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Ashcans posted:Willing to forgive that one, because gently caress if I know any decent way to organize an apartment that shape. Just do whatever. If you've got a better way to divide a circular building into 16 equal spaces I'd like to hear it! 
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If the internet taught me anything there must be people out there who wish to live in an eternally revolving wheel house wedge where no guest knows who's apartment he'll step into.
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There's a dorm at my old college that has 3 round pillars attached to a central space/elevator shaft. The room layout is thus: The beds double as couches. You can shove them underneath a platform with padded doors that's also designed for storage. It's actually fairly clever, but I can't imagine bunking with a roommate in one of those pizza wedges. Here's an overhead view (and an accurate description of the lifestyle): http://wikimapia.org/35276111/Roskie-Hall
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Sep 18, 2020 20:05
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By popular demand posted:Is there also a cultural reason not to use the kitchen area as a corridor like so: I'd just swap the toilet and the bathroom with what I assume is the entrance hallway (the grey room just south from both). I really wonder what was the thought process behind this though - there's gotta be some reason why this happened
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:There's a dorm at my old college that has 3 round pillars attached to a central space/elevator shaft. The room layout is thus: I knew what college in the first sentence! I lived in the dorm across from it and somehow only went into a Roskie room once. I thought it was cool.
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canyoneer posted:If you've got a better way to divide a circular building into 16 equal spaces I'd like to hear it! I can understand a centrally located wet wall for all rooms but then there's the sinks. Also, how do you get off the wheel?
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Sep 18, 2020 20:27
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You have to wait for the contestant to answer correctly.
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canyoneer posted:If you've got a better way to divide a circular building into 16 equal spaces I'd like to hear it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGXHMOhXAw
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Sep 18, 2020 20:36
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It must really suck to clean behind the vertex toilet in the isosceles apartment.
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nurmie posted:I'd just swap the toilet and the bathroom with what I assume is the entrance hallway (the grey room just south from both). I really wonder what was the thought process behind this though - there's gotta be some reason why this happened Chrohn’s disease or IBS IBD or ostomy bag
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Sep 18, 2020 22:53
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canyoneer posted:If you've got a better way to divide a circular building into 16 equal spaces I'd like to hear it! here's a better way: don't
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Sep 18, 2020 23:32
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nurmie posted:Weirdest thing is, it seems like there's plenty of space for the toilet in what I assume is the bathroom just to the right, just wtf Same with in the doom bathroom
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Sep 19, 2020 00:05
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canyoneer posted:If you've got a better way to divide a circular building into 16 equal spaces I'd like to hear it! You'd be able to hear every single one of your neighbors poo poo at the same time
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Arms_Akimbo posted:You'd be able to hear every single one of your neighbors poo poo at the same time Wheel Of Fartion!
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Sep 19, 2020 14:45
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Arms_Akimbo posted:You'd be able to hear every single one of your neighbors poo poo at the same time If you all poo poo hard enough, simultaneously, the building blasts off, and reveals the secret to Sim Earth.
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I work for an organization that serves some lower income people. Today I witnessed a house, owned by an elder, where the toilet was broken so they were throwing poo poo out the window. The bathroom window was open and there were brown streaks leading to a pile on the ground. You could smell it from the road
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^^^ Fuckin poo poo (no pun intended) Is that a result of just plain old "nobody that can do anything about it gives a gently caress about the poor"? Or is it a combination of Dementia and not knowing/caring/being conherent enough to call maintenance? Or is that oldie just smart as gently caress and figuring "If I throw poo poo out the window they'll come fix it faster"?
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Sep 19, 2020 17:17
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By popular demand posted:If the internet taught me anything there must be people out there who wish to live in an eternally revolving wheel house wedge where no guest knows who's apartment he'll step into. The inner wheel of toilets spins the other way so you never know which shitter you're going to get!
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Clearly the answer is to swap the toilets and the hall before making them rotate in opposite directions so you can go into the shitter from one apartment and then go back through the same door into another apartment.
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corgski posted:Clearly the answer is to swap the toilets and the hall before making them rotate in opposite directions so you can go into the shitter from one apartment and then go back through the same door into another apartment. Wheel! Of! EFFLUVIAAAAaaaa!
