/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.1006499]

Shit thread.

[Anonymous No.1006500]

[Anonymous No.1006502]

[Anonymous No.1006504]

[Anonymous No.1006506]

>>1006502
Lol nice form work boys

[Anonymous No.1006509]

>>1006506
Imagine being the poor cunt that has to clean that up.

[Anonymous No.1006510]

wtf.

[Anonymous No.1006511]

>>1006499
>>1006500
>>1006502
>>1006504
Fucking christ

[Anonymous No.1006519]

>>1006510
Multi purpose scaffolding?
Only downpart it shrinks every time it's used..

[Anonymous No.1006520]

>>1006519
I don't know but I used to work on these new builds and literally nobody gives a fuck.

[Anonymous No.1006522]

[Anonymous No.1006530]

>>1006522
Nothing particularly unusual about that, unless they left it that way.

[Anonymous No.1006534]

[Anonymous No.1006535]

>>1006530
I know but It's a mess.

[Anonymous No.1006540]

[Anonymous No.1006560]

>>1006510

What is the issue?

[Anonymous No.1006562]

>>1006560

Scaffolding will be a permanent addition.

Was this you?

[Anonymous No.1006563]

>>1006530
Are you serious? I'll bet my job as a window guy that bitch would not close if you beat the outside with a 10lb sledge!

[Anonymous No.1006574]

>>1006562
Just saw off posts and make light posts for torches.

When life gives you lemons.

[Anonymous No.1006577]

[Anonymous No.1006578]

>>1006577

[Anonymous No.1006579]

>>1006578

[Anonymous No.1006580]

>>1006579

[Anonymous No.1006583]

>>1006580

[Anonymous No.1006584]

>>1006583

[Anonymous No.1006585]

>>1006562

I didn't notice

[Anonymous No.1006586]

>>1006584

[Anonymous No.1006588]

>>1006586

[Anonymous No.1006593]

>>1006588
I've done this before not proud to admit it but I have. Nobody at work knew it was me so I just kept quiet.

[Anonymous No.1006602]

[Anonymous No.1006603]

[Anonymous No.1006604]

>>1006603
what the fuck. I know nothing about electrics someone explain why that is red hot.

[Anonymous No.1006606]

>>1006602
ahah best mitre ever.

[Anonymous No.1006607]

[Anonymous No.1006609]

[Anonymous No.1006610]

[Anonymous No.1006611]

[Anonymous No.1006612]

[Anonymous No.1006615]

>>1006603
So hot.

[Anonymous No.1006618]

>>1006604
bad contact, resistance, lots of current

[Anonymous No.1006621]

>>1006612
I cannot begin to believe that this actually works

[Anonymous No.1006622]

[Anonymous No.1006624]

>>1006621
All it needs is to work in the driveway, and possibly the test drive.

[Anonymous No.1006625]

>>1006621
More like a before photo than after photo.

[Anonymous No.1006629]

Remember, Ivan, this wire always goes to earth.

[Anonymous No.1006631]

>>1006629

But it works !

[Anonymous No.1006634]

[Anonymous No.1006637]

[Anonymous No.1006638]

[Anonymous No.1006639]

[Anonymous No.1006640]

[Anonymous No.1006642]

>>1006640
To be honest I almost did this. Luckily Commomsense 2015 kicked in and did the transition under the door jamb.

[Anonymous No.1006644]

>>1006642
>To be honest I almost did this. Luckily Commomsense 2015 kicked in and did the transition under the door jamb.
Well it's like that on every door (my flat)..
"commonsense.exe has stopped working"

[Anonymous No.1006655]

>>1006578
Super hipster industrial shower head.
$99.98 Plus shipping.

[Anonymous No.1006656]

>>1006644
For much of that, it wouldn't take much to fix with better finishing touches.

[Anonymous No.1006657]

>>1006655
Kinda had that Dr. Seuss shit going on with me.

[Anonymous No.1006658]

>>1006629

[Anonymous No.1006659]

>>1006602
>MDF fag
lol

[Anonymous No.1006661]

>>1006578
For when a tall man wants water on his head.

[Anonymous No.1006663]

>>1006583
with all those fittings would that have been cheaper with copper?

[Anonymous No.1006665]

>>1006535
The foam is trimmed away once it's cured and then you skim & trim the wall around the window.

Like I say, it's only shit if it was left that way.

