ductonius posted:

In any case I suspect they needed corrosion resistance for the marine environment and someone poo poo their pants when they looked at how expensive structure-rated stainless steel fasteners were going to be. Of course now, they're going to have to buy them anyway and spend the money to replace them.

Leperflesh posted:

I live in a residential development built in the late 1950s in Concord, CA. The box is on the side of the house, but it's on the street side of the fence that fences off my back yard. It's a couple feet from the meter and directly below the drop where pole power enters the house. Seems like a pretty convenient place for it, really.

longview posted:

I'd guess single pole switches on the wrong side (switching N) or you're in a country with no true neutral (switching one of the Ls), either case will put around 120-230V potential at the lamp compared to ground even though no current is flowing.

In theory you can touch the lamp terminals and be fine, but if you're in contact with anything else that's grounded you risk shocking yourself, IIRC you're always supposed to pull the fuse when working on those (really all the time) and short out the nearest outlet to where you're working with a piece of wire.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

You probably already realize this, but "Just don't touch both wires at once!" is an excellent and easy way to get yourself killed, even if it didn't in this particular case. You don't even necessarily need to touch both wires to shock yourself if you happen to be touching anything else that's grounded, let alone the risk of your hand slipping or you dropping it.

iForge posted:

Ive done a lot of commercial fire alarm work and that looks exactly like the ones we used to use in panels, and they were not rated for 120v. He needs to change that terminal block out for wirenuts.

DNova posted:

edit: He says wire nut = huppuliitin

iForge posted:

a habit of coming loose on their own.

nmfree posted:

All you need is some tusks and a googly eye and you could always obliquely mention "the elephant in the room"

frozenpussy posted:

I feel like that orange shin-height rail is an extra hazard.

frozenpussy posted:

Of the attics I saw in San Antonio, every one had just one layer of insulation on the floor and that's it, and the underside of the ceilings were bare wood.

Zhentar posted:

You're heating/cooling the space your air handler is in, whether you want to or not.

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

If the air inside the ducts is a different temperature from the air inside the attic, then some of that temperature differential inside the duct will be spent on changing the temperature of the attic, rather uselessly. The larger the temperature differential, the more energy is wasted. So if you're in a very cold environment and you're trying to run hot air through the ducts, you're wasting energy on heating the attic; if you're in a very hot environment and running cold air through the ducts, you're wasting energy on cooling the attic.

Zhentar posted:

Ceiling insulation is typically R-38 to R-60. Duct insulation is typically R-4, and it has a larger temperature differential, and the ducts are pressurized/depressurized, forcing attic air in/out of any seams.

StormDrain posted:

And the TP holder with a spare roll space, but I would absolutely also love that in my home. Then I could be out of two rolls of paper at once.

Powerlurker posted:

Did they take a single-wide trailer and build a house around it or something?

Blue Footed Booby posted:

It's loving weird what the human body can acclimate to, and equally weird what individual people are unable to acclimate to. I'd love to see some stats on perceived heat and comfort correlated with various factors like volume of sweat produced controlled for time and temperature. I figure there have to be some genes involved, like the thermal version of that gene that makes cilantro taste like soap, or the one that makes skunk smell good.

Kaethela posted:

I don't have any pictures, since they haven't lived there in quite a long time, but my grandparents' old house had a door to nowhere on the second floor. I'm assuming there was meant to be a balcony there but if you opened that door and went through it you would immediately fall a good distance onto the driveway.

Kaethela posted:

if you opened that door and went through it you would immediately fall a good distance onto the driveway.

KARMA! posted:

Those are just french balconies without the balcony part?

Platystemon posted:

You can anchor stuff into concrete, though?

It might tick off the admins more than holes in drywall, granted.

Platystemon posted:

I’ve heard “oh, that second‐floor door to nowhere is so when you have a snow bank twelve feet high you can step out onto it”, but I suspect they were pulling my leg.

GreenNight posted:

Might as well just have a super wide urinal then.

GreenNight posted:

No, this aint Wrigley Field.

LordSaturn posted:

If I was going to spend a personal fortune to build a crazy mansion to grow old and die in, the result would look a bit like that house.

Magnus Praeda posted:

Why? What I can see looks okay. They've got a (presumably level) string line established. They're buttering the ends of the blocks adequately and the mortar looks fine. I can't guarantee it, but it looks square, too. They're even laying out the bricks ahead.

Motronic posted:

Guy with a Jersey Shore beach house decides the a stone yard hurts his feet too much and also that his shower need more very temporary "drainage" so he does some lovely digging and then covers it with shredded tire mulch (FYI, that poo poo floats and and also turns harder than stone in a couple years of sun exposure):

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/4tfe7w/resurfaced_my_entire_back_yard_with_rubber/

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This got so bad even for reddit that the subreddit moderators locked the comments.

MisterOblivious posted:

Did you see the "Before" 'cause the "Before" looked a lot better:

MisterOblivious posted:

Grover's shaved pubes is a better look?

kid sinister posted:

https://i.imgur.com/g13orhX.gifv

SynthOrange posted:

Captain Melo posted:

Are you by any chance in NE Ohio? I do P&P work and saw literally that same fan the other day in the Medina area