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May 26, 2022 18:33
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Smithwick posted:I could arguably defend the roof(s) design but the windows are bad and the columns by the entry are barf.
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May 26, 2022 20:40
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Is that a condo? I am confused by the 3 address markers. It looks kind of like a single family home. Yeah as Lazyhound said, it's almost certainly main house / basement / laneway, or main house / basement 1 / basement 2. Just looking at the photo, I instantly figured it was in Vancouver. This is pretty standard for new construction here, since any new build house sells for $2mil+, so people buying it need "mortgage helper" suites. Rental basements have been standard (if semi-legal) for years, but recently the City has been legitimizing it by requiring each suite to have its own address (and breaker board, utilities, etc). So in a sense it's "single-family housing", but in practice it's a small apartment complex. Of course the Canada Revenue Agency considers these not to be separate suites for tax purposes, so homeowner-landlords don't get taxed as though it were, say, a separate apartment they owned and rented out ("think about the poor multi-millionaire homeowners"). On the upside, this counts as SFH for zoning purposes, which is actually good for badly-needed densification. Also that seems to be one of the new "styles" of housing here. Dark-stained wood, cheap vinyl siding, and occasional concrete, glass or sheet metal. It's sort of a faux-natural brutalism. Here are some more examples I grabbed from Google street view:   No secondary suite addresses for the second one? They're around the side of the house! Edit: Oh, I looked up the assessments on those. The top one is $2.9mil. The bottom one is $2.5mil. Lead out in cuffs fucked around with this message at 22:17 on May 26, 2022 |
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May 26, 2022 21:35
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https://twitter.com/EnergyVanguard/status/1525073506630762498
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Yeah as Lazyhound said, it's almost certainly main house / basement / laneway, or main house / basement 1 / basement 2. Just looking at the photo, I instantly figured it was in Vancouver. This is pretty standard for new construction here, since any new build house sells for $2mil+, so people buying it need "mortgage helper" suites. Rental basements have been standard (if semi-legal) for years, but recently the City has been legitimizing it by requiring each suite to have its own address (and breaker board, utilities, etc). Thanks for the detailed explanation! It actually sounds like an awkward living situation. Are the yards commonly considered shared spaces or does each ADU get their own 25 square feet of yard fenced off? Like the logistics of cramming 3 houses on one lot seems like it would be really difficult in regards to parking, pets, and, well, everything. Are these houses in the city proper, or is this what you see in the suburbs even? I have only driven through Vancouver a few times on the way to Whistler so I am not super familiar with the area.
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May 27, 2022 02:52
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Crappy Construction: Inappropriate Peanutting
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May 27, 2022 02:54
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/juliamarblefaun/status/1528865672427581440?s=20&t=_pM6EYLmZCF4ob-NnON1DQ I'm just picturing a talented kid drawing this house for an art class assignment, then getting a failing grade and the teacher telling them their work is poo poo
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May 27, 2022 02:57
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Thanks for the detailed explanation! It actually sounds like an awkward living situation. Are the yards commonly considered shared spaces or does each ADU get their own 25 square feet of yard fenced off? Like the logistics of cramming 3 houses on one lot seems like it would be really difficult in regards to parking, pets, and, well, everything. Are these houses in the city proper, or is this what you see in the suburbs even? I have only driven through Vancouver a few times on the way to Whistler so I am not super familiar with the area. This is in a suburban part of the City of Vancouver. That's the central municipality of Greater Vancouver, and the densest. There are about 900K people in the municipality but only 40K SFHs. There is a much denser downtown core, though. And yeah, quite commonly the yard space is shared. We rent the top of a house, and share the garden with the family in the basement downstairs and the family in the laneway. We all along pretty well though. I've also lived in basement suites where the landlord lived upstairs and the rental included "no access to the garden". In terms of awkwardness, it's not really any worse than living in a four-plex apartment building, and in some ways better.
