Zipperelli. posted:

drat, came here to post this.

Seriously, what kind of brainworms leads to someone thinking carpet in a bathroom is a good idea?

Youth Decay posted:

feet cold after shower/bath
carpet = warm
put carpet in bathroom = warm feet

that is the entirety of their thought process

(also maybe fear of slippery tile but bathmats existed back in the 70s so idk)

tinytort posted:

Not just in the bathroom, either - they put carpet on the bathtub rim, which is an extra level of wtf brainworms. I mean, it's one thing to manage to overlook the fact that the bathroom floor will routinely get wet, or to assume that it will dry out fast enough that mold will never be an issue. (It will not dry out fast enough.)

It's another to put carpet right next to the water.

Just. Why?!

tinytort posted:

Not just in the bathroom, either - they put carpet on the bathtub rim, which is an extra level of wtf brainworms.

drgitlin posted:

That’s the second Italian motorway bridge to collapse in two years.

canyoneer posted:

Now i'm imagining bathroom tiles built into the carpet like pavers in grass.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Heated floors are COMMUNISM

stevewm posted:

Speaking of I need to do exactly that in my house... I have a single central air return; if you close the door to any room in the house with the AC running, that room will get noticeably warmer after a while since the air can't flow back to the return. They didn't put vents above the doors either. If the furnace/AC kicks on, it will sometimes suck the doors closed from the air pressure difference.

Warmachine posted:

A spectre is haunting DIY--the spectre of piss towels.

BraveUlysses posted:

here in seattle a major bridge is closed during CV19 shutdowns because the cracks propagated extremely fast over the past 2-3 months:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/west-seattle-bridge-was-on-a-road-to-collapse-engineers-reports-show/

this bridge sucks a lotta fuckin rear end because it has to allow for ship traffic below without being a drawbridge so it peaks up really high and drops down which makes traffic even worse than you'd expect

Jaded Burnout posted:

The Yellow Menace.

Motronic posted:

Jaded Burnout posted:

The Yellow Menace.

Jaded Burnout posted:

I meant that to be a riff on "red menace" and then realised that "yellow peril" is already a thing. Goddamnit, racists.

GotLag posted:

urine trouble now

Jaded Burnout posted:

folks are gonna be pissed

PainterofCrap posted:

Feel like I'm in the trucking thread with all this piss talk

PureEvil6_13 posted:

Bricktending -

Watched some other crew build a 3 story full brick chimney with absolutely no wall ties.

Being told when I'm 4 stories up on wobbly scaffolding to carry bricks with the brick tong on the side where you would fall so when the bricks popped out of the tongs, like they always did, the weight releasing would naturally have you fall toward the wall instead of the ground.

I worked for two brothers. One day we got to tear down a wall because one of them measured the joints as B and the other measured them as D. So one corner post was marked with B and other with D. You wouldn't find out until you reach the top of the wall. There was the added bonus that we were using colored mortar too.

A fellow brick tender got pissed off at a cat that was wandering around the job site and he threw his hammer at it, it bounced up and hit one of the brothers' brand new truck. The ensuing curse out was legendary, and my co-worker said 'gently caress you guys!" and turned around to walk off. Trouble was, I drove him to the job site that day and he was easily 30 minutes from home by car. He stopped, looked at my car, turned and looked at us, one of my bosses yells out "Now what?" while laughing. The guy turned and loving walked home.

Did a full brick job for an engineer at Boeing. Super anal retentive guy, he would sweep the floor boards of the entire house every night. He made the guys who put his insulation in come back and redo it all because it wasn't pink. He then made them come back again and go over everywhere that insulation was sticking out of the side and stuff it in. He wanted absolutely no insulation showing. When we do porches, we fill them in with all the broken brick and detritus from the ground to help the owner save some money filling it in with sand. We fill in his porch as we always do one day, and when we come back the next, he had completely cleared it out by hand and even dug another inch down just to make sure. I remember once walking by that porch and throwing a cigarette butt in. He immediately jumps in and picks it up and throws it in his trash bucket. The guy was a real pain in the rear end.
The day comes that we have to acidize his house. Because of the type of brick he chose we had to make the mix a little stronger than usual (muriatic acid with water). We get to the side of his house where his driveway is near and we tell him that he needs to move his truck because if this mix gets on it he'll be able to hear it rust overnight. It was nice and windy that day blowing toward his truck. He ignores this advice and his truck got a real nice acid wash.

Leviathan Song posted:

You sound like the kind of lazy rear end in a top hat whose work lasts for 5 years tops. No wonder he stopped listening to you. Put your trash in the dumpster, not someones house.

Leviathan Song posted:

You sound like the kind of lazy rear end in a top hat whose work lasts for 5 years tops. No wonder he stopped listening to you. Put your trash in the dumpster, not someones house.

PureEvil6_13 posted:

That's a pretty extreme assumption to come up with from me throwing a cigarette butt into an empty porch. I could have thrown out on the ground, or in his house, but if you're the kind of fancy lad that's going to walk all the way around the house to throw something like that in the dumpster, see how long you stay employed in construction.

Also, our work was considered some of the best around. We didn't cut corners or do lazy poo poo like cutting the face off of one brick and slapping it on the side of another for the corners when we capped a window well.

I'm curious, what's the most labor intensive job YOU'VE had?

PureEvil6_13 posted:

That's a pretty extreme assumption to come up with from me throwing a cigarette butt into an empty porch. I could have thrown out on the ground, or in his house, but if you're the kind of fancy lad that's going to walk all the way around the house to throw something like that in the dumpster, see how long you stay employed in construction.

Also, our work was considered some of the best around. We didn't cut corners or do lazy poo poo like cutting the face off of one brick and slapping it on the side of another for the corners when we capped a window well.

I'm curious, what's the most labor intensive job YOU'VE had?

Renaissance Robot posted:

Discovered while shopping houses



Think I'll pass.

wooger posted:

I’m not sure what the job has to do with it being OK to litter on someone else’s property.

Arms_Akimbo posted:

We used to have ashtrays to put our butts in but y'all took them away, so this is what you get.