kastein posted:

The first one - maybe that was done in the 40s/50s/60s? Hell, I think that was above code back then. poo poo was scary, yeah, but functional and legal at the time.

On the second, I hate that! Idiots shouldn't be allowed to touch plumbing. I found a few places in my house like that when I tore into it, for instance the grey water drain the previous owner installed for the washing machine in the back entryway/pantry. Black ABS pipe straight through the floor, elbow, straight across the basement ceiling, then they hacked into a cast iron vent riser and "spliced" (putting it nicely) a large radius ABS T-junction into it by gobbing silicone everywhere and jamming them together. The whole run of ABS was supported using prayers, luck, and in a spot or two, it was tied to a nail in a joist using chunks of old zipcord off wall wart transformers and telephone cable.

I said the same thing when I discovered that - "so that's why the back entryway always smells like poo poo..."

Ghostnuke posted:

gently caress those things forever. The guy who did my job before me used a bunch of those in 12 volt applications and they work like poo poo. I can't even imagine using them for 110.

Seat Safety Switch posted:

Oh dude, if we had a thread for "poo poo you know is wrong in your house that you're loving ignoring" it would be twelve times the length of this thread and six times as scary.

Brennanite posted:

Concrete nothing, we just had the bare plywood sub floor in our bathroom growing up. Sometime around 1991, my father remodeled the bathroom and never got around to tiling it for another 13(!) years. It would probably still be lacking tile to this day if my mother hadn't insisted it be finished before my wedding.

He finished with 2 days to spare.

Motronic posted:

You could put down peel and stick vinyl tiles in a few hours for under $40.

It may not be the nicest thing, and you may end up doing a lovely job around the toilet without pulling it......bit it's easy and better than bare concrete.

nthalp posted:

I was gonna be real if no one got that.

Liquid Communism posted:

That's honestly what I want. Something big enough for a floor lift so I can stop working on my Jeep in the slush when the rear end in a top hat device throws a part in mid-winter, and with enough room for all my assorted hobbies. Throw a 1 bedroom cottage on the back and I'm a happy man.

ColHannibal posted:

Sound dampening drapes or a shotgun.

`Nemesis posted:

http://www.movingsoundtech.com/

Turn this on every time they're outside late at night.

Javid posted:

Where does it come from?





Where does it go?

My theory is irrigating a tree with shower water but that setup doesn't look adjustable and there are a bunch of trees.

SynthOrange posted:

Watch that first step

canyoneer posted:

A good post from PYF.

Shifty Pony posted:

In a literal crappy construction tale it turns out that the sewer line under my house was put in with so little fall that the slight settling of the foundation over 40 years has resulted in sections which force the waste to flow uphill.

I am so glad I'm not the owner because they are going to have to tunnel under the slab to fix it.

xlevus posted:

My mum had this problem with her clay/ceramic sewage pipes. There's an attachment that goes on the end of those flexible drain unblocker motor things that are designed for this problem.

Sure, they only cut the roots back for 6 months, but they give you enough time to get the capital to replace the pipes.

NancyPants posted:

Nope, Midwest. I shouldn't complain too much, it is actually a huge space, albeit a little awkwardly laid out, for what we're paying for.

The walls are of course like tissue paper, so I can hear when my neighbors sneeze, eat a bag of chips, or have their dysfunctional relationship. On game night I think if they read me the dice I could easily play through the wall with them, but I don't want to because I hate them.

Our upstairs neighbor's AC condensate was leaking into our apartment over the course of a few days this past summer and soaked the carpet surrounding our little utility closet. The office manager did not know how to operate a wet vac or how to use it on carpet which was very amusing to me.

The "bedroom" wall (it is a loft, after all):

Learned the hard way not to lean on that sucker!

The ugliest vinyl tile I have ever seen, but at least it's properly installed in the kitchen:


Unfortunately can't say the same for the bathroom:


It's a little tough to see, but that foremost tile in the same column as the bubbly ones has already been replaced once. The others were like that at the time and I don't know why he did it as he did (actually yes I do), but I was tired of dealing with it so there you go. There was a lot of give to the subfloor at the time (still is), and obviously grout is both flexible and holds really well, so he just slapped in another tile and grouted around it. Yes, the grout has already popped back out.

