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My former owner nailed everything using what feels like a completely random nail selection - none of them matching each other is the norm. It feels like he just pulled from a giant dump bucket of nails. He hung a furring strip with the above. Every nail pull was a surprise
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Zahgaegun posted:My former owner nailed everything using what feels like a completely random nail selection - none of them matching each other is the norm. It feels like he just pulled from a giant dump bucket of nails. Sure why not? 200lb shear strength each baby! Funny though
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Zahgaegun posted:My former owner nailed everything using what feels like a completely random nail selection - none of them matching each other is the norm. It feels like he just pulled from a giant dump bucket of nails. I used to live in a place that used nail assortments like that to hang curtain rods.
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Nov 9, 2017 12:13
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Because of this thread, I get anxiety about how every little half-rear end fix I do will be judged in twenty years when someone else tears it out.
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Nov 9, 2017 12:55
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High Lord Elbow posted:Because of this thread, I get anxiety about how every little half-rear end fix I do will be judged in twenty years when someone else tears it out. Humanity won't exist in twenty years so 
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Nov 9, 2017 13:45
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High Lord Elbow posted:Because of this thread, I get anxiety about how every little half-rear end fix I do will be judged in twenty years when someone else tears it out. That's the nature of owning a home I guess. You try to do stuff right, but at some point you always have to improvise a little.
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Nov 9, 2017 14:42
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Bird in a Blender posted:That's the nature of owning a home I guess. You try to do stuff right, but at some point you always have to improvise a little. Seriously. I've been trying to undo/redo the previous owners half-assed stuff, but it's slow going to do things "right" and I certainly see the temptation of half-assing it, especially if you tell yourself "oh, I'll totally come back in a few months and do it right." Not that i"m one to talk, because I've been "half-assing" a window in the bathroom for a while now. Might have been in the "fix it" thread, but I posted that the window was terrible. The sashes are so loose in the...jamb(?) that they can just be wiggled out. Turns out, the previous owner installed what should have been a horizontal sliding window as a regular, "double hung". My solution thus far has been a bunch of caulk around gaps and a large piece of plastic sheeting over it that I replace every couple of months when it gets nasty, because I dread actually trying to replace it because the inside is all tile up to the window frame and I'm not sure how to go about doing it and not breaking tiles...I probably can't, so I'd have to find tiles that look similar because I doubt I can get exact ones. Plus, my exterior is aluminum siding, so if I don't get an exact fit, it'll look like poo poo if I have to try and "fill in" any gaps.
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Nov 9, 2017 15:25
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DrBouvenstein posted:the...jamb(?) The jambs are the side bits, from the French jambe, meaning leg. Which I guess makes the sash the dick. DrBouvenstein posted:"double hung". Exactly.
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Nov 9, 2017 15:52
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Bird in a Blender posted:I'm in the process of redoing my basement, half of it was "finished", and the other half is a utility area. I'm just working on the finished side. It was old musty carpet, with wood paneling on two sides and drywall on the other. Always fun finding the crappy construction from previous owners.
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Nov 9, 2017 16:09
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Zahgaegun posted:My former owner nailed everything using what feels like a completely random nail selection - none of them matching each other is the norm. It feels like he just pulled from a giant dump bucket of nails. I pulled the workbench apart that came with my house. It had various combinations of nails, screws, and bolts (some with square nuts!) holding it together. The entire thing was made of scrap wood, some of the pieces seemed to have been thoroughly soaked in pesticides. Some of the light fixtures were connected to the box with drywall screws. I'm assuming this was two or more owners ago. The most recent one wasn't that handy, and neither owned a measuring tape or a level. Every bathroom towel rack and toilet paper holder was eyeballed and hung on a severe angle. Yawgmoth posted:
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Yawgmoth posted:[*]The door to the basement had multiple locks on it, including a chain lock. The realtor was very insistent: Don't go in the basement. Ever. Would not explain why and immediately changed the subject. Now I need to know what was in there
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couldcareless posted:Now I need to know what was in there 
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This really is the wrong thread for this reddit find. I had to take a moment to compose myself when I got to the mechanicals.
