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I'm never going to buy a house because if the neighborhood goes to poo poo hope you like losing money and then I'm sure all those repairs you do will prevent you from going on vacations that help relieve stress from work so you'll just die tired and old and penniless.
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reallivedinosaur posted:This is unironically true though Hello, Grover, how's the add-on doing?
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Mar 9, 2016 07:39
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dehumanize yourself and face to toolshed
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Mar 9, 2016 08:11
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 Not me, but kind of like me because I managed to build part of an IKEA desk upside down that one time 
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Mar 9, 2016 08:48
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QUEEN CAUCUS posted:
The 'Canada's Worst Handyman' series I posted about earlier had an episode where the contestants had to assemble an electric fireplace kit with predictable results https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnn63IOAdqU&t=239s The very first challenge they had to do back in episode one was take a list of the 250+ tools and other items they'd need over the course of the show and simply pick them off the shelf at a giant hardware store. Of course some of them hosed that up and missed a bunch of stuff on the list which had a domino effect of making all the other tasks that much harder or even impossible.
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Mar 9, 2016 13:07
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Any episode of Home Improvement. "I don't think so, Tim"
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Mar 9, 2016 13:29
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Christo3 posted:Any episode of Home Improvement. *apologizes to wife, mangles literary quotation from earlier conversation with Wilson*
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Mar 9, 2016 13:37
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FIRST TIME posted:*apologizes to wife, mangles literary quotation from earlier conversation with Wilson* It's like Aristotle always said, Dont' hactch your eggs before your chikens are counted.
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Mar 9, 2016 14:49
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Drunk Nerds posted:OP you're going to want to clear your afternoon and read this: If grover flipped a house this would be it. I haven't gotten to the end yet but the previous owner should be properly hosed since there's soo many code violations, and it looks like major plumbing and electrical work was done without a licence because it's GROSSLY out of code. We aren't talking about a few backwards wired outlets done by a retarded PO, we're talking about doing really bad work. it seems liek the flipper was one of those guys that' sbeen driving thesame truck he's fixed wit coke cans and baling wire 100 times. Just hacking poo poo together.
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Mar 9, 2016 15:41
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tater_salad posted:If grover flipped a house this would be it. I haven't gotten to the end yet but the previous owner should be properly hosed since there's soo many code violations, and it looks like major plumbing and electrical work was done without a licence because it's GROSSLY out of code. We aren't talking about a few backwards wired outlets done by a retarded PO, we're talking about doing really bad work. it seems liek the flipper was one of those guys that' sbeen driving thesame truck he's fixed wit coke cans and baling wire 100 times. Just hacking poo poo together. I think my favorite part is how they ran a screw through a wall, through a pvc pipe behind the wall, and then just left it like that. And the Schadenfreude goes both ways. I love how the new owner, who is also a naive idiot, keeps going on the newas advertising how dumb they are. OP, I wouldnt let hoodwinked house bother you, as long as you did some kind of bare minimum look at the place. Had that buyer just gone through the house he wouldve said "huh, this cabinet door isnt actually mounted at all. And this showerhead points straight out of the shower. Maybe there is some other sloppy/shady work I can't see." Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Mar 9, 2016 |
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Mar 9, 2016 15:50
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I hosed up my car stereo install, does that count? I don't live in my car...
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Mar 9, 2016 15:50
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Also, there are several ways to research getting a competent home inspector. It's not an "oh well the industry is crooked, nothing I can do but feel sorry for myself" situation
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Mar 9, 2016 15:56
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Chinatown posted:all of those are absolutely horrid lmao Before and after. Goddamn.
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Mar 9, 2016 16:04
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I'd say an inspector wouldn't' have caught 90-95% of that stuff, because it's all hidden behind drywall and other things, I do feel that the inspector probably would have seen enough of lovely work to say "dont' touch this place) Inspections are 50% crocks of poo poo and 50% good to have, they dont' always see everything since they can't open up drywall and such, but they can tell you that there's problems that may be enough to make you want to walk away if you assume that what they found is only 50% of the issue. I've only purchased one house without an inspection, my Mil's house that I rented for a short time, as well visited quite frequently for 8 years, I knew everything that needed to fix and how it was fixed (usually it was me that did the fixing, I'm glad I always did it the right way since it'd now be my problem if it was done like poo poo. ). tater_salad fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Mar 9, 2016 |
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Mar 9, 2016 16:27
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Gazpacho posted:at least someone in that family knows how to decorate I'm the outdoor glass tables inside the house.
