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Coasterphreak posted:
Depends on your area. We've spent the last three years fixing poo poo the 'contractor' who remodeled and flipped this house mickey-moused in while he was at it. Last week was discovering that he just buried all the brick debris as fill under the back part of the yard, so 12" down we hit a layer of the poo poo when digging post holes for a new fence.
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iv46vi posted:The spacing is all weird, perhaps it's a double frame outside wall? If it is, that window's going to be -seriously- recessed once they get the sheathing and siding on. I think it's just hosed up. Edit : Looking at that second picture, I've changed my mind. Australians are just crazy. Why in the world would you leave a gap for wire-run between a brick front and a stud wall like that, in a country with so many things you'd really rather not have crawling between your walls? Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Sep 6, 2013 |
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kastein posted:You can have my free lathe when you pry it from my cold dead hands! Man, total jealousy. I wish I had room to stash something like that!
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Jan 12, 2014 17:32
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Hey, if nothing else, at the end of the day you'll know this poo poo isn't hosed up anymore when you're done. That's peace of mind that I'd love to have.
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Feb 10, 2014 00:03
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Holy poo poo am I ever jealous.
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Jun 13, 2014 23:05
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c355n4 posted:I picture a tent with a propane stove in your dirt floor mud room. How far off is this? I figured he was just camping in the back of the 5-ton.
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Jun 26, 2014 17:24
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kastein, you need to warn people before coming near their houses. You have some kind of structural problem enhancing field going on.
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Aug 19, 2014 20:35
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I hope these things are connected, but it's kastein's, so...
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Sep 2, 2014 17:10
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Snow? There's no room for snow in there. It's already that deep in Jeep parts.
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Feb 16, 2015 00:49
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I never thought I'd give this advice in all seriousness, but have you considered getting a spear? I mean, it's a great way to remove raccoons from ceilings.
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Jun 10, 2015 08:55
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kastein posted:Actually, I did. I left for an hour to go to home depot and let them escape out of the corner of the rafters back into the woods where they belong and when I came back they were closer to the front door and angry, so they are all dead and tossed in the woods now. Sometimes it's all you can do. I had to shoot a woodchuck that was living under our shed last year because it wouldn't take a hint and leave, and went after one of the dogs.
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Jun 12, 2015 17:18
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kastein posted:BTW, this is all why I will never, ever buy a house someone else built again. Why? No prepurchase inspection would be able to catch most of these issues since they're hidden by plaster. It's like trying to diagnose cancer without an X-ray, MRI, PET/CT scan, or any blood tests, etc. Good loving luck. At this point it'd almost be a relief for you to be scratch building. Nothing lovely to tear out that way!
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Oct 18, 2015 05:19
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Do they start with building a bigger pole crane with the 5 ton as the base?
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Nov 18, 2015 20:08
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I'm not sure you remember what it was like to not be demolishing things. It's okay, the yard is still full of the lurking corpses of Jeeps waiting to be resurrected back into messy, sputtering undeath. He'll be fine.
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Dec 8, 2015 09:18
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Seems like the perfect point to put in a real stove hood while you're at it, and vent it outside.
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May 15, 2016 21:53
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dreesemonkey posted:Pretty cool idea. Those things are exactly what I want. Just gotta decide if I'm staying in the midwest, or moving away from the land of salt and woe.
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Jan 21, 2017 00:05
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:DIY is never going to let that guy live that down, and it is glorious. I'm pretty sure Kastein's place is overengineered to the point that you could randomly remove floor joists at this point without any structural issues. :P
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May 4, 2017 23:50
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poo poo, Kastein, I'm jealous. Imagine how many Jeeps you can hid on that property.
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Apr 24, 2018 07:24
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Well it's not like there's anything else but the stairs uninsulated.
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Jul 15, 2018 06:21
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By 'drywall', we actually meant XJ floor pan replacement panels. It's an easy mistake to make, but on the plus side, you can just weld patches if someone puts a hole in your wall, and it looks like every other XJ out there.
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Dec 20, 2018 10:40
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I can't wait for the terror that is you being given a blank slate to overbuild from the ground up. Everything will be done right.
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Feb 17, 2019 09:41
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kastein posted:When you build from scratch you get to just make everything square and level in the first place and pretty much just slap drywall on it and run. The new walls I built in the second floor were like this, I think it took me all of a day to frame them out. That's the part I'm looking forward to, the moment you walk onto the build site while some subcontractor's doing something and just tell them from a glance exactly what way they are making your poo poo harder by being wrong.
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Feb 19, 2019 10:44
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"I only get in two weekends worth of work a month" says utter madman building a bomb-proof house out of principal, spite, and jeep parts. 
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kastein posted:In order: I am terrified and will be incredibly interested to see what you produce when given a clean slate to work from, given your building habits. Some poor building inspector out west is going to be very, very confused.
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Nov 2, 2019 00:37
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those fuckers are fast.
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Yeah, don't worry too badly about those dimensions, the house was mostly laid out before sheet goods were standardized and would be just as much of a pain in plaster and lath no matter the dimensions.
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Jan 29, 2020 06:48
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Your idea of 'not bad' is both terrifying and inspiring. 
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May 2, 2020 06:35
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I'm fully convinced the house held up because if it fell down it would be less work for kastein to fix.
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Aug 4, 2020 08:04
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We're gonna need a thread ASAP, Elviscat.
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Elviscat posted:If I were you, I would listen to my Real Estate Agent on what to do, because your instincts, and probably a lot of this subforum's, are going to be diametrically opposed to real people's. Most home buyer's interest in the plumbing, electrical, and other mechanicals of the house is going to be "does it work?" Which is going to take a backseat to "do I like the layout?" Yeah, whereas DIY goons are more interested in 'will have to redo major major systems in the next five years'.
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Aug 31, 2020 03:01
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:Can't believe you didn't construct a massively over-engineered scaffolding, comprised of dimensional lumber bigger than the tree and at least some welding. 0/10 Or at least a fall prevention harness with the 5-ton on belay.
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Sep 24, 2020 10:59
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He's probably using a lot more labor than one madman willing to throw up siding in the dark with sketchy scaffolding.
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Nov 30, 2020 06:56
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Nothing that can't be cured with a structure fire.
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Sep 24, 2021 05:28
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I keep getting the urge to pick up a place that needs some work since I know I'm going to want to gut the kitchen anyway, and watching your stuff reminds me why that's a terrible idea given how much time I have to spend at work. Great to see the place coming together, whoever buys it off you is going to be getting a hell of a house!
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Jul 7, 2022 02:14
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I'm working to channel that self-destructive impulse into something in the way of a beater car instead. At least I don't have to try to live in it!
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Jul 7, 2022 02:54
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Heh. Hopefully not foreshadowing of the next project.
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I feel like you should crowdfund a little plaque or something to fix to the wall in the basement in as annoying to remove a manner as available to mankind before you sell.
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