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Proteus Jones posted:While the things you say are plausible, but Occam's Razor and being aware of general human ignorance tells me that's used as a kitchen sink. I mean, yeah, but, ... sigh you’re right.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Goddamn, this precisely reflects my home-ownership experience. This is my *life*.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Goddamn, this precisely reflects my home-ownership experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
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Dec 29, 2017 20:52
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St_Ides posted:Between the wipes and soap dispenser, I would say a recently remodeled office kitchenette. The person who originally posted the photo said these were installed in the office breakroom kitchens on every floor of the building. Also said there was a mess of water around the sinks all the time from people trying to wash dishes or their hands.
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kid sinister posted:A house made out of windshields. why would you do any of this
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Yawgmoth posted:why Maybe they hate themselves, and also anyone close enough to see that eyesore?
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Yawgmoth posted:why For m4d s1kk Pinstagram credit!!
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Yawgmoth posted:why Spite house? Maybe the local code said that additional floors on an existing structure couldn’t have opaque walls? The possibilities are endless. I kinda like it...
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Was easier than throwing away 350 extra windshields.
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kid sinister posted:A house made out of windshields. I see different types of windshields and I hope the owner is some kind of enthusiast. "This model is intended for the Canadian market - notice the heating element where the wipers would rest. Let's go to the family room next. It's arranged to show the evolution of active cruise control mounts."
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So I have been thinking about this for a while now... New homes are expensive and I am not really at the stage in my life where I want a 'house' per se. (Where to 'live' is the biggest question.) However, having a fully insulated shop/garge with an attached flat sounds very attractive. Good idea? Or bad idea?
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Senor P. posted:So I have been thinking about this for a while now... Hey, if that works for you more power. HOWEVER, if that's not going to be your forever home you need to take a hard look on how easy it will be to sell when you want to move to a new place.
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Senor P. posted:So I have been thinking about this for a while now... A garage with an attached living space? You've just described a house.
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Where are you going to find a structure like that? Or were you planning to build it yourself? In the latter case, go nuts, just try to leave your plans open to the possibility of expanding the "flat" into a full-blown house for whoever comes after you. Such arrangements are pretty common, where one or two rooms get knocked together pretty quickly and then are lived in while the rest of the structure goes together more slowly. The fact that you prioritize building a workshop over building the rest of the house would be a little unusual but hardly problematic.
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Friend of mine with a collection of project cars seriously toyed with the idea of leasing/buying a small warehouse/industrial space and building a living space (or just dropping in a prefab or an RV) inside of it. There were some logistical hurdles that had to be overcome so he gave up on it, but wouldn't be impossible, or even terribly difficult someplace with loose zoning laws.
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stealie72 posted:Friend of mine with a collection of project cars seriously toyed with the idea of leasing/buying a small warehouse/industrial space and building a living space (or just dropping in a prefab or an RV) inside of it. There were some logistical hurdles that had to be overcome so he gave up on it, but wouldn't be impossible, or even terribly difficult someplace with loose zoning laws. (Additionally he's got other utility hookups on his property for anyone else visiting with an RV or trailer.) Maybe a bit taller than the below example... https://www.steelstructuresamerica.com/Residential%20Pole%20Buildings-Steel-Buildings/Garages-Shops/56.aspx
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Sounds like a barn with a mother-in-law unit. Around here it's quite common to have a restaurant, hair salon, etc. downstairs with a separate entrance to an apartment upstairs. They're not usually available for rent, though. It's either sold or abandoned.
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Senor P. posted:So I have been thinking about this for a while now... Get a one‐bedroom house with a two‐car garage.
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It's been pretty cold so I checked some videos on sewer vent pipes freezing up. This guy is so proud of hooking up his hot water heater to the sewer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THjHdmE_3rA
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Blackbeer posted:It's been pretty cold so I checked some videos on sewer vent pipes freezing up. This guy is so proud of hooking up his hot water heater to the sewer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THjHdmE_3rA  
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So uh, why not just turn a tap on at a sink closest to the vent pipe and let it drain...
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Messadiah posted:So uh, why not just turn a tap on at a sink closest to the vent pipe and let it drain... Because then it doesn’t shoot up the pipe to roof level.
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Platystemon posted:Because then it doesn’t shoot up the pipe to roof level. Just route the exhaust to the vent pipe. Bingo bogo so simple!
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therobit posted:Just route the exhaust to the vent pipe. Bingo bogo so simple! That's what I was expecting to see.
