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PurpleXVI posted:What the gently caress? That loving outlet is killing me here.
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No kid will hang off of or climb that outlet, no sir.
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Jul 18, 2023 21:13
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That may actually comply with NEC. Wiremold is covered by NEC article 386 and 386.30 does not specify a distance between supports. Just says follow installation guides. So if the manufacturer got that ETL listed for that support spacing, it's good to go, technically. Still looks wack though, and I wouldn't want it, because yeah all sorts of sticky humans and objects are going to hang off of it.
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Jul 18, 2023 21:53
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I'm betting that outlet only works when the lights are on.
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Jul 18, 2023 22:02
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kastein posted:That may actually comply with NEC. Wiremold is covered by NEC article 386 and 386.30 does not specify a distance between supports. Just says follow installation guides. So if the manufacturer got that ETL listed for that support spacing, it's good to go, technically. Whether or not it complies with NEC, I bet any inspector worth their salt would look at it and say no way.
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Jul 18, 2023 22:06
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Wiremold is designed to be wall mounted. No way that free standing like that is supported. That's the domain of actual conduit.
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Jul 18, 2023 22:11
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The fridge door will only open 80 degrees. Your killin me smalls.
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Jul 18, 2023 22:18
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Whether or not it complies with NEC, I bet any inspector worth their salt would look at it and say no way. I figured it was thrown in that way because an inspector told them they were required to have an outlet on the island, although I guess that doesn't negate what you're saying devicenull posted:I'm betting that outlet only works when the lights are on. Somehow it only works when the lights are off
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Jul 18, 2023 22:19
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The lights only work when something is plugged into the outlet. It seems like a very long counter with no appliance or sink. Some kind of work triangle from hell.
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Jul 18, 2023 22:40
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Harry_Potato posted:The fridge door will only open 80 degrees. Your killin me smalls. They just need to recess a hotel pan into the wall.
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Jul 18, 2023 22:48
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Harry_Potato posted:The fridge door will only open 80 degrees. Your killin me smalls. My freezer door is like this, it's the worst
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Jul 18, 2023 22:49
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lmao there's no way that was looked at by an inspector/permitted, that screams previous owner fuckery to me, and yeah i'm on board with it being run off the light
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Jul 18, 2023 22:51
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The entire thing is awful. I hate that so much. At least you know from a distance that nothing was done right. I was at a friend's house who wasn't happy with that quality of the backsplash, some of the tiles aren't flat and the undercabinet lighting casts a shadow highlighting their defect. Personally I prefer my undercabinet lighting mounted as far forward as possible to avoid the wash effect on the wall. I think any shadow on my workspace is counteracted by them being long, and you can't see them as readily thanks to geometry. I held off sharing all of those opinions when I noticed they looked to be standard plug in lights that her contractor routed the wired through a hole in the wall to who knows where, the switch was pretty far away for my assumed length of the cords. By comparison to the shared kitchen above, her kitchen looks like the Taj Mahal.
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Jul 18, 2023 22:53
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Platystemon posted:Cops will literally put their foot in the door, and now you can’t close it without committing “assault on an officer”. Screen doors are almost ubiquitous here in Australia and most of them lock from the inside.
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Jul 18, 2023 23:09
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I love my screen door. Open up all the back windows, open the front door, get an amazing cross breeze going once outside is cooler than inside. That's living!
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Jul 18, 2023 23:20
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Guy Axlerod posted:The lights only work when something is plugged into the outlet. Bermuda Work Triangle
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Jul 18, 2023 23:21
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Senor Tron posted:Screen doors are almost ubiquitous here in Australia and most of them lock from the inside. American screen doors lock too.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:American screen doors lock too. next thing you're going to tell me is both countries have electricity and frankly i'm sick of the nonsense this thread is producing
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Jul 19, 2023 00:16
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Blue Footed Booby posted:American screen doors lock too. A lock on a screen door doesn't seem like a particularly useful feature.
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Jul 19, 2023 00:18
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Deteriorata posted:A lock on a screen door doesn't seem like a particularly useful feature. screen doors come in many different types and qualities.
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Deteriorata posted:A lock on a screen door doesn't seem like a particularly useful feature. Locks are to keep honest people honest.
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Jul 19, 2023 00:20
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Deteriorata posted:A lock on a screen door doesn't seem like a particularly useful feature. My front door is like 40% glass. I still lock it.
