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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Every time I bomb Porcelainia there 
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Cyrano4747 posted:To make it look “more modern.” I'm the utter and total lack of dropcloths, masking, and in general protection of all other surfaces.
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Oct 15, 2021 20:06
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PainterofCrap posted:Federal Pacific, if wired correctly. No love for Zinsco?
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Nov 7, 2021 23:17
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nurmie posted:dk if the topic of munger's student torture apparatus in the form of a house is still at all interesting, but get a load of the Billionaire Defender Squad logging on quote:It may not sound dreamy, but it beats living in a car. Yes, that's definitely the standard I hold hundreds-of-millions dormitories to.
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Nov 8, 2021 00:38
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mycomancy posted:God drat it took me way too long to understand what the picture of the plug meant. An unusually austere loss.jpg?
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Nov 23, 2021 18:12
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My friends are pointing out that with that draw, he'll never hit anything.
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Nov 28, 2021 04:39
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:why does a shower stall need a bathtub faucet? Muslim footwash? IDK.
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Nov 28, 2021 19:11
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Motronic posted:And hardi is even better. Our house has asbestos shingles that have almost certainly been there since 1931. There's nothing like that good old solid craftsmanship
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Dec 2, 2021 17:53
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When I lived in Massachusetts, a story made the newspapers. A fuel oil truck got the address wrong and filled up the oil tank in the wrong house. Unfortunately, the wrong house had had the oil tank removed years ago and hadn't bothered to remove the fill opening. Owners wound up with a basement full of heating oil. Meanwhile, I had electricians here and asked them to look at the doorbell transformer and see if the wiring still worked. There were visible cut wires where the doorbell used to be, and I was hoping to connect a new doorbell and a new chime and go on my happy way. Somebody somewhere before me had not only cut off the doorbell wires at the doorbell itself, but also at the level of the porch. Which means that the entire line would have to be re-fished in a 1930s house that's solid board and asbestos shingles, and the electrician's guessing it's a half-day job with two electricians. SIGH. Now I'm trying to figure out if you can get door chime transformers that pair up with wireless buttons, because I really truly would like a real doorbell chime.
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Dec 4, 2021 18:39
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Lutha Mahtin posted:This is certainly possible. If an off the shelf solution doesn't exist, a DIY one definitely does. Hmm. I might, come new year, hire a goon to see if they can set up and ship a chime transformer with a Raspberry Pi that connects to a wireless doorbell. Unless there's a simpler solution? I certainly haven't been able to find anything on doorbell sites because it's such a niche want.
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Dec 4, 2021 20:13
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Proteus Jones posted:Something like this might work No, that's exactly what I don't want. I don't want a programmable electronic-voiced chime. I have a solid old-fashioned hammers-hit-the-bell chime, and I want to install that. It requires a transformer (in place) and a wired pushbutton (expensive to install). I want (if possible, and it may not be) to jerry-rig a wireless pushbutton to work with the transformer.
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Dec 4, 2021 20:36
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Lutha Mahtin posted:you definitely could use a raspberry pi for something like this, but that might be way overkill. i am not an expert in home automation, but i am sure there are several ways to do your exact use case of "convert a simple pushbutton switch from wired to wireless". there are several threads on the forums where people talk about projects like this, one being the idiot spare time projects thread in yospos Thank you for that link!
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Dec 4, 2021 23:09
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D34THROW posted:You just reminded me of what my wife and i dubbed The Compound. I dont have the address or listing anymore but when we were working with my parents to secure a home in FL to move from MD, they were looking at places to buy for us to rent. Bear in mind we had 3 small children and now have 4. Some highlights of the Compound include:
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Dec 11, 2021 17:45
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How is the one built in 1725's heating? Sounds like a bitch to retrofit anything but fireplaces. e: My 1931 house has gorgeous original single-hung windows in various locations, and I will be damned if I replace them. I may have storm windows made.
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Jan 5, 2022 05:27
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I will never forgive the Magnolia people for cancelling <i>Saveur</i> and trying to foist off their magazine on me instead. Euch.
