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crappy construction? kinda... i noticed a cabinet above my fridge was slowly sagging and decided to fix it. hopped up on a ladder and took a look:  oh yeah? holding this cabinet up and 100lbs of poo poo inside of it, was the banding on the edge of the wood   oh word, what's this (gray object in foreground)? someone put spare flooring tiles up on top of the cabinet? 3 of these ten+ pound tiles? removed tiles, pulled the fridge out, put my 3rd hand tools under the cabinet and put it back to level and re-screwed it back into the wall. it was sagging around 1.5" on the left side by the time i leveled it out. i realized why the tiles were up top...because the previous owner had a surround speaker setup and they wanted the speakers to sit high enough that they werent being blocked by the top trim piece. yeah, put 30 extra pounds of poo poo on top of a cabinet instead of any other number of things that aren't 30 pounds and would accomplish the same thing  great plan
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BraveUlysses posted:yeah, put 30 extra pounds of poo poo on top of a cabinet instead of any other number of things that aren't 30 pounds and would accomplish the same thing Fuckin' Gary.
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Never mind that you’re supposed to put the screws holding the cabinet up more than 1/4” from the edge, particularly when they’re particle board. Ideally, inside the cabinet?
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Motronic posted:Stucco is very very popular in the northeast for cheap rear end big box development houses because it's cheap as poo poo comparted to anything other than T1-11. I got to take part in a meeting on a project where one of the techs hanging cameras hosed up hanging one on exterior stucco. The scope of work could be summed up as "You break it, you pay to fix it". Oh boy that integrator was loving pissed.
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A lady on my Nextdoor is (rightfully) upset at the job her 'builder' did on some deck stairs. In the Nextdoor post she noted the difference between the biggest and smallest step is 5".
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Thomamelas posted:I got to take part in a meeting on a project where one of the techs hanging cameras hosed up hanging one on exterior stucco. The scope of work could be summed up as "You break it, you pay to fix it". Oh boy that integrator was loving pissed. Had an integrator decom an office building we closed (they made everyone permanent work from home, doing this all over now), and their idiot tech removed the relatively new HID card readers by cutting the cable right at the back of the epoxy potted reader. I am at least getting 15 brand new card readers out of that fuckup.
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Sloppy posted:A lady on my Nextdoor is (rightfully) upset at the job her 'builder' did on some deck stairs. In the Nextdoor post she noted the difference between the biggest and smallest step is 5". Omg I want to see that whole monstrosity.
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kid sinister posted:Oh. My. God. Those aren't bubbles in the tub, that's coke
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Oh man does the monkey poo poo water on you
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Did they add a shitter to Legends of the Hidden Temple?
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Light a candle cuz Olmec's gotta take a dump.
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`Nemesis posted:Had an integrator decom an office building we closed (they made everyone permanent work from home, doing this all over now), and their idiot tech removed the relatively new HID card readers by cutting the cable right at the back of the epoxy potted reader. I am at least getting 15 brand new card readers out of that fuckup. That is impressively stupid. I now spend my time teaching integrator techs on CCTV stuff. I imagine this true for lots of trades but sometimes the gap in skills and talent scares me. I've worked with companies that take training seriously. And their techs do great work and do it quickly. And there are other companies who see any training as something to resent. Last year during the summer when lots of integrators had little to do, we offered free online training classes. All lab based, using VMs to give them an actual practical space to work in. Some took advantage of it, got a dozen of their people certified. Others sent receptionists, people from their accounting department, anyone who will never do field work. And why would they do this petty bullshit? Because we tie certs to the techs, not the companies. Which owners of lovely integration companies hate because it gives the techs some leverage. To buy certain versions of the software, you need X number of techs with Y certs. If the techs leave and we find out (and we generally do) then the company gets cut off from being able to buy new versions (we don't stop supporting existing installs because that would be lovely). So they try to game the system because a receptionist can't really leverage the cert.
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kid sinister posted:Oh. My. God. FEMALE STATUS: ATTRACTED
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Platystemon posted:
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I'm a little perplexed by the shower in my hotel room. Walk in shower with a little 1 inch lip, but it's got a curtain like you'd use on a tub shower, and it's even on a curved rod to ensure it's hanging out over the floor. It creates a huge puddle on the floor immediately.  Everything else is pretty good, but it's like for this one specific thing they just went "eh, gently caress it".
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you're supposed to put the curtain inside the lip. that is a perfectly normal shower
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It's not long enough to stay inside the lip.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:you're supposed to put the curtain inside the lip. that is a perfectly normal shower Yeah, I have the same thing in the bath off my bedroom (I hesitate to call it a "master" bath). It's smallish stall with a curtain and slightly higher lip. You're definitely supposed to make sure the curtain stays behind the lip, someone hosed up on installing the rod for that one.
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Oct 19, 2021 06:59
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Spare the rod, spoil the floor.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:It's not long enough to stay inside the lip. That's what your mom said to me last night. 
