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The Bloop posted:There's a smaller tub inside What's the calculations on a load of water floating inside another load of water resting on top of sawn-off floor supports?
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This is truly the thread that keeps on giving.
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Apr 6, 2017 22:35
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I wouldn't bother writing the beam manufacturers. They won't want to take on the liability of telling you to do something that might go wrong. You'll either get ghosted or get some boilerplate about them not being to help without a contract or some other CYA poo poo.
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Apr 7, 2017 15:09
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My predatory former roommate/landlady let her dad be the general contractor on her house, which is a Crappy Construction Tale in its own right, but his brilliant plan was to put motion sensor -- not vacancy sensor -- switches in every bathroom, the laundry room, and the kitchen. Nothing like getting your retinas seared when you get up to take a 3am piss. Or having the kitchen look like a slo-mo rave when the pets are active at night. The worst part was that he moved the ensuite bathrooms in both rental bedrooms from one side of the house to the other (tl;not relevant), but didn't want to bother running new ventilation, so he left the tops of the walls open between the top of the door frame and the vaulted ceilings. It looked fairly cool, I'll admit, and gave the bathrooms some much needed natural light. It also meant if a dust mote bigger than a flea's turd floated past the sensor in the middle of the night, the loving lights would come on and illuminate the whole loving bedroom. The rent was cheap by normal standards, never mind Portland standards, so I stayed there way longer than I should have. Mistakes were made, but my savings account is okay with it.
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Apr 12, 2017 22:25
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Yeah, my parents had a bonus room in their condo basement. They dug out a window well and added an egress window, and now it's a bedroom. I forget how much value that added to the condo, but it was substantial. It's got french doors, though, which I find highly annoying on a bedroom, but I don't care that much because I don't live there anymore.
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Apr 14, 2017 21:59
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Those tubs full of random crap just scream, "enjoy your yeast infection, lady!"
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Apr 28, 2017 20:22
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sneakyfrog posted:fortunately they are ALREADY compromised Oooh, will this thread now cross over with the FOOF thread, too? 
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May 2, 2017 21:47
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Snak posted:We sprang for a slightly pricier after-market shower storage thing, and I'm really happy with it. Have one; love it. It's the most adjustable and secure shower rack I've ever used. Woman opinion: Not fond of the design, OP, for the same reasons mentioned already. Not enough storage, not enough light, and the shower looks like it wouldn't be terribly friendly to normal lady ablutions like leg shaving. I don't hate it, because I'm pretty low maintenance (I have a hairdryer for drying ink, and some days I don't even look in the mirror before I leave the house), but it wouldn't be a value-add if I was looking to buy the house. Not the worst bathroom; not an improvement over what I already have, either.
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May 2, 2017 23:50
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Wilford Cutlery posted:My ex and her bff are renting a condo and there's a socket with what looks like thick gauge speaker wire coming out of the wall. I wish I had a picture of it. It's right next to a closet so they just looped it up and stashed it in there, any idea what it might be? The shithole I used to live in had random wires sticking out of random holes in the sheetrock. Apparently, the owner's dad wanted to install a security system, but the owner decided she didn't need it. After a year of staring at a foot of wire sticking out just above head level in every room, I went around and tucked them all back into the wall.
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May 8, 2017 20:55
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Relentless posted:The faucet goes on the other side. They retrofitted a fancy sink into a standard setup (drain right under faucet). Or yoi could reverse it and move the drain. In other words, "Your mom just grabbed a stupid shaped sink at the Re-Store, and now I have to help her install it."
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May 8, 2017 22:06
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Sirotan posted:Yeah it might be good to test it on a small surface first if you're worried, but I've used it on fiberglass, porcelain tile, a ceramic bathtub, and the enameled surface of a stove. I've also used it very sparingly on my car where other people have been assholes and transferred paint from their doors. Never did any damage to the original surface of any of those things, and took the grime off like, well, ~magic~. Also used it on ground in dust on an un-primed window frame, and it was the only thing that worked. I got my entire deposit back, and my landlord begged me for cleaning tips, because he'd never had any luck getting crap off the frames he forgot to paint in other units. Magic Erasers are absolutely truth in advertising.
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May 9, 2017 00:47
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Speaking of lovely bathrooms, my parents' condo basement bathroom has a slanted floor. Not on purpose. Somehow, the concrete didn't find its level and the pipe for the toilet sticks up ridiculously high. To compensate, the builders filled the gap with a good solid inch of caulk. It's the worst toilet, can't even flush its own water sometimes, but my parents can't replace the loving thing because they'd have to chisel it out, take out everything in the bathroom, and have someone come in and level the concrete. They're Crazy Contractor People (the inside of their condo is unrecognizable from what it was 17 years ago; people in the association find excuses to invite themselves over to get reno ideas), but even that is a bridge too far. Still better than the last house I lived in, which was built by a rapist with Hep C who liked to poo poo in every toilet and not flush.
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May 9, 2017 06:40
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FogHelmut posted:They have a bare concrete floor in the bathroom? Nah, but there's only a layer of linoleum over it. The rest of the basement is carpet, laminate, or painted bare concrete for the pump room and wood shop.
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May 9, 2017 16:02
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FogHelmut posted:Just lay some tile and level out the floor with extra mortar? That'd be my solution. I think my dad wants to re-pour the floor for some reason, but I don't think it's something that couldn't be fixed with some judicious mortar application during tiling.
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May 10, 2017 00:20
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canyoneer posted:Baking soda is a legit amazing way to clean things. I use it all the time on pots that have brown stains in the bottom. Just apply baking soda liberally to a damp surface, and it doesn't take a lot of scrubbing for that stuff to lift right off. Also works if your bumbling roommate burned rice onto the bottom of your pots. Heat water, add vinegar, add baking soda, wait for the reaction to die down, scrub. Repeat as necessary. They're still grungy looking, but at least they're usable again.
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May 10, 2017 18:45
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Lutha Mahtin posted:i can't decide if the coffin is levitating or not Levitation would help the OP with his structural fuckup. Would it be possible to reduce the load using electro magnets to float the tub's weight? Or would that still be too heavy with the magnet apparatus underneath?
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May 10, 2017 21:21
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:.... Vinny? ... no?
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May 11, 2017 00:52
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I kind of love that crocheted towel hanger with the rings. Not the color, though it does match the rest of the room quite nicely, but I want that in, like, a pale blue or steel gray in my guest bathroom.
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May 11, 2017 20:57
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Oh, macrame. Even better. I can probably get one of my aunts to make me one. I learned to crochet briefly when it was trendy in the dorms. It lasted all of one scarf, when I realized I was burning a lot of time I could have spent drawing instead.
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May 11, 2017 21:36
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cheese eats mouse posted:There's one in a sushi restaurant here and it's in the ladies room and it also has a seat warmer. Every girl friend I have talks about it. Shigezo?
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May 15, 2017 00:24
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