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Youth Decay posted:Eyebrow dormers are the best and I want them on any future house I build. Give me Amityville Horror windows any day.
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Gigantic cooking and dining space in an open floorplan
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Jul 27, 2018 05:04
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there wolf posted:I think I found the most death-tap garden tub ever  That's blocks away from where my Dad grew up. Whole subdivision laid out like that. They're actually pretty well built and on massive lots. Plus the massive sleeping porches for pre-ac Georgia. All the crayons you'd ever want too.
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Jul 27, 2018 05:26
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lol at that hoa enforced riverstone requirement, they look so incredibly cheap.
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Jul 27, 2018 08:41
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Guess the hyper compact hot city thart needs a shower in the kitchen! Oh and there's a post and stuff
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Jul 27, 2018 09:49
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cakesmith handyman posted:
No, I suppose you don't. Mostly curious why you used that as an excuse instead of just say you don't like it. But instead you came up with asinine reasons why and then trying to trump that with "I'm an engineer". No body cares, man. Except me? That being said, I stand by my statement. You’ve posted nothing to suggest you have any idea what you’re talking about in any thread without, “take a picture, I can look it up”, or something along those lines, and then you go ant try to cover it up with some kind of bullshit. schmug fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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Jul 27, 2018 14:05
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I don't have to prove anything to you buddy. Is everyone you don't agree with dumb or trolling?
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kid sinister posted:Give me Amityville Horror windows any day. Hell yeah, now we’re talking.
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kid sinister posted:Give me Amityville Horror windows any day.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:We have those, but when That Guy renovated the attic he just walled them up. When we renovate it (roughly never, since every time I think about something like that, something else breaks) I'm going to open them back up. WTF? Why would you renovate an attic and cover up windows? Rape attic?
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Jul 27, 2018 15:16
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schmug posted:WTF? Why would you renovate an attic and cover up windows? Rape attic? He put in skylights and I think maybe he thought finishing quarter-round windows would be too hard? Don't know. The carpet is garbage, but it's not a bad space at all.
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Jul 27, 2018 15:25
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In any other thread I wouldn't need to make sure, but this is an imaging error and not actually built this way right
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Jul 27, 2018 15:35
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Blue Footed Booby posted:A reply says it's seismic bracing due to SF regs. Possibly the design was completed just before the regs went into effect and the designer half-assed a fix? Well at least it didn't go through the middle of the bathroom.
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Jul 27, 2018 16:06
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I'm surprised that got turned into a house since 90% of Pizza Huts seem to turn into small-time restaurants.
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Jul 27, 2018 16:10
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One of my coworkers is a little concerned about the state of their foundation. They went into their crawlspace and found this:  I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to use cinderblocks in that orientation. Let alone that rando chunk of concrete in the first photo. 
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Jul 27, 2018 19:03
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:One of my coworkers is a little concerned about the state of their foundation. They went into their crawlspace and found this: So the first photo goes like this... Concrete beam Random hunk of concrete Railroad tie Concrete foot thing they use under decks in the south all held in place by gravity with no physical connection between any of them
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Jul 27, 2018 19:09
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It's fine, they smooshed some cockroaches and spiders in there to make a many-legged organic epoxy.
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Jul 27, 2018 19:12
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My Lovely Horse posted:In any other thread I wouldn't need to make sure, but this is an imaging error and not actually built this way right Yeah that's probably a google street view and it's been stitched together from two or three shots by an algorithm, badly. The house itself is fine. The large dormer and two smaller dormers are OK, maybe slightly on the busy side for the size of the whole house, but the feeling isn't too unbalanced, the other details are fairly cohesive, it's a nice color, and there's nothing particularly offensive about it. Maybe the use of the mandatory river-rock, which is clearly not structural and thus looks a little tacked-on, but whatever, I don't even hate that particularly. Hopefully it's not someplace that snows a lot, though, because there's a pinch point between the two dormers on the left that could cause some problems.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:One of my coworkers is a little concerned about the state of their foundation. They went into their crawlspace and found this: Do they have Dormers on their house?
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Jul 27, 2018 19:27
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^^^^^^^^^^ "Yes, I am not an engineer." Little heat tape, no problem. Seems like heavy rain on that huge surface area would overwhelm those gutters, though.
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Jul 27, 2018 19:28
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quote:The compressive strength of concrete masonry units and masonry walls varies from approximately 1,000 psi (7 MPa) to 5,000 psi (34 MPa) based on the type of concrete used to manufacture the unit, stacking orientation, the type of mortar used to build the wall, and other factors. They are fine as long as there is no dead loads like furniture and no live loads like people.
