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raggedphoto posted:The house we bought last year has a vented crawlspace with uninsulated ducts running through it, I wonder how much heat in BTU's went straight from the furnace to outside over the 20 years the system has been installed. Probably a lot but it also probably keeps the pipes from freezing during really cold winters
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Youth Decay posted:New McMansion Hell and dear god is it a doozy The vibe I'm getting is that "I need to be able to entertain 200 people" was the main concern here. A place to live was a distant second.
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StormDrain posted:Two boxes of drywall finishing mud and shoulders of iron. Prime the whole ceiling first, skim it out, light sanding, skim it again, light sand, and paint. It looks like everything else has an orange peel texture, so they may want to get a texture gun and rent an air compressor to run it. To me, this is a good excuse to buy a drywall sander: https://www.harborfreight.com/5-amp-9-in-variable-speed-drywall-sander-59166.html https://www.amazon.com/WEN-6369-Variable-Drywall-Sander/dp/B01HRL9XYI Still take a bit of strength and endurance, but at least you don't have to hold your hands over your head, and the dust is extracted. Really intended for sanding the mud, but works just fine for removing texture as well. If it were just popcorn, you could do the water spray and scrape, but that looks more like a mudded texture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKQUGCoBang Some reviews and vids are saying that these sanders barely touch heavily painted textures, so I'm not sure if it would help. I can't imagine it would do nothing with the 80-grit discs, though...
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Nenonen posted:I too remember the palace improvements from Civilization 1 fondly. The Greek pillars should be bigger though. I remember getting in some sort of loop where my population kept giving me more and more palace bits until I had this huge globbed together monstrosity. It's on Zillow right now at a real bargain price!
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raggedphoto posted:The house we bought last year has a vented crawlspace with uninsulated ducts running through it, I wonder how much heat in BTU's went straight from the furnace to outside over the 20 years the system has been installed. Mine was the same, also some of the ducts had fallen down and were blasting right into the crawlspace (also spider/ant highways into the house). I blocked up all the registers and got a ductless heat pump instead, still need to rip the old system out though.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I remember getting in some sort of loop where my population kept giving me more and more palace bits until I had this huge globbed together monstrosity.
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Sloppy posted:Mine was the same, also some of the ducts had fallen down and were blasting right into the crawlspace (also spider/ant highways into the house). I blocked up all the registers and got a ductless heat pump instead, still need to rip the old system out though. Can’t wait to do that myself! Also I am going to encapsulate the crawl space sometime in the near future.
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Zopotantor posted:Heat recovery, maybe? Yeah and they work backwards too when it's cooler inside than outside, which is great in summer.
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`Nemesis posted:"found in new construction" This is better than typical AU construction because it actually uses a manifold.
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Ambassadorofsodomy posted:My brother would only ever improve the lawn and driveway part. First impressions count so he's probably got a good price increase from that.
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When the contractor mixes up where the fridge and stove are supposed to go:
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DrBouvenstein posted:When the contractor mixes up where the fridge and stove are supposed to go: Aha took me a minute.
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StormDrain posted:Aha took me a minute. Is it the plug in the middle of the wall?
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Yes, and lack of backsplash
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But also that would be absolutely awful placement if the fridge and range were swapped. Look, the appliance installer did everyone involved a favor, that work triangle is garbage but it could have been even worse.
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brugroffil posted:Yes, and lack of backsplash The microwave will be preheated though if you need to warm some sides while making dinner on the stove.
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Nenonen posted:The microwave will be preheated though if you need to warm some sides while making dinner on the stove. Is the a comment on one of the most common over range microwave setups of all time?
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FISHMANPET posted:But also that would be absolutely awful placement if the fridge and range were swapped. Look, the appliance installer did everyone involved a favor, that work triangle is garbage but it could have been even worse. I think whoever did the electrical rough-in is the one that hosed up.
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Nenonen posted:The microwave will be preheated though if you need to warm some sides while making dinner on the stove. Putting the microwave over the stove is super common though? They even make microwaves with a built in hood vent exactly for that application.
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I goofed up in an extended stay one time because I cooked bacon at midnight and accidentally set off the alarms because the microwave light didn't also turn on the fan Luckily my friend covered the smoke alarm with a pillow as I explained to the front desk that I didn't need to make any more bacon
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FISHMANPET posted:But also that would be absolutely awful placement if the fridge and range were swapped. Look, the appliance installer did everyone involved a favor, that work triangle is garbage but it could have been even worse. Agreed, exiling the stove to the far side of the fridge would be terrible. Without any counter space next to it, you couldn't even put down the spatula.
