Crappy Construction: The Four POs of the Housepocalypse

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Jaded Burnout: Jul 10, 2004

wesleywillis posted:

Raised bathtub to attract the

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Javid: Oct 21, 2004

My uncle's bathroom is pretty great.

# ? Aug 10, 2019 19:58

wesleywillis: Dec 30, 2016; SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

Permanent piss towels.....

# ? Aug 10, 2019 20:15

Methylethylaldehyde: Oct 23, 2004; BAKA BAKA

wesleywillis posted:

Permanent piss towels.....

...nailed to the entire wall?

# ? Aug 10, 2019 21:13

Bad Munki: Nov 4, 2008; We're all mad here.

Load bearing piss towels

# ? Aug 10, 2019 22:16

Bad Munki: Nov 4, 2008; We're all mad here.

Uhhhhh

# ? Aug 11, 2019 01:42

Burt Sexual: Jan 26, 2006; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Switchblade Switcharoo

Javid posted:

My uncle's bathroom is pretty great.

Hand washing unnecessary

# ? Aug 11, 2019 02:05

uvar: Jul 25, 2011; Avoid breathing
radioactive dust.; College Slice

Javid posted:

My uncle's bathroom is pretty great.

At first glance I thought the toilet seat was covered with mould.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 02:16

IncredibleIgloo: Feb 17, 2011

uvar posted:

At first glance I thought the toilet seat was covered with mould.

I mean, it probably still is.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 02:19

H110Hawk: Dec 28, 2006

Yay! Spent a week away from home and came home to this. The drywallers must have done it as they were the only contractors in for the past few days.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 03:07

Hispanic! At The Disco: Dec 25, 2011

Jaded Burnout posted:

This picture makes me understand what Orwell meant by "doublethink" because I know for a fact that is not me on the right but I SWEAR that is me on the right.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 03:47

TooMuchAbstraction: Oct 14, 2012; I spent four years making
Waves of Steel
Hell yes I'm going to turn my avatar into an ad for it.; Fun Shoe

H110Hawk posted:

Yay! Spent a week away from home and came home to this. The drywallers must have done it as they were the only contractors in for the past few days.

They cracked your driveway enough to leave a six-inch gap in the garage door? It sure doesn't look like the ground is flat there.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 03:51

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TooMuchAbstraction posted:

They cracked your driveway enough to leave a six-inch gap in the garage door? It sure doesn't look like the ground is flat there.

I think the ground settled and cracked the driveway?

# ? Aug 11, 2019 03:54

riderchop: Aug 10, 2010; av by @daikonquest!

He said the contractors did it so they clearly had a white knuckle, concrete-cracking kung fu fight on his property, duh.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 03:59

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

They cracked your driveway enough to leave a six-inch gap in the garage door?

No they moved the bball rim a foot to the right.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 04:52

Budgie: Mar 9, 2007; Yeah, like the bird.

Bad Munki posted:

Uhhhhh

19 folds, think that's anatomically correct.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 08:05

Moatman: Mar 21, 2014; Because the goof is all mine.

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

They cracked your driveway enough to leave a six-inch gap in the garage door? It sure doesn't look like the ground is flat there.

I think it's an optical illusion. The top left of the garage is hosed up and pulled part of the door off the ground

# ? Aug 11, 2019 08:51

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

Bad Munki posted:

Left and middle bottom pic need to be swapped so it's now - in 4 weeks - in 6 months

# ? Aug 11, 2019 09:25

MagusofStars: Mar 31, 2012

Moatman posted:

I think it's an optical illusion. The top left of the garage is hosed up and pulled part of the door off the ground

Also, if you look a little further left of that, there are some shelves in the corner of the fence and garage that appear untouched and actually have a can of paint or whatever on it. So it doesn't seem like they screwed up the garage structure itself because that would presumably have messed up the shelf and/or knocked that can off the shelf.

Seems like the contractors just hit the corner of the garage door somehow hard enough to jar it out of alignment/bend it.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 10:10

H110Hawk: Dec 28, 2006

MagusofStars posted:

Seems like the contractors just hit the corner of the garage door somehow hard enough to jar it out of alignment/bend it.

This is my take as well. I haven't been inside yet to verify. I am quite sleep deprived so sorry about the picture being wonky.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 12:41

DrBouvenstein: Feb 28, 2007; I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

No they moved the bball rim a foot to the right.

Not gonna lie, now that you pointed it out the off-center bball hoop makes me angrier than any other possible thing in that picture.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 13:43

H110Hawk: Dec 28, 2006

DrBouvenstein posted:

Not gonna lie, now that you pointed it out the off-center bball hoop makes me angrier than any other possible thing in that picture.

