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Boat posted:Electricity takes the path of least resistance, unless it's confused.
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How do you turn the light off?
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Apr 28, 2013 22:51
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kid sinister posted:Nah, rig it up to
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May 18, 2013 22:00
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DNova posted:It wouldn't hurt to turn it on for a moment to see if it's gas or water. If it's angry wasps, however... Wrong size. Luckily it's also too small for fire ants. Caterpillars maybe?
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Jun 9, 2013 15:23
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Those are normal terminal blocks, known colloquialy as "snotters". They very much are used domestically/residentially and come in a variety of power ratings. E; in the uk
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Jun 11, 2013 22:25
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Weird? Rich coming from someone who uses half the right amount of electricity 
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Jun 11, 2013 22:41
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kastein posted:Do you guys use stranded conductor wire for in-wall? Because we mostly use solid conductor, and I'm honestly not sure I'd trust those (called "euro style barrier strips" here) with solid conductor wires of that gauge. Solid in-wall, I've never had one come loose regardless of conductor size. I think it comes down to being brave and cranking them down tight
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Jun 12, 2013 19:20
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I take it there was a good reason it didn't just get pushed off the balcony? 
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Jun 24, 2013 08:42
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Maybe it was intended to be a lighting circuit (lamps rather than fittings)?
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Jul 18, 2013 15:13
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MadScientistWorking posted:Speaking as someone whose seeing probably what is tantamount to the oldest electrical wiring one could find in a house even buildings that are still around are huge death traps. There are houses that have fallen/burnt down, and there are houses that have not yet fallen/burnt down. In the long term that's it.
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Jul 29, 2013 20:50
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When I re-did our current slum I put in nearly 8 metres of counter top. Discounting the hob & sink there's still about 6 metres. There's about 1.5m useable on a good day. That's not a code failure, but goddamnit I'm the only tidy person in this household.
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Feb 3, 2014 15:34
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Put retractable called reels right above where you want them. Put the stop blocks further up the cable so you can reach them when 'fully' retracted
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Apr 26, 2014 18:30
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Bad Munki posted:http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=retractable+extension+cord Pretend I posted this, yeah. Also, I was thinking of the UK g-plug version of exactly this: http://www.amazon.com/Grizzly-H5695-Cord-Reel/dp/B00012XCE8/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1398546347&sr=8-16&keywords=retractable+extension+cord
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Apr 26, 2014 22:07
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Oh God please don't start the speedtest dick waving contest, is no thread immune?
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May 4, 2014 17:17
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I'm a landlord for a single property in the uk. I didn't want to be but I couldn't sell and had to move. The tenants are superb, we've gone through the contract together and agreed everything, including stupid poo poo like carpet cleaning: if they ask I'll come and clean them up to four times a year, we both have copies of the full photo tour I did before they moved in, they know to do simple stuff like bulbs etc themselves, if there aren't bulbs of the same or better type in when they move out they'll be charged agreed prices etc, all that crap. They've been in 9 months and called me straightaway when strong winds took a couple of tiles of the roof, I sent someone round to fix it that afternoon. No other calls. I've sent my wife round to do a (with a weeks notice) look-see and she says it's better than when we lived there  I was dreading being a landlord, this family have been perfect remnants, I only hope I live up to that, and that I can sell it when they leave, I can't possibly be lucky enough to get another set of good tenants.
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May 29, 2014 13:25
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There are a couple of episodes of Grand Designs with really low budgets, even one or two under £50k, they're almost always the best.
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May 30, 2014 21:13
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Chicken Doodle posted:The best season is the one where they not only get to design and build their own sheds, those sheds later get sold at auction with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity. Those poor buyers. I just started watching this and holy poo poo.
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May 31, 2014 08:26
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The cheaper method of making a building that could last an arbitrarily long time would be to make a building that you can easily maintain and repair and upgrade.
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Jul 13, 2014 21:07
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I only have 5000 square feet on this lot, so I'd rather not lose any of it. I'm pretty sure I can work with this person, but I'm sure not going to try to get my insurance to pay for it. What it takes will probably end up being you painting both sides of the fence yourself. If it's feasible to do so before installation it's a lot easier though. When I moved into our current property the fence was inadequate. As we have a dog and they have a rabbit I installed a 4' wire fence. Two weeks later they installed an 8' paneled fence, trashing the wire fence and dumping it in our garden, causing damage to our plants. They then painted their side of the fence. They then dropped hints about how much their new fence had cost, wanting us to pay more than half because they wouldn't have needed to install it if their kids weren't afraid of a small terrier. I think they want us to paint our side as well but gently caress'em, it's a rental.
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Aug 1, 2014 06:07
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Jeherrin posted:WELP GONNA SAW THIS IN HALF WITH A HAMMER For some reason this nearly has me in tears of laughter.
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Dec 7, 2014 16:40
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SwivelTits2000 posted:I look at the cost issue this way: either I pay to run the fan whenever we're home, or I pay to have the system re-engineered into a dual-zone system. I could also "pay" by being uncomfortable, which is what I'm doing now. If you have as above leaky poorly insulated ducts, spend a few hours sealing them up, it'll be horrible messy uncomfortable work but you'll start saving money straight away.
