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Wait, you're allowed to bury a DC power supply? Isn't that against nec 314.29? Good point on the bed - though it's permanently affixed to the house. Is there an exemption for that that I don't remember because I've never considered doing such a thing?
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Motronic posted:I've got oven lights and lava lamps/heat lamps. Other than ye ol farmer trick of shoving one in the well house/chicken coop so nothing freezes, which is replicable with heat tape, I'm not sure I'm coming up with any others. Man, if I ever have kids they're going to have no idea what my Creepy Crawlies oven was about.
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If I make code-violating stairs, all I have to do is toss a mattress at the top? This changes everything.
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sleepy gary posted:If I make code-violating stairs, all I have to do is toss a mattress at the top? This changes everything. Might want to put one at the bottom, too.
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wolrah posted:and the lava lamp/Easy Bake Oven type use cases where the waste heat is being put to use. This also can include external lighting in areas where you need to melt off snow.
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Blistex posted:A client has been putting the LED pot lights in her home. There are six lights that string together and then into the DC power source. While I really like them, I would hate to have to tear open a ceiling to replace the power supply if it ever died. That shouldn't be necessary. Well designed ones have a power supply that fits through the same rough opening you need for the lights. I just installed 10 of these:  kastein posted:Wait, you're allowed to bury a DC power supply? Isn't that against nec 314.29? Not when it's an assembly apparently. I'm as surprised as you on this, but it's like...super common on these style LEDs now. Floating boxes everywhere. But I bet it has everything to do with the fact that they fit through the rough opening of the fixture they supply (i.e. are part of a listed assembly). Tunicate posted:This also can include external lighting in areas where you need to melt off snow. I have LED up lights around trees here and they absolutely get warm enough to melt off snow. I can wait the extra 45 minutes rather than steaming it off in 2.
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kastein posted:Wait, you're allowed to bury a DC power supply? Isn't that against nec 314.29? Not sure, didn't install them. These are them. https://www.homedepot.ca/product/illume-essential-4-inch-led-white-recessed-panel-light-12-pack-3000k-ic-rated-energy-star-/1001062803
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Blistex posted:Not sure, didn't install them. The box fits through the rough opening, same as the 2" ones I installed.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm assuming it's leading up to a bed, so is exempt. Based on content in this thread, it's probably the only access to the open plan toilet.
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Motronic posted:Not when it's an assembly apparently. I'm as surprised as you on this, but it's like...super common on these style LEDs now. Floating boxes everywhere. But I bet it has everything to do with the fact that they fit through the rough opening of the fixture they supply (i.e. are part of a listed assembly). I'm pretty sure that's spot on, since old style cans had the jbox hidden up inside the ceiling too. They didn't just.... flop around up there though.
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Elviscat posted:I'm pretty sure that's spot on, since old style cans had the jbox hidden up inside the ceiling too. Yeah...they're were at least solidly attached, even in old work cans. This is a whole new kind of special.
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Yeah I dunno wtf with those lights but as long as they're installed with a long enough fixture whip to pull it out through the hole from the lamp I guess it meets code? Kind of? If I put those in my house I'd mount the supply with some kind of a clip I could release one handed and blind, or put in an access panel for it. Or just find a way to locate it in unfinished basement space. Probably wouldn't cost much extra in cabling even.
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kastein posted:Yeah I dunno wtf with those lights but as long as they're installed with a long enough fixture whip to pull it out through the hole from the lamp I guess it meets code? Kind of? Not kind of, it's accessible by removing a panel. The panel just happens to be a fixture. That being said, I just watched a Lithonia lighting video on installing one and if I found that setup in my house I'd think it's the hinkiest poo poo ever. Not mounting the boxes, no cable clamp on the entry, no securing the cable to the wall outside of the transformer. Just loose Romex on a ceiling with a loose box hanging out.
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kastein posted:Yeah I dunno wtf with those lights but as long as they're installed with a long enough fixture whip to pull it out through the hole from the lamp I guess it meets code? Kind of? You anchor the romex as close to the fixture hole as possible, then just yank the whole shebang out the hole. It's hinky, but it's what they decided to go for, some of them have a really neat feature where the fixture is 1/2" thick, so you can mount them.under joists. A lot of LED cans still come with the driver firmly attached to the fixture, like old-school retro cans.
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Tunicate posted:This also can include external lighting in areas where you need to melt off snow. Also as Motronic noted most LED lights still get warm enough to melt snow when constantly powered, it just takes a bit longer than an incandescent, so even the heating elements are mostly for signal lights and other non-continuous applications.
