Complete bathroom overhaul - a sad, builder-grade sack of tears

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dpack_1: Mar 23, 2009; Let another's wounds be your warning

bEatmstrJ posted:

Seriously. You have to have pretty thick skin to post poo poo on this site.

Gonna try to call a few more contractors tomorrow and see if I can setup some appointments. Wish me luck.

In other news I did complete a side task. I bought some mirrors to go above my vanities once the wall is tiled. The mirrors came with front facing lights, but I also wanted the mirrors to be backlit so I added some additional LEDs around the edges. Worked out pretty nicely. (They look a little better flush up against the wall but thats a little tricky without mounting them.

I'm the screw wire connector just hanging out on the carpet pretending not to be a fire hazard.

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dpack_1: Mar 23, 2009; Let another's wounds be your warning

glynnenstein posted:

This thread is hilarious. There are very real fuckups going on, but the wire-nuts on a carpet for a few minutes to take pictures is not going to start a fire. At least wait until he installs it to find something to call out.

I think it's just how loving obscure them things are compared to UK standard connector strips, which are then wrapped in insulated tape.

And the fact that will just be hanging there in a humid bathroom just waiting to come loose and short out on the mirror's frame.

I'm aware that it's the least offensive thing in the thread, but at this point it's just gonna turn into a dog pile on OP for simply refusing to accept that I-Beams work in a very specific way.

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dpack_1: Mar 23, 2009; Let another's wounds be your warning

bEatmstrJ posted:

You're the kind of engineer I don't want to hire. But feel free to prove me wrong and actually be helpful at some point.

- An ambitious DIYer

Translation:

You're the kinda engineer that doesn't just want to take my money and run away laughing to the bank after telling me "it'll be fine" and because your words hurt my DIY ego I don't want to listen to them.

Any engineer doesn't have to tell you how to do the job that they would normally be paid lots of money for. They get paid lots of money for having that knowledge, you have no right to expect that knowledge to be passed to you for free.

HIRE A GOD drat CERTIFIED ENGINEER TO STOP YOUR HOUSE FALLING DOWN!

# ¿ Apr 5, 2017 13:03

dpack_1: Mar 23, 2009; Let another's wounds be your warning

FogHelmut posted:

Certain light fixtures are illegal to install if you can screw an incandescent bulb into it. Holy poo poo. I've already put LED bulbs in mostly everything, but I'm paying for the drat electricity, why don't they just institute kilowatt caps?

Electricity isnt magic, it comes from places that are generally poo poo in the long run. They dont care how much you use but worry about how much you waste. If an LED can emit as many lumens at 3watts as an incandescent bulb can at 60watts then you are saving electricity and thus not ruining the planet.

If you ran on entirely clean and renewable energy then they wouldnt care if you had a million 100W incandescent bulbs stay on 24/7 just to light up your fridge.

dpack_1 fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Apr 12, 2017

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