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Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


Delta-Wye posted:

I don't care what you say, that shower is cool and the backsplash is banging.
I'd bet dollars to donuts that some of the worst 60s/70s porn in existence was shot in that shower.

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Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Delta-Wye posted:

I don't care what you say, that shower is cool and the backsplash is banging.

I love the backsplash, too. And the kitchen color scheme, which I realize is not to everybody's taste.

Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


Well then, you unstylish assholes, have a poorly lit bathroom in gold trim and black marble, and an upstairs bedroom's awesome ceiling/lighting!





Anyhow, looking at that first picture, it appears I was wrong: the laundry room window actually looks into the bathroom from above the tub.

Sudden Infant Def Syndrome
Oct 2, 2004

My good friend's house that he recently moved out of had the main breaker panel located in a basement bathroom. Neat!

Coasterphreak
May 29, 2007
I like cookies.

Bad Munki posted:

Well then, you unstylish assholes, have a poorly lit bathroom in gold trim and black marble, and an upstairs bedroom's awesome ceiling/lighting!





Anyhow, looking at that first picture, it appears I was wrong: the laundry room window actually looks into the bathroom from above the tub.

I didn't realize the Winchester House was on the market.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Coasterphreak posted:

I didn't realize the Winchester House was on the market.
That one I looked at was pretty much Rose Red (Kind of lame Stephen King miniseries from about 10 years ago based on the Mystery House for those not in the know). Place was creepy as gently caress, and almost seemed to be growing on it's own. That boarded up window was in the room with entryway for gently caress sake

Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


I just have one last picture of the disaster that I met in March: the aerial view.



Organic! :suicide:

Sudden Infant Def Syndrome
Oct 2, 2004

Amazing.

Bees on Wheat
Jul 18, 2007

I've never been happy



QUAIL DIVISION
Buglord
Wow. I thought it was odd when some friends of the family were using their sunroom as another bedroom for their kids, but that seems almost normal in comparison. I don't have any pictures, but it was basically a closed-in glass sunroom, with a metal roof and all. There was a sliding glass door between the sunroom and the kitchen, and a regular door between the sunroom and the hallway. There was also a window into the bedroom next door.

Some of the windows were covered with curtains, but they didn't have enough to cover everything. I remember they had lace curtains on the sliding glass door, so if you were in the kitchen you could stare straight into the bedroom. :stare:

Jordanis
Jul 11, 2006

Bad Munki posted:

I just have one last picture of the disaster that I met in March: the aerial view.



Organic! :suicide:

Oh my god.

I know enough about roofing to get hives just looking at this.

Triskelli
Sep 27, 2011

I AM A SKELETON
WITH VERY HIGH
STANDARDS


Has anyone here dealt with Irish Travelers before? My dad grew up near their biggest US community in Murphy SC, and he told me a few horror stories after a group showed up at the golf course he manages near Hilton Head Island offering to repave the clubhouse's sidewalk. My dad knew what was up though and turned the guy away. A few days later there was an article in the paper about someone being ripped off with some lovely tarmac work.

particle409
Jan 15, 2008

Thou bootless clapper-clawed varlot!
Buying a house in Yonkers, and I had a ton of trouble getting insurance just because the electrical work was so hosed up. It's a two family home, with a split panel giving each unit 60 amps. Federal Pacific fuse boxes of course. Also, every single outlet has the ground and neutral wires mixed up. I didn't even bother to ask whether a pro or "handyman" had done it, it's not relevant at this point. The sellers were shocked that I wanted a credit to fix all of it.

I initially thought of changing the outlets myself, but I wouldn't gently caress with panels, especially since I can't call the city myself and get them to turn off the power. The sellers kept trying to tell me to use somebody they know, who'd do it for $800 so they didn't have to give me a huge credit. Not licensed of course. $800 to get a service upgrade, new 200 amp split panel, and replace about 25 outlets? Sounds legit. I'm sure it wasn't the guy who hosed up the outlets in the first place either.

I'm actually going with reputable pros I know who do everything right the first time, and they're also moving the meters to the outside. $3600 total, but well worth it for the piece of mind.

Total Party Kill
Aug 25, 2005

I have a story from an old apartment I lived in:

It was a new building and I was the first tenant to live in the apartment. Shortly after moving in, I started hearing a high-pitched beeping sound. My immediate thought was that a smoke detector was running out of batteries, but none of the smoke detectors I could find were making the sound. I checked my apartment, the garage next to me, the neighbor's apartment. Nothing. I complained to the landlord and got no action.