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That is really nifty! Thanks for the info! If I could I would move to Canada, but unfortunately there are a lot of things that prevent me from doing that. I would also really only be interested into moving to BC. My company has a facility opening that I could work at (if I had the visas/etc...) but it is in Toronto area and I think that might be too flat for me. Although it is close to Stratford and the amazing shakespeare festival they have! Unfortunately due to the moistness/humidity my company will never have a facility in BC 
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May 27, 2022 05:06
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Probably just someone from the PNW during fire season.
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May 27, 2022 05:45
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therobit posted:Probably just someone from the PNW during fire season. 
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May 27, 2022 06:34
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The air purifier is the least interesting thing in that image.
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May 27, 2022 06:36
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The relic ruins puzzles in Horizon Forbidden West where you need to use your grappling hook to pull down boxes that look like AC condenser units or filters from high up and implausible places make so much more sense now.
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May 27, 2022 08:17
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https://twitter.com/EnergyVanguard/status/1499725674352939012 There's a lot to sort through, but this twitter account has some bangers in terms of "bad construction." Another favourite: https://twitter.com/EnergyVanguard/status/1523263309956452352
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May 27, 2022 10:23
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/uzar7m/wcgw_by_grilling_next_to_your_siding/ Ah, memories.
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May 28, 2022 06:18
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Platystemon posted:The air purifier is the least interesting thing in that image. I like the dishwasher installed with a 3 inch gap around the cabinet
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May 28, 2022 15:16
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 From a piece of hvac equipment, terrible quality control. The unit comes from the factory with a selector switch in a bag, to change speed on a multi-tap blower motor. the mounting point is pictured, you snip out the middle, then mount using two opposing holes. 3/4 holes failed to get punched and threaded, and the screws provided are cheese and immediately strip when used. 
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May 28, 2022 20:58
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I'd hate to be the poor rear end in a top hat that has to fix that.
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May 28, 2022 21:30
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I heard that this was the inappropriate nutting thread. https://i.imgur.com/OoqBPs4.mp4
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May 28, 2022 23:47
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Janking too hard will cause nutting accidents.
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May 29, 2022 00:00
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We bought a house this past October and I finally got around to taking down a crappy tool shed/ pigeon coop the previous owners left behind. Aside from the the creative "trusswork" involving not only nails and tapcons, but some rope tying stuff together too, it was super fun demolishing it while thing to figure out how not to die while doing it. Anyway, after finally getting the structure torn down, I start lifting tiles. I see this:  It's hard to see, but the entire floor was made out of these:  The old owner flattened who knows how many cans of crackers to create a subfloor for this bullshit shed. I can't see this having been easier than just laying down a slab, or maybe a deck or something. Good loving god. I'm a home inspector and I see looooots of shady poo poo here in South Florida, but to have it hit so close to home, wow.
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May 30, 2022 17:10
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 As for that flattened can floor... I've seen people use cans/license plates/whatever to patch holes but that's a new one.
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May 30, 2022 17:31
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That poo poo shrine is magnificent.
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May 30, 2022 18:20
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Doji Sekushi posted:We bought a house this past October and I finally got around to taking down a crappy tool shed/ pigeon coop the previous owners left behind. Aside from the the creative "trusswork" involving not only nails and tapcons, but some rope tying stuff together too, it was super fun demolishing it while thing to figure out how not to die while doing it. please post the stories
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May 30, 2022 19:45
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 this is the time, this is the place.
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May 30, 2022 19:48
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HolHorsejob posted:please post the stories Gotta find the pics, but I recently inspected a freshly-built house where the electrical system was grounded to pipe....CPVC pipe. and the service drop was maybe, maybe 7 feet over a driveway This poo poo presumably passed Miami-Dade inspection. That's incredibly tame compared to most poo poo I see in South Florida. Doji Sekushi fucked around with this message at 20:58 on May 30, 2022 |
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May 30, 2022 20:22
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Florida PO Man's Home Improvement stories.
