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I always find it really weird when there's these houses with all these needless super tall ceilings in every room in cold climates. Like living room sure maybe have a touch more head room to feel more open, but every room? Like just why?
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dr_rat posted:I always find it really weird when there's these houses with all these needless super tall ceilings in every room in cold climates. Like living room sure maybe have a touch more head room to feel more open, but every room? Like just why? making visitors think you're rich is way more important than having your wife and kids be warm in the winter, are you crazy?
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May 16, 2024 12:08
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I’d guess it’s much easier to have the ceiling at the same height throughout, too.
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May 16, 2024 13:17
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When I was a kid, we had relatives who had a three story beach house. The ground floor was the lounge and kitchen and the first and second floors were like a mezzanine which circled all the way around the building with bedrooms and bathrooms. A big tube, basically. You could stand in the middle of the lounge and look up like 20m to the underside of the roof. None of it had any insulation. I was told it was okay during summer as they would just open the windows on the top floor and you'd get a chimney like effect with a breeze to cool things down. I only got to see it during winter and I have to tell you, a 20m high ceiling in a wood structure with no insulation, even on the Australian coast, is loving cold. You could have see a bonfire alight in the middle of the ground floor and it wouldn't have helped. Which is a bit ironic, given that Ash Wednesday burned the place down.
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May 16, 2024 13:18
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May 16, 2024 14:02
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Thanks, I hate it.
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May 16, 2024 14:06
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That image was just made for rage bait right? Like it's just one of those images the more you look at it the more really loving stupid things you notice. It either having a toilet or a kitchen, or a toilet in the kitchen is a nice touch.
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May 16, 2024 14:16
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For apparently a whole generation of failkids, shipping containers are basically magic.
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May 16, 2024 14:21
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dr_rat posted:That image was just made for rage bait right? Like it's just one of those images the more you look at it the more really loving stupid things you notice.
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May 16, 2024 14:21
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Flipperwaldt posted:Coming from the right, the kitchen is the bit up the first set of stairs. You can just see a small glimpse of the toilet through the doorway of the bathroom one set of stairs farther up. That space is meant to be a ktichen? I thought that was where you're meant to keep your clothes and stuff, as pretty sure unless that's the thinnest toilet in the world there's no room in the "bedroom" to store clothes or anything. I mean maybe it's for nudist who have horrible taste in houses. 
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May 16, 2024 14:25
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:That would be very in character for the English. Very. Look at the number of bathrooms (kitchens too, maybe?) over there that still use two taps. With the exception of older houses that might actually still have an attic cistern for the hot water, there's no reason anymore other than tradition and "it's quaint." And even if they do still have that, mixing valves that don't allow the hot to go into the cold line have existed for a long time. Add to the list of "we've always done it that way, why change now?" building quirks is only allowing "shaver sockets" in the bathrooms, even thought all the other countries figured out GFCI outlets a long time ago. It's actually funny that (from what I understand) the US electrical code is basically the exact opposite of the UK one. In the US, new/renovated bathrooms HAVE to have an outlet (GFCI or GFCI breaker protected) in the bathroom, I think within 3' (?) of the sink. But not close to the tub/shower.
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May 16, 2024 14:40
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All outlets in bathrooms have to be GFCI in the US. Laundry rooms, kitchens, and I think any room with a concrete floor, too.
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May 16, 2024 14:45
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Ghost Leviathan posted:For apparently a whole generation of failkids, shipping containers are basically magic. I've been inside shipping containers, they are not wide at all. I don't know where the idea that they are magic prefabs came from, but certainly not from anyone who ever spent time around them.
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May 16, 2024 14:53
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Containers like that get very stuffy and hot during the summer and have basically gently caress all insulation during the winter. There's only one window in the whole thing and it's over the bed, so forget about any airflow in the kitchen if you cook something smelly like fish. Also all it takes to collapse the entire structure is dinging the car accidentally on one of those struts holding it up.
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May 16, 2024 14:56
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Found a floor plan: 
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May 16, 2024 15:27
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Why not just build it flat and park next to it  This is either a beginner architecture student's idea based on knowing nothing about designing living spaces, or an established architect who charges you six figures just to huff their farts.
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May 16, 2024 15:34
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Hope there's no wind wherever that guy lives!
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May 16, 2024 15:37
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Why not just build it flat and park next to it Suitable Home Design quote:Modular Building & Container Home Solutions.
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May 16, 2024 15:48
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ultrafilter posted:Found a floor plan: Wait why doesn't the Kitchen even go to the wall of the "room" it's in? Again I gotta assume it's just bait with how much is wrong with it. Like the floor plan is just straight up wrong. Look at the size of the landing in front of the bathroom on the image vs the floor plan, also the number of stairs are off. Bathroom seems to be different dimensions as well just based off how far into the left part you can see.
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May 16, 2024 15:48
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I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.