[Anonymous No.1006667]

>>1006602
There was an attempt.

[Anonymous No.1006671]

Huehuehue

[Anonymous No.1006672]

>>1006602
Could throw some compound on it and fill the gap to shape and paint.

[Anonymous No.1006673]

>>1006603
holy fuck

[Anonymous No.1006674]

>>1006672
>It's okay, we can just add more bodge

I mean okay, we could put some expanded metal edge trim on the corner and skim up to it, which would be okay, but it doesn't solve the shitty skirting.

[Anonymous No.1006676]

>>1006665
Yeah i know I use this stuff quite a lot I just put it on because it's shit foaming. also if you put too much foam in a frame it can move it around and distort it.

[Anonymous No.1006677]

>>1006672
nothing a whole tube of caulk won't fix. xD

[Anonymous No.1006678]

>>1006676
>put too much foam in a frame it can move it around and distort it.

This is true.

[Anonymous No.1006680]

>>1006671
At least its easy to cut the power

[Anonymous No.1006687]

>>1006603

Is that you, verrol?

[Anonymous No.1006699]

>>1006609
is that a booby trap?

[Anonymous No.1006701]

>>1006622
As a structural engineer this one is painful.

Luckily it looks like attic rafters, so it will probably be fine.

[Anonymous No.1006704]

>>1006699
Just in case someone tries to steal his mouldy potatoes .

[Anonymous No.1006709]

>>1006704
Thought it was fried chicken trap for Jamal.

[Anonymous No.1006710]

>>1006709
It was probably this guys chicken.

[Anonymous No.1006713]

>working in a home doing simple drywall repair
>look inside the wall im working on
>the cabinet installers in the room next to me didn't install drywall behind the cabinet because hurrdurr fuck the firecode
>found an exposed wire that wasnt properly secured to an outlet, causing the breaker to be tripped
REEEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.1006719]

>>1006667
I'm pretty sure this is the result of giving up.

[Anonymous No.1006724]

Dry Wallers didn't speak English and were dicks. Covered everything.

[Anonymous No.1006725]

>>1006609
>>1006699
Looks like an attempt at fixing a broken thermostat?

[Anonymous No.1006761]

>>1006634
Oh my god, this reminds me of this weird ass family i knew because i went to school with one of their kids. They lived in one of those semi-permanent homes (idk what you call them, but like a glorified trailer but its attached to the ground but no proper foundations) and were cat obsessed, and when they 'did out' (still was awful) their kitchen, the mother deliberately put the handles at the bottom instead of the top because she thought she'd be able to teach the cats to get their own meals out of the cupboards. She never managed to.

They moved into a fixer upper a while ago i think, I wish i was still in touch with them because i would love to see what 'innovations' they've incorporated into the place

[Anonymous No.1006768]

>>1006603
The Glownut!

[Anonymous No.1006777]

>>1006577

Its the baling twine that got me in this picture, gotta love rednecks.

[Anonymous No.1006779]

>>1006593

What am I looking at, did you try to drill through a radiator?

[Anonymous No.1006780]

>>1006779
>try to drill through brick external wall, estimate height - should just miss the radiator
>oops

[Anonymous No.1006794]

>>1006612
NO FUCKING WAY

[Anonymous No.1006796]

>>1006504
That's really kinda cool looking and different, unless that darker row of tiles in the middle is just grout or some stupid shit, it just looks like something to triggers autists and obsessive-compulsives.

[Anonymous No.1006798]

>>1006796
>dark row of tiles
Do you know how to expand images, you fucking retard?

[Anonymous No.1006799]

>>1006798
Yep, and as far as I could tell it could be anything from concrete, to a single piece of slate cut perfectly to fit.

[Anonymous No.1006801]

noice slavs diy

[Anonymous No.1006802]

[Anonymous No.1006803]

[Anonymous No.1006804]

[Anonymous No.1006805]

[Anonymous No.1006812]

Been doing some electrical work on this house built on 30's. Partially original cabeling, something "new" from previous owners. Found this cable coming through wall. Good thing it was part of the cable i was supposed to replace anyways so there were no extra work.

[Anonymous No.1006813]

>>1006812
Closer look after taking away the other cables to be replaced. It looks like somebody stripped too much insulation from the cables and decided some hockey tape will do the trick.

