/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1630234
Thats very efficient ducting.

>>1630263
Sometimes you gotta reflow the fuck outta solder.

thread theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3eC35LoF4U

>>1630263

>>1630264
And sometimes you just don give a FUCK

Opened up a duct in my attic and found this

>>1630240
Unironically nothing wrong with this.

>>1630293

construction workers really are the scum of the earth

>>1630302
House was built 30 years ago and the shit was from the early 2000s, my guess is a teenager used the upstairs bedroom vent as a trash can.

>>1630304
Cigarettes, spermicide, and acne cream... Yeah, sounds about right. Why would they need to hide their acne cream though?

>>1630240
Breakers should turn off properly even with the lever blocked. The thing on the photo definitely looks nigger-rigged but I guess the owner got enough with retards who can't get fucked to find their own breaker and just flip everything they can reach, or dumb kids who think pissing off people is funny

>>1630489
>I guess the owner got enough with retards who can't get fucked to find their own breaker

with it tied like that it would trip but you could not reset it. It's probably a staged photo.

>>1630495
You just take out the screw if you need to reset it. At the same time it's too much work for lazy retards and kids, so it works.

>>1630500
>You just take out the screw if you need to reset it. At the same time it's too much work for lazy retards and kids, so it works.

>it works

what exactly does it accomplish, if it does not affect the breaker and you have to fuck with the screw and wire to reset the breaker? i

>>1630530
Could be feeding a piece of equipment that should not be shut down down and is thus being used to discourage people from turning the breaker off. I see legitimate versions of this often on breakers for fire alarm systems.

>>1630534
>that should not be shut down down

ah. I respect your logic sir.

>>1630537

lol. I missed the "down down". I actually do respect your logic logic.

>>1630293
If you were a smoker you'd have checked the pack to see if it was empty...

>>1630566
I've done that
Found a brick of heroin one time and an eightball ofncoke another time

>>1630293
I can understand the shame of hiding everything else. But why a jar of spices?

>>1630581
no one must no the secret to his fried chicken.

>>1630257
really?
this pic is lame faggot

>>1630581
It didn't even contain weed or anything, just basil.
>>1630566
Am one, did check, was empty.

>>1630234
the only thing wrong here is the electrical wire sharing a hole with a plumbing line.

everything else is typical.
old houses and new built have joist-space cold air returns just like that pic.
at least they made some effort to "seal" it with duct tape.

only thing I'd be very cautious about is that old style concrete chimney block that I'd guess the furnace is venting into, since that old concrete block, if unlined, is porous as fuck and could be leaking Co2.

>>1630274
hit one speedbump, arc the battery, kill the car.
-peanut brain 'mechanic'.

>>1630296
okay, I'm stumped, WTF is this?

>>1630851
Pilon holding up a center glulam of a home hit by an earthshake that sunk and twisted 5"-6" dragging the vapor barrier with it. I wish I took pics of the glulams floating off the foundation cmu blocks.
A engineer told the home owner it's ok if your house is chilling 10degrees out of plumb.
>Engineers are the niggers of the construction/fabrication/design world.

Prove me wrong

Pic related
>the ladder to the crawl space

>>1630581
That "spice" container looks like those synthetic cannabinoid containers smoke shops used to sell. Tried it once as a dumb kid, shit was terrible

>>1630957
>A engineer told the home owner it's ok if your house is chilling 10degrees out of plumb.

I worked on a house like that once, but it was just due to the McMansion builder being shit.

From the N.E. corner to the S.W. corner the house dropped out of level by about 7.5"

On the dropping side the house was 3 stories of uninterrupted brick cladding, I got my 8' level and strapped a 12' stick of bar aluminum to it, put that to the house and began pulling away watching for the bubble... got the bubble when my level was about 5" off the wall at the bottom of that 12' stick.

That was my HOLY SHIT moment, but County Building Inspector said it was fine.

>>1630304
Exactly what I thought too. Could have been my girlfriend's room.

I miss plowing her while her folks were home. Good times.

>>1631047
Naw. Spice Island is a well-known brand, available in most US groceries. Kid probably was using it for weed, though.

>>1630239
I don't get this.

>>1631076
Indoor sports stadium seating; the kind that collapses against the wall like an accordion to clear up more floor space.

In short, boomer tech. "Motor check" is a term these guys invented on the spot to pretend that someone, somewhere had foreseen this problem and had a procedure for preventing it. In reality testing the motors while the contraption is collapsed is probably impossible. It was designed to run until it didn't, with no thought to the inevitable catastrophic failure somewhere down the road.

>>1630304

>Warnings on the cigarette

Yeah that was the first indicator.

>>1630836

>When the contract requires a 2" slump.

>>1631088
>>1631076
Looks more like some sort of lighting contraption to me. It goes up and down for whatever reason using several motor winches. The weight is distributed evenly when the motors work in sync, but here one got stuck when they were lowering it and took all the weight and eventually gave in and the whole thing went 9/11

>>1630234
If thats low voltage wire you're all good. Low voltage is the wild west of electrical work.