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Jan 8, 2022 19:01
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:
My first reaction to that tub is "Why no grab bar?" Because that thing looks really dangerous to get out of.
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Jan 17, 2022 20:10
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I remember the one (this would have been in the 80s) where the homeowners gradually disappeared from the show over episodes because they were on such bad terms with the TOC crew. To help identify it, the husband had bought some sort of electric multi-purpose tool and was going to make billions of balusters for the front porch. He got disgusted and quit after <10.
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Jan 18, 2022 17:47
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Given that it's impossible to pour from the kettle, it's purely a joke.
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Jan 18, 2022 20:14
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canyoneer posted:The famous secret cord
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Jan 26, 2022 17:41
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I thought the standard solution for hiding your sex swing hook was a hanging planter.
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Apr 16, 2022 18:22
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That one is almost certainly a B&B (note bathtub in room and Victorian bedstead) and the twee is part of the attraction. I once saw (didn't sleep in!) a B&B which offered a teddy bear in each room. I wonder if "lots of Victorian furniture" is still as much of a selling point as it was in the '90s.
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May 5, 2022 16:42
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Armacham posted:Yeah they are usually called suckers. https://www.loveyourlandscape.org/expert-advice/tree-care/insects-and-disease/dealing-with-tree-suckers/ And some kinds of trees just like doing it on general principle. Ornamental cherries, for one.
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May 6, 2022 16:51
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Armacham posted:Yeah plants are loving weird. 
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May 6, 2022 22:32
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Platystemon posted:Jaboticaba are my favorite example. They look alien and almost unsettling.
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May 7, 2022 04:53
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Smithwick posted:I could arguably defend the roof(s) design but the windows are bad and the columns by the entry are barf.
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May 26, 2022 20:40
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It may just be an artifact of photography, but it looks like that hearth smokes, in which case it is a very bad fireplace and its mason should be ashamed.
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BonerGhost posted:It's ugly in a way I don't understand. Design/architecture goons, tell me why I don't like this house.
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Jun 21, 2022 19:04
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Dienes posted:They don't call it 'fencing' but you can find identical builds indoors. People like it for railings, half-enclosing stairways, lofts, etc. Yeah. If I still had children
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Jul 20, 2022 23:01
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Darchangel posted:Man, they’re going overboard with the wide-angle lenses. That house almost looks like it’s… that’s not a fisheye lens? "This house is being sold as-is where-is"? I've never seen "where-is" before.
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Jul 22, 2022 00:43
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Love it, would live there, strongly suspect it's a repurposed office.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Yeah. When I say the nearest walmart is an hour away, that's not really a joke.
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Nov 3, 2022 20:50
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MetaJew posted:Teardown properties are selling for insane prices in "desirable" parts of town, and then people that seem to have infinite money come in and do new luxury builds on them. e: Y'all are missing the joke. Here's Notjustanumber99's thread. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Dec 16, 2022 |
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Dec 16, 2022 18:35
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wesleywillis posted:All those cinder blocks. That's the 78 Camaro of decks.
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Dec 19, 2022 01:58
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Out of curiosity I took a look at properties for sale in Marquette and came up with this... weirdness. What's this weird little leany-out thing? 
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Dec 23, 2022 17:45
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Arsenic Lupin posted:New fridge, new exciting PO craftsmanship.
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Dec 23, 2022 21:01
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:My house has a phone nook! I feel like I should make it into a little lararia for my household gods or something.
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Dec 24, 2022 18:41
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My husband and I both drive stick, but (A) aging knees and (B) harder and harder to find if you don't drive a sports car. For at least two decades, the stick model has been in the lowest trimline of any model of car we're interested in buying.
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Dec 26, 2022 18:36
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Sirotan posted:Had to know more about this house so I went searching. Those stairs actually are functional and are worse than I initially thought.
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VelociBacon posted:If your dishwasher isn't connected to the cloud you don't need to air gap it but probably doesn't hurt in case there's a Miele zero-day.
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"Tell grandma to fetch some canning jars, I feel an inheritance coming on!"
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