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Sitting in that chair with the window cockeyed like that would bug the gently caress out of my OCD self.
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I checked out a couple of local open houses today. One house was advertised as having 1.5 baths. It took me a bit to find the half bath, because it was masquerading as a closet.
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Feb 17, 2018 23:49
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I checked out a couple of local open houses today. One house was advertised as having 1.5 baths. It took me a bit to find the half bath, because it was masquerading as a closet. Bit of a tall bidet.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I checked out a couple of local open houses today. One house was advertised as having 1.5 baths. It took me a bit to find the half bath, because it was masquerading as a closet. Looks perfectly reasonable to me, just a little WC. How much more space do you need to take a quick piss?
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Feb 18, 2018 00:29
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Baronjutter posted:Looks perfectly reasonable to me, just a little WC. How much more space do you need to take a quick piss? Yeah but what's the thing on the right for?
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Feb 18, 2018 00:36
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GotLag posted:Yeah but what's the thing on the right for? Maybe my sense of scale is off but either the sink is a bit high or the toilet is like small child sized?
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Feb 18, 2018 00:38
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Baronjutter posted:Looks perfectly reasonable to me, just a little WC. How much more space do you need to take a quick piss? This is America boyo, American's would barely have room to take their dick out in that room 
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Feb 18, 2018 01:32
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tangy yet delightful posted:This is America boyo, American's would barely have room to take their dick out in that room I rented a place in downtown Madison, WI that was a converted Victorian. The bathroom door was so narrow I had to enter at an angle because the door frame would hit my shoulders. What a dump.
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tangy yet delightful posted:This is America boyo, American's would barely have room to find their dick in that room
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Feb 18, 2018 04:20
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Baronjutter posted:Looks perfectly reasonable to me, just a little WC. How much more space do you need to take a quick piss? My parents put a bathroom in a closet when they went to sell their house in Mankato, MN. When they bought it, a second bathroom wasn't a big deal but, by the time they sold it, it was. It was a shotgun house built in the 1860's with editions put on in the 1880's and then again in the 1980's. Weird house, but pleasant. It definitely needed another pisser. I didn't think it would work, but, by God, it did. As small as that picture looks, it's bigger in real life. Exactly the same layout. If you have 24", you'll fit just fine and you can have a pleasant poo poo in a bathroom that isn't just off the kitchen. Now, if I only had pictures of the late 1800's engineering of the walls. That cost them about $24k to repair. The previous owner had hidden the poor engineering that caused wall on the front of the house to fail. Siding covers all. It was built with two structural brick walls with a void in between. Held together with wood ties that had failed over the 150 years. When they stripped the siding, there was a 6" crack that had developed. The whole front of the house was actively trying to fall off. 3 season porches with no footings = bad for brick construction when tied in at the top.
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Feb 18, 2018 06:31
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Youth Decay posted:Not Crappy Construction but probably inspired by crappy construction why
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Youth Decay posted:Not Crappy Construction but probably inspired by crappy construction Why go to all this effort for so little? If you're going to do this go whole hog, gently caress everything up to the point people get nauseous just looking at it. TooMuchAbstraction posted:I checked out a couple of local open houses today. One house was advertised as having 1.5 baths. It took me a bit to find the half bath, because it was masquerading as a closet. Our downstairs loo has like 4 feet plus of space between the sink and toilet, we're seriously considering moving the toilet closer, walking up the space behind and accessing it as a cupboard from the corridor, it'd be a great place to store ironing board, vacuum, mops etc, we only need 18" -24" of space.
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Feb 18, 2018 10:53
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The real tragedy is they're too far apart for the Salmonella Special.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Why go to all this effort for so little? If you're going to do this go whole hog, gently caress everything up to the point people get nauseous just looking at it. I've seen a documentary about this. 