>>1631129
Low volt and a 14/3. Both sides of that forced air return are drilled and the wires run through the return

>>1631076
A lighting rack that moves on a motor assisted rail; think like a garage door.

>>1630538
>down down

That's what I get for not quintuple checking what I wrote while phone posting. If I remember I'll take a picture of a (at least semi) properly locked on breaker at work tomorrow.

My grandparents used their toilet like this one for 40 years.

>>1631213
Why not just boil a pot of water? It would be safer, easier and probably more efficient. Do I want to see the bathroom fix?

>>1631210
>that retard chamber

>>1630957

Why are American houses just full of plastic in every square inch?

You guys are proposing banning straws but all for styrofoam housing.

>>1631249
Typical ex-commie nig rig. Mainly used for washing dishes for 2 weeks a year the central hot water gets shut down for maintenance

>>1631270
That's a vapor barrier, which is important in modern minimalistic construction where a little rot can fuck a house. It also takes a load off the home's climate control, lowering the energy footprint of the building. In the end that plastic is paying for itself severalfold over the life of the home, and it's essentially sequestered carbon during that time. The difference between this and the plastic being dumped into Asian rivers is the plastic here never enters the environment and it's not single use.
Banning straws is a retarded California idea and nobody here actually takes it seriously.

>>1631122
In venues like sporting arenas holding concerts, lights and speakers are temporary. They chain mount to the rafters, using electric motors to raise things up. Their setup required multiple motors, and this one failed.

>>1631362

>plastic here never enters the environment

What do you do with it after the houses 30 year life span is up?

>>1631548
It gets burned or buried. If burned, it's no worse than burning the few gallons of oil all the plastic in a house came from. If buried, the carbon is permanently sequestered. Plastic is really only a problem if it gets into the ocean.

And don't be retarded. Decent stick built houses in the US last 100 years or more when taken care of, even with modern light construction. Houses that fail within 30 years are the shit that's only built by poor people along hurricane routes.

>>1631213
tankless water heaters were always a thing i guess.

>>1631548
>>1631577
My house is 140 years old, sometimes I hate it, sometimes it's cool. (Thing is made out of rail road pikes, fuck 2x4s, this thing is pretty much 6x6s, but that foundation... old limestone kinda sucks.)

>>1631358
I remember this thread vividly

>>1630836
I've had to install kitchen wall-cupbaords onto walls constructed of that, trying to drill into the wall straight to mount the hangers for the cupboards so they're all level and spaced correctly was a challenge to say the least

>>1631613
I had similar where base material were boulders , tuck out sections of boulders
Had to use wet cement then go off to anchors to drill into .

>>1631596
You go that far back and all the modern buttoning up techniques hadn't been invented yet. That's what you get without all the plastic and sticks construction. Yeah, it might last forever, but it's not going to be comfortable no matter what you do unless you take it down to the frame and start over.

>>1631358
Why.

>>1631633
That's the part I am fighting with now, it's just clapboard nailed to the 6x6s, so it's drafty as fuck. I listened to the guy doing my siding and trusted it would do enough and I wouldn't need tyvek or anything, god I wish I just did the house wrap now... Going to try some sort of rigid foam board and 1x2s to create a breathing space on the inside, then insulation and dryway (since I will have lots of space thanks to 6x6s) But that part of the house is at least 10 degrees cooler than the part from the 70s.

>>1631645
RIP. Tyvek house wrap is cheap for what you get out of it.

>>1631656
Yeah, he seemed like he knew what he was talking about, and it made sense that it was just clapboard before so this should be better/fine. But it would've been so cheap and easy, fml. I had to replace the drywall inside anyway, but now I have to do all this foam-board shit (which ain't exactly cheap either)

>>1631358
Thats amazing

>>1631358
Fuck you, this is a blue board!

>>1630293
See that a lot in new construction. Cleaning crews just dump the garbage into the ducts because it's easy.

>>1631088
>"Motor check" is a term these guys invented on the spot to pretend that someone, somewhere had foreseen this problem and had a procedure for preventing it

lmao this butthurt. imagine being unable to concieve of someone being smarter than you

>>1633115
There is no way someone was walking around to every motor in that huge theatre and... what? listening to them hum and strain for just one second to verify the motor was free, but not moving the load too much before checking the next motor?

That would be beyond nuclear reactor safety shit. No way.

>>1630240
I worked at a bitcoin mine where we'd constantly max out the panels. We'd have fans positioned all around the panel and had the enclosure off to cool it down usually. Also, exposed 3 phase terminals, everywhere

My first attempt at soldering a circuit at nine years old.

>>1631358
fucking lol

>>1631205
What's wrong with that? I've never understood the point of the tanks anyways

>>1630293

>spermicidal lubricant

>>1633530
Hello Chinese sweat-shop child laborer!

>>1630370

probably thought it would work on herpes

>>1630296
>>1630851
i believe this is an attempt at waterproofing a post cemented into a hole in a basement. instead the water has pooled on top of the plastic and will now sit there and rot the post, even better than if it had no waterproofing membrane.

