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JB50 posted:Did you get ANY permits to do this work? Yes. Therefore- Son, come to Oklahoma. It's retarded libertarian, and no one will bother you one dadgummed bit how you do your goddamned house because we're all equal in the eyes of the Lord, we're all just DiY'ers trying to get by in our little multi-million $ sod huts like you got here. FACT: You do not have to be licensed to be a General contractor in Oklahoma. Anything else is don't ask, don't tell. Bad Munki posted:
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Pissflaps posted:So the idea is to have a bath with warm water constantly flowing into it? What would you have flow into it, notorious forums troll Pissflaps, ants? If I were OP, I'd set engineered rock to the wall near the tub and have a little waterfall going down that for the ambience.
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 I'm toying with a fix scenario for this that doesn't require ripping up the entire floor, and I'd like thread remodelers and folks with structural background to weigh in, please: it goes thusly: you're going to get some 2x8 lumber or rip down some 2x10, whatever the gap in the engineered joist material is- it has to fit snugly between the two sandwich ends of the engineered joists- this is important, but I'm assuming that those things are very accurately cut. Personally, I find the concept distasteful, even if they are enviro-conscious, they're loving flakeboard ffs. You will have to cut and reglue your black waste pipe. Eh, looks like you'll have to rerun your hot and cold feed lines also, and maybe you can notch for the romex. Instead of ripping up the floor, you're going to go with a 2xwhatever the dimension is that is maybe 4-5 feet longer than your tub hole size depending on how long your arm is. You're going to cut a scarf joint in the middle of those. A scarf cut is a long diagonal, like 20-70, so maybe a 24" diagonal cut. You're going to then extend each bifurcated piece along each of the compromised engineered joists and screw to the flakeboard, toenail down into the good tee of the joist. Of course, you'll have to drill through all these to run your waste pipes and feed lines. You should be able to run the 2 pieces a good ways beyond the cut out hole under the subfloor, sister them in, and screw as far back as your arm and a screwgun reaches. May have to hammer them in snug, and be careful you don't destroy the already compromised joists. Then you can scab a piece of 3/4 plywood right along the scarf joint and past it say 6-12 inches either way. Since I don't use Sketchup, this is sorta what I'm on about.  Do this for each compromised joist. DiY wizards, what say ye? edit- I call this an UglyasFuck Solution. Naturally Mr. Mambold fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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Effective-Disorder posted:I just reread and rethought on this. This most likely will not solve your problem for the same reasons the scarf joint sister project won't. With all of the parts in between, there is no way to be sure of it without knowing anything about how these parts are intended to interact. Like I said, they did the math, knowing all that they know, when they published that technical bulletin, and as follows, they can only account for the cases outlined there. Ok sure thing Poindexter. Add glue to the screws and I'd bet a structural engineer other than Groverwould sign off on it no worries. Or you can bolt steel in the same way. Ahaha. Thread delivers once again. 
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canyoneer posted:The other thing I learned in remodeling/home repair adventures is that "code" isn't a pinnacle of perfect workmanship or overkill, it's the bare minimum for safety and function. Agreed. I saw some homebuilt trusses one time that I thought wouldn't belong in a barn slated for demo, but was assured by the inspector they were up to code. Scabby rear end plates made of 1/2" plywood stapled at the joints. *OP scribbles furiously*
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Hubis posted:Not as strong for equivalent cross-sectional area (ie looking at the end of the beam) or weight (given equal material). What does this mean?
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sharkytm posted:It's pretty straightforward. I-beams are stronger than solids when you compare the two in cross-sectional area (the X-section of the I-beam would equate to a much smaller dimension solid) and in weight (an equivalent-weight solid would be much weaker than an I-beam of the same weight). Well I kinda got the last part of that, but where OP was asking about a 4x10 and it looked like that post was saying the I-beam was stronger, I lost it.
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Apr 7, 2017 23:23
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Slugworth posted:I knew a guy who framed every wall with a double sill plate so he didn't need to find studs while installing baseboard. I'm not saying it's a reasonable solution, but every time I'm installing baseboard, I wish he had framed the wall. Call BaSeMasterJ for all your baseboard needs today.
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Yeah that reminds me of when I was a pup and I put a nail through the baseboard and into a copper line for the terlet on a new home. Nail sorta blocks the water but not until the house was carpeted did anyone notice Good times   
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Myrmidongs posted:Please tell me you're not doing all this work only to not put a bidet in. Dude, dude. That's Complete Bathroom Overhaul- New Beginnings
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Motronic posted:Complete Bathroom Overhaul: Don't Leave for Tomorrow What Can Be Done Bidet New thread title pls
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Apr 9, 2017 23:45
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FogHelmut posted:Doesn't seem right to just keep choosing contractors until you get one that agrees with you. Said no one ever.
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Apr 11, 2017 22:42
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Bad news. Contractor came back and said they found catnip insulation in the walls. Wow racist much? mods
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Apr 12, 2017 01:44
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bEatmstrJ posted:I believe most of them automatically turn on when you enter, then turn off after a few minutes of inactivity. Usually right when you're in the middle of taking a poo poo and you haven't moved for 5 minutes, but you're too far away to trigger the sensor again. 5 minutes inactivity taking a poo poo? I'm pretty sure that's against code in SoCal
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Apr 12, 2017 15:40
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Yawgmoth posted:It's because he's gonna replace those joists with almonds. almond joist, now with more nuts!
