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I work for a bowling alley run by a VERY cheap man. About 6 or 7 years ago, he paid a guy to redo the roof off the books for about half the price it normally would be. I wasn't around then, but according to what I've been told, the guy installed some layer of material upside down, which quickly broke down under the rain and lead to dozens of leaks springing up all over the place. The guy who did the roof then died 3 months after it was finished, taking with him the service warranty and the company. Last month, the roof buckled from rust and water weight. Just above the locker rooms. The owners solution was to put a bucket up on top of the cieling structure to catch water. Oh, and a tarp. I can't take pictures right now, but you couldn't pay me enough money to go in that room anyway. In our party room, there's a leak directly over the light fixture. The room smells heavily of mold. I eagerly await the coming fire, which will hopefully level the whole building, causing a complete rebuild. If one goes into the cieling and looks around, there's at least 2 dozen buckets, pans, and other containers holding rain water. Some of them overflow every time it rains and need to be emptied. I can't wait to transfer, quit, or get fired.
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As someone who sold appliances for a couple years, I can attest to the hatred for fridge cubbies. I can't tell you how many people would find a fridge that was perfect for them, only to have to drop the sale because the hole was less than an inch too narrow for their fridge. Also, the number of people who needed "apartment" sized fridges, stoves, and laundry units was infuriating. Apparently, standards were smaller a few decades ago, and all the constructions from back then reflect it with 20" gaps for stoves, 24" gaps for fridges, and old, old, incredibly old school styled 2-in-1 washer/dryer combo units that were a few inches narrower than newer stackable front load units.
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Feb 2, 2014 20:23
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Wanna talk about having a tiny amount of counter space? The apartment I live in is utter poo poo. It was built, along with all the other quadplex housing in the area, as temporary military housing back during... I think WWII? The housing was supposed to be knocked down after the war was over and they didn't need to house those hundreds of soldier near the base, but then I guess slumlords when and bought the properties, thinking they can make money off of them. But I digress, as I'm only talking about the counters right now. Picture a standard kitchen sink. Now picture a dish drying rack next to it. Now add a 2nd dish dring rack on the other side. That's the extent of my counter space. Literally enough space for 2 dish drying racks on either side of the sink, with all the cabinet space that that would entail. The rest comes from a table that we've put up in the kitchen. No, it's not the dinner table. We use it for storage and for cutting and prepping food. The rest of the apartment is in such disarray that I'[m honestly surprised it hasn't fallen down yet. Maybe in the next day or two, I'll try to take pictures for the thread.
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Feb 3, 2014 15:02
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Anne Whateley posted:I'm in New York so I'm afraid I win this horrible competition. I really want an over-the-range microwave because between the sink and the stove, I have 14" of lateral counter space (one dish rack). That's it. That's also directly above the one drawer I have. I forgot to mention that I'm in New York as well. I also forgot to mention that I have 2 dish racks, one on each side of the sink.  EDIT: Unless you mean New York City, in which case, be more specific. There's a whole state named New York out there. 
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Feb 3, 2014 16:10
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I heard about the Sochi situation on the radio today. Apparently there's all sorts of combinations of fun things going on, like most of the rooms being unfinished in one way or another, such as no doors, beds, shelves, cable, light bulbs, internet, and/or heat, bathroom stalls with 2 toilets each in them, no hot water, guests being told they can't use the water on their face because there's "something" in it that will burn their skin, open manholes in the sidewalks, and/or the hotel reception desk being the hotel owners bedroom. I'm thinking what probably happened was that the site was chosen, then a few shipping containers of vodka were airlifted in, followed by the workers, and then like 2 months ago, once all the vodka was finished, everyone got to work.
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Feb 5, 2014 19:20
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All this talk of computers and emergency stops reminds me from a story that I think I remember reading in one of the "A ticket came in..." threads. IIRC, some guy inherited a new workstation at his job. The workstation's computer was a standard affair, except that the tower had a single wire running out of the back of it to a switch that was located into the desk. One side was labeled "magic", and the other side was labeled "more magic". The switch was flipped to magic, so the guy flipped it to more magic, and the monitor flashed and the computer restarted. The guy concluded that it was used as an emergency stop for whenever the boss decided to walk by.
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Apr 22, 2014 20:48
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Yesssss that's the one. It's an awesome story and I was really sad I couldn't remember all of it.
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Apr 22, 2014 21:01
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DNova posted:I've never seen one either. The first problem I can think of is that you can put polarized plugs into that backwards. Or knives, coins, and really anything that's the right thickness. I hope no kids grew up around that thing.
