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kid sinister posted:Somebody needs to make a reclining toilet already. I think i saw that episode of Home Improvement.
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kid sinister posted:Somebody needs to make a reclining toilet already. with leather padding, raised handlebars, kickstand, and noise-amplifying muffler.
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Pictured: Stage 4 house cancer     No seriously what the hell is that stuff and why the gently caress would someone do that to their house?
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Youth Decay posted:Pictured: Stage 4 house cancer
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Aug 11, 2017 02:21
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Youth Decay posted:Pictured: Stage 4 house cancer This sink looks a little too big for this countertop as well  edit: who has a floor lamp in front of their oven?
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Aug 11, 2017 02:24
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The Frozen fandom is getting out of control.
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I really like the toaster oven, on top of the oven.
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Youth Decay posted:Pictured: Stage 4 house cancer 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 642 square feet. Is it just me, or is that tiny as hell?
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FCKGW posted:This sink looks a little too big for this countertop as well does that cabinet have vitiligo or did they just run out of stain
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I'm guessing the oven hasn't worked in a long time.
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Aug 11, 2017 03:07
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Ignoranus posted:2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 642 square feet. Is it just me, or is that tiny as hell? 2 bedrooms one bathroom. Pretty normal size for a 2BR 1920s bungalow though many of the tiny ones like these have been added to over the years. In the photos on Zillow you can see how small the rooms are (one bedroom is the blue room and the other one is the black room). Another view of the first bedroom:  Edit: For a less tumor-ridden example, see the cheapest SFH in Seattle Youth Decay fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Aug 11, 2017 03:13
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Jerry Cotton posted:Again: curtains, together with double glazing and (for old windows that don't have seals) window paper or tape* for Winter. Or heck it's 2017 why not do triple glazing. My mother's old place was built sometime in the 1800s and it had double windows (I guess the additional pane is called a storm window in English?). Craftsman style was really popular in pasadena (as well as central ca) where it gets hot. These houses were built before ac and double pane windows.
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Youth Decay posted:Pictured: Stage 4 house cancer That is like Dr. Necessiter's apartment in The Man With Two Brains.
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Youth Decay posted:Edit: For a less tumor-ridden example, see the cheapest SFH in Seattle
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The "Port Package" refers to Port of Seattle-financed windows and doors to compensate for being in the Seatac flight path. It's also technically not in Seattle.
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Aug 11, 2017 05:13
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peanut posted:At what point do huge windows stop being a greenhouse and just let in cold air? Is there something about the contents of a greenhouse (dirt & plants) that make it warmer than a lawyer foyer? Huge windows are way worse at insulating than a wall, it's just that the plants need sunlight, so a greenhouse is a compromise.
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Youth Decay posted:No seriously what the hell is that stuff and why the gently caress would someone do that to their house? Someone saw the alien hive scene from Aliens and thought it looked really homey, and just really wanted that same sense of organic growth on industrial areas at home.
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endlessmonotony posted:Huge windows are way worse at insulating than a wall, it's just that the plants need sunlight, so a greenhouse is a compromise. Well, yes and no. The point of a greenhouse is to trap the sunlight during the day and a little bit into the night, and avoid frost. It also protects against wind. See also CO2 as a "greenhouse gas" because it traps more of the sun's heat in the atmosphere. If you stored the plants in a normal room with walls you'd miss out on the whole point which is free heat from the sun, as well as the UV light they'd get anyway from being outside. To clarify a little further, the heat from the sun is radiation, it's infrared light, so it passes through glass fairly easily. Once it hits the stuff inside the greenhouse (including the ground) it's absorbed and those things then heat the air nearby. This is totally normal and combined with moisture outside in volume is how you get clouds. In the greenhouse that warm air a) can't get blown away by the wind and b) can't convect away because of the roof, so it stays much warmer than it would in your normal climate allowing you to either grow things longer throughout the year or grow more tropical stuff midsummer. You will eventually lose the heat to convection-conduction through the glass and some radiation from the plants and soil, but without the glass it would've been gone hours ago so it's always a net positive. peanut posted:At what point do huge windows stop being a greenhouse and just let in cold air? Is there something about the contents of a greenhouse (dirt & plants) that make it warmer than a lawyer foyer? So they never "let in cold air" if they're closed and fitted properly, but they do let out some re-radiated heat and when the warm air touches them if it's cold outside they'll conduct that heat to the air outside making it colder inside. So if you're in a cold climate and you're trying to heat the room at night, that heat is going to pass through the glass more easily than a wall as endlessmonotony says. You open the curtains during the day to let the sun radiation in and close them at night to stop the air touching the glass. Floor to ceiling curtains work better because there'll always be some air touching the glass, getting cold and starting to sink down to the ground. The curtains form a bubble at ground level stopping that air from drifting into the rest of the room and being replaced by warmer air at the top. Jaded Burnout fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Thank you for a clear and thorough explanation. So, that glass garage door should be fine during the day but cold af at night (and completely visible to the whole street)? All I know is we went strawberry picking on an icy winter morning and the vents of the greenhouse were iced shut and it was hot enough to wear a t-shirt inside there.
