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Real-time content. I have to install soffit on this.   Some quality work here. (Mind the gap) 
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a buddy just sent me this listing:  https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/221-Collins-Valley-Rd_Walhalla_SC_29691_M64933-34304 the inside is also bad, but in more prosaic ways
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looks like a lovely flipperman tried to make it look sweet and ran out of money fixing poo poo. It's all like homdepot basement grade poo poo. like walk in.. Wha'ts the cheapest tile for X.. mixed with pinterest porn saying "use tub surround tiles for your bathroom countertop!"
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Loezi posted:Nothing in the drawing indicates that it'd be a mechanical closet, and it's drawn with the same shelves as the WICs of the bedrooms Didn't realize there was a basement that would have mechanical in it. My bad!
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Jows posted:Didn't realize there was a basement that would have mechanical in it. My bad! If you opt out of the basement the space under the stairs becomes the mechanical room.
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Empty Sandwich posted:a buddy just sent me this listing: Football Goth BDSM homeowner(s) from 2 pages ago could've bought the place and redone it proper, a drat shame
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Empty Sandwich posted:a buddy just sent me this listing:  WTF is going on there
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Blistex posted:Thanks for the compliments. Just note - it's good to have a bathtub on the first floor for if you need to sleep on the first floor with a baby or young child. That's probably the rationale for that being in an original plan 
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that 1990s medieval castle appears to have a terminal case of flipperitis. i get major doom bathroom vibes from its tubs
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Blistex posted:Will probably start a build thread when I do. Please link it here when you do!
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OK, I have a question. Will removing all bathtubs from a house (and going with walk-in showers) lower a property's value because without a tub, a house isn't kid-friendly? In the US, the most commonly-available bathtubs are garbage; you can't fit in it unless you're 5'6" or shorter., or of medium to small stature, or both. They are shallow and have have vertical sides, so laying back is not really possible. When I lived in Europe, tubs were far larger, deeper, and had a sloped back.
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As with anything it's very market dependant. House with no tub in a hot market: no probably not. House with no tub in a cool market: maybe? It will turn off buyers that want one, but there also might be some who don't. I bought a house with one bathroom and no tub and I view it as a plus, imho baths suck and I love my huge shower. But I also have no children or large pets, and am tall so I've never enjoyed them anyway. Sirotan fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Apr 2, 2021 |
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I would leave at least one tub.
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ntan1 posted:Just note - it's good to have a bathtub on the first floor for if you need to sleep on the first floor with a baby or young child. That's probably the rationale for that being in an original plan Didn't make it clear. I'm removing the tub from the master bathroom, not the main floor. One tub is enough and a full tub in the master bathroom would be too crowded. TooMuchAbstraction posted:Please link it here when you do! What are you insinuating?  PainterofCrap posted:
Going this route. Not a standalone soaker, but something built in that you can actually soak in without having to be a contortionist. My old house had a wider tub with a sloped back, but accommodated shower walls so you didn't have to tile and caulk it. Blistex fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Apr 2, 2021 |
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I had not thought of how that would be read, whoops  I'm sure your work won't belong in this thread, I'm just super bad at keeping up with the forums in general.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I had not thought of how that would be read, whoops Joking. I'm probably going to be looking for input and getting goon advice so it doesn't belong here. Thread title will be something along the lines of, "Plywood is how much?!?".
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Blistex posted:Didn't make it clear. I'm removing the tub from the master bathroom, not the main floor. One tub is enough and a full tub in the master bathroom would be too crowded. I like the cut of your jib. Removing the 2nd floor tub is cheap insurance against accidentally flooding multiple levels of your house too.
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The closet is a retrofit to make a bedroom, since it ain't a bedroom if you can't hang stuff up. The toilet with a threatening aura just kind of appeared one day, and only people who have lost a loved one can see it.
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PainterofCrap posted:OK, I have a question. Tubs aren't just for people with children/pets; they're also seen as a luxury, a place where you relax.
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There are some places where a tub is required by code so watch out before removing them.
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I am half-heartedly looking to buy a house (half-heartedly because the market is loving bonkers and even the houses I can afford get swamped with 30+ offers instantly, and I'm not willing to waive inspection because gestures in general direction of this thread so I have no shot) and a bathtub is one of my very few non-negotiables. I live in an apartment with just a shower stall and I had no idea how much I'd miss relaxing in the tub. Not that it matters to sellers at this point as they could have an outhouse and a garden hose and still sell within two days. Leviathan Song posted:There are some places where a tub is required by code so watch out before removing them. Certainly not in my city but I can see why, family status is one of the things you can't discriminate against unless it's a 55+ community or something right? It's not a luxury if you have small children. The housing stock here is older so there are quite a few that still have big ol' clawfoots (clawfeet?). Not worth the effort to haul them out.
