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I got sucked in and watched more of that than I should have at bed time. It was an old building in Paris that must have had running water retrofitted in or something. That’s why the tub was in the tiny kitchen with a partition wall to make the closet toilet. It probably had a single water source and drain run. They also did something kinda strange for the flooring. They took strips of wood and made a X with nails down it’s length. They then sunk that X into blobs of plaster or cement or something. They then proceeded to pack the underside of the wood with the plaster/cement. The effect was to make like ferring strips with an 8 inch deep, 1.5 foot wide (but you know whatever in metric) gaps that was then filled win with ground cork for sound insulation. And termites. That building had termites kinda bad. Must been some pretty good construction to still be standing.
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Saw this looking at some homes. Why would you put vents under the washer/dryer? Unless they're supposed to be placed ~2ft from the wall.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/u9rmyq/my_friend_who_is_an_engineering_major_designed_a/ Tag yourself, I'm a useful door.
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Apr 23, 2022 19:08
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Im the flower thing in upper middle (fan?)
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Apr 23, 2022 19:16
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I’m the CRT TV, all by itself in an inaccessible room.
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Back in middle school, I had an assignment to draw the floorplan for my "dream home", which I thought was a pretty dumb assignment. It took me more than 30 minutes, but I turned in a house that wasn't too dissimilar to this one. About 2/3rds of the space was taken up by a spiral you had to navigate to get from one side of the house to the other.
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Dareon posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/u9rmyq/my_friend_who_is_an_engineering_major_designed_a/ I understand that this is what f e m a l e s like
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I'm the pit.
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FCKGW posted:Saw this looking at some homes. Why would you put vents under the washer/dryer? Unless they're supposed to be placed ~2ft from the wall. I am also confused as to why you would place two vents. Although if the only concern is heating, as opposed to cooling, it would still be somewhat functional, in theory. But the presence of two vents makes me doubt other things about this set up.
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FCKGW posted:Saw this looking at some homes. Why would you put vents under the washer/dryer? Unless they're supposed to be placed ~2ft from the wall. The gas connection is my clue that this is to have a minimum amount of combustion air into the room. It looks awful, and a washer flooding also now has a great path downstairs and into the furnace.
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Apr 23, 2022 21:13
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FCKGW posted:Saw this looking at some homes. Why would you put vents under the washer/dryer? Unless they're supposed to be placed ~2ft from the wall. Really depends on whether those are outies or innies.
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Dareon posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/u9rmyq/my_friend_who_is_an_engineering_major_designed_a/ I’m SUS.
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America posted:Really depends on whether those are outies or innies. Are you saying one is a vent and the other is a return? Maybe they really wanted to smell the dryer sheets working throughout the house so they put a return under the dryer?
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My new job is letting me stay in the owner's son's unused house in the area while I do some house hunting of my own and my god this place is So. Much. House. 4 bedrooms three bathrooms, two living rooms, and master suite which is likely bigger than the townhouse I'm coming from. It's loving baller, and I have a twinge of intimidation for the role I'm stepping into. I feel like Keanu's character in Devil's Advocate.  The crappy construction part: I was told one of the toilets was running a little bit... probably an old seal or something. "Okay, no problem" and then curiosity got to me so I lifted the lid of the tank. I found the lever attached to the float was so rusted out it had started to bend, and it crumbled when I touched it.  I'm not sure where the shutoff is in this house, but it ain't on the wall by the fixture. So this alternative linkage is going to need to do for a while.  I'd totally hit the hardware store and take care of this tomorrow, but 1) I don't have any tools here and 2) it's not my place, what if I make it worse? Anyway, it's not like there aren't two other toilets here to choose from
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Dareon posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/u9rmyq/my_friend_who_is_an_engineering_major_designed_a/ I’m the load bearing 1995 Ford Taurus
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America posted:Really depends on whether those are outies or innies. They are probably just cutouts to the crawl space for makeup air.
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therobit posted:They are probably just cutouts to the crawl space for makeup air. yeah, they're probably sucking any extra humidity down there to enter the HVAC and get deposited in the reservoir of the AC.
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NoWake posted:My new job is letting me stay in the owner's son's Do not touch this. Tell them it's running constantly and you can't find the shutoff and you don't know how to fix toilets or anything.
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My Lovely Horse posted:What if the job is toilet fixer How else is a goon going to end up in the Executive Washroom?
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NoWake posted:I'm not sure where the shutoff is in this house, but it ain't on the wall by the fixture. So this alternative linkage is going to need to do for a while. I'm fairly certain that the knob on top of the riser coming out of the floor is a shut-off valve, but don't touch that plastic piece of poo poo
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The best thing about shutoffs that haven't been used in eons is that the rubber gaskets inside them can dry out and disintegrate, leaving you with an even bigger leak that you can't shut off if you don't know where the main is.
