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That priceless antique is the breadboard prototype of the modern powerstrip.
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The contrast between the outlets, the romex, and the soldering gets me. It's like a trifecta of three different directions of quality. Antique, modern, and diy. The wood of course represents the fire hazard.
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Apr 22, 2020 22:33
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there wolf posted:Good construction posing as crappy construction Holy poo poo. That took planning.
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Apr 22, 2020 22:48
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Youth Decay posted:This is a bad house Here's a listing with more pictures. I like it overall, lots of good detailing. The wide-angle shot didn't do it any favors though. If it was designed and built with any sort of rigor (likely, given the quality of detailing) it's probably quite energy efficient.
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Apr 22, 2020 23:41
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Darchangel posted:Holy poo poo. I would bet this house belongs to a mason.
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Apr 23, 2020 02:01
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Crappy construction in progress. Colorado construction crew digs through fiber line, knocking out "Call Before You Dig" service.
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Looking for more info on the falling brick wall has lead me to discover the Amsterdamse school architecture which was all about complex brick masonry.    
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there wolf posted:Looking for more info on the falling brick wall has lead me to discover the Amsterdamse school architecture which was all about complex brick masonry. This is brick sorcery and I will not be convinced otherwise!
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Apr 23, 2020 03:10
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This one bugs me. My understanding is that mortar is pathetic in tension. Is there something else holding up that bottom course of bricks? It looks like they're more than a brick's length from the wall.
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Apr 23, 2020 03:29
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This one bugs me. My understanding is that mortar is pathetic in tension. Is there something else holding up that bottom course of bricks? It looks like they're more than a brick's length from the wall. Are you suggesting... Are you suggesting load-bearing hubris?!
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Apr 23, 2020 03:32
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Or, y'know, rebar
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 What section of the NEC covers screw taps, I wonder.
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there wolf posted:Good construction posing as crappy construction Is this the free style masonry that all conspiracy theorists rave about? TooMuchAbstraction posted:This one bugs me. My understanding is that mortar is pathetic in tension. Is there something else holding up that bottom course of bricks? It looks like they're more than a brick's length from the wall. Bricks come in different sizes and can be quite long. Look at the vertically laid bricks below it.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This one bugs me. My understanding is that mortar is pathetic in tension. Is there something else holding up that bottom course of bricks? It looks like they're more than a brick's length from the wall. Probably a lintel.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This one bugs me. My understanding is that mortar is pathetic in tension. Is there something else holding up that bottom course of bricks? It looks like they're more than a brick's length from the wall. It looks to me like the bottom five courses of bricks have been repointed, the mortar looks newer than the flat exterior portion of the wall. A few areas were also repointed on the curves above that. So yeah whatever is holding the bottom up (a lintel? Hope?) it's not great they have had problems with cracking, but it's not so bad that bricks are going to fall out. Give it 50-200 years for that.
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there wolf posted:Looking for more info on the falling brick wall has lead me to discover the Amsterdamse school architecture which was all about complex brick masonry. I really like the brickwork here, it's amazing.
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kid sinister posted:Crappy construction in progress. Colorado construction crew digs through fiber line, knocking out "Call Before You Dig" service. I work in telecom and it's still unbelievable to me how many critical services have such bad fiber routing. The fibe infrastructure is resold so many times before it gets to the end customer that nobody actually knows what they hell they are buying. You buy "diverse paths" that go in different directions out of your facility in New York only to find out that before they get to DC/Ashburn VA they both go trough the same drat tunnel. Or even different waves on the same drat cable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Street_Tunnel_fire (for example - and yes, this happened to multiple customers of mine at the time). Motronic fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Apr 23, 2020 |
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Apr 23, 2020 15:36
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Youth Decay posted:This is a bad house Those doorways aren't made with the golden ratio, it makes them somewhat disturbing to look at. Also all of that wasted space and uncomfortably industrial hallways 
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kid sinister posted:Crappy construction in progress. Colorado construction crew digs through fiber line, knocking out "Call Before You Dig" service. Man, underground poo poo has me nervous for any job I might have to do at my place that requires digging. EVERYTHING in my neighborhood is underground. No power/telephone lines/poles at all. Power, telephone, gas, and a local fiber utility are all here and all just under my feet. Obviously I'd call Digsafe or whoever it is around here, but as history has shown us, it's not perfect.
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Thanks for making me happy about my hosue today. SO far today Snaked a huge lint plug out of the washtub in the basement the Trap disintegrated the second I touched it with a wrench Turned on a faucet to test a fix of Pvc pipe that was leaking and found that the drain is leaking like a sieve. But hey at least no one screwd wires into what looks like the service line coming into my electrical box.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr1IAfl0_TM Documentary series going over British households in different eras and how they killed their occupants. This one is Edwardian, with a big focus on the introduction of electricity to houses. (What don't they need? Insulated wires, grounding, literally any safety feature. What do they need? An electric tablecloth) The post-war episode has a bit about when DIY became a trend and the ways people maimed themselves at it.
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HelleSpud posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr1IAfl0_TM The Edwardian terrace I bought last year had wiring run under the wallpaper, and one remaining gas lamp fitting for some reason (thankfully disconnected). That presenter is... well put together  .
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wooger posted:The Edwardian terrace I bought last year had wiring run under the wallpaper, and one remaining gas lamp fitting for some reason (thankfully disconnected). She did the killer stairs doc, too. She's a doctor of philosophy and an accomplished academic as well as a megababe.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I really like the brickwork here, it's amazing. Second fun fact: a lot of the patterns and coloring, especially in the leaded windows, lampshades and wallpapers are inspired by techniques and patterns from batik prints.
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HelleSpud posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr1IAfl0_TM HIDDEN KILLERS OF THE BRITISH HOME. Love that poo poo. If you liked that, you'll also enjoy Lucy Worsley's "If Walls Could Talk". Less gruesome, but peak bingable British documentary.
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tater_salad posted:Thanks for making me happy about my hosue today. ..no one that you know of! 
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My friend recently bought a house upon which the previous owner, named Murray, somehow managed to graft an excess of outlets and power strips. Interior, exterior, on out buildings, inside cabinets, didn’t matter. Murray wanted power, so he made drat sure he always had MOAR POWAH. Even Murray wasn’t a big enough monster to do that to a goddamn living tree like some kind of Grover Druid.
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I’ve seen trees grow around and incorporate a barbed wire fence, but not something as big as an electrical box.
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Luneshot posted:I’ve seen trees grow around and incorporate a barbed wire fence, but not something as big as an electrical box. 
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What, you think bikes just grow on trees?
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A sad day for Buckaroo Banzai, aged 5.
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I was looking for this classic But then I found this  The Ents mean business.
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Luneshot posted:I’ve seen trees grow around and incorporate a barbed wire fence, but not something as big as an electrical box. I went to an old small-scale mine site in the hills of northern Cali, where the crew had just bolted a bunch of equipment to nearby trees which they left when their hand-expanded natural cave claim pinched out, there were three equipped trees surviving. Each had what I eventually decided was most probably some kind of gearbox arrangement at a little over my waist height (I am 6'2"). There was a 10-14" main sprocket with a socket point on the hub, I think 4-5 other gears including another one with another socket. Could have been a small donkey steam engine or hand-crank-or-lever-powered arrangement for crushing or sifting? Anyway these shits had also been 1/4-1/3d encompassed by subsequent tree growth and the whole scene was pretty loving surreal. It was on a privately owned 'preserve' 'ranch' that someone maintained as a vacation home, the whole thing was basically the length of a natural creekbed canyon and the inner sides of hills which went from "used to barely be a sledding hill when Rice Country used to get snow in the winter" to "when I was in the Army we would have planned a rest break if we did a training movement up this slope," had a huge amount of wild-growing heirloom roses and some gorgeous creek-forest-grove spots and a gravel road running the length. There were signs of other digging works and some old frequently-used campsites with eroded carvings in rock faces, a place where a small gantry and steam-shovel-with-bucket-looking machine had collapsed before or after being abandoned, but the gear trees were my favorite. My ex-wife might still have some pictures saved, we visited the place because her father was hired as the year-round live-in caretaker. No promises.
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there's one of those in a Cleveland neighborhood. i assume they intended it
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Suspect Bucket posted:HIDDEN KILLERS OF THE BRITISH HOME. Love that poo poo. If you liked that, you'll also enjoy Lucy Worsley's "If Walls Could Talk". I might if either was available in my country  But to add some content, I saw this on imgur as "Polish Water Tower" and google tells me it's in Wroclaw.  Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Apr 26, 2020 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:But to add some content, I saw this on imgur as "Polish Water Tower" and google tells me it's in Wroclaw. Wrong thread. This owns. Whatever it is, it owns.
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