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Has it started to feel like "your house" yet? Or is it still just a construction site
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App13 posted:Has it started to feel like "your house" yet? Or is it still just a construction site Painting has helped. I think once we have the floors, it will really tie the rooms together. Got a $6k estimate for exterior walkways, a set of stairs, & some flower beds around them from the landscaper. About what we expected from a past job. Cable getting installed in 2 weeks. Should have internet before move-in, yay.
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May 1, 2017 17:03
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Gounads posted:I think once we have the floors, it will really tie the rooms together. Or a rug
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May 1, 2017 20:34
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Variable 5 posted:Or a rug thank you friend.
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May 1, 2017 20:37
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 Is it a minimum height from the floor/step thing maybe?
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May 1, 2017 22:36
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embrace the zig zag
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May 1, 2017 23:49
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TheMightyHandful posted:
Its a right angle was easier thing
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May 2, 2017 03:27
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TheMightyHandful posted:
Harry Potter on Ice posted:Its a right angle was easier thing How would adding three right angles make anything easier?
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May 2, 2017 04:54
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Stitecin posted:How would adding three right angles make anything easier? Oh yeaaaaa I missed that first angle, that is just all around stupid. I would never have done it that way. At first I thought they were avoiding anything besides a 45. I think code is 34 inches Harry Potter on Ice fucked around with this message at 07:49 on May 2, 2017 |
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May 2, 2017 07:45
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TheMightyHandful posted:Is it a minimum height from the floor/step thing maybe? Yeah, I guess they have to be between 34"-38"  Here's what we're going to propose to the inspector  The right-angle on the right, when you put a spindle right below it, it looks a lot less awkward. Right now, there are 5 right angles there. I'd be happy to get it down to 2.
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May 2, 2017 13:05
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Wouldn't a curved bannister be the most elegant solution?
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May 2, 2017 13:37
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They trimmed it out before finishing painting? Good luck on the handrail. That stuff is really expensive, hopefully you get something that looks nice.
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May 2, 2017 15:29
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Pissflaps posted:Wouldn't a curved bannister be the most elegant solution? Probably, but also more expensive.
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May 2, 2017 15:57
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It's to prevent hoodlum skateboard punks
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May 2, 2017 16:39
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MrEnigma posted:They trimmed it out before finishing painting? Yup.
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May 2, 2017 21:17
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Gounads posted:Yup. I bet your painter is stoked about that 
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May 2, 2017 21:23
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MrEnigma posted:I bet your painter is stoked about that "You can just tape it, right?"
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May 3, 2017 01:18
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MrEnigma posted:I bet your painter is stoked about that
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May 3, 2017 16:24
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Actually it's more like 70%, 20% is planning how to make the other trades jobs harder, and the remaining time is actually doing your job.
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May 3, 2017 18:15
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Plumbers and the electricians both want to go first since the second one has to run their lines around the first.
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May 3, 2017 18:39
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Gounads posted:Plumbers and the electricians both want to go first since the second one has to run their lines around the first. You forgot HVAC.  (from the Crappy Construction Tales thread)
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May 3, 2017 18:42
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Slugworth posted:In fairness, bitching about how the other trades are all assholes making your job harder is like, 90% of a job in the trades anyway. Painters are the only ones that are outright suicidal. I delivered for Sherwin-Williams for a year or so back in the day, and the number of times I saw some beardy painter spraying solvent thinned laquer in a closed house while smoking...
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May 5, 2017 00:30
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Liquid Communism posted:Painters are the only ones that are outright suicidal. I delivered for Sherwin-Williams for a year or so back in the day, and the number of times I saw some beardy painter spraying solvent thinned laquer in a closed house while smoking...
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May 5, 2017 02:22
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I bet I get some hate here, but gently caress you I wanted them. Shutters:  Stained stairs: 
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May 5, 2017 17:17
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Gounads posted:I bet I get some hate here, but gently caress you I wanted them. Gounads posted:Stained stairs: I can never look at those stairs without chuckling at that bannister. I know the building code constrains the design for that style of staircase, but SO MANY right angles to turn a corner.
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May 5, 2017 17:28
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Gounads posted:Shutters: Looks great! Gounads posted:Stained stairs: I'm sure if you had some curved pieces it would be up to code, not sure why they didn't just do that.
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May 5, 2017 17:43
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ElCondemn posted:I'm sure if you had some curved pieces it would be up to code, not sure why they didn't just do that. Where are you going to get the curved pieces that are the right diameter for this specific use case? How much are you willing to pay for them?
