kid sinister posted:

gently caress, a guy in my fraternity house did that trying to get cable TV in his room. He drilled through the paneling and managed to drill into a 1/2" copper water pipe in the wall. Imagine the angle that you would need to hit a 1/2" water pipe at with a 1/2" drill bit and not deflect off of it.

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House shopping today and found the lightswitch mothership. This was the worst room, but there were at least 8 separate light switches in EVERY room of the house. Most only controlled a single bulb.

Elem7 posted:

Why does your bathtub have a doggie door?

xezton posted:

Sorry but this is all I can see:

Suspect Bucket posted:

Though, on reflection, I am reminded of the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone, which was built with intentionally off-kilter dormers. Then again, Old Faithful Inn is terrifyingly weird.

Elias_Maluco posted:

Jordanis posted:

I can't have houseplants because the cat will relentlessly seek them out, eat parts of them, and then barf those parts up. Every day until the plant is gone.

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

My mom grew up in a Lustron Home in Ohio post war. Impossible to heat or cool but termites? Not a chance.

Polio Vax Scene posted:

Perfect for their kids' sledding, right into the busy avenue.

Sagebrush posted:

This guy tried.

http://imgur.com/gallery/nXJem

He says the girl liked it (or pretended to) though so I guess it's okay.

Bad Munki posted:

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So, I'm in a little bit of a pickle right now. So, the backstory is my parents bought a house back in 2012. There was (and still is) an HoA. We knew there was. But my parents decided to not pay the monthly dues because the escrow company never gave us or our realtor any information about the HoA. My parents believed that because of this, anything regarding the Home Owner's Association didn't apply to them.

My father in particular took advantage of this. In September of 2012 (right around the time we bought the house), he added an extension to the fence that was already there. The Secretary(?) of the HoA came to us and told us that we needed permission to build the fence from the Association. After talking, he went right back to building the fence. This was just the beginning. Over the next few years, he would continue adding whatever he loving pleased to the house:

-He made a lovely extension to the house. You know that small concrete staircase that you place your shoes on, and it leads to the backyard? He put a loving wall on top of that with glass in it. Now it's like a three-foot wide "room" that's useless because it's three loving feet wide. And there's a door he added to the end of it, that doesn't even have a lock on it because the frame is just a bunch of 2x4s nailed together.

-Added another door in front of the original door (same deal as the backyard door -- no lock on it)

-He painted a part of the front of the house a different color. Not even a whole side. It's so loving ugly to look at from the front, especially with the door

-He added some thick, six foot pieces of wood onto our lawn, where it meets the sidewalk. Hammered it down in place with some stakes. He claimed that "it's so the loving little pirate motherfuckers don't ride their bikes on our lawn and destroy it". When I removed them, the grass was destroyed anyways and left a bunch of dirt and mud underneath.

-Part of the fence that he made can be removable, sort of like a sliding gate. This was so that he could put two of our cars and a trailer in the backyard. The result is a lovely-looking fence.

-etc.

My mother told him time and time again not to do any of this poo poo. But since she sleeps during the day, he went behind her back and did all of this. Cost her thousands of dollars. Of course, the HoA got pissed the gently caress off. We were fined $20,000. Lean(?) on the house. My mother went to court because the HoA wanted to foreclose the house. The order was vacated, but we still had to pay $20,000. Apparently, it was a garnishment. We're not 100% that it is a garnishment, all we know is that the HoA took all of my mother's money from her checking account ($6,000). They haven't taken any money from her savings account (which is about $10,000).

The big question that we're wondering is if she withdraws money from her savings account to her checking account (to pay the bills), will it automatically be taken away by the HoA because of the apparent garnishment? If so, then what are my options? What are the pros and cons of each option?

I have my own bank account, could she transfer her money from her savings into my account to pay the bills? Without getting taken away by the HoA first?

