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StormDrain posted:My wall looked similar, not as bad but close. Wood sill under the window was rotten. Did the same thing the engineers recommended on a biogrowth job I did downtown, bleached the gently caress out of it and replaced the rotten pieces. Vapor barrier wasn’t a thing when these old houses were built. The tile was the only water barrier. You'd think without a vapour barrier the structure would also be able to dry out but  Anyway wouldn't an ozonator also be a good idea just to be on the safe side?
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Suspect Bucket posted:Hey guys, I have a resources question. My boyfriend, who did not grow up with the benefit of This Old House playing on PBS all the time and without a whole room of his house devoted to power tools, is now working for McLargeCorp's as a systems and sales engineer in charge of revewing contractor estimates and blueprints. Is this for commercial or industrial buildings, or homes? There's a big gulf between building a single-family home, and building even something simple like a Target store.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Is this for commercial or industrial buildings, or homes? There's a big gulf between building a single-family home, and building even something simple like a Target store. Fast food restaurants of the drive through variety.
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Feb 14, 2018 21:16
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Jerry Cotton posted:You'd think without a vapour barrier the structure would also be able to dry out but It would, but slower than it got wet. Our shower sees 2-4 uses per day depending on if we both go to the gym. So that’s twice in the morning and once or twice in the evening, for a space that’s not getting much air movement. During periods that are high humidity anyway, zero chance of drying. I’d just get the good mold killer that someone just recommended, replace bad wood and the window, insulate and seal it on up.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Fast food restaurants of the drive through variety. This is essentially a textbook overview of building construction. You can get it on Kindle. I think this, or probably an earlier version is one of my books from college, but it's been a long time since I referred to it. https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Building-Construction-Materials-Methods/dp/1118138910
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Suspect Bucket posted:Hey guys, I have a resources question. My boyfriend, who did not grow up with the benefit of This Old House playing on PBS all the time and without a whole room of his house devoted to power tools, is now working for McLargeCorp's as a systems and sales engineer in charge of revewing contractor estimates and blueprints. Everyone already had good recommendations, but you do know that This Old House has full episodes online, right? https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/old-house-tv
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Suspect Bucket posted:Fast food restaurants of the drive through variety. I’ve been doing structure claims for the better part of 30-years, and commercial ones for the past six. I also build for fun. Feel free to PM me, I’ll answer any questions y’all might have.
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kid sinister posted:Everyone already had good recommendations, but you do know that This Old House has full episodes online, right? https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/old-house-tv Yep, I watch them when I'm sad or depressed. This Old House is incredibly soothing to me, they remind me of happy nights with my dad in front of the TV, watching PBS. There was another home building show we watched that had a regular female cast member. I thought for years it was also This Old House, but googling wont give me any information. Thanks for all the info and suggestions, I'll pass them along! And probably browse through them myself.
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Are you thinking of Hometime With Dean Johnson and various female co-hosts over the years?
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One Legged Ninja posted:Are you thinking of Hometime With Dean Johnson and various female co-hosts over the years? Might have been! Hey, dumb question. Was there ever an episode where they built a small robot out of copper pipes, phased out of existence with a cheesy video toaster fade, and ended the show on a creepy answering machine message? Or did I dream that as a child? Because that sequence scared the crap out of me for years. This would have been in '89 - '92 edit: And yes, it was in fact Hometime, just started watching them again on Youtube. Yaaaaaay oh my god I remember this theme song and I wanted to be Joanne Liebeler when I grew up I'm sure these easy-to-follow vhs tapes are the cause for many of the nightmares in this thread. Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Feb 15, 2018 |
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In regards to those moldy walls, I would recommend a mix of sodium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide. That will melt fungal tissue and even kill meiotic spores. In addition, id get a sander and grind the affected area AFTER the initial treatment, then repeat the treatment to ensure you've gotten it all. Or just burn the place down.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Hey guys, I have a resources question. My boyfriend, who did not grow up with the benefit of This Old House playing on PBS all the time and without a whole room of his house devoted to power tools, is now working for McLargeCorp's as a systems and sales engineer in charge of revewing contractor estimates and blueprints. I bought this a while back, and it seems like a really good basic introduction to housebuilding and the tools and techniques involved. Larry Haun is one of those guys who could legitimately solo build an entire house on his own.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I assume the correct way to handle this is to put a gutter or dyke at the top of the stairs? What's she supposed to do, stand there with her arms out to block the water?
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mycomancy posted:In regards to those moldy walls, I would recommend a mix of sodium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide. That will melt fungal tissue and even kill meiotic spores. In addition, id get a sander and grind the affected area AFTER the initial treatment, then repeat the treatment to ensure you've gotten it all. Midway between the two, sawzall.