None of it is "going to kill me" stuff, and it's not nearly as bad as that Oakland loft. That is a really fugly space. Its just a lot of half-assed things that could be done a lot better by someone who knows what they are doing, I think.

Oh yeah the only insulation in our outside wall is bats.

Shady Amish Terror posted:

Fun thought exercise, hilarious legal battle.


E:

Holy poo poo. I love that either a family member or a social media drone (or maybe just a big fan of the show?) has started posting anonymously to the comments on that page, acting as if it is totally rational and reasonable to move six people into a one-bedroom house because you have a burning need to experience every second of your children's lives. I get it, their eldest is growing up, it's hard to let go, but I don't think this is the healthiest way of handling it.

Also seriously what the gently caress complaining about how all the rooms in a tiny house are tiny. that is the point what is wrong with you people

canyoneer posted:

Well, it's not like they have the closet space...

But yeah, they are already under contract on the house they "choose" in the show and have two dummy throwaway properties they walk around in frowning and nodding.

Cumslut1895 posted:

I shave with aggravated bears and well timed ducking

XmasGiftFromWife posted:

Real men use push reel mowers

shame on an IGA posted:

In the house I inherited from my great grandmother, I discovered a ~4'x6' void between the fireplace and outside wall where the original contractor just didn't build any house. If so inclined, I can climb the stairs into the attic, drop a rope ladder down there, and emerge outside from the crawlspace. What should I do with my uninsulated panic room/housefire turbocharger?

moist turtleneck posted:

Well yeah, the water can splash down your back when you're trying to take a dump

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.

Elder Postsman posted:

My house had some bad toilet paper placement when I bought it:

Ashcans posted:

Oh good, I was worried I wouldn't start my week with crippling sadness.

Khizan posted:

Where is 'here'? I'm assuming somewhere in Europe. Northern Spain is at roughly the same latitude as Vermont. France is roughly the same latitude as Maine. Pretty much all of the US is more tropical than Europe. Where I live(Texas) we're in the 90's for 5 months of the year and in the mid-high 80's for probably another 3. And it's awfully humid for most of that time, as well, and even the low 80's feel miserable with high humidity.


I am curious as to what your definition of a "blazing hot day" is. My personal scale doesn't hit blazing hot until about 105F (40C), with 97-100 being "average summer day".

Platystemon posted:

Nazi connotations


Nazi connotations


Maybe just bad luck with random numbers?

couldcareless posted:

More here

I don't even know where to start

Leperflesh posted:

That probably means you need good straight edges, though, or you're going to have uneven gaps. Basically you shouldn't cut your roof sheathing using a chainsaw, I'm gonna stand by that statement.

Geirskogul posted:

>Result
>Vegan Lumberjack
>Try Again? Y/N

Jerry Cotton posted:

xyzzy

Nitrox posted:

Here is a Russian motion sensor.

canyoneer posted:

"Waste Water Nipple" and "Huge Plastic Bell End" would be pretty good usernames.

kid sinister posted:

Yet another "How Not to Build a Shed"!

https://m.imgur.com/a/8w1xW

Bad Munki posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaLR4p3StCQ

crabcakes66 posted:

This makes me feel better about everything I have ever done.

Baronjutter posted:

The walls and stripe are horrible but that ceiling is fine. The heat register though makes me think it's a floor.

HardDiskD posted:

Indolent Bastard posted:

It's there.

https://goo.gl/maps/qHMKrZScJ742

They even have a little courtyard.

And the back turrets are garages and they have drawbridges for the cars.

Dillbag posted:

Just a half-dozen minivans on a monorail track driving through your neighbour's apartment, built to the most stringent second-world noise and safety standards, every 5-10 minutes. Sounds great. I'm sure after the first couple weeks you'd hardly notice it any more.

Psycho Donut Killer posted:

Dallas has decided to develop a floodway. Mostly as trails, but they are surely going to have bathroom buildings and lighting.

http://www.wideopencountry.com/dallas-is-building-trinity-river-park-the-biggest-urban-park-in-america/


Every three years or so it does this:

DrBouvenstein posted:

They'd be slightly better without that "old lady" valence at the top, but yeah, still not great. That orange doesn't go with vomit-green walls.

