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This is giving me anxiety. Partly because I can't connect the floorplan to the exterior in my mind.
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Darchangel posted:loving cast iron. Could be worse - could be clay, I guess. Both are bad. Ask me about my basement flooding three feet deep as spring meltwater drained into my municipal sewer clay tile and backflowed into the basement through the 1/2" think "floor". The opposite of a weep tile system!  Why, yes, that is my main sewer stack!To be fair it was 125 years old at this point.
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Apr 1, 2020 17:54
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The guy I use for HVAC work and repairs tells me he is too busy to run a gas line for me. Normally he will fit in small jobs whenever I need, and has dropped off parts in person so I can do installs myself. He says he has tons of repair and no-water or no-heat calls. Maybe increased demand is taxing systems, and necessitating repairs?
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Apr 2, 2020 23:57
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Apr 14, 2020 15:16
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I'll take Things Prefaced by "How Hard Can it Be?" for $400, Alex
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Apr 16, 2020 16:43
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The Glumslinger posted:
I like it. It's like building a porch as your W.C., but closing it in enough for privacy. A++ would poo poo here daily.
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Apr 16, 2020 21:30
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D34THROW posted:Maybe? I've cut plywood for hurricanes but that's about the extent of my woodworking skills. Thank you for the idea though! Just make two L shaped shims out of HDPE or even XPS foam. Glue them to the far and bottom inner edges if you feel fancy.
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Apr 16, 2020 21:46
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StormDrain posted:Doesn't apply at those nipples right at the valves! Me either, I can't figure out the plumbing. If the mixing valve goes to the faucet, the riser isn't mixed. And where does the middle elbow go? If the left stub is hot:  If the right stub is hot: 
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Apr 21, 2020 17:13
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tater_salad posted:
Lol, thanks for the drawing. I thought there was an octopus off the hot, couldn't tell that was a loop from the original riser going to the galvy makeshift riser. Honestly, it's better than both my bathrooms were originally. 
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Apr 21, 2020 20:03
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there wolf posted:Are we just not going to talk about what the gently caress is going on with this facade here? The house is wearing a mask of a different building. All the pictures are conveniently angled so you can't see the back side of it, so however it intersect with the roof must be amazing. That't the best part; a nice-looking traditional saltbox has been sacrificed for this sterile ediface.
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Apr 21, 2020 22:55
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wooger posted:The Edwardian terrace I bought last year had wiring run under the wallpaper, and one remaining gas lamp fitting for some reason (thankfully disconnected). She did the killer stairs doc, too. She's a doctor of philosophy and an accomplished academic as well as a megababe.
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Apr 23, 2020 22:46
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Suspect Bucket posted:Daubers are mostly harmless, they only look scary. Leave them alone. A plus for arachnophobes, they eat spiders! But, like spiders, they are inexplicably attracted to hydrocarbons and love nesting in gas burners, fuel caps and exhaust pipes on gas appliances especially on trailers using small propane appliances, where they clog things up.
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Apr 30, 2020 15:00
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Is a deep well the biggest impossibility in this thread? At first I thought the weight of the tape was keeping it going after a bit, too. If you watch at the end, the tape snaps taut againts the cross member he's attached it to.
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Our dear friend Mike Holmes must be pretty idle during this pandemic. He has posted a lot on Facebook lately. Most of it is the usual 5 tips for landscaping, or promos for his shows, and there have been some Facebook Live events. But he also has taken to posting the odd contruction fail photo, and his readers pile on and share theirs. I have compiled a small treasure trove. Apologies if you have seen any: Looks good! When you don't know how slip joints work Typical previous owner surprise Do you want leaks? I didn't think so. Electrically insulated How to damp install Just put a nail in it. How bad? OK, two nails. Route the current. You can only move two switches. Hottub wiring out of sight. The homeowner attempted to remove the old pad and located this via arc. "In" the box? Sharing is caring Another P.O. discovery 100A each I assume Load bearing work box. Easily located by drywall screw in future. You can have an A/C duct, or a structural header, your choice I think that's a transformer in there Universal fitment You don't say Makes a nice flash-of-light snack Which third again? More damp rating Well I'm not drilling another hole for the ice maker water line Pass me the tape, I'm out again. Like and Follow for more unboxing videos A splice? A junction? Let your imagination run wild Electrical box archaeology
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May 18, 2020 23:06
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toplitzin posted:Our motorcycles are no longer safe:  There's nothing crappy about that construction
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nm posted:gently caress, I hate the people who write these things My buddy lives in a 40-year old suburb in our town. The houses have been landscaped and maintained in different ways over the years, and have that mix of finishes from building that makes them all ‘unique’. The longer you sit and look at them, the more obvious it becomes that they are all the exact same house underneath. Of course, the 120-year old neighbourhood I grew up in also has all the exact same floor plans. The more things change…
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Blistex posted:I'm on Manitoulin Island. You give up some creature comforts, but (imo) it's worth it. I'm coming to check this out on my next work trip to Sudbury! Please have the house, and my room and scotch selection ready.
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cakesmith handyman posted:I can't imagine the construction of those steps that just won't fold down flat when a fat person steps on the unsupported end. The moment at the wall junction is causing my brain more stress than the stairs probably experience.
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Oct 3, 2021 14:43
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Double A Double V
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Oct 17, 2021 21:28
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Sloppy posted:A lady on my Nextdoor is (rightfully) upset at the job her 'builder' did on some deck stairs. In the Nextdoor post she noted the difference between the biggest and smallest step is 5". Omg I want to see that whole monstrosity.
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Oct 19, 2021 01:45
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I'm imagining that is normal 16-gauge stranded wire, and the box and lamp are really really tiny.
