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One of my life goals is to be able to drown while standing up in the shower from the shear volume of water assaulting me from every angle. So, what they have there sounds like a start.
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Bad Munki posted:One of my life goals is to be able to drown while standing up in the shower from the shear volume of water assaulting me from every angle. So, what they have there sounds like a start. Death to flow restrictors.
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Oct 10, 2017 03:34
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Yawgmoth posted:Actually, it looks like it's post-stressed. I see you.
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Oct 10, 2017 06:45
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Tunicate posted:Crosspost from the comic strip megathread I do some engineering and had a client ring up today and whine about the fact I put piles under his 300m2 monstrosity due to it being on slightly dodgy ground and 'The existing house has been there for 50 years and hasn't settled!' gently caress off.
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Oct 10, 2017 08:00
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Who would be mad at that? Is he trying to go as cheap as possible?
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Oct 10, 2017 11:23
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Owner doesn't want to spend more money and/or builder is doing a fixed price job for the owner and doesn't want to spend more money.
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Oct 10, 2017 11:35
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Yawgmoth posted:Actually, it looks like it's post-stressed.  ), so thank you for explaining the image with a terrible joke.
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Oct 10, 2017 12:00
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Jaded Burnout posted:Owner doesn't want to spend more money and/or builder is doing a fixed price job for the owner and doesn't want to spend more money. The builder told him it was over engineered so that may well be it.
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Oct 10, 2017 12:41
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As far as I'm concerned, a little over-engineered is probably engineered just enough and should be over-engineered slightly more.
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Oct 10, 2017 13:07
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Robo Captain posted:The builder told him it was over engineered so that may well be it. Could also be professional pride on the builder's part. I've stood in the middle of some simultaneously interesting and tedious bouts between the builder, building control officer, and structural engineer where they're all waving their dicks around about who's stepping on each other's balls.
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Oct 10, 2017 13:31
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tetrapyloctomy posted:As far as I'm concerned, a little over-engineered is probably engineered just enough and should be over-engineered slightly more. Nothing wrong with building to the lifetime of your materials. At least around here, chances are your house will still be standing in fifty or a hundred years, so build it like you're going to need it that long.
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Oct 10, 2017 14:22
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Bad Munki posted:One of my life goals is to be able to drown while standing up in the shower from the shear volume of water assaulting me from every angle. So, what they have there sounds like a start. We have just what you need. 
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Oct 10, 2017 14:51
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Great, I'll take six.
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Oct 10, 2017 15:29
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Chunderbucket posted:Twenty-foot ceilings. In a bathroom. When I fart, I want to hear the echo, god drat it! PainterofCrap posted:We have just what you need. Speakman is still around making shower heads. They probably still make that same model too.
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Oct 12, 2017 01:07
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kid sinister posted:When I fart, I want to hear the echo, god drat it!
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Oct 12, 2017 04:40
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Not sure how I feel about this. 
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Oct 12, 2017 05:11
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I'd say the biggest crime there is the half-round trim.
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Oct 12, 2017 05:14
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they already cut out the half circle for the towel rail, might as well put the trim in
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Oct 12, 2017 05:23
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Looks like there's no need for the door to swing into the shower. I think it would be more clever to end the trim an inch from the edge and let it double as a door stop.
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Oct 12, 2017 05:49
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The Twinkie Czar posted:Looks like there's no need for the door to swing into the shower. I think it would be more clever to end the trim an inch from the edge and let it double as a door stop. But then it would smack the towel rack.
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Oct 12, 2017 05:49
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Who ever laid the tile mosaic sure did a good job.... for their first time. e: and I wonder how many doors they shattered before getting the cut done...
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Oct 12, 2017 06:02
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Bad Munki posted:Not sure how I feel about this. https://i.imgur.com/nkJwC1T.gifv
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Oct 12, 2017 09:19
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Maybe while they're getting rid of the half-round trim and replacing the tile mosaic they can add somewhere to keep the shampoo off the floor.
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Oct 12, 2017 09:31
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Picturing a little shelf where the trim used to be and a corresponding cutout in the door complete with the outline of the shampoo bottle.
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Oct 12, 2017 12:35
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That trim looks nice, but it will collect so much grime and dirt.
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Oct 12, 2017 13:35
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Yea, if there's one thing I've learned is try to get for larger and smooth tile for your shower. Trying to clean that poo poo sucks rear end.
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Oct 12, 2017 13:37
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GotLag posted:What you should feel is bad, for not linking the gifv version: Ehh, I was phone posting and couldn't get it to embed otherwise. v  v
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Bad Munki posted:Ehh, I was phone posting and couldn't get it to embed otherwise. v In preview gifv never looks like it embeds. The preview lies. When you hit post it will be embedded. The something awful forums: a crappy construction tale.
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Oct 12, 2017 20:22
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Isn't that going to stop me from putting my big oversized fluffy towels on the towel rack?
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Oct 13, 2017 00:55
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blugu64 posted:Isn't that going to stop me from putting my big oversized fluffy towels on the towel rack? The oversized fluffy towels are for guests dear, you know that. And you need to have friends in the first place to have guests.
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Bubblyblubber posted:The oversized fluffy towels are for guests dear, you know that. We didn't want to tell you, but we just didn't want you to come over, sorry
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Remember my terrible asphalt job from a few pages back? They came back and "fixed" some bad patches yesterday as well as the fence they broke. They couldn't find the right style blocks for the 2 glass block windows they broke and used the wrong size pickets. I naively paid them after getting them to knock off $200 for the window they couldn't fix. Today I was cleaning the gravel out of the cut they made along my yard so I could put in topsoil and grass seed later, when I discovered that I could pry up this asphalt up with my bare hands. On a day when it wasn't even 80 degrees. Oh, and there's no gravel underneath. I also discovered why I didn't like realtor/flipper that bought the place next door, the one who hired these yahoos that did our shared driveway. I couldn't put my finger on it then, but this guy gave me the creeps. He's a former chiropractor.
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kid sinister posted:I naively paid them after getting them to knock off $200... Ahahahahahahah you what?!?!?
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High Lord Elbow posted:Ahahahahahahah you what?!?!? They did my half of the driveway for $2000. They couldn't fix 2 blocks of my glass block basement windows, so I got them to deduct $200. Then I noticed how lovely a job they did for the asphalt and stopped payment of the remaining $1800.
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Oct 14, 2017 01:06
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It's ok dude, gypsies have been bilking people out of reasonable driveways for literally years at this point. Like, you should have known better and all, but at least you're in good company
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Stalizard posted:It's ok dude, gypsies have been bilking people out of reasonable driveways for literally years at this point. Like, you should have known better and all, but at least you're in good company Yo unless there's an in-joke here I'm missing this is extremely racist.
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Chard posted:Yo unless there's an in-joke here I'm missing this is extremely racist. The in-joke is that most Americans don't realize "gypsy" is a slur.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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A few years back there was a lot of concern about devious criminal Irishmen who went round neighbourhoods here and conned home-owners out of money for supposed renovations. Haven't heard about it in a few years though.
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Jerry Cotton posted:A few years back there was a lot of concern about devious criminal Irishmen who went round neighbourhoods here and conned home-owners out of money for supposed renovations. Haven't heard about it in a few years though. I'm not racist but I don't think you should hire this man: 
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