Crappy Construction: The Four POs of the Housepocalypse

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whalesteak: May 6, 2013

GotLag posted:

Does the right-hand upright being interrupted make it better or worse?

I'm sure I'll be proven wrong a million different ways for saying this, but given that the span of the board on the first step is ~40 inches, even if it's just screwed in place, my guess is they're probably adequate. Obviously the design is not ideal, though.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 04:32

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# ? May 29, 2024 16:47

couldcareless: Feb 8, 2009; Spheal used Swagger!

mllaneza posted:

In this one, I really feel for the realtor.

http://www.har.com/4302-colony-west-dr/sale_78077894

You want "All Photos/Gallery".

I should not have looked at that just before going to bed

# ? Jul 20, 2017 04:39

kid sinister: Nov 16, 2002

mllaneza posted:

In this one, I really feel for the realtor.

http://www.har.com/4302-colony-west-dr/sale_78077894

You want "All Photos/Gallery".

Reminds me of how Tom Cullen decorated his place in The Stand. That being said, I did like a few of the paintings.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 05:54

Samizdata: May 14, 2007

mllaneza posted:

In this one, I really feel for the realtor.

http://www.har.com/4302-colony-west-dr/sale_78077894

You want "All Photos/Gallery".

This house is haunted, isn't it?

# ? Jul 20, 2017 06:09

Mystery Steve: Nov 9, 2006; Fun Shoe

I'm the mannequin dancing on the ceiling.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 06:32

mllaneza: Apr 28, 2007; Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952

kid sinister posted:

That being said, I did like a few of the paintings.

You had a lot to choose from.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 06:47

SoundMonkey: Apr 22, 2006; I just push buttons.

Mystery Steve posted:

I'm the mannequin dancing on the ceiling.

which?

# ? Jul 20, 2017 07:09

KillHour: Oct 28, 2007

whalesteak posted:

I'm sure I'll be proven wrong a million different ways for saying this, but given that the span of the board on the first step is ~40 inches, even if it's just screwed in place, my guess is they're probably adequate. Obviously the design is not ideal, though.

I feel like the bigger issue is the lack of diagonal braces to handle lateral load. Then again, I'm not an engineer.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 07:40

Tardcore: Jan 24, 2011; Not cool enough for the Spider-man club.

Samizdata posted:

This house is haunted, isn't it?

It would be if the mannequins didn't creep out the ghosts

# ? Jul 20, 2017 07:50

FilthyImp: Sep 30, 2002; Anime Deviant

kid sinister posted:

Here's something not necessarily "crappy", just odd.

I've never seen a closet light on the outside before.

When you open the closet door and the leather-daddy fungeon stuff is visible, you want front lighting to really draw attention to The Great American Challenge centerpiece. In-cabinet toplighting just wont do.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 08:02

tetrapyloctomy: Feb 18, 2003; Okay -- you talk WAY too fast.; Nap Ghost

Youth Decay posted:

I have an entire Pinterest board of crazy stairs

These are good storage stair designs:

These are not:

I am a huge fan of staggered stairs, though handrails are a must. If I ever add onto this house it'll definitely involve a new library with tall bookshelves, and I'd totally do a rolling staggered stair instead of a ladder.

Anyone who has been to St. Peter's Basilica and who has climbed to the top of the dome (and if not, why?!) remembers the last few flights of stairs, including the ones between to layers of dome and the tight spiral where you hold onto a length of rope for support. Not a great place for claustophobics. Or acrophobics. Or papaphobics, I guess, but that's less stair-relevant.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 12:55

YamiNoSenshi: Jan 19, 2010

SoundMonkey posted:

so i wasn't the only one staring at it thinking "where... does.. the load go?"

Down. It goes down.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 14:55

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

SoundMonkey posted:

so i wasn't the only one staring at it thinking "where... does.. the load go?"

They haven't installed the drywall yet

# ? Jul 20, 2017 15:23

Yawgmoth: Sep 10, 2003; This post is cursed!

Iron Crowned posted:

They haven't installed the drywall yet

or the bathtub

# ? Jul 20, 2017 16:06

Bonster: Mar 3, 2007; Keep rolling, rolling

No, no, the bathtub is balanced on a sheet of plywood on top.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 16:38

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# ? Jul 20, 2017 17:42

Piell: Sep 3, 2006; Grey Worm's Ken doll-like groin throbbed with the anticipatory pleasure that only a slightly warm and moist piece of lemoncake could offer; Young Orc

Lime Tonics posted:

I didn't know Macaulay Culkin had kids

# ? Jul 20, 2017 17:48

Boogalo: Jul 8, 2012; Meep Meep

We did not gently caress around with our playforts in the late 80's and early 90's. Plenty of sharpened sticks in the ground and some sprung/swinging branches as traps, but a metal spike dropper is another level.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 18:06

Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Boogalo posted:

We did not gently caress around with our playforts in the late 80's and early 90's. Plenty of sharpened sticks in the ground and some sprung/swinging branches as traps, but a metal spike dropper is another level.

