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Probably code bullshit on a remodel. The goon who was building a house has a similar rail on his stairs because code calls for a certain height from the step and on stairs with a landing that turns a corner it makes for lovely angles. Edit : Found it. 
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Crappy Construction Tales: Just some good ol'-fashioned whole-assing.
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Aug 15, 2017 02:55
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This is more crappy gardening than construction but whatever. Infront of my house is this big fucker (that piece of timber leaning on it is 2.4metre/8feet): A few months ago I woke up one day to the sound of my water meter ticking (you can faintly hear it at front of house through plumbing when something is using a decent amount of water), no-one else was up and I didn't find problems when checking the usual culprits (washing machine, garden hose, etc), but when I went to check meter (for first time in quite a while) this is what greeted me:  No it hadn't been raining, that's my water seeping up from the mains pipe, and see that shiny grey square? That's the readout cover for the meter. I should note that I'd already done some work in this pic - initially the meter was totally buried in roots and I couldn't even find the tap to turn off water (you can just make it out on left side of meter). I have no idea how they had been checking my water usage (according to my bills they'd been doing so). Who the gently caress decided putting a palm tree next to the water meter was a good idea? If you've never dealt with palm tree roots before, look again at that picture above - it's by far more roots than dirt rendering the spade in the pic useless. I didn't want to go swinging a pickaxe around when looking for my mains pipe so I mostly used the claw on my hammer to rip the roots out until I hit some clay, which was a blessing because the roots don't grow in it (and it was mostly what was between me and the leak). Still, it took hours of using hammer, chisel, hammer and chisel and a small garden shovel to get to this point:  The leak was from a pin-hole sized hole caused by pipe getting bent enough to form a ridge, I temporarily stopped the leak with a hose-clamp and a piece of fuel-line hose:  That temporary fix actually ended up holding back the water for months - I was trying to get a plumber mate of mine to help me out with it but he kept having jobs come up on days we planned to do it and eventually it kinda got forgotten (we've been renovating and had a lot on). A few days ago a second leak formed from a second bend (the bends were in a zigzag pattern so I guess pipe was getting compressed) the new leak was further down but fortunately still above where I'd dug to. I didn't feel like waiting anymore (or actually paying normal prices for a plumber) so I fixed it myself with pex and pushfit:  The second valve was added so I can actually shut my water off 100% because the ones fitted to the meter never can (I twisted the handle off trying which is why I've got a nut on there for a handle). I also rotated the meter so I've got more clearance now, but I still think I'll have to do something about palm tree because it's way too big (unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to do it the way that removes the bulb, where you cut it down to a 1-2 meter stump and pull it over, because doing that will probably rip out meter and some of the cities plumbing with it). Fuzz1111 fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Aug 15, 2017 |
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Aug 15, 2017 07:49
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Sandtrout Catsuit posted:It's fine. They're going to flip the house. 
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Aug 15, 2017 08:16
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there should be a monthly "what can i convince flippers to buy" thread
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Aug 15, 2017 10:30
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Standard hotel in LA 
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Aug 16, 2017 22:49
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I guess glass is moisture proof and it is obvious if it is clean or not, which is good. Plus glass is thinner than a normal wall, so you gain a tiny bit of square footage.
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Aug 16, 2017 22:57
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that's definitely a standard porn hotel room. Clear glass shower wall for loving, bed right near by.
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Aug 16, 2017 23:55
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SoundMonkey posted:there should be a monthly "what can i convince flippers to buy" thread I think you missed the joke there
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Aug 17, 2017 00:29
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Might have been posted earlier but holy poo poo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O_zExKxmM0
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Aug 17, 2017 14:30
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MrOnBicycle posted:Might have been posted earlier but holy poo poo... $2.4m for a house with enough road noise that it may as well be sitting at a major airport. 
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Aug 17, 2017 15:01
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MrYenko posted:$2.4m for a house with enough road noise that it may as well be sitting at a major airport. The inside also makes me want to kill myself.
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Aug 17, 2017 15:06
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Jesus, that's an amazing lack of attention to detail for $250K, much less $2.4 million. Hopefully I can find a good home inspector when I get around to buying again, especially since I will likely end up with an older home again.
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Aug 17, 2017 15:19
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MrOnBicycle posted:Might have been posted earlier but holy poo poo... I like the basement fire death traps.
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Aug 17, 2017 17:39
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MrYenko posted:$2.4m for a house with enough road noise that it may as well be sitting at a major airport. If that's Richmond, there's a good chance they're directly under the airport landing path. It's been a while, so I'm going link our home inspector again. He made our realtor cry and almost scared my wife into backing out of the deal, which was exactly what I wanted - no bullshit, this is what's wrong with the house. We still bought but I received a 30 page document with all the deficiencies listed for me to work through and fix. http://tedgilmour.ca/ Check out his sample report, it's amazing and similar to what we received (note: this is not our house).
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Aug 17, 2017 18:12
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Dillbag posted:If that's Richmond, there's a good chance they're directly under the airport landing path. Yeah, your previous post on this guy is what's driving me. I want him, but in TX.
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Aug 17, 2017 19:02
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Dillbag posted:Check out his sample report, it's amazing and similar to what we received (note: this is not our house). That's a proper report. What I got when I bought my house was the same thing everyone gets, a 7 page shrug with hints of damp around the chimneys.