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FISHMANPET posted:But also that would be absolutely awful placement if the fridge and range were swapped. Look, the appliance installer did everyone involved a favor, that work triangle is garbage but it could have been even worse. That's true, a fridge should NEVER be right next to the stove. I guess lesser of two evils? Seeing as we can see a corner of dishwasher , it looks like the picture is taken from about where the sink is, so I'd be curious to see what's behind them/on the opposite wall of the stove and if that cold accommodate a fridge. When I moved into my house, I had a setup just like the one in the pic, but I was able to move the fridge to the opposite wall, though due to the layout of the rest of the kitchen, that's pretty bad, too...just less bad.
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StormDrain posted:Is the a comment on one of the most common over range microwave setups of all time? Ironhead posted:Putting the microwave over the stove is super common though? They even make microwaves with a built in hood vent exactly for that application. Finland just got microwaves last year.
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moist turtleneck posted:I goofed up in an extended stay one time because I cooked bacon at midnight and accidentally set off the alarms because the microwave light didn't also turn on the fan
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Platystemon posted:Finland just got microwaves last year. Plural?!
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They time share them. It's more efficient that way.
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moist turtleneck posted:I goofed up in an extended stay one time because I cooked bacon at midnight and accidentally set off the alarms because the microwave light didn't also turn on the fan My dorm was once evacuated because the fire alarms were set off by a guy who was pan-frying squirrel in the communal kitchen on the top floor and let it burn. Yes, this was northeast Pennsylvania.
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Phanatic posted:My dorm was once evacuated because the fire alarms were set off by a guy who was pan-frying squirrel in the communal kitchen on the top floor and let it burn. While on tour in Australia I set off the fire alarms in the apartments they had us in trying to cook kangaroo while poo poo-hammered. The next morning at the theater everyone was bitching about the fire alarm going off in the middle of the night and I couldn't stop laughing. In my defense the very pretty local girl convinced me it was a good idea.
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Phanatic posted:My dorm was once evacuated because the fire alarms were set off by a guy who was pan-frying squirrel in the communal kitchen on the top floor and let it burn. It's not a bad flavor, but it's best grilled, and then stewed.
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My dad always "threatens" to feed people squirrel, but in fact it's a treat he hordes for himself.
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moist turtleneck posted:I goofed up in an extended stay one time because I cooked bacon at midnight and accidentally set off the alarms because the microwave light didn't also turn on the fan I woke up one time to an apartment filled with smoke, my college roommate passed out, and a pizza burning in the oven. Tossed it into the parking lot, opened the windows, went back to sleep. No fire alarm went off. It was a brand new construction, we were the first people to live there. The week we moved in, the people upstairs turned on the whirlpool tub and flooded the place, so I'm assuming that shorted out the fire alarm system. 
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Living in the dorms meant late-night cooking sessions setting off the smoke detector resulted in the cops or fire dept. knocking on your door. Or I was really out of it and we did something else to get them at our door at 4am on several occasions.
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Phanatic posted:My dorm was once evacuated because the fire alarms were set off by a guy who was pan-frying squirrel in the communal kitchen on the top floor and let it burn. One of my suitemates went bow-hunting on campus and was successful. I learned this by being greeted after class by the coppery smell of fresh blood and a dorm sink full of woodcock feathers. I have no idea how or where he cooked & ate it just get it the gently caress out of the dorm. Why yes this was a university located in the Laurel Highlands of Pa.
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“I hope that you brought enough for the class.”
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I looked up woodcocks just to get a rough idea of the size of the thing, and ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_woodcock posted:The American woodcock (Scolopax minor), sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, the bogsucker, the hokumpoke, the trainanator, and the Labrador twister,
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StormDrain posted:Is the a comment on one of the most common over range microwave setups of all time? I thought microwaves go on top of the clothes dryer? But seriously, that setup never happens here and there's obvious reasons why no sane person wants that.
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The Dave posted:Living in the dorms meant late-night cooking sessions setting off the smoke detector resulted in the cops or fire dept. knocking on your door. My buddy Spam's scorched lasagna was a real hit with the fire department. The time my car leaked a few gallons of gas between the dorms resulted in a twofer evacuation.
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Harry_Potato posted:My buddy Spam's scorched lasagna was a real hit with the fire department. The time my car leaked a few gallons of gas between the dorms resulted in a twofer evacuation. Your buddy, whose name is Spam? Or your buddy's Spam lasagna?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_woodcock posted: The American woodcock (Scolopax minor), sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, the bogsucker, the hokumpoke, the trainanator, and the Labrador twister, rofl
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