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May 16, 2024 16:03
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dr_rat posted:Wait why doesn't the Kitchen even go to the wall of the "room" it's in? Again I gotta assume it's just bait with how much is wrong with it. Pretty sure that's just the counter, and it does go all the way
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May 16, 2024 17:01
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Trabant posted:I can think of at least two things wrong with that title. Home is stretching it, but it looks like an improvement from some of the solutions for housing workers at a temporary site too remote for motels. Usually it’s multiple people bunking in prefab dormitories. If all of the food is being served communally you can get away with an electric kettle, mini fridge, and microwave in there. And there’s actual privacy.
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May 16, 2024 17:19
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Home is stretching it, but it looks like an improvement from some of the solutions for housing workers at a temporary site too remote for motels. Usually it’s multiple people bunking in prefab dormitories. If all of the food is being served communally you can get away with an electric kettle, mini fridge, and microwave in there. And there’s actual privacy. They want to put homeless people in them.
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May 16, 2024 17:22
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ultrafilter posted:Found a floor plan: Make my house 50% hallway, please.
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May 16, 2024 17:44
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ultrafilter posted:They want to put homeless people in them. That'd still be an improvement and therefore would not be implemented on any useful scale.
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May 16, 2024 18:05
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I hope they don't have tornados. Seriously I'd want to live in that somehow even less than a trailer in tornado country.
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May 16, 2024 18:10
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Containers in high winds? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7WfeV01A4g
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May 16, 2024 18:17
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Oh god all those houses just getting blown off the bridge like that!!!
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May 16, 2024 18:23
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dr_rat posted:I always find it really weird when there's these houses with all these needless super tall ceilings in every room in cold climates. Like living room sure maybe have a touch more head room to feel more open, but every room? Like just why?
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May 16, 2024 18:26
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Container houses are all extremely bad ideas that are more expensive than just about any other option. Framing a house or aparment complex is not the difficult problem here.
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May 16, 2024 18:39
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I wonder how many years left we have before these start being a reasonable option.
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May 16, 2024 21:11
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ultrafilter posted:Found a floor plan: I have questions re: the plumbing situation tia
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May 16, 2024 22:16
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:I'm only clicking through the Daft listing for this just now. First of all, this is only a few minutes from my apartment and I'm sorely tempted to book a viewing with my husband and not showing him this listing so he can go in blind. Secondly, did they paint the washing machine or is that my imagination? Please please do. It's the only way to solve the mystery of the bathroom. Where is the shower? How do you wash yourself? Or do you just have sponge bath over the kitchen sink?
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May 16, 2024 22:58
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ultrafilter posted:Found a floor plan: Where do you keep your stuff?
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May 17, 2024 12:22
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evobatman posted:Where do you keep your stuff? In
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Fighting Trousers posted:I have questions re: the plumbing situation tia How many other houses come with a built in car wash!
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Pookah posted:Look at this adorable little house! Pleased to announce that my husband and I are just back from a viewing of this house. It is exactly as patterned in every room as the photos would suggest. One thing is that the house itself is actually a might darker than what's shown in the photos, which means they brightened up the photos before publishing them. The pictures were obviously taken with a very wide-angle lens. It's very, very small, like, so small that my husband almost hit his head on the doorframes going into the bedrooms. Every surface that's not covered in all these insane wallpaper cuttings (which are all 3D by the way so every wall feels like it's padded in thick tissue paper) has been painted dark blue including the skylights in the bedrooms, but I couldn't help but notice as well that in the bedrooms where the wallpaper has stopped adhering to the wall, there's tiles underneath them. The guy who's selling the house wallpapered over the tiles. The woman showing us the house didn't even open the backyard door to show us the backyard since technically it doesn't exist and is just a slab of concrete with astroturf sheeting over it. The stairs up to the bedrooms are essentially a carpeted ladder that neither my husband or I could fit our feet comfortably onto, so we had to white-knuckle the bannister on the way up and down the stairs. I don't remember seeing the floor in any room except the kitchen because every available floor surface is covered in different fluffy rugs. One thing the woman showing us around mentioned is that the house is being sold with all the furniture that's already there. The reason why there are so many stoves is just the choice of the guy who's selling it; there is gas heating but he just didn't want to use it. Also I was right; the guy painted the washing machine dark blue. e: also my husband has been complaining about the smell of the house since we left it nearly 3 hours ago Poo In An Alleyway has a new favorite as of 19:48 on May 17, 2024 |
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May 17, 2024 19:35
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What about the bathroom though?
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May 17, 2024 19:39
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Why so much furniture and accessories? It's not like there's room to spare.
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ultrafilter posted:What about the bathroom though? The shower is on the left when you walk into the bathroom. Again it's smaller than the pictures make it look. It boggles my mind why they didn't just build the bathroom into the backyard since there'd be space to make either that or the kitchen a little bigger. By popular demand posted:Why so much furniture and accessories? It's not like there's room to spare. I have no clue, all it serves to do is make the whole living room area feel impossibly cluttered. The couches are far bigger than the room needs them to be; just me, my husband and the estate agent being there made the place feel overly cramped and claustrophobic, but those couches can sit 4 or 5 people who'd have no space to stand up or even exist away from the couch.
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