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packetmantis posted:What's she supposed to do, stand there with her arms out to block the water? This wasn't a great joke when someone made it last page.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Might have been! Hey, dumb question. Was there ever an episode where they built a small robot out of copper pipes, phased out of existence with a cheesy video toaster fade, and ended the show on a creepy answering machine message? Or did I dream that as a child? Because that sequence scared the crap out of me for years. This would have been in '89 - '92 That doesn't ring any bells for me, but they did do cheesy things from time to time, so it wouldn't surprise me.
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Tortilla Maker posted:And what about the area behind/around this poorly framed window. Oho, that's going to be "fun". The tub is going to have to come out, and you're going to have to rip out all those rotten 2x4's and reframe. It looks like the majority of the damage is from a leaky window instead of the tub, so with luck the walls on either end of the tub won't be too bad... but don't get your hopes up. I guarantee that the subfloor under the tub will be equally hosed, and so will the joists underneath that, and probably even the sill plate underneath that. Get ready for  
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Jaded Burnout posted:This wasn't a great joke when someone made it last page.
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Jaded Burnout posted:This wasn't a great joke when someone made it last page. gently caress, I didn't see it. 
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Slugworth posted:It *was* a good joke in Good Morning, Vietnam, but 1987 was a different time. "Don't go near there!" "But, Mary..." "DON'T GO NEAR THERE!"
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mycomancy posted:In regards to those moldy walls, I would recommend a mix of sodium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide. That will melt fungal tissue and even kill meiotic spores. In addition, id get a sander and grind the affected area AFTER the initial treatment, then repeat the treatment to ensure you've gotten it all. I wouldn’t sand it if you didn’t think the mold was gone. No need to make it into a fine dust to spread around the house.
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Darchangel posted:"Don't go near there!" They're women in comfortable shoes.
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This was my city's solution to... something. Isn't patching asphalt with cement a bad idea?
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Javid posted:This was my city's solution to... something. My town did the same thing... except worse. They ripped up the road and put in new asphalt. Then they came back about a week later and cut a similarly sized hole in it and did something... then poured concrete into it.
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Javid posted:Isn't patching asphalt with cement a bad idea?
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They do it all the time here in Texas around the various access covers in the road.
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I had to replace my kitchen faucet because the idiots who owned this house didn't seal it properly so water rusted out the fixtures holding the faucet head to the basin. I found this under my sink. There's a goddamn pipe loop under my sink! What purpose, if any, could this serve?
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mycomancy posted:I had to replace my kitchen faucet because the idiots who owned this house didn't seal it properly so water rusted out the fixtures holding the faucet head to the basin. I found this under my sink. Maybe for a new sink or removed a dishwasher connection and they didn’t want to cut pipes. More importantly, why is there a floating junction box in a wet area?
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cowofwar posted:Maybe for a new sink or removed a dishwasher connection and they didn’t want to cut pipes. It's affixed to the wall as well as possible. When we bought the place it was dangling under a leaky pipe and had burned up the switching outlet. The people who had this place before us didn't do anything in terms of maintenance.
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cowofwar posted:More importantly, why is there a floating junction box in a wet area? It's an outlet box and it's not floating, see, there's exactly one fastener holding it to the cabinet!
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Extant Artiodactyl posted:It's an outlet box and it's not floating, see, there's exactly one fastener holding it to the cabinet! This guy gets it!
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mycomancy posted:It's affixed to the wall as well as possible. When we bought the place it was dangling under a leaky pipe and had burned up the switching outlet. The people who had this place before us didn't do anything in terms of maintenance. Sweet pipe screensaver though.
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Slugworth posted:It doesn't appear to be a gfi. Unless it's daisy chained off of one, you should definitely rectify that. I've got a GFI upcurrent from that one. The goal is to get all of the electrical code violations solved before the end of the year. It's ambitious to say the least.
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mycomancy posted:I had to replace my kitchen faucet because the idiots who owned this house didn't seal it properly so water rusted out the fixtures holding the faucet head to the basin. I found this under my sink. It's a vent loop. You use them on islands or places where you can't run a real vent. You're looks incorrectly done to me, though.
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Yeah, a loop vent looks like this and actually ties into a real riser: That situation could easily be fixed by cutting the top off of the loop and putting a studor vent there, and cutting the rest of the loop out at the wye and capping it. Bonus points for using a screw-in cleanout cap. Farmdizzle fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Feb 16, 2018 |
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