walk past in the rain one day and the roof is gone and only one wall is left and there's a breaker panel on it. Most of the breaker panels in California are outside on the side of the house. They just have a little flimsy cover over them.
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FCKGW posted:Most of the breaker panels in California are outside on the side of the house. They just have a little flimsy cover over them. i don't think this was rated for outdoor use what with the big open hole in the top i'm not entirely sure that hole was designed to be there. i wish i'd gotten a picture before they put the walls back up but it's not really good & cool to go inspecting someone else's property
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My old house in N. Virginia had an exterior breaker box too. Not normal but the electrician said he saw them around iirc.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:My old house in N. Virginia had an exterior breaker box too. Not normal but the electrician said he saw them around iirc. that one probably didn't have a 2.5" hole drilled in the top with some random BX coming out of it with an indoor outlet hanging off the end
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Where I live I only ever see them interior. It's electrical stuff, why would you expose that to the outside? At the same time it's really common at residential construction sites for them to toss up some cheap stablock box on a wooden pole in the front yard for site power during construction.
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Baronjutter posted:Where I live I only ever see them interior. It's electrical stuff, why would you expose that to the outside? At the same time it's really common at residential construction sites for them to toss up some cheap stablock box on a wooden pole in the front yard for site power during construction. If your av is accurate we live relatively nearby so yeah, same, seeing one outdoors here is like holy-poo poo (outside of construction people who know what they're doing). I dunno what effect being in a rainforest next to an ocean has on that.
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This guy doesn't really understand the concept of property or bylaws, at least he asked me before burning construction waste in my yard. He'd already dug the pit. I made him fill it back in.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:There are interior breaker boxes? Not to turn this into a derail like the floor/ceiling HVAC vents, buts yes, it varies. My parents' house they built themselves has the panel in the laundry room, my previous house had it outside the kitchen wall next to the side door right under the meter, my current house has it inside behind the master bedroom door (and a box on the pole where the service drop comes from right under the meter with a single giant breaker in it. I really should put a lock on that box, and should have on the outdoor breaker box on the previous house. But the neighborhood yoofs haven't turned off my power as a prank yet.)
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oh heck i went and started a derail and didn't even post a decent picture of anything, i should ban myself probs anyways my new place is nice overall but the kitchen remodel featured some questionable decisions this is the bottom of the cabinet above my fridge. this is gonna be real fun to find something to fit when the fridge dies. 
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I might have mentioned this before but speaking of construction waste when my Ukrainian inlaws were getting their house finished (no one builds full houses, you buy a concrete shell that's been wired and plumbed but that's it) there was an ever-growing pile of construction garbage forming in the back yard. The whole project was a bit of a nightmare and the quality of both the base building and the interior fittings are not great and could be the subject of multiple posts here. But after everything was said and done they had to hire another person to come take away the construction garbage. When the little CAT came to shovel it up into a bin they realized only the outer shell of the pile was construction waste and about 75% of the core was all discarded vodka bottles and beer cans. Explains a lot.
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The second someone manages to find a way to turn glass shards and aluminum cans into a structural material, the quality of most new track houses is gonna go up substantially.
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I know some construction sites ban eating on premises because workers will throw food waste into the walls and then you get big rat or bug issues.
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SoundMonkey posted:oh heck i went and started a derail and didn't even post a decent picture of anything, i should ban myself probs Hah, I measured my fridge several times in the shop and even then only barely managed to get it in. Had to take out the shelf, put the fridge in, then put the shelf back because it has a little hump at the back. 
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Don't fridges need some airflow around them to keep from overheating?
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Mainly in the back, from the sides. Most modern fridges pull air from the back and blow it across the coils that are on the bottom, out the front.
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House of leaves adaptation looking good.
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Delivery McGee posted:Not to turn this into a derail like the floor/ceiling HVAC vents, buts yes, it varies. My parents' house they built themselves has the panel in the laundry room, my previous house had it outside the kitchen wall next to the side door right under the meter, my current house has it inside behind the master bedroom door (and a box on the pole where the service drop comes from right under the meter with a single giant breaker in it. I really should put a lock on that box, and should have on the outdoor breaker box on the previous house. But the neighborhood yoofs haven't turned off my power as a prank yet.) Exterior breaker box is just a horror movie waiting to happen. Breaking into a breaker box seems much easier than cutting the high power lines. Monster/psycho opens the box and trips all the breakers. Now you're in the dark, and the only way to fix it is to go outside where the monster is. Even without monsters, having to go outside to throw a breaker seems like a terrible idea. I don't even like going into the basement to do it, but outside? What if it is dark? Or icy? Or a blizzard is in the middle of dropping 3 feet of snow overnight? If you're in a non-blizzard zone you're probably in an area prone to apocalyptic wind+dust+fire storms.
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I said that just because every house I've lived in, and townhouse, has had it outside. In both Idaho and Arizona. Even every relative I can remember in the same. Just never occurred to me.
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My house has the master breaker, HVAC breaker, water heater breaker, and shop breaker on a panel outside, along with a manual generator transfer. Inside the house is everything else. Doesn't seem all that uncommon compared to most other houses I've looked at around here.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Exterior breaker box is just a horror movie waiting to happen. Breaking into a breaker box seems much easier than cutting the high power lines. Monster/psycho opens the box and trips all the breakers. Now you're in the dark, and the only way to fix it is to go outside where the monster is. Even if all breakers were indoors you could just pull the meter to cut power (Ask me about replacing a busted main breaker a few weeks ago)
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Progressive JPEG posted:Even if all breakers were indoors you could just pull the meter to cut power the hippies around here are trying to work out how to do this because ~smart meters~ surprisingly you end up having to pay a lot of money and also legal action and not have any power
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Taikuri posted:I was working at company with multiple facilities here in Finland that made full houses with foundations in one piece, and we would just ship them on trucks to the lot. Between this and the houses made of sod my faith in Finnish construction is at an all time low.
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SoundMonkey posted:the hippies around here are trying to work out how to do this because ~smart meters~ We had an anomalous current reading from one customer who had 2x the power going back over neutral compared to coming in over live. Turned out the customer had tried to "bypass" the meter to steal free power, but obviously bypassing the live in parallel still left as much current running through through the meter as through the extra wire.
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~Coxy posted:We had an anomalous current reading from one customer who had 2x the power going back over neutral compared to coming in over live. Bypass the neutral by grounding to the plumbing inside the house. #lifehack
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Facebook Aunt posted:Exterior breaker box is just a horror movie waiting to happen. Breaking into a breaker box seems much easier than cutting the high power lines. Monster/psycho opens the box and trips all the breakers. Now you're in the dark, and the only way to fix it is to go outside where the monster is. It's Texas, so the snow and ice are like one day a year, but you're right about the apocalyptic wind+dust+fire storms, that happened one summer. My house was not endangered, but fuckin' firefighter C-130s kept flying over me at treetop level. Also one time at that house somebody stole my TV cable. Not in the sense of bootlegging free TV, some rear end in a top hat literally cut the wire at the pole and at the drop and carried it away. That was an interesting phone conversation with the cable company. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Apr 30, 2017 |
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~Coxy posted:We had an anomalous current reading from one customer who had 2x the power going back over neutral compared to coming in over live. What are the chances you'd notice if they knew what they were doing and "bypassed" both? If I'm understanding it right, that would theoretically cut their power bill in half.
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:I know some construction sites ban eating on premises because workers will throw food waste into the walls and then you get big rat or bug issues. When my dad was trying to figure out why one bedroom in his house was always cold, he found a bunch of old chip bags all wadded up in the ducts going to that room.
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