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Jaded Burnout posted:Nice stairs though. Yeah, they're real warm in the winter.
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May 9, 2018 19:56
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*ghost materializes on the insulated stairs* Your son is attempting to bring in an outside party, Mister Grover. A building inspector. My own two girls told me that many outlets would set the house on fire. I...corrected them.
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shockingly i am posting content http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article210449384.html quote:A key concrete support truss in the doomed Florida International University pedestrian bridge developed worrisome cracks 10 days before the structure was lifted into place over the Tamiami Trail, photographs and an internal email unintentionally released by the school show.
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May 9, 2018 20:34
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Just wanted to point out sound proofing for residential construction is simply unfaced insulation and soundproofing stairs, bedrooms, bathrooms, floors, etc. is fairly common. Of course you cover the soundproofing with drywall and risers. Same with outlets both above and inside cabinets. As said above you don't need outlets every 4'-6', but if you have ceilings above 8' and/or LED lit drawers and cabinets --you need to power the lights from some where.
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May 9, 2018 20:41
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sneakyfrog posted:shockingly i am posting content Jesus Christ, who allowed that thing to be used.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Jesus Christ, who allowed that thing to be used. I think they are referring to him as “defendant”.
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May 9, 2018 20:51
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MisterOblivious posted:More Christmas light outlets? Are... are those *real* candles in the chandelier?
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May 9, 2018 21:42
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Looks like it. So going to guess after a year or two of sun hitting them, they won't be up there anymore.
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May 9, 2018 21:45
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Baronjutter posted:I'm lucky to have a single outlet in each room, more is better. I'm doing some electric work in 2 apartments right now. There are over 25 outlets in the kitchens (250 square feet per kitchen maybe). At least 10 in each room. Also, 2 TV outlets per room, except for the biggest one, which is around 350 feet so you need 3! Why does the kitchen have 3 (yes, three) dry walls behind each other, on top of a wood plank? Maybe load bearing? Maybe so it takes 4 times as long to drill a hole for the loving outlets? I'll never know. Light is a fun thing too. I guess it's 3000 square feet, altogether. So I installed over 150 of those fuckers:  I'm jealous of the people moving in there, because no dimmers. What a comfortable light for the evening. But wait, in one room someone wasted a thought on the lightning. And if a 10$ dimmer isn't it the budget, you just plan several circuits of spots that you can switch independently. Sorry I don't have pictures, here are some bad drawings. On the wall you have the following:  Yes. Like this. Not next to each other. Oh, and either green or red is not a switch, but a button. From top down, the lights in the room are controlled like this:  The whole place is a loving mess. But I have to wear white gloves while installing the ceiling spots. Oh, there's some kind of fingerprints on the ceiling? Yeah maybe when I had to redo 3 cables through the ceiling (with insulation in it already) because the fucktard who installed the cables had way different ideas where they should go and it took me and another guy over two hours to correct that we may have touched your loving ceiling without gloves. My list also includes:  About 20 of those got installed to far apart or to close to each other. Really noticeable when there a 4 next to each other and awesome to install outlets in! Wooden/Aluminum beams where ceiling spots were planned. I have to bring an aluminum hacksaw on Monday to install the remaining LED spots. Wall tiles cut out to much so the metal frame from the outlets has no hold. That's it for now, thanks for listening!
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I didn't think it was too bad until you really got going. I'm so sorry.
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May 9, 2018 21:57
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RabbitWizard posted:I'm doing some electric work in 2 apartments right now. There are over 25 outlets in the kitchens (250 square feet per kitchen maybe). At least 10 in each room. Also, 2 TV outlets per room, except for the biggest one, which is around 350 feet so you need 3! Fuuuck everything about this. I hope they are paying you extremely well for this foolishness.
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May 9, 2018 21:58
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if you have that much bullshit in your ceiling and insist your contractors need to wear white gloves when touching the ceiling im going to go out on a limb here and say they are most likely dicks and you should do your absolute best to charge them the most possibly that you can without causing a problem for yourself
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May 9, 2018 22:09
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RabbitWizard posted:I'm doing some electric work in 2 apartments right now. There are over 25 outlets in the kitchens (250 square feet per kitchen maybe). At least 10 in each room. Also, 2 TV outlets per room, except for the biggest one, which is around 350 feet so you need 3! While I get the desire for flexibility in electrical device placement, and even TV placement, that does seem a bit excessive. Yay for having to deal with another contractor's inability to follow directions, too. Also, your avatar is wondrous and mesmerizing.   
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May 9, 2018 22:14
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Proteus Jones posted:Are... are those *real* candles in the chandelier? christ, wish I could remember where I could find that paragraph someone in FYAD wrote about it, I just remember it began with the chandelier and ended with the cat bolting from the smoldering ruin of groverhaus with its tail on fire
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ickna posted:Fuuuck everything about this. I hope they are paying you extremely well for this foolishness. What? No! I'm just a low-paid "help" for a small (6 employees) company. I'm just annoyed by the poo poo the previous company did "preparing" for us. I work as fast as I work, and I get paid what I get paid and I take a break if I need to. Yes I am mad if I need an hour to keep 4 outlets in place. But in the end, it's not my fault and yes, the customer will probably pay a lot which makes me happy (and my boss). I made sure to document all the problems (and had my coworker look at the fuckups) so if there are complaints about the time I needed it won't be a problem. And I have a feeling it will come up.... Darchangel posted:Also, your avatar is wondrous and mesmerizing.