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Jan 23, 2015 21:47
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No, he simply has to post that request with the banme tag and he won't have to read it again.
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Jan 24, 2015 16:31
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Probably the best place to ask, tomorrow I'm going to go see a newly built house, apart from the obvious, any pointers to spotting shoddy workmanship?
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Feb 14, 2015 21:00
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Real reassuring guys, thanks. Yeah, I'm prepared for it to be disappointing, but those are good.
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Feb 14, 2015 23:50
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Okay, there were three houses, we were only interested in 2 due to the positions on-site. Neither had 2nd fix yet but what we could see of the exposed wiring and plumbing was actually reassuring, not messy or tight(tails not too short etc)Appliances & bathroom furniture & cabinetry going in was good stuff. Insulation being installed was good (& deep in the attic). Exposed roof structure in the garage was very good, about the best I've seen in terms of decent timber, neat angles, general fit & finish. Paint on the walls was decent but matt, we have sticky children so I can see some silk going on later. Walls were straight, right angles everywhere, plumbing looked like someone cared. I'm impressed, we're going to go for it. I'll be more invasive when we go back & 2nd fix is done. I'm amazed basically.
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Feb 15, 2015 19:34
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I'm in the UK so inspections & searches happen after an offer is made to secure the property, but before money changes hands. I could hire an additional inspector but there's little benefit at this point. I'll definitely have it inspected though, can't imagine spending more than 4 times my annual wage on something without an expert weighing in. I'm trying not to get carried away though, thanks.
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Feb 15, 2015 20:55
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OKay, sorry, didn't quite know how to phrase it & didn't want to make assumptions.
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Feb 15, 2015 21:04
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Redeye Flight posted:-Speaking of that basement. Someone at some point hosed up--it has no drainage. None. As near as we can tell, someone at some point added an extra two to three inches of cement floor over everything save the furnace and water heater, which now sit in a recessed pit. That included over the floor drains. We have no idea where they are, and we'd have to tear up literally the whole basement to find them. That made that aforementioned pipe break extra fun as my dad had to spend the whole day with a wet-dry vac to clear out the basement. Make friends with an archaeologist, borrow
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Feb 24, 2015 14:41
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Welcome to December?
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Mar 16, 2015 18:40
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DNova posted:$101,500 to buy a new Tesla Roadster (why does everyone think the guy bought a car just to get the battery pack but whatever). Let's assume all the other equipment is free. Nope, I'm dumb, you go ahead. cakesmith handyman fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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Mar 23, 2015 22:03
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I helped my dad demolish the deck in their garden last weekend, really well built, ten times as many screws hiding the boards down as you'd want, (no kidding, a screw every 1/2"), massive lag bolts hiding the posts to the frame. And lovely untreated wood  That's stuff gets heavy when it's waterlogged.
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Mar 26, 2015 22:08
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Obviously swedes are all ripped.
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Jul 4, 2015 02:23
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I looked at a house a few months back that had a deck and raised beds done in black plastic lumber. It was a couple of years old and still looked pretty good, if a little oppressive. They had cats and dogs and you could see loads of scratches if you looked closely but from a standing position it looked fine.
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Aug 28, 2015 08:11
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GreenNight posted:I had a company build a house and they have a 1 year warranty on everything. Today a worker is out fixing the dozen or so nail pops that have appeared. Not bad. 1 year? There's a mandatory minimum 10 year guarantee on all new houses in the UK. The one I bought a couple of months ago has some mediocre plumbing angles and one light that hangs just slightly too low and gets clipped by a door if opened fully. Stuff that's literally quicker to fix myself for free then call someone out.
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Sep 30, 2015 09:46
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Liquid Communism posted:Most tract builders in the states are LLCs that are out of business and dissolved by 18 months after they finish the neighborhood. Here the guarantee is provided by a different company and paid for in advance by the builder, so they can go bust all they like, if they make lovely houses they'll find it hard to get their guarantee signed off. I understand mine was inspected 5 times officially, at least twice on the sly and they were involved from the planning stage.
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Oct 1, 2015 06:13
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killhamster posted:My buddy messaged me the other day about a house he was renovating after a fire damaged part of it. They were pulling out parts of the ceiling in a room and were greeted with a rain of dildos falling out. I'm assuming they were under a bedroom and that there weren't just a dozen dildos stashed away between floors. It's raining members!
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Oct 10, 2015 19:56
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Other way round, it was probably poised to become a fallout-style vault at a moments notice, with the kids forcibly drafted
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Nov 6, 2015 15:15
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That's not rock, that's the artificial stiff, you know, weighs an awful lot, can't remember the name?
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Nov 6, 2015 20:41
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Off topic I think that stuff looks great but it must be a bitch to keep clean and I have terrible taste.
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I already feel better about the bookshelves I'm going to build, because they won't look that bad.
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