>>1630370
>acne cream
it's spermicidal cream my dude, lube that makes your cum not work.

>>1630578
>be me working part time at big box tool crib
>Russian comes in and wants to know if a 7 1/4” saw blade will fit on a 4 1/2” grinder
>Why?
> tells me he needs a flush cut saw for a door jam
>blade fits, but teeth are 1” from fingers
> will spin at 10,000 rpm
>tell him “you’re crazy!
>holds up hands, missing 3 fingers between them
>shouts at me in Russian accent “I no crazy! I no crazy!”

>>1631645
Old houses weren’t built with modern vapor barriers. The drafty walls and windows help keep it ventilated. Buttoning up an old house can have consequences. Also, if you have a fireplace, you can have draft problems if the house is sealed.
t: mine was built in 1920. Love it and hate it.

>>1633798
The purple box on the right is salicylic acid 2% which is usually prescribed for acne.

>>1634500

>>1631205
How do you get the water to come with force?
Wouldn't it be slow af like this?

>>1634520
We have something like that at work. Combined with the stupid bowl with shelf design it has at least enough force to launch the contents out if you're not careful enough after a massive dump

>>1633538
tank provides a water break which is a certain class of non return setup, one better than a check valve.
why you have e.g. a garden hose you are supposed to use a check/non return valve so that if the mains water gets fucked/turned off and your neighbor wants a glass of water, your hose that you left in a dirty puddle doesn't siphon water into their glass and give them aids.
in a toilet its literally a huge great shite in a bowl, in this case the governemnt/water company don't trust check/non return valves they require a literal air gap.
if you go to e.g. an eastern country and they have a hose for washing your anus that can reach the bowl and isn't fed from a tank then you understand why you shouldn't drink the tap water.

>>1634729
very informative thanks

>>1634729
How would my hose siphon dirty puddle water into my neighbors house if I have the hose turned off?

>>1630270
meth lab?

>>1630270
it's the new Navi chip lel

>>1634997
The Knights?

>>1634729
But after the valve closes the pipe going to the bowl will be empty. The pipe doesn't reach into the water in the bowl so water from the toilet can't be sucked back up the pipe if water pressure should reverse.

>>1630836

honest question

i've got some foundation work at my house that actually looks like this. it was probably put in like 80 years ago.

anything wrong with it?

>>1635033
>put in 80 years ago
I think you're gonna make it anon

>>1635033
It's probably fine. Just dont fuck with it. Is it the WALL or the footing? Maybe take a picture of it so we can laugh

>>1634979
I'd say water heater going off. Explosion looks like it centered near the garage where the utility/laundry might be located.

>>1635031
He's a retard.

>>1635142
Armoured vehicle on the left might suggest otherwise.

>>1635427
Still probably the water heater. Gas would just be burning.

Just takes a failed safety valve and your atf/fbi 'tear gas' fire gets really exciting

I dont think we've dropped bombs on people in the us since the 70s

>>1635446
Happened in Brentwood, NH May 15 2014 was a result of domestic disturbance. Officer was shot when he entered standoff ended with the fire/explosion.

>>1630257
He striped the wire to much and left the conductor sticking out of the wire nut

>>1630270
What kind of vehicle is taht on left?

>>1630293
>mfw new houses down the street were being constructed we peed and pood in the ducts

>>1635501
See
>>1635427

>>1635487
>wire wrapped counterclockwise around a RH thread screw

>>1633178
The most underrated pic in this thread lmao

>>1630370
One is spermicidal cream and the other is KY lube.

>>1633115
This is what boomers actually think we'll believe.

>>1633530
Hey. You were nine. And obviously had no help.

It looks like some kind of toy radio or something.
Did it ever work?

>>1631351
Why not just boil a pot of water and dump it into the sink like was done for thousands of years prior?

>>1635818
Not everyone is a britbong willing to bathe in their own filth

>>1630742
My neighborhood has a lot of this

Mild steel welded to galvanized with stainless rods

>>1633530
>at nine years old
Sure, anon.

But not bad for a first timer

>>1630239
The fuck? Are those lights?

>>1630265
FUCK YEAH. Good work anon. My new house has white vinyl siding.

>tfw 20 foot tall tiddies. Kek

>>1630293
This triggers me

>>1630297
Not at all of you are trying to commit insurance fraud

>>1630500
Can we not just lock the fucking box?

>>1630578
Everything about this pic is horrifying

>>1631249
Meth

>>1631634
Likely a rental or borrowed car. Muchbof that in the console would stink and bring ants pretty quick

>>1635972
OSHA says no.

>>1631656
Nah man. Find a woods lumber. Turn woods housewrap upside down. Good memories. Lol. Built many SpooM houses

>>1633141
Dont cater to his autism. We all lnow you are right. And even if it was someones job to unnecessarily abuse motors i doubt they would take ot seriousky and do it properly

>>1633798
Great. More lazy workers. Just what we need

>>1633802
Fuckin ruskies man. They are nothing if not hard and brains full of tater juice.

