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Lutha Mahtin posted:cities use the new fancy meters too, it allows you to take readings without sending out meter readers Oh yeah for sure. This year I rented a fire hydrant meter that has one of those. The deposit was ridiculous and I am worried about it walking. The website said it takes like 1/30 of a second to transmit the reading.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Another successful job by Howard, Fine, and Howard Plumbing. I understood this reference. They also practice law (and medicine). 
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Lutha Mahtin posted:cities use the new fancy meters too, it allows you to take readings without sending out meter readers On our "new" meters the actual water meter is the same. It has a pulse counter that senses the turning of the arrow. Sadly instead of some steampunk turbine powered by main water pressure, it is powered by a battery with a life of 12 years. (The 4G device it's connected to has its own battery with a life of 5 years. Probably still cheaper than reading the meter...) 
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"Careful, somebody might fall."
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Whats an aestetically pleasing way to add height to wobbly furniture legs? For context the apartment I rent has major support beam issues so the flooring is slanted. Its beyond chairs and tables, it the fridge and countertops as well. A lot of things are wobbly. Yes, I know apt is hosed. A mold or putty that can dry and harden would look much nicer, than just shoving wood planks under it. (which we're currently doing). Anything that doesnt stand out to much I could use?
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How much are we talking? Like 1/8" or 3"?
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There's a 1/4" block under the countertop, and a 1/2" under the refridgerator. The landlord just shoved wood from the scrap pile under them. zaepg fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Jun 23, 2021 |
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zaepg posted:There's a 1/4" block under the countertop, and a 1/2" under the refridgerator. You can try things like caster cups for furniture: https://www.lowes.com/pl/Caster-cups-Furniture-hardware-Hardware/4294711120 And I really like snap off plastic shims for heavier things like appliances: https://www.amazon.com/Shim-Heavy-Duty-Shims-Plastic/dp/B01JMZ99TQ
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Motronic posted:You can try things like caster cups for furniture: https://www.lowes.com/pl/Caster-cups-Furniture-hardware-Hardware/4294711120 Thanks! I'll look into those. Despite the dismal shape of the townhouse/apartment I live in, my landlord fully reimburses me for any fix-up projects I undertake, so that's the one silver-lining in this project.
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https://twitter.com/douzmanian/status/1407540047155499012?s=19 That flooring. 
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why did they take out/install over the original flooring? wtf
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Old flooring was loving awesome
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zaepg posted:Thanks! I'll look into those. Just remember that you should only do the projects you WANT to do and don't mind giving away when you're done - otherwise, you're just giving the landlord free labor
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Vim Fuego posted:why did they take out/install over the original flooring? wtf gently caress that, why did they flatten the ceilings
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I don't hate the exterior (it isn't great but it's mostly the same Who thought it would be a good idea to make a piss-colored bathroom with brown accents anyway? SkyeAuroline posted:gently caress that, why did they flatten the ceilings Don't have to mess with an arched ceiling when installing the can lights. And also probably "people don't like arched ceilings" or some bullshit like that. Moatman fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Jun 24, 2021 |
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I don't really care about anything else, especially not that awful bathroom, but tearing out those floors is mind bending. It's such a weird decision I almost wonder if it's because that one room has stars of David.
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SkyeAuroline posted:gently caress that, why did they flatten the ceilings 
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There is a special place in hell for people who buy houses with historic character and loving "modernize" the interior with just cheap poo poo. These are the same fucks who paint walnut or quarter-saw oak trim, replace original lighting with modern poo poo (Get it rewired you assholes), replace wood windows with lovely vinyl. The fun thing that's happened here is that a few flippers have tried to do this in the fancy neighborhoods where the reason rich people want to move there is for the historic charm. They keep trying to flip these houses, ruin them, and they sit on the market forever. If you want a modern house, that's fine. Buy or build a modern house. Don't buy a cool old house an ruin it.