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:https://twitter.com/bigshika/status/1306835178136899584 The Japanese tweet points out that this unit is already leased to someone, so it must be popular. lol
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And the answer is lovely old dorms (company -owned dormitories are common) that were remodeled to include a private bath. My city still has old dorms and apartment blocks that only have shared bathrooms or no baths/showers at all.
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Garry of Garry's Mod fame had quite a bit of crappy construction in his home renovation https://garry.tv/house-fuckups For example:   
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By popular demand posted:Bigger image: That's probably because that is a squat toilet. Such a design wouldn't be possible with a Western toilet without having to climb over the back from one direction. The Chairman posted:or one where the toilet and the sink are three rooms apart When the Japanese have a sit down toilet, it always has a built in bidet. If get #1 or #2 on your hands there, you're doing it wrong.
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kid sinister posted:That's probably because that is a squat toilet. Such a design wouldn't be possible with a Western toilet without having to climb over the back from one direction.
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Nova69 posted:Garry of Garry's Mod fame had quite a bit of crappy construction in his home renovation I can’t imagine having the money for this kind of stuff and also apparently having the worst luck with contractors. This reminds me of that goon that bought a house that they just kept discovering issue after issue from the previous owner/flipper.
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Sep 21, 2020 03:17
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All of that is garden variety punchlist issues in larger commercial/industrial/institutional buildings. the prime got lovely subs, and didn't wrangle them correctly.
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MRC48B posted:All of that is garden variety punchlist issues in larger commercial/industrial/institutional buildings. I only looked at the pics quoted and was going to say absolutely not, but after clicking through yeah, you're correct. A good contractor can correct most of those before the client sees them. Crappy tales of my own, the tiles in my entry room and half bath are all coming lose. I doubt they have the right backer board, and I'd bet they're just mortared to the subfloor. I really like them too, I doubt I'll be able to save them to fix them so.... It's a problem for another time.
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I don't know, at a minimum it sounds like he had the shittiest plumbers I've ever seen. Like 80 percent of that page is "this drain was also never actually connected".
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Nova69 posted:Garry of Garry's Mod fame had quite a bit of crappy construction in his home renovation this makes me feel better about all the random poo poo I'm finding in my house.
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I find tons of idiot poo poo in my house, but it's also 150 years old so really it's not a surprise that there are gremlins living in it. What was a surprise is that no one had bothered to put in actual insulation in the walls until we bought it. 150 years of people just freezing their asses off and burning fuel like a bonfire.  It's because you can insulate properly with knob and tube wiring, which no one had bothered to take care of either 
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Ashcans posted:I find tons of idiot poo poo in my house, but it's also 150 years old so really it's not a surprise that there are gremlins living in it. I bought my house in 1992 and insulated it in 2008. When my house was built in 1930, it was heated with a coal oven in the dining room. Coal remained cheap for a long time. Locally: a good percentage of homes in central and western PA are still heated with coal. I had a loss in one outside of Coraopolis, PA in 2011. Huge house with a large 2-story garage the size of, and equipped for, servicing trucks. No insulation. I show up, it's maybe 25-degrees out, and every window is open. Guy heats it all with coal, has 2-bins at the end of his driveway, each bin holds about 8-tons of coal. His son works for a mine in West Virginia, every couple-three years, he brings a truckload of coal to fill the bins, about $150.00/pop. It's 80 in the house. He regulates the temp by opening windows and doors.
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Sorry, wrong thread, this is awesome. There is crappy construction and there is clever construction. This is the latter, clearly someone had a problem that needed to be solved as cheaply as possible with materials on-hand and did so in a way which is both user friendly and efficient.
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skybolt_1 posted:Sorry, wrong thread, this is awesome. There is crappy construction and there is clever construction. This is the latter, clearly someone had a problem that needed to be solved as cheaply as possible with materials on-hand and did so in a way which is both user friendly and efficient. Except that the mechanism is not built to withstand a wet outdoor environment and there seems to be no way to operate the latch from the other side.
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the position of the padlock hasp suggests it is not a gate intended to be operated from the other side.
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By popular demand posted:Well goddamn, turns out I haven't ever lived in a truly lovely apartment.
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Munin posted:Except that the mechanism is not built to withstand a wet outdoor environment and there seems to be no way to operate the latch from the other side. which makes it better than 99% of the pro lock installs in this thread
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