That fucking vodka can make you crazy.

>>1631213
this is honestly pretty clever

>>1634729
this much disinformation deserves a fucking prize.
way to go man

>>1631358
Future president.

Found this up sticking out of a 40 year old heating unit up in a ceiling, gotta love that level of craftsmanship

>>1637459
I see stuff like that all the time. It is a good way for 1 person to attach something that needs lifted up in a position they can't really control because it is too heavy and/or awkward. It won't walk or drift as it is being installed.

>>1634500
but how and also fuck it was such a pretty house

>>1631249
>Why not just boil a pot of water
Why haven't Americans invented an electric kettle yet?

>>1633530
You've got big hands for a nine year old, were you a trap?

>>1637506
You can't hinge an 8' timber into an 8' space because the diagonal is greater than 8'.

>>1637456
wtf did they blow a hole in it with as bomb

>>1634520

Force/Pressure is not the problem with a toilet. It's the volume. If you dump 2 1/2 gallons of water in a toilet out of a bucket it will flush. Shoot a 3000 psi jet of water out a pressure washer nozzle and all you do is make a mess.

>>1630240
Can someone explain what's happening in this pic

>>1635979
Osha can lick my balls.

And MSHA can suck the fat end of my dick!

>>1637541
Necause they already exist you seething 3rd world shithole dweller.

Natural gas and propane master race!

>>1637737
Somebody put some electrical wire through a breaker's switch and tied it to a screw.

You might think that this prevents the breaker from tripping, making it super dangerous but in reality these things are made to be able to trip even when the outside switch is blocked.

Locking a breaker in an on position is rarely done, but sometimes neccesary done(with an actual lock offcourse, not wire).

>>1637810

>Natural gas and propane master race!

Except Americans love electric ovens and induction hobs.

>>1637807
>And MSHA can suck the fat end of my dick!
Worst dickbag of losers in the whole construction industry. Every MSHA training I've been in features misinterpretations, unrelated personal anecdotes, incorrect statements and outright lies. STFU, Bubba. Just give me my fucking card and sticker and crawl back under your rock.

>>1634977
if your plumbing isnt properly vented it can intake water

>>1637894
>work for utility company
>closed environment/ manhole training.
>no one knows how to use their voltage detector
>no one knows how to calibrate their gas tester
Msha/osha> at least two people needed incase the guy in the hole dies
Utility supv> oh no, that's wrong. As a utility we specifically have an exemption and you guys have to work alone.

>>1637541
Ours are called an coffee percolator. They've been around since the dawn of electricity.

>>1637456
I can see why they did it that way, but goddamn at least knock down the sharp bits if you're not just gonna cut a proper hole. That's the kind of shit that surprise huge gashes come from, just feeling around in the dark attic/crawlspace.

>>1631164
Standard, see it all the time.

At least it's not a plumbing pipe or vent
>why's it smell like shieet

>>1637807
>And MSHA can suck the fat end of my dick!
You want MSHA to suck your pelvis?

>>1637912
Good luck making tea in a coffee percolator.

>>1637541
Because the dumb fucks use 110v and electrical kettles literally take years to boil :^]

>>1637737
There is an electric fault somewhere in the house... Which is being ignored by forcing the trip switch to stay on. What ever it is may get hot and burn the house down or maybe he will simply get electrocuted touching what ever it is

>>1637551
Doesn't have to pivot with that style hinge is my guess, more like slide it and hook on.... but in that case why fucking bother?

>>1634729
Holy fuck, it's for the wooosh to take the turd up through the trap you fucking sci fi fuckwit.

>>1638052
>Spend 5 hours in a crawl space running duct work during the summer.
>Already sweated out 10 pounds of water, nothing left to give.
>Dumbass shop monkey loaded 12" duct and 8" junctions on the truck.
>Almost done with the job, really don't want to tell home owner we can't finish today and have to charge him more to come back.
>Grab Gerber and make shit happen.
I swear to fucking god, you need to get a job and taste the real world, when your mother dies you'll starve to death a week later because you don't know how to defrost those chicken tendies in the microwave.

>>1638241
>fuck up a job
>have customer pay to fix it
Is that how it works in freedom land?

>>1638241
Huh? I worked as an attic monkey for a small contractor for years before I got my own truck, and my boss would've fucking grilled me for that shit in spite of any heat stroke I had from the 160+ degree attics around here. I think meat starts cooking at 165? I was literally hired to do what you're complaining about right out of high school, and did it with no complaints for 60-70hr weeks sometimes.

Fuck off with that shit, ya cunt. I put in my time, and managed to do things the right way while doing it so that the next guy wouldn't have to suffer through my lazy mistakes AND the customer actually got what they paid for. I run around all day long getting paid to fix shit like this by sad sacks who already paid fucks like you to do the initial work, and if I didn't get paid so damn much it would be soul crushing.

>>1630578
Now thats an enticing tool, i bet it has a cute nickname

>>1638103
Idiot.

