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corgski posted:I remember assembling an IKEA shelving unit where someone reviewed it saying that none of the holes lined up and they had to drill all new holes and it baffles me how someone gets to that point without even considering that they might be doing it wrong. They'll go well with the guy giving a replacement door latch I bought one star because "it only fits left hand opening doors" which confused the hell out of me for a while because I absolutely could not find anything from the supplier that said it was one way only and it felt weird that it would be, turns out that another supplier had "latch tongue can be rotated as needed". To be fair that would have caught me out at first but I'd have figured it out - the latch body has "this way up" on it so you can't flip the body itself, you csnt buy L or R versions so therefore.....
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Bad Munki posted:If you’re directly immersed, internal and external pressure will be more or less equal, so you’d still have that +.26. Reminds me of a Robert A. Heinlein short "Gentlemen, Be Seated" There's a large hole in the hull of a moon habitat, and the only thing handy that's big enough to plug the hole is the astronaut's butts. They're in spacesuits, but not enough air, so spacesuited rear end in a hole it is. Ornamental Dingbat posted:IIRC they had photographic evidence of this occurring, they looked like a rocket launching on top of a brown exhaust plume. This derail gave me some genuine laughs on a Monday. Thanks for that.
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Wibla posted:Some years ago I bought a kitchen at Ikea. We spent like an hour trying to put this thing together after finishing most of the rest, but there was no way this thing would fit together properly. We gave up and handed the problem over to the people who were doing the actual kitchen install + mounting and they had to get pretty creative to get it to work. Apparently Ikea put the wrong plate in the box, who would have thought...
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Jawnycat posted:https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/381520882608373761/1185546121959972914/404701373_362133413008436_8682308838762813358_n.mp4 smdh at this guy using beer when he should be using a spirit level.
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Collateral Damage posted:IKEA's QC was atrocious in the 80s and 90s, which is when they got the rep that we joke about today, but they've shaped up a lot in the past decades. You can still get parts with dumb errors though. I had a cabinet where the channel that the back sheet of veneer is supposed to slide into was only routed halfway along its length. Fortunately they also have a generous exchange policy. The thing that’s gotten me a few times is getting parts with more holes than the instructions indicate. I assume it’s that it’s a new part used in more things but the instructions don’t yet reflect it.
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Collateral Damage posted:Fortunately they also have a generous exchange policy. Do they? I've head to return IKEA stuff twice and each time was a huge pain in the rear end. They want everything disassembled and boxed up as it came, and if you lost your receipt they basically told me you were poo poo out of luck and they couldn't look anything up. This was a few years back so maybe they've changed but it soured me on the whole store and I never ended up going back.
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FCKGW posted:Do they? I've head to return IKEA stuff twice and each time was a huge pain in the rear end. They want everything disassembled and boxed up as it came, and if you lost your receipt they basically told me you were poo poo out of luck and they couldn't look anything up. I hadn't had any issues this year, but they were smaller things (lights, cords, etc) and I put them back in the boxes before heading over there I was missing some studs for putting shelves in my bookcases after my move (the loving moving company sucked rear end), Ikea online has a page for replacement hardware, and they just sent a bunch to me for free. Internationally from Sweeden.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVujoz0_dTY&t=420s Time stamped for a nice bathroom design flaw on a shifty cruise ship e: YouTube is somehow loving up the time stamp as it doesn't go to where it should, I suspect it has to do with ads or some other nonsense. It should be at 5:45 mark. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Dec 17, 2023 |
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Nenonen posted:e: YouTube is somehow loving up the time stamp as it doesn't go to where it should, I suspect it has to do with ads or some other nonsense. It should be at 5:45 mark.  which is 7:00, it needs to be 345 seconds for 5:45.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVujoz0_dTY&t=345s
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Protip: you can write timestamps as e.g. "1h32m42s". YouTube will rewrite them to just use seconds, but it does work.
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 This is pretty tame for this thread but still worth an eye roll. Some previous owner tried to level the top of a sandstone foundation section and not only did it in a way that the mortar didn’t adhere even a little, but couldn’t even be hosed to clean the pocket out before slopping stuff in there.
