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https://twitter.com/LeoChavarriaWSB/status/871766401014538240
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# ? Jun 23, 2024 23:48 |
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Speaking of Apartment buildings... I wonder if that tower fire in london is another case of cheap chinese non fireproof cladding strikes again like it did in Melbourne a few years back...
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https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/kctmo-playing-with-fire/amp/
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Ferremit posted:Speaking of Apartment buildings... I wonder if that tower fire in london is another case of cheap chinese non fireproof cladding strikes again like it did in Melbourne a few years back... Certainly seems to have been the cladding. I'm watching the news now and it went up like a candle; it's still burning. No sprinklers either, apparently. God alone knows how many dead. It's horrifying.
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Oh, suddenly someone's removed all references to the renovations where the new cladding was added.![]()
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:
Bushfire suppressions systems are literally this. (On the outside of the house, not the inside)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yox9CKYh7EU Colin Furze decides to dig a hole, is unclear on how to do proper shoring, work in confined spaces, etc. Spoiler: he doesn't die.
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Developers and landlords should all be sent to gulag and the housing supply nationalized.
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Baronjutter posted:Developers and landlords should all be sent to gulag and the housing supply nationalized. Yeah, government run housing projects have such a great track record also they'd just contract out management and maintenance anyway
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Leperflesh posted:Colin Furze decides to dig a hole, is unclear on how to do proper shoring, work in confined spaces, etc. Spoiler: he doesn't die.
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Phone posted:<snip> I don't get the new reference, but it feels like it belongs here. :edit: I believe is the guy who shot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise today. Turns out he ran a home inspection business in Illinois. Not the most appropriate for this thread. Brute Squad fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Jun 14, 2017 |
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Leperflesh posted:Yeah, government run housing projects have such a great track record Which is exactly what happened in London.
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Ferremit posted:Speaking of Apartment buildings... I wonder if that tower fire in london is another case of cheap chinese non fireproof cladding strikes again like it did in Melbourne a few years back... I thought exactly this. Also apparently a former housing minister decided that there shouldn't be a law requiring that blocks be built with sprinklers or have them retrofitted because "the cost will deter people from building new houses".
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Leperflesh posted:Yeah, government run housing projects have such a great track record About the same as private side for all governments that don't violently hate the poor. Lime Tonics posted:hair stairs, Do you have hairs in your house?
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endlessmonotony posted:Do you have hairs in your house? I am pomaded.
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Leperflesh posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yox9CKYh7EU Here's a link to the finished version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AojTrc_UMaM Thankfully he took it down after filming this bit, sparing some kids from dying in it down the line.
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Lazy level designers. Is it that hard to make sure your object placement makes sense and doesn't noticeably clip through the world?
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If you pull the cord hard enough, the fence shifts and reveals stairs to a bonus level.
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Found in the ceiling of a school... no idea if it's live, I suspect it is, but I wasn't gonna touch that poo poo. I'm a contractor and my reason for being up in the ceiling has nothing to do with AC power. ![]()
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`Nemesis posted:Found in the ceiling of a school... no idea if it's live, I suspect it is, but I wasn't gonna touch that poo poo. I'm a contractor and my reason for being up in the ceiling has nothing to do with AC power. That's just temp construction lighting that didn't get removed before the drywallers came. The electrical contractor just decided to cut that lamp off and go home. Happens all the time, it is very likely not live anymore.
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there wolf posted:When you have no money for carpet but a bag full of cheap wigs. They built a staircase on a hairy fat giant's hot dog neck
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Who was there first, do you think? I'm betting on the planter, and the utility put a new pole in and didn't want to put in an XARM so drilled a hole through the brick.
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Nah, it'd be tidier work than it is if the brick was already there. Just a hole a bit bigger than the cable, instead of that rectangular missing chunk.
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Slugworth posted:Nah, it'd be tidier work than it is if the brick was already there. Just a hole a bit bigger than the cable, instead of that rectangular missing chunk. That's what they have on top, though. Maybe the brick just cracked at the bottom so they took the whole chunk out and patched it.
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TFW you burn down a building and kill 100+ people because you didn't want to spend $3/panel more for non-flammable cladding. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grenfell-tower-fire-latest-london-cladding-banned-us-flammable-a7792711.html
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17 died. But yes.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:17 died. 30 confirmed dead. Estimates are 70+
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:17 died. Death toll is now 30, and rumours are that it's likely to be 150 - 200. 120 flats in the block, one stair case, no sprinklers, no centralised alarm, and internal fire blocking and fire doors seem to have failed so the compartmentalisation that is supposed to protect the building failed utterly.
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Oh drat. I was going from his linked article. No disprespect meant.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Oh drat. I was going from his linked article. No disprespect meant. None inferred. I think we are all shocked at just how bad it is and hard to understand the number of victims in a supposedly developed society ![]()
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I can get the flammable cladding thing. It's legal there, even though it's stupid. But how the hell is only one stairwell and no sprinkler system for a residential high-rise legal?
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Phanatic posted:I can get the flammable cladding thing. It's legal there, even though it's stupid. Grandfathered in. It was okay as long as the outside wasn't on fire, they said.
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Post poste posted:Grandfathered in. It was okay as long as the outside wasn't on fire, they said. And the flammable cladding was ok as long as it was cheap. The only people who saw a problem with that were the Chicken Little types, obviously.
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I wonder if the EU has regulations about that sort of thing.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Oh drat. I was going from his linked article. No disprespect meant. None taken, I'm not a londoner but having been stuck at home watching the news come in it is a bit raw, sorry if i was a bit brusk. This isn't supposed to happen in a first world country and it goes against everything we expect from a building like that.
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I always wondered why my garage to kitchen entry door looked like it wobbles when gently slammed. Figured it had something to do with the disturbing settling/shifting that had pulled the exterior walls apart at the top, by about 3/4". No, actually, turns out a great way to install a pre-hung entry door is just nail the brick molding to the wall on the outside, say gently caress it, and put casing on the inside. On the plus side, I didn't have to worry about long screws at the hinges hitting the same original holes in the studs!
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Hello thread this is from my friend's cell phone while walking around town.
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Spite house?
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# ? Jun 23, 2024 23:48 |
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Central air? Not bad...
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