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Door closes automatically for safety.
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If you're cold, they're cold. Let them in.
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Feb 8, 2024 15:06
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Crossposting from the OSHA thread https://i.imgur.com/UNEDLXh.mp4
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Feb 8, 2024 15:09
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My expectations are so low, I fully expected that the nut/bolt would simply come off when he touched them, having been just glued onto the beam for show.
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Feb 8, 2024 15:51
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Ashcans posted:My expectations are so low, I fully expected that the nut/bolt would simply come off when he touched them, having been just glued onto the beam for show. Fully expected them to crumble to dust as soon as he tweaked them
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Feb 8, 2024 16:05
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Tijuana-A-Go-Go posted:Fully expected them to crumble to dust as soon as he tweaked them Yep, I expected a handful of rust after he touched the first one
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Feb 8, 2024 16:20
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There needs to be tolerance for thermal expansion!
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Maybe they get flooded often, but not rained on
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Crossposting from the OSHA thread Given this thread I was cringing and expecting an electrical arc.
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Feb 8, 2024 16:43
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What are we looking at?
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An electrical box mounted in the most stupid way I've ever seen.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Crossposting from the OSHA thread Automotive, but adjacent: I'd been chasing a weird knock in the front end of my '66 Pontiac for almost 15-years when I discovered (while repairing something else) that I had failed to properly torque down the lower-control arm bolts when I rebuilt the front suspension in 2001. One was almost just finger-tight
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Dunno-Lars posted:What are we looking at? Load-bearing conduit.
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PainterofCrap posted:Automotive, but adjacent: I'd been chasing a weird knock in the front end of my '66 Pontiac for almost 15-years when I discovered (while repairing something else) that I had failed to properly torque down the lower-control arm bolts when I rebuilt the front suspension in 2001. One was almost just finger-tight The bolts in this case weren't even torqued at all, which makes it even more half assed. If they were, the end of the nut would have been removed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3atVsn-4M1o&t=39s
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Feb 9, 2024 03:37
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Dunno-Lars posted:What are we looking at? In America and Canada, the electrical lines are usually overhead, and come into the house via that curved pipe conduit thing. Usually the electrical box is inside the house, embedded in the wall, supported by the wall studs rather than just conduit.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:In America and Canada, the electrical lines are usually overhead, and come into the house via that curved pipe conduit thing. Usually the electrical box is inside the house, embedded in the wall, supported by the wall studs rather than just conduit. I just noticed that the conduit leading to the box seems to be clamped down in one spot several yards away, then zip-tied (?) to another piece of wood that seems to be just sitting on the roof?
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Feb 9, 2024 04:36
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Let's be real, those 2x4s supporting the conduit are probably nailed right to the roof with no thought for watertightness
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Lead out in cuffs posted:In America and Canada, the electrical lines are usually overhead, and come into the house via that curved pipe conduit thing. Usually the electrical box is inside the house, embedded in the wall, supported by the wall studs rather than just conduit. In lots of places the box is outside, either because it's currently allowed or used to be. In any case it's supposed to be, uh, below the roofline.
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It’s nice, like the house is waving goodbye or hello, depending on whether you’re coming or going. 11/10
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HappyHippo posted:I had an apartment once where the ceiling in the bathroom started getting moldy. When the landlady brought in someone to replace it, it turned out the ceiling fan was just venting into the ceiling. Friend had this in her recently built loft conversion because the builders she had were cowboys. The sewerage waste in our loft was just venting into the space (posted it before I think), turns out it's because they'd disconnected it from the vent tile to attach the bathroom extractor instead. I guess joining those two together is a bad idea but still, they could have just put a valve on the waste ffs
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Crossposting from the OSHA thread I sent this to my friend who's a structural engineer and he said: quote:They are flexible end plates so the bolts only need to act in shear and the CLT deck over is screwed to both steels so can't go anywhere. Probably not best to rely on that though I feel that when your structural engineer says "probably not best to" you probably shouldn't.
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:In lots of places the box is outside, either because it's currently allowed or used to be. In any case it's supposed to be, uh, below the roofline. There's now a requirement for the main breaker(s) to be outside, so that firefighters can kill all power in whole house in six throws or less (including solar/battery/generator supply).
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Shifty Pony posted:There's now a requirement for the main breaker(s) to be outside, so that firefighters can kill all power in whole house in six throws or less (including solar/battery/generator supply). Where?
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Shifty Pony posted:There's now a requirement for the main breaker(s) to be outside, so that firefighters can kill all power in whole house in six throws or less (including solar/battery/generator supply). It's all fun and games until your titan gets destroyed because rival gamers cut your power at a critical moment.
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Arrath posted:Let's be real, those 2x4s supporting the conduit are probably nailed right to the roof with no thought for watertightness I mean, they're also just untreated 2x4s. Maybe it's really dry over there, but over here they wouldn't last two years...
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Phanatic posted:Where? Texas, for one. All new construction for years, possibly decades.
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Facebook Aunt posted:It's all fun and games until your titan gets destroyed because rival gamers cut your power at a critical moment. Weak poo poo if you don't have your PC on a battery backup. That's why the subjects of that story offered to cut the internet.
