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Deteriorata posted:orlop. I've been a naval officer for 18 years and have never seen or heard that term outside a history book.
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Buttchocks posted:One of my professors wrote his own textbooks, but instead of publishing them he just printed them out for us. We only had to pay $20 for the cost of paper and ink. Best professor ever. Our offered a dollar for every error we found.
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AlternateNu posted:I've been a naval officer for 18 years and have never seen or heard that term outside a history book. Shiver me timbers!
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Nitrox posted:Can you even call it a deck, when it's all buried like that? Unfortunately this deck is a vampire and must be buried in its native soil
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 "When I moved in to my GFs house there were two posts in the attic cracked. I fixed them with some clamps and boards but one looked bent and scary and two days later the repair cracked. I read these may be just left over from the attic build and not important to repair. Should I be worried that it cracked again?"
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Soon to be ex-girlfriend. Way to go!
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If it cracked, it was bearing weight. hth
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Platystemon posted:If it cracked, it was bearing weight. That sounds wrong, maybe it cracked by osmosis?
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AlternateNu posted:I've been a naval officer for 18 years and have never seen or heard that term outside a history book. Like puzzle games? If so I can recommend Return of the Obra Dinn
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Phrases you don't want to hear from time travelers Naw, it's like when they decided to make three Hobbits instead of two. You've got WWI and then WWII 1: Europe and World War II 2: Pacific. That's the current scholarship.
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Initial weight test with the grill looking good. How long until the hot tub is installed?
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Orvin posted:Initial weight test with the grill looking good. How long until
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I'm the load-bearing ratchet strap.
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I'm the lack of balusters.
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kid sinister posted:I'm the lack of balusters. If you need balusters to not fall off the balcony then I'm sorry but you are not going to survive living in this house.
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kid sinister posted:I'm the lack of balusters. Balusters would add too much weight.
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Strut your stuff
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Putting the "can't" in cantilever yes, I know
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I have a pile of engineering text books that I'm proud to say I never actually opened and yet managed to pass an entire engineering masters degree, get on my level actual engineers  Zesty posted:
Despite aforementioned lack of knowledge (but high luck roll), those things are going to have zero compressive strength unless the angle joints are braced properly which they are clearly not. A suitable triangular plate to create a web would probably do it. I think even if you put them flat at the base if you put heavy poo poo on them you'll still get a problem. e: just noticed that they are "braced" on the right by abutting the vertical so spreading out under compression is not as much of an issue as if they were freestanding. Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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Have we considered that this is intended to fold down and stow for winter?
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Have we considered that this is intended to fold down and stow for winter? If someone falls against that railing it will rip out and stow itself any time of the year.
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I'm really curious to see what the ratchet strap is attached to
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A #8 drywall screw, Philips, completely cammed out But, like, one of the 4” ones, that nobody knows why they exist
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I think the 4" ones are for people who can't be bothered to take the old sheet of drywall down first.
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Hispanic! At The Disco posted:I think the 4" ones are for people who can't be bothered to take the old sheet of drywall down first. Can't be bothered how many times???
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kid sinister posted:Can't be bothered how many times??? Just do the math! Aren't you some kind of electronical person or something? 3.5" divided by 1/2" = 7 Thus you slap up the 7th sheet of drywall, 4" screws go 1/2" into stud, boom done easy. So to answer your question, they couldn't be bothered 6 times.
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https://www.theonion.com/650-000-to-live-in-loving-ohio-1851422983
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I'm guessing it's to take advantage of some weird edge lot, but why woudln't you just build it in a triangle in that case, a la flatiron building?
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Maybe they only have short pieces of siding left from multiple projects
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Cyrano4747 posted:I'm guessing it's to take advantage of some weird edge lot, but why woudln't you just build it in a triangle in that case, a la flatiron building? Designed in Minecraft?
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Angles are like, hard man. Just think of all that space that would be wasted when you had rooms with strange corners in them.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I'm guessing it's to take advantage of some weird edge lot, but why woudln't you just build it in a triangle in that case, a la flatiron building? Because hiring an architect puts the tiniest dip in your profit margin.
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Bad Munki posted:A #8 drywall screw, Philips, completely cammed out To suck door hinges back in so they don’t bind on the latch side
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It reminds me of this small church near my house, that was converted into a private home. The widest dimension was 12-feet, and the bell tower was the attic. Nice high ceilings, though.
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PainterofCrap posted:It reminds me of this small church near my house, that was converted into a private home. 
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Cyrano4747 posted:I'm guessing it's to take advantage of some weird edge lot, but why woudln't you just build it in a triangle in that case, a la flatiron building? Sorry boss, but my subcontractors are so good they don't even know how to cut corners. 
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I was complaining to a builder today about (usually drywallers) pissing in bathtubs and leaving it as a stinky crust of drywall mud. Especially if it's an upstairs bathroom and they don't want to take the stilts off to go downstairs, and they're too lazy/dumb to use a Gatorade bottle. Builder told me he encountered a red solo cup covered with a card, and it had a turd inside it. I cannot imagine any circumstances where that would be more convenient than just walking 30 feet to the nearest portable toilet 
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A cardinal rule in building is to never open any mud bucket after the drywallers leave. Good builders screw scrap plywood over any hvac registers on the floor. Sure, it keeps debris out, but the main reason is so the drywallers don't pee in them.
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HycoCam posted:A cardinal rule in building is to never open any mud bucket after the drywallers leave. Good builders screw scrap plywood over any hvac registers on the floor. Sure, it keeps debris out, but the main reason is so the drywallers don't pee in them. See this is why I DIY. If someone is gonna fill MY HVAC system with piss it's gonna be ME.
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