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Apr 14, 2017 21:18
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FogHelmut posted:How does a Bonus Room compare to a Great Room? Not as good? A Great Room is just like, one dude's opinion, Man. Like, a room where one's mellow can never be harshed.
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Apr 15, 2017 03:46
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My Lovely Horse posted:Just a big toilet bowl shaped bathtub with a chain dangling down where you can flush yourself down the drain into another tub one floor below. Summoning MC Escher
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bEatmstrJ posted:In reasonably boring news, I took down my vanities and removed the hardibacker from the wall today in prep for the contractors to do the minor plumbing fixes needed and so it can be inspected later. Since the wall is off, i'm probably going to replace the mirror electrical boxes with adjustable boxes and I might swap out the brass pipes with some copper stubouts. That one is up in the air though since the brass ones are working and i'm not sure I have enough slack in the blue PEX on the right to make the switch without adding a coupler. Were they giving you poo poo about hacking up those studs? This is a scenario where you can flip the cutout and sister in a cripple. Fuckface the Hedgehog posted:Why are your drainpipes level? Shouldn't that poo poo be angled to allow better flow and stop standing water and clogs and poo poo? It's fine, Fuckface.
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SoundMonkey posted:i don't care if it's the safest thing since safe came to safetown and the inspector will literally give you a blowjob the second they see it, but RUN THAT loving WIRE BETTER ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE BEFORE I END YOU SoundMonkey posted:call me crazy but i'd just as soon not have a foot-and-a-half by four-foot section of wall that i'd always have to wonder before I drilled into because there's an electrical cable at some unknown point behind it Boy needs a warrstrecher
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SoundMonkey posted:i mean it's in the spirit of the thread. just reef on it, there must be a bit of slack somewhere, right? need a poindexter STAT to figure via the hypotenuse if 1" slack is enough I mean, he's got some slop in the box too, right?
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To bidet or not to bidet. That is the question.
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SoundMonkey posted:do people still install jacuzzi tubs in tyool 2017? i thought we were all aligning our chakras in hanging teardrop-shaped glass bathing vessels now or whatever. I'm having a bath ATM in the whirlpool bath I installed, oh, 5-6 years ago and my chairs and tired old rear end are thanking. Tbf that was tyool 2012 a happier time
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Goddam autocorrect chakras you westernized piece of silicon
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Apr 21, 2017 03:16
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SoundMonkey posted:i'm going to estimate your age at roughly 300 close enough
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Snak posted:The focal point of a parabolic reflector is... not on its surface. And your rear end will be on its surface, blocking light from the reflector so it never gets to the focal point anyway. Or as the English say, the foecal point, and I'll see myself out.....Steps off unfinished balcony shored up by compromised sisters, or as we call them, nuns
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Something went wrong with my tub install. That's a portal to Hogwarts isn't it
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bEatmstrJ posted:It's purely aesthetic. The infinity tub sounds nice, but its nothing that fancy. c'mon dude, you can do better. How about a M.C. Escher tub?
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SoundMonkey posted:sup OP (@10:28) That guy is Captain Irritating as gently caress Obvious, and while that butch job is in extremely poor form, the house isn't going to fall in from it.
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Bad Munki posted:MOLD FOR THE MOLD GOD Porous rocks impregnated with silver will kill bacteria due to some sort of ionic wizardry. Plus OP can impress by drinking his date's bathwater knowing it has been sterilized. Win-win?
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Look Sir Droids posted:Yep, and that's why you put your reno money in to the kitchen if you want to at least break even. There's must less subject to taste in that room and it gets used constantly. Bathrooms are what you reno when you have money to piss away or you intend to stay in your house for another 10 years so you "get your money back" through use. Man, I read 'reno money in the kitchen' and thought that's a great way to describe gambling on a remodel, vegas money must be the bathroom. Dissapoint.
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sneakyfrog posted:really, you want to die on stainless steel hill? New thread title pleas mods edit Prav posted:it's a good place to die. easy to clean; won't leave any stains. lol
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bEatmstrJ posted:Time for some *Mr. Miyagi voice* Spore on, spore off!
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So, catching up with the thread, how's our b....Oh my stars. I see.
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:A bathtub in the dead middle of the room is about the stupidest design ever. I hated that aspect of OP's original bathroom too. It's just in the loving way of the traffic flow and it wastes an assload of floor space. What kinda traffic flow we talkin here, Sparky? He's got assloads of space to waste cause his bathroom is bigger than average living quarters for 90% of the human race
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DirtRoadJunglist posted:Oh, macrame. Even better. I can probably get one of my aunts to make me one. Facebook Aunt posted:Nice. All I know about polyester is that growing up it seemed drat near immortal. In the 80s I was still inheriting ugly hand-me-down polyester clothes that were at least 10 years old and just wouldn't die. Couldn't be stained. The only hope of killing them was to get them to start to unravel. This is now a thread about....thread. No short cuts.
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silicone thrills posted:So as a FEMALE who did a full DIY gut job on my bathroom and designed it - here's an album of what I did. MY WIFE did all the tearout on ours, helped me drag the old tub out and set the new whirlpool bath. We had to cut the drywall to angle it in, but no studs were harmed. She also set the pedestal sink and textured and tiled the walls. Liberally, but it looks ok.
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The Bloop posted:It is pretty ridiculous to plumb three or four separate drains for the same room.  Paging OP
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