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I never wanted content to throw in this thread. Last Monday I noticed some water spotting on the ceiling in my living room, and a seam between drywall ceiling panels opening up. Crawled into the attic and found the condensate tray under the AC air handler totally full. We called for emergency service and they send the biggest loving dude I've ever seen. He goes up there and says he cleaned a clog out of the drain, I point how how the tray isn't even level and all the water is collecting on the side opposite the emergency drain. He tells us everything is fine and the small water spots will dry up, no big deal! I thought it was kinda sketchy, but I'm no HVAC guy, and he is so we'll take his word for it. Until Friday this happens:   So we clean up the mess, call insurance the next day. They send out ServPro who gets to work setting up drying equipment and cleaning the rest of the sodden insulation up there. While they were here they asked us to turn on the AC just to make sure nothing crazy happens. Well as soon as we turn it on it starts pissing water everywhere, so we call the AC company again. As soon as they heard their fuckup blew our ceiling out they sent their head tech dude out, he finds not only is the drain pipe cracked, the emergency condensate drain is cracked too. Not to mention the mounts will need re-leveled so the thing will even drain properly. Insurance adjuster calls, they didn't even send someone out. Just some lady on the phone saying "All AC units do leak to some degree, and your policy doesn't cover long term leaking from appliances. We'll have to look into it." So they're already trying to weasel out. Meanwhile we've been not sleeping for days because of 6 fans and an industrial dehumidifier running 24/7, and the house is blazing hot because it's literally a column of oven air coming down from the hole. Sucks man.  Any suggestions on dealing with insurance trying to pull some bullshit? Clearly this was a sudden equipment failure and we called for emergency service the day of as soon as we noticed a problem. Just stand firm? Lawyer up at least to a degree that we can say "We're gonna let our lawyer deal with you" if they insist on loving us?
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Send your insurance the name of your hvac company and the invoices. Also make sure you tell them clearly and plainly that the damage was sudden. This started, you attempted to repair it immediately, and then it suddenly got much worse. They're trying to say this has been dripping for a long time, but if you went from spots to collapse in the course of 5 days INCLUDING attempting to mitigate the damage with an emergency contractor that sounds sudden to me.
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May 30, 2022 21:54
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Standard insurance policies in the US use phrases like "leakage and seepage" vs "sudden accidental cracking" when it comes to pipe leaks. Usually the former isn't covered while the latter is. So anything that you have in writing that specifies "cracked pipe" is probably going to be helpful. Note: many home policies exclude coverage for damage caused due to use of illegal substances, so try to avoid any references to "crack pipes." wheatpuppy fucked around with this message at 00:50 on May 31, 2022 |
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Based on the photos alone, there’s no loving way that I could ever call that ‘ongoing seepage and leakage.’ If they haven’t asked you for a recorded statement, offer to give them one, wherein you relay the sequence of events. It is possible that you have an inexperienced adjuster, who is sorta trying to cover their rear end in case it is long-term seepage. If so, Servpro’s reports will tell the tale, because (irrespective of the facts) Servpro wants to get paid. PM me if you have questions.
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 https://edmontonjournal.com/news/sense-of-place-castle-house Also 
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May 31, 2022 03:52
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A building to surpass Groverhaus?
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Many years ago, when I was a young lad, I worked at a petrol station. When you changed the fuel price, you had to change the price boards by walking out there with numbers printed on thin plastic sheets and change them with a long pole with suction cups on it. A local store near me offered a dog grooming service under the name "Shampoochies." They also sold other pet supplies, including straw for large animal bedding or whatever you use straw for. Both these services were advertised on the letter board, and the M in Shampoochies was an upside-down W, while the W in straw was an upside down M. It might not have been so noticeable if those weren't the only two words on the board.
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May 31, 2022 05:40
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Found a picture of the owner.
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Dareon posted:A local store near me offered a dog grooming service under the name "Shampoochies." They also sold other pet supplies, including straw for large animal bedding or whatever you use straw for. Both these services were advertised on the letter board, and the M in Shampoochies was an upside-down W, while the W in straw was an upside down M. Those people were doing god's work.
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