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Jul 27, 2018 19:34
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The cinder blocks are definitely not fine in that orientation, though. You're supposed to make the holes go up and down, so that 100% of the block that is in compression is supported by continuous material from top to bottom. Oriented as they are in that photo, the stretches of material between the uprights are experiencing tension or bending force rather than compression.
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Jul 27, 2018 19:41
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The trick is not to observe them; that way they continue to exist in a state of stability and collapse simultaneously without affecting the structure. Now that he's ruined it by photographing them, they'll resolve and there's only one way they're going to go. 
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Jul 27, 2018 19:44
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m'landscaping
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Jul 27, 2018 19:48
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Neutrino posted:They are fine as long as there is no dead loads like furniture and no live loads like people. Also, it won't fail because of compressive forces. It will fail because loads will act in shear when transmitted through the clearly visible defects.
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Jul 27, 2018 19:55
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:One of my coworkers is a little concerned about the state of their foundation. They went into their crawlspace and found this: This is all 100% fine if you intend to sell it in 6 months or less there wolf posted:
Did I build this? vanity lights for no reason, toilet paper roll too high, interior stucco, mismatched everything
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Jul 27, 2018 20:15
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Leperflesh posted:The cinder blocks are definitely not fine in that orientation, though. You're supposed to make the holes go up and down, so that 100% of the block that is in compression is supported by continuous material from top to bottom. Oriented as they are in that photo, the stretches of material between the uprights are experiencing tension or bending force rather than compression. poo poo, you mean my camaro isn't safe to work under?
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Jul 27, 2018 20:29
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wesleywillis posted:poo poo, you mean my camaro isn't safe to work under? Again, same thing. As long as you don't put any horizontal or vertical loads on the car. No wind loads either.
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Jul 27, 2018 20:33
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and protect the blocks from weathering and erosion, too.
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Haifisch posted:I'm surprised that got turned into a house since 90% of Pizza Huts seem to turn into small-time restaurants. I thought that house was being made fun of for looking like a Pizza Hut. Was it actually a former Pizza Hut?
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Jul 27, 2018 22:07
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I'm at the pizza hut. I'm at the neighbor's house. I'm at the combination pizza hut and neighbor's house! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyfc10qDcR4
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schmug posted:No, I suppose you don't. Mostly curious why you used that as an excuse instead of just say you don't like it. But instead you came up with asinine reasons why and then trying to trump that with "I'm an engineer". No body cares, man. Except me? Just leave it, there's no way either of us come out of this conversation looking cool. What do you want, me to take a photo of my business card and degree certificate? Should I go check your posts and see whether you've posted anything "to suggest you have any idea what you’re talking about"?
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Jul 27, 2018 22:23
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would unironically live in the refurbed pizza hut without shame
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Javid posted:would unironically live in the refurbed pizza hut without shame I dunno, it's got a solid base but the top's a little cheesy.
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Jul 27, 2018 22:42
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xwing posted:If I'm not getting at least 10% of construction cost for the design fees or billing you hourly for construction administration (I bill at $150/hr). If I'm getting less than that it's more or less, "Here's your drawings, hope it works out!" Ihen you start to get in the single digits it's incredibly hard to justify things like monitoring construction and hand holding you through the design process. Thanks for the ballpark pricing, that's great to know. If I want a house designed that would cost about $350k to build I should factor in about $35k+ on top for a great architect who will baby the project along from start to finish, as well as draw it all up? (I mean, obviously I'm going to ask my local guys what they charge but it's good to get some idea beforehand.)
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cakesmith handyman posted:Just leave it, there's no way either of us come out of this conversation looking cool. What do you want, me to take a photo of my business card and degree certificate? Should I go check your posts and see whether you've posted anything "to suggest you have any idea what you’re talking about"? I am looking at all these houses with weird roof appendages like I would look at a car with a hood scoop/airdam. They annoy me but If its functional I can deal with it... I don't think you need to be an engineer to think like this. You just need to a) be used to the UK generic lego house roof style b) have experience of roof repair/build costs.
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Jul 28, 2018 00:57
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Haifisch posted:I'm surprised that got turned into a house since 90% of Pizza Huts seem to turn into small-time restaurants. I don't think it was ever actually a Pizza Hut. It's in the middle of a neighborhood, and the proportions seem off for the iconic red roof.
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there wolf posted:I don't think it was ever actually a Pizza Hut. It's in the middle of a neighborhood, and the proportions seem off for the iconic red roof. It's not. It's just an entirely simplified and purely functional roof-line like the engineers want.
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Jul 28, 2018 02:48
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I prefer the clean classic roofline of the house drawn by every 5 year old.    That's how houses are supposed to look.
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Facebook Aunt posted:
I assume defenestration is the only way in or out.
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