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Mar 9, 2016 16:43
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It had nothing to do with home improvement but did involve all the tools. One time my dad put an M80 in a metal pipe he was holding and lit it thinking it would shoot out.
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Mar 9, 2016 17:09
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amityville anus posted:It had nothing to do with home improvement but did involve all the tools. One time my dad put an M80 in a metal pipe he was holding and lit it thinking it would shoot out. Sounds like he was trying to fix up the ol gene-pool to me
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Mar 9, 2016 17:10
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tater_salad posted:I'd say an inspector wouldn't' have caught 90-95% of that stuff, because it's all hidden behind drywall and other things, I do feel that the inspector probably would have seen enough of lovely work to say "dont' touch this place) One thing an inspector definitely should have caught was the outlets not actually hooked up to anything - my inspector went through the whole house and verified that every outlet was working and grounded properly.
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Mar 9, 2016 17:19
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peanut posted:Every build on former agricultural land has to undergo an archeological survey in my area Is this also because of extensive bombing in WWII? In Germany you have to have the bomb-squad clear any land you're going to be working up.
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Mar 9, 2016 17:22
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I've heard they have to dig down 3 meters. Luckily, anywhere that already has a house has problem already done it, so it can be cheaper and faster to demolish and rebuild than to fill in a rice field.
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Canada's worst Handyman is a goooood show. Some of that has to be staged, people can't be that stupid? Like those people are impossibly stupid, as in "get a doctor involved" levels of stupid.
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Mar 9, 2016 17:23
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My new house has had quite good care taken of everything but the electrics - the electrician I have in looking at stuff keeps telling me things like "well, I assumed the circuit would look like xyz, but instead it goes up and down and around the houses for no reason..." also none of the plug sockets/light switches were earthed (despite most having fancy metal faceplates) and there was what looked like bare live cables underneath the kitchen sink cupboard. anyway I know nothing about electricals and I'm just throwing money at the electrician to make everything sane.
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Mar 9, 2016 17:26
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Probably a little disingenuous for the guy to keep calling everything illegal. He shouldnt have blown his load showing off misaligned door handles either: not when there are coaxial cables that only feed into the wall 6 inches.
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Mar 9, 2016 18:41
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notZaar posted:I hosed up my car stereo install, does that count? I don't live in my car... i live in your car and it has been a major detriment to my quality of life, you jerk!!!
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Mar 9, 2016 18:59
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My old landlord had insulation installed under the floorboards of my apartment to "reduce noise" for the unit below. Turns out a soft material under crappy floorboards shifts when people walk on it, and eventually the floor broke apart into shifting sliding pieces of wood and it all had to be replaced, but for a few weeks it was like living in a fun house of pain and liability. I never got hurt though so I never lived the American dream of suing my landlord for millions.
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Mar 9, 2016 19:13
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:Probably a little disingenuous for the guy to keep calling everything illegal. He shouldnt have blown his load showing off misaligned door handles either: not when there are coaxial cables that only feed into the wall 6 inches. Yah, the dude screams naive.
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Mar 9, 2016 22:12
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Ryoshi posted:One thing an inspector definitely should have caught was the outlets not actually hooked up to anything - my inspector went through the whole house and verified that every outlet was working and grounded properly. right but these were antenna/cable hookups, my inspector checked all outlets for working /ground / polarity, but didn't check the 3 cable outsets and 2 phone jacks.
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Mar 9, 2016 22:40
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tater_salad posted:right but these were antenna/cable hookups, my inspector checked all outlets for working /ground / polarity, but didn't check the 3 cable outsets and 2 phone jacks. Home inspectors dont give a crap about cable or telephone wiring. They probably dont test the central vaccuum either. It's not stuff the underwriters are going to care about.
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Mar 9, 2016 22:43
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reallivedinosaur posted:In another one she took a 3000 dollar sofa set out in the back yard and painted it pink with pink latex house paint (ruined). What the gently caress was up with that show and painting furniture? I remember watching it and turning to my Aunt and sister and asking them "Wouldn't that ruin it? It'd be hard and uncomfortable..." and they didn't have an answer. White people, I guess?