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clawfeets are excellent do not diss the clawfeets
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:clawfeets are excellent do not diss the clawfeets Oh no I'm not dissing them, they are the best tubs (unless you have limited mobility and can't get in/out of them I guess). It's just kind of amusing to see fully renovated and flipped houses where they've gutted all the bathrooms and put all new fixtures in except the tub upstairs. Only way that thing is coming down is if the house falls with it.
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Youth Decay posted:Only way that thing is coming down is if the house falls with it. They're very easy to move if you aren't trying to save it. A 10 lb sledge makes quick work of cast iron.
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tub talk: in grad school I lived in a basement condo. the tub was around 7' long and hot water was essentially unlimited. the situation in my house now is that the tub is 5'6" long and the temperature but not the pressure of the water can be adjusted -- it's always on full-blast, so hot water is in a sense sharply limited. it's a profoundly stupid setup, but hasn't yet been worth the time and money to change
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Youth Decay posted:Oh no I'm not dissing them, they are the best tubs (unless you have limited mobility and can't get in/out of them I guess). It's just kind of amusing to see fully renovated and flipped houses where they've gutted all the bathrooms and put all new fixtures in except the tub upstairs. Only way that thing is coming down is if the house falls with it. Yeah, it would be really easy to trip and fall getting out of them, and there's no place to install a grab bar. 
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Tubchat For 5 years I rented a room in a dude's house (awesome old whaling mansion that had been cut up into bedrooms, the crappy wall built in place of the 200 year old hardwood partition to make the living room into two bedrooms would be good thread content, as would the new stairs that never got a railing put on) for like $500 a month, after a couple years I got bumped up to a room with it's own bath for my loyalty and on-time rentsmanship. Anyways, the bathroom was 90% the size of the bedroom, had a free-standing bidet, a giant Jacuzzi tub and a huge shower with one of those rain-type shower heads, in addition to body jets and a conventional showerhead. There was also a giant hole in the ceiling where my landlord, who lived in the partially finished attic, got drunk and missed a step and fell through. It let bats in until I taped cardboard over it. It was hands down the weirdest mix of luxury and tenement I've seen, sprawled out in my giant tub relaxing, then a drat bat flies through the ceiling.
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 Hey that's a decent looking roof deck. The outdoor carpet probably isn't great for the wood but hey we can look past that.  Wait a minute... where's... where's the railing?  Oh... oh god. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3757-S-Morgan-St-UNIT-B-Chicago-IL-60609/2079118533_zpid/
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Jows posted:Oh... oh god. I'm assuming the issue here is that, that section of roof is not meant to support the extra weight of people and furniture?
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.Z. posted:I'm assuming the issue here is that, that section of roof is not meant to support the extra weight of people and furniture? It can take the weight - you can see the proper deck next door in the background. But they took the railing off the existing deck and just laid down outdoor carpet directly on the roof to "expand" their roof deck.
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Jows posted:Oh... oh god. I saw the first photo and knew it was in Chicago but was evenly split on whether it was Bridgeport or Wrigleyville.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:clawfeets are excellent do not diss the clawfeets Literally the ONLY nice feature my house has is the clawfoot tub (except it doesn't have claws). I had a friend who lived in a crustpunk sort of house that had a clawfoot tub, only one of the legs had broken off somehow, so they'd built this scrap wood cage around it to keep it up.
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On the subject of goth houses, the inside is a normal bland (bad) renovation but the outside is https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/218-Wilson-Ave-Columbus-OH-43205/33842992_zpid/
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Youth Decay posted:On the subject of goth houses, the inside is a normal bland (bad) renovation but the outside is Is that Gru's house? Looks like he renovated the front porch. It also looks bad.
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what i want is a house with multiple barn-door shitters e: hdr just kicked in yo https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/646-E-Lake-Geneva-Rd-NE-Alexandria-MN-56308/106651259_zpid/ Lutha Mahtin fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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I installed the pocket door I posted earlier in the thread, and probably opened and closed it around twenty times to test and fine tune it. That was enough to prove to me that I never want to deal with one in my own house. Barn doors are the bigger, louder, clumsier, uglier, less private version of pocket doors, and why anyone would want one as a functional door* in their home is beyond me. *a door that you actually use, as opposed to ones that spend 99% of its time framing an entranceway.
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there are situations where those barn doors make sense. i know someone who replaced a standard door with one of them for a little utility room, because you had to go in there and close the door all the way behind you to get to the cabinets and sinks and whatnot that the door blocked when it was open
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Barn doors' entire setup is outside of the wall and they can be fixed about a thousand times more easily than pocket doors. Pocket doors work correctly for about five minutes of their entire lifespan.
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Barn doors on a closet are fine. Barn doors on a bedroom or bathroom (I've seen both) are horrible.
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