CarForumPoster posted:

I thought glued and screwed was the proper way to attach a doubler to a joist but I’m also a previous owner in the making so I invite someone to correct me.

Obsoletely Fabulous posted:

Also a previous owner but wood glue tends to be stronger than the wood itself and that is a heck of a lot of glue. I would have done bolts, personally, but if someone told me glue was the right way I’d believe it.

rjmccall posted:

edit: good lord how did I end up in this thread

Bad Munki posted:

If you’re directly immersed, internal and external pressure will be more or less equal, so you’d still have that +.26.

Now, if your rear end in a top hat is an integral part of a larger pressure hull, yeah, it could get tricky.

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

IIRC they had photographic evidence of this occurring, they looked like a rocket launching on top of a brown exhaust plume.

Jusupov posted:

It's impossible to know where the roof will peak

Nitrox posted:

They look like manufactured pieces, but not exactly symmetrical for whatever reason, and few were installed backwards.

`Nemesis posted:

Florida.

MH Knights posted:

You're drunk, go home.

poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:

E: As for why that house is leaning, it's on stilts. Well, concrete pillars. Well it used to be. You can see one leaning sideways in the picture under the house. That's because the home is in a coastal region or maybe even the Keys, so it was built on top of a garage and some pillars so that, loving get this, it can flood without doing any really expensive damage to the property. That's the actual point, like, the Atlantic or the Gulf or the Intracoastal Waterway can just expand, completely overtake the property to a depth of up to 6 feet, then recede and leave the home habitable. In theory the cars are safe in this scenario because they, and the people, have loving fled. The house to the right appears to be the same, only with the garage at the front, which is a somewhat less stylish decision.

E2: Pic of an older stilthouse:

Discussion Quorum posted:

And here I thought it was stupid that here in Texas we have to* water our houses in a drought so that the foundations don't crack

* As I understand it, the effectiveness of this is questionable, but insurance companies and landlords often demand it

TehRedWheelbarrow posted:

just lol if you think they have ever cracked open a bible

Computer viking posted:

They're your weird ancestors, you get to keep them

Izal?

Lemniscate Blue posted:

Time to bring back duck-and-cover drills, 'cause that's an icy B.M.

`Nemesis posted:

*in new construction. anything older than like what, 1980 is not using pvc.

Shifty Pony posted:

Still better than using "pipe" made from tar-soaked paper mush

KozmoNaut posted:

A whole bunch of cleaning, camera inspection, measuring and mapping out junctions etc. happens before you push in the big sticky tube sock.

Lager posted:

One of my wife's favorite gifts I've given was a cast iron skull that lives in our fireplace and glows red when we light a fire.

Bad Munki posted:

That sounds rad and now I’m shopping.

PainterofCrap posted:

Water running down (PVC) pipes can make a surprising commotion. It's not fun to be having a quiet evening at home and it sounds like Niagra coming down the wall. Cast iron really muffles it.

I replaced most of my cast (as needed) and lead(!) with PVC and the sound of water draining through it, as heard from the top of my basement steps, triggered me for the better part of a year.

The move I've been seeing in various newer/renovated homes is to stuff fiberglass insulation under tubs, showers, and down pipe chases in the walls, on the back side of the drywall.

canyoneer posted:

It's especially important to buy metal goods that you'll be heating to high temperatures directly from the producer. You don't want to be surprised by a low quality metal or a cast full of bubbles. You want to be sure that whoever smelt it, dealt it.

Platystemon posted:

Not so fast.

canyoneer posted:

Worked backwards from the pun and it happens to be factual

Bad Munki posted:

And that’s all on top of the fact that you’d have to live in Texas.

Orvin posted:

Just curious, but is this entirely down to terrible contractors? Or is some of it from lovely building materials? And if it is lovely building materials, did the contractor just go with the cheapest of whatever he could salvage from local dumpsters, or are there quasi legitimate companies delivering lovely and/or defective building materials?

I get that lumber isn’t always perfectly true straight. Any trip to Home Depot reveals that pretty quick, and that contractors may have to deal with slight defects in materials. Just curious if building materials are getting all around worse like most other things.

Nitrox posted:

I know this is totally crazy, but hear me out. When you find crooked lumber at home depot, just don't buy it. Buy the straight lumber, where available.

`Nemesis posted:

Ft Drum housing

kid sinister posted:

I got a feeling that would look more normal if the dryer were situated along the right wall.

Phanatic posted:

Where?

PainterofCrap posted:

I have a claim now winding up to a denial.
Policyholder’s bathroom ceiling fell in. Drywall was wet; insulation above it was saturated.

They were puzzled by this because the roof was replaced within the past year by…the roofer subbed from the solar-panel installation company they contracted. Said that they had to replace the roof (which is rolled asphalt/bitumen) before the panels could be installed.

Turns out the roofers removed the chimney structure completely, sheathed & rolled right over it. Leaving no chimney at all. It’s not entirely clear how exactly this happened.