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Nov 9, 2017 17:30
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glynnenstein posted:This really is the wrong thread for this reddit find. I skimmed your post and clicked that link expecting some kind of DIY fiasco. Kept scrolling, waiting for the shitshow to begin. I don't care for the style but I want that guy to build my house.
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Nov 9, 2017 17:43
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No kidding. The aesthetic just is what it is, that's just cosmetic and that can be whatever a person wants. The build itself and the specs are top notch though. Living the dream.
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Nov 9, 2017 17:45
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Style aside, that's what my renovation would've been if I had 50% more money and somewhere else to live for an extra year. You can definitely see the effect of him having been through two renovations first.
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Bad Munki posted:The build itself and the specs are top notch though Yeah until russian hackers turn his lightbulbs into a botnet
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Proteus Jones posted:Is it, though? Aren't they the ones that said that product should never have been used with that building? Also, wasn't it a building supplier that sold them and not the factory itself? gently caress, you're right.
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Nov 9, 2017 18:13
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glynnenstein posted:This really is the wrong thread for this reddit find. It's very cool, but does he ever explain why he doesn't have a range hood or bathroom venting? Is it just to lessen "piercing the envelope?"
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10 Beers posted:It's very cool, but does he ever explain why he doesn't have a range hood or bathroom venting? Is it just to lessen "piercing the envelope?" That's the only reason that I saw him state. He mentions being an Oilers fan so if he's up in Alberta it might be a special-ish case compared to what I'm used to.
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Tunicate posted:Yeah until russian hackers turn his lightbulbs into a botnet DMX is a fairly lame standard (they're all lame, DALI is the least lame) and the Lutron kit doesn't do a vast amount of internet-y stuff either, but hopefully he's smart enough to put in a firewall. But no botnets in that kit.
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Yawgmoth posted:Weird crawl spaces reminds me of a house I was looking at renting with a couple friends that was basically Groverhaus v0.8b and/or the site of a real-life horror movie plot. Some highlights of that lovely home include: That isn't groverhaus so much as murderhaus. That basement was also filled with bug and human corpses. Can you post a link to zillow/redfin?
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H110Hawk posted:That isn't groverhaus so much as murderhaus. That basement was also filled with bug and human corpses.
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glynnenstein posted:This really is the wrong thread for this reddit find. That might be the most grimly antiseptic interior design I've ever seen.
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Yawgmoth posted:This was back around 2008 or so; I doubt it's even still standing. Even without all the murderhaus fun the place looked like it was one bad summer/winter storm from being condemned. Which neighborhood? I lived in a house in Marcy Holmes that had a big gently caress off lock on the basement entrance, which was exterior. None of the other features match, but that house was the result of trusting someone else to look at a place for me.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:That might be the most grimly antiseptic interior design I've ever seen. I like it, but I've been told I have utilitarian taste (I think that was an insult). One person said my rooms had been designed by an Ascetic Monk. I just really like minimalism and sparse decor.
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crazypeltast52 posted:Which neighborhood? I lived in a house in Marcy Holmes that had a big gently caress off lock on the basement entrance, which was exterior.
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The house we bought earlier this year has one of those chain locks on the outside of the basement door too.