Eventually I just stopped hearing it.

Whenever I would have company over they would immediately ask about the beeping and I'd briefly become conscious of it and tell them I had no idea what it was. A few people refused this explanation and tried to find it themselves, but ultimately none did.

When I decided to move out and into another place with my then-girlfriend, the landlord came over to give an inspection. His first question: what's that beeping? I nearly lost my temper and explained that it was the sound I had complained about several times but could never find. He walked up to a wall and turned around with a smile. "I know what it is."

Apparently, when they were building the building, they had to meet some sort of code requirement and had to place a second stairway in the house. As soon as the inspection was done, they walled up the stairway. That new wall was part of my apartment. In that walled off stairway was a smoke detector they had left inside. They were going to have to knock down a wall in order to get that smoke detector.

Assholes.

Total Party Kill fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Apr 1, 2013

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

BRISTOL PALINS BABY posted:

I have a story from an old apartment I lived in:

It was a new building and I was the first tenant to live in the apartment. Shortly after moving in, I started hearing a high-pitched beeping sound. My immediate thought was that a smoke detector was running out of batteries, but none of the smoke detectors I could find were making the sound. I checked my apartment, the garage next to me, the neighbor's apartment. Nothing. I complained to the landlord and got no action.

Eventually I just stopped hearing it.

Whenever I would have company over they would immediately ask about the beeping and I'd briefly become conscious of it and tell them I had no idea what it was. A few people refused this explanation and tried to find it themselves, but ultimately none did.

When I decided to move out and into another place with my then-girlfriend, the landlord came over to give an inspection. His first question: what's that beeping? I nearly lost my temper and explained that it was the sound I had complained about several times but could never find. He walked up to a wall and turned around with a smile. "I know what it is."

Apparently, when they were building the building, they had to meet some sort of code requirement and had to place a second stairway in the house. As soon as the inspection was done, they walled up the stairway. That new wall was part of my apartment. In that walled off stairway was a smoke detector they had left inside. They were going to have to knock down a wall in order to get that smoke detector.

Assholes.

Wow, that's like unintentional gaslighting right there. I think that's even illegal to do to prisoners or something :ohdear:

Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


Seriously, that seems like the kind of thing you should report.

Bonk
Aug 4, 2002

Douche Baggins
Crossposting from the PYF Funny Pictures thread:

Bonk posted:

My apartment's full of weird/stupid poo poo like this. Observe:



Drawer that can't be opened unless the oven is open.



Recessed full length hallway mirror full of Chinese VHS and Betamax tapes. Landlord didn't even know it was there.

I was hoping for something more interesting, but it's mostly just Hong Kong cop TV shows and some home videos from the 70s.



Does nothing.



Does nothing.



Middle nub does nothing.



Little switch does nothing.



Both do nothing.



Here's a doozy. Outlet in the cupboard ceiling, somehow on the same fuse as the 2 bedrooms on the other side of the house. We know this because if we run the microwave on high while our computers are running, we blow a fuse. But only in the bedrooms and that one kitchen outlet.


Whoever designed this house was the personification of :wtc:


A few more I just took:



The full cabinet behind the mirror.



Not necessarily weird on its own, but that there are three adjacent lightswitches and then an outlet just sort of wherever the hell they felt like building one is a bit odd.



And yet just below the trio of lightswitches and random outlet is a cable jack (in a hallway), somewhat out of place phone jack, and three of these 4-pronged outlets I've never seen anywhere else. I'm sure they have a use in some Asian country, but this is in western Canada.



Not sure if you can see it, but the plate for the switch is cut off so they could put the shower door track right next to it. I assume it turns on that light in the shower. Just a great idea all around.



This groovy stained glass and stairway bannister is simply a window between the living room and the kitchen, bordered by two olde-tymey lantern lights for no discernible reason.



You can only open the ceiling hatch to the attic by cranking that lever a bunch of times. It works like a corkscrew, so it takes a very long time to open. That's seriously the only way up there.



Exposed outlet in the kitchen, right next to a regular one that actually goes in the wall like it's supposed to.


Also of note:
-There are 3 suites in this building, and all of them - including the front door - can be opened by one single key.

-There is an area downstairs that could be an extremely disjoined 4th suite: There are two storage rooms, a laundry room, and a bathroom, but all are interrupted by a hallway and a small lobby/stairwell.

-I forgot to take a picture of this, but nearly ALL of the overhead lights are fluorescent tubes recessed into the ceiling in these little cubby holes lined with what looks like aluminum foil.