I'm a senior in highschool. I work at a fast food place during the weekends making $11 an hour. I have four college-level classes, so I can't work any more days unless I drop out. My mother works 80 hours a week, making about $16 an hour. My father is out of the question. He's homeless in another state. Long story. My brother is 16. He doesn't work. We have talked to our attorney about what happened, but he hasn't called us back yet. We have no idea what to do, which is why I'm asking for advice here. There's a lean(spelling) on the house. I have $600 in my bank account. My mother mentioned taking out money from her 401k and paying the debt directly.

I'm on my knees here, Reddit. I'd suck God's dick right now if he was in front me. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

tl;dr: $20,000 debt to HoA. They took all of my mother's money from her checking account, but not from her savings($10000). Will they take her money if she transfers her money to her checking account? If so, what are my options to help her pay the bills? What are the pros and cons of each of my options?

I'm in Washington State.

Agrinja posted:

It's a very old house that's been added onto in some haphazard ways, the other major issue of the house is a rear porch/roofed patio thing that more or less has a roof that is more or less an elevated lattice of mold and ancient shingles.

There is also an SUV sized boulder in the back yard that fell off the cliff behind the house and crushed a shed sometime back in the fifties. Thankfully, the state's done some things to stabilize that mess.

rap music posted:

I bought a house! I dunno why I'm posting it here though as it's very solid throughout but in definite need of TLC just about everywhere. 3000sf multi-unit craftsman built in 1930 and is almost all original.

http://imgur.com/a/kX0qi

Rotten Red Rod posted:

I don't care what anyone says, I love this wallpaper and this room is amazing.

Bad Munki posted:

I'm sure I've seen that picture in this thread before.

Bozart posted:

So I was looking for a drop cloth online and apparently I'm an idiot for using it to prevent paint spills, you should use it to make weird house umbrellas and curtains

Facebook Aunt posted:

Then you'll love the kitchen floor!

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

I was in a rental house last week, which had a hanging light fixture whose top was somewhere around 5'10" above the floor, positioned in front of a couch such that when you were sitting on the couch, you wouldn't really see it, but you'd absolutely hit your head on the damned thing when you stood up. It got me three times over the course of a week.

Bonus: the fixture was loving broken!

kid sinister posted:

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The care over the church is shared by no less then six denominations. The primary custodians are the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic and Roman catholic church, with lesser duties shared by Coptic, Ethiopian and Syriac Orthodox churches. The whole edifice is carefully parceled into sections, some being commonly shared while others belonging strictly to a particular sect. A set of complicated rules governs the transit rights of the other groups through each particular section on any given day, and especially during the holidays. Some of the sections of the church however still remain hotly disputed to this day.

...

The famous immovable ladder is a bizarre outcome of this religious stubbornness pushed to extremes. Some time in the first half of the 19th century, someone has placed a ladder up against the wall of the church. No one is sure who he was, or more importantly, to which sect he belonged. The ladder remains there to this date. No one dares touch it, lest they disturb the status quo, and provoke the wrath of others. The exact date when ladder was placed is not known but the first evidence of it comes from 1852.

The ladder hasn’t moved since.

Jaded Burnout posted:

If it helps, most of London is built on skeletons.

there wolf posted:

I kind of like it. But then I also don't believe someone actually gilded eggshells and glued them down.

kid sinister posted:

Do you want bombs? Because that's how you get bombs.

Suspect Bucket posted:

He's wondering what on-line resources are good elementary level explanations of basic construction and finishing building principles, particularly with regards to commercial building.

DrBouvenstein posted:

Oh drat, I missed this the first time I skimmed through them:

The Locator posted:

Thanks for that link. I was befuddled by what appears to be a fountain of water shooting up out of that hot-tub, but no... it's water coming in, the whole thing was intentionally creating a failure.

Jaded Burnout posted:

The big question though, can I light candles in the bed of my truck?

His Divine Shadow posted:

And I read a disturbing amount of incidents in a swedsh forum from loving vases of water and similar transparent things working as magnifying glasses for the sun and setting small fires and leaving scorch marks on things such as tables and walls and furniture.