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peanut posted:So, that glass garage door should be fine during the day but cold af at night (and completely visible to the whole street)? Depends on the climate. Heat transfer through glass is like any other diffusion over a semi-permeable membrane; it's dependant on the concentrations on both sides. If it's very warm inside and very cold outside then more warmth will move out than in and it'll get colder inside. If they're both about the same they'll stay about the same. If you're in Nevada and it's a billion degrees outside then that heat will creep in through the glass the same way it creeps out in England. The trick is that there's two heat transfer mechanisms at play which interact differently with glass. The re-radiated heat from the carpet or sofa or whatever is negligible, so the heat leaving that room when the door is closed it only through convection-conduction-convection through the glass, which is a slow process slowed even more by any insulation in the glass. The heat coming in, however, is both conducting through the glass (depending on air temp outside) AND radiated in by the gallons of infrared being emitted by a giant ball of flame in space. Since infrared light isn't stopped much at all by glass the heat is coming in much faster than it's going out. So on a sunny day that room will be horrendously hot even if it's cold outside, and in a cold night there'll be nearly no heat coming in and a little more going out as the air outside cools, so it gets real cold inside, the same as when you leave a car in the sun vs try to sleep in one overnight. peanut posted:All I know is we went strawberry picking on an icy winter morning and the vents of the greenhouse were iced shut and it was hot enough to wear a t-shirt inside there. Only the air touching the glass will conduct heat to the outside (and then sink to the ground pulling in warmer air in its place, aka convection) so the air floating up from the ground will be hot as hell until its mixed with air touching the glass. It also helps that earth is dark and so will absorb more of the heat from the sun rather than reflecting it. Jaded Burnout fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Jaded Burnout posted:Depends on the climate. Heat transfer through glass is like any other diffusion over a semi-permeable membrane; it's dependant on the concentrations on both sides. If it's very warm inside and very cold outside then more warmth will move out than in and it'll get colder inside. If they're both about the same they'll stay about the same. If you're in Nevada and it's a billion degrees outside then that heat will creep in through the glass the same way it creeps out in England. I think there is some kind of robotically controlled blinds product that will lower the blinds in the day when the outside temp is above the thermostat temp, and raise them when the outside temp is lower than the thermostat temp (and do the opposite at night) but I can't seem to find it. Basically the same idea as a greenhouse but in your actual house.
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"Fortunately" I'm in a climate where heat isn't a problem often enough to put infrastructure in for it, so we just get thick curtains for warmth on non-summer nights and bake like a dog on concrete for 2 weeks a year.
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*looking at frozen wonderland house* That's the worst toilet paper roll holder I've ever seen. Why are there two toilet roll holders in the same room? Why does that bookshelf have windows? I don't even care about the dumb ice aesthetics. It's the logistical questions that bother me.
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Aug 11, 2017 14:20
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The Bloop posted:*looking at frozen wonderland house* One roll looks like paper towels.
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Youth Decay posted:Pictured: Stage 4 house cancer I want a house that is built to look like gollum's cave complete with basement grotto
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I'm thinking that House Cancer house must have been at one point grotto themed. With painted and airbrushed fake "rocks" where it's now painted white and grey. Someone really wanted to live in a magic mushroom cave.
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Suspect Bucket posted:I'm thinking that House Cancer house must have been at one point grotto themed. With painted and airbrushed fake "rocks" where it's now painted white and grey. Someone really wanted to live in a magic mushroom cave. Nah it's icicles and poo poo. look at the broken ice mirror. They have a wampa fetish
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The Bloop posted:Nah it's icicles and poo poo. look at the broken ice mirror. They have a wampa fetish I think they should just Let It Go.
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The Bloop posted:*looking at frozen wonderland house* I am thinking the one on the right is a paper tower dispenser.
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I'm too drunk to actually look at the pictures but are the book shelves with "windows" just book cases?
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TheDon01 posted:I think i saw that episode of Home Improvement. You did. The La-Z-Bowl. It's plush while you flush! Or that "batin'" chair from Idiocracy. 
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Aug 11, 2017 21:17
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The_end posted:One roll looks like paper towels. Samizdata posted:I am thinking the one on the right is a paper tower dispenser. I think you are both right. It didn't even occur to me to have that in a bathroom and I chalked up the size to perspective. I must therefore amend my statement to say that that is by far the ugliest paper towel roll holder I have ever seen. edit for semi-relevant humor 
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Is that some sort of pastry?
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Bozart posted:I think there is some kind of robotically controlled blinds product that will lower the blinds in the day when the outside temp is above the thermostat temp, and raise them when the outside temp is lower than the thermostat temp (and do the opposite at night) but I can't seem to find it. Basically the same idea as a greenhouse but in your actual house. This has probably been more commercialized by now but North House was an interesting prototype of this technology on a whole house scale: http://rvtr.com/projects/project-a/
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Jaded Burnout posted:infrared light, so it passes through glass fairly easily it actually really does not. older cameras that used infrared autofocus couldn't reliably focus through a window. also i use a window at work to trick-shot the projector remote off of because there's no actual line of sight
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Glass is actually IR opaque. However, visible light will still get through, and heat the objects inside.
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Fun fact: glass is also largely UV-opaque, so you shouldn't sunburn if there's glass in the way!
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I'll find a way to get sunburned! You can't stop me!
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Glass is actually IR opaque. However, visible light will still get through, and heat the objects inside. which is why greenhouses work at all, infrared can't get back out through the glass either
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