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Blindeye posted:See the thing I hate about open floor plans for kitchen/dining room/living room is the fact that I cook a lot and few apartments have high cfm exhaust fans in the kitchen so if I say...cook a proper steak on a cast iron pan, smoke gets everywhere and leaves a film of grease as far away as my desk (over time if I am not OCD cleaning after every cooked meal. Cakefool posted:My open plan house has a similar issue, when I realised the kitchen extractor was doing nothing I found it was rated for about 190m/hr, the replacement I'll fit later this year with be 600+m/hr. There is definitely a middle ground. Everything in my current rental apartment kitchen which isn't easily reached to wipe down daily is well caked in a layer of oil. We have no extractor and it's located across room from window (we could at least buy/install a fan then). And we cook a lot. One of my good friends got an amazing two level dishwasher at his place--basically imagine the top and bottom rack were separated into their own dishwashers. So convenient for when you only have a few things to wash.
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kid sinister posted:
Not very high, they generally cut the main before the meter so the power company doesn't know about the electricity usage. Our city had a lot of grow houses.
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Slanderer posted:This makes me think of a reddit post that made the pretend lawyers over there froth at the mouth. Some guy had some lovely neighbors who sold a large part of their land, which included the access road to their house. The neighbors then demanded access to his land, and a Sheriff tried to make him open his gates for them. The original poster went silent based on advice from his lawyer, and the gibbering masses were left wanting. I'm told that for months afterwards the neckbeards in the legal advice subreddit sperged out hard anytime someone said "landlocked". Well, it turns out there was a conclusion to that story earlier this year, so I figure I'll post it (since I think I found the original post in this thread) Amazing. Do these rural places in the US allow amateurs to draw up and submit their own subdivisons? Any surveyor in NZ (and likely 90% of US jurisdictions) creating a landlock situation like that would have their license revoked immediately.
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I doubt the seller subdivided. Probably just owned the two adjacent lots and sold the one he'd previously used for access to the toxic dump site. e: Although I guess at some point someone had to create that situation, but there could be a pretty long history of land transferring/ownership to make it happen in a more incidental fashion.
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FCKGW posted:Not very high, they generally cut the main before the meter so the power company doesn't know about the electricity usage.
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Bad Munki posted:I doubt the seller subdivided. Probably just owned the two adjacent lots and sold the one he'd previously used for access to the toxic dump site. In Texas the previous use of the land as access means that an implied easement would have gone with the land and a formal easement could be drawn up based on the previous use. You would need lawyers and the county to get involved, but that clearly wasn't an issue here. It is completely possible to buy a piece of land that has no access and that will be nearly impossible to force an easement. Even the state itself had some issues with landowners partially blocking access to donated lands because the landowners didn't want the land to be developed in to a park and have to deal with the increased traffic. A friend worked on a ranch that had a 200 acre island in it that the owner couldn't get an easement too. He visited by helicopter a few times and then tried to sell it. I don't know if anything ever came of it.
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Hee, surveyor misconduct hearings are fun:  Most are full of technical jargon, but I think you can get the gist of what's going on with this one.
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Jul 21, 2016 05:25
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162% is an amazing failure rate, ha. Took that poo poo to 11.
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Jul 21, 2016 07:48
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"FFFFUUUUCCCCKKKK"
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Jul 21, 2016 10:51
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I see the zipline goon is expanding his business.
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Jul 21, 2016 12:09
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c0ldfuse posted:
They're a good idea in theory but they necessarily have less usable volume than a normal dishwasher and the F&P Dish Drawers (which are the only ones I am familiar with) are a huge pile of poo poo.
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Jul 21, 2016 12:30
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Prepping for painting, basically the state of every wall in the house is "just paint over it." Thanks previous owners.
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Jul 21, 2016 15:18
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I'm seriously thinking about just painting over the three layers of wallpaper in my house that wasn't primered before being applied to the drywall or between layers
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Jul 21, 2016 16:08
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We removed a bunch of wall paper in our kitchen and thr setting layer of plaster came off with it. Now i have to skim coat a couple of the walls to fix it.
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Jul 21, 2016 17:06
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FogHelmut posted:Prepping for painting, basically the state of every wall in the house is "just paint over it." Thanks previous owners. What's up with the line? The spacing is wrong for fixing a tape line and that's too high for filling the holes from a chair rail.
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Jul 21, 2016 18:33
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Maybe it's a very short room 
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Jul 21, 2016 18:34
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moist turtleneck posted:I'm seriously thinking about just painting over the three layers of wallpaper in my house that wasn't primered before being applied to the drywall or between layers
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Jul 21, 2016 18:37
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kid sinister posted:What's up with the line? The spacing is wrong for fixing a tape line and that's too high for filling the holes from a chair rail. Maybe there used to be really tall wainscoting there.
