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The only confusing thing there is who walks around their attic in socks??
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My landlord at a previous house put down flimsy wood paneling as flooring in the unfinished attic and didn't mention that it was just cardboard and not actually wood flooring. I stepped right through the illusion of a floor the first time I went in there. You had to walk around in there in socks so that you could feel the joists through the paneling, since you couldn't see where they were.
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Feb 10, 2017 17:34
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Facebook Aunt posted:How does that even happen? There doesn't seem to be enough "stuff" for the person to have gone through a floor. Maybe an unfinished attic type thing where you have to walk along the joists, and he didn't? My dad did this last summer while we were installing an antenna in the attic. Fortunately, he caught himself by grabbing an air duct and didn't come all the way through the ceiling. Even more fortunately, he fell over a bedroom. If he had fallen 2 feet earlier, it would have been over the 2-story entryway. We immediately put down more plywood flooring in the attic after that.
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Feb 10, 2017 17:45
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Leviathan Song posted:My landlord at a previous house put down flimsy wood paneling as flooring in the unfinished attic and didn't mention that it was just cardboard and not actually wood flooring. I stepped right through the illusion of a floor the first time I went in there. You had to walk around in there in socks so that you could feel the joists through the paneling, since you couldn't see where they were. This is diabolical. One of those real "they thought of everything!!" Moments.
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Feb 10, 2017 17:49
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Slugworth posted:The only confusing thing there is who walks around their attic in socks?? Could have pulled their shoe off if they tried to quickly pull their foot back into the attic, before losing their balance and falling all the way through.
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Feb 10, 2017 22:52
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Leviathan Song posted:My landlord at a previous house put down flimsy wood paneling as flooring in the unfinished attic and didn't mention that it was just cardboard and not actually wood flooring. I stepped right through the illusion of a floor the first time I went in there. You had to walk around in there in socks so that you could feel the joists through the paneling, since you couldn't see where they were. Are you in fact a tiger or some sort of jungle animal and your landlord a local trapper?
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Feb 10, 2017 23:11
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Leviathan Song posted:My landlord at a previous house put down flimsy wood paneling as flooring in the unfinished attic and didn't mention that it was just cardboard and not actually wood flooring. I stepped right through the illusion of a floor the first time I went in there. You had to walk around in there in socks so that you could feel the joists through the paneling, since you couldn't see where they were. Don’t rent from Satan.
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Feb 10, 2017 23:13
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Feb 11, 2017 02:06
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjA0aee07k
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Feb 11, 2017 03:15
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Is there ever one of these things that isn't sketchy as gently caress?
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Feb 11, 2017 03:22
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UPDATE: here's the updates to the secret Staircase/ladder/death trap I made to access my dungeon cinema. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW http://i.imgur.com/pynqWTp.mp4  Guys, it’s okay: quote:The candles rarely get lit but yes, a fire extinguisher is on our shopping list. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Feb 11, 2017 |
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Feb 11, 2017 03:25
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Can you report code violations of private residences and is code enforcement likely to do anything about it?
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Feb 11, 2017 09:44
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NancyPants posted:Can you report code violations of private residences and is code enforcement likely to do anything about it? Yes. I had some very loud (screaming fights, revving motorcycles at 4am, etc) neighbors living in lovely run down shack of a house. I reported the property to code enforcement every week for about two months. The house ended up getting condemned and torn down. It's back to being nice and quiet now. I would like to add that had the neighbors been nice people and respectful of the other neighbors I wouldn't have done anything. They could have lived there in a tent for all I care. That was just a good way to get rid of them.
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Feb 11, 2017 09:54
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loving NIMBYs and their complaints about my murder dungeon / home cinema combo, mind your own loving business you prudes!
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Feb 11, 2017 13:18
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Bubblyblubber posted:loving NIMBYs and their complaints about my murder dungeon / home cinema combo, mind your own loving business you prudes! Now I'm imagining someone making a noise complaint, thinking they were hearing weird porn, only to discover they lived next to the toybox killer.
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Feb 11, 2017 15:04
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Biscuit Joiner posted:Yes. I had some very loud (screaming fights, revving motorcycles at 4am, etc) neighbors living in lovely run down shack of a house. I reported the property to code enforcement every week for about two months. The house ended up getting condemned and torn down. It's back to being nice and quiet now. All this time Hap & Leonard have been doing it wrong!
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Feb 11, 2017 15:07
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This is where I route my shitposts.
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Feb 11, 2017 18:23
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The deathtrap-dungeon guy took it pretty well, despite having basically been excoriated by most of the internet. It's slightly less likely to kill someone (though having not noticed the candles, before, he seems a little slow to learn).
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Feb 11, 2017 18:45
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Now I'm imagining someone making a noise complaint, thinking they were hearing weird porn, only to discover they lived next to the toybox killer. I just throw lanterns at annoying neighbors
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Feb 12, 2017 01:20
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Feb 12, 2017 04:25
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E: dammit
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Feb 12, 2017 04:25
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100% maintenance free.
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Feb 12, 2017 05:13
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null_pointer posted:The deathtrap-dungeon guy took it pretty well, despite having basically been excoriated by most of the internet. It's slightly less likely to kill someone (though having not noticed the candles, before, he seems a little slow to learn).
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Feb 12, 2017 12:22
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My Lovely Horse posted:I mean, he could have thrown a huge tantrum and commendably didn't, and he made improvements, but I don't feel spending as much time as he did on separating "the haters" from constructive criticism is really "taking it well." This is the internet, my dude. Standard operating procedure is to call everyone who criticizes you a nazi homosexual, followed by blubbering like a man-child. Baby steps.
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Feb 12, 2017 14:52
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I don't get the bathrooms where the counter extends over the toilet tank. Has the architect never had a toilet in their own home?