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Dillbag posted:The best thing about shutoffs that haven't been used in eons is that the rubber gaskets inside them can dry out and disintegrate, leaving you with an even bigger leak that you can't shut off if you don't know where the main is. I've installed a bunch of brass/nylon shutoff valves in my place. Every faucet and toilet has its own 90° turn valve, but each bathroom also has a main shutoff for hot and cold, as well as laundry, the kitchen, and exterior faucets. If individual unit shutoffs fail I can run to the basement and shut them off individually, or pull the main and kill everything at once. I lived in a place where everything had old copper tap valves that had long since seized open, and the main was nearly inaccessible and required dragging the washing machine a foot to turn off. Never again.
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Dillbag posted:The best thing about shutoffs that haven't been used in eons is that the rubber gaskets inside them can dry out and disintegrate, leaving you with an even bigger leak that you can't shut off if you don't know where the main is. I got double burned by this when I bought my house. First a sink shutoff didn't, then the main house shutoff started squirting water. I had to build towel dykes to buy time to come up with plan C.
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Dillbag posted:The best thing about shutoffs that haven't been used in eons is that the rubber gaskets inside them can dry out and disintegrate, leaving you with an even bigger leak that you can't shut off if you don't know where the main is. haha absolutely, it's one thing to do this at my mom's house but here, the pipe would probably drench the floor with 5 gallons by the time I got downstairs and into the garage where I think I saw there might just be -a- shutoff. Toilet #2 not looking so hot either: (note, this is what I found) https://i.imgur.com/EIkORg0.mp4 I think the moral of the story here is, houses are meant to be lived in!
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The recommendation with those valves is you are supposed to crank them all the way closed, then back open every 6 months to keep the packing from drying out and seizing. No one in their right mind actually does this.
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MRC48B posted:The recommendation with those valves is you are supposed to crank them all the way closed, then back open every 6 months to keep the packing from drying out and seizing. I like the idea of the proto homeowner with a monthly, quarterly, bi annually and yearly checklist going through the house to go through it all. Peak "your stuff owns you" energy. Maybe if I didn't spend all day working and posting online I guess? My main water shutoff is at the base of my basement stairs and I actually do operate them at least yearly. I have a few other checkpoints in the house but I'm not operating most of my valves unless they have problems. The sprinkler connection and the washer valves might be the only others. And quarter turn valves are the best. I'm not sure why anyone uses the other kind. Yet they're still for sale.
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NoWake posted:haha absolutely, it's one thing to do this at my mom's house but here, the pipe would probably drench the floor with 5 gallons by the time I got downstairs and into the garage where I think I saw there might just be -a- shutoff. 
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MRC48B posted:The recommendation with those valves is you are supposed to crank them all the way closed, then back open every 6 months to keep the packing from drying out and seizing. Another way to keep the seals from drying out is to back them off a quarter turn from all the way on.
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Dareon posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/u9rmyq/my_friend_who_is_an_engineering_major_designed_a/ The Mudgett school of architecture.
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Aww that's a deep cut.
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Blistex posted:I've installed a bunch of brass/nylon shutoff valves in my place. Every faucet and toilet has its own 90° turn valve, but each bathroom also has a main shutoff for hot and cold, as well as laundry, the kitchen, and exterior faucets. If individual unit shutoffs fail I can run to the basement and shut them off individually, or pull the main and kill everything at once. I will most likely never have the opportunity, or ability to build my own place, but if I ever do thats one thing I plan on doing. Every water fixture has its own shut offs, plus a shut off for the line going TO the fixture, and then the main. That way I can shut off just the fixture, and if necessary shut off the line going to the fixture. So I can change the fixture shut off valves when they start to become pieces of poo poo (because I had to cheap out on them after spending so much money on shut off valves  ) without having to cut off water to the entire place.
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Just make sure to avoid Galileo syndrome. “I must relate a circumstance which is worthy of your attention as indeed are all events, which happen contrary to expectation, especially when a precautionary measure turns out to be a cause of disaster. “A large marble column was laid out so that its two ends rested each upon the piece of beam. “A little later it occurred to a mechanic that in order to be doubly sure its not breaking in the middle, it would be wise to lay a third support midway. This seemed too all an excellent idea. “It was quite the opposite, for not many months passed before the column was found cracked and broken exactly above the new middle support. “One of the end supports had after a long while become decayed and sunken, but the middle one remained hard and strong, thus causing one half of the column to project in the air without any support.”
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MRC48B posted:The recommendation with those valves is you are supposed to crank them all the way closed, then back open every 6 months to keep the packing from drying out and seizing. I’ve recently started doing this and have a calendar reminder. So now I need to call a plumber in to replace two valves that are way stuck, good times.
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I live in a row house and I can cut off the water to my other neighbour's entire apartment with the valve in my bathroom. It also cuts off water in my apartment except for the toilet seat in said bathroom. I'm sure there were reasons.
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As a large guy well over 6': I wish.
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My two worries: 1. The water bill 2. The spacetime distortion in/around the cabinets I don't need irregularities in the fabric of existence interrupting my long baths.
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