I know what sort of monster installs a basketball hoop. (The previous owners did it. It is centered more or less on the "playable" portion of the driveway, which was less when our patio cover of structural dry rot and illegal span lengths was overhanging that fence.)

Also our driveway is indeed a patchwork of crap, 2 different sections of concrete and some asphalt which is itself poorly laid and patched. It rarely freezes here so it doesn't matter too much outside of aesthetics. It's basically somewhere off the bottom of the list of things I care about. When it becomes a hazard to walk or drive on I will fix it properly several years later.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 18:50

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

Blue Footed Booby posted:

also

A while back, I read about a construction team whose boss explained they were working near a buried fiber optic line that connected Europe with Africa, and that damaging it would cause a zillion dollar per minute Big loving Deal. Sure enough, a guy in an excavator managed to sever the line. When he realized it, he got out of the cab, walked off the site, was never seen again.

A former coworker used to work with a snow plow company and one of their coworkers did that after hitting a body in a snowbank.

On the upside the autopsy found the guy had died before being hit by the snowplow.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:

https://twitter.com/alejandroid/status/1159162678780338176?s=19

not sure if this really counts but

From what I've heard about the fighting game community they'd hold a entire event in there. I recall hearing about one tournament being forced out of a venue by fire marshals because the building was partially collapsing.

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Chubby Henparty: Aug 13, 2007

Wait wait wait... No place to put it... Five more to go... Next one inside the bowl?

# ? Aug 11, 2019 19:54

Icon Of Sin: Dec 26, 2008

In the shower, duh. It�s just unused space otherwise.

# ? Aug 11, 2019 22:28

Hippie Hedgehog: Feb 19, 2007; Ever cuddled a hedgehog?

Saw this the other day.

I guess they didn't want anyone to turn out the lights?

# ? Aug 12, 2019 10:17

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Here's some Finnish prefabricated Groverhauses for you. It's Google translation but seems readable.

https://translate.google.com/transl...mo-ovat-pulassa

This is what quality looks like:

This bathroom's tiling cracked so the company's repairmen tore them off and also broke the waterproofing, revealing that the waterproofing was directly on the wooden frame that is going to shrink and grow over time, oh and this is also a load bearing wall so rot is doubly undesirable:

Nenonen fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Aug 12, 2019

# ? Aug 12, 2019 16:58

H110Hawk: Dec 28, 2006

H110Hawk posted:

Yay! Spent a week away from home and came home to this. The drywallers must have done it as they were the only contractors in for the past few days.

Progress!

Our GC is having a garage door repair company come out to assess what happened.

# ? Aug 13, 2019 02:14

Ornamental Dingbat: Feb 26, 2007

Yo the contractors also stole all of the concrete from your garage floor.

# ? Aug 13, 2019 02:25

stupid puma: Apr 25, 2005

Looks like the cable snapped on one side. If you live in a place with winter and they use salt on the roads, rust was probably the culprit.

# ? Aug 13, 2019 02:30

Ornamental Dingbat: Feb 26, 2007

Whatever caused it DO NOT gently caress with those return springs unless you know what you're dealing with.

# ? Aug 13, 2019 02:32

Detheros: Apr 11, 2010; I want to die.

Bad Munki posted:

Uhhhhh

No ring.

# ? Aug 13, 2019 02:37

Bad Munki: Nov 4, 2008; We're all mad here.

My money says someone left something blocking the door from closing at that one end but without tripping the optical interrupt. For example, a sawhorse does this perfectly. And since it�s off to one side, the torque shutoff doesn�t kick in until it�s good and fuckered off the track. Don�t ask me how I know this, it�s none of your drat business.

On the plus side, it�s generally relatively easy to fix.

# ? Aug 13, 2019 02:38

H110Hawk: Dec 28, 2006

Bad Munki posted:

My money says someone left something blocking the door from closing at that one end but without tripping the optical interrupt. For example, a sawhorse does this perfectly. And since it’s off to one side, the torque shutoff doesn’t kick in until it’s good and fuckered off the track. Don’t ask me how I know this, it’s none of your drat business.

On the plus side, it’s generally relatively easy to fix.

This is my guess as well. The track on the dickered side is a bit bent and there is fresh wood installed behind it. I also bet they were operating it manually. The wiring to the button and sensors are also a bit dickered but it was like that when we bought the place.

And yes, gently caress those potential energy bombs they put above the door.

# ? Aug 13, 2019 02:46