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Jul 19, 2023 00:27
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Some people have a hard time grasping there being a very large difference between someone opening an unlocked door, either intentionally or unintentionally, and someone using force to damage and break into your house.
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Jul 19, 2023 00:51
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`Nemesis posted:screen doors come in many different types and qualities. Australian screen doors also are more of a security door. A mixture of flyscreen and a heavier frame over it. Generally the lock braces them at 3 points as well, bottom, mid and top.
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Jul 19, 2023 01:14
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Baronjutter posted:I love my screen door. Open up all the back windows, open the front door, get an amazing cross breeze going once outside is cooler than inside. That's living! When I was visiting my aunt in Poland, she refused to open more than one window in the entire two story house. I open a second window to get a breeze? She'd close the first one. I don't remember if she has A/C. I don't think so.
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Jul 19, 2023 01:23
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Uthor posted:When I was visiting my aunt in Poland, she refused to open more than one window in the entire two story house. I open a second window to get a breeze? She'd close the first one. yeah, a lot of my eastern/central european family is nuts about drafts. Doesn't matter if it's loving 35 degrees and the roads are melting, if you let any sort of air flow near your body YOU WILL GET SICK. You'll catch a cold! No, no drafts!
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It’s the gift that keeps on giving. It looks like the utility sink (or whatever it is) in the next room sticks out past the doorway. I suppose it could be a trick of the camera angle, but with all the other stupidity, I doubt it. sarujin_nz posted:Australian screen doors also are more of a security door. A mixture of flyscreen and a heavier frame over it. Generally the lock braces them at 3 points as well, bottom, mid and top. Hearing stories about all the crazy, deadly, fauna in Australia, I would want extra layers of security too. If for no other reason than more time to run screaming out the back of the house.
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Jul 19, 2023 01:44
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sarujin_nz posted:Australian screen doors also are more of a security door. A mixture of flyscreen and a heavier frame over it. Generally the lock braces them at 3 points as well, bottom, mid and top. Don't they have extra armor to protect against spider and emu assaults?
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Jul 19, 2023 01:46
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Having never seen a single screen/storm door latch that actually latches the door after a couple years of use, I just assumed the lock is there to make sure it stays shut when you want it to.
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Jul 19, 2023 02:09
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the existence of screen doors that are not flimsy pieces of poo poo should not be any sort of revelation to anyone who cares about construction quality  you can get as nice and/or secure of a screen door as you like, from Home Depot or Lowe's even, but i guess if your only experience is the garbage your landlord installed?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Whether or not it complies with NEC, I bet any inspector worth their salt would look at it and say no way. So you're saying it should be a pac-pole then?
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`Nemesis posted:the existence of screen doors that are not flimsy pieces of poo poo should not be any sort of revelation to anyone who cares about construction quality I want a screen door that is secure against CBRN threats. lol got ’em
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Xerol posted:Having never seen a single screen/storm door latch that actually latches the door after a couple years of use, I just assumed the lock is there to make sure it stays shut when you want it to. This, yeah. We lock our screen door because the latch has been broken for a few years. I could fix it but  .
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Jul 19, 2023 07:08
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 Saw this in the wild today, a wall mount half pan. You could fit those really big door handles in this bad boy. It's for dryer ducts, there's a hole in the top. It's even got a UL 1-hr fire rating when installed correctly.
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Deteriorata posted:A lock on a screen door doesn't seem like a particularly useful feature. This is a fairly typical Australian screen door, lazily grabbed from Google images:  You sometimes find the older mesh-only lovely screen doors with a worthless plastic "latch" that has been broken since 5 minutes after it was installed 50 years ago, but those are pretty rare these days (especially on front doors).
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Uthor posted:When I was visiting my aunt in Poland, she refused to open more than one window in the entire two story house. I open a second window to get a breeze? She'd close the first one. She just remembers what happened to her brother's submarine.
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Uthor posted:When I was visiting my aunt in Poland, she refused to open more than one window in the entire two story house. I open a second window to get a breeze? She'd close the first one. She's just a traditionalist, it's in the Bible that when god opens a door he shuts a window.
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GotLag posted:This is a fairly typical Australian screen door, lazily grabbed from Google images: I never see new screen doors (in Vancouver), this is by far the nicest one I've ever seen. Usually they're old and falling off or banging around in the wind at a very old home.
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GotLag posted:This is a fairly typical Australian screen door, lazily grabbed from Google images: I was right. Spider and Emu armor.
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