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Jul 21, 2016 18:45
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kid sinister posted:What's up with the line? The spacing is wrong for fixing a tape line and that's too high for filling the holes from a chair rail. Home Depot 4' x 6' drywall to fit in a short bed truck?
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Jul 21, 2016 19:47
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Could be a picture rail. Do you have those in the US?
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Jul 21, 2016 19:51
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Wolfsbane posted:Could be a picture rail. Do you have those in the US? In very old houses they are common. My apartment was built in ~1910 and has one in the dining room.
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Jul 21, 2016 20:22
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Shouldn't picture rail be higher?
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Jul 21, 2016 21:13
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i like nice words
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Could it be from a rail to mount cabinets?
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Jul 21, 2016 21:44
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I've seen picture rails no higher than the back of a couch in some living rooms.
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Manslaughter posted:I've seen picture rails no higher than the back of a couch in some living rooms. That's a chair rail.
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Jul 21, 2016 22:13
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Minor poo poo but still a failure: My laundry is in the basement which has a drywall shelf running around the outer wall that covers up a sump pump and french drain system. It's got access ports, one of which is behind the dryer so you can get to the dryer vent. Repeat, there is hole, about 20x20 with a vent cover, behind the dryer specifically for getting to where the external vent pipe starts.  So where do they decide to run the hose from the dryer itself?  BELOW the giant one, through a rough cut hole that's not big enough for the vent hose to pass through without squishing it down. Even then it's not going to move with any kind of freedom, and when your appliances/floor are kind of  proper ventilation requires some flexibility.
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Jul 21, 2016 22:23
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The first year I moved into my house it felt really cold downstairs all the time. That's when I found out that they just smashed a hole in the wall to the outside world for the dryer vent with no sealant/foam/anything. Bills went way down after sealing/insulating around that hose
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moist turtleneck posted:I'm seriously thinking about just painting over the three layers of wallpaper in my house that wasn't primered before being applied to the drywall or between layers One of us! One of us!  Knocked out some 1940's cabinets in my kitchen to make room for a dishwasher, and discovered what I believe to be the original (1905?) wallpaper... Followed by wallpaper, wallpaper, lead paint, wallpaper, wallpaper, hardboard? And then shittastic drywall on top of that (but only around the cabinets). Since I didn't anticipate the scope of what lurked behind the cabinets, and I needed a level surface to redo the electrical box/faceplate, I may have committed my own crime and just screwed in drywall panel squares over the lath and plaster as a gently caress it, fridge is going in front, and I'll rip it all out to the studs when I redo the whole kitchen in a few years. 
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Jul 22, 2016 03:13
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Its like tree rings or dirt layers.
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Jul 22, 2016 04:38
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Holy poo poo https://i.imgur.com/o0E3Xoi.gifv
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FogHelmut posted:Prepping for painting, basically the state of every wall in the house is "just paint over it." Thanks previous owners.
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kid sinister posted:Holy poo poo holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
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It's OK guys. He's got lifting suspenders on.
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OSU_Matthew posted:One of us! One of us! The 1905 paper's cool, do you have any bigger patches you can get pictures of? I like old wallpaper.
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kid sinister posted:Holy poo poo Queue up the Wilhelm Scream, please
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Sure, wrangling the AC unit is difficult, but the real feat is managing to get out there with those balls of his. Or maybe they actually help by providing a lower center of gravity, like a weeble.
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The thing that keeps striking me about that is that he's wearing socks. Shoes would make sense, barefoot I could understand, but he's in socks! Why would you worsen your traction like that?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:The thing that keeps striking me about that is that he's wearing socks. Shoes would make sense, barefoot I could understand, but he's in socks! Why would you worsen your traction like that? Plus his pants are so long that he could trip on them.
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kid sinister posted:What's up with the line? The spacing is wrong for fixing a tape line and that's too high for filling the holes from a chair rail. I have no idea what it is. It's in two of the bedrooms. Maybe 5" or 6" from top to bottom. It's got some chunky seemingly random patching, and built up paint lines at the top and bottom. I scraped down what I could, and am just making a smooth transition over it so theres no weird shadows or anything. The walls are all textured, so I'm just going to blend it all in with more texture spray. The other patches are all big smooth or lumpy spots where they fixed old holes but it's obvious because they didn't match the texture. There is a big patch at the bottom where they "fixed" a hole with one of those mesh things. But again, the plaster is chunky and lumpy and there's exposed mesh. A few of the rooms seem to have this for some reason. FogHelmut fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Jul 22, 2016 |
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