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The upstairs hall in my last place had a terribly creaky wonky uneven floor. When I pulled the carpet I found every single floor board was damaged in some way, my favourite being a board that has been cut away between the joists, put back in with only long bent nails holding it, cut again a couple of inches further in and finally fixed again with half an inch of laminated craft glue and newspaper. It took less than an hour and £20 to make it solid and new again.
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Wasabi the J posted:The first couple of them were awesome, but then they just got lame. Be the change you want to see.
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Dec 7, 2015 15:48
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Maybe they were massive?
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Dec 12, 2015 22:34
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What's the sugar for? And would you say there's about 400lbs there, or more?
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Jan 30, 2016 20:01
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I have a 13A dryer plugged into the mains right here. E: oh right, gotcha.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:15
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Zhentar posted:From the look of the plugs & outlets, you'd think so, but they only allow individual devices up to 13 amps. That's why they stopped at 3kW tea kettles, instead of 4.5kW or 7kW. God drat, 7kw kettle. My teapot quivers at the thought.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:39
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 I could make tea so loving fast
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Feb 7, 2016 23:40
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xwing posted:For a serious answer... are you near a concrete/block wall or something equally unmovable? It might be more secure to wall-mount a spot to chain to. A block and chain isn't great if someone could get some huge bolt cutters and use their body weight and the ground to snap them. Cordless cutter or grinder will still take your locking point out in seconds, or if the lock is against something solid (like say a steel post or concrete block) it'll get smashed with a sledge in moments. Keep going.
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Mar 3, 2016 19:08
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if it goes missing.
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Zhentar posted:If you want to DIY a ductless mini split install, there are some models with quick connects, like the Friedrich Breeze, that don't need any special HVAC equipment to install. Unless you live somewhere very cold, it can efficiently cover both your cooling and heating requirements for a tiny house. Someone I know who rents out a handful of flats replaces the (typically old inefficient and lovely) gas boilers with mini air con units because they're cheaper to service and run (and he doesn't need to get them checked like boilers). I think he puts in electric water heaters too?
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Mar 6, 2016 10:38
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morethanjake32 posted:Why didn't they just put in the lug clamp? I think that the icing on the cake is the copper peeking out of the wirenut waiting to give you a wakeup! Not the live screwhead?
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Apr 10, 2016 21:55
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Looks like someone installed 2" of internal
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Apr 22, 2016 10:39
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I'm going to guess they have a hexagon-pattern stamp and whoever used it didn't know to line up the second impression with the edges of the first.
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Apr 23, 2016 23:17
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A quick Google turns up hundreds of products or setups and designs for exactly this, what is troubling you in particular?
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May 11, 2016 17:17
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Suspect Bucket posted:Well, you see, the solar pannels are on clearance at campers world, but it's not a kit. They're meant for an RV battery. Now, I might just buy the RV battery anyway, similar cost to the two golf cart batteries I need. If you can link me to any of those helpful links, I'd appreciate it! Everything I'm turning up is for systems that are using way more battery then I'll ever need, or trickle chargers that I dont think will provide enough. Or they could, and I'm wrong! I'm clueless, really. Okay well we need more details as the previous poster said. Voltage of the panels and possibly a product link. It might be as simple as panel, diode, battery, throw a couple of switches and a fuse block in there.
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May 11, 2016 18:46
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TVs Ian posted:Also that the right sink would be in the way of the dishwasher, so the faucet just rotates over a flat surface (or really shallow sink). It'll be a drainer, so yes, really shallow.
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May 14, 2016 22:28
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I have friends that live in a weird house, it's part of a square of 8 pairs of semi-detached houses with gardens in the middle, they all have few and small windows on the outside of the square, many and large on the inside. Turns out they're old RAF staff houses and partly designed to be easily defended in the event of a ground invasion.
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May 23, 2016 08:57
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Discretely though. You can drill through drywall with a spoon.
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May 24, 2016 14:50
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Platystemon posted:What’s deadlier, night air or air that has passed through a fan? Holy poo poo someone tell the Koreans about WHFs please, I want to know their reaction.
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Jun 3, 2016 08:41
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You can do spray foam yourself a lot cheaper. Potentially hilariously disastrous as well. I've seen it recommended for "fixing" unstable slate tiled roofs from the inside 
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Jun 3, 2016 16:22
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Zhentar posted:Brick is very rarely used as a structural element these days, due to high material and labor costs and long construction timelines. When you see brick in modern construction, it's usually a veneer. This varies by location. It's very rare to see a house in the UK that isn't brick/cavity/breezeblock construction.
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Jun 5, 2016 20:25
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thespaceinvader posted:As I understand it yes, this is correct - the load bearing element is concrete blockwork in most cases, the brick is a skin for appearance and to contain the cavity wall for insulation purposes. Okay, I mistakenly thought as the two were tied together the brick added to the structural element. Thanks for the correction.
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Jun 6, 2016 13:37
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Thumposaurus posted:Ho storage takes up a lot of space. Bunkbeds man, come on!
