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I live in Madison and I heard nothing about that.
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GreenNight posted:I live in Madison and I heard nothing about that.
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Yeah I knew about the stabbing, I meant the one day brat fest. But we’re getting smashmouth for the summer brat fest. Oh boy so much excitement.
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sneakyfrog posted:im from minnesota, i have nothing good to say about those cheeseheads. Not an emptyquote
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GreenNight posted:Yeah I knew about the stabbing, I meant the one day brat fest. But we’re getting smashmouth for the summer brat fest. Oh boy so much excitement. Hey now.
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Scarodactyl posted:Oh, not in Madison, no, it's a Waukesha stabbing. I see.
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GreenNight posted:Yeah I knew about the stabbing, I meant the one day brat fest. But we’re getting smashmouth for the summer brat fest. Oh boy so much excitement. I would legitimately like to go see Smash Mouth play at a summer sausage festival
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Jan 26, 2019 05:58
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SMASHMOUTH EAT THE SAUSAGES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YJfXdSR85o
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Hey now. This post is an all star.
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lol 2 all
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Scarodactyl posted:Oh, not in Madison, no, it's a Waukesha stabbing. A fun thing to do to annoy Sconnies is to pronounce Waukesha "Waa-Ke$ha."
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la crocks
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Just about finished with renovating our bathroom, and wanted to share two fun discoveries we made along the way. We'd always noticed there was a very small bump in the ceiling below the bathroom, and assumed before we bought the house there'd been a leak at some point. After pulling out the bathtub, however, we realized that when they built the house, the p-trap was too tall to fit in between the subfloor and ceiling below, but by just about a half-inch. Do they re-do the p-trap to make it fit? Of course not. Just loving cut a whole in the ceiling and plaster over it.  Then, the previous light fixture was a big ugly bastard with a huge faceplate. Pulled the faceplate off aaaand  Miss the mark for where the electric should come out from the drywall? Just yank that poo poo on over.
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I love it. It makes me laugh and cry at the same time.
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Jan 26, 2019 18:07
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Just delightful PO stuff! No box, no restraint on the cable. Cut a huge gash and make it work. Probably had a different fixture before in a different place.
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The PO had laid down plywood in the attic, I guess to use it for storage. I am taking it out, as we're doing insulation and the attic was not up to snuff. I kind of want to murder them. They didn't use consistent fasteners, so sometimes it's held down by drywall screws, sometimes nails, sometimes wood screws varying from 1" to 4". There are even some square head nails involved which I think the just grabbed from old roofing? Plus they just put the fasteners wherever, not consistent locations or distances, so sometimes there is one at each corner and other times they are every 6" down the edges. They also seemed to have moved boards or redone some, because there will be random places where there is a screw home with nothing in it, so I'm always guessing whether it's an empty hole or just a very countersunk screw. Top prize goes to the decision to just disconnect the old knob and tube and then bury it in insulation, so I had a horrible scare that someone had just packed over those live before I could confirm they weren't connected anymore. Just take them out!
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:
Hey - did you end up back in the place?
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StormDrain posted:Just delightful PO stuff! No box, no restraint on the cable. Cut a huge gash and make it work. Probably had a different fixture before in a different place. I think it may have been the builders. The master and guest baths are back-to-back and mirrored, and the light fixtures matched in each. They also each had the same gash. Another joy from this project: I had a friend nailing in baseboards, and he managed to hit the supply line for the vanity. There was a metal plate there to prevent this sort of thing, but they didn't account for the height of the mortar and tile, so it wasn't anywhere near high enough to do its job.  I mean that's mostly on me for not using a stud finder or something to check behind there, but it just never even crossed my mind.
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BurgerQuest posted:Hey - did you end up back in the place? Yeah, we got a new roof and everything is fixed except some drywall.
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dakana posted:I think it may have been the builders. The master and guest baths are back-to-back and mirrored, and the light fixtures matched in each. They also each had the same gash. These stories are amazingly oddly interesting to me.
