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His Divine Shadow posted:Not like that is US specific. As someone from Finland, live candles on christmas trees sounds insanely dumb. A coworker of mine had to pay a neighbor to apply non reflective coating to the windows facing my coworker's house because reflected light was somehow melting the vinyl siding. Until they offered to pay, the neighbor didn't care and wouldn't do anything about it.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:A coworker of mine had to pay a neighbor to apply non reflective coating to the windows facing my coworker's house because reflected light was somehow melting the vinyl siding. I would have installed a spite fence, clad in mirrors.
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Pushing forward with candle-free content... I'm with the skeptical posters on this reddit post. I can't see this working out great.
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glynnenstein posted:Pushing forward with candle-free content... I'm with the skeptical posters on this reddit post. OK so why not just put T-pieces on the ducts coming out of the roof with sleeves or short lengths of duct in between? e: Unless that's supposed to be some sort of insane cooler or something? (Granted, I've only been familiar with duct-work for 12 or so years so maybe this is perfectly reasonable.) ee: OK looking at it more closely, assuming it's all more or less one-way, that does eliminate sharp angles. eee: Oh wait it doesn't since the joins on the other end are angled the other way 
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May 4, 2018 15:23
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Jerry Cotton posted:OK so why not just put T-pieces on the ducts coming out of the roof with sleeves or short lengths of duct in between? It's supposed to keep lint from those dryer vents at a laundromat from covering the AC condenser. It will, it'll just cover the condenser in ash when the building burns down.
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Jerry Cotton posted:OK so why not just put T-pieces on the ducts coming out of the roof with sleeves or short lengths of duct in between? These are dryer vents, and this is definitely not reasonable. Tons of things wrong: The dryers probably don't have backdraft or control dampers on them, so when dryer 1 is on and dryer 2 isn't, you're going to get dryer 1 venting back into dryer 2. This goes along with the next thing is that the common duct every dryer is tied into is nowhere big enough to handle the capacity of multiple dryers running. That duct lying on the roof is going to be completely full of lint very quickly since everything is going to blow right into that duct and get stuck. The guy doing it is apparently the maintenance guy for several laundromats. So he probably knows a little bit about fixing a lot of things, but knows nothing about duct install or codes. Best case scenario here is probably all the dryers break down from the terrible venting. Worst case scenario is all that lint stuck in the duct catches fire and the place burns down.
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As a lint novice: wouldn't you want to just catch the lint as early on in the process as possible? I don't see any cleaning hatches anywhere so it would have to be dismantled frequently as opposed to having to change/clean filters somewhere frequently. e: Anyway gonna print this out and show it to the next duct guy I see. I'd bet 10€ they'll say "loving engineers!" 
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His Divine Shadow posted:And I read a disturbing amount of incidents in a swedsh forum from loving vases of water and similar transparent things working as magnifying glasses for the sun and setting small fires and leaving scorch marks on things such as tables and walls and furniture. Reminds me of the London skyscraper shaped like a parabolic mirror
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May 4, 2018 15:37
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Can't you just put little filters on the end of each of those ducts and then clean them out every few weeks?
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I'm going to guess Laundromat. Also, is that going large to small? Won't that backfeed any vent that's not actively exhausting and blow moist air *back* into the building?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Reminds me of the London skyscraper shaped like a parabolic mirror quote:This isn't the first time Viñoly's architecture has raised eyebrows as well as temperatures: His Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas has been criticized for directing sunbeams onto the swimming pool deck that are hot enough to melt plastic and singe people's hair. The hotspot became known as the "Vdara death ray." Okay, you might be excused the first time you make this design mistake, but to do it again??
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I fail to see the point. Why not leave each exhaust just venting into the air? Why do they need to be tied together?
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Collateral Damage posted:I fail to see the point. Why not leave each exhaust just venting into the air? Why do they need to be tied together? The guy facilitating the project is dealing with the air conditioning condenser you can see in the picture tripping on high head safety because lint and hot air is preventing the refrigerant being effectively cooled. He chose a pretty bad solution to that problem.
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spog posted:Okay, you might be excused the first time you make this design mistake, but to do it again??
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May 4, 2018 16:37
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Bird in a Blender posted:These are dryer vents, and this is definitely not reasonable. Tons of things wrong: I mean, the only way I ~remotely~ see this working (and poorly) is if they have a massive fan on the "exhaust" end just sucking air through 24/7. Keeps them from back-drafting, might keep the lint from building up and might work. Probably not, but, yeah. I'm trying to apply some logic to a stupid thing.
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May 4, 2018 16:58
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spog posted:Okay, you might be excused the first time you make this design mistake, but to do it again?? Even better: https://gizmodo.com/death-ray-architect-speaks-out-about-his-car-melting-1265000912 quote:"I knew this was going to happen," said Viñoly, speaking to the Guardian on Friday. "But there was a lack of tools or software that could be used to analyse the problem accurately."