In any event, the gas hot-water heater was venting directly into the attic space, which was only a foot or so above the ceilings below. But things really got going when they fired up the gas furnace last November…only took a couple months for the humidity to turn that space into an equatorial jungle environment.

The engineer I sent out confirmed that there were no roof leaks. The entire attic space was saturated by combustion by-product moisture.

The best part? They never replaced the roof! They re-sealed seams, and laid some patches here & there, and sheeted over the chimney base…but the insured paid for a new roof. Oh, and when the roofers demolished the masonry chimney structure below the roofline, they packed the flue with masonry debris.

How no one died, I do not know. I sent them the engineer’s report, and I imagine that they’re looking for a good lawyer. No homeowner’s policy covers this kind of thing. They’ve already paid +$10K for a new chimney.

skybolt_1 posted:

That story is just bananas. I don't understand how people can be so disconnected from their day to day reality that they wouldn't somehow grasp that maybe, just maybe, things weren't being done properly when they noticed a missing chimney. I'm really hoping that this was an absentee landlord or very elderly person scenario....

Also, I'll just leave this here as a warning to others.

evobatman posted:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/02/rooftop-solar-is-the-future-but-its-also-a-scam.html

GreenNight posted:

PurpleXVI posted:

Nitrox posted:

When you have lots of fittings, but no pipe left on the truck

yaffle posted:

James Wines

https://failedarchitecture.com/the-ironic-loss-of-the-postmodern-best-store-facades/

wesleywillis posted:

drat! I didn't even notice that part, but maybe because I originally saw it on my phone.

`Nemesis posted:

SpartanIvy posted:

I saw this abomination at an open house yesterday. They want top dollar for the house and its overall quality is pretty fairly conveyed in this one image.

It's also worth noting that while this looks to be on an exterior, it's because it's a porch that was fully enclosed, so this is inside the houses envelope.

shoeberto posted:

Can anyone in the know comment on how dangerous the gas line is there? It looks like one trip and your entire laundry(?) space is filling with flammable gas?

SpartanIvy posted:

The Arlington, TX location was "Warehouse" themed. I wish that was a joke.

`Nemesis posted:

Nitrox posted:

Well, that's new.

So they just framed over grass and dirt, ran the plumbing and then poured concrete?

Arrath posted:

Its like the construction version of those math problems that pop up where they're obviously getting the order of operations wrong.

`Nemesis posted:

Freaquency posted:

They’re doing a bit

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

That picture is making me feel a lot better about the lovely job I did resealing around a window. Two sides reasonable, one side poor and of course that's the most visible one.

I loving hate using silicone.

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

But that's true?

Us Americans are all about the land, sea, and air wars!

Slugworth posted:

They ain't wrong

Sirotan posted:

Backer board and tile is supposed to overlap the flange so that you don't get water behind your tile and loving up your wall. They either rip it all out now or in like a year when their wall is rotting from the inside out.

GreenNight posted:

Lemniscate Blue posted:

Feature, not a bug.

wheatpuppy posted:

Also: old stuff that has survived to the present was well-built in the first place. There was probably plenty of cheap crappy construction in the past, but it didn't survive so we don't think about it.

moist turtleneck posted:

https://x.com/DubzyOnceAgain/status/1775159996470153337?s=20

`Nemesis posted:

best explanation i saw for this was the builder hosed up the measurements so the rise was too small, so instead of cutting new stringers they did this.

I do think it's easily salvageable with bracing on the underside as well as risers. I think the design is visually interesting at least, and apparently well constructed even if done wrong.

Platystemon posted:

What do you call these sinks that stick out the front of the countertop, and why are they suddenly everywhere?

e: Keyword is “farmhouse”.

e2:

`Nemesis posted:

kid sinister posted:

The front fell off.

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

Gas station bathrooms in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, ft tool socks and hi viz reflective shoes.

wiegieman posted:

But this is art.

The Dave posted:

Actually yes. Turned out our kitchen was really just mostly a porch decades ago and the foundation for the exterior walls were unmortored cinder blocks sitting on some loose shallow concrete and dirt. So no proper support and some unforeseen plumping issues had also rotted the poo poo out of the sill plate. On top of that the exterior walls were framed with 2x4s so we had to pay to support the existing second floor, excavate out, put up a new block foundation and pour a pad plus the time and costs to have that plan drawn up and approved by the township.

Original bid: $60k / 4 weeks
Current expected final costs: $120-130k
Timeline: 4 weeks in and have yet to begun the original scope

Dunno-Lars posted:

Is that wall 400 kgs (pounds?)? Cause they might just try to prevent people from stealing their shower fixture.

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

good idea but the wall doesn't look like it's made of concrete

Wild EEPROM posted:

Buttchocks posted:

One of my professors wrote his own textbooks, but instead of publishing them he just printed them out for us. We only had to pay $20 for the cost of paper and ink. Best professor ever.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I majored and doctorated in history. What are these "textbooks" of which you speak? I haven't seen one since high school.

`Nemesis posted: