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I don’t understand why but this guy keeps popping into random threads and trolling very poorly, I recommend we let that go. Well apparently I’ve started a new page so I hope that helps!
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crazypeltast52 posted:Wayzata, so not a small house either I assume? Small house & mostly just the garage.. I'm not really sure what that Stormdrain guy is going on about. Yeah it was a small house for a real estate agent who operates his own business out of a very tiny office in downtown Edina, I think. I don't know if you're familiar with the area but yeah I have his business card & all that. Anyways, if you do it long enough as a painter you will have tons of stories about various locales & different neighborhoods around the Twin Cities. It is kind of fun just because of that but the pay isn't that great really. Definitely the lack of knowledge about the future and the unsteady hours cause a lot of stress. Not fun. A3th3r fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jan 27, 2018 |
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I know the boom and bust of construction well. There are a few MNGoons in this thread that might be interested in more stories about everyone’s favorite suburbs (to hate) and the kinds of crappy construction they include.
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peanut posted:Good morning I assume this was built on the fly as the fluid was coming out of each tube.
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Zil posted:I assume this was built on the fly as the fluid was coming out of each tube. Earlier: 
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peanut posted:Hope u have a great day That... that works!
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While working on a construction job a few years ago in south Minneapolis we heard gunshots. I guess I'd have to say that was the scariest job to work on. Painting a house in the hood is worth it in terms of the money you make only if the project is done in less than a week. Typically there are maybe two or three guys on the crew for that kind of house & probably no more than that. Oh yeah, also a trailer was stolen but the police were able to track it down eventually. Now that I think about it, that was a pretty crappy project. Thank goodness I was a college student at the time so I just returned to school in the fall!
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Just spent the day ripping out large portions of my basement bathroom because I noticed a little moisture behind the wallpaper near where the shower pan and enclosure come together on the wall. That turned into a full day of realizing that whoever put it in had no clue about how water and moisture work. No vapor barriers anywhere, drywall in contact with the floor, drywall instead of cement board or even green board behind the (apparently rather leaky seamed) stick up shower enclosure, no underlay for the floor, and drywall layered over the top edge of the shower pan instead of leaving a non contact gap and having the enclosure lap over the pan (which is the most confusing thing of all). Tl;dr, investigated a small damp spot, pulled apart entire bathroom.
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stealie72 posted:Just spent the day ripping out large portions of my basement bathroom because I noticed a little moisture behind the wallpaper near where the shower pan and enclosure come together on the wall. That turned into a full day of realizing that whoever put it in had no clue about how water and moisture work. No vapor barriers anywhere, drywall in contact with the floor, drywall instead of cement board or even green board behind the (apparently rather leaky seamed) stick up shower enclosure, no underlay for the floor, and drywall layered over the top edge of the shower pan instead of leaving a non contact gap and having the enclosure lap over the pan (which is the most confusing thing of all). Discoveries like that are the worst. I discovered there was never any flashing between the siding and the concrete step to my patio. Couple that with the cheapest, narrowest drat gutters (since replaced) I discovered dry-rot under my 8 foot sliding glass doors. Now I'm on pins and needles until it gets warm enough to rip out the door and assess the full damage. I'll probably end up replacing it with a regular door and walling up the other side with a window. It never ends when you own a house.
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Proteus Jones posted:It never ends when you own a house. I ripped out literally everything in my house partly on the assumption that having seen every brick and board means no more surprises, but I suspect the truth is that surprises will create themselves given enough time.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I ripped out literally everything in my house partly on the assumption that having seen every brick and board means no more surprises, but I suspect the truth is that surprises will create themselves given enough time. I'm fighting the urge to rip out all of the drywall and redo the room with purple board. As is, I'm replacing about 1/4 of the wall with a combo of purple board and some cement board as a backer for a new tile enclosure. I'm going to cut out some test squares of the current drywall to see if the back is moldy, and if it is, this may be going down to the studs. Then in 20 years someone can post a crappy construction tale about whatever I've hosed up.
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peanut posted:Hope u have a great day It's so witches can't get in to your heating system.
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Suspect Bucket posted:It's so witches can't get in to your heating system. Oh, you're talking about witchducts!
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I am fine with the radiator placement, that is wall space that you would never use for furniture. Aesthetics are for chumps.
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Elephanthead posted:I am fine with the radiator placement, that is wall space that you would never use for furniture. Aesthetics are for chumps. Yes, but it does no good if the stairs aren't insulated.
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My dad put these in his living room -- about thirty years ago he added a 30x30 garage onto the house, with a slightly smaller living room above it (due to the roof eaves but with two four-foot dormers on the front side of the house and a full-length dormer on the rear). It had baseboard heat up until a few months ago. It has always been cold up there, and now my mom says it's super-comfortable even in sub-zero weather. There's a part of me that wants these in our basement because I hate baseboard, but it's really unnecessary since it was trivial to keep it 73 down there even when it was single digits outside. Our attic, on the other hand ...
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Jan 28, 2018 16:45
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peanut posted:Hey buddies That balcony sucked anyway.
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Guy Axlerod posted:That balcony sucked anyway. Hopefully so did the view, but not the alternative fire-escape paths.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:My dad put these in his living room -- about thirty years ago he added a 30x30 garage onto the house, with a slightly smaller living room above it (due to the roof eaves but with two four-foot dormers on the front side of the house and a full-length dormer on the rear). It had baseboard heat up until a few months ago. It has always been cold up there, and now my mom says it's super-comfortable even in sub-zero weather. There's a part of me that wants these in our basement because I hate baseboard, but it's really unnecessary since it was trivial to keep it 73 down there even when it was single digits outside. Our attic, on the other hand ... These what? What did your dad put in? Sorry, can't relate your story to the previous posts.
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Radiators.
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Drake_263 posted:
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Well at least they took the wall plate off before painting.
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peanut posted:Hey buddies I know it’s just the angle but it really looks like that duct is continuing upwards through a hole cut out in the painted blue ceiling.
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It's a hole in the sky so it can vent directly to space.
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lol I can't unsee it
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GotLag posted:It's a hole in the sky so it can vent directly to space.
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Proteus Jones posted:Discoveries like that are the worst. I discovered there was never any flashing between the siding and the concrete step to my patio. Couple that with the cheapest, narrowest drat gutters (since replaced) I discovered dry-rot under my 8 foot sliding glass doors. Now I'm on pins and needles until it gets warm enough to rip out the door and assess the full damage. I'll probably end up replacing it with a regular door and walling up the other side with a window. Read Kastein's thread.
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FCKGW posted:I know it’s just the angle but it really looks like that duct is continuing upwards through a hole cut out in the painted blue ceiling. After Truman left, the show had to face some pretty devastating budget cuts.
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^^ ^^Drake_263 posted:
It's just a standard 55 volt outlet, what's the big deal?
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stealie72 posted:I'm fighting the urge to rip out all of the drywall and redo the room with purple board. As is, I'm replacing about 1/4 of the wall with a combo of purple board and some cement board as a backer for a new tile enclosure. Self quote for crappy construction update. Ended up removing a bunch of walls and the lineoleum floor because of mildew and water penetration. Went to cut back the base of the wallboard to give or a bit of a gap where it was touching the floor (reminder, cement floor in a bathroom in a basement) and discovered that whoever installed the bathroom had poured a concrete subfloor against the drywall so that two of the walls had the bottom of the drywall touching the cement basement floor and about a half inch of the drywall in contact with the cement subfloor for the room. I have to applaud them for pouring a pretty fantastic concrete floor to level the room out, but  Luckily it's a pretty dry basement. Have I mentioned that an engineer owned this house for its first 35 years, and this is likely his handiwork?
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Never buy a mechanic's car.
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Conceptually everything he did to the house makes sense. Its just then actually done the wrong way. Its like an illustration of theory vs practice.
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Lol exactly the same with a mechanic's car. I wanted dedicated not-switched 12V to the trunk of my car to run some relays for trailer wiring. Now, the proper way would be to route a cable myself from the battery on back, with a fuse of the appropriate size and proper looming, along with proper wire termination and labeling. Now, since my car is an old cop car, instead I dug out the cut-off ends of the wiring loom that the cop shop left behind when cutting out all of the police equipment. I found a wire that looked thick enough, and traced it up to the no-longer-used police equipment fusebox. Through random poking with a multimeter, I found the empty fuse slot that matched with that hacked wire in the equipment loom. I open palm slammed a random fuse from the literal pile of fuses that came with the car into that slot, and confirmed that 12v was present at the end of that sheared-off wire in the trunk. (when I did this, a secondary bulb underneath the headlights flashed once and the car made a beep from somewhere under the hood, but  ) Using that sheared-off 4 gauge wire in the trunk, I shaved down some copper so my crimp-on terminals would fit, crimped a terminal on, and wrapped the whole shebang (that is entirely too close to the gas tank firewall) in some self-sealing silicone tape and called it a day. I threw some spare fuses in a baggie next to the one I used under the hood in the equipment fusebox (that is missing it's weatherproof lid, mind you) and called it a day. If there's an issue with the trailer wiring when I use it, or something shakes loose and starts shorting, or a siren or lights start going off while I'm driving, it'll either blow that fuse or I know which one to pull, since it's the only one there. Conceptually, everything works as it should, and is technically fused and proper. Execution-wise? A horrorshow. I don't even know where that boa-constrictor of cop loom runs physically in the car, or if there are any other taps from that big cable that I used that may then be hanging loose, ready to short over a big bump. 
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Elephanthead posted:I am fine with the radiator placement, that is wall space that you would never use for furniture. Aesthetics are for chumps. <yawn> I'm just gonna lean over and hit the light switch and grab the handrail sizzle in this dark room before going upstMOTHERFUCKER WHY IS THE HANDRAIL SO loving HOT OH GOD MY SKIN HAS MELTED TO IT degloves hand trying to pull away from the pain Don't be Klaus.
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Do you have a bathroom under the stairs in your house? UK plumbing is weird, but the previous joist notching sure looks like home. 
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