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TooMuchAbstraction posted:My first thought was "huh, small earthquake, alright". It wasn't until five minutes later that I realized "wait, I'm not in California any more, this isn't normal!" Not even big enough to bother waking up for.
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where i come from there are constant magnitude 8 quakes, tornadoes full of bees, and you have to go to school with a volcano who is way smarter than you and smug about it
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LonsomeSon posted:where i come from there are constant magnitude 8 quakes, tornadoes full of bees, and you have to go to school with a volcano who is way smarter than you and smug about it gently caress the volcano, kill the quakes, marry the bees.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:gently caress the volcano, kill the quakes, marry the bees. I don't see how that's going to get you across the river
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u whuut my dude
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So either there's romex running in a trench cut through the drywall and encased in a mud conduit, or there are a bunch of studs wirh new notches. Taking bets?
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Apr 7, 2024 04:16
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Wow, they really wanted a fancy bidet, huh?
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In concrete or block buildings, there is a coat of plaster instead of drywall. This is what people do in order to run wire, grind a channel into the masonry wall and stick romex or whatever in there. So you get tradesmen from Eastern Europe or China showing up in the US, thinking they are going to do the same thing. I watched this bullshit in real time, it makes for a funny story later
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That’s a North American outlet so I’m guessing they didn’t want to deal with running the wire through the studs so they just gouged out a channel in the drywall and spackled the wire in place
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I am not a carpenter, but my brain is screaming “RUN!”
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Apr 7, 2024 13:09
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I'm an idiot, but surely doing this right would have been cheaper than whatever this is
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Apr 7, 2024 13:14
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That screams, "We didn't measure our stanchions correctly, and needed another 4 inches to get the deck flush with the patio door." Instead of, you know, building a step-down around the patio door.
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Apr 7, 2024 13:26
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I’m the uneven 4x4 posts that appear to be sitting randomly on 9/16” deck planking. Guys There’s this thing called a T-square. Another called a level. Let’s not forget the plumb bob
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Apr 7, 2024 14:10
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God what is it about decks that renders builders incapable of planning? Are they just not measuring anything? Constructing without even a drawing?
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Apr 7, 2024 14:12
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Scrungus posted:God what is it about decks that renders builders incapable of planning? Are they just not measuring anything? Constructing without even a drawing? They're (compared to houses) relatively simple structures. Which means that people either DIY it themselves with next to no experience building anything, or they hire the handyman that the neighbor recommended who also has no idea what he's doing. And yeah, a lot of constructing without a drawing.
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Apr 7, 2024 14:23
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Just not way to know how a deck will end up.
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Apr 7, 2024 14:24
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It looks like the decking is actually sloping upwards to the middle of the joist as well e: I think the hangers might also be the only thing holding those side bits in place, and I'm guessing those are there because aligning the things end to end instead of offset meant they could get the hangers in directly opposite or something.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Just not way to know how a deck will end up. Oh I think a stiff wind will solve that question.
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PainterofCrap posted:I’m the uneven 4x4 posts that appear to be sitting randomly on 9/16” deck planking. I'm the screw through the decking that missed both of the scraps they are calling the joist.
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Cyrano4747 posted:the handyman that the neighbor recommended who also has no idea what he's doing. I remember doing some cash side jobs for a “contractor”, major emphasis on the quotes. He was extending a deck to surround an above ground pool. He had absolutely no idea how to create a support in a semi-circle to allow the deck boards to end flush the with pool. I spend a whole afternoon cutting* “nailers” for him, and tacking them to his random grid of joists so the deck boards were landing on something. *with a reciprocating saw.. on a wheelbarrow
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A few coil straps and hurricane ties at each joist intersection and I'd trust it long enough to stand on while I'm tearing it down
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I didn't take a picture, but I stayed at my cousin's condo in Warsaw and all the interior doors were these nice etched glass designs. Even the bathroom door. Sure was fun taking a poo poo in the bathroom in the middle of the condo and watching the outlines of people walking from the kitchen to the dining room and thinking about what they could see if they looked toward me.
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Uthor posted:I didn't take a picture, but I stayed at my cousin's condo in Warsaw and all the interior doors were these nice etched glass designs. Even the bathroom door. Sure was fun taking a poo poo in the bathroom in the middle of the condo and watching the outlines of people walking from the kitchen to the dining room and thinking about what they could see if they looked toward me. Never have to knock! (Made me remember a completely untranslateable anecdote where a dude's mother tried the shitter door and upon finding it locked, exclaimed: "Ai siäl onki joku!" to which the voice of the grandfather replied from within: "Ei tääl kukka mittä onki; paskal mää ole!") (e: I mean I guess I can translate it, it just isn't funny that way. "Ai siäl onki joku!" translates to both "Oh there's someone in there!" and "Oh there's someone fishing there!" and the reply is "Ain't no-one fishing here; I'm doing a poo poo!") 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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pics unrelated 
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Uthor posted:I didn't take a picture, but I stayed at my cousin's condo in Warsaw and all the interior doors were these nice etched glass designs. Even the bathroom door. Sure was fun taking a poo poo in the bathroom in the middle of the condo and watching the outlines of people walking from the kitchen to the dining room and thinking about what they could see if they looked toward me. That’s pretty common in central and parts of Eastern Europe. Most interior doors of Czech homes are like that. I think it has to do with allowing the maximum amount of natural light throughout the house/apartment
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Uthor posted:I didn't take a picture, but I stayed at my cousin's condo in Warsaw and all the interior doors were these nice etched glass designs. Even the bathroom door. Sure was fun taking a poo poo in the bathroom in the middle of the condo and watching the outlines of people walking from the kitchen to the dining room and thinking about what they could see if they looked toward me. That's the kind of thing that would make me poo poo with the lights off just out of paranoia. A friend's guest bathroom has a frosted glass door and they hung a wreath on it. About half the time I glance over at it while pissing my brain registers it as a child-sized person with their nose pressed against the window and their arms in a circle above their head, like a cartoon of a poor kid looking in a candy store window. Freaks me out for a fraction of a second before I remember the wreath.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:That's the kind of thing that would make me poo poo with the lights off just out of paranoia. Why do you poo poo with the lights on? 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Why do you poo poo with the lights on? The poop goblins are afraid of light.
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My house only has one glass door in the entire house and it's the downstairs half-bath. No idea what though process lead to that.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The poop goblins are afraid of light. You want to be afraid? IDGI.
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Toilet bowl lights are a godsend for those groggy pees when you don't want to wake up yet Just piss into the glowing blue bowl
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I have an LED nightlight by the sink and it's more than enough light to prevent any major splashdowns. I used to have one of those old GE Limelites and even that was sufficient.
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Scratch Monkey posted:That’s pretty common in central and parts of Eastern Europe. Most interior doors of Czech homes are like that. I think it has to do with allowing the maximum amount of natural light throughout the house/apartment That's true, the light in that condo was great.
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moist turtleneck posted:Toilet bowl lights are a godsend for those groggy pees when you don't want to wake up yet Cherenkov radiation sanitizes the bowl, right?
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Just do what I’m doing and have juvenile turkeys under a heat lamp living in your bathroom
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   Yes that black going into the backstab is from the panel and is used to feed everything else in the box.
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This is how you make Santa never visit your house. How is a reindeer gonna land on that poo poo? That's a pretty standard way of using a new work box in an old work situation. Arlington makes boxes with guides for screws on the inside for that installation method. Cutting the backs off of line voltage boxes however.... 
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