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Nov 12, 2021 12:43
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power crystals posted:
Haha that reminds me of my detached garage power issue. When I toured the house before purchase, there was a working light switch in the detached garage that turned on two ceiling fluorescents. After purchasing, I found these no longer turned on. With the state of the house it was the least of my worries at the time. When this garage was built, the doors were on the opposite side, facing my now neighbour, as the previous owner owned both properties. He was given a permit variance to build right at the property line with the doors on the wrong side, with the condition that should the properties be severed, he had to put them on the other side. So he did this when he sold to me, and I have a garage door facing my backyard from the left, with my driveway on the right. Whatever, it’s a shop for me, not a car hole. The trouble is the floor is a nice poured slab with a slight slope to the original door location for drainage. To try to mitigate that, he dug a little trench in front of the new doors to direct runoff. Astute readers will know where this is going: he absolutely severed the buried, unshielded bare romex he had run to power the garage. I found the live wire a couple years later. Incidentally, the garage also turns into a bathtub every spring  
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Dec 11, 2021 16:26
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Slugworth posted:The best part of this is it's probably only 18 inches of conduit, and then direct buried uf wire, so you can't reasonably rerun the wire without digging up your yard. If that's the case though, depending on how much conduit is sticking out of the ground, you could potentially cut some of it off (carefully, without damaging the wire), install a box, and then go from there. A pipe cutter would probably do this nicely.
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Dec 12, 2021 16:39
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Darchangel posted:I don't think your problem is lack of water egress. The water shouldn't be in the garage in the first place. Oh I don’t disagree. It’s on the absolutely massive to-do list on this property to regrade the back yard, but as it is drainage is toward the garage. And the garage slab itself is on the same drainage slope because, y’know, it’s been reversed. Some drain system for the deep end of my garage cum swimming pool is planned ASAP
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Dec 14, 2021 05:28
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corgski posted:Hi! Let's give the orange man blue man chat a break in here. While undeniably crappy, it is neither construction nor constructive. It’s cum, not cum. C’mon!
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Dec 17, 2021 05:03
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Guy Axlerod posted:What's that kind of coffee where they feed the beans to some animal and then they poo poo them out? Civet coffee What a fantastic derail
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Dec 18, 2021 04:08
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PainterofCrap posted:Wondering how they advertise for the job of civet-poo poo collector and/or bean-picker I like the idea it’s two separate jobs
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Dec 18, 2021 05:50
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StormDrain posted:I swapped all of mine to screwless cover plates which of course still have screws underneath but they're combos which are much nicer. Of all the things to be magnetic, why aren’t cover plates? A decent magnet pressed into the underside plastic won’t fall off easily and takes just enough effort to remove without tools.
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Jan 23, 2022 00:57
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MRC48B posted:screws are cheaper than magnets, and the stuff behind those plates isn't supposed to need user servicing. Light switch horseshoes would be a fun lockdown activity, though
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Crappy construction:Slugworth posted:don't think about the future.
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It’s already begun again: [timg]https://i.imgur.com/dPrMGDF.jpg][/timg]
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Nitrox posted:Looks like sewage backflow. Hope it's not your house or garage It’s my garage pool of thread title fame. It’s not sewage, just meltwater with a bit of dirt from the soil that collects in my concrete garage. And annoying, as I can’t solve it.
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Here we go again  My “solution” 
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PainterofCrap posted:
It made short work of about 4” of water above those 3” of solid ice. But it’s still not a solution. I’m kind of stressed about it.
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ryanrs posted:Salt the basement! You're right, that would definitely be a solution! Not the right thread to really get into it, but PainterofCrap is right. A trench on the uphill side (where the garage door is) is probably the fix. If it's big enough and deep enough to direct water under and around the garage, I can probably avoid the need for an external sump pump. The exacerbating issue, is my neighbours yard is elevated above mine, and twice the size. I get all the runoff from his yard and my own, and it's especially bad this time of year as the snow melt start. During spring/summer/fall, there's no water in the garage. Vim Fuego posted:From reddit I found a similar issue in my basement after removing ceiling tiles. Four joists had been notched to accomodate a duct. And by notched, I mean 90% cut out to fit an 8" trunk. Fortunately the remaining massive true dimensional joists in this 122 year old shitheap were able to hold without issue. There isn't even a dip.
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Platystemon posted:Groverhaus upgrade opportunity A new kind of ground loop
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tomapot posted:How it started: “don’t worry about those cracks I’ll just put some plaster on it” Looks like part of a restoration/development plan: https://www.thempc.org/eagenda/x/mp...BE33AD7DA98.pdf https://savannahagenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/30-32-MLK-rendering.pdf
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I think I would be ok without a railing, unless you’re the type who gets up from the foot of your bed. The spiral staircase makes no sense, and doesn’t save any useful space over a good usable loft ladder. I guess with a ladder you can’t really carry like a tea and a snack to bed?
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This is the antithesis to the kitchen garage door, and is behind the urban industrial and farmhouse look. Suburbanites are unconsciously exhausted by their greige lifestyles and uninspired surface materials blending together into a badly rendered hellscape. They lust for natural material, irregular surfaces and visual interest, they just don’t know anything about those things, so boom, shiplap accent wall in your all-white living room full of big-box furniture and the same prints and throw pillows as all your neighbours.
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Vim Fuego posted:
That either not an exterior wall, or it’s double-crappy construction. They framed the niche box with face framing for a nailing edge, but didn’t header that cripple under it, so it isn’t being treated as load-bearing. If it isn’t, cutting the stud to put the niche where you want is nbd imo. If it is, then it’s wtf bbq.
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