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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Power & Light is where all the trendy bars and restaurants and poo poo are. God help you if you try to drive through there on a Friday or Saturday night, and forget about parking. All the obnoxious people from the suburbs go there to party and everything is crowded and expensive and loud. I wish the Local Pig was still in Westport loved to get half a pig face for dinner
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Buff Skeleton posted:Also, I'm a bit saddened that more people didn't instantly recognize that bathroom from The Shining. Guess this is what getting old feels like. It certainly *felt* like the bathroom from the shining so I guess that's OK.
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Jun 27, 2019 21:25
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xecdymHavj4
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Jun 27, 2019 21:28
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Buff Skeleton posted:Looks like a perfectly normal McMansion roofline to me That's quite the non sequitur. I don't remember what a loving bathroom in a movie looks like because it's been more than twenty years since I last saw it.
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Buff Skeleton posted:
I haven't even seen the film all the way through* and yet I thought "that looks like The Shining" because the ~~~~aesthetic~~~~ is so strong *I chickened out because I was like 15 and I'm still a total coward
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Jun 27, 2019 23:20
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There are many things I remember about The Shining, but the bathroom was low on my list. I'm sorry (not sorry).
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Jun 27, 2019 23:39
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Is anyone in this thread in, or familiar with construction, in Canada? I have some questions, doing a thing for work. GC and commercial stuff.
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I came across this on imgur last night, and felt it it needed sharing in here. https://imgur.com/gallery/8B36Vch  The 'foundation'. I don't know enough to know if this is sufficient.  Why, yes, they are cladding the entire thing in 2x6s.  Even the builder regrets using 2x6s and recommends plywood.  Then the 2x6s get covered up with vapor barrier and normal siding & roofing.  They added a couple inches of spray insulation before drywalling the upper floor. In a later picture, I originally thought they left the living room ceiling (which extends to the roof) uninsulated, but I don't see the rafters, so I think they insulated and stuck another layer of 2x6s on that. I don't want to embed the videos there, but if you watch them...there are no doors anywhere in the interior. The entire thing is open plan, and that includes the half bath on the second floor (which opens up onto the top of the staircase). They sold it for $150k, more than double what they put into the land and materials. The update to the description said they had 'a lot' of reinspections.
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xergm posted:Who wants to live in a concrete box? Hey, I went to visit THE BOX today!   I couldn't get close because it is in the middle of a very large lot and there were plenty of people around. It's in the sort of ~rapidly gentrifying~ neighborhood where I bet they wouldn't hesitate to call the cops. THE BOX itself isn't so awful from the front because it's so far back, the balcony and windows add some interest, and there's some nice landscaping, but good god the side is grim. Just bare concrete and gravel. The neighborhood is about 50% old Victorian rowhouse style homes in every stage from falling apart to lovingly restored and 50% new contemporary style homes, many very boxy, and a couple boxy condos. There is a fancy French restaurant but there are also broken bottles everywhere. There was a lot of greenery and old iron fences, which I liked very much. I've lived here for 30 years and I sort of feel like I've been everywhere in the city, so it was kind of cool to visit a new neighborhood. Welp, that's my review, thanks for reading.
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https://imgur.com/a/sGTXw5M Guy buys a full sized bus and converts it in to an RV. It looks really nice, but when he got to the plumbing and electrical I sorta got a bit worried.
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Jun 28, 2019 03:14
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Pyroclastic posted:I came across this on imgur last night, and felt it it needed sharing in here.  lmfao i do appreciate that the entire gallery was full of comments cussing himself out for being an idiot all the time though
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Jun 28, 2019 05:30
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Darchangel posted:I don't even know what they were trying to do here. moist turtleneck posted:What's the proper thing to do right here? asking for a friend I did a double take because that poo poo looks a lot like the curved corner in my hallway other than the baseboard riddled with rendering errors. Here it is done properly:  Even if you can't pull off the curved baseboard section, you could do an octagonal configuration or something, but I guess that would require basic math and knowing how to adjust the angle of the mitre saw. But seriously, how do you gently caress that up so spectacularly?
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Jun 28, 2019 05:37
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Synthbuttrange posted:
It took me halfway through that image before I realized I wasn't staring at someone's scrap wood pile. Or I guess another way to look at that is, they found a use for their scrap wood pile! A very bad use. stealth edit: seriously, how do you gently caress up a spiral staircase so badly that it doesn't have a central vertical support?
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Queen Victorian posted:Even if you can't pull off the curved baseboard section, you could do an octagonal configuration or something, but I guess that would require basic math and knowing how to adjust the angle of the mitre saw. But seriously, how do you gently caress that up so spectacularly? They increased the angle with each cut, instead of cutting out triangular sections to form a series of corners
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Jun 28, 2019 10:53
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 “I work in home remodeling. Previous owner of my clients house made an HVAC duct from soldering old anti-freeze containers together”
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Jun 28, 2019 10:58
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heck, they soldered it and that's more better than duct tape
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Jun 28, 2019 11:04
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Platystemon posted:
If it worked, I might be inclined to keep it because, because.
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Jun 28, 2019 11:31
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ashnjack posted:https://imgur.com/a/sGTXw5M Having dealt with RV plumbing and electrical, he did a better job than a manufacturer would have. The only real objection I have is that minisplit A/C, the back bedroom will freeze while the rest of the bus won't get any cool air. A pair of 1 kW RV ceiling mount air conditioners would have been a better choice.