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Darchangel posted:Texas, for one. All new construction for years, possibly decades. This requirement is in the 2020 NEC and is only just now being adopted in many places
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I just had a solar install and service upgrade. They have a main breaker for the panel system on the exterior, but the new meter doesn't have any sort of breaker that I can see. This is New York.
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I have a claim now winding up to a denial. Policyholder’s bathroom ceiling fell in. Drywall was wet; insulation above it was saturated. They were puzzled by this because the roof was replaced within the past year by…the roofer subbed from the solar-panel installation company they contracted. Said that they had to replace the roof (which is rolled asphalt/bitumen) before the panels could be installed. Turns out the roofers removed the chimney structure completely, sheathed & rolled right over it. Leaving no chimney at all. It’s not entirely clear how exactly this happened. In any event, the gas hot-water heater was venting directly into the attic space, which was only a foot or so above the ceilings below. But things really got going when they fired up the gas furnace last November…only took a couple months for the humidity to turn that space into an equatorial jungle environment. The engineer I sent out confirmed that there were no roof leaks. The entire attic space was saturated by combustion by-product moisture. The best part? They never replaced the roof! They re-sealed seams, and laid some patches here & there, and sheeted over the chimney base…but the insured paid for a new roof. Oh, and when the roofers demolished the masonry chimney structure below the roofline, they packed the flue with masonry debris. How no one died, I do not know. I sent them the engineer’s report, and I imagine that they’re looking for a good lawyer. No homeowner’s policy covers this kind of thing. They’ve already paid +$10K for a new chimney. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Feb 10, 2024 |
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That story is just bananas. I don't understand how people can be so disconnected from their day to day reality that they wouldn't somehow grasp that maybe, just maybe, things weren't being done properly when they noticed a missing chimney. I'm really hoping that this was an absentee landlord or very elderly person scenario.... Also, I'll just leave this here as a warning to others.
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skybolt_1 posted:That story is just bananas. I don't understand how people can be so disconnected from their day to day reality that they wouldn't somehow grasp that maybe, just maybe, things weren't being done properly when they noticed a missing chimney. I'm really hoping that this was an absentee landlord or very elderly person scenario.... https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/02/rooftop-solar-is-the-future-but-its-also-a-scam.html
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The thing is that when I was getting accosted by solar city reps in Home Depot literally every time I went there from 2010-2016ish, that was when I knew this poo poo was a naked loving scam. Did people think that these companies were "paying" (I assume there was some fuckery here like being 100% commissions based) these college kids to hassle me while I'm looking for outlet covers out of some sense of moral obligation to arrest climate change or something? Never had any solar door-to-door, maybe I just wasn't in the neighborhood for it or something. The whole thing just came across as very predatory and I have to just chalk it up to 50% of people being below average that this stuff ever got the traction it did. It makes used car sales look good.
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Vetting solar install companies took longer than getting a new install through design, permitting & installation. They are just so loving bad. Don't use Energy Sage btw. Supposedly DOE is funding them but the companies on there are just absolute bottom of the barrel. I found my installer through a local ad, and I knew they were the right choice when they offered to install 1/3 of the panels quoted by the other companies, and basically pointed out all the reasons to not install on certain roof segments.
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I got a couple of quotes for solar installation, then rang up a distributor and priced it out myself. About $5,500 for all the parts I needed, and that's before applying any discounts/rebates. Versus $25,000 parts plus installation quotes. The markup is just stupid because it's a new enough product, and people have no idea.
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Semper Solaris in the Bay Area are cool folks and did a great job.
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Nitrox posted:I got a couple of quotes for solar installation, then rang up a distributor and priced it out myself. About $5,500 for all the parts I needed, and that's before applying any discounts/rebates. Versus $25,000 parts plus installation quotes. The markup is just stupid because it's a new enough product, and people have no idea. I mean there is value in it, like what structural considerations are there (plus reinforcing), running conduit allllllll over your house, doing the wiring, etc. If you feel comfortable taking all that on then it's def way cheaper tp DIY, but there's no way in hell I could do it.
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shoeberto posted:I mean there is value in it, like what structural considerations are there (plus reinforcing), running conduit allllllll over your house, doing the wiring, etc. If you feel comfortable taking all that on then it's def way cheaper tp DIY, but there's no way in hell I could do it. I forgot to add that the installation was $2,200. It took about 6 hours
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Nitrox posted:I got a couple of quotes for solar installation, then rang up a distributor and priced it out myself. About $5,500 for all the parts I needed, and that's before applying any discounts/rebates. Versus $25,000 parts plus installation quotes. The markup is just stupid because it's a new enough product, and people have no idea. Just wait, some cities and counties in Florida have tried (afaik unsuccessfully but they'll keep trying) to make it illegal to self-install solar. shoeberto posted:I mean there is value in it, like what structural considerations are there (plus reinforcing), running conduit allllllll over your house, doing the wiring, etc. If you feel comfortable taking all that on then it's def way cheaper tp DIY, but there's no way in hell I could do it. LMAO if you think a door-to-door solar seller is taking structural considerations into account properly when installing your solar, but if you don't want to run the conduit and/or pull the cables you can hire an electrician to do that part.
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