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Motronic posted:I've run into this multiple times. A lot of electricians have no idea how data cabling works and think you can just patch it on up like a POTS line (which they also do wrong, but it has more of a chance of passibly working for at least voice but probably not DSL). It's something that honestly comes up enough that when I write a scope/statement of work, I will prohibit subbing cable pulling to primarily electrical contractors. I mean if they have a data cabling division fine, but if it's some guy like my brother...oh gently caress no. Usually the big issue they can't seem to crimp connectors for poo poo but sometimes they really pull some dumb poo poo. But the wirenut and tape was something else. Still better than the time the electrian decided that low voltage cable going through a firewall didn't need a firestop. That dude was lucky I caught that rather than someone else.
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https://twitter.com/BLYLHphl/status/1394391182873083911?s=20 A Philly story about this particular developer (Spoiler: his buildings suck). https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/housing/gagandeep-lakhmna-philadelphia-landlord-developer-greenpointe-construction-20210317.html Unrelated (Well, probably):     Phanatic fucked around with this message at 19:51 on May 18, 2021 |
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I've been on a few jobs in the aftermath of this, that's vermiculite insulation, which, besides being pretty asbestosy, is insanely absorbent, so you'll get a little leak in your roof, but you won't see any of the tell-tail water spotting on the ceiling, since the vermiculite just sucks up all that water, then when a few thousand pounds of water have been absorbed, it instantly and magically relocates all your ceiling drywall to the floor like that.
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Phanatic posted:Unrelated (Well, probably): So they took a hammer and beat out all the concrete, and then cut the rebar and bent it out of the way? There's loving something up, and then there's spending a lot of time to really gently caress it up.
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Elviscat posted:I've been on a few jobs in the aftermath of this, that's vermiculite insulation, which, besides being pretty asbestosy, is insanely absorbent, so you'll get a little leak in your roof, but you won't see any of the tell-tail water spotting on the ceiling, since the vermiculite just sucks up all that water, then when a few thousand pounds of water have been absorbed, it instantly and magically relocates all your ceiling drywall to the floor like that. Though I don't think that it was water absorption, I've been present for this happening, when I was staying at my aunt and uncle's one summer. Just falling asleep around 1 AM (house was on a hill with a walkout basement, guest bedroom was on the basement floor, so I was under the kitchen/dining room) when I heard a noise that sounded like far off thunder that very quickly within 2 seconds or so became thunder 20 feet above my head, went on for about 5 seconds, then stopped. I slowly walked up the stairs into a very cloudy/dusty environment where something was CLEARLY wrong, but it took a few seconds for me to figure out that the ceiling was now on the floor. Funniest part was, the master bedroom and my cousin's room were both on the main floor but neither one of them had woken up. I remember very clearly waking up my uncle, and telling him that the ceiling appeared to have fallen down, and his reaction of "what  ", in this almost begging/pleading tone that surely I was just playing a practical joke on him and the ceiling had not actually fallen down. In that case though it seemed like the catalyst was a heavy chandelier that had not been mounted properly (i.e. it was just mounted to a ceiling round box that didn't have the metal joists going out to the ceiling rafters), and once that came down the rest of the ceiling followed. Also, that happened 20 years ago and this is the first time I've become aware that that stuff was asbestosy. So, thanks Elviscat, for letting me know I breathed in a bunch of asbestos 20 years ago. Thanks a LOT. 
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That must have been some absolutely terribly hung drywall to rip the whole ceiling down because of one overweight light fixture. On the Crappy Construction front: 
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Elviscat posted:That must have been some absolutely terribly hung drywall to rip the whole ceiling down because of one overweight light fixture. House was built by a wealthy but crazy Iranian in the early 80s (fled the country after 1979, so you draw your own conclusions, but house had an insane alarm system for the early 80s so the guy was clearly paranoid about being tracked down), and yeah, judging from the rest of the house I can believe it was generally crappy construction.
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Thomamelas posted:I was trying to troubleshoot some network cable put in by an electrician. He swore up and down he did it right. But put it on the fluke test and it failed completely. So I traced the wire and halfway through discovered where he had run out of CAT5E and spliced in another bit. Using wirenuts and electrical tape. That one hurt my soul. Should have used wago connectors.
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Ashcans posted:Should have used wago connectors. On a lark, I googled to see if they make one. They don't. I did however find a discussion of this on a sparky forum. It hurt my soul.
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GreenNight posted:
Imagine the smell.
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Detheros posted:Imagine the smell. The scent of Ric Flair.
