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Brute Squad posted:Work Triangle? What's that? Looks good to me. 
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I prefer the work dodecahedron.
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GreenNight posted:Looks good to me. "Work acreage"
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GreenNight posted:Looks good to me. Three points always make a triangle unless they’re in a line? 
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Chin Strap posted:I wouldn't mind that actually. Keeps the dirty dishes (main mess in a kitchen) out of sight until you could get to them. When you miss your dish pit so much, you put one in at home. It's even got a convenient window for piling dishes and hiding knives in everything. Cross-posting my joy from the plumbing thread. Brute Squad posted:So here are the water lines to my shower. No, I don't know why they used T's instead of corners. Yes, that is the heating duct no longer attached to the floor register in my bathroom with aluminum tape. Yes, the floor register is located directly underneath my bathmat. Because it's dead center of where you step out of the bathtub. Yes, those are 2x4s transferring the load from part of the bathroom floor to a shelf. The floor directly underneath the toilet. No, I have not seen or smelled any leaks (:knocks on any wood but what's seen:). No, The person who installed the pvc sections of my plumbing did not believe in things like pipe hangers or pipe strap. Yes, they swag like christmas bunting. No, this is not the worst thing I've discovered about this house. Yes, I'm working on fixing it.
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Sometimes I wish I could touch an object and get some sort of psychic echo to see into the past as to the thought process of the person to made/installed it.
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Baronjutter posted:Sometimes I wish I could touch an object and get some sort of psychic echo to see into the past as to the thought process of the person to made/installed it. Seems like a waste - you'd get the same result touching that even without the power.
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ElCondemn posted:This place reminds me of this hotel I stayed at in China, at the surface level it looked really swanky but the more time I spent in there the more it turned out everything was slapped together to "look good" and was functionally poo poo. That is all of China, especially Beijing. I spent around 4 weeks there last year, I've never had a better or more satisfying shower than the first shower i took in Japan after getting there from Bejing, it felt like I had moved 25 years into the future.
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Tunicate posted:Seems like a waste - you'd get the same result touching that even without the power. Clever, nice. Baronjutter posted:Sometimes I wish I could touch an object and get some sort of psychic echo to see into the past as to the thought process of the person to made/installed it. I've often wished the same thing myself.
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Tunicate posted:Seems like a waste - you'd get the same result touching that even without the power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leUsySc7JsA
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GreenNight posted:Looks good to me. hey i'm all about that appliance layout, just ideally in the same room and not half a mile apart if the sink was where that table is on the left, THAT'd be a good triangle
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The Ugly House Photos blog is a neverending source of thread content     (yes those are mushrooms growing out of the ceiling) These are all from the same drat house. I think it's some sort of conceptual art.         
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Youth Decay posted:The Ugly House Photos blog is a neverending source of thread content Ugh, I remember my grandparent's old house had a set up like this, where there was a toilet behind a half-wall that was attached to a bath. The toilet side had carpet on it for some reason. I hated it because my family figured that since the toilet was sort of its own separate area, they could come in and use the rest of the bathroom while us kids were pooping. Just wait like five minutes to brush your teeth dad, poo poo!!
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:Ugh, I remember my grandparent's old house had a set up like this, where there was a toilet behind a half-wall that was attached to a bath. The toilet side had carpet on it for some reason. I hated it because my family figured that since the toilet was sort of its own separate area, they could come in and use the rest of the bathroom while us kids were pooping. Just wait like five minutes to brush your teeth dad, poo poo!! A quick and dirty sketch (not to scale) of my master bathroom, which I may have mentioned before in this thread:  I wonder how much cocaine was in the Fleetwood designers in 1990. First thing I did when I moved in was put up a shower curtain across the entryway to the bathroom for privacy/notification that somebody's pooping. And yes, the whole thing is carpeted.  There's reasonable, though ugly, linoleum in the kitchen and other bathroom!
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:Ugh, I remember my grandparent's old house had a set up like this, where there was a toilet behind a half-wall that was attached to a bath. The toilet side had carpet on it for some reason. I hated it because my family figured that since the toilet was sort of its own separate area, they could come in and use the rest of the bathroom while us kids were pooping. Just wait like five minutes to brush your teeth dad, poo poo!! Ugh, if my parents had done this I'd have just locked the doors and let them tell at me.
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I don't want to quote the entire feed but this is gold: https://twitter.com/HouseBudgets/status/864872597426761728
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I knew a guy who used to organize coloured pens for Disney.
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Youth Decay posted:The Ugly House Photos blog is a neverending source of thread content ...when people's taste in showers looks like Early Dachau...