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A building collapsed in Miami beach The GBS thread
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You want slip & trip hazards? We got slip & trip hazards!
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I'm penguin walking all over that place.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:You want slip & trip hazards? We got slip & trip hazards! My coccyx hurts looking at this.
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8one6 posted:My coccyx hurts looking at this. I'll rub it for you 
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8one6 posted:My coccyx hurts looking at this. Of course a skeleton avatar knows what that is. 
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An apartment building in Miami partially collapsed. 1 dead so far. https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/us/building-collapse-miami-thursday/index.html
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Speaking of Crappy Construction and Miami collapses, the engineering disaster podcast "Well there's your problem" just did an episode on a fancy pedestrian bridge that collapsed in Miami https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8-ImMaRVNM
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Is that the same bridge that was mentioned some pages ago? The one with the unusually angry accident investigation report that recommended that the engineering firm educate their engineers in basic load calculations, and which illustrated the missing calculations on the back of an envelope?
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I think it also had to do with misapplication of pretensioned concrete or something?
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AlternateAccount posted:I think it also had to do with misapplication of pretensioned concrete or something? IIRC, it was a combination of building from one side (the middle ends were meant to lean on each other, so with just one of them it added stress), and the joint that failed being massively under-strength for the load, simply because they didn't calculate it correctly. One of the bridge members started cracking as they released the pre-tension (because it was under way more load than it could handle), so they tried to tension it back up ... and that made it crack even worse and collapse.
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A surveillance camera caught the building in Miami coming down. https://youtu.be/KR29pLccutY I wonder what happened. Sinkhole maybe?
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kid sinister posted:A surveillance camera caught the building in Miami coming down. https://youtu.be/KR29pLccutY Holy poo poo the terror and confusion for anyone in that portion that stood up longer.
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kid sinister posted:A surveillance camera caught the building in Miami coming down. https://youtu.be/KR29pLccutY In SA forums style I’m talking out of my rear end, but it looks more like an 80s construction condo than a 60s construction condo. Since it was built in the 80s that means it was probably built over sinkhole prone land, because they built over all of the actual bed rock in the 60s
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Dejan Bimble posted:In SA forums style I’m talking out of my rear end, but it looks more like an 80s construction condo than a 60s construction condo. Since it was built in the 80s that means it was probably built over sinkhole prone land, because they built over all of the actual bed rock in the 60s It was built in 1981. And has been known to be sinking since at least 1990. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/collapsed-miami-condo-had-been-sinking-into-earth-at-alarming-rate-since-1990s-researchers-say/ar-AALoUP0
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Dejan Bimble posted:In SA forums style I’m talking out of my rear end, but it looks more like an 80s construction condo than a 60s construction condo. Since it was built in the 80s that means it was probably built over sinkhole prone land, because they built over all of the actual bed rock in the 60s So much crap in the 80's and 90's was flat out lying on reports, bribery, or the traditional "If we don't look at the report we can claim oopsydoodle later when we're retired."
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Of course the Miami condo building had a leaky pool. Warnings that the leaks were threatening to rot away load bearing structures 'exponentially' as time went on since at least 3 years ago  e; sry this if from a crappy German news app, shouldn't be hard to find Vim Fuego posted:Speaking of Crappy Construction and Miami collapses, the engineering disaster podcast "Well there's your problem" just did an episode on a fancy pedestrian bridge that collapsed in Miami I love donoteat1's solo effort videos, but his podcast channel is just unwatchable with all the cringey chatter sauer kraut fucked around with this message at 12:45 on Jun 27, 2021 |
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That news from that Miami collapse just gets worse and worse. 159 people still missing. You know that 3 year old that was one of the first people rescued? They found his mother, dead. Since so many foreigners were living in that building, this has now become an international incident. Apparently the sister and brother in law of Paraguay's First Lady as well as their 3 kids are all still missing. And now it looks like the poor condition of the building was known for years already. I'd expect this in some 3rd world country, not the US!
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