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Feb 18, 2018 12:36
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cakesmith handyman posted:Why go to all this effort for so little? If you're going to do this go whole hog, gently caress everything up to the point people get nauseous just looking at it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAkw8p5oszI Really doesn't seem to come out in photos. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Feb 18, 2018 |
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Feb 18, 2018 17:43
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Baronjutter posted:Maybe my sense of scale is off but either the sink is a bit high or the toilet is like small child sized? I like shorter toilets. I poo poo better in them, than taller ones. mostlygray posted:My parents put a bathroom in a closet when they went to sell their house in Mankato, MN. When they bought it, a second bathroom wasn't a big deal but, by the time they sold it, it was. It was a shotgun house built in the 1860's with editions put on in the 1880's and then again in the 1980's. Weird house, but pleasant. It definitely needed another pisser.
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Feb 18, 2018 21:08
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Youth Decay posted:Not Crappy Construction but probably inspired by crappy construction This is what happens when you grow your addition from a crystal.
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Feb 19, 2018 05:13
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Hmm, I still like cube houses more.
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Feb 19, 2018 13:06
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They GOTTA be awful to live in, right? Humans fit well enough in downward pyramids but very badly in upright ones.
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Feb 19, 2018 13:09
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What on earth do these look like on the inside? e: "interesting and not actually as bad as you'd think" seems to be the answer I'd go for. But also "a pain in the rear end to fit furniture in." My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Feb 19, 2018 |
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Feb 19, 2018 13:10
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Looks like you can stay in one! https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/817858
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Feb 19, 2018 14:08
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I have too much anxiety about my kids opening the windows or bashing them with hammers.
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Feb 19, 2018 14:16
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extravadanza posted:Looks like you can stay in one! I hates it. Wasted space AND low ceilings.
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Feb 19, 2018 14:24
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There's a reason there haven't been more built. Livable space is a lot less than you want it to be.
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Feb 19, 2018 14:41
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I'd fall through those windows so fuckin fast
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Feb 19, 2018 15:13
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I saw a picture of a show cube house and it very conspiciously has furniture in front of every window.
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Feb 19, 2018 16:32
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Cross posting this from the OSHA thread:  I'm not an electrician, so I'm trying to figure out how this happened. It seems like a two-fold problem...the hot for the outlet/switch has shorted to the box, but also additionally the box can't actually be correctly grounded since it took a metal sheet pan touching the screw and the sink to ground itself and short out.
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Okay, maybe I'm just dumb here, but question. All of my outside outlets on the house are on one circuit. Okay, fine. Makes sense. But that WHOLE circuit is downstream from the GFCI in my garage. Around Christmas, I couldn't figure out why in the gently caress all the outside outlets ceased to function. Yesterday I got the bright idea to check that GFCI, thinking there was no way it could in any way be related. But yep...tripped. Reset and now all the outside outlets are working again. Wouldn't it make most sense to have the GFCI downstream of everything else rather than the first outlet on a circuit?
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Then the GFCI wouldn't be protecting anything. It can only detect trips that are downstream from it, as I understand it.
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Yea, at that point, you might as well have a GFCI breaker. Is that the only GFCI outlet, and all your other outside outlets are regular? If so, it looks like they're using that one garage GFCI to provide protection for all outlets. I think it would be better to have them all individually be GFCI, but I'm not an electrician, so not sure what is code.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Yea, at that point, you might as well have a GFCI breaker. Is that the only GFCI outlet, and all your other outside outlets are regular? If so, it looks like they're using that one garage GFCI to provide protection for all outlets. I think it would be better to have them all individually be GFCI, but I'm not an electrician, so not sure what is code.
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D34THROW posted:Okay, maybe I'm just dumb here, but question. We have our garage and kitchen and bath outlets all on one GFCI and the first outlet in the series is gfci for ours. Our house was built in 1979 and our home inspector said that wasn't an unusual way to do things. edit: I think we've tripped ours one time in 9 years.
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Having had mine rewired recently, the sparky put every circuit on an RCD breaker as a matter of course, including the lights. Previously there was just one, running the electric shower.