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Blackbeer posted:It's been pretty cold so I checked some videos on sewer vent pipes freezing up. This guy is so proud of hooking up his hot water heater to the sewer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THjHdmE_3rA I'm in MN. It's -10f right now and my soil pipe breather is magically fine. I was up north last weekend and it was -35f and my folks shitter still worked fine. Not sure how he's managed so much condensation. It seems like a ladder and a whack with a stick aught to answer. Like mentioned above, 10 minutes of hot water in the closest sink to the soil pipe should clear it out. It is a clever solution though. Kudos to him. I've seen/done a lot weirder things in houses that I've lived in.
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With all those trips to the store to buy pipe fittings, he didn't once look at the bin of back flow valves on the shelf and think "hmm, I wonder what those do?"
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stealie72 posted:Friend of mine with a collection of project cars seriously toyed with the idea of leasing/buying a small warehouse/industrial space and building a living space (or just dropping in a prefab or an RV) inside of it. There were some logistical hurdles that had to be overcome so he gave up on it, but wouldn't be impossible, or even terribly difficult someplace with loose zoning laws. When I lived in the more rural parts of Minnesota, I got to know a couple of pilots who took me on a tour of the local airport. A few of the out-of-town pilots who park their planes there had full sleeping quarters stashed in corners of their hangars/storage barn areas and would stay for extended periods of time.
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Blackbeer posted:It's been pretty cold so I checked some videos on sewer vent pipes freezing up. This guy is so proud of hooking up his hot water heater to the sewer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THjHdmE_3rA This is amazing and one of the more dangerous crappy construction items to make this thread. Domestic hot bacteria right from the tap!
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I bet deep down that guy loves that he has to monitor the situation and then actively deploy his solution. Fixing it so it just doesn't freeze over wouldn't be nearly as satisfying.
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Senor P. posted:So I have been thinking about this for a while now... What you want is a Caretaker Barn. http://www.barnpros.com/barn-plans-products.aspx?itemid=1247 BarnPros has other interesting apartment designs on there as well. Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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Suspect Bucket posted:What you want is a Caretaker Barn. http://www.barnpros.com/barn-plans-products.aspx?itemid=1247 Sadly, accessory buildings are limited to twenty feet here, because I want an in-law apartment over a garage setup. With a little re-grading I think I might be able to fit a 35' deep by 45' wide (respective to the garage doors) structure. If they allowed a variance for the height to be measured by the elevation at the front of the house, I could get maybe another 4' in height.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Sadly, accessory buildings are limited to twenty feet here, because I want an in-law apartment over a garage setup. With a little re-grading I think I might be able to fit a 35' deep by 45' wide (respective to the garage doors) structure. If they allowed a variance for the height to be measured by the elevation at the front of the house, I could get maybe another 4' in height. If you're seriously interested, I know BarnPros and a lot of these other pole barn fabricators can modify their plans and customize to fit your needs. Might want to shoot them an e-mail.
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Suspect Bucket posted:If you're seriously interested, I know BarnPros and a lot of these other pole barn fabricators can modify their plans and customize to fit your needs. Might want to shoot them an e-mail. It's in the five-year plan. Like all home improvement, it can't just be "build a garage." I want water in it, so i need drainage, obviously. I could maybe just tie it in, but I might have to hook into city waste since they'd probably love to get these four houses here off of septic systems, and city would be preferable anyway. And if I hook into city waste, the front porch might gave to come off so as not to disrupt the waterproofed areas, so maybe it would be time to wrap the sunroom bit around the front as an open or enclosed porch (which would also seriously help the leaky building envelope), or at least move the deteriorating sidewalk out from the house to plan that as a future job. But then the trees have to come out ... et cetera, et cetera.
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`Nemesis posted:That doesn't look like it's placed in a kitchen to me. Looks like a sink in the bathroom of a bar or restaurant. That's definitely in an office. That bottle of blue liquid is coffee pot cleaner.
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Slanderer posted:That's definitely in an office. That bottle of blue liquid is coffee pot cleaner. Youth Decay posted:The person who originally posted the photo said these were installed in the office breakroom kitchens on every floor of the building. Also said there was a mess of water around the sinks all the time from people trying to wash dishes or their hands.
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uhhhh click for big, rest of the album https://imgur.com/a/jWsn1
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I can dig it. Not sold on the raised tadpoles (or whatever those are), but otherwise I think it looks nice.
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I can dig the effort that went into it and the precision, but all those edges are going to be permanently outlined in dust and crumbs within weeks.
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Yeah the wooden sperms just aren't doing it for me.
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