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Grammar anyone? "Prosperity"?? This bothers me now.
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Mar 8, 2024 17:05
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Slack3r posted:Grammar anyone? "Prosperity"?? That's nothing to do with grammar. "Preserved for prosperity" is perfectly grammatical English.
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Mar 8, 2024 17:13
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Bathtub tiling job done flush with flange rather than covering it.quote:We're having a new bathtub installed with tiles as part of a bathroom renovation. We just realized that the tiles are not installed in a way that covers the flanges but rather flush with them (see pictures.). From what I've seen in pictures, installation manuals and YouTube, there needs to be some protection over the flanges to install the tiles right to the bathtub. Asked contractor about it and said it was because walls were not straight.   lmao
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Mar 8, 2024 17:16
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Slack3r posted:Grammar anyone? "Prosperity"?? There's a coin slot on the side, you're supposed to drop in a quarter whenever you look at the wall.
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Mar 8, 2024 17:18
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Vim Fuego posted:Bathtub tiling job done flush with flange rather than covering it. So?
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Mar 8, 2024 17:20
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Yeah looks fine to me
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Mar 8, 2024 17:34
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Every tub I've seen the tile overlaps that flange, but I presume it depends on how the tub is designed.
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Mar 8, 2024 17:41
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I've never seen a tub with a flange so 
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Mar 8, 2024 17:43
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Backer board and tile is supposed to overlap the flange so that you don't get water behind your tile and loving up your wall. They either rip it all out now or in like a year when their wall is rotting from the inside out.
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Mar 8, 2024 17:52
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not an expert, but I've never let that keep me from speculating before: good rule of thumb with construction is that there should ideally be some kind of impermeable barrier and/or vertical travel between water and places it shouldn't be. it's fine right now, but keeping the caulk maintained (yes I hear it too) just got a lot more important.
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Mar 8, 2024 18:35
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Just get this guy to go over it every once in a while.
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Mar 8, 2024 18:36
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Sirotan posted:Backer board and tile is supposed to overlap the flange so that you don't get water behind your tile and loving up your wall. They either rip it all out now or in like a year when their wall is rotting from the inside out. Yes. The last tub I installed specifically called out covering the flange with backer board and tile, I’d show the manual to the contractor and have him rip it out and start over.
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Mar 8, 2024 18:57
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ComradePyro posted:there should ideally be some kind of impermeable barrier and/or vertical travel between water and places it shouldn't be. The crappy tiler pauses briefly to think. "Down is vertical travel" they announce, and resume their work.
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Mar 8, 2024 20:42
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Sirotan posted:Backer board and tile is supposed to overlap the flange so that you don't get water behind your tile and loving up your wall. They either rip it all out now or in like a year when their wall is rotting from the inside out. Sorry, yeah, I meant backer board under the tile, too.
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Mar 8, 2024 22:24
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Sir_Lagsalot posted:The crappy tiler pauses briefly to think. "Down is vertical travel" they announce, and resume their work. well, that's what I get for deciding I didn't sound smart enough when I said "upwards"
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Mar 8, 2024 22:36
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One of my showers was installed with that backer board above the flange. Fuckers filled it mud and taped it...took about two years before it started bubbling/dripping out. Tear it out and start over was what I did... HycoCam fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Mar 9, 2024 |
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Mar 9, 2024 06:16
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That's nothing to do with grammar. "Preserved for prosperity" is perfectly grammatical English. Because of all the tourists who pay to come see it.
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Mar 9, 2024 15:09
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Just heard a funny story from my uncle. He was a career dentist, and had a really fun house when we were kids including a giant pool. It was about 3x the size of the average backyard pool, with one end deep enough for a diving board and the other a broad shallow area with a waterslide. I learned that he built that pool himself with a neighbor. None of them had ever built a pool before, and this was 40 years ago. Turned out great and 40 years later it still holds up. The crappy construction part comes from being accidentally overbuilt. They had learned that the parts deeper than 6 feet needed 6 inch rebar spacing. They built the entire pool this way. What they did not know and later learned was that the walls and floors less than 6 feet deep only needed 12 inch rebar spacing. Flip it upside down and you've got a bomb shelter. The neighborhood pool building co-op extended to a total of five homeowners who all helped each other build their backyard pools. Probably got a good deal buying materials in bulk and sharing equipment rentals.