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Apr 28, 2014 00:12
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As a person who worked at HF for a year, only buy poo poo that has a warranty attached. Seriously. You'll pay $10 more, sure, but you can bet your sorry rear end that that thing WILL break in a week and you'll need to return it. Never buy anything that's from their kitchen and hobby sections. Never buy electronics. The less complicated an item, the safer it is to buy. Buy the tools that have the lifetime warranty on them. Buy the storage units and benches if you can be careful enough not to hit it with something and bend it. The thing you almost never see are the returns. Sure, you might see a cart with a few items in it behind the register, or a shelf unit with some clearance stuff that's missing pieces. Those are the things that haven't made it back to The Bin yet. The Bin is always at least one, but sometimes as many as 6(!!! For our medium sized store) pallets with waist high heavy duty cardboard bins nailed to them that get filled to the top with broken and returned items that get shipped back to the manufacturer every month. Yes, every month. However many pallets that it ends up being.
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Sep 17, 2014 16:18
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Trent posted:Whole place is full of sinkholes, though. Houses disappearing and poo poo, and they try to cover it up. Florida apparently has retirement communities that are full of sinkholes as well. It's like the planet is correcting the worse human offenses without letting us resort to outright murder.
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Jan 31, 2015 15:43
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canyoneer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69yswP-MSvQ When he said I wonder what happens if I trip the breaker?" I half expected his head to burst into flame for no apparent reason. That's some magic show stuff right there.
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Mar 2, 2015 01:11
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:I kinda thought the commercial ones were made out of metal or special non-flammable foam, it just seems like hanging a bunch of homemade cardboard or styrofoam poo poo on your walls is just asking for a single spark from a bad socket or something low to ignite and spread super-fast. But yeah you're right, I think the old convo was more about doors specifically. IIRC, it was about some guy who wanted to sound-proof a fire rated hollow metal door, and suggestions ranged from "hang egg cartons/heavily towels/etc on it" to "drill a hole in it and fill it with foam". Much stupidity was had, and we were all worse off for it.
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Apr 6, 2015 17:21
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canyoneer posted:An ash tree, right? It is now.
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This past weekend I learned that if I want to light a fire under my slumlord-landlord's rear end, I only need to bring in a baggie of the roaches that I've been catching and throw it on their desk. Also, I learned that the reason no one can get the maintenance "department"(literally two guys with a truck of tools) to ever call them back regarding a work order is because the answering machine that you're forced to leave a message on is actually one of the guy's cell phones, and he likes to check his messages, delete them all, and never let anyone know who called in something. We have roaches because our neighbor's unit caught fire a month ago, and they were hoarders with bugs. No one's been in the apartment aside from an insurance adjuster the week after the fire, and we've been hearing chunks of things falling down every so often, as well as skittering and other noises. Our landlords like to hide behind the maintenance department. "Oh, we can't do anything. You need to call and leave them a message." They say. So after killing 25 roaches the weekend after the fire, I did exactly that. I called both the rent office, and the maintenance department, left voicemails detailing the problem, when it started, where the bugs are coming from, and what needs to be done to fix it. I then drafted up a letter saying much the same to the landlord, signed and dated by my wife and I, and placed it in their drop slot that same day. Then I waited. While I waited, I bought a spray bottle of Raid and spent a few days capturing, killing, and collecting various specimens of the roaches. After a week with no call back, I took 2 hours off of work to come home and find the landlord and perform the previously mentioned bug throwing and demand something be done. It was then that I learned that, when faced with an angry man with a bag of roaches, the landlord will fold faster than Superman on laundry day, write an email to Maintenance, and I'll have my problem taken care of less than an hour later. I really need to move the gently caress out of this place.
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Yeah, great, nice picture without any conte- wait, what's that brown turd-looking thing on the right?
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Nov 17, 2015 20:59
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Shifty Pony posted:I seem to recall that recently there was a bit of an arms race between makers of vacuums in the UK where everyone kept cranking up their wattage because people kept buying the highest rated ones as more watts = more clean. That's a hilarious thing that's been happening here in the US for years and years now as well. people assume that higher amperage rating on the motor = more better cleaning suction power, but that couldn't be further from the truth. In reality, there's lots of factors that contribute to one vacuum cleaning better than another. Higher amp rating just means the motor draws more current. What factors into the suction is airflow. How clogged the filters/bags are, how clean the airways are within the vacuum itself, how much friction the motor is experiencing, and some other quirks of design as well. Dyson often touts their amazing suction power in their commercials, but even they'll lose suction and therefore cleaning power if the filters aren't cleaned properly, the dirt emptied out regularly, and the airways kept open. This is also why bagless vacuums are generally considered better than bagged vacuums. The bags act as the air filter and clog quickly as they fill up, whereas the bagless ones tend to last longer before needing to be emptied and cleaned.
