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Never even thought about it before, but given that you can get faucets which attach via hoses, you could hook them up any old where. Have the hot water tap on the wall in front of you and the cold water inside the basin itself. Why the gently caress not.
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Y’all still think those involve water? The left one is the circuit breaker for the kitchen microwave. The right one controls the ceiling fan in the guest bedroom. The sink drain plug opens the garage door.
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# ? May 13, 2020 05:51 |
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Bad Munki posted:Y’all still think those involve water? The real cold water tap is the jade elephant statue inside the mirror cabinet
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# ? May 13, 2020 05:57 |
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canyoneer posted:The real cold water tap is the jade elephant statue inside the mirror cabinet And that's why you don't let the Umbrella Corporation bid on contracts for remodelling your bathroom.
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corgski posted:This thread is on fire and I am even more surprised this house isn't. Crossposting from my house thread: One of the fireplaces in my house from the late teens has a piece of wood just hanging out in the smoke box right behind the lintel. It's been there for a while too if the soot and creosote buildup is anything to go by.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Never even thought about it before, but given that you can get faucets which attach via hoses, you could hook them up any old where. lol if you don’t have fly‐by‐wire controls
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Warmachine posted:That breaker panel was the biggest yikes moment, but I'm glad they included the voice over for "and the furnace is doing it's job." In ~ 2010, I had a gaming PC with dual watercooled overclocked 8800GTX GPUs and an Opteron processor. It drew a staggering amount of power when booting up a game, but at the desktop it idled fine. The apartment I was in put like 14 outlets on one breaker (which would trip occasionally), so most power draw from plug-in devices went through that circuit. One night, I started Oblivion, and the lights flickered and I heard a "bzzft" noise from elsewhere. The PC shut down, but the lights kept flickering. I went to the breaker box, and the offending circuit was spraying sparks out the front of the breaker switch. I smacked it with a broom handle until it shut off, and called emergency maintenance. Now, mind you, the complex just had a unit burn to the ground like two weeks prior. Maintenance guy comes out, flips the breaker back on, gets showered in sparks, goes "eh you've got too many things plugged in", shuts it off, and leaves. Like, maybe I did -- but, "spraying sparks out the front" is not a failure mode of a breaker I'm ok with! It took them like a week to replace it, and I just took it because I was young and didn't know I had rights
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insta posted:In ~ 2010, I had a gaming PC with dual watercooled overclocked 8800GTX GPUs and an Opteron processor. It drew a staggering amount of power when booting up a game, but at the desktop it idled fine. The apartment I was in put like 14 outlets on one breaker (which would trip occasionally), so most power draw from plug-in devices went through that circuit. One night, I started Oblivion, and the lights flickered and I heard a "bzzft" noise from elsewhere. The PC shut down, but the lights kept flickering. I went to the breaker box, and the offending circuit was spraying sparks out the front of the breaker switch. I smacked it with a broom handle until it shut off, and called emergency maintenance. I guess you must have lived in my unit back in 2010. Good news is the breaker panel doesn't spray sparks anymore. Bad news is that the wiring diagram is still nonsense and my bedroom on the 2nd floor west wall is connecting to a basement living room on the southeast wall, and so the breaker trips when someone decides they want to run a vacuum on that circuit. I have no idea about intermediate connections, but I suspect they are just as goofy.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Never even thought about it before, but given that you can get faucets which attach via hoses, you could hook them up any old where. "Concealed deck mount".
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Pay a lovely wage get a lovely job done.
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# ? May 14, 2020 17:04 |
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"Look mortar fills in the gaps so just toss the bricks in a pile pump the mud in bingo bongo wall."
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# ? May 14, 2020 17:10 |
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there are two homes in my neighborhood that have intentionally hosed up brickwork like that. I guess it's supposed to look whimsical or something?
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It's like they started out amateur, but not *completely* lovely - there's at least an attempt to line up the bricks - and then got drunk.
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brugroffil posted:there are two homes in my neighborhood that have intentionally hosed up brickwork like that. I guess it's supposed to look whimsical or something? Yes. You see the mason's lines in the brick laying picture? The bricks are more or less following them. I suppose as long as it's a decorative wall and not a very tall one the irregular brick mosaic will work just fine.
