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I look forward to the part where he carries on with the rest of it and then when he has someone actually come in to repair the underlying structure, it turns out all his improvements have to come out because they're going to have to rip up the whole floor to replace those I-joists. Or, the bathtub self-installs to the floor below at some later date.
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Baronjutter posted:Just get some 2x10's or something and nail them onto the sides of your engineered beams, she'll hold. "Load-bearing 'or something'" might be a new one, I like it.
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Can I also add that this:bEatmstrJ posted:Yes, which i'm sure is not to code, but its the only way I can accomplish what I'm trying to do
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Apr 5, 2017 17:33
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The beatings will continue until
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Apr 6, 2017 00:51
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The dog piling posts ITT are cutting through the load-bearing I-joists of OP's heart
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Apr 6, 2017 00:56
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Phil Moscowitz posted:You dumbass Is this just ambiguously aimed or intended to be AoE
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Apr 6, 2017 02:08
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Ignorance is bliss, don't be afraid to rejoist in your work
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angryrobots posted:My guess is that he was gonna sit the tub inside a shower pan, and have a homebrew infinity edge tub. Based on this image:  You are absolutely correct. That looks like it's supposed to be gravel down there, the tub will overflow into it and drain out underneath. If so, then the "what I want to do" part of "only way to accomplish what I want to do" is "create a black mold farm under a water stain sculpture." I think it may be an art piece about the intractable existentialism in the context of our modern socio-political global economy of consumerism or something.
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Apr 6, 2017 15:42
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OP plz come back
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Apr 6, 2017 16:41
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kid sinister cut through the engineered joists of this thread, but in his defense it was the only way to do what he wanted to do.
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Apr 6, 2017 17:05
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You could have just done your hero business silently and let us have this, a real hero doesn't expect recognition
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Apr 6, 2017 17:13
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OP GIS'd "infinity bathtub rocks" and called it a day
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Apr 6, 2017 18:18
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Snak posted:Clearly not, since that drain basin isn't sunk into the floor. Well I mean yeah, it clearly isn't the work of a DIY expert.
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Apr 6, 2017 18:22
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Well, it was fun while it lasted. Heck of a ride!
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Apr 6, 2017 19:43
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Holyshoot posted:Who takes a bath in 2017? Ain't got time for that poo poo. You can have my jacuzzi tub when you pry it from my cold, dead, bloated, water-logged hands.
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bEatmstrJ posted:He wants $500 to come over and do plans For what it's worth, that sounds pretty reasonable. I had a retired structural engineer come out to my house to look at removing a couple partition walls that had some load-bearing poo poo in them, and speccing out a beam and new posts inside the remaining walls so the space could open up and we could move the entire kitchen into it:  The bill for us chatting and figuring that out on-site was $170, and that was with the original drawings on-hand and nothing actually having been touched, i.e. purely speculative, which significantly eases the figuring that has to be done. AND this was in the heart of the land of cheap-living, also known as Central Iowa. Just knowing that you're in CA I feel like $500 to have an engineer tell you how to fix your broken house seems a pretty fair price to me. Of course, that doesn't cover actually ENACTING the repair, but there's a baseline for comparison for you at least. And I suspect that if you were willing to open up the ceiling below, you could put in some microlam or steel beams and actually do what you originally wanted to do with your mold farm plan.
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sneakyfrog posted:*sigh* i just wish it were properly redtexted dammit folks attention to detail. Apparently your DIY avatar gifter should have contracted out to a pro, then you wouldn't be in this predicament.
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Apr 7, 2017 22:30
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Tomorrow's update:bEatmstrJ posted:Apparently my cat got stuck far into the floor cavity of my bathroom, I had to remove a load-bearing wall and a few more joists to get him out, but it was the only way to accomplish what I wanted to do. Success!
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Mr. Mambold posted:5 minutes inactivity taking a poo poo? I'm pretty sure that's against code in SoCal Actually, making GBS threads for more than five minutes is known to the state of California to cause cancer.
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FogHelmut posted:Leaving the lights on is one step away from screwing with your thermostat. That's why you put the thermostat in your man cave, and install a decoy thermostat in the regular location.
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Apr 12, 2017 22:28
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bEatmstrJ posted:10-15% This is also the same portion of your joist you removed, so I don't know why everyone's so upset
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Apr 14, 2017 20:25
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Apparently my entire house is composed of rumpus rooms, then.
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Apr 15, 2017 00:42
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Facebook Aunt posted:Just lol if you don't dip yourself into a 55 gallon drum of lube before sex. Or as the rest of us call it, "your mom"
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Apr 17, 2017 04:57
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Ironically, one of those hammock tubs would have neatly alleviated the need for any floor there at all, much less floor joists, I say just remove the floor there altogether and go hog wild!
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Apr 17, 2017 19:13
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Don't be a scrub, nut up and do it, bro
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Apr 17, 2017 19:25
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SoundMonkey posted:edit: PLUS it's gonna be GFCI (please say it is) so it'll be a deeper plug anyways, yeah just leave almost nothing in the box and then staple it to the stud every two inches
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Apr 18, 2017 04:12
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Burt Sexual posted:This is loving awesome. OP do this but with your kitchen below. That way as you lay in the bath upstairs you can watch your wife and two kids as they walk out of the house forever, finally fed up with your DIY antics.
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Apr 18, 2017 19:15
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"Infinity bidet" is something I'm not ashamed to say I never thought of, but also desperately wish I had.
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Apr 20, 2017 05:07
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A hotel is the absolute last place I would ever ever ever use the jacuzzi tub. At least in my own home, I know it's my own gunks clogging up the jets.
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Apr 20, 2017 22:22
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Snak posted:The focal point of a parabolic reflector is... not on its surface. what if it's a very small parabola
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Apr 21, 2017 19:24
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I mean frankly that depends on the taint.
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Apr 21, 2017 19:41
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Mortal Kombathroom
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Apr 22, 2017 22:15
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bEatMBisonJ Gotta say, charging ahead and installing a bath tub according to the original plan would have been a hell of a finishing move
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Apr 22, 2017 22:17
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Nah just tuck your statue of the Virgin Mary in there and you'll be fine.
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bEatmstrJ posted:He took measurements of my entire house and said he can make it work but he did seem a bit concerned about having the inspector see the joists, so he recommended fixing it (but still leaving my 2" inch drop) and covering it up before the inspector comes over as he thinks it would raise a lot of red flags. Ahahahahahhahahahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaa your engineer is a loving goon who has been following this thread and wants to see some drat comedy already. Good on ya, stealth goon 
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Social engineer
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:It was Kid Sinister Well that would be the best thing ever, wouldn't it Kid Sinister gets everyone all riled up, then scams himself in as a faux engineer that'll recommend really shady poo poo, and the hiding thereof, THEN he actually reports it once it's all sealed up and done, just to be extra spiteful. I love it. Better than Hamlet.
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bEatmstrJ posted:It's purely aesthetic. The infinity tub sounds nice, but its nothing that fancy. Haaaaaaawhat I love this thread so much.
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kastein posted:You wanted to make it so the floor is harder to clean and nasty water pools around the base of the tub? No, he wanted a solid gold thread and that was the only way to accomplish it.
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WAR DOGS OF SOCHI posted:Why would you purposely do this to yourself?! Look, some people may be content with a builder-grade mold farm, but OP wants something better.
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