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kastein posted:That also violates code on both slope (way too steep) and no railing where stair nosing is beyond 30" AFFL. I wonder if it is classed as a ladder rather than stairs? Access to an attic or loft is sometimes a ladder.
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This is so terrible I love it and it preserved for all time.
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It's like two doublewides in a trench coat trying to sneak into the parade of homes
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Can't stress enough that building prices are going up and you should be buying well before the weather is nice. Just ordered my shingles, and got in before the 15% increase we're seeing in my area.
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My most cringe experience as an architecture intern was redesigning part of a rich dude's Colorado mansion. The old bathroom had a sunken giant tub/spa thing (I think 8x8) but he wanted to turn it into a large, weird office with old-west woodwork and we turned the sunken tub into a sort of office pit area (yeah he wanted that). But the bathroom needed to go somewhere, next door to another smaller room. Since his office would be wood paneled, he insisted that the panels be door sized and one could swing open...to reveal the shower stall in the adjacent bathroom so he could open it whenever he wanted to watch people shower  .
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I read Master bedroom first and I thought it was awesome. Now that I see it's a bathroom..... I hate it.
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*Making out on a lady with the couch* "How does a sexy bath together sound?" *30 seconds of garage door noises*
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Blindeye posted:My most cringe experience as an architecture intern was redesigning part of a rich dude's Colorado mansion. The old bathroom had a sunken giant tub/spa thing (I think 8x8) but he wanted to turn it into a large, weird office with old-west woodwork and we turned the sunken tub into a sort of office pit area (yeah he wanted that). Do architects not have ethics If you see “rape room” on a design doc do you make sure to detail adequate soundproofing
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Why does that door lock from the outside?
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You're going to want these restraints fastened into an engineered beam.
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Devor posted:Do architects not have ethics No two-way mirror, just a glass wall behind the panel/door. He claimed it was to see his wife. For all I knew he was a weird old swinger dude. I'll be honest, at the time criminality never came to mind
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If you’re in to radios LED bulbs can cause RF Interference.
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blugu64 posted:If you’re in to radios LED bulbs can cause RF Interference. All easily manageable by not buying cheap bulbs or one of several other methods. Absolutely not an excuse to keep incandescents.
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blugu64 posted:If you’re in to radios LED bulbs can cause RF Interference. If you are buying proper equipment with appropriate emf or emc compliance rather than a cheap Amazon job which might be illegal to use in your country due to these emissions and thus never cheap out on your essential equipment. Note in some countries like the uk there is a relevant iso standard for emf/emc emissions where it’s an actual nuisance to mains timed equipment like electrical meters, street lighting and switchgear. Edit :- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_EMC_test_standards https://www.emcstandards.co.uk/emc-testing For further reading spiky butthole fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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blugu64 posted:If you’re in to radios LED bulbs can cause RF Interference. Will this interfere with bluetooth/cellphones? Whenever I go down to my workbench on the phone, my BT headset goes dotty and drops the connection. Sometimes the phone gets weird also. I have a very early (6-YO) set of LED tubes retrofitted to my shop flourescent worklight; I also have (what was) a very expensive & heavy 5-YO Philips bulb in a nearby fixture.
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our place has barn door to the bedroom bc there's no room for a real door to open. ugh, small space living.
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PainterofCrap posted:Will this interfere with bluetooth/cellphones? Whenever I go down to my workbench on the phone, my BT headset goes dotty and drops the connection. Sometimes the phone gets weird also. I have a very early (6-YO) set of LED tubes retrofitted to my shop flourescent worklight; I also have (what was) a very expensive & heavy 5-YO Philips bulb in a nearby fixture. If they're spattering the 2.4/2.5 gHz ISM bands with noise, they sure can. Just one set then the other off next time things start going to hell and you'll know pretty quick which one is the culprit. A lot of these issues end up being the power lines going to them acting like an antenna, which can be fixed by wrapping the power coming in around ferrite cores.
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That reminds me that I need to make a note to string a wire over my roof before I lay down the shingles for my old stereo's antenna. I did it in my previous home when I replaced the roof and it worked like a charm and was weather proof and invisible.
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 yes they converted the balcony to a half-bath from a very badly remodeled 2BR 1BA trying to be a 4BR 5BA. The other two rooms upstairs had their closets turned into half baths; there's a full bath on the first floor attached to a small room and then a 3/4 bath in the basement where there are no legal bedrooms. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2010-NE-54th-St-Seattle-WA-98105/48786755_zpid/
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Thank God, I cannot tell you how many times I wanted a wide balcony in front of me as I take a poo poo.
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I appreciate the good size mirror above the sink.
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