>>1637532
One side of the house had steel pile foundations from a refurbishment, the other side still had old wooden pile foundations that collapsed and sunk one side of the house literally overnight

>>1638052
Yeah I hate when I'm on a lightless "feeling expedition" in my attic and I just stand up and get roofing nails in my head.

>>1633141
Is this really how you think someone does a motor check, or are you trolling. No one can be this dumb. Right?

>>1635514
That is fucking scary. Was this an april 1st thing?

>>1639436
Something like that
>bosstown dynamics

>>1639400
Of course. It has to be a responsible party too like upper management.

You want some sort instrument that reports back on the position of the drive? What if that malfunctions and causes a huge crash like this? Nonono.

>>1634520
Toilets are a big siphon that sucks shit piss and water, once the water level gets to a certain point it automatically starts the siphon and is able to empty the shitbin until the seal breaks. It's able to do this because of the PE difference between the outlet and inlet, not the flow from the tank.

>>1630578
I found a brick of blow renovating a former drug house. I threw it out because the amount of it would fuck me for life if I was caught. Considered selling it but it wasnt worth it.

>>1639474
Yeah they just put a tank there with a 2" opening because it looks cool. Jesus how dumb are you guys? Hit yourself in the face.

>>1639400
>No one can be this dumb. Right?
Welcome to /diy/, fren.

>>1639541
Plus, you never know if they've mixed some other shit in there.

>>1639436
Corridor Digital did a spoof

>>1637907
Did you reply to the wrong post?

>>1630293
>>1633555
why are there multiple tubes of lube wtf

>>1634729
>>1634977
>>1635031
the problem is if the valve is open during a mains break and the dirty water flows backwards into the main pipe and then when they fix it, it gets blasted back up everybody else's water pipes. This shit still happens with water heaters, they can siphon out back into the main water supply when it breaks, especially if they are above the first floor. Ask me how I know

>>1638241
Sounds like there were two dumbasses on the job, there.

>>1634729
you're so full of shit.
If air gap had anything to do with it, how do you explain flushometer toilets?
Tanks are for flow rate, nothing else.

>>1639789
Not if it was installed correctly / to code.
>what is a check valve.

>>1630240
>He doesn't battle short his house

>>1630270
"I'm about to die."

>>1635514
>ENOUGH

>>1639471
top lulz this is great
https://youtu.be/dKjCWfuvYxQ?t=102

>>1638253
More or less, yeah. Not because the tech wants to charge you again, but because in Freedom Land, you're your boss' bitch, and because labor is the most expensive part of doing anything in construction, alarms, locksmithing, maintenance, electricity or plumbing, I.E., basically anything /diy/ related, you bet your ass your boss is going to force you to charge the customer again for the second trip. After all, that's another hour of labor he has to pay for, even though you only actually spent 10 minutes finishing up that one job you couldn't finish yesterday and spent the rest of that hour driving to the next job for the company on the clock.

TL;DR The boss always gets paid in Freedom Land. Not the worker, not the customer, always the boss.

this is some OLD OC of mine

in some previous "re wire work" some asshat put pieces of cut off romex sleeve over the old cloth wire.
it was like this all over the house.

almost as bad as seeing a nice new 3 prong outlet, in a nice new box, connected to nice new romex wire... but pull the box from the wall and see a pigtail of romex nutted to the old cloth knob/tube with the ground wire doing nothing.

>>1640161
How any of that is the client's problem? What are you going to charge him for before you finish the job in the first place?

>>1640740
Shitty companies work like how he's saying, and only bitches roll over for that sort of treatment. A boss that wants to keep his company going doesn't let that sort of thing happen, since bad reviews really impacts your ability to stay in business. Don't tolerate shit workers doing shit jobs, and you'll be fine.

>>1640161
Why the fuck would the customer get paid? The boss gets paid because it's the boss's damn company, and that money keeps the workers employed. And of course a worker who fucks up would get docked pay.

>>1640773
>>1640740
>>1640161
American mechanic here. I've never experienced any of this. If I fuck up, the shop pays for it, and I pay for it with labor (not the parts I guess the shop eats that).
Even if I didn't fuck up but the parts manufacturer did, we eat that cost, not the customers. Idk what shitty businesses would put the cost on their customers. Ffs my bank pays me back if my card information is stolen and that's just as likely my fault. And banks are shoddy businesses from the rip.

How do you not notice....
8" steel.

>>1639902
Um,
They have a built in vaccum breaker?

Do you even plumb?

>>1630240
Fucking underb& know-it-all.
It will trip no problem.

>>1640836
Sounds scary.
What if you fuck up big time? Does it only apply to smaller things?

>>1637541
I had one, but it got in the way of my deep fryer.

>>1641647
Big time equals fired. Is this really not how other trades function?

>>1638305
You sound upset.

>>1632106
>>1630302
>automatically assuming it was before the home was lived in
Where the fuck do you people live? Is it normal for construction crews where you are to carry spermicidal lubricant on the job?!