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Jun 12, 2016 19:48
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LonsomeSon posted:Pretty solid post/avatar/username combo, well done In my experience, because it started as a quick fix, then more machines were added and "fixed" and it snowballed and suddenly you realise one day there are coat hangers and bits of 2x4 keeping millions of dollars of machines running.
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Jun 19, 2016 08:35
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The trap under my kitchen sink in my sub-1-year old house was leaking so I pulled it apart to find out why. The connection to the bottom of the sink was bent slightly and broke the seal because the whole trap was torqued by the exit pipe being about 1/2" too high and being at a funny angle. The funny angle was about 5-10° upwards. I contained it for £5 of parts but I'll have a word with the builder when I see him next, the hole needs re-drilling at the right angle. E: guess what some twerp said last February: Cakefool posted:Okay, there were three houses, we were only interested in 2 due to the positions on-site. Neither had 2nd fix yet but what we could see of the exposed wiring and plumbing was actually reassuring, not messy or tight(tails not too short etc)Appliances & bathroom furniture & cabinetry going in was good stuff. Insulation being installed was good (& deep in the attic). Exposed roof structure in the garage was very good, about the best I've seen in terms of decent timber, neat angles, general fit & finish. Paint on the walls was decent but matt, we have sticky children so I can see some silk going on later. 
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Jul 9, 2016 13:33
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Well I didn't get a level on the pipe when I saw the house initially and it's virtually impossible to see without crawling under the sink after the kitchen was finished, chalk it up to something I didn't expect to have to measure? Is it too much to expect a plumber to know water drains better down than uphill? My task for the next couple of weeks is a detailed inspection on anything I can get to without demo. I'll also borrow the boroscope from work for harder to get to stuff. I may have hilarious photos for the thread later.
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Jul 9, 2016 23:33
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Crotch Fruit posted:Considering it has a trap, does it really matter that much? Unless the English enjoy the smell of sewer gas, all water going down your drain should have to flow up till straight up after going through the trap. Sorry if I sound calous, I mean I would also prefer to have downhill instead of uphill pipes, but I am curious to know if it actually is a big deal, considering its (hopefully) only uphill for a foot between the sink drain and the wall. Sorry, to clarify this is the trap:  It goes here  The hole in the wall is too high and goes up. There's about a metre of pipe that sits full of manky sink water as well as the trap.
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Jul 10, 2016 08:20
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Blindeye posted:See the thing I hate about open floor plans for kitchen/dining room/living room is the fact that I cook a lot and few apartments have high cfm exhaust fans in the kitchen so if I say...cook a proper steak on a cast iron pan, smoke gets everywhere and leaves a film of grease as far away as my desk (over time if I am not OCD cleaning after every cooked meal. My open plan house has a similar issue, when I realised the kitchen extractor was doing nothing I found it was rated for about 190m/hr, the replacement I'll fit later this year with be 600+m/hr.
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Jul 20, 2016 12:16
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The bits have a collar that bottoms out on the drywall, the screw won't go any further in when the bit isn't touching it.
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Aug 11, 2016 23:21
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Horse Clocks posted:oh. All the bits I've gotten in boxes of drywall screws were just standard bits then. 
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Aug 13, 2016 18:09
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Combine spaces, kitchen and camping/bugout trailer are now the same thing, voilá!
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Aug 20, 2016 18:34
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A friend of mine stayed at a hotel that had Juliet balconies and doors that only opened outwards... 4 inches until they hit the balcony.
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Aug 22, 2016 17:38
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A Juliet balcony should have no depth and doors that opened inwards.
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Aug 22, 2016 20:51
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FogHelmut posted:Fire code says all doors open outwards, brah Obviously the ones my friend stayed at were up to code then. (Does it count as a door when it's 2nd+ story with no fire escape?)
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Aug 22, 2016 23:02
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flosofl posted:Like what? I agree it looks solid as gently caress, but I'd love to know how many sheets of plywood and router bits and glue it takes to make. I bet its thousands of dollars. Also you know it's finished, they'll be no handrails fitted and you know it.
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Aug 29, 2016 16:32
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Sorry I watched it on mute, I like the look I will admit.
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Aug 29, 2016 21:04
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Baronjutter posted:What the UK is hosed about is their taps. Their wiring is also pretty unique garbage too. Ring mains are dumb, agreed. What's wrong with our taps though?
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Sep 15, 2016 08:28
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NancyPants posted:It could only be better by being actual reclaimed pallet wood. If he'd just stacked up some lovely pallets Pinterest would have pissed itself in jealousy.
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Sep 29, 2016 20:19
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I lived in a house that was built in the 50s. No wait, it was poured in the fifties. A pair of semi-detached 2 bed houses poured out of crappy concrete in a single piece. They'll still be standing in a hundred years for all the wrong reasons and I pity the post-apocalyptic caveman who has to heat it and hang anything on the walls.
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Oct 18, 2016 18:03
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Burt Sexual posted:That sounds bad rear end. Pix? Search for no-fines wimpey houses, they were horrendous.
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Is your power usage unexpectedly high at any point?
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