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Slugworth posted:Nah. I don't buy it. I know it's lame to be the guy who calls BS on a Reddit post instead of just having fun with it, but there's just no way that's real. 100 percent a guy who had some spare tile and some spare time to get some upvotes or karma or whatever dumb system reddit uses. It *is* lame and you're a buzzkill. Also, if he was going after karma, then why delete the post? With that motivation he should've stayed around and played the fool to a bunch of bewildered DIYers.
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Yeah I could believe the BS “do lovely tile work and take some fun pics before I demo the bathroom” story but not if the post and Imgur album was just deleted right away, what’s the point in that?
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I feel a little bad digging through the guy's reddit profile but he's made a couple other threads in r/HomeImprovement which lead me to believe he not only has very little home improvement experience, but he's also kinda Dunning-Krugering his way through the things he is attempting: https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/pjy9tw/im_trying_to_install_a_nodig_vinyl_picket_fence/ wherein he wants to know how to best set a cheapo fence into his concrete driveway, and is concerned asbestos might be under it (He reposts the same question in r/DIY and r/homeowners.) https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/rz25gm/my_vanity_sink_valves_are_stuck_but_is_this_normal/ gets lost encountering under-sink shut off valves
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Feb 10, 2022 20:56
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I choose to believe it was done by a toddler who ran out of macaroni and craft paper.
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How in the world do you get that much thinset on the top of the tiles? I just...   Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I'm glad he used spacers in the third pic at least. I don't know what he used them for mind you. Certainly not for spacing the tiles.
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Darchangel posted:How in the world do you get that much thinset on the top of the tiles? I just... Yeah you have to literally backstroke to get to the edge of the next tile.
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Feb 11, 2022 00:52
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Amazing, it's even worse than my bathroom tiles. edit: for comparison. Also the house came like this.    
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Feb 11, 2022 03:07
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It's more grout than house at this point.
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Feb 11, 2022 03:48
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 Saw this posted today. Toilet is leaking and the shutoff valve is too close to the toilet to turn
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Feb 11, 2022 04:38
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I'm trying to come up with the possible installation sequences here and how one could possible continue on with such an installation........
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Feb 11, 2022 04:42
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It's the idgaf method.
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Feb 11, 2022 04:45
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Motronic posted:I'm trying to come up with the possible installation sequences here and how one could possible continue on with such an installation........ Remove the scre holding the handle in, turn with pliers, replace handle and screw.
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Feb 11, 2022 04:46
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Motronic posted:I'm trying to come up with the possible installation sequences here and how one could possible continue on with such an installation........ it was the end of the day
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Feb 11, 2022 05:20
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LonsomeSon posted:it was the end of the day I think we have a winner.
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Feb 11, 2022 05:27
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Motronic posted:I think we have a winner. i did a bunch of construction work details for an infantry unit while i was deployed, "make that fit" was my specialty disappointed the company command shack didn't burn down before we left, i assume it eventually did though, the mantra of the sergeants doing the wiring was "well it doesn't have to be to code!" semi-related, our battalion medics built and wired their own aid station shack, but discovered they'd circled a ground back into a hot (i think, this was over a decade ago and i don't do wiring) when they flipped it on for the first time and caused light fixtures to spit sparks and two of the window a/cs built into the walls to start smoking and melting. it was like $8 worth of requisitions that had to be replaced, all that stuff just tossed right into the burn pit, it fucken ruled (don't sign up to fight other peoples' wars)
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LonsomeSon posted:i did a bunch of construction work details for an infantry unit while i was deployed, "make that fit" was my specialty Can I get your professional opinion on this doorknob repair job? 
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Feb 11, 2022 06:20
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That's an awful lot of lockable fenced space inside a chaplain's office. Are bibles not class 9 anymore? But that's about as thorough a job you can expect from the enlisted at door knob repair.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Can I get your professional opinion on this doorknob repair job? …oh my god, a bag of doorknobs?!?! 14/10 I can’t stop looking at this, do you know anything else about it? Wondering if there are now a bunch of raccoons and badgers or whatever nesting in the faith-neutral conference room
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Motronic posted:I'm trying to come up with the possible installation sequences here and how one could possible continue on with such an installation........