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quote:"We pointed out that would be an issue too, but who cares if you fry somebody in Las Vegas, right?" I mean, they're not wrong. You're going to fry one way or another in Vegas.
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RE: parabolic mirror chat - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall#Reflection_problems
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crazypeltast52 posted:Even better: I used to work on the adjacent property and it was even dumber than that. Basically the convex portion faces South and also the lights converges over a pool area. Patio chairs that looks like they were covered with melted cheese were not uncommon.
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wesleywillis posted:RE: parabolic mirror chat - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall#Reflection_problems I once had a '71 Nova with off-white vinyl seats, and always parked it in the same place every day at my house. At some point it got a rock chip in the windshield, which acted as a lens, and burned a trace of the sun's path onto the passenger seat.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Chillbro Baggins posted:I once had a '71 Nova with off-white vinyl seats, and always parked it in the same place every day at my house. At some point it got a rock chip in the windshield, which acted as a lens, and burned a trace of the sun's path onto the passenger seat. That's kinda cool tbh. The best I can claim was, as a kid, seeing we had a heatwave coming and filling one of my mom's van's cupholders with bits of crayons and an army man. It was forever more stuck in a melted, technicolor quagmire 
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His Divine Shadow posted:And I read a disturbing amount of incidents in a swedsh forum from loving vases of water and similar transparent things working as magnifying glasses for the sun and setting small fires and leaving scorch marks on things such as tables and walls and furniture. Yeah, my parents used to have a scorched table because I left a clear glass paperweight on it in front of the window.
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Saw these on my fakebook feed. Not too far away from me. In fairness, it was windy like a motherfuckin mothefucker yesterday. Also, they may not have been "structurally" complete.   
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May 5, 2018 19:14
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Bullshit if you have it sheathed that sumbitch should be good to go. That building is bad engineering or constructed wrong.
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WTF are they doing installing all that crap if it isn't structurally complete?
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May 5, 2018 19:20
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Yeah, the last structural element is that OSB they're using for sheathing. Something's fucky in there.
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breadsticks, and gum, and shellac.
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May 5, 2018 19:31
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They hadn't put on the structural exterior foam molding yet
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Looking at it some more, my guess would be that all those windows (a.k.a. holes in the walls) meant that the sheathing wasn't able to provide much racking resistance to speak of. In particular, the turret section has very little continuous sheathing where the windows are, and what sheathing there is is cut into little pieces. If the sheathing only spans two studs, and doesn't span across floors, then it's not going to make the house much stronger. Not only that, the sheathing they used is apparently made of fiberglass and gypsum -- I'd thought that was a layer directly on top of OSB, but I guess not. I don't know how much strength it has but I'd be surprised if it were as strong as OSB or plywood.
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The wind blew out the load bearing oxygen 
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Looking at it some more, my guess would be that all those windows (a.k.a. holes in the walls) meant that the sheathing wasn't able to provide much racking resistance to speak of. In particular, the turret section has very little continuous sheathing where the windows are, and what sheathing there is is cut into little pieces. If the sheathing only spans two studs, and doesn't span across floors, then it's not going to make the house much stronger. Not only that, the sheathing they used is apparently made of fiberglass and gypsum -- I'd thought that was a layer directly on top of OSB, but I guess not. I don't know how much strength it has but I'd be surprised if it were as strong as OSB or plywood. The design is what caught my eye. Every window reduces the shear strength of a wall, and is the reason you’ll see large walls with few or no windows on a home. Look at the garage doors, giant holes with very little meat around them, and a lot of weight above. Densglass or similar sheathing is fine for this purpose but you are correct in that the small pieces don’t do a lot to keep the racking forces in check.
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100% going with insulated concrete form construction when I build my dream house. Which will be never, because I hate moving, and I also don't think I'll ever be able to trust a contracting company enough to entrust it with building my home.
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May 5, 2018 22:27
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It was missing the load bearing drywall inside.
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StormDrain posted:Bullshit if you have it sheathed that sumbitch should be good to go. That building is bad engineering or constructed wrong. Chin Strap posted:WTF are they doing installing all that crap if it isn't structurally complete? Word. I don't know much about house construction, so.... uhhhmmm yeah. Crappy construction.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:100% going with insulated concrete form construction when I build my dream house. Those old Titan missile silos have always appealed to me. Okay the lack of a view and poor wifi are pretty major negatives, but at least I won't have a hole in the drywall when hanging a heavy picture.
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Instead you'll deal with groundwater infiltration, lack of ventilation, elevator maintenance, and you'll sleep with the sure knowledge that somewhere in Russia there's probably a nuclear ICBM with your address programmed into it.
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The walls and windows aren't the (main) problem. That house has an acute beam deficiency, with co-morbidities of execessive open floor plan and vaulted ceilings. If there's a basement... it is bad...
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The number of windows on that place make it look like a house I'd build in the Sims, wow.
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