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Bad Munki posted:I’m also assuming the handles pivot to the back, not forward. Because why not. When I moved into my house I managed to reverse the direction of the kitchen faucet handle while trying to fix a leak in the faucet assembly. Cold and hot were still on their respective sides, but I managed to point the handle to the back instead of the front.
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Nenonen posted:It's from ISS, the only way for grounding they have. They swap the dirt when a supply ship visits the station. Well you gotta get rid of those leftover electrons somehow.
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Nov 26, 2019 20:11
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 My microwave crapped out. When I pulled it this is what I found. I guess it's a testament to GE's engineering that of the 4 screws they specify in their installation instructions apparently as long as you got one in a stud it will do the job for 10+ years.
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Dec 2, 2019 18:51
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Nevets posted:The tops of the vertical bars are clamped between the upper cabinet and the drywall, so that keeps the top of the bracket from rotating away from the wall. All the bottom screw needs to do is hold the weight of the portion of the microwave that isn't supported by the top bolts, and that isn't much. It's a pretty good design and makes it possible to install one all by yourself if you are careful and patient. The top ends were not clamped, they were free-floating, but the picture does make it look that way. I took the bracket down this afternoon. They drilled all the holes for the toggles, but decided to not install them? And what's up with all the other holes in the middle of the bracket area? It wasn't a former installation. This house is only 11 years old and that microwave was original. I'm not crying about it though. The previous owners cooked a lot with a lot of oil. The cabinets were all super sticky to the touch, the door hardware was CAKED with grease, and the microwave oozed oil out of every seam - inside and out. Once a week I have to clean a large sticky glob of nasty old oil that has seeped out of the microwave and dripped onto the stovetop. The maid we hired to clean the kitchen before we moved in spent a whole day scraping the tops of the cabinets with a putty knife. Good riddance. Gives us a good opportunity to get a new fridge too since our current one shakes the whole floor when the compressor kicks on.
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Dec 3, 2019 00:29
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Orvin posted:Nope, that’s intended. I stayed a couple nights at the Kohler resort & spa, right outside their factory in Wisconsin. I went to fill the tub, and it was an identical design with the water coming down from the ceiling. It just didn’t have the voyeur window to the world. I could almost excuse that - their resort is like a fantastical showcase of crazy poo poo they could do, but isn't necessarily practical for real life - kinda like a fashion show. None of those clothes are actually meant for actual people to wear, but I guess there could always be an artiste that wants to. Or I could be trying to give them a pass cuz my wife and I had a wonderful weekend at that spa before our kid was born.
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Jan 20, 2020 16:53
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stealie72 posted:So not specific to him, but: Bidets do an rear end in a top hat good. I have three toilets in my house. I only use the one with a bidet to poop. The good Korean or Japanese ones are worth it. The addon seats anyway, I don't know about longevity of the built-ins.
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Jan 22, 2020 21:10
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Platystemon posted:Use an iris mechanism. I noticed in their "demonstration" of it being waterproof he actually didn't invert it.
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Jan 25, 2020 21:29
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Youth Decay posted:Another fine example of Mid-Century Mistake design My parents' house had wallpaper VERY similar to that up (yellowed further with 30+ years of cigarette smoke) until I tore it all down (and the wallpaper behind that, and the wallpaper behind that, and the wallpaper behind that) in 2010 and replaced it with my mother's choice of a "southwestern style" paintjob (the house is in Illinois). At least it's just paint right now - she can't afford to get the turquoise backsplash she really wants  . Even if she could.... I think it would still be an improvement.
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Feb 10, 2020 16:46
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Ashcans posted:We thought that we just had a ribbon of wallpaper around the top of the room, but when we went to remove it we discovered that there were two other layers of wallpaper under it that had been painted over at some point and then more wallpaper put over the paint. So it was basically: In a few spots in my... zest in taking the multiple layers off my mom's kitchen, I know I definitely took off some of the the drywall paper and went into the gypsum itself since it had been there for an untold number of decades.
