Crappy Construction: The Four POs of the Housepocalypse

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His Divine Shadow: Aug 7, 2000; I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Nenonen posted:

That's why we call them as batteries in Finnish.

Funny thing swedish people in finland call them batteries too. And it confuses people back in real sweden when we use that word for them. But it sounds much better IMO. Just fits.

Whoops, what a lovely page snipe.

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# ? May 29, 2024 17:18

`Nemesis: Dec 30, 2000; railroad graffiti

# ? Aug 30, 2023 05:11

kid sinister: Nov 16, 2002

I'm the melted housing.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 05:20

PainterofCrap: Oct 17, 2002; hey bebe

I'm the plumber with a brick of lead, a flamethrower, and no flux.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 05:41

StormDrain: May 22, 2003; Thirteen Letter

`Nemesis posted:

I'm fuckin losing my mind at this. The burned stud is honestly my lowest tier concern.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 06:28

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
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`Nemesis posted:

God, I think that may be the messiest solder job I've ever seen in the wild.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 09:27

Nitrox: Jul 5, 2002

The flexible hot water supply is my personal favorite. But I hope everyone realizes this entire combination is swinging wildly like a pendulum on multiple axis, because diverter is not secured to anything

# ? Aug 30, 2023 12:30

Orvin: Sep 9, 2006

After seeing the arcing radiator, I was assuming that shower mixer/diverter was another spicy water supply casualty. Granted, I had no idea what the cold water supply would be shorting to in that scenario, but nails find a way.

I guess lovely plumber makes a hell of a lot more sense.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 13:41

Uthor: Jul 9, 2006; Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Got a home inspection done. This one made the inspector laugh.

He did also say he appreciated it because it was super convenient to plug in his radon detector.

There was band equipment in that area when I first looked at the place, so I think it was for amps to be plugged in.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 14:15

Impossibly Perfect Sphere: Nov 6, 2002; They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

This has gotta be fake, right?

https://twitter.com/HowThingsWork_/status/1696870281107714384

# ? Aug 30, 2023 15:15

Cat Hatter: Oct 24, 2006; Hatters gonna hat.

`Nemesis posted:

I like the idea that after setting the stud on fire they decided they couldn't be trusted with a blowtorch anymore and hooked up the other side with a washing machine hose.

Edit: The plywood isn't scorched, meaning that probably wasn't a field repair by a homeowner that solders one pipe a year. Apprentice's first day?

Cat Hatter fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Aug 30, 2023

# ? Aug 30, 2023 17:34

Scarodactyl: Oct 22, 2015

Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:

This has gotta be fake, right?

Correct

# ? Aug 30, 2023 17:39

Cat Hatter: Oct 24, 2006; Hatters gonna hat.

Everything on the Internet is fake. Even this.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 17:44

Nitrox: Jul 5, 2002

Cat Hatter posted:

I like the idea that after setting the stud on fire they decided they couldn't be trusted with a blowtorch anymore and hooked up the other side with a washing machine hose.

Edit: The plywood isn't scorched, meaning that probably wasn't a field repair by a homeowner that solders one pipe a year. Apprentice's first day?

They attached the rest of the joints somewhere else, maybe outside. That's the only spot where they had to connect it to the cold supply that was already in place.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 18:28

Cat Hatter: Oct 24, 2006; Hatters gonna hat.

No, I meant if the house was already built and this was a diy job, the plywood on the back of the studs would be scorched too. So either this was a gut-it-to-the-studs remodel or that was done before the plywood and drywall went up, making it more possible it was the original plumber.

...or that whole sheet opens up like an access panel, which would be neat.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 19:16

StormDrain: May 22, 2003; Thirteen Letter

`Nemesis posted:

Why is the tub spout offset around nothing? Why does it have all these extra fittings? Why is the shower spout offset? That should be straight with a bronze threaded elbow. Where is the blocking? Where does the braided line go? Clearly it's the hot supply but why? Why is the back of the wall plywood!!! Where is the insulation. Who would put plumbing in an exterior wall? Why don't the burn marks extend to the plywood?

Edit, where is the edge of the plywood? It should be around 3-4' off the finished floor! Is it run vertical?

StormDrain fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Aug 30, 2023

# ? Aug 30, 2023 19:29

the yeti: Mar 29, 2008; memento disco

My eyes keep getting drawn to the huge turds of adhesive that look like nothing ever actually contacted them

# ? Aug 30, 2023 21:23

ROJO: Jan 14, 2006; Oven Wrangler

StormDrain posted:

Why is the tub spout offset around nothing? Why does it have all these extra fittings? Why is the shower spout offset? That should be straight with a bronze threaded elbow. Where is the blocking? Where does the braided line go? Clearly it's the hot supply but why? Why is the back of the wall plywood!!! Where is the insulation. Who would put plumbing in an exterior wall? Why don't the burn marks extend to the plywood?

Edit, where is the edge of the plywood? It should be around 3-4' off the finished floor! Is it run vertical?

Exterior sheathing run vertical is fine :shrug:

(assuming that is how the engineer specced it)

# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:37

Orvin: Sep 9, 2006

ROJO posted:

Exterior sheathing run vertical is fine

(assuming that is how the engineer specced it)

Someone knowledgeable was consulted on how to build this? Surely you jest.

At best someone looked up pictures of a house and took ~~their best~~ a drunken shot.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:47

Epitope: Nov 27, 2006; Grimey Drawer

Plywood can be on interior walls eh. Does it happen for non crappy reasons?

# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:54

Slanderer: May 6, 2007

StormDrain posted:

Why is the tub spout offset around nothing? Why does it have all these extra fittings? Why is the shower spout offset? That should be straight with a bronze threaded elbow. Where is the blocking? Where does the braided line go? Clearly it's the hot supply but why? Why is the back of the wall plywood!!! Where is the insulation. Who would put plumbing in an exterior wall? Why don't the burn marks extend to the plywood?

Edit, where is the edge of the plywood? It should be around 3-4' off the finished floor! Is it run vertical?

California

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:10

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:

This has gotta be fake, right?

https://twitter.com/HowThingsWork_/status/1696870281107714384

On a Habitat for Humanity project the houses were mud bricks, covered with a lattice of thin flexible tree branches (wire and mulberry), then mudded over.
After gently patting the mud over the lattice, the local worker told us to throw it instead. It gave a much better spread and adhesion than patting.
He also crumpled up his empty pack of cigarettes and buried it in the wall.

https://www.devex.com/news/how-to-quake-proof-homes-try-mulberry-82251

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:45

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

https://i.imgur.com/6XQtFg1.mp4

Seems a bit suspicious.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:51

Cat Hatter: Oct 24, 2006; Hatters gonna hat.

Epitope posted:

Plywood can be on interior walls eh. Does it happen for non crappy reasons?

It goes up quickly to keep the elements out and then provides a base to attach most kinds of exterior siding that aren't brick. You could also attach brick.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:55