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10 Beers posted:It's very cool, but does he ever explain why he doesn't have a range hood or bathroom venting? Is it just to lessen "piercing the envelope?" I think this is why maybe? rough-ins are well under way electrically, I also decided to install my own ventilation lines. Zhender has a neat system called the combo-tube which is a distributed network of 3" corrugated plastic pipes, essentially each room gets two 3" lines to supply fresh air into them and each bathroom gets two pipes to exhaust air from the space. with this, I do not need washroom exhaust nor do I need kitchen exhaust, as long as I utilize an induction stove. So with full house HRV you can eliminate individual exhaust fans that each exhaust warm air outside (or in the summer chilled air) and also allows you to eliminate the kitchen exhaust fan, which in many cases can be one of the largest sources of wasted exhausted energy. edit: What's up with the probably multi million dollar house and cheap rear end folding chairs at the dining room table lol mattfl fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Nov 9, 2017 |
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I assume the induction stove thing is meant to contrast with a gas stove, which creates exhaust fumes? But you'd still have grease and (potentially) smoke that would need to get ventilated away.
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Lol, yeah, kitchen exhaust hoods are for a lit more than just blasting air out. You kinda need them for getting rid of smoke and grease and everything else that happens in a kitchen. The place I'm renting now doesn't have kitchen or bathroom exhaust fans and desperately long for them.
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I like the design ad how well built the house is but I hate his decorating. I especially hate the living room tv framed shelf build in. I'd certainly be happy with him renovating my house, though
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Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!! Content: please tell me that’s somewhere that ices over because it has to be.
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LOL that's awesome!
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glynnenstein posted:This really is the wrong thread for this reddit find. I've got something wrong with it--the roof. Yes, the manufacturer says you can use those shingles down to 2:12, but the manufacturer also says they warranty the shingles to last for as long as you own the house, and we know that's bullshit. It'll be fine when it's new, and I have to concede that at R-80 (holy poo poo) he is unlikely to have a lot of ice dam issues on it, but it just saws across every instinct I have. Also, it looks like they installed it when it was really cold. You can do that, but asphalt shingles like that are relying on an adhesive to stick the bottom of the tab down to the course of shingles below. That adhesive generally relies on being sun-warmed to actually stick. Installing them that cold, you're either using a lot of labor to stick the tabs down by hand, or just waiting for summer for the roof to actually stick itself together. I've seen that go wrong, and doing that on such a low-slope roof feels extra risky. Also also, OSB just flies the gently caress apart if you do have a leak and it gets wet, and the way he's got that thing insulated, not realizing he even has a leak is a very real possibility (seen that too--customer says they have a little wet spot on their ceiling, turns out he's had a pinhole leak slowly soaking the plywood for the last three winters, everything is awful and then he claims we're trying to scam him). Those also look like pretty base-level shingles--they don't match the finish quality of the rest of the house, to me. Furthermore, what is this torchdown poo poo in 2017? The way he's spending on everything else in that house, and with the way it's designed aesthetically, I'd suggest standing-seam metal on it. But the roof is so often the first thing to go when people need to trim the budget somewhere. EDIT: Oh, right. And inward-sloping roofs are always stupid. You're pointing the water at your interior walls and making it so that when your flashing does eventually fail, it has a hose pointed at it. He at least has decent crickets built in there. I've seen houses that somehow got built with a roof slope just dead loving ending into a wall, with predictable results. Jordanis fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Nov 10, 2017 |
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McMansion Hell has made me unable to see multiple, multiple rooflines like that without shuddering.
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Apart from the roof I think it's great, though I still can't get over the mental hurdle of wiring your house through and through with something that's going to go obsolete and need replacing. I guess I'm not a smart-house fan.
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This looks exactly like a ramp/stairwell to a house in a tiny town in Alaska I spent summers in as a kid. I assume the ramp isn't as steep as it looks, but not that far off. We used to race big wheels/wagons/anything on wheels down one similar.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Apart from the roof I think it's great, though I still can't get over the mental hurdle of wiring your house through and through with something that's going to go obsolete and need replacing. I guess I'm not a smart-house fan. I've just read through it, what were you referring to? If you mean the lighting then he's done what I was planning to do; have all the controllers and drivers in a central location and just run low voltage power to the lights, so if the "smart" bits need replacing they're done centrally. If you mean the cat6 networking, then yeah eventually, but what else are you going to do? Our predecessors ran coax for TV for the same reason.
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