>>1638241
>shop monkey is a fuck up
>you’re a fuck up

>option 1: nut up and treat the customer like you would want to be treated
>option 2: charge customer for your companies fuck up
>option 3: fuck customer by half assing a job they paid for

>choosing the third option and simultaneously acting like the victim and the hero of the story

I bet you also take it personally when the homeowner second guesses your work because they are distrustful from getting screwed by people like you.

>>1640161
>t. 18 year old college student who was told by their Lesbian Dance Theory professor how evil capitalism is and how all business owners are the 1% MAAAAAAANNNN

>>1638082
>if only American tea came in bags

>>1641808
Where I worked they ignored reasonable fuckups, while something serious would presumably get you fired. Having to repay sounds strange to me and got me confused.

>>1641811
Yeah, idiots annoy me.
protip: it will trip no problem

>>1634500
Can anyone tell me what the roof is made of?

>>1635506
HVAC here I regularly piss in the crawl space corners

>>1641842
Hay and sea reeds covered with poly mesh
Think rattan. Probably a tar base under it

>>1640884
What's going on here? I'm a retard

>>1641837
Repay as in your with your time. You don't actually hand the shop cash or anything, you just gotta do the job again right and that time spent is unpaid.
Its rare for that to happen but it does happen. The only thing I really hate is that it's the same story if the part was bad. I put a starter in the same truck 3 different times once, all the parts manufacturers fault but I still only got paid once.

>>1635506
lol i did this in highschool, but pooped right where the toilet was going to be

>>1641849
looks like suuuuuper shallow threads

>>1634502
I don't know what's more shocking: the angle of the house in relation to the ground, or the fucking sign telling people that it's lopsided

>>1633530
Is that fucking solder paste?

>>1641880
That's fucked up.

>>1641849
>>1641928

The hydraulic pipe cutter was tracking.
Dr Dumbfuck the pipefitting expert didn't look up from him phone for a full 14 turns of the pipe.

>>1635514

>that T-pose at the end

>>1639436
>That is fucking scary.

A lot of things must be, when you have a sub-70 IQ.

>>1640161
Have you ever considered that you just work for a shitty company? No, of course you haven't, because you're just as big of a piece of shit as you claim your boss is.

If I ever had a contractor pull the type of shit you're talking about, they wouldn't be getting any remaining payment until they did it right for no additional charge. And that's if I didn't just tell them to fuck off entirely and get someone else to finish it.

>>1639541
why didnt you just use it then retard?

>>1635514
>DOMINANCE:ASSERTED

>>1634520
is this the right gif for this question?

>>1642722

I mean,
You have to know it's not related.
Right?

>>1633141
>There is no way someone was walking around to every motor in that huge theatre
Yes, actually that is what happens.

>>1630296
This looks like that panel in the Juni Ito manga where the father dissapears during dinner one night and is found trapped between the central support post and the foundation. Rather than destroy his family's house to save himself he accepts his fate and lets himself die down there. Later they set up a little shrine round the post and his bones. But instead of incense and a black-framed photo it's river rocks and an empty pack of smokes.

>>1642366
If you're not afraid for the future of humanity after seeing how far technology has come and what it's being used for, then you are the brainlet, my friend.

>>1642846
That's an entirely separate issue from being able to recognize an obvious cgi joke video, fag.

>>1638241
>Dumbass shop monkey loaded 12" duct and 8" junctions on the truck.
I've walked off jobs for less. One company I was with sent entirely wrong sizes in a similar fashion with us to my first job with them on the other side of the state. The foreman insisted I just shove it on and tape it because they were already a month behind schedule. Conveniently they had me drive myself and a helper up there in a company truck. I had the keys in my pocket and the helper also wanted to leave, so I was filling up the tank on the way out of town by the time the office called wondering why the foreman said a truck and two employees fucked off two days early.

It's not a good sign if that's what you walk into, and I'm happy I left when I did. All this was after having to fix a weld and rewire a few t-stats that the foreman seemed confused about.

>>1639541
Jesus, why didn't you rail a fat fucking line?

>>1640773
>Why the fuck would the customer get paid?
Want to work on this project of mine? Great experience, will look good on your resume. Will let you in cheap

>>1631076
>>1631122
those are LED panels that are popped together like legos to backlight concerts and sports events. They are super expensive, there is probably at least a half mil in dmg in that pic alone.

>>1643276
Some people value their current mimetic arrangement, and are afraid mind altering drugs might alter it

People are happy without drugs.

My response would certainly be to bin it .

>>1643291
Mine would be to mix up a Stevie Ray Vaughan cocktail. If I found a humidor full of cubans in my drywall, despite not being up to my speed, I'd chew one as well.

>>1643294
I'd probably do a cigar.

>>1640051
battle short fucking lol

>>1630742
why is this bad?

>>1631358
all my fucking rage

oldie but goodie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSCVahyh3Dk

>>1643331

>>1643326
It's going to corrode and break.

>>1631362
With straws I don't see the point if you're not taking the cup with you

>>1643331

>>1641662
Best post

>>1640149
>not even mad

>>1631358
I... I can't

>>1641849
This should be a /diy/ banner

>>1633807

Excuse my ignorance, by why do you want an airtight house in the first place?