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None of the other exterior outlets are GFCI. I have no idea what tripped this one except maybe if something knocked against the test button? I'm surprised that's not uncommon, it just seems like a weird way to do things. Of course, in my mother-in-law's old house, the lone GFCI was in the bathroom and tripping that knocked out her bedroom and the living room. 
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DrBouvenstein posted:Cross posting this from the OSHA thread: You assume right. It's probably a plastic box. D34THROW posted:Okay, maybe I'm just dumb here, but question. Both garage and outdoor outlets must be GFCI protected. In your case the GFCI there protects all the others down the branch. Bird in a Blender posted:I think it would be better to have them all individually be GFCI, but I'm not an electrician, so not sure what is code. That could be done, you'd just have to remove the wires from that garage GFCI's Load terminals and attach them to the wires that are attached to its Line terminals. Add pigtails as necessary. The next step is to find the next box on the circuit. Once you do, figure out which hot in that box is the source hot. Now you can install at least one more GFCI there and put the rest on another GFCI, or put a GFCI at each box. If you put one at each box, the pro is a short walk if you trip the GFCI, the con is cost. GFCIs are $20ish apiece, plus you'll probably need to upgrade to new covers since the outlet is a different shape, not to mention the requirement for in-use covers now.
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My condo has the outside outlet, and the two bathroom outlets downstream of one of the basement GFCI outlets. The other basement outlet is for the washer and located next to the utility sink but is not GFCI and not downstream of the GFCI outlet.D34THROW posted:None of the other exterior outlets are GFCI. I have no idea what tripped this one except maybe if something knocked against the test button? I'm surprised that's not uncommon, it just seems like a weird way to do things. If the outlets are daisy chained, the GFCI can detect fault on the other outlets. It's cheaper than using GFCI outlets for each.
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Guy Axlerod posted:My condo has the outside outlet, and the two bathroom outlets downstream of one of the basement GFCI outlets. The other basement outlet is for the washer and located next to the utility sink but is not GFCI and not downstream of the GFCI outlet. ...you know, come to think of it, we DID get some pretty nasty rain with Irma and early December was the first I attempted to plug anything in outside since before that. If driving rain got under the outlet cover, it all makes a lot more sense. Thanks, goons!
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I had to explain to my father that the porch outlet wasn't working because the GFCI in his bathroom was tripped and he went on one of those "we didn't have these safety features and turned out fine" rants. Nuisance tripping indeed. His house was rewired almost 15 years ago. I never would have thought then to ask how they were doing the GFCI outlets.
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The Twinkie Czar posted:I had to explain to my father that the porch outlet wasn't working because the GFCI in his bathroom was tripped and he went on one of those "we didn't have these safety features and turned out fine" rants. Nuisance tripping indeed. His house was rewired almost 15 years ago. I never would have thought then to ask how they were doing the GFCI outlets. You can add more if that makes it more convenient, without needing to run new cable. You'll just have to unscrew them out of their boxes and swap some wires around. D34THROW posted:...you know, come to think of it, we DID get some pretty nasty rain with Irma and early December was the first I attempted to plug anything in outside since before that. If driving rain got under the outlet cover, it all makes a lot more sense. Thanks, goons! How old is the cover? The foam might not make a good seal anymore.
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All the outlets in my living room and dining room are daisy chained after the GFCI outside outlet next to my front door as I discovered one day. I came home to my living room dark and none of the outlets in the living room on one wall going down into the dining room where working. After I checked the breakers I started pulling outlets out of the wall to check the wiring to make sure nothing was loose. An hour later and after having pulled all the outlets out to check them, I realized the water fountain I had plugged into the outlet outside wasn't working. Apparently the pump had failed and shorted somehow, thus tripping the GFCI. I had no idea all of those outlets where daisy chained off the GFCI... Its a bit annoying.. as turning the hard power switch on my computer power supply on/off will sometimes trip the GFCI.
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