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dobbymoodge posted:Looks better than I could do, but that floating wall looks pretty high. When you push on that top corner, does it want to rack? That could mess up your grouting and the caulk line where it meets the tub. The wall is anchored in three places, the floor, the wall and against the tub. I tried wiggling it and it wouldn't move. I still have some caulking to do but I'm waiting until after the trim is painted.
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Wow a study in how to make a building as generic as possible.
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Christ what a tragedy, but why is the before picture on the right? Oh... Well that's good news at least.
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kid sinister posted:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/801-Bowles-Ave-Fenton-MO-63026/55188555_zpid/ As you might imagine, turns out the owner was an artist: http://www.ferdworks.com/
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I’m not saying that this is the work of Charlie Munger, but I’m not ruling it out.
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Nitrox posted:The picture on the left is the original? Yeah, the one that looks, well, original.
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An apartment I lived in had a corner sink like that in an actual corner and it sucked. Can't imagine why someone would subject themselves to it unnecessarily, outside of a Gary flipper getting it for free.
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Isn’t it often for kosher stuff?
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Bad Munki posted:Isn’t it often for kosher stuff? Maybe, but there's the same separation at the corners as a standard double sink and how much food prep is really being done inside the sink anyway?
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Bad Munki posted:Isn’t it often for kosher stuff? Two entirely separate sinks are generally preferable for kosher kitchens, but a regular double-basin sink can work too. This design doesn't appear to be significantly better for kosher purposes than a regular double basin sink because it's still possible for spills between these basins to happen.
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Kind of want a triangular third half-basin between the two big ones. It'd still be weird as gently caress, but at least a little less awful.
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A small practical complaint from my hotel room: Instead of a shower curtain, they have fit a glass door. In itself that makes sense, you can probably keep it going forever with some spray bottle cleaner and a squeegee. The problem is that it's J shaped and hinged like a door, so your choices are - Open it towards the toilet and shuffle sideways through the gap between it and the wall - Close it into the shower, squeeze into the corner, and open it past you I'm not especially wide or broad, so it was merely mildly annoying. This is a hotel, though; surely they get bigger people than me visiting.
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Not surprised, that toilet they've got installed is about the cheapest model that's not some no-name, non-brand thing available in the north of Europe.
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Yeah not just big people but anyone with mobility difficulties is going to find it extremely hard to navigate around that. Then again someone with mobility issues is probably wise enough to make sure that the hotel they take is not *that*.
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The organisers (a research group at Karolinska) knows all of us from before, and started off the first session with "welcome - and I know this is not the greatest hotel, but Karolinska likes working with them because they are cheap". In fairness the meeting rooms and snacks/lunch were all fine, and there was nothing fundamentally wrong with the rooms except that. (And being out in Solna.) But yes, I can absolutely imagine some old guy or lady trying to navigate around that and taking a nasty fall.
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Nenonen posted:Then again someone with mobility issues is probably wise enough to make sure that the hotel they take is not *that*. why is it the job of people with disabilities to know this? why can't the loving hotel just be accessible???????
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:why is it the job of people with disabilities to know this? why can't the loving hotel just be accessible??????? Also, good luck with not having your room changed last minute from what you needed to what they happen to decide to give you.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:why is it the job of people with disabilities to know this? why can't the loving hotel just be accessible??????? Because when the bathroom looks like that then you can expect that the obstacle course starts already at the front staircase? 
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My partner and I went to tour an open house in the rich historic district part of town, and while the house was immaculate inside and out, they left the hatch to the crawl space open and I mean it is an open house so I went in. After taking a look around, I'm feeling a whole lot better about the work I've done on my house. It's the first open house I've been to where I wish I had my non-contact voltage tester. There was knob and tube still all over in addition to several generations or romex being held up by pipe hangers, and random wires that I couldn't tell if they were low voltage or high voltage just strewn about. There was also some really sloppily installed PEX plumbing, uncapped and abandoned in place gas lines next to live gas lines, and the AC was leaking so bad it was cooler down there than the inside of the house. Besides having a leak, the HVAC also had at least one duct that instead of being capped off, they just shoved like 5 feet of fiberglass insulation into the end of and called it good.