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Beef Of Ages posted:The scent of Ric Flair. Every time you walk down those stairs you get a loud WOOOO. gently caress I just convinced myself, sign me up
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Detheros posted:Every time you walk down those stairs you get a loud WOOOO. Easy enough to do with some contact switches. Heck, now I'm thinking of actual useful ways you could use that kind of setup. Lighted treads, turn on the lights on the next floor based on direction of travel... Absolutely more effort than it's worth, but the kind of thing I'd want in my atomic home of the future.
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Dareon posted:Easy enough to do with some contact switches. Heck, now I'm thinking of actual useful ways you could use that kind of setup. Lighted treads, turn on the lights on the next floor based on direction of travel... Realistically.. a raspberry pi /Arduino some motion sensors and addressable led strips
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GreenNight posted:
Jaircase? Jairway? Jeps? . . . ~Jescalier~
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So what IS the easiest/ best way to repair a severed cat5e cable without having to buy tools I’ll never use again?
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The Dave posted:So what IS the easiest/ best way to repair a severed cat5e cable without having to buy tools I’ll never use again? If you don’t want to buy a tool the easiest and best way to repair it is to replace it. Otherwise you’ll need a punch down tool and an RJ45 crimper. Put a male end on one end of the cable, female end on the other and plug them into each other
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Check out the tilework in my new house! As a homeowner who got convinced that we could tile our living room ourselves having 1. Never tiled before, 2. picking the largest and most prominent room in the house and 3. using 20x20in tiles, I apologize to you and anyone who buys my house down the road. We tried. We tried so hard. (But in the end, it doesn't really maaaatttteeerrrrrrr) topenga fucked around with this message at 17:03 on May 19, 2021 |
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That's wild. It had to have been the wind hitting some random vortex shedding harmonic, right? Or maybe the gradient up the tower lined up just right?
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Jows posted:That's wild. It had to have been the wind hitting some random vortex shedding harmonic, right? Or maybe the gradient up the tower lined up just right? Or it wasn’t swaying at all and it’s just panic. I only keeping seeing the same shaky video against a backdrop of moving clouds
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The Dave posted:So what IS the easiest/ best way to repair a severed cat5e cable without having to buy tools I’ll never use again?
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Bumble Dong posted:If you don’t want to buy a tool the easiest and best way to repair it is to replace it. Otherwise you’ll need a punch down tool and an RJ45 crimper. Put a male end on one end of the cable, female end on the other and plug them into each other You can crimp a male terminal without crimper using a flat blade screwdriver, but it isn't especially fun or easy and you're still probably better off just getting a new cable. 20 foot cat6 cables cost less than $5 from monoprice and they just get cheaper from there.
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Crimping kits seem to be $20-$30 which might end up making sense. It's a pretty long run that goes into a ceiling run that I don't have access to so replacing it could be complicated.
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The Dave posted:Crimping kits seem to be $20-$30 which might end up making sense. It's a pretty long run that goes into a ceiling run that I don't have access to so replacing it could be complicated. If I've learned anything from the times where I've done that, it would be to tell you that you want to make sure you have enough slack to actually plug the two new ends into each other afterwards.
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kid sinister posted:I've seen this on A-frames before, but not 1.5 stories... They're multiplying https://twitter.com/misterbrandon32/status/1395126235898986497
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I’d live in roofhaus. I almost bought a geodesic dome house on an acre in Southwest Ranches, but someone scooped it out from under me with a suitcase full of cash, and then flipped it. 
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binge crotching posted:If I've learned anything from the times where I've done that, it would be to tell you that you want to make sure you have enough slack to actually plug the two new ends into each other afterwards. 
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I always heard that most geodesic domes leaked over time, especially the early ones. Also, as with A-frames, hanging pictures can be challenging. Still, they are cool and weird.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I always heard that most geodesic domes leaked over time, especially the early ones. Also, as with A-frames, hanging pictures can be challenging. Still, they are cool and weird. Ya, the price reflected some of the weirdass issues (insurance particularly can be difficult,) but it also had a detached four car garage with a shop and office/bathroom. I was really bummed.
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MrYenko posted:Ya, the price reflected some of the weirdass issues (insurance particularly can be difficult,) but it also had a detached four car garage with a shop and office/bathroom. I was really bummed. Clearly you live in the garage and rent out the dome as an AirBnB.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Clearly you live in the garage and rent out the dome as an AirBnB. GET OUT OF MY HEAD
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Memento posted:Here's a little diversion from eurovisionchat.
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Real mesothelioma posting hours on that one
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cakesmith handyman posted:So we're all agreed the golden standard is 400v 400hz right? *Dies clicking a light switch* 3-phase 120/208 400Hz, yeah. USB chargers fully integrated into a USB-A plug.
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Safety minded lighting fixture installation ITT.
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