Is it to make climate control easier?

>>1631362
>Banning straws is a retarded California idea and nobody here actually takes it seriously
It's taking root along both coasts. All the east coast states are beginning the process of banning consumer plastics. You can't even get a bag for your shit at the supermarket or dollarstore anymore, unless you shell out for a reusable one.

>>1634500
>>1634502
The slanty shanty

>>1630358
did this two months ago, to my neighbors house, wonder if its still standing??

>>1645539
Funny to contrast that with amazon which wraps everything in five layers of plastic with thirty of the big bubble wrap balloons.

>>1645549
Oh yeah, it's not consumer plastics filling landfills. disposable plastics used in commercial shipping is fucking HUGE. I work at a small retailer and we throw out a dumpster full of plastic wrap PER WEEK that comes in on our shipments.

>>1645553
I used to be a good boy.
I would take all my plastic bags and stuff them in a special bin with my grocery bags and take them all down to the thin plastic bag disposal at the store every couple months

Now
>plastic bags from grocery stores illegal
>no one else does thin plastic recycling
>even recycling bin from trash company, every two months they send out a flier or buy a PSA on the radio that they cant take plastic bags.

Into the trash it goes. Thanks greenies, you sure made this problem better.

>>1645650
Everyone realized that "recycling" was a meme

>>1645539
Germany no longer allows the sale of plastic/disposable plates/knives/sporks, and possibly cups. They also don't have plastic bags.

I just take a canvas bag with me when over there. That or haul off a cardboard box.

It has really cut down on the blowing debris.

You should see a shithole like Djibouti. Frigging plastic bags as far as the eye can see.

Styrofoam boxes are also just waste. Several places have switched back to cardboard and some wax-paper liner.

>>1645664
>recycling
In the U.S. that generally meant shipping tons of crap to third world shitholes. Now quite a few no longer accept it.
Just a profit maker for recycling companies.

>>1645520
heating and cooling are much cheaper

Some places have terrible humidity and mold is a problem.

Just found this at wife's parents

>>1645503
here

>>1646864
Actually very nice. Submit it

>>1646848
>unstripped ground in a ground bar
How do you fuck this up? This is like below basics.

>>1630530
>it does not affect the breaker
it means you cant turn off the breaker by hand, retard.

>>1637541

I found while fixing my dad's office lights that the wires that connected to the ceramic plug were not peeled, so the copper did not touch the metal but the ceramic of the sides of the connector, I had fun fixing this and some 1950's electrical wiring

>>1646868
You don't understand. It is proprietary weather tight connection. Plastic is easily pierced by metal.
I don't strip insulation, I just insert wire and use Bosch screwdriver thing to tighten it to 5N, which is enough to pierce through PVC insulation and make good contact.

>>1631358
Of course it's a pale white hand.

>>1630240
Looks like some kind of piss poor attempt at safety. If that circuit blows, you would have to unscrew that in order to reset it. Stops someone from just resetting it without fixing the problem that tripped it in the first place.

>>1639541
Found a bag of weed under the horn button of a truck I bought
Mus have been there two years

still worked

>>1647105
>still worked
The horn or the weed?

>>1630234
only prob i see with that is the shitty duct tape instead of foil tape.

>>1647096
>white man bad

>>1646871
You can always cut/remove the wire when you need to, and it keeps retards from re closing the breaker every time it pops instead of first rectifying the problem

>>1631358
Fucking white people

>still race b8ing
I expect better from you, anon

>>1647094

Had a guy like you wire a building like that.

Was enough contact to get lights and testers going but as soon as you used anything that pulled more than 4 amps breakers kept tripping all over the place.

>>1647145

If you try to close it when the fault is still there and the circuit is still closed the breaker will just fly back open.

>>1647094
The top is stripped. I'll get a picture of it when I go back later today

>>1647109
both, ayyylmao420blazeit

>>1633807
This poster is correct. Sealing an old house can have disastrous consequences.

>>1637737
It's a ship-alt. Thanks shipyard!

>>1638108
As a shim? that's all I can think of

>>1630578
Just did that a few weeks ago.
Panel saw on a die grinder, kicked back right into my hand,
If I was thinking would of gotten some good gore snaps, but here's an after.
Didn't hit anything vital & declined stitches.

>>1646881
?
whats wrong if the pic?

>>1647146
>>1647096
Silly American, those hands arent white

>>1631358

Someone hates his rental company

>>1648283
I almost cut my middle finger in half with a blade and it looked much worse so I do t think it's gonna be that bad for you

>>1648284
it's a resistive heating element immersed in water inside the shower head, it's a fail deadly design, any fault and you're dead.
Plus the installation is bad; wiring is exposed with only electrical tape insulation, a stray splash could hit the live wires.

>>1647105
Found 4 pounds and a fucking pipe 4 years after I bought mine. Cops at parties sent the dogs around. 1 hit and they noticed how dirty it was and figured if anything it's just the smell because the door panel hadn't been off in a long time.

