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Platystemon posted:Glass is a traditional material though. Steel is extremely traditional and common material for pipes.
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Can’t believe y’all have pipes made out of exotics like that, my pipes are all made of common materials like still-living human bone and sinew
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LonsomeSon posted:Can’t believe y’all have pipes made out of exotics like that, my pipes are all made of common materials like still-living human bone and sinew PO: "We have such sights to show you."
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tetrapyloctomy posted:PO: "We have such sights to show you." Where we're going, we won't need permits
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Feb 17, 2024 18:58
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"You have an eternity to know our mess."
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LonsomeSon posted:Can’t believe y’all have pipes made out of exotics like that, my pipes are all made of common materials like still-living human bone and sinew I read a book awhile back that was an introduction to materials science and how buildings work to not fall down. At one point it had a table listing the strengths of various materials in tension, and sinew was, by a wide margin, the strongest material we have access to. It just doesn't last very long, because nature knows how to eat it. But IIRC the book made a point that large bundles of sinew were used for siege equipment in the Roman era, probably for ballistae.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I read a book awhile back that was an introduction to materials science and how buildings work to not fall down. At one point it had a table listing the strengths of various materials in tension, and sinew was, by a wide margin, the strongest material we have access to. It just doesn't last very long, because nature knows how to eat it. But IIRC the book made a point that large bundles of sinew were used for siege equipment in the Roman era, probably for ballistae. Yeah I think the key for my plumbing has been that the tissues are still alive, so they actively fight off nature and heal themselves when injured. Are the silent whispers and flesh dreams worth it? The repairing, the fact that the water heater runs on small game and not electricity or gas? A few years ago, even, I might have said no.
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Feb 18, 2024 01:40
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Can't beat them for freeze-proofness tho
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Eldritch plumbing
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I saw this abomination at an open house yesterday. They want top dollar for the house and its overall quality is pretty fairly conveyed in this one image. It's also worth noting that while this looks to be on an exterior, it's because it's a porch that was fully enclosed, so this is inside the houses envelope. 
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Feb 19, 2024 18:44
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lol that pile of styrofoam
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tetrapyloctomy posted:PO: "We have such sights to show you."
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Feb 19, 2024 18:49
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It just gets worse the longer you look at it.
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Feb 19, 2024 19:18
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Can anyone in the know comment on how dangerous the gas line is there? It looks like one trip and your entire laundry(?) space is filling with flammable gas?
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Feb 19, 2024 19:20
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I'm the laundry standpipe that will overflow onto both 110 and 220 volt outlets.
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SpartanIvy posted:it's because it's a porch that was fully enclosed, so this is inside the houses envelope.
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Feb 19, 2024 19:39
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100% the stackable washer/dryer to the right were covering that. It's a well-known maxim that if you can't see it then nothing breaks.
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Feb 19, 2024 19:49
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I wonder where that dryer vent eventually runs to, assuming that thing covered in great stuff is the dryer vent. Having it vent downward is also an interesting choice.
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Feb 19, 2024 23:49
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Does turning your outdoor patio into an addition ever work out? We passed on a place like that specifically because we were worried about whether adding it to the envelope was even possible to do properly and because we figured it would cost a fortune to heat it.
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Feb 19, 2024 23:54
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the dryer vents inside the walls so you can use the lint as insulation
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Bird in a Blender posted:I wonder where that dryer vent eventually runs to, assuming that thing covered in great stuff is the dryer vent. Having it vent downward is also an interesting choice. Directly beneath the porch, there is a 0% chance it goes anywhere else. Thing will probably fill up with dead rodents and snakes that crawl in to get warm too kaom posted:Does turning your outdoor patio into an addition ever work out? It's impossible to keep it dry when it's raining or warm in the winter, you don't get sunlight or breezes, can't set up a bbq in it... Seems like the best of neither world
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My grandmother did the hybrid of building an insulated box on the patio where one wall is the outside wall of her living room, but didn't compromise the house - you have to go out through the patio door and then into the addition. They use it a lot - it's fine in summer, and with an IR heater it's surprisingly fine to have lunch in in the winter.
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HolHorsejob posted:Directly beneath the porch, there is a 0% chance it goes anywhere else. Thing will probably fill up with dead rodents and snakes that crawl in to get warm too Bonus points is that we couldn't find a crawl space access, and I believe they floored over it during one of their other "improvements" SpartanIvy fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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SpartanIvy posted:I saw this abomination at an open house yesterday. They want top dollar for the house and its overall quality is pretty fairly conveyed in this one image. I'm the incredibly-corroded
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PainterofCrap posted:I'm the incredibly-corroded It doesn't look too bad, and the other one is fine I don't know what you're... Oh, the other other one.
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I don't see a single support for any of this plumbing. Random swastikas of miscellaneous pipes, joined by shark bites, less than a third of it actually insulated. But also notice the cheapest tankless water heater money could buy, it's missing flush/clean connections and is going to drop heated water pressure from year to year like clockwork. Then the air admittance valve, was clearly added after the washing machine drain kept overflowing. How far away from the main house plumbing you have to be in order for this to become a problem? Code says 8' from a vent, but I've seen this work just fine at twice that distance. There is a good chance it just drains into the crawl space
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Don't worry, CPVC is well known for its physical strength. Love the short stubs of PEX used as flexible links to avoid having to properly align anything.
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The bathroom with the regular door and the URGENT BUSINESS door seems quite sensible to me.
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SpartanIvy posted:I saw this abomination at an open house yesterday. They want top dollar for the house and its overall quality is pretty fairly conveyed in this one image. And the washer/dryer next to that festival of bad ideas. Hope that washer is balanced, because if it starts walking.
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Nitrox posted:Crappy Construction: Random swastikas of miscellaneous pipes
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Put the hot tub right there and try to get a tax credit for installing a heat pump.
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peanut posted:I need an article like this that archives all of the Fry's Electronics stores. What the gently caress... You're gonna go all out like that and not even touch the front? And... Fry's? Not Julius or Maximus Bargain?
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SpartanIvy posted:I saw this abomination at an open house yesterday. They want top dollar for the house and its overall quality is pretty fairly conveyed in this one image. shoeberto posted:Can anyone in the know comment on how dangerous the gas line is there? It looks like one trip and your entire laundry(?) space is filling with flammable gas? That much flex line is very much not legal in TX. They had to add more hard line when I had the water heater replaced to bring it up to code (from being installed last in the mid-'70s. Respect to that water heater for hanging on that long.) I also love the unreasonably long stub on the gas line jutting out from the T. edit: the Fry's in Dallas was cow/ranch themed. I forget what the Arlington, TX store was.
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Darchangel posted:That much flex line is very much not legal in TX. They had to add more hard line when I had the water heater replaced to bring it up to code (from being installed last in the mid-'70s. Respect to that water heater for hanging on that long.) The Arlington, TX location was "Warehouse" themed. I wish that was a joke.
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Elfface posted:What the gently caress... You're gonna go all out like that and not even touch the front? And... Fry's? Not Julius or Maximus Bargain? My local Fry's was space/tech themed, sometimes we went to the Aztec or Egyptian one.
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I usually went to the Egyptian Fry's. I think it's an indoor pickleball court now. Friends who used to work at Fry's told me if you were under performing you got sent to the Palo Alto store in hopes that you would just quit so they didn't have to deal with firing you. If you survived Palo Alto, you got sent to an un-airconditioned warehouse numbered store 86..
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Well, that's new. So they just framed over grass and dirt, ran the plumbing and then poured concrete?
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