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Feb 10, 2020 20:27
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Dillbag posted:fuckin whyyyyyy No rocks around the base, the females would not approve
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Feb 28, 2020 20:04
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I have found them - the worst stairs. I like the one right after the stairs where they suspend a heavy load over the second most expensive thing you own with like 16 ga cable.
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Mar 30, 2020 05:08
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insta posted:I was all over McMaster Carr's website looking for cable so I could poo poo all over your lack of knowledge about what good steel cable can do (although yukyuk they probably didn't use good steel cable). Sure braided steel cable is strong, and the cable is looped a bunch, and the most probable point of failure is either the drywall mounting or the hoist brake, but you still don't want to suspend a load over anything critical. There's a reason anytime you work around cranes the #1 safety rule is DON'T WALK UNDER THE LOAD. Chain and lifting slings and crane cable are also insanely strong, but you don't let your life depend on it.
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Mar 31, 2020 02:57
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topenga posted:So...my mom's house has a bathroom with a window opening into the den/computer room/other living area. Why? That new room used to be a carport. It was fine for venting the bathroom. Then she decided we needed a room more than a carport and, well, we have fun yelling at people to make sure to wash their hands as we're watching TV. Similar here. My old bedroom at my mom's house has a window that looks into a former garage on the side of the house. The bathroom did too until my mom had it redone. Aside: The bathroom remodeling contractor found a live hot water heating register hidden underneath the cast iron of the tub. 100 year old houses are "fun!"
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Apr 8, 2020 21:20
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kid sinister posted:What if it's Maple Syrup Urine Disease? Yeah, gently caress that disease. My kid was in the NICU for a few days when she was born (not breathing, low APGAR, all around in bad shape - she's totally fine now though). It's already the most stressful time in my life. 3 or so days after we take her home, we get a call from the hospital saying a screening test flagged her as a potential positive for this disease and that we needed to take her into a specialist to get a more accurate test done. Googling that poo poo had us making GBS threads BRICKS. My mother-in-law was intensely sniffing all her dirty diapers. After going through everything with the NICU and then we get this loving notice, it felt like we were cursed. We take her to the specialist clinic. The NP there told us that the IV stuff they give NICU kids tends to give false positives for the screening test. Thankfully that turned out to be the case, but god drat -- my wife and I did NOT need that.
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May 2, 2020 02:51
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kid sinister posted:You need to read up on another early goon, Dr. McNinja. No problem goon sir.  I missed the reference. I either missed or forgot about the Dr mcninja thing. And like I said it's all good now, just sucked at the time. Although it did feel like a cosmic joke, like this is a real disease that exists?!
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Lead out in cuffs posted:This is a pretty good book to read. It's nearly 60 years old, but some things haven't changed. Look at the Dan Ryan 90/94 in Chicago. That dog leg just south of city center was no accident.
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May 28, 2020 15:39
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Why would you have two separate garages like that?
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Jun 5, 2020 01:27
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Bad Munki posted:Realtalk, I’d keep takeout menus in there. My favorite thing about getting a new apartment in the pre-food ordering app days was finding the drawer full of takeout menus.
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Aug 1, 2020 05:14
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glynnenstein posted:Vacation beach house this year features a stairway with a death step: To be fair, there's just no way to know how the stairs will line up until you finish.
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Platystemon posted:When the homeowners get too fat for EMTs to carry down the stairs, they can show up in front with a lift. I used to work with a guy that broke his ankle on a pallet that broke. Problem was he weighed about 350. Solution was that there was an overhead crane in the bay he broke his ankle in.... I felt so bad for the guy as he had to hold onto a drat crane hoist to help get onto the stretcher. Silver lining is eventually his doctor told him if he kept up his lifestyle he was going to die and lost like 150 lbs and quit smoking.
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Oct 8, 2020 20:30
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Blue Footed Booby posted:That's one of those images that takes my brain a second to parse. At first I thought the columns went to the ground but were intersecting a step and a flower bed. Then I thought I was having a stroke. 