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Jun 28, 2019 11:47
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Only thing that worried me about that was the undercarriage shots which had a ton of rust. And this: 
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Jun 28, 2019 12:00
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Jaded Burnout posted:Seems like it would defeat the point of gutters, which is to catch water as it runs off the tiles. The pitch is normally quite low with no attic. peanut posted:heck, they soldered it and that's more better than duct tape I'm crying now. In my country, we are idiots and use expandable duct in octopus mode. ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Jun 28, 2019 |
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Jun 28, 2019 12:56
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Ripoff posted:That’s gonna make for a really awkward closing when they go to sell it. Obviously not anwhere near as bad as that, but my first house had a huge turkish flag feature wall in one bedroom. Painting over that was a bitch.
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Jun 28, 2019 12:58
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~Coxy posted:The pitch is normally quite low with no attic. Sure, but doesn't it dump onto the ground and erode things? Maybe this is a cultural difference, everything here has functional guttering directing water into drains. Even those downspouts you have that redirect water away from the foundation but still just onto the ground wouldn't fly in most cases. But then it rains a lot here.
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Jun 28, 2019 13:01
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Nah, it makes it into the gutter. Then there are downpipes of course; usually too few, but they do exist. The tiles overhanging the gutter slightly just makes it a huge pain in the rear end the clean out and you get all scratched up.
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Jun 28, 2019 13:02
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~Coxy posted:Nah, it makes it into the gutter. Then there are downpipes of course; usually too few, but they do exist. Ah.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Only thing that worried me about that was the undercarriage shots which had a ton of rust. Park under a tree. Drive away, forcing all the leaves and crap on the roof directly into the grill of the A/C fan, completely clogging it and destroying the motor. Very cool.
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You ever seen those things where it's like 'this is the $20,000 gown I wanted copied for $200 from some sketchy online tailoring shop, and here's the garbage sack that they sent me?" Here's the picture they sent, and this what they got back. Synthbuttrange posted:
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Queen Victorian posted:I did a double take because that poo poo looks a lot like the curved corner in my hallway other than the baseboard riddled with rendering errors. That was basically what I meant. I knew what they were *supposed* to be doing, but I couldn't fathom how they failed at it so badly. It's like random hacking at the trim in the hopes that it will somehow form a curve. TooMuchAbstraction posted:It took me halfway through that image before I realized I wasn't staring at someone's scrap wood pile. Honestly, using a vertical pole, boring a hole in each plank, and rotating the planks around the pole would have been easier. And that antifreeze air duct is baller.
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there wolf posted:You ever seen those things where it's like 'this is the $20,000 gown I wanted copied for $200 from some sketchy online tailoring shop, and here's the garbage sack that they sent me?" Here's the picture they sent, and this what they got back. There's a special place in hell for people who make "DIY" videos/tutorials where step 1 is get a cnc machine/laser cutter
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commercial_buildings.tiff Guess who gets to spend probably all weekend figuring out where these breakers go
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Platystemon posted:
Wrong thread.
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protectionfault posted:
Is it really just having one dude with a radio walking around, telling the dude by the breaker what turned off or on? How does this work on such a large scale?
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null_pointer posted:Is it really just having one dude with a radio walking around, telling the dude by the breaker what turned off or on? How does this work on such a large scale? We're borrowing a circuit-mapper doohickey that I can hook up to 8 branches at once and then go around seeing what is on what branch, but there's obviously a whole hell of a lot more than 8 branches so I'm expecting it to take a while. I think it works through RF or magic or something, I dunno. It's one of those "been meaning to do it for years" projects and our electrical contractor finally put his foot down and said that he's sick of working on our poo poo. It's a 1960s building and what you're looking at is like the remnants of like five successive generations of wiring. You can actually tell where the original panel was on the wall, but that one is long gone and poo poo has just been run every which-a-way for so long that it's honestly going to take a long time to draw the map - a lot of these branches have ended up going to weird places and not in any logical organization. It's gonna suck. At least it's all in conduit so if I get really confused I can just start pulling the drop ceiling down and looking. The three-phase single-item branches are labelled, at least. protectionfault fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jun 29, 2019 |
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protectionfault posted:The three-phase single-item branches are labelled, at least.
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In the spirit of that 2x6 cabin monstrosity, here’s are the shop building blogs from the guys at Mortise & Tenon: https://www.mortiseandtenonmag.com/blogs/blog/tagged/timber-frame-shop Granite foundation, timber framing, non-crappy construction
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Synthbuttrange posted:Only thing that worried me about that was the undercarriage shots which had a ton of rust. I'd love to see how that holds up to extended driving. I can't imagine the flares or the copper lines are going to love being bounced around as that thing makes its way down the road.
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ExplodingSims posted:I'd love to see how that holds up to extended driving. Mmm, I've seen that sort of setup, but generally much further down off the bumper, and it has some kind of shroud.
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I dont understand why though. They make hvac units specifically for his application. They cost less, and work better.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Mmm, I've seen that sort of setup, but generally much further down off the bumper, and it has some kind of shroud. I mean, so have I. But usually they're mounted low and much more rigidly, not hanging off the rear like like 4' out.
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Darchangel posted:Why... why did they run the roofing tiles out over the gutters? ~Coxy posted:That's standard here. Dunno whether it's a good idea but it wouldn't surprise me if it's not. We are very bad at building houses. Jaded Burnout posted:Seems like it would defeat the point of gutters, which is to catch water as it runs off the tiles. I'm not seeing any gutters in that image though?
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The grey metal thing with the slits cut into it is the gutter.
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