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dakana posted:Another joy from this project: I had a friend nailing in baseboards, and he managed to hit the supply line for the vanity. There was a metal plate there to prevent this sort of thing, but they didn't account for the height of the mortar and tile, so it wasn't anywhere near high enough to do its job. My dad had a mystery wet spot on the floor in his entrance hall (yes there's a leak dad, there's a mushroom growing out of the carpet). When we ripped the wall open it looked like the leak was coming from the upstairs bathroom drainage pipe but we couldn't find it. Thought it might have been leaking from where it was set into the concrete, which would have been a real pain in the rear end. Had a plumber come in for a closer inspection and it turns out when the house was built in '82 the flooring crew had fired a very small nail through the drainage when laying the carpet tack strip, but the heat generated had likely caused the pipe to seal itself. 35 years later the nail finally rusted all the way through and started the pinhole leak. Talk about a delayed failure.
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Burt Sexual posted:These stories are amazingly oddly interesting to me. Perhaps you may wish to consider a career in property insurance adjusting!  Aftermath of a 48" water main rupture
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dakana posted:
Is that uninsulated live wire where they connected the wires together?
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I'm guessing that the wire nuts were removed & that the line is cold, as the fixture's being removed. The lack of a fixture box is triggering me.
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PainterofCrap posted:Perhaps you may wish to consider a career in property insurance adjusting! I was wondering if that's what caused that. It was a busy-rear end week, though, so I forgot to follow up.
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You still can't go down Sansom because of that, months and months later.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Yeah, we got a new roof and everything is fixed except some drywall. ^________________^
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Burt Sexual posted:These stories are amazingly oddly interesting to me. I'm planning on writing up my bathroom reno once it's finished. It was my first real home project, and while I'm sure I'll get dragged for a lot of stupid choices and mistakes, it was a fantastic learning experience and gave me a lot of Dillbag posted:35 years later the nail finally rusted all the way through and started the pinhole leak. That's incredible. I'd just hooked up the plumbing to the vanity and installed the faucets before my buddy nailed in the baseboards, but luckily I went back underneath the vanity to test the overflow drain for leaks. I heard this very faint hissing / sputtering sound, and I figured it had to be the faucet or a loose supply line connector. I was looking all around for the source but couldn't figure it out. Finally I went downstairs and saw the giant wet spot on the ceiling, and ran back upstairs to start cutting into the drywall to figure out what the hell happened. Dunno-Lars posted:Is that uninsulated live wire where they connected the wires together? Nah, vvv PainterofCrap posted:I'm guessing that the wire nuts were removed & that the line is cold, as the fixture's being removed. Yeah, and the lack of a box surprised me too. The house is generally well built - the electrical panel was done well and is labeled nicely, there's good insulation throughout, the basement is tidy, etc, but then you find stupid poo poo like this. And one of the straws that broke our back for redoing the bathroom in the first place was the fact that the bathtub's overflow wasn't connected properly, leading to a water stain on the ceiling after one of us took a rather full soak.
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I cut out some of those extra pieces of wood between the floor and ceiling below to build a recessed dog bed, my dog really likes it
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Or your dog is a descendant of Clifford
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PainterofCrap posted:Perhaps you may wish to consider a career in property insurance adjusting! The Dave posted:You still can't go down Sansom because of that, months and months later. Lol, I took this back in August from the same spot. 
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Splicer posted:What? What we do around here, is benefit brat frys for people. If someone has cancer, or trying to recover from heart surgery, or other medical issues, people will have a brat fry at a bar, where people can buy brats and Sometimes people get really drunk at these, and drive their vehicles into posts, or the occasional building, and earn their 4th or 5th DUI. Dr.Smasher fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jan 28, 2019 |
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TheDon01 posted:Is that a pressurized water main made out of bricks?? Some of them are bored logs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fntV0c-fYE When excavated, they’ve generally been bypassed by newer pipes, but some are still in use. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Jan 28, 2019 |
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