Leperflesh posted:

I live in a residential development built in the late 1950s in Concord, CA. The box is on the side of the house, but it's on the street side of the fence that fences off my back yard. It's a couple feet from the meter and directly below the drop where pole power enters the house. Seems like a pretty convenient place for it, really.

sbyers77 posted:

Also, the one-part urethane foam in the cans will not cure properly in a sealed space. They react with the air to cure. For a large cavity like a door its basically a sealed container and will only partially cure and the insides will be gooey.

You would need a 2-part foam that has its own catalyst to cure in a sealed container like a hollow door.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

I enter my zip code and it just says "We're Sorry but we can't give you a quote", though the page does say I can call their agent and maybe get a quote that way unlike all the other ones. Progress I guess!

Shifty Pony posted:

Trick for tracking down which circuit outlets are on: plug in a radio and turn it up until you can hear it at your breaker box then start flipping until it turns off. If you have a helper have them mark the plugs and move the radio from plug to plug as you figure out which outlet is which. This is much faster than having a light on and having to go back and forth, and even faster than yelling back and forth to a helper because you hear instantly when you get the right one. Once you have all outlets labeled you can pull all the outlets and figure out where the hot is coming in. DRAW A DIAGRAM IN INK. It isn't fast and would have been easier to do when you were replacing everything but you''ll only have to do it once.

Just make sure the radio doesn't have a battery backup. That was a frustrating experience and I felt so dumb when i figured it out.

SynthOrange posted:

Cant be that hard to do!

Platystemon posted:

They tried.

MrYenko posted:

I'd love pictures of all of this.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Haha, yeah, I'm not really that surprised, it was just a moment of thoughtlessness. Forget testing tools (which I already own) I could have just flipped the switch to make sure the circuit was dead.

kizudarake posted:

For the turbine in the toilet drain. Sure, it sounds like a great idea, chopping up the solid waste, but wait until the poo poo really hits the fan.

peanut posted:

I think we can all agree that the year-round clothing of choice for most Americans is pajama pants and a hoodie.

Motronic posted:

So you were are reinvent last year too?

Hashtag Banterzone posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/4tnugw/bollard_advice_my_house_gets_hit_by_cars_a_lot/

quote:

Maybe just add more smoke detectors in key places? I don’t know. It’s only an idea.

Jerry Cotton posted:

Maybe it's a place where there's a law or statute forbidding parking vehicles that aren't registered on your yard.

But not building them up into a luxurious extension.

Platystemon posted:

My take on that house is that it’s like if some indie game developer downloaded every free art asset they could find, then stuffed them all in the same house and cranked up the engine’s HDR.


Houston: the largest city in the U.S. with no zoning laws.



Look at those lamps.

This room is like the waiting room in The Man in the High Castle where the kempetai take people they’re going to murder.

legendof posted:

Bought a new construction house in July; spent some time last night relabeling the breaker panel.



Highlights include: The three spellings of "kitchen" on the original panel ("kitchien", "kithen", and "kithien"), all of which are incorrect, the two remaining mystery breakers (one of which was labeled "range", when in fact the stove/range is controlled by the breaker originally labeled "microwave"), "SePTiK", and the fact that not a single one of the left hand side breakers was labeled correctly, with the arguable exception that one of the three "bedroom" labels turned out to control the lights in the master bedroom and laundry room.

A White Guy posted:

My dad bought a really big house/former restaurant combo a while back. I wish I had gotten a picture of it before he started tearing everything out, but it had this interior garage which had a toilet, hooked up and everything, just sitting in the middle of the interior garage. And this wasn't the only thing odd about it: every living space had a toilet sitting smack in the middle of it. And it had the only kitchen I've ever seen ready made for someone who's seven feet tall(this being the one in the living space). I'm 6'3 and there was no way I could reach the top cabinets without a step stool.

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FilthyImp posted:

Wish I still had a picture of it, but the old owner of my townhome was putting screws in the wall of the garage and mistook a supply line as a stud.

They patched it with epoxy and something that looked like gaff tape/drywall patch tape. When my father properly cut the section off and patched it up, we noticed the end of the screw was still in the old pipe.

sneakyfrog posted:

wait how they gonna empty it?

i mean other than literally throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

DrBouvenstein posted:

So we've got offset stairs, but created by putting the star treads at an angle, made out of clear lucite, and only supported via cantilever, with a handrail that looks like it's a weird "inset" in the wall rather than a real handrail, that look to descend into a basement apartment where someone likely lives alone.

Rest assured, these stairs have killed before, and they will kill again.

The more I look the more I think maybe it's a weird render/concept?