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So I've posted about my poo poo bathroom here in before http://imgur.com/a/AguyZ but the one thing that I didn't post in that album is the window. The window is it's own special kind of Hell. When we moved in, it was just COVERED in caulk. All across where the window casing met the tile (which is fine, that should be caulked, right?), all along where the edge of the glass met the stile (?), on top of the sash, completely covering the latches, and even in the jamb. Like, over an entire tube's worth in and around the window, if I had to guess. Obviously, this made it impossible to open. The caulking job also wasn't that good, we could see mold/mildew growing, and we knew water was still getting in there. We had more pressing matters to take care of first, so we ripped off all the caulk, got the mold and water out of there, and then then just put a thick piece of plastic sheeting over the whole thing that I periodically take down to check is still water tight and replace. Well this summer we're finally dealing with it, but I'm not sure what the best way is. But in the meantime, you guys get to enjoy my misery by proxy. Here's the window in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4BTbmm5Nhc The bottom sash is somehow loose in the jamb (is that the right terminology?) How can something like this even happen? I have only one theory...it's supposed to be a sliding horizontal window. The only proof I have is that when we took the lower sash out (because yes, it's so loose it comes out) the right side looks like this:  Those little cut outs on the side are empty. Nothing in them. The left side looks like this:  Those are basically little "wheels" or rollers or whatever you call them. A little better look at them:  And on the outside, the right side (and only right side, i.e. the left side on the inside) has these little slots:  Close up:  Is it possible this was meant to be a sliding window? I tried to get the model number from the tag on the sash but it's too faded to read
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Jerry Cotton posted:I knew a guy who used to organize coloured pens for Disney.
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Our friends were actually on House Hunters. I can't remember if they said their real budget, I think they did. However they filmed the show after they had already closed on their house and the hunt was just completely made up.
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Yes it's a gliding window installed 90 degrees wrong. The holes are weep holes and always go on the bottom of a window. Weep holes are for raining sideways at high speed and for power washing to let any that somehow gets in drain out the bottom. The things on the side let the window glide and go on the bottom and ride in a pocket on a rail. The window ought to open from the right to the left leaving the right open with a screen. You could keep it open with a stick for a vent, but your neighbors if any could obviously see you even better, get a frosted one with the same dimensions that cranks open or has an actual top and bottom sash. Quaint Quail Quilt fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jun 4, 2017 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Is it possible this was meant to be a sliding window? Yep. Every rental property I've seen built in the last 30 years had those horizontal sliders, so I assume they must be cheaper than the old fashioned vertical windows. My guess is that there used to be a normal wooden vertical window there wasn't maintained properly and eventually rotted from the damp. They measured the size of the window hole, and then bought the cheapest window they could find that was the right dimensions. Once they installed it and realized why it was a bad idea, it was too late to return the window so the just caulked it and called it a day.
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Horizontal sliders have a 0% chance of coming loose and guillotining somebody's kid, which I assume is a factor.
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I've been keeping my wife up to date on that Toronto couple's homes, and I just sent this to her. About a minute later, I heard hysterical laughter from the next room. "... 'And I sell swimming costumes for sheep!' Can you imagine a wet sheep? Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!"
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:Yes it's a gliding window installed 90 degrees wrong. Hey man, gotta keep those witches out. 
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Suspect Bucket posted:Hey man, gotta keep those witches out. That's fine but as an ex window installer for 6 years it kinda bugs me that the springs in one side would wear out faster. Yes we've received windows wrong from the factory where they messed up horizontal and vertical measurements "vertical gliders" they should have sanity checked that, it was something like 20x60 where it should have been obvious, no we didn't install it and caught it. I've seen weep holes on the top quite a bit.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Hey man, gotta keep those witches out. loving like i'm routinely horrified by stuff in this thread but this is probably the most 'what the gently caress were they even thinking' thing i've seen recently if that was my place i'd call up HVAC contractors for quotes for window units just for laffs
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SoundMonkey posted:loving Oh no, that's a witch window. They do that on purpose. It's a tradition in Vermont. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_window http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/vermont/witch-window-vt/ Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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Suspect Bucket posted:Oh no, that's a witch window. They do that on purpose. It's a tradition in Vermont. oh no like i'm familiar with them (i've seen one here even though it's not a thing in this area?) but even accounting for witchcraft it's possibly one of the worst-looking design quirks i've seen if only they'd had a legend that witches couldn't pass through properly insulated walls
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Facebook Aunt posted:Yep. Every rental property I've seen built in the last 30 years had those horizontal sliders, so I assume they must be cheaper than the old fashioned vertical windows. My guess is that there used to be a normal wooden vertical window there wasn't maintained properly and eventually rotted from the damp. They measured the size of the window hole, and then bought the cheapest window they could find that was the right dimensions. Once they installed it and realized why it was a bad idea, it was too late to return the window so the just caulked it and called it a day. I got the 24"W x 12"H horizontal sliders in my shed cheap as returned items at Lowes. I think someone bought them as narrow vertical sliders and returned them when they discovered that they wouldn't stay open in that orientation. They were perfect for my needs. Saved me quite a few dollars.
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SoundMonkey posted:if only they'd had a legend that witches couldn't pass through properly insulated walls It'd probably be bad form to change a thread title to your own joke, but ... it would make a good thread title.
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Given this thread's content, someone has probably installed new spray foam insulation around old knob and tube. Double points if the Stab-Lok is in there too though.
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SoundMonkey posted:
Oh, you're talking about witchwalls!
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Delivery McGee posted:It'd probably be bad form to change a thread title to your own joke, but ... it would make a good thread title. it would be extremely crass mycomancy posted:Oh, you're talking about witchwalls! this wasn't my joke though
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Should have turned it the other way around so guys could save time and pee while they shower.
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