Did you smear the sticks with poo poo and carrion?

# ? Jul 20, 2017 18:15

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

aperion posted:

Here's something I found under my own house today! This isn't a distorted image or taken at an oblique angle.

The previous owner was an old plumber, and you'd think that he'd have done better than this horseshit.

If there's one thing I know about tradesmen/mechanics/engineers - their extensive knowledge of the subject allows them to do as little as possible to make something technically work. Never buy a "mechanic owned" car.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 18:33

wolrah: May 8, 2006; what?

FogHelmut posted:

If there's one thing I know about tradesmen/mechanics/engineers - their extensive knowledge of the subject allows them to do as little as possible to make something technically work. Never buy a "mechanic owned" car.

I think this rule applies pretty generally across a lot of fields.

Everyone I know who works in IT has a home network that's a mix of retired business gear and hacked together insanity.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 19:18

Darchangel: Feb 12, 2009; Tell him about the blower!

~Coxy posted:

I remember this puzzle from Return to Zork.

I thought it was Myst.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 19:27

Queen_Combat: Jan 15, 2011

wolrah posted:

I think this rule applies pretty generally across a lot of fields.

Everyone I know who works in IT has a home network that's a mix of retired business gear and hacked together insanity.

Are you saying you think my 4x dd-wrt flashed Goodwill routers acting as wireless bridges to 3x Ubiquiti Unifi APs with a NAS on a wired data-power Ethernet adapter is "hacked together insanity"?

# ? Jul 20, 2017 19:38

Darchangel: Feb 12, 2009; Tell him about the blower!

wolrah posted:

I think this rule applies pretty generally across a lot of fields.

Everyone I know who works in IT has a home network that's a mix of retired business gear and hacked together insanity.

Can confirm. It's me - that's my network. My PCs and Macs are all retired corporate machines, too.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 19:39

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

wolrah posted:

I think this rule applies pretty generally across a lot of fields.

Everyone I know who works in IT has a home network that's a mix of retired business gear and hacked together insanity.

As an IT person, this was true when I was young, however now that I'm over 30, gently caress all of that maintenance. I have a single, good quality, bone stock router. I even quit buying AMD cpus because Intel just works.

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Are you saying you think my 4x dd-wrt flashed Goodwill routers acting as wireless bridges to 3x Ubiquiti Unifi APs with a NAS on a wired data-power Ethernet adapter is "hacked together insanity"?

Who has time for this?

poo poo, I even pay for things now because piracy is too much goddamned work.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 19:57

value-brand cereal: May 2, 2008

SoundMonkey posted:

which?

Oh, Steve is a new aquisition, and isn't in those old photos. Why don't you drop by and see for yourself? Come ~~alone~~ along! You'll have such a great time!

# ? Jul 20, 2017 19:57

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

FogHelmut posted:

As an IT person, this was true when I was young, however now that I'm over 30, gently caress all of that maintenance. I have a single, good quality, bone stock router. I even quit buying AMD cpus because Intel just works.

Who has time for this?

poo poo, I even pay for things now because piracy is too much goddamned work.

Same. I just act as a normal consumer. I don't have the time or inclination to be a hobbyist at computers anymore. I didn't even bother buying a good router, I just use the terrible built in one that I rent from my cable provider. It works, so went on to other things.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 20:18

slurry_curry: Nov 26, 2003; <3mini-moni+animu^_^

FogHelmut posted:

As an IT person, this was true when I was young, however now that I'm over 30, gently caress all of that maintenance. I have a single, good quality, bone stock router. I even quit buying AMD cpus because Intel just works.

Who has time for this?

poo poo, I even pay for things now because piracy is too much goddamned work.

Yup, this is exactly how I went. Used to run a linux box for a router/traffic shaping/fileserver/etc, that is until I had a lovely day at work and it decided to be a dick. It got unplugged and now I just run a tiny Ubiquiti 4 port router and a Unifi AP that covers anything. Gave up on torrenting when places like amazon made it easier to buy poo poo than try to torrent it.

I don't even own a desktop anymore, just a Macbook I kept from one of my old jobs and my current work Macbook. loving spending money on laptops when work gives them to me. Any test systems I need to run are either vm's on my laptop or running AWS/GCE if I need more resources.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 20:18

Darchangel: Feb 12, 2009; Tell him about the blower!