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Mar 9, 2016 22:47
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Professor Shark posted:What the gently caress was up with that show and painting furniture? I remember watching it and turning to my Aunt and sister and asking them "Wouldn't that ruin it? It'd be hard and uncomfortable..." and they didn't have an answer. Who wouldn't want a giant plywood couch with a 1/4 inch of foam padding on top? Bonus if you hotglue some decorations onto it.
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Mar 9, 2016 22:51
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Professor Shark posted:What the gently caress was up with that show and painting furniture? I remember watching it and turning to my Aunt and sister and asking them "Wouldn't that ruin it? It'd be hard and uncomfortable..." and they didn't have an answer. Going to add some more Mike Holmes hate. His first season of his first show was about helping people who had been royally screwed over by contractors, and for the most part the people needed his help. Then it just turned into "the contractor installed the Italian marble floors 0.0003 degrees out of square, please save us from this nightmare!"
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Mar 9, 2016 22:52
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Blistex posted:Is this also because of extensive bombing in WWII? In Germany you have to have the bomb-squad clear any land you're going to be working up. Excellent question. My town wasn't damaged, and the cities that were damaged are pretty well built-up now. Judging by the lot of the house that my friend tore down, the archaeological surveys go back before the war.
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Mar 10, 2016 05:19
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Here's one I posted. This goober I know removed some perfectly fine laminate countertops to put in ugly floor tile counters (can you tell he hasn't done tile before?) Everything about it is bad. First, it's a bad idea. Second, look at that wavy grout line along the wall in the second photo. There's not a square angle in any of those joints. Their floor tiles weren't quite long enough, so they added a 1 inch sliver along the back It looks like garbage and he posted those pictures to his facebook boasting about it.  
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Mar 10, 2016 07:31
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My favorite thing about Groverhaus will always and forever be the completely random window placement.
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Mar 10, 2016 07:38
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Crazy Ted posted:My favorite thing about Groverhaus will always and forever be the completely random window placement. If it was anything but groverhaus I would assume it is a person who gives no fucks about outside aesthetics but places the windows for what works best from the inside. From my experience with the Sims this results in some seriously lovely looking window placement from the outside
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Mar 10, 2016 08:00
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tater_salad posted:It's like Aristotle always said, Dont' hactch your eggs before your chikens are counted. "as a baseball player said, ‘Wish for everything, ’cause you’ll never get it.’ I’m going to murder my wife and be happy forever." 
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:Probably a little disingenuous for the guy to keep calling everything illegal. He shouldnt have blown his load showing off misaligned door handles either: not when there are coaxial cables that only feed into the wall 6 inches. That reminds me. You can always tell a place is poo poo if for no other reason than there's about 3' of coaxial cable coming right out of the wall instead of a wall plate with the proper connector. Professor Shark posted:What the gently caress was up with that show and painting furniture? I remember watching it and turning to my Aunt and sister and asking them "Wouldn't that ruin it? It'd be hard and uncomfortable..." and they didn't have an answer. Some people never advance beyond a child's understanding of how the world works. 
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Mar 10, 2016 09:35
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Ryoshi posted:This is a pro-click (and holy poo poo the hay looks absolutely godawful up close, not to mention the BRIGHT PINK CEILING). Have there been any good old-fashioned neighborly feuds that erupted from this show? it looks like one of those weird foreign candies that taste like cardboard pink. Its awful.
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Mar 10, 2016 09:50
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canyoneer posted:Here's one I posted. I am all for getting creative with home improvement DIY projects but did your friend have a traumatic brain injury before this undertaking perhaps?
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Mar 10, 2016 16:03
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LadyAmbien posted:All I can think of is that House Swap episode that got brought up in GBS a while ago, where one of the designers wallpaper-pasted ACTUAL HAY ONTO THE WALLS. someone i knew was on trading spaces and loving hated the result, redid it all like 6 weeks later lmao
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reallivedinosaur posted:He's basically like any contractor who will talk you into spending 100 grand on a 10 grand job because thats "DOING IT RIGHT" and there is plenty of stuff he does on the show that isn't code. I have a plumber friend who gives me a huge long rant about his show, apparently the plumber holmes uses is a complete fucknob and they have some sort of beef or whatever. I think he lives in Uxbridge now, is that where he's from? Also the only story I got is a couple who bought a new construction as-is and decided not to get an inspector because they're dumb. $6000 water and electrical bill later they discover they've been flushing their toilet with hot water for several months
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