TooMuchAbstraction posted:

I remember reading about a hospital where a patient died because someone hooked up an oxygen hose to a different gas dispenser, I forget which exactly. The couplings are different specifically to try to prevent this kind of mistake, but they just jammed the thing on there anyway.

Platystemon posted:

wesleywillis posted:

Yeah sure, only a soc' could afford that house.

PainterofCrap posted:

I'm betting that that Romex used to be white & someone switched to burning the stuff rather than sucking on it.

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

That's a really ugly, pointless addition.
I even despise the driveway. Why would you make a wide gravel border - where nothing will grow - beside a brick driveway? Either brick the whole thing, or have a garden area where the ugly gravel is.

Scarodactyl posted:

I have no idea.

PurpleXVI posted:

God I'm so tired of all these amateur artists who try to build poo poo out of plumbing supplies for no reason except they saw it on loving instagram or etsy.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

That's one of those images that takes my brain a second to parse. At first I thought the columns went to the ground but were intersecting a step and a flower bed. Then I thought I was having a stroke.

MRC48B posted:

Thats actually a good design, because if you go from off to "low" speed on some poo poo tier ceiling fans, bad things happen because they were never designed to start rotating at anything less than full line voltage.

in industrial applications you use several thousand dollars worth of power electronics to start at full voltage but vary the frequency from 10hz to the full 60.

the twenty dollar wall thing from the hardware store can't do that, so they have to go off-high-med-low to prevent the motors from dying.

tater_salad posted:

why would you do this.. what is wrong with just like having the whole house extend that much further. It's going to be a pain in the dick to roof and side and well.

logical fallacy posted:

This looks like something some kid designed in a 3d program in 1992 and then, after waiting hours for it to render, sat back and thought, "Hell yeah! I'm gonna make that when I grow up."

And then like most nerds, never grew up.

Blistex posted:

It's like they got some lathe and plaster guy who sucked at his job, to do the outside of the house instead of sheeting it in OSB.

Slanderer posted:

?? Fuse pullers dont look like screwdrivers, they're like pliers. Are you thinking of a brass screwdriver? I guess they're non-sparking in theory, but google tells me they're more useful to adjust compasses (since they're not ferromagnetic)

Zil posted:

In what way is that child friendly?

captkirk posted:

I think I like this... not as a sink. Maybe a water feature in a museum?

`Nemesis posted:

it's an intentional design choice, it's connected to the plumbing to create the effect

PainterofCrap posted:

I have a titanium ring, too. In my left atrium.

Anne Whateley posted:

A porte cochère isn’t about living space above necessarily, just a roof. I don’t think a ground-level parking garage really qualifies, I think the point is the driveway goes through it? It’s a money thing anywhere, but afaik it’s more common in areas with bad weather and snow

Bird in a Blender posted:

You must be in those pornos where you get stuck in your cabinets if you need all that under counter lighting.

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

Taking stuff to the dump isn't that hard. You just need a vehicle it can be loaded into. It can be a car as long as the trash fits in it and you feel like you can control the dirt (e.g. with a tarp) or you don't care. Or you can rent a truck or van from a hardware store. You go to the dump, they weigh your vehicle and figure out what kind of trash you're getting rid of, tell you which of their giant piles to deposit it in, then weigh your vehicle again and charge you according to the difference.

Cat Hatter posted:

You could just install a regular storm door that swings into the room if that were the case. There is no reason it would need to be a bifold. Hinges without removable pins for outswing doors are not hard to find.

The bifold is weird but you're reaching.

brugroffil posted:

Maybe you know the answer from your AHJ days. Garage to dwelling wall assemblies are to be 2 hour rated, but the door can be just 20 minutes. I've never seen a door rated higher than 90. What's the thought process?

FCKGW posted:

ah, finally a place to store all my loose spaghetti

Orvin posted:

Sad state of affairs that those “college boys” have never been in a dorm room with bunk beds before. Probably showing my age, but having 8+ people jammed into a dorm room to watch a movie involved every surface being filled with people, including people using the bottom bed as a couch, and 1-2 people on the upper bed.

Jenkl posted:

Im struggling to find words for this. I just keep going in circles. I can't figure out where to start.

Nenonen posted:

There's also a practical side to it. In winter you get snow packed against the door. If the door opens inward then that snow will fall in with the door and onto the door treshold. This can cause the door not to close properly, and a puddle on your floor.

Deteriorata posted:

That's a version of a Dutch door, although I haven't seen one where the bottom panel opens before.

Why you'd want it use it for a bathroom is beyond me. Maybe they make huge stinks and have a massive ventilator fan that needs lots of air.

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

I've posted it before but I lived in a flat where there was carpet nailed to the floor around the toilet. The floor was also carpet. It was....not nice.

I don't know why in tyool 2023 it is still impossible to build a public toilet that does not instantly a) smell of piss and b) have half of the urinals broken and the wall panels falling off.

It surely can't be impossible to just build it out of steel and blast the whole thing with water every night like a prison or something. But no, it's gonna be fake wood panelling and Dyson driers blasting water all over the place.

Orvin posted:

Any idea what the rest of the house’s flooring is? Just curious what the destruction from water and sand will look like.

Orvin posted:

I was thinking more the main living floors from renters tracking sand and water all over the house. Nothing like foot traffic grinding sand into soft linoleum, or scratching the poo poo out of some wood floors. Or just extra mildew in some upstairs carpet.

Cat Hatter posted:

Usually I can at least figure out the line of thought based on the assumption that someone at some point was either trying to save time or money, but I can't think of any reason they'd notch those studs to near nonexistence to make room for a bunch of wood scraps that seemingly do nothing?