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Many houses have basements cooler than the rest of the house even without HVAC leaks.
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Almost all of them, really. The ground is a hell of a heat sink, and more so the deeper you dig.
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Dienes posted:Also, good luck with not having your room changed last minute from what you needed to what they happen to decide to give you. Friend of mine uses a wheelchair. He was in town, had booked a ground floor accessible unit at a motel. Rocked up and they’d given it to someone else, but had a room upstairs he could have. They refused to move the woman in the accessible unit because she was a regular and liked that room. It was the one week of the year where town is full. After calling basically everywhere else, they conceded defeat and he buttshuffled up the stairs. Basically, hardly anyone gives a poo poo :/
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Wow, that's a super hosed up experience. Was this in the US? Isn't there a bunch of ADA stuff that can be used to mega dunk on shithead businesses like that?
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PurpleXVI posted:Wow, that's a super hosed up experience. Sweden. For some reason, the US and Canada are a better at the accessibility stuff than the Europe. Like half the EU doesn't have national level regulations and the EU regs are only about 10 years old.
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Sash! posted:Sweden. For some reason, the US and Canada are a better at the accessibility stuff than the Europe. Like half the EU doesn't have national level regulations and the EU regs are only about 10 years old. Probably one of the few perks to the US being a younger country. Less "Lord Nelson tripped over this step randomly in the middle of the pub right before Trafalgar so putting in a ramp would be destroying a part of our national heritage!" How's Japan with accessibility? They practically rebuild half the country every time there's an earthquake, but they can also be remarkably stubborn about some things.
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North america is great for accessibility, if you drive. If you have a disability and don't drive, you are absolutely hosed on this continent.
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Baronjutter posted:North america is great
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Sash! posted:Sweden. For some reason, the US and Canada are a better at the accessibility stuff than the Europe. Like half the EU doesn't have national level regulations and the EU regs are only about 10 years old. It's like food safety, where the US has a maximum amount of caterpillars you can have in a ton of cabbage and the EU doesn't have any regulation on it.
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Tunicate posted:It's like food safety, where the US has a maximum amount of caterpillars you can have in a ton of cabbage and the EU doesn't have any regulation on it. Oh man don't get Europeans started on their loving groceries; we're never gonna hear the end of it! one cOULD nEVeR dO METT wiTH AMeRiCAN beef!
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Liquid Communism posted:Almost all of them, really. The ground is a hell of a heat sink, and more so the deeper you dig. Well, depends on just how deep you dig 
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Sash! posted:Sweden. For some reason, the US and Canada are a better at the accessibility stuff than the Europe. Like half the EU doesn't have national level regulations and the EU regs are only about 10 years old. Huh, I'd have expected that Sweden would be more progressive on that point. In Denmark I know that all new constructions need to offer as much accessibility for people with disabilities as possible, but we've still got a bunch of old stuff built prior to those regulations that haven't been updated.
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Baronjutter posted:North america is great for accessibility, if you drive. If you have a disability and don't drive, you are absolutely hosed on this continent. I don't think anyone would argue the US has acceptable public transit, but once you've managed to get within 100 feet of where you're going there will probably at least be a curb cut for you to get a wheelchair from the road to the sidewalk and better than average odds you'll be able to get through the front door and use at least one bathroom. Could obviously be better, but somehow still better than many countries.
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Blowjob Overtime posted:An apartment I lived in had a corner sink like that in an actual corner and it sucked. Can't imagine why someone would subject themselves to it unnecessarily, outside of a Gary flipper getting it for free. OK so... what would be better for a corner? What, even, else, would even be possible for a corner?!?
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Cat Hatter posted:I don't think anyone would argue the US has acceptable public transit, but once you've managed to get within 100 feet of where you're going there will probably at least be a curb cut for you to get a wheelchair from the road to the sidewalk and better than average odds you'll be able to get through the front door and use at least one bathroom. Could obviously be better, but somehow still better than many countries. Eons ago when I was a humble guy working in a Barnes & Noble, one of my tasks following "move this table over there" projects was to make sure we'd maintained the ADA clearance. Yeah, could be better, but we try.
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