Edit: Let's add some real content:
Made a Hidden secret staircase to access my dungeon Cinema


A big hole who's edge extends in front of a doorway? Shouldn't be an issue. You'll see why later.


Who needs floor joists?


When it comes to ladders, you want the oldest wood you can find.



See what I mean? A slapped-together plywood box held together with cheap shelving brackets solves that pesky "hole in the floor" problem.


Don't be alarmed that the ladder is barely held in place, because the ladder is so close to the opposite wall, that even if came loose and fell backwards, you'd only go about a foot.


See?
The ladder is actually a clever design to make sure that No Fat Chicks can enter his cool rape dungeon basement cinema.


I briefly looked at his original album from when he first built the basement cinema (http://imgur.com/a/BE9ra), and by itself it doesn't look that bad (but I'm certainly no contractor or inspector)? It's converted from a glorified crawlspace that is accessed by a sort of storage shed from outside the home, so I guess the biggest concern would be moisture, but I don't think he altered anything structurally.

Synthbuttrange posted:

It didnt seem so bad til I looked down to the construction pictures and realized he astroturfed the floor?



And filled the underbench area with gravel?



oh its the wine storage

FogHelmut posted:

This would have been awesome to have when I was 19.

endlessmonotony posted:

That's a low bar to clear. A controlled demolition would improve it substantially more.

Bad Munki posted:

I want to believe it's like one of those drinking birds where it keeps tipping down to touch the water then back up again, repeatedly.

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

At first I thought this was an intentionally-built-sideways house (like that one upside-down house), but then I saw it had ripped out its foundations. And also realized what thread I was in.

Platystemon posted:

Blindeye posted:

Roof live loads are relatively small compared to floor loads unless it is a high snowfall area. You should never store things on a roof without checking its design limits. I once did an inspection for a contractor's project to add a floor with a flat roof to a brownstone. Not only did he store cement bags and equipment on the roof, he put it all in the center, causing the most stress, and sagging the roof. Rainwater had already started ponding in this low spot and we had to more or less clear out the building because the roof joists were overstressed.

the spyder posted:

quote:

MisterOblivious posted:

Yeah, we usually do basements in Minnesota. I was probably around 10 before I found out other parts of the country don't necessarily have basements and even older before I figure out what "crawlspace" meant.

Check out this crawlspace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU

Anne Whateley posted:

I think a lot of evening chilling that's done in living rooms now used to be in bedrooms. Like after dinner, you would put the kids to bed, and then you would go to bed to read or watch Johnny Carson on the TV that was practically mandatory in nice bedrooms. Now the living room has the TV and consoles and media stuff, and if you chill it's there. I don't think I know anyone with a TV in their bedroom anymore -- if you want to watch something in bed, you just do it on a tablet/phone.

Crotch Fruit posted:

27" tube TV and a 21" CRT monitor. I still remember how thrilled I was to get my first GPU with TV out so that I wouldn't have to constantly switch the cable, I immediately realized TVs suck for PC monitors.

Horse Clocks posted:

Actual result: you'll watch lovely stuff in there while your wife watches lovely stuff on the big one.

Suspect Bucket posted:

That would be a touch far for games and forums reading, I think. Either you have fantastic vision, or you'll be cranki g the resolution way down to make stuff bigger. Mine on a swing arm, so I can fold it away to be flat with the wall if I need to work at my desk, but usually it's swung out right to the edge of the bed.

Bad Munki posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordite

Baronjutter posted:

I saw many newer buildings like that in Ukraine just covered with foam insulation then plaster and paint applied directly over top (or not at all sometimes!) I imagine it's just a layer of that falling of.

Alereon posted:

If you have a fixture that takes bulbs with weird bases, you can probably buy a pack of screw-base adapters for $.10 each on Amazon that let you use a more normal size.

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

Well that certainly puts the subsidence problem I had in perspective. That turned out to be building on sand (over clay) and the back of the building having literally no foundation. Two courses of bricks in the ground and that was it, thanks Victorian builders!

Fortunately the main building was stable so it was just the back half moving away and a company called Uretek basically pumped resin into the ground to bind and stabilise it and act like a slab. Apparently they can actually lift the building up by using different mixes of resin that expand slightly.

Ended up being 3 years of bullshit with the insurers to plan a single day's work.