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May 9, 2018 22:31
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I'm not stalking down the exact model, but no, it's probably fake candles, there are normal electric chandeliers with pillar candles like that. Notice how similar the shapes are
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i like nice words
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mostlygray posted:My favorite, is the outlet that holds a steady 121v when the breaker is on. When I trip the breaker, it reads 20.1v. Completely steady. What the hell is back-feeding 20.1 v into that circuit? It isn't any device, I've unplugged them all. There is some sort of evil in the walls doing it. Are you pulling this from a newer digital multimeter with an auto-ranging display? If so, welcome to the land of capacitance and extremely sensitive electronics. Basically some other live wire in the area is emitting EMR and it's causing a "voltage" to apply to the line because your multimeter has such a high impedance on it that the line can't ground-out like with shittier, older multimeters. I'm not sure what the technical words are for this, but it was plaguing my lines around my house until I realized that the "voltage" is bullshit. Strap an old-school crap-tacular MM on there and see what it reads.
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Ripoff posted:Are you pulling this from a newer digital multimeter with an auto-ranging display? If so, welcome to the land of capacitance and extremely sensitive electronics. Basically some other live wire in the area is emitting EMR and it's causing a "voltage" to apply to the line because your multimeter has such a high impedance on it that the line can't ground-out like with shittier, older multimeters. I'm not sure what the technical words are for this, but it was plaguing my lines around my house until I realized that the "voltage" is bullshit. It's probably this. Fancier Fluke meters (and I assume other brands' nice ones) have a low impedance mode to get rid of these ghost voltages.
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RabbitWizard posted:What? No! I'm just a low-paid "help" for a small (6 employees) company. I'm just annoyed by the poo poo the previous company did "preparing" for us. Thanks! It's like he's flying with his ears...
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Ripoff posted:Are you pulling this from a newer digital multimeter with an auto-ranging display? If so, welcome to the land of capacitance and extremely sensitive electronics. Basically some other live wire in the area is emitting EMR and it's causing a "voltage" to apply to the line because your multimeter has such a high impedance on it that the line can't ground-out like with shittier, older multimeters. I'm not sure what the technical words are for this, but it was plaguing my lines around my house until I realized that the "voltage" is bullshit. My lovely Simpson 260 is still my go-to for this exact reason. If I need a stupid fancy reading on something, I dig out my o-scope.
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Ghostnuke posted:Yeah, they're real warm in the winter. http://fishmech.info/grovercraft.htm
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The Dave posted:I need to be able to plug in my air fryer from any location in the kitchen. Better than my kitchen, which is a modern build but only has a single double-outlet on one side of the stove, and nothing on the other side or the island. ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 13:33 on May 10, 2018 |
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:*ghost materializes on the insulated stairs*  I spent the weekend trying to set a new fence panel and wound up hitting 5 different sections of sprinkler pipe. I only dug two holes, too. The worst part is my house doesn't have sprinklers. There's no control box, no timers, nothing. Now I'm concerned if some line i nicked is still connected to the house somehow and I'm leaking water straight into the ground.
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sneakyfrog posted:shockingly i am posting content quote:NTSB, which is investigating the bridge collapse, has told FIU and the Florida Department of Transportation not to release records dated after Feb. 19, so there are no available public records to document any response from FIGG or other team members to Morales' memo. The Herald has sued to obtain subsequent records related to the bridge collapse. The bridge collapse is also the subject of a Miami-Dade police homicide investigation and families of some of the victims have filed lawsuits. Ahahahaha no but seriously gently caress you. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 16:10 on May 10, 2018 |
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May 10, 2018 16:05
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Phanatic posted:Ahahahaha no but seriously gently caress you. quote:Mark Caramanica, an attorney at Thomas & LoCicero representing the Herald in its public records requests to FIU, said the Herald has no obligation to comply.
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People STILL haven't gotten that the "destroy any copies" bullshit doesn't work, like, ever?
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This thread is doing the "click the last unread post button but it goes to the previous page because there are phantom posts" thing that happened to the forums a couple months ago. 
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Buff Skeleton posted:People STILL haven't gotten that the "destroy any copies" bullshit doesn't work, like, ever? It doesn't cost them anything to try, so what the hell, might as well.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:It doesn't cost them anything to try, so what the hell, might as well. The very best way to make sure people look more closely at something, hurriedly saying "Don't look!"
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Indolent Bastard posted:The very best way to make sure people look more closely at something, hurriedly saying "Don't look!"
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In this case presumably the NTSB tries to keep info out of the press during an investigation to avoid investigators feeling pressure to reach some particular conclusion. Investigators need to be completely unbiased and objective in order to be most likely to produce good reports. It's understandable for the NTSB itself to try to suppress leaked info, although obviously when it's a high-profile case like this one, it's a futile gesture. Probably some NTSB director feels they have an obligation to try, regardless.
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hostile architecture strikes again
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kid sinister posted:
Put it by a bike trail and in August there will be a line.
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glynnenstein posted:Put it by 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and in August there will be a line.
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the guy who does freeman's mind did a video about his crappy apartment's construction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0vA64sSdqM
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kid sinister posted:
That's one way to stop itinerants from sleeping on your nice new bench.
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Leperflesh posted:Doorbell voltage? Doorbells are typically 8 to 24v, and there may be a step-down transformer somewhere on a normal line to convert to the 20.1 you're seeing. The house never had a doorbell. That was my father in laws guess too. If there's a transformer, it's buried in a wall and back-feeding from a different circuit. I'll have to just pop the breakers one at a time until I find the circuit that has the back feed into the wrong circuit and track it down.
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Anyone want to buy a https://www.zillow.com/homes/1_ah/L...sell&view=owner edit: This one seems to be right in the middle of what is now a spewing lava fissure. "This home was designed to stand the test of time and of living in the tropics." Neutrino fucked around with this message at 19:24 on May 11, 2018 |
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