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# ? May 14, 2020 19:32 |
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it's like that photo of the spider spinning a web under the influence of various drugs "this is bricklayers on caffeine, this is bricklayers on meth, this is bricklayers on LSD..."
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It's a single-wythe wall and all the randomly-turned bricks fall within the mason's lines, so I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be a course of decorative wild bond in a nonstructural wall Whether it looks good is up for debate but they're doing it deliberately for the effect
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# ? May 14, 2020 20:29 |
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Leperflesh posted:it's like that photo of the spider spinning a web under the influence of various drugs If bricklayers can't get the job done under the influence of drugs, how do you explain the majority of drywall guys?
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# ? May 15, 2020 00:13 |
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canyoneer posted:If bricklayers can't get the job done under the influence of drugs, how do you explain the majority of drywall guys? Concrete finishers too. I've yet to deal with a sober one while they were at work.
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Motronic posted:Concrete finishers too. I've yet to deal with a sober one while they were at work. I counted myself thankful when, after I got the foundation slab for my workshop poured, there was only one empty bottle of tequila left behind.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I counted myself thankful when, after I got the foundation slab for my workshop poured, there was only one empty bottle of tequila left behind. The rest are now "clear rebar".
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Yooper posted:The rest are now "clear rebar". Hey, I don't want to live in a world lacking load-bearing tequila
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https://twitter.com/Hammermime/status/1260044915100303360
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Need to drop a gopro down there and let someone else view the footage. I don't want to be the first one to see Samara. Seven days
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PainterofCrap posted:Hey, I don't want to live in a world lacking load-bearing tequila That's the nickname I earned at spring break '06 in Cancun
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Life finds a way https://twitter.com/michaelleepope/status/1261076880914030596?s=21
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# ? May 15, 2020 13:42 |
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Did they just lay a road on top of a rail?
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By popular demand posted:
Yeah, it happens with abandoned railroad and trolley lines. Where I work, a lot of buildings were quickly built during WW2, and concrete foundations were poured right over sections of industrial railroad sidings. Made for a mess for the contractor when some of the buildings were demolished a few years ago.
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# ? May 15, 2020 14:02 |
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Watching the tape spool out was the creepiest thing I've seen in a while.
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By popular demand posted:Did they just lay a road on top of a rail? No, the other way around. How did you think Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape? Did you think it was an allegory or something?
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By popular demand posted:
Yep. Some cities will do that, with abandoned rail lines, rather than shell out to have the rails removed properly.
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# ? May 15, 2020 14:48 |
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Warmachine posted:Watching the tape spool out was the creepiest thing I've seen in a while.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Yeah, it happens with abandoned railroad and trolley lines. Where I work, a lot of buildings were quickly built during WW2, and concrete foundations were poured right over sections of industrial railroad sidings. Made for a mess for the contractor when some of the buildings were demolished a few years ago. They did something like that in Downtown Dallas. Noticed it when they were doing a thorough repaving of Ervay Street - they dug asphalt down about a foot to the original brick, which also still had streetcar rails embedded in it. I was fascinated that it was still under there - and that the street used to be a foot lower. There's also rail tunnels all under the area that were used for moving goods and the mail around once upon a time. Some of the older buildings still have access, though most are walled off.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Yeah, it happens with abandoned railroad and trolley lines. Where I work, a lot of buildings were quickly built during WW2, and concrete foundations were poured right over sections of industrial railroad sidings. Made for a mess for the contractor when some of the buildings were demolished a few years ago. When they were putting in the Green Line light rail here in Saint Paul, they were digging up old streetcar tracks right under where the new rails were going in.
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Yooper posted:The rest are now "clear rebar". There's an old motorcycle helmet inside my front stoop. Someone in 50 years will be very confused.
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# ? May 15, 2020 17:24 |
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Deeeeeep state!
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Sloppy posted:There's an old motorcycle helmet inside my front stoop. Someone in 50 years will be very confused. I mean, what's the point of securing your motorcycle if you don't secure your helmet as well?
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Sloppy posted:There's an old motorcycle helmet inside my front stoop. Someone in 50 years will be very confused. You didn't put it there, right? You would be so foolish as to embed a motorcycle helmet in your house without putting a fake skull inside for maximum surprise decades later.
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# ? May 15, 2020 21:15 |
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There are no square or rectangular rooms in the entire house
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My cats would loving love that house.
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