[edit]Got pictures of that last one:




\/\/\/Okay, that's especially odd then, because every room in the house has THREE of them right next to each other. What was happening here that required three phones in every room?

Bonk fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Apr 2, 2013

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Bonk posted:



And yet just below the trio of lightswitches and random outlet is a cable jack (in a hallway), somewhat out of place phone jack, and three of these 4-pronged outlets I've never seen anywhere else. I'm sure they have a use in some Asian country, but this is in western Canada.

Those are old phone jacks actually. Before the world had the modern wonder of RJ-11 we had these:

You Are A Werewolf
Apr 26, 2010

Black Gold!

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

Those are old phone jacks actually. Before the world had the modern wonder of RJ-11 we had these:



Man, that takes me back to when I was a small child in the early 80s, going to my aunt's house and seeing those jacks everywhere. Of course, by then, she had these adapters for modern phone lines:

Backweb
Feb 14, 2009

Bonk posted:

Weird apartment with stuff in sets of three.

Were any original tenants owners from China? The Chinese cop movies stash got me thinking that the number 3 is considered lucky in Chinese culture.

The number 2 is also considered lucky though, so I dunno why it's all threes.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Bonk posted:

\/\/\/Okay, that's especially odd then, because every room in the house has THREE of them right next to each other. What was happening here that required three phones in every room?
My apartment has a shitload of outlets and a phone jack next to each set because some former tenant ran a small business from there. It must have been cramped as gently caress but it actually comes in very handy for us these days, what with all the gadgets we have. Maybe your former tenants were in the betamax bootleg business?

Seat Safety Switch
May 27, 2008

MY RELIGION IS THE SMALL BLOCK V8 AND COMMANDMENTS ONE THROUGH TEN ARE NEVER LIFT.

Pillbug
Yeah that had to have been some kind of home-based business with a phone bank. I wonder what the phone box looks like when it goes out to the curb.

Why did you ever move into that apartment? Just for the great stories?

Nyyen
Jun 26, 2005

MACHINE MEN
with MACHINE MINDS
and MACHINE HEARTS
Not entirely sure if this is the right thread for this, but here it is anyway. Something far worse than that other house that shall remain unmentioned...



quote:

I bring you this for your viewing pleasure. Constructikons and do-it-your-selfers may get an extra special kick out of this one.

So, my landlord has taken it upon himself to build a 'toolshed'. For a roto-tiller. At least, that's the entirety of what he told us - there is, however, some inherent communication issues. (He's Korean, and not yet well versed in english (though certainly much better than my Korean)). There's one door so far, and a lawnmower will not even fit through it. (I don't think he knows that yet though)

So, this is the 'project' thus far. For one, the ground it's being built is mushy moist marshland - your feet sink with every step. Which is always ideal for a good foundation - or complete lack thereof.

It may not be immediately obvious, but I don't think this man has a background in construction.
It appears he owns a hammer and saw, perhaps a measuring tape, perhaps not. Certainly nothing like a square, straightedge, or level.
I guestimate that he has seen no more than 3 episodes of various home improvement shows, and maybe at best he's driven by a construction site atleast once in his life. After all, "how hard could it be?"

Indeed.

Now, I'm fairly certain this violates several bylaws. But I have no intention of stopping this beautiful process. I want to see this abortion come to term, and will keep this thread updated as this eyesore... evolves.
http://www.bcsportbikes.com/forum/s...l=1#post1732703
http://www.bcsportbikes.com/forum/s...l=1#post1733445
http://www.bcsportbikes.com/forum/s...l=1#post1733713
http://www.bcsportbikes.com/forum/s...l=1#post1734063
http://www.bcsportbikes.com/forum/s...l=1#post1734534
http://www.bcsportbikes.com/forum/s...l=1#post1735835

Highlights include:







The horror...

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Dec 28, 2008

Shake it baby

Aw, I was just coming here to post this. (I saw it on Contractor Talk but I think it's been posted on Reddit now) Everyone interested in construction needs to go and marvel at the pics, they're truly amazing. It's like this guy has seen a picture of framing once and decided to construct the entire shed from memory. And he also doesn't appear to own a saw so things are slapped up where they might fit. I hope the OP keep updating.

Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


Good god I want to see that thing again next spring.

Fender Anarchist
May 20, 2009

Fender Anarchist

Bad Munki posted:

Good god I want to see that thing again next spring.

I give it till the end of summer.