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Crotch Fruit posted:Vacuum derail- I totally agree that cleaning ability is not a function of suction, it's all about airflow, which means not clogging the filter. I was gonna post a big long thing, but it basically boiled down to this. I also sold Rainbows for a while, and sold vacuums and other appliances as a couple big box stores for a number of years. I did lots of research. The water model is generally gonna be better than any dry media ever, and it's a shame that the Rainbows cost $2300+ each or else that'd pretty much all anyone ever bought. To their credit, the Rainbows are made of really tough poo poo. The office I worked for that sold Rainbows had an original 1938orwhatever model year Rainbow that still worked and was used every day from the year it was manufactured till like 2010. It never broke during that time, and only needed to have the motor's brushes redone during that time. We took it to shows for demonstrations and the like. Bagless vacuums, on the whole, are going through that "build it cheaper, build it faster" phase, where everyone and their mother are trying to get a slice of the market share. That's why they tend to perform worse than established bagged vacuums that have had decades of development and refinement to maximize their design. To say that bagless vacuums perform universally worse than a good bagged vacuum is like saying that all motorized bicycles in general perform universally worse than a good Harley Davidson, which is to say it's a bit disingenuous.
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How is it a nightmare to deal with the water? Dump it in the toilet, or outside in the bushes. Rinse the bowl and let it dry. I will say it's kind of a pain in the rear end to let the Rainbow dry out after use, but other than that, I never had a problem with it. I'm not trying to harp on you or anything, by the way. I'm just struggling to see your view on the matter. I don't like bagless because the filters are a continuous, if small, cost of ownership that adds up over time. While I agree that there's a ton of crap in the bagless market, you don't really see any anymore that don't have washable filters and relatively easy to clean passageways. As for the hotel industry still using bagged vacuums, my wife worked as a house keeper in a hotel for a while, and I'll say with certainty that the reason they use bagged vacuums are because you can find "industrial" bagged vacuums that are made of metal and don't break. House keepers treat their vacuums like poo poo and if they were given cheaper plastic models, bagged or not, then they'd smash them to bits every other day. I have yet to see an "industrial" bagless model that's made of metal. And yeah, dysons are loving expensive as hell and should be like 1/4th what their current price is. But that's what you get when you attach a name like that to something.
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If I can't fully lay down on my back and drown myself in my own soapy filth, then I don't want it.
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Hey, I actually have poo poo to contribute now. I live in an upper/lower. Our downstairs neighbors are lovely people. They knew our dog had high prey drive for animals smaller than it, but they decided that they wanted to save like $2/week on eggs. So what do they do? Build a chicken coop out of pallets and get half a dozen chicks from ~somewhere~. I don't have pictures of that, sadly, because it was built onto the side of a shed that no one ever goes into in the back yard, situated so that the coop itself is between the shed and the back fence. The chickens have a ~4ftx~3ftx~4ft chicken wire enclosure to walk around in the fresh air in. Or at least they did, up until we asked the landlord if he was informed about the chickens in this not-right-to-farm neighborhood, like the neighbors said they had done. Of course he wasn't, so he told them to get rid of the whole thing in a month, or they're outta there. The chickens have gone, but the coop's still there. Whatever, we didn't use that section of the yard, and my dog no longer has anything to lunge at when we let her out, so we'll live with it till they do their next stupid thing. Anyway, that's not the story I came here to tell you. No, the story I wanna share is about our next door neighbors. They saw the construction going on and, not one to be outdone, began a project in the evening hours for about a week. They finished it a few days ago. Wanna venture a guess as to what it is?  Did you guess "pool made of pallets"? Congratulations! They had like 10 kids in there yesterday. Yes, that's literally 4 walls of pallets, nailed together, with a tarp liner to keep the water in. Here's another shot from higher up. Sorry about the lovely dirty window, we can't get it open to clean the drat thing.  I also love their cinder block fire pit and... whatever the hell that other thing is. Is it a bench? A storage compartment? Who knows! I can't wait to move out of here.
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Personally, I'm waiting for the weight to get to be just too much and the whole thing blows out cartoon style.
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blugu64 posted:I respect the combination of bungie and tie down strap engineering My fav is the leaning board holding up the back. A close second is the 2x4 along the top edges of the walls to hold the tarp down. Also, waiting for this, basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pUde2ZkjOc
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that's definitely a standard porn hotel room. Clear glass shower wall for loving, bed right near by.
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Darchangel posted:Yeah, your previous post on this guy is what's driving me. I want him, but in TX. Same, but western NY
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