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Aug 17, 2017 19:16
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Darchangel posted:Yeah, your previous post on this guy is what's driving me. I want him, but in TX. Same, but western NY
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Aug 17, 2017 22:16
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The problem with him being in Vancouver is that the property market is so hosed up right now the only people who are winning the bidding wars are the ones who will sign the offer sheets with "no subjects", meaning no inspection. Thank christ we got into the market in 2010. It was hosed up then, but not at this level. We looked at a multi-level ground floor apartment in a 4-unit building and we walked away when I turned off the lights in the walk-in closet because you could see the outside light coming in from a giant crack in the corner of the wall. Today, that apartment is probably going for close to a million dollars.
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Aug 17, 2017 22:45
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Holy poo poo, that is a guy who is good at what he loves doing and gets well paid to do it. 
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Aug 17, 2017 22:52
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MrOnBicycle posted:Might have been posted earlier but holy poo poo... Is the entire front of that house plastic? It looks terrible.
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Aug 18, 2017 01:55
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Darchangel posted:Jesus, that's an amazing lack of attention to detail for $250K, much less $2.4 million. The actual people building the house are getting the same $X/hr without regard to how expensive the land underneath may be. 2x4s are still the same price etc. Now the project manager/GC should be caring more since they are likely getting paid more but...lol
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Aug 18, 2017 02:20
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When you can't afford kitchen cabinet doors  And yes those weird water trough light fixtures are in the rest of the house too  hideous gray linoleum throughout  what even is this thing  Bonus bathroom of sadness  and guest bedroom of sadness  I feel like $95k is asking too much tbh
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Aug 18, 2017 02:40
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Youth Decay posted:what even is this thing I guessed this would be in Houston, but Louisiana is close enough
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Aug 18, 2017 03:05
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FCKGW posted:I think you missed the joke there wow yeah i sure did, actually. what can i say it's been a bad week.
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Aug 18, 2017 04:27
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SoundMonkey posted:wow yeah i sure did, actually. what can i say it's been a bad week. S'okay. Nobody expects mods to get jokes.
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Aug 18, 2017 04:36
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Facebook Aunt posted:S'okay. Nobody expects mods to get jokes. 
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Aug 18, 2017 04:45
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Youth Decay posted:When you can't afford kitchen cabinet doors I dunno, maybe my lower-middle-class semi-rural upbringing is coming through here but none of this seems THAT bad to me? Like, yeah it's run down and cheap and weird, and the weird bucket lights seem like an affectation, but it's not the worst thing in the world.
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Aug 18, 2017 05:07
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hailthefish posted:I dunno, maybe my lower-middle-class semi-rural upbringing is coming through here but none of this seems THAT bad to me? Like, yeah it's run down and cheap and weird, and the weird bucket lights seem like an affectation, but it's not the worst thing in the world. What caught my attention is that I've never seen a non-fixer upper house for sale that had cloth instead of cabinet doors. Like, if they're actually trying to sell the place it seems like the first thing they'd do. And with the bathroom it just looks like they took a clawfoot tub and put plywood around it
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Aug 18, 2017 05:27
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Youth Decay posted:What caught my attention is that I've never seen a non-fixer upper house for sale that had cloth instead of cabinet doors. It's a style. It's a bad style but it's still a style. I haven't seen it since the eighties and even then only in cottages.
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Aug 18, 2017 06:39
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That's ～country style～ ... but the bath has no showerhead or curtain 
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Aug 18, 2017 07:22
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Did anyone else notice the tin roof in the kitchen?
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Aug 18, 2017 10:22
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the corners on those tile stairs from the tub, that you're presumably going to be walking down with wet feet at some point, just scream "aim skull here for life insurance."
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Aug 18, 2017 10:44
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Youth Decay posted:When you can't afford kitchen cabinet doors It might be because I'm from Louisiana, but I don't hate it. If I didn't mind the country and my wife wouldn't immediately balk at it, and we were making a fraction of what we do, I'd put that on my list to check out with the realtor.
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Aug 18, 2017 13:50
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imagine this during a heavy rainstorm WHAT? I SAID IMAGINE THIS DURING A HEAVY RAINSTORM
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Aug 18, 2017 14:45
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Polio Vax Scene posted:imagine this during a heavy rainstorm The weirdest things about those corrugated ceilings is that they aren't actually the roof, they appear to be false ceilings put onto the first floor. Which I mean I guess is better than actually having corrugated steel roofing with nothing underneath, but a strange way to go.
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Aug 18, 2017 14:51
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"I want my house to look like the hipster coffee shop downtown but we have to use my Grandma's old furniture." - The person that owns this house
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Ashcans posted:The weirdest things about those corrugated ceilings is that they aren't actually the roof, they appear to be false ceilings put onto the first floor. Which I mean I guess is better than actually having corrugated steel roofing with nothing underneath, but a strange way to go. Yeah, a friend of mine put one into his basement as a ceiling treatment basically. Kinda fit into the rest of the basement style, but not a design decision I would've made.
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Youth Decay posted:When you can't afford kitchen cabinet doors God drat. That interior makes me depressed. That *linoleum* makes me depressed. Probably form negative associations with schools and institutions/government offices. It seems like that linoleum is always in places you don't want to go. I hate the corrugated ceiling, too, but at least that's different.
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An acre of land for $95k idgaf what the house looks like, goddamn
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