>buy truck
>get busted for 4 pounds and a pipe in 2000.
>hello fellow inmate, how are you.

Dodged a bullet.

>it ain't mine. LOL, go directly to jail do not pass go do not collect $200

>>1645553
Put an add in the paper for others that ship and need packing material. Seperate bin. Less full dumpster. Free packing for others. Win win

>>1645539
100% FUCK THIS. I'm finding a resturaunt supply warehouse and buying 2 pickup loads of straws, cups, and shopping bags.

Fucking paper and canvas meme bullshit is a pain in the asshole.

>former "carry out please" at the local grocery store. Fuck u paper bag faggots. Eat shit and die slow

>>1635136

That's some next level not giving a fuck.

>>1640153
AHAHA! It's funny till I happens. Then it's hilarious.

>ftw the governator may actually fight a terminator

>>1638102
>dumb fucks
>back to back world war champions
>invented the computer and internet you shitpost from
>kek

Why the fuck would anyone want a faggot kettle. Throw tea bags in the coffee pot and have at it.

Fucking kettle. My sides.

OI, YOU GOT A LOICENSE FOR THAT KETTLE!??

>>1638080
No. But I do want them all to be raped by brahma bull dick for all of eternity

>>1637894
See! This guy gets it!

Yall should higher the guy we do in northeast Oklahomador your annual 8 hour circlejerk. I think his name is mike? Shorter guy. Bald. He's pretty cool. Makes the 8 hours of faggotry almost tolerable

>>1637882
Not in normal america we dont. Day one I moved into my house. Owners bought a new electric oven 2 months prior and then came up with an even better one so they left it. First thing yeet into the burn pile out the house.

Natural gas master race. All others is cucked

>>1638082
I do this all the time. Are you retarded?
Put water into the percolator without coffee and it makes hot water! Wow.

>>1641822
>Lesbian Dance Theory
Hey, don't talk shit about Lesbian Dance Theory!

>>1645503

>>1649519
Now shop it so the poster's name is Bepis, and it's perfect.

>>1635514
Wonder how it would stand up against a cattle prod

>>1641834
Getting tea in America is a real pain.
Getting good tea in America is impossible.

Every time I have to travel there I take tea bags with me.
Some great conversations and chuckles to be had at american customs.

>>1649616
My local grocery carries Harney and Sons. Is that a decent tea?

>>1640884
What's going on here? I'm a retard

>>1649554
>>1649661

i gotchu famalam

>>1649629
All health teas are horrible.
Red or black tea for a good cuppa.

>>1649461
>>1646881
That's how everyone showers here in monkeyland. Never heard of anyone who died from an electric shower, thin wires may burn down the slums sometimes, but if it's grounded it's fine.

>>1638241
>not confirming your parts load
>being this much of a lazy sack of shit

Kill yourself you absolute baby back bitch.

>>1635514
Reminds me of the clip of the girl in the full latex body suit doing the same thing.

>>1630583
The cigarettes weren't menthols.

>>1631270
>You guys are proposing banning straws but all for styrofoam housing.
The house isn't single-use. The straw thing is stupid, but your argument is worse.

>>1633178
A /diy/ powerstrip. Nice.

>>1633802
>“I no crazy! I no crazy!”
That may have been "I know crazy!"

>>1641820
Well. Said.

>>1645549
>>1645553
pic related.

>>1630263

>>1630358
whats wrong with this

>>1637541
>he doesn't microwave his water.

>>1631358
i dont get it

>>1630293
Spoon, matches, cigarettes and lube. Looks like a junkie emptied out their their trash can.

>>1646881

>>1649778
Woman at Mom's work lost her eye to a metal straw. Tripped whole walking with a cup with one.

>>1635033
Depends on a couple factors.
Interior or exterior - if exterior and you live somewhere with snow it's a big risk.
Thickness of the foundation - honeycombing might only be at the surface and the remaining structure is solid.

Most concrete infrastructure is only given 75 year design lifespan, so your 80 year old foundation shouldn't cause concern if you upkeep maintenance.

>>1650455
So, yeah, it's a stupid thing to use OSB for basically anything.
But I'm willing to bet the real fault in that picture is not the OSB, but the house wrap.
When they first started making things like Tyvek, the wraps were formulated differently. They found out the hard way that if you wrapped a house and let it sit in the sun for a while before the siding went on (as often happens in large developements and such), the sun's UV rays changed the chemical structure and made their one way vapor barrier into a zero way vapor barrier. So all the moisture that was trying to escape the house would hit the housewrap and condense on the exterior sheathing, rotting the whole thing from the inside. There were some pretty big lawsuits because of that. These days housewraps are sold with an exposure rating, basically telling you how long they can be exposed to the sun before you're buggered.
You know what else fucks up house wraps? Natural wood siding. The tannins in the wood do the same thing the sun's UV rays do. So if you're putting natural wood siding over housewrap you have to seal the backside of the siding so it doesn't interact with the wrap.

And this is why I have and will always use tar paper. Proven for over a century. No lawsuits.