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Feb 11, 2022 12:27
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Crappy construction:Slugworth posted:don't think about the future.
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canyoneer posted:
The solution is to unscrew the valve, as posted already. Originally, the pipe was not secured in the wall, and moved around enough to swing away from the toilet. Now it's caulked in place, where it passes through drywall/plaster.
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Feb 11, 2022 13:53
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Shoulda used an escutcheon plate.
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LonsomeSon posted:There’s a place for slipshod but functional for now and whatever else it is, it’s emphatically nowhere near water, imho. I think there's a Chinese phrase for this often used in particular examples of terrible construction that translates to something like 'good enough' or 'not my problem anymore'.
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Feb 11, 2022 15:31
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LonsomeSon posted:…oh my god, a bag of doorknobs?!?! 14/10 It's the hangar where I work. There is indeed a thriving raccoon population, since the animal control office is about as well staffed as the doorknob repair division. To be fair, they did come by a few days later and actually replaced the door handle; I was just amused by the absurdity of neatly bagging up the broken pieces.
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Feb 11, 2022 15:40
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think there's a Chinese phrase for this often used in particular examples of terrible construction that translates to something like 'good enough' or 'not my problem anymore'. cha bu duo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think there's a Chinese phrase for this often used in particular examples of terrible construction that translates to something like 'good enough' or 'not my problem anymore'. When my dad did construction it was, “Can’t see it from my house!”
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Feb 11, 2022 16:12
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That is some pretty damned impressive tile cutting.
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Enos Cabell posted:That is some pretty damned impressive tile cutting. Yeah, I want to hate this but I just can't. drat.
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Enos Cabell posted:That is some pretty damned impressive tile cutting. Yeah, I can't be too pissed off about this because they clearly put effort into what they were doing. 
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Feb 11, 2022 16:28
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Enos Cabell posted:That is some pretty damned impressive tile cutting.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think there's a Chinese phrase for this often used in particular examples of terrible construction that translates to something like 'good enough' or 'not my problem anymore'. CRISITUNITY!!
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canyoneer posted:
ngl would unironically do this Also I showed my wife the House Flipper trailer last night. She was skeptical at first and then she dug it. 
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therobit posted:….replace handle and screw. What if I am working on it alone?
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LonsomeSon posted:it was the end of the day and I really had to poop 
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AlternateAccount posted:What if I am working on it alone? If you’re a plumber you should have developed a pretty strong grip using pipe wrenches by now.
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Small detail crappy construction. I have this power supply, one of those multi-region deals where you clip in a region specific adapter that's supposed to stay in place pretty much forever. Yesterday we pulled it out the wall. The adapter part held on. The glue that holds the adapter part together did not and left us with this.  Some of you may already see where this is going. For anyone wondering "where's the rest of it", well   It's in an unplugged power strip for the photo, I'm not that much of an idiot This seems like a perfectly clever idea if you look at the system from the outside, but as soon as you examine it closer you realize it's actually bafflingly irresponsible. It's incredibly easy to have a brainwave and go "whoops the bit is stuck let me just pull that out real quick" and grab it.
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I’ve had cheaply made international power adapters do that. Left a plastic plate on the wall with pads for each pin. Don’t use those $2 adapters.
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I've since checked another of those multi region type adapters I remembered I had, and in that the bit with the pins is held in with a screw. Textbook "where can we save money in bulk production".
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Push El Burrito posted:It's more grout than house at this point. I can't throw stones - I had removed the old coax tv socket from the wall and decided to fill the hole using a normal wall small hole filler. It was only when it had hardened I noticed I'd grabbed the tub of pre-mixed tile grout out of the shed instead of filler. The tubs were the same style and colouring. Sanding it smooth was a LOT of effort !
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