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Feb 12, 2017 17:16
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This rear spud toilet (Neither rear or bottom mounting flanges actually went anywhere, toilet was set in the concrete pad)... Was set directly to this 3" drain...  And constantly leaked, and was terrible. So lets zip the wall open...   Mixing pipes, multiple wet vents being drained into sub 3" drains, open vents, sump line doing whatever the gently caress it feels like...etc. Hella rad. Lets saw up the floor and see whats up with this poo poo...  Oh, dope... Well, I guess I'll take a break, its snowing and raining constantly anyways...  gently caress. Time to get the dehu's and carpet fans. Wondering why I've lived here for 4 months and never heard the sump go off, GFCI tripped and I was too lazy to check it once in a while.  Good excuse for a new toilet on a real pad, new sump and a fancy quiet check valve. Home ownershiiiiip.
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Feb 12, 2017 17:20
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Got another Imgur DIY for y'all: DIY Kitchen Upgrade. Before:  After:  At least he hired actual contractors to rip out part of the wall. My personal favorite highlights were the $10K remodel that didn't even replace the cabinets, $600 on hardwood planks from Ikea to make the countertops, and the new sink being smaller than the old sink (not to mention undermounted to a wood countertop... there's no way that's not gonna rot). Oh and also he paid for custom cabinet doors to be made... for the original 1950s cabinets that are glued to the wall "and are probably gonna come down in 10 years or so when I re-do the whole kitchen". It just seems like for the kinda money he was paying and the kind of work he was putting in anyway, he could have easily gutted and re-did the whole thing for not much more money or effort. Probably not the worst thing I've ever seen, but still entertaining. 30 Goddamned Dicks fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Feb 12, 2017 |
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Feb 12, 2017 20:05
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30 Goddamned Dicks posted:Got another Imgur DIY for y'all: DIY Kitchen Upgrade. Before I read anything my first thought was "Man, thats a tiny loving sink"
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Feb 12, 2017 20:37
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The Glumslinger posted:Before I read anything my first thought was "Man, thats a tiny loving sink" I might be the crappy construction here, but can someone please explain to me the obsession with dual sinks? My friend recently replaced their cramped and annoying dual set for a single huge sink (fitting into the same space) and it's such an improvement it's unbelievable. I can get it if the house is kept kosher or something, but that doesn't explain why 99% of the rest of the population does it.
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Feb 12, 2017 20:44
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Naturally Selected posted:I might be the crappy construction here, but can someone please explain to me the obsession with dual sinks? My friend recently replaced their cramped and annoying dual set for a single huge sink (fitting into the same space) and it's such an improvement it's unbelievable. wash sink/rinse sink
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Feb 12, 2017 20:45
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Dual sinks only make sense if you both hand wash dishes and each basin is big enough for a typical day's worth of dishes and your largest pots and pans.
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Feb 12, 2017 20:51
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It's so you don't have to piss on your dirty dishes.
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Feb 12, 2017 21:00
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Baronjutter posted:Dual sinks only make sense if you both hand wash dishes and each basin is big enough for a typical day's worth of dishes and your largest pots and pans. A lot of people put dirty dishes in the sink to be rinsed before loading the dishwasher. Some of those people even have lovely enough dishwashers to warrant that.
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Feb 12, 2017 21:41
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I've never had a dishwasher so I don't even know how that wizardry works. But I've seen friends with crappy ones basically putting in 75% of the work they'd do just hand washing before loading their machine because it's garbo.
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Feb 12, 2017 21:44
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With modern dishwashers, pre-rinsing fools the sensors into thinking your dishes are cleaner than they are, so they come out less clean. If you just put them in filthy the machine goes into full DishFucker 9000 mode and does a better job. Of course, your mileage may vary with certain dishes, stains, and lovely machines, but that's how it's SUPPOSED to work. Cascade Complete pacs are consistently top-rated for cleaning and spot-prevention.
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Feb 12, 2017 21:50
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Alereon posted:With modern dishwashers, pre-rinsing fools the sensors into thinking your dishes are cleaner than they are, so they come out less clean. If you just put them in filthy the machine goes into full DishFucker 9000 mode and does a better job. Of course, your mileage may vary with certain dishes, stains, and lovely machines, but that's how it's SUPPOSED to work. Cascade Complete pacs are consistently top-rated for cleaning and spot-prevention. It's amazing every single time. We use the Cascade 3-color pacs in 1.5 year old modern high end dishwasher, you can't really hear it running, and stuff comes out spotless. I just get the literal solids off, usually with my napkin, and load it. My biggest regret right now is not buying the one with an integrated garbage disposal. To put that regret in perspective it's somewhere between "I regret eating all of the cookie batter" and "I regret eating all of the double batch of cookie batter." I also nearly spit take my coffee at DishFucker 9000.
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Feb 12, 2017 22:24
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I bought my dishwasher because it had STAINLESS STEEL CHOPPING BLADES in all caps on the front of it. I have not regretted this decision in the slightest, and i dont pre wash or rinse any drat thing.
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Feb 12, 2017 22:45
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Naturally Selected posted:I might be the crappy construction here, but can someone please explain to me the obsession with dual sinks? My friend recently replaced their cramped and annoying dual set for a single huge sink (fitting into the same space) and it's such an improvement it's unbelievable. We use one sink to hold dirty dishes until the dishwasher is finished running. Frequently you make a lot more than one load worth when cooking/serving dinner. The other sink is for vegetable washing, plate scraping, and hand washing. It's definitely a hold over from pre-dishwasher times but it's relatively handy.
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Feb 12, 2017 22:46
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We upgraded to an 800-series Bosch dishwasher. Tell you what, it'll change your life.
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Having a dog to pre-clean your dishes actually works super well.
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