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I'm a little perplexed by the shower in my hotel room. Walk in shower with a little 1 inch lip, but it's got a curtain like you'd use on a tub shower, and it's even on a curved rod to ensure it's hanging out over the floor. It creates a huge puddle on the floor immediately. There must be a codex of Motel Law somewhere, that requires those curved shower rods, because now, they're everywhere. It won't work for that shower with the mandated Cheap-rear end Shower Curtain, since it the rod was hung too high and it seems like curtains with proper weights built into the bottom seem to be a thing of the past. Lutha Mahtin posted:you're supposed to put the curtain inside the lip. that is a perfectly normal shower The minute the shower is run, air pressure alone will blow that cheap-rear end curtain right out. Not sure that even a 4" lip would stop it.
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The curved shower rods are about creating a feeling of having more space.
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PainterofCrap posted:The minute the shower is run, air pressure alone will blow that cheap-rear end curtain right out. Not sure that even a 4" lip would stop it. I actually figured out that if you run the water nice and hot and the room is cold, the draft sucks the bottom in and slightly reduces the leakage out onto the floor. It's definitely way too flimsy of a curtain to stay inside the lip even if it was long enough.
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 It’s a hot water pool. Brimming with green energy.
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Thomamelas posted:The curved shower rods are about creating a feeling of having more space. Disagree completely. They are amazing for broad shouldered people. I can turn around comfortably in my shower without remodeling the entire bathroom.
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The shower in my hotel doesn't have a curtain at all! It's a great room overall, however water gets everywhere.
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Leviathan Song posted:Disagree completely. They are amazing for broad shouldered people. I can turn around comfortably in my shower without remodeling the entire bathroom. yeah, a curved shower rod doesn't just create a feeling of more space, it creates more actual space. it's nice for lathering up and rinsing off since you can move your arms around a lot more and not get tangled up in the curtain sorry to OP for the too-short hotel shower curtain though
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Platystemon posted:
Is the water not just grounded, and the red wire goes to an outlet somewhere? ... please?
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hahaha holy poo poo my brain took in the word 'hot' and the numbers and assumed it was temperature, initially
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Yeah my first assumption was it was a thermocouple reader. Then I looked closer...
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Jows posted:Yeah my first assumption was it was a thermocouple reader. Then I looked closer...  
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GoonyMcGoonface posted:Is the water not just grounded, and the red wire goes to an outlet somewhere? The red probe is pressed against the bare metal of the pole that’s barely in frame. That pole is fully hot. The black wire in the pool is the low side, but it still has significant potential to ground. The pole is creating a voltage gradient across the pool. quote:[–]Sparrowhawk-Ahra[S] 50 points 2 months ago https://old.reddit.com/r/electricians/comments/oxc6u7/an_interesting_job_today/
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ROJO posted:Hello blue-Hardie (although mine is HardiePanel with their battens over the top) and cedar friend Oh, blue Hardie? 
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E: Oh there was another page. Not to start another euro/us derail, but I kind of like the solution in my apartment - which also seems common enough around the country. No lip around the shower, just curtains and a slope to the drain. The entire bathroom has the same waterproof flooring, and there is a very mild slope towards the shower (or sometimes another drain). The downside is that the floor does get wet, unless your curtains are long enough to touch the floor - and they quickly go a bit grody if they do. The upside is that you can easily squeegee any water into the drain. You can wash the entire floor quickly by hosing it down with the shower, and if you need to do something inconvenient you can open the curtains, accept that everything will be drenched, and use most of the floor.
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Computer viking posted:The downside is that the floor does get wet, unless your curtains are long enough to touch the floor - and they quickly go a bit grody if they do. The upside is that you can easily squeegee any water into the drain. You can wash the entire floor quickly by hosing it down with the shower, and if you need to do something inconvenient you can open the curtains, accept that everything will be drenched, and use most of the floor. You can get a bidet attachment for your toilet, no need to mess your whole bathroom!
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Computer viking posted:E: Oh there was another page. I've seen this mostly in Sweden and it's great (when you have someone else cleaning your bathroom). But wet room bathrooms are absolutely a thing in the US as well. They're just a lot les common.
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I remember when these first came out in the early 90's. There was a PBS home improvement show - I want to say This Old House? - that practically fellated backstabs as The Wave Of The Future. I grabbed a spare outlet at work (we had some work done recently), and it kinda still had backstabs - there was a plate with the screw, and you could either loop the wire around the screw, or stab it behind the plate, but either way you still had to tighten the screw to secure it. Seems both a lot more secure, and also completely useless because a good electrician would make the loop to begin with.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I'm a little perplexed by the shower in my hotel room. Walk in shower with a little 1 inch lip, but it's got a curtain like you'd use on a tub shower, and it's even on a curved rod to ensure it's hanging out over the floor. It creates a huge puddle on the floor immediately. This is what our shower looked like after we built. The drywall outside of it started melting after a few months and we decided to fork out the cash for a glass enclosure.
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Jows posted:Yeah my first assumption was it was a thermocouple reader. Then I looked closer... My Fallout instincts come in handy suddenly. Isn't water an extremely good radiation shielding?
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