Sudden Infant Def Syndrome
Oct 2, 2004

I'd be thinking the first time a heavy wind comes through.

babyeatingpsychopath
Oct 28, 2000
Forum Veteran

Sudden Infant Def Syndrome posted:

I'd be thinking the first time a heavy wind comes through.

I'm thinking the first time he tries to get a tiller through the door. Tiller (under power) hits the door "frame" and just flattens the whole structure, monster-truck style (in super slo-mo).

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babyeatingpsychopath posted:

I'm thinking the first time he tries to get a tiller through the door. Tiller (under power) hits the door "frame" and just flattens the whole structure, monster-truck style (in super slo-mo).

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orangesampson
Nov 22, 2012

by Ion Helmet
I was linked this show recently and it is like this old house but better.

Too bad only season 5 is available.

http://www.tv.com/shows/holmes-on-homes/watch/out-of-the-ashes-part-1-843490/

http://www.tv.com/shows/holmes-on-homes/watch/out-of-the-ashes-part-2-843492/

The thing I like about this show, other than the other ones is the guy actually does work with the insurance companies and whatnot so the home owner isn't hit with a massive tax hit. Like this.

http://www.islandpacket.com/2011/01/22/1520330/after-the-cameras-have-gone-extreme.html

Edit: just make sure you have 2 hours too kill before watching these.

Total Party Kill
Aug 25, 2005

Bad Munki posted:

Seriously, that seems like the kind of thing you should report.

Maybe I'll look into it. It was a long time ago.

nmfree
Aug 15, 2001

The Greater Goon: Breaking Hearts and Chains since 2006

orangesampson posted:

I was linked this show recently and it is like this old house but better.
His newer show, Holmes Inspection, is better (and in HD). AFAIK his newest series hasn't been shown in the US yet, only in Canada.

Also, supposedly a contractor whose work Holmes redid confronted him on the jobsite one day and Holmes punched him in the face. That may not have actually have happened, but I can believe it.

neongrey
Feb 28, 2007

Plaguing your posts with incidental music.
His newest show is currently airing in Canada, it's Holmes Makes It Right, where he goes in and fixes like disaster problems.

Dillbag
Mar 4, 2007

Click here to join Lem Lee in the Hell Of Being Cut To Pieces
Nap Ghost
That shed is loving awesome. I fully expect that monstrosity will be a soggy pile of sawdust before the winter. Even if it doesn't rain at all, the moisture it pulls out of the wet ground should be more than enough to topple it.

The GF and I purchased the back half of an 8 year old duplex in the Commercial Drive area a little over 2 years ago. It was during the construction boom, so while not unsafe, it was built very much on the cheap. I've spent the last 2 years slowly learning the basics of home repair by fixing the more egregious issues.

The biggest problem we had was some surface mold in the attic. The 2nd floor bathrooms are vented through the soffit, so I thought some of the moist air was being blown back into the attic through the vents. It turns out the lazy shitheel builders had only pointed the run at the soffit vent, leaving a 3-4 inch gap. They had not actually attached the loving run, possibly because the pitch of the roof was too steep at that point to easily access the soffit connection. I ended up re-running the exhaust directly up through the roof.

It was still a great deal, even with all the construction issues. There's a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment in a new building 4 houses up from us going for $70k more than we paid for our 3-bedroom, 2.5 bath with private back yard and detached garage. :smuggo:

T.C.
Feb 10, 2004

Believe.

As a structural engineer, this just makes me so very very sad.

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum

nmfree posted:


Also, supposedly a contractor whose work Holmes redid confronted him on the jobsite one day and Holmes punched him in the face. That may not have actually have happened, but I can believe it.

Holmes is awesome and I hope this happened, but only after a fifteen minute rant of "how could you do that? What were you thinking?". Also that it was taped and will appear on the Internet one day.

Guy Axlerod
Dec 29, 2008
Is "Wall of Shame" listing all the contractors he has cleaned up after?

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Building materials aren't cheap... when I see poo poo like that it makes me so mad at the waste of it all.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


Agreed. And the fact that he could apparently afford all that lumber, but not a freaking saw or tape measure.

Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


Darchangel posted:

Agreed. And the fact that he could apparently afford all that lumber, but not a freaking saw or tape measure.

Pfft, as if he needs either of those.

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Dalrain
Nov 13, 2008

Experience joy,
Experience waffle,
Today.
Man, this thread makes me feel so much better about mine. The previous owner just direct buried SE cable....under the driveway. At 12 inches. And then drove over it with their truck daily. I'm not sure if I'm more upset at them, or at the home inspector who didn't find anything wrong with the place.

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