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It's like a full size dollhouse, for easy reaching access!
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Aug 6, 2020 05:56
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From the "video game characters facing real life issues" thread in GBS:
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Aug 6, 2020 06:39
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Easily solved with a funicular. 
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Nice open plan kitchen
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My Lovely Horse posted:Nice open
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Easily solved with a funicular. You joke but I wonder what that would cost to develop/install. I assume less than a vertical lift but couldn't tell you what I'm basing that on.
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Aug 6, 2020 09:47
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You can go buy a vertical lift for a couple of thousands dollars, that you'd have to design and build from scratch, plus massive ground works to bury it at street level so you can actually get off. I'd say funicular is cooler but more expensive.
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cakesmith handyman posted:You can go buy a vertical lift for a couple of thousands dollars, that you'd have to design and build from scratch, plus massive ground works to bury it at street level so you can actually get off. I'd say funicular is cooler but more expensive. Youd still have to dig a pit in the street.
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Aug 6, 2020 10:22
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Wouldn't it be cheaper to just dig the garage down at street level and add a staircase to the house? Am I missing something?
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Aug 6, 2020 10:23
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How about one of those cable winches that just pull the car up in the garage? The other way it might work is just pulling the garage on top of the car when the garage foundations are weaker than what the car weighs and the winch is securely bolted on the garage. I just remembered that wonderful movie scene from Rat Race.
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Aug 6, 2020 11:20
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I don't know how I missed the obvious answer of "resurface the driveway with shellgrip".
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Aug 6, 2020 11:25
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Raise the road. That one’s free. PM me for my rates as a professional consultant.
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Aug 6, 2020 12:26
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Youd still have to dig a pit in the street. For the lift? Nah, remove the driveway, put the lift there. Like a combined car lift/drawbridge. Visitors have to call it down. E:I mean you're still digging a pit you're right.
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Aug 6, 2020 12:54
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Put the entire garage on hydraulic pistons. Lift it up, move car into position, lower garage down over it.
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Aug 6, 2020 13:26
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Prop up one end of the garage with a pole and tie a rope to it, hide in the bushes holding the other end and wait for the car to go in
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Aug 6, 2020 13:33
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Best solution is don't live there
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Aug 6, 2020 13:41
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Renaissance Robot posted:You joke but I wonder what that would cost to develop/install. I assume less than a vertical lift but couldn't tell you what I'm basing that on. Some people with lake houses put electric trams in. Not sure how much it costs but I've seen them on small houses selling for under $300k so can't be that exorbitant. I don't think any of them can move full-size cars though, just small boats, humans and cargo.    Or the super fancy ones have cable cars which probably do cost a fortune. 
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Aug 6, 2020 14:31
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The path from the parking up to our cabin is about that steep, and we've joked about putting in a cable car. Good to know it's actually possible if we should suddenly find that sort of money.
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Aug 6, 2020 14:35
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Just don’t let the press find out if you run for office.
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Aug 6, 2020 14:43
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I'm Norwegian, and I still haven't seen a politician properly shamed for having a heated driveway at his mountain palace - a rickety deathtrap up to our tiny south coast place should logically be fine. Still, yeah, something about "private funicular" just sounds unbearably frivolous. 
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Aug 6, 2020 14:56
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Remind them that it’s only a funicular if it has two cars counterbalancing each other.
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Aug 6, 2020 14:57
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my private lake paternoster
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Platystemon posted:Raise the road. no they can't due to requirements.. they shoudl lower teh garage
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Platystemon posted:Remind them that it’s only a funicular if it has two cars counterbalancing each other. Oh yeah, true. Cable car? Aerial tramway?
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Aug 6, 2020 15:40
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At least the downstairs has tile for convenient washing of the bloodspray.
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Youth Decay posted:Some people with lake houses put electric trams in. Not sure how much it costs but I've seen them on small houses selling for under $300k so can't be that exorbitant. I don't think any of them can move full-size cars though, just small boats, humans and cargo. My folks live on a lake with steep water access, and the beefier, "don't feel like a complete deathtrap" trams (similar to the one in your second picture) easily go over $100k for ~100 yards of tram. Fortunately their neighbor paid for one of the non-death trap variety and they are rarely up there, so we get to use it rather than climb the path up cardiac hill that was poured by the world worst concrete guy.
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By popular demand posted:Wouldn't it be cheaper to just dig the garage down at street level and add a staircase to the house? Am I missing something? It’s a subdivision that builds out 6 different housing floor plans, all of them with attached garages. The builder likely cannot fix it without getting some sort of custom builder involved (which they obviously did not do) Either way this was posted a while ago and the solution was the city giving an allowance to move the sidewalk next to the street and making the driveway less steep but still pretty loving steep. Someone here posted the google street view too.
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https://twitter.com/colettearrand/status/1291210073935613953
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In addition to being crappy, it's just stupid. At that distance from students you're not worried about blocking droplets, you're talking aerosolized SARS-CoV-2. The bigger concern would be the heater by the window sucking up airborne particles and then blasting them back out.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:In addition to being crappy, it's just stupid. At that distance from students you're not worried about blocking droplets, you're talking aerosolized SARS-CoV-2. The bigger concern would be the heater by the window sucking up airborne particles and then blasting them back out. It's Georgia so they're unlikely to need the heater for a few months and by that time everyone in the state will already be dead from coronavirus sooooo
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drgitlin posted:It's Georgia so they're unlikely to need the heater for a few months and by that time everyone in the state will already be dead from coronavirus sooooo AC will be blasting well through September though.
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Aug 7, 2020 13:47
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i dunno this seems pretty solid to me 
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So, we bought a house last month and the inspector, VA, bank and whoever else said all was good. The previous owner even signed an affidavit saying that the roof did not need work. Well the whole roof needs replaced way sooner than later. I've the funds to cover that, but I'd much prefer to have the previous owner or whoever help at least a little. We have floated the idea of a lawsuit too, granted I don't know how viable that is.
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I am sure the previous owners stated that, "to the best of their knowledge." And I am also sure the inspector's contract stated "we don't promise we'll find everything."
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I don't doubt it. I'm frustrated by it, I trusted my husband with this stuff and I really should have pressed for getting a better look at things.
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This one falls mostly to the inspector, I'd say, but they've definitely put language in there to protect themselves, and inspectors are a crapshoot. Some are awesome! Some are lazy. Some will get the ladder out and go up on the roof and get pictures and check the roofline and shingle condition and watch for rotting sheathing and look at the underside from the attic and so on. Others will have a look from the driveway and call it good.
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Bad Munki posted:This one falls mostly to the inspector, I'd say, but they've definitely put language in there to protect themselves, and inspectors are a crapshoot. Some are awesome! Some are lazy. Some will get the ladder out and go up on the roof and get pictures and check the roofline and shingle condition and watch for rotting sheathing and look at the underside from the attic and so on. Others will have a look from the driveway and call it good. The dude went into the attic, took pictures, and seemed to have said everything is fine, though he didn't seem to do anything about going into the attic space of the addition where the leak is. He'd mentioned that there had been a leak previously but it seemed to have stopped, which has proven to be untrue, unfortunately.
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Is that a thing that can happen? I would be hard-pressed to think of a situation where a roof leak would just resolve itself, but I’m not a roofer or inspector so I dunno.
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Freaquency posted:Is that a thing that can happen? I would be hard-pressed to think of a situation where a roof leak would just resolve itself, but I’m not a roofer or inspector so I dunno. When it's repaired, but the stains from the leak are left alone.
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