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My wife and I bought our first house in February, a split level five bedroom built in 1977. I've been replacing outlets older than I am that have left the wiring burned and charred, to illustrate what we've gotten ourselves into. When we moved in, the master bathroom had a drop ceiling that was the only one in the house. My wife got sick of looking at it, and tore it out. Here's what was underneath it. This appears to be a fluorescent fixture that had the bulb brackets removed from the housing, screwed into a wood beam, and then wired into the wall. For whatever reason a previous owner just slapped a drop ceiling up there instead of removing that weirdness. I'm guessing that it's still live too, I'll have to figure that out here soon.
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Apr 30, 2017 20:29
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SoundMonkey posted:they installed a convenience light for when you're fishing wires in your ceiling, as one does daily or at least weekly, and you tore it out?  Depending on if that...thing is decommissioned or not, I may fish the wire through the ceiling properly and install a badly needed exhaust fan.
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Apr 30, 2017 21:55
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mycomancy posted:My wife and I bought our first house in February, a split level five bedroom built in 1977. I've been replacing outlets older than I am that have left the wiring burned and charred, to illustrate what we've gotten ourselves into. Well, I got around to checking this light with my multimeter. It's live.  How has this place not burned down?!
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May 11, 2017 02:13
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ElCondemn posted:Sounds like they inadvertently created a logic gate circuit lol That's impressively stupid if so.
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May 11, 2017 02:59
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SoundMonkey posted:
Oh, you're talking about witchwalls!
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Jun 5, 2017 06:18
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kid sinister posted:
What in the ever living gently caress... 
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Jun 22, 2017 03:42
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 what in the gently caress...
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Jul 10, 2017 05:11
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Motronic posted:
Jesus loving Christ what is wrong with people?
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Jul 23, 2017 06:05
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Youth Decay posted:Redneck engineering at its finest right here folks $220k for that? Nope.
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Jul 29, 2017 02:37
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I hung wallpaper yesterday and trim today. gently caress both activities in hell forever.
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Aug 7, 2017 03:04
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Haifisch posted:
We have a house built in 1977. The living room and the two downstairs bedrooms both are laid out to have wallpaper hung over particular places on the drywall. Believe me, it's the least worst option.
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Aug 7, 2017 04:08
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Blue Footed Booby posted:"LIVE LAUGH UNPROTECTED SODOMY" Crappy Construction Tales: Home of the "LIVE LAUGH UNPROTECTED SODOMY" Wallhangings
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Aug 10, 2017 02:17
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peanut posted:We never mowed the lawn in the duplex we rented for 2 years because we moved from out-of-state and didn't have a mower and didn't plan on buying one when we were already paying $2000/month for a 2 bedroom apartment and didn't ever really want or need to use a yard. This paragraph contains words but none of it makes sense to me.
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Aug 31, 2017 00:08
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Samizdata posted:potentially toxic granite counters To what are you referring?
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Sep 5, 2017 04:35
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Proteus Jones posted:There have been concerns raised regarding radiation and/or radon outgassing. That's why they make radon mitigation systems. 
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Sep 5, 2017 04:48
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I feel like there was some spousal bickering involved with this.
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Oct 8, 2017 03:35
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Suspect Bucket posted:It's so witches can't get in to your heating system. Oh, you're talking about witchducts!
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Jan 28, 2018 14:41
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Drake_263 posted:
Whyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Jan 29, 2018 03:47
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In regards to those moldy walls, I would recommend a mix of sodium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide. That will melt fungal tissue and even kill meiotic spores. In addition, id get a sander and grind the affected area AFTER the initial treatment, then repeat the treatment to ensure you've gotten it all. Or just burn the place down.
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Feb 15, 2018 04:14
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OOOOOOOOOOOH YEAAAAAAAAAH!
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Feb 15, 2018 07:04
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I had to replace my kitchen faucet because the idiots who owned this house didn't seal it properly so water rusted out the fixtures holding the faucet head to the basin. I found this under my sink. There's a goddamn pipe loop under my sink! What purpose, if any, could this serve?