FogHelmut posted:

As an IT person, this was true when I was young, however now that I'm over 30, gently caress all of that maintenance. I have a single, good quality, bone stock router. I even quit buying AMD cpus because Intel just works.

Who has time for this?

poo poo, I even pay for things now because piracy is too much goddamned work.

I'm getting there. While my computers are all castoffs, they are essentially stock with upgraded RAM and SSDs, to stretch them out a bit longer. Stock windows and Macintosh OSes. The network is getting simpler as poo poo pisses me off, not that it was terribly complex to begin with, just old free-ish equipment.
I dig my flawlessly-functioning Unifi AP. AT&T finally replaced my aging 2Wire router with an Arris NVG589 trying to chase down a router reboot issue (that turned out to be the card in the DMARC.) It works, I guess. As long as I don't have to jack with it much, it's fine. I set the port-forwarding for Bittorrent, and that's about it once they figured out the actual issue.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 21:05

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

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# ? Jul 20, 2017 21:10

beep-beep car is go: Apr 11, 2005; I can just eyeball this, right?

FogHelmut posted:

Who has time for this?

poo poo, I even pay for things now because piracy is too much goddamned work.

Same. I have the second cheapest internet router from the store and all my retired work equipment is in a pile to be brought to the recycling center (minus the hard drives naturally)

# ? Jul 20, 2017 21:25

wolrah: May 8, 2006; what?

FogHelmut posted:

As an IT person, this was true when I was young, however now that I'm over 30, gently caress all of that maintenance. I have a single, good quality, bone stock router. I even quit buying AMD cpus because Intel just works.

These days I do the same with the really important stuff in my network (router, core switch, primary WiFi) but that wasn't always an option. pfSense and UniFi let me ditch OpenWRT a few years back and then I just got lucky when a customer was putting in PoE and told me to throw away the Catalyst switch. I definitely wouldn't run my network on a retired PC anymore, even just on power consumption alone.

The less important things though I'm willing to play on still because I find it fun to take on a challenge and troubleshooting usually gives me a better understanding of the technology.

I still know people who insist on running their Minecraft server on their old Prescott P4 just because it's around, and that's of course crazy.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 23:20

Bibendum: Sep 5, 2003; nunc est Bibendum

wolrah posted:

I definitely wouldn't run my network on a retired PC anymore, even just on power consumption alone.

For real, My NAS is still a cast-off i3 htpc but only because it is rock steady. I ran the numbers once and found I was spending about $30 a month to run crap I wasn't using. No household switch should require a fan.

# ? Jul 20, 2017 23:38

Bozart: Oct 28, 2006; Give me the finger.

So I was looking for a drop cloth online and apparently I'm an idiot for using it to prevent paint spills, you should use it to make weird house umbrellas and curtains:

https://www.amazon.com/Purpose-Canvas-Cotton-Drop-Cloth/dp/B00TIXP6EU

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Wow! This is a lot of canvas fabric! ...
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(blah blah use it as a tarp attached to a house)

5.0 out of 5 starsTe perfect drop cloth to use as a tablecloth
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# ? Jul 21, 2017 01:41

Slugworth: Feb 18, 2001; If two grown men can't make a pervert happy for a few minutes in order to watch a film about zombies, then maybe we should all just move to Iran!

Bozart posted:

So I was looking for a drop cloth online and apparently I'm an idiot for using it to prevent paint spills, you should use it to make weird house umbrellas and curtains:

https://www.amazon.com/Purpose-Canvas-Cotton-Drop-Cloth/dp/B00TIXP6EU

ByAngon November 15, 2015
Verified Purchase
Perfect for my patio, perfect outdoor curtains!

Wow! This is a lot of canvas fabric! ...
ByDROUSEon March 28, 2015
Verified Purchase
Wow! This is a lot of canvas fabric! I'm using them to make curtains. So I washed and dried them as suggested from a previous review. They come out a lot smaller. But still plenty of material for what I need. Now I ironed one drop cloth for 2 hours if that tells you anything! I'm going to paint them and line them. We'll see how it goes.

(blah blah use it as a tarp attached to a house)

5.0 out of 5 starsTe perfect drop cloth to use as a tablecloth
ByE. KIRKHAMon March 13, 2017
Verified Purchase
I love this drop cloth. I have purchased many drop cloths to use as outdoor tablecloths for winery events and this one is the best by far. It is medium weight (10 ounces) so not as heavy as some of the others that I've purchased. The seam runs length wise, evenly down the middle. It is stitched with a reddish brown thread which I like. It makes a nice decorative detail on the "tablecloth." The hems are likewise stitched with the same thread. This is the most stylish cloth we've found. I'm purchasing these for all of our outdoor tables.