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Saw a boob light and thought of this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QluXqntXCoM
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peanut posted:Saw a boob light and thought of this thread Thanks. I think I now have epilepsy.
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I like that he explains away the deflection and relies on those deck screws with a fairly novel load on them, leverage wise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnvtxS0MxS8
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I don't know if this Aussie fella has been posted here before but he's really opened my eyes to the quality of construction here in my neck of the woods... seems par for the course in new housing estates https://youtu.be/DXafnJY4jJI?si=6-8R6ssHiHpjTTew
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Xerol posted:I don't think skeets embed yet but came across this today: I wonder what the HR Giger Building looks like on the inside?
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expanding foam, known for being perfectly not flammable and thus very safe around dense webs of likely shittily-installed electrical work,
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Xerol posted:I don't think skeets embed yet but came across this today: Cobbles are a strange choice for that... *looking closer* 
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Xerol posted:I don't think skeets embed yet but came across this today: From the thumbnail I thought it was gonna be some kind of like, expose Paris catacomb situation.
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Xerol posted:I don't think skeets embed yet but came across this today: Jesus Christ they even spraypainted the boxes.
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Xerol posted:I don't think skeets embed yet but came across this today: BRAAAAIIIINS
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Don't worry it's cold galvanizing spray not just regular spray paint, that would be just silly.
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I want to do my whole house that way, but painted in various shades of red, pink, and purple.
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Cool Dad posted:I want to do my whole house that way, but painted in various shades of red, pink, and purple. Decorative or structural expanding foam?
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Computer viking posted:Decorative or structural expanding foam? Load bearing foam
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So, time to play my favorite AirBnB game of let’s find the screwed up work. The easy find was the latch plates, this is the worst.  Now to the kitchen, that upper corner looks a little off.  Yep  Those smack right together.  Over the microwave is usually a good place, and doesn't disappoint.  Let’s see what adventure lies under the sink.  Yes, those unconnected shutoffs out of the wall are live.   Not shown the cheap fake wood flooring that isn’t sticking in a lot of spots and has some really terrible joints. There are also some bifold doors in need of an alignment. Surprisingly, the bathroom plumbing is not bad and the tile work is well done.  Bonus notice in the front yard. Several units here so not sure if it's the one I'm in. 
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Not to be overly snarky, but isn't going to AirBnB and finding crappy flips kinda like going to a kindergarten to be the best person on the kickball team?
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I remember having a lot of fun playing kickball in kindergarten, don't be a wet bag  Besides, the code violation notice is an amazing touch.
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MarxCarl posted:So, time to play my favorite AirBnB game of let’s find the screwed up work. Wanna get a free stay?  Send in a complaint with that picture. Outside of the romex/box and floating shutoff (the ones in the wall who cares) none of that is super bad, just not clean. Assuming those cabinets operate separately.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Not to be overly snarky, but isn't going to AirBnB and finding crappy flips kinda like going to a kindergarten to be the best person on the kickball team? If it's wrong to style on schoolchildren, I don't wanna be right 
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Not to be overly snarky, but isn't going to AirBnB and finding crappy flips kinda like going to a kindergarten to be the best person on the kickball team? It is real low hanging fruit to find this stuff at an AirBnB. I just like looking for and finding it. The romex box thing above the microwave it the worst thing. I’m assuming they figured not many people would look due to location. But, just put the drat thing in an attached box at least in front of the hole. I did miss that the courtyard between units is astroturfed, no grass all astroturf. Guess it cuts down on maintenance cost. That’s more of a WTF to me more than anything. Good on the owners for not forcing non native grass on the place. If something happens on the 29th I may report it to AirBnB, but there was no set address on the notice, though I could call the number. So we’ll see what happens. MarxCarl fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Dec 23, 2023 |
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Call the number and offer to send photos to the inspector lol.
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Drop a dime on airbnb hosts and guests always.
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H110Hawk posted:Drop a dime on airbnb hosts and guests always. 
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Shifty Pony posted:Call the number and offer to send photos to the inspector lol. not emptyquoting
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