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May 5, 2017 18:08
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Where are you going to get the curved pieces that are the right diameter for this specific use case? How much are you willing to pay for them? I don't know about this specific case but I have friends who make railings and things of that nature. They seem to figure out how to bend wood and metal just fine, I guess a few feet of bent wood is too expensive though...
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May 5, 2017 18:29
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ElCondemn posted:I don't know about this specific case but I have friends who make railings and things of that nature. They seem to figure out how to bend wood and metal just fine, I guess a few feet of bent wood is too expensive though... Yeah, it's not that it's not possible, it's that it's a hell of a lot more expensive to do a custom-fit job than it is to assemble a slightly clunkier solution out of prefabricated parts.
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May 5, 2017 18:35
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flosofl posted:I can never look at those stairs without chuckling at that bannister. I know the building code constrains the design for that style of staircase, but SO MANY right angles to turn a corner. I'm really curious what the plans showed for that section, or if it was just a generalized small square showing "bannister | -- X" -- | stair" as the code requirement.
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May 5, 2017 18:51
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H110Hawk posted:I'm really curious what the plans showed for that section, or if it was just a generalized small square showing "bannister | -- X" -- | stair" as the code requirement. I doubt that the plans are so detailed as to show the bannister. At most they'd say "bannister on this wall installed according to code", but I think even that is basically implicit in submitting plans that have a staircase at all.
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May 5, 2017 18:55
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Generally almost everything is ordered through someone like L. J. Smith (or really a vendor who orders through them). They offer insane amounts of types of railing and connectors. http://www.ljsmith.com/products.aspx?category=1&page=84 They are also amazingly pricey, but they all work together fairly easily, and are solid. Edit: The shutters look good I think. My biggest hate with shutters are when they couldn't possibly work on the window if they were real. Yours could pass for legit (not sure why that matters really, but it feels better anyways). Edit2: We have wood floor on the first floor, and all white trim. We ended up going with painted white posts/ballusters/railing for the landing area (and top of the stairs). But the railing itself is stained. Kind of wish we would have kept with the white posts and done stained handrails for everything. They look really nice in white, but get dirty, probably like your toe kick areas on your stairs will get. MrEnigma fucked around with this message at 19:08 on May 5, 2017 |
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May 5, 2017 19:04
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Cabinets arrived and they started putting them in a day early. Decorative fake beams 
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May 7, 2017 01:03
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Exposed beams look great, even if they are fake. Shutters look alright as well, but they do look a little small, as if they wouldn't cover the whole window. The stain on the stairs and banister look great, but you've gotta do something about all those 90s, that's just awful. If it's just a code stickler, I'd get some spare pieces and fix it after inspection.
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May 7, 2017 03:15
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CBJamo posted:Exposed beams look great, even if they are fake. Shutters look alright as well, but they do look a little small, as if they wouldn't cover the whole window. The stain on the stairs and banister look great, but you've gotta do something about all those 90s, that's just awful. If it's just a code stickler, I'd get some spare pieces and fix it after inspection. That's the kind of thing paranoid-me wouldn't put in writing on internet forums. I mean, there is at least one banned goon that narced.
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May 7, 2017 14:23
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Gounads posted:That's the kind of thing paranoid-me wouldn't put in writing on internet forums. I mean, there is at least one banned goon that narced. eh he is back, just didnt give him his avatar back 
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May 7, 2017 14:30
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What I wonder about that bannister is how does it feel to use? If it feels fine I'd just leave it, personally. It looks a little weird, but there's so much other stuff to get done that something that just looks weird is really not any kind of priority.
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May 7, 2017 14:50
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:What I wonder about that bannister is how does it feel to use? If it feels fine I'd just leave it, personally. It looks a little weird, but there's so much other stuff to get done that something that just looks weird is really not any kind of priority. Dunno about the first bend, it's hard to tell since we're still paying attention to everything. But I don't even reach for it in the corner, it would be weird to walk all the way on the outside there.
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May 7, 2017 19:10
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Maybe I missed it, but is it a personal preference thing to have the stairs curve around the corner as opposed to a flat landing/90 degree turn? Are the extra zig zags a requirement to meet height/distance to the stair tread, so the turn makes it wonkey?
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Last_Taste posted:Maybe I missed it, but is it a personal preference thing to have the stairs curve around the corner as opposed to a flat landing/90 degree turn? We didn't like the turning-stair thing very much from the start. A landing would have required a longer stair run since you lose 2 step-ups, I think 18"? In hindsight, I wish I had the builder just make the house 18" bigger to fit it. And yes to the second question.
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