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Feb 16, 2018 03:32
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cowofwar posted:Maybe for a new sink or removed a dishwasher connection and they didn’t want to cut pipes. It's affixed to the wall as well as possible. When we bought the place it was dangling under a leaky pipe and had burned up the switching outlet. The people who had this place before us didn't do anything in terms of maintenance.
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Feb 16, 2018 03:56
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Extant Artiodactyl posted:It's an outlet box and it's not floating, see, there's exactly one fastener holding it to the cabinet! This guy gets it!
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Feb 16, 2018 03:59
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Slugworth posted:It doesn't appear to be a gfi. Unless it's daisy chained off of one, you should definitely rectify that. I've got a GFI upcurrent from that one. The goal is to get all of the electrical code violations solved before the end of the year. It's ambitious to say the least.
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Feb 16, 2018 04:08
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tangy yet delightful posted:This is America boyo, American's would barely have room to take their dick out in that room I rented a place in downtown Madison, WI that was a converted Victorian. The bathroom door was so narrow I had to enter at an angle because the door frame would hit my shoulders. What a dump.
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Feb 18, 2018 01:35
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What in the gently caress. I couldn't even process what I was looking at for a couple of minutes.
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Feb 21, 2018 15:40
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The Twinkie Czar posted:It seems like an especially terrible place to rush ahead without roads. I'm imagining troubles from "It's rained the past two days and now nobody will come to work because they won't make it back up the mud hill" to "That last guy was an idiot, there's no way we can grade the road like that. The only option is to run the road through where that house is standing". You're exactly right, that's what happens on that red Ozark clay. I grew up about 100 miles east of where those houses are, and the geology of the place is nothing but clay and rust as far as the eye can see.
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Mar 2, 2018 05:09
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kid sinister posted:Better burn techbros then.
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Mar 10, 2018 03:33
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Indolent Bastard posted:I helped a friend move this weekend. I'm applying for a job at a university in a small Midwestern city, and the only decor more ubiquitous than this obnoxious poo poo are crucifixes.
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Mar 15, 2018 03:33
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When you insist on eating dinner as a family but you also hate them
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Mar 16, 2018 12:51
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Javid posted:I call this one previousowner.jpg My entire house is loving previousowner.jpg. These lazy douchenozzles didn't replace anything in this house in the 25 years that they lived here, so now every minor cosmetic upgrade I try to do is a loving three ring circus.
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Mar 18, 2018 16:35
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Oh god
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Mar 19, 2018 21:33
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extravadanza posted:In America we keep all of our chemicals, poisons and various cleaning things under the sink so our kids can get into them. Yep, no one has ever invented a way to keep kids out of cabinets. wait.
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Mar 20, 2018 22:22
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Mar 31, 2018 20:59
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kid sinister posted:You can, but that's against code if you don't have a floor drain in your bathroom. However, the bidet sprayers you mount on the seat bolts are fine. Code kinda insists on a drain for every indoor fixture. God drat R'lyeh contractors.
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Apr 7, 2018 00:36
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Crotch Fruit posted:I am used to hotels using some sort of occupancy sensor to turn off the AC when you are gone, that sucks because you end up coming back to a hot room. Besides just the annoyance, I have doubts about the effeciency only because (this is really scientific) my Mom told me that turning off the AC in the middle of the day on a house wastes more energy because it takes more energy to cool it back down than to keep it at one temperature throughout the day. I am pretty sure it's more efficient to say raise the temp a fee degrees when you're gone, but not to just turn the thing completely off and let the room get up to 90 degrees. This is fairly true. In addition, it'll put a TON of strain on the HVAC system since people will tend to come back to their rooms at the same time. The idiots who owned my house before me put their electric hot water heater on a switch in the kitchen, presumably to save on power. So stupid.
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Apr 26, 2018 13:40
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Have fun with your legionnaire's disease! The real  about it is that the switch looks to be older than me AND is only rated for 15 A, while the water heater draws around 30 A.It's like people weren't even loving trying on this house.
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Apr 27, 2018 00:44
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If you think about it, there's actually MORE material there for support, and furthermore *faaaaaaaaaaart*
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Jun 24, 2018 04:55
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Jun 24, 2018 06:26
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I twisted my ankle viewing this image.
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