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Oct 14, 2020 20:40
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Looks like rock solid construction to me...
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Oct 20, 2020 18:40
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What's the Poe's law corollary for Goons? Cuz I think we reached it.
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Nov 17, 2020 05:20
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Yond Cassius posted:Japan has companies just like the one that designed that garage (but, in Japanese fashion, "even more so"); they take a blueprint, run it through a computer, and ship you a truckload of pre-cut lumber, numbered and CNC-milled to fit with traditional-style joints. It goes up super fast with barely more than mallets and some power wrenches. The up-front capital expense of setting up the factory is extreme, but in Japan at least they find that the downstream savings on time and labor are really good, especially when you take the quality into account. I wouldn't be surprised if much the same happened with the garage. Ordering pre-cut probably saved them a fair amount of money and bought them something nicer than they would get with a traditional cut-on-site contractor (with all the mistakes and corrections that entails). The lack of tie-off and steel toes makes me really uncomfortable.
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Dec 4, 2020 15:47
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Motronic posted:Steel toe boots on a ROOF? I get it - the soft flexible shoes allow them to grip the members with their feet while they move around. But I personally am uncomfortable with being around any construction without steel toes on.
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Dec 4, 2020 18:31
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Motronic posted:That's great that YOU are uncomfortable, but these are professionals wearing the type of thing that professionals around the world who are doing this work wear (you'll see roofers in tennis shoes all over the US). Who do you think is correct? Yes, professional carpenters all around the (western, at least) world wear steel toed boots to do their jobs.
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Dec 4, 2020 18:44
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Motronic posted:We're talking about roofing. Roofers, or carpenters that have any business being a roof, don't wear steel toe boots up there. They were doing way more than a roof in those videos.
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sorry, crossposted from /r/feet
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Dec 4, 2020 18:58
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So I could have sworn from the outside image that that was a trailer. Can you have a trailer with a basement? I'm very confused.
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Nostalgamus posted:I've got this work of genius at the office: Does the door hit the light, too? Or is that an illusion due to the camera angle?
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Dec 18, 2020 23:38
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Clayton Bigsby posted:Could do something like this, pretty trippy. That video would be 10x better if they actually showed the whole car in one frame instead of an eight minute long panning closeup from 14 inches away.
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Jan 13, 2021 23:14
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You wonder what the model was thinking when they told him that was the shoot.
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Jan 17, 2021 14:52
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B-Nasty posted:To be fair, urinals are pretty much the optimal way for males to take a piss indoors. They use less water than a toilet, and they contain the spray and drips better than standing at a toilet. Counterpoint: urinals will smell and leak over time and they're loving disgusting without constant care and maintenance. Way more than a toilet. Granted my experience is a "high use" scenario from college fraternity house living. But still, no thanks.
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Bad Munki posted:Oh, okay I'm sorry sir, I don't see a toilet in that picture.
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GallienKruger posted:
What would this alcove have been used for originally?
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By popular demand posted:If you hate stair climbers so much why even bother with the safety rail? It's completely pointless in any way. All the split staircases like these also assume the user has two good knees/ankles. I'd love to be cut off from an entire floor of my house because I twist an ankle
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Gotta new stretch goal for my next Cities Skylines game...
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Feb 22, 2021 21:31
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kid sinister posted:Brazil. Easy to laugh at something like this, but it's also a way to recognize how good we have it to be born in a rich country. StormDrain posted:That's Keith Haring's house and nothing you say can convince me otherwise. I was thinking Lisa Frank
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Sirotan posted:https://twitter.com/zillowgonewild/status/1367620086245294081 Maybe I'm just selfish for not wanting to live in a home that requires periodic turnbuckle tightening to... *checks notes* hmm... keep the walls from falling down the hill. I mean... different strokes I guess.
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My Lovely Horse posted:You'll find out if you manage to fold through spacetime just the right way to enter. You just have to run at it fast enough and enough times to quantum tunnel into the room.
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