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Bad Munki posted:Not pictured: the randomly black marble/gold fixture main level bathroom, the super lovely hung ceiling in the upstairs with office-style recessed lighting, the multiple stagnant mosquito pools in the back yard...I can't even IMAGINE what I would have found had I actually started looking deeper for code violations like wiring and plumbing and such. I probably would have gone catatonic just to protect myself from the insanity that would have been induced. Not to mention that even the floor plan itself was a hazard. Fire fighters would be at a complete loss during an emergency. Multiple times our little three-person group got separated and could not find each other even with copious Marco-Polo-ing. In fact, I'm not fully convinced the house was entirely euclidean. I think I've read a book about that house. Did it seem significantly larger on the inside than on the outside? Did you hear growling that seemed to come from no particular direction? Did you check if significantly more time elapsed while you where in the house, compared to what you expected?
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HERAK posted:So something like a Quooker tap then? In my old apartment, the water heater was turned way way up for a couple of weeks, probably by mistake. Let me tell you, near-boiling water is amazing for cleaning dishes by hand as long as you're careful.
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ductonius posted:Coating a freshly-cleaned piece of metal in zinc then traps the hydrogen in the metal causing hydrogen embitterment. I think you meant "embrittlement", but "embitterment" makes it kinda funny, too 
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The world's most discreet and quiet squatting methheads?
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PainterofCrap posted:A hot tub...at a fair?! The Copenhell metal festival here in Copenhagen used to have communal hot tubs in a viking-themed area. Used to.
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Yeah, I'd use whatever tape I had laying around, too. That it apparently annoys the gently caress of some people is a bonus.
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ultrafilter posted:It's like a sauna but it uses heated water instead of rocks. Same temperature, but much higher humidity. Traditionally, you throw water on the rocks in a sauna.
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Phanatic posted:Isn't the US/Canada pretty much the only place where wire nuts are allowed? Yes, I believe so. Here, we've always used these that tighten down with screws, you can get a really solid connection:  You snip off however many you need for what you're doing, and they fit onto holders in standard junction boxes. For smaller connections, these are used, or single-hole versions if you're just connecting two smaller wires together:  Wago-style lever connectors have become popular, but they're significantly more expensive. Crimped connections are also technically OK for 230V, but I don't like them. Blistex posted:If they're properly tightened, taped, and within a enclosure that's clamped on the non-stripped wire and well tightened to a stud, it should never be an issue. 
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For instance if you want to completely turn off your PC or TV+receiver in order to save power, a switch on the outlet is very handy. Plus the reasoning that the sparky bits are inside the switch, rather than in the socket itself.
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Happiness Commando posted:Sorry friend, you're victim blaming yourself. Indicator LEDs draw miliwatts. Sleeping electronics draw watts. If you're saving power to save money, you'll save maybe a quarter a month in a whole house. If you're saving power to save the environment, most emissions are caused by a hundred companies, not individuals. Piss right the gently caress off with the "I shouldn't make any effort, because there are much worse offenders out there". There are a lot more different things that plug into wall sockets than just electronics, and even with those, older electronics can have surprisingly power-hungry standby modes. That directly affects your electricity bill. While I primarily turn off my electronics because I don't want LEDs lighting up the bedroom at night (small apartment+WFH), the small power saving doesn't hurt. A switch is just the more sensible way to turn something off, especially if you want to turn off a whole extension cord at once. The alternative of making/breaking the connection by connecting and disconnecting the plug, means the plug then has to lay on the floor or dangle somewhere. Not all devices have physical power switches or easily accessible ones. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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All of the outlets in my condo are at normal light switch height. The only exception is the extra outlet I added next to the cable and interweb plugs, for the router because some dumbass previous owner didn't think a power outlet would be needed there  It's an older building and not in the US, but still. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Around 130cm.
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B-Nasty posted:Americans have a sense of style that precludes ugly, oversized, square outlets on our walls. Why so shocked and huge?  (Note that these are new-fangled switch-less sockets, introduced only to appease the terminally lazy.)
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Motronic posted:I'm gonna agree with most of this, but also make sure you know we didn't choose the "wrong voltage". Every house in the us has 220/240 via split phase. A considered safety decision was made to supply only the things that really need that fault current with 240. Things like stoves and electric dryers and other high load devices like air conditioners. All you need to have 240 in the US is to grab two opposite hots rather than a hot and a neutral. You don't even need to rewire from an outlet for this to happen because it's the same number of conductors. There is also an efficiency and resource use argument to be made for 240V, since you can use thinner wiring than with 120V, because the amperage for any given amount of power is going to be half. One thing I also noticed is that PC power supplies (and presumably all switching power supplies) are a bit more efficient at 240V than they are at 120V. It's a small absolute difference, but everything adds up when you're looking at large numbers of installations. You made the choice in the US to have more outlets with a lower maximum power output each, which is not in itself a bad decision, if you have enough cheap copper. Here we made the choice to have fewer outlets overall, but higher voltage and higher power with lower amperage, which meant less copper was needed. Germany made the choice to standardize hard on grounded outlets with their Schuko system, no ungrounded outlets allowed anywhere. A third more copper needed, but for massive gains in safety, especially since switches are not required there. Only tiny devices like phone chargers are allowed to use the little ungrounded Euro plug. Neither is automatically a bad choice, and honestly the only things I dislike about the US system are the mediocre plugs and the way too skinny extension cords, where you have to keep in mind the total amperage needed yourself. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:That used to be a thing exhibitionists would do: sell silver teapots or something on eBay and make sure the picture had a reflection of their junk. Reflectoporn
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My girlfriend and I are looking at apartments, and came across this beautiful bathroom. The rest of the apartment is completely generic 90s/00s style, but the bathroom is obviously original. That bathtub is just 
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Vim Fuego posted:What is the floor? Textured lino? Terrazzo, I think.
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PurpleXVI posted:I hate that I've worked with bathroom and plumbing fittings long enough to make a decent geographic guess just based on a toilet and a radiator thermostat. How precise is your guess? Armacham posted:I don't hate it? Neither do I, it's charming and I genuinely think the bathtub is cool. (The swimmingly missing sink is roughly where the picture was taken from, along with a washer and dryer setup)
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dobbymoodge posted:Washer AND dryer? That mostly rules out Czechia and Slovakia. The floor drain makes me think Finland, but I feel like old Finnish bathrooms would be more weird. Racism level is about right. Denmark.
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Dareon posted:you have a cum key 
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Here's a quaint little former shoemaker's shop, lovingly painted and decorated by someone with a lot of time on his hands. https://home.dk/boligkatalog/assens/5610/raekkehuse/korsgade_3_9110000406.aspx
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Here's a real beaut for the ambitious handyman: https://emgl.dk/bolig/33290000247/skovmarken-11-3390-hundested/ (Translated, but the slideshow doesn't work properly: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://emgl.dk/bolig/33290000247/skovmarken-11-3390-hundested/) The photoshopped lit fireplace in the full screen picture of the living room is
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Derelícte, so hot right now.
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From the OSHA thread:Desert Bus posted:This is the neighbor's wonky railings:
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A whole bunch of cleaning, camera inspection, measuring and mapping out junctions etc. happens before you push in the big sticky tube sock.
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