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Mar 10, 2024 21:04
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That's the opposite of crappy construction 
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Mar 10, 2024 21:32
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Wibla posted:That's the opposite of crappy construction
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Mar 10, 2024 21:44
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Wibla posted:That's the opposite of crappy construction Wrong, it's poo-ly construction, pretty much the same.
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Mar 11, 2024 01:09
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Mar 11, 2024 18:22
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That makes me unreasonably upset.
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Mar 11, 2024 18:27
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So how strong is mortar in tension, anyway?
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Mar 11, 2024 18:30
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Don't worry, that garage door track is load-bearing.
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Mar 11, 2024 18:55
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you what
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Mar 11, 2024 19:04
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https://twitter.com/nedsore/status/1766834007579177335 I don’t think that I’d want to live with this tub, but seeing this tub in the guest bathroom? Cool. For the love of God, Montresor!
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Mar 11, 2024 19:11
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Are chimney stacks only supposed to be a single brick thick? Seems like it should be thicker than that, just to keep the structural integrity going for the required height they usually have. Especially when some idiot puts a garage over the top of it. Won’t it eventually leak gasses into an enclosed space? Or am I way overthinking things.
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Mar 11, 2024 19:55
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Orvin posted:Are chimney stacks only supposed to be a single brick thick? Seems like it should be thicker than that, just to keep the structural integrity going for the required height they usually have. Especially when some idiot puts a garage over the top of it. Won’t it eventually leak gasses into an enclosed space? Or am I way overthinking things. Well it certainly the gently caress is now
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Mar 11, 2024 19:59
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Orvin posted:Are chimney stacks only supposed to be a single brick thick? Seems like it should be thicker than that, just to keep the structural integrity going for the required height they usually have. Especially when some idiot puts a garage over the top of it. Won’t it eventually leak gasses into an enclosed space? Or am I way overthinking things. They have liners inside them that the combustion gases actually go through, usually. Traditionally those were made of clay, they are more likely to be metal now.
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Mar 11, 2024 20:17
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The fireplace only needs like a 6 or 8 inch pipe, the rest of this brick work is superficial, only supporting itself and nothing else. Either way, there's enough empty space inside that chimney to reinforce it correctly or even make it visually appealing. I understand why they did it, but it could have been done way better.
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Mar 11, 2024 20:24
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Nitrox posted:The fireplace only needs like a 6 or 8 inch pipe, the rest of this brick work is superficial, only supporting itself and nothing else. Either way, there's enough empty space inside that chimney to reinforce it correctly or even make it visually appealing. I understand why they did it, but it could have been done way better. Yeah, like place a car jack to reinforce what's left of the wall.
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Mar 11, 2024 20:47
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Nenonen posted:Yeah, like place a car jack to reinforce what's left of the wall. They'd probably jack it too hard and break it worse.
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Mar 11, 2024 22:10
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Blue Footed Booby posted:They'd probably jack it too hard and break it worse. how the gently caress did you get a copy of my medical report
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Mar 11, 2024 23:39
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Well, you do need crystals to jack it properly.
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Mar 12, 2024 02:03
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Mar 13, 2024 23:34
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I'm no engineer but I think the cables should be continuous and running through a hole in the top horizontal cross piece rather than eye bolts through the side. And I'm looking at this on my phone but it *looks* as though two of the cable clamps were installed properly, but it's blurry on the phone screen. I doubt that they were properly torqued and retorqued though. E: oh poo poo that horizontal piece at the top is like a 1x6 or something.
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Mar 13, 2024 23:39
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Sir, that is in fact a cable-stayed platform.
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Mar 13, 2024 23:49
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I'm no engineer, but I don't think that the front posts will stay true for long. Why didn't this guy just buy a floating dock? Especially if your private puddle drops 4 feet of water.
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Mar 13, 2024 23:50
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Floating dock best dock. Then, even when the pond loses two feet because we’ve entirely hosed up the planet, you still get a floating ramp at water level. Bonus, unclip it from the shore and paddle around. Picnic taco dinner in the middle of a lovely pond is kinda rad. That stupid suspended platform is the worst possible solution in all cases.
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