[Anonymous No.1006814]

>>1006813
Just a ticking time bomb waiting to burn the whole house down. And yes that is metal around the cable. There is still alot of this metal plated cable in the house and since the insulators inside have rotten during time, some of them are already leaking some current through. (You can feel it with wet hands.)

[Anonymous No.1006815]

>>1006814
Other end of the cable was not that good either.

[Anonymous No.1006818]

>>1006779
I tried drilling a tiny hole into the bottom of an air conditioner once, for water drainage. I ended up hitting something important, and all the coolant sprayed out like a fire extinguisher. Completely killed the AC.

[Anonymous No.1006820]

>>1006818

>killed the a/c

Any good HVAC company can fix anything on a recently new a/c for a fraction of the price

[Anonymous No.1006824]

>>1006671
Vintage plastic, vintage porcelain handle, vintage wires, vintage piece of wood. It must be the main object of attention in the bathroom.

The coin is probably old, too.

[Anonymous No.1006837]

>>1006510
>literally union work

"Not MY Job™"

[Anonymous No.1006842]

>>1006799
>single piece of slate cut perfectly to fit
You have brain damage don't you

[Anonymous No.1006843]

>>1006671
Is... that an electric showerhead?

[Anonymous No.1006846]

>>1006801
>>1006802
>>1006803
>>1006804
>>1006805
>>1006812
>>1006813
>>1006814
>>1006815
This isn't suppose to be a gore thread!

[Anonymous No.1006862]

>>1006629

[Anonymous No.1006962]

>>1006578
I want to duplicate this for my tall roomate

[Anonymous No.1006965]

>>1006802
This looks exactly like the "NEWLY RENOVATED!!" place I rented in college

[Anonymous No.1006975]

>>1006578
dude, that's just some guy that want to get water on his head, and it's way fucking cheaper than getting a plumper out to raise the shower head a few inches

i'm not tall at all, but when a shower head won't let me go under it without bending over there's a problem with how it was installed

[Handy Manny No.1006981]

>>1006580
I'M DONE! I'M DONE WITH THIS THREAD! fuken...

[Anonymous No.1006984]

>>1006580
I like this

[Anonymous No.1007006]

>>1006578
Cause buying one of these is sooo hard...

[Anonymous No.1007010]

>>1007006
i didn't even know those existed, awesome

[Anonymous No.1007015]

>>1006843
impoverished countries put electric heating elements in the shower heads as an alternative to actually installing a water heater

[Anonymous No.1007028]

>>1006522
>tfw most of the doors/windows in my house look like that because I was too lazy to clean it up

[Anonymous No.1007030]

>>1006609
>load bearing leftovers

[Anonymous No.1007034]

>>1006671
>knife switch
>humid environment with water going everywhere
Dear Christ that's a major hazard

[Anonymous No.1007041]

>>1006843
Yeah. Hear is some /int/ anon's OC.

[Anonymous No.1007047]

>>1006820
Depending on what he hit, you could fix it in twenty minutes with a couple copper sleeves, some new pipe, a torch, and a can of refrigerant.

[Anonymous No.1007061]

>>1007047
And the know-how. And the willingness to actually fix a 10 year old AC that I got for free from a yard sale.

[Anonymous No.1007086]

>>1006634

She'd have to teach her cats how to use a can opener first.

[Anonymous No.1007099]

[Anonymous No.1007100]

>>1006837
jealous you work in a scab shop and make shit?

[Anonymous No.1007101]

>>1007099
wait what?

[Anonymous No.1007103]

>>1006510
I worked on a site where they did this. safety wouldnt let them remove the scaffold sections and the adjacent work had to happen same day to meet timetables. it honestly didnt impact anything too much.

[Anonymous No.1007113]

>>1006799
go visit an optometrist, ASAP.

I mean, seriously: there's a fucking footprint in it, FFS...

[Anonymous No.1007119]

>>1007099
where is the "my mind is full of fuck" image when you need it

[Anonymous No.1007125]

>>1006586
My car looks just like this, but all of the wires seem to be brown. Also it's a volkswagen. There are several buttons that cause the wipers to come on.

[Anonymous No.1007126]

>>1007101
I guess they run out of plasterboard and had to use all the left overs.

[Anonymous No.1007128]

>>1006584
2 extension rings and a cover and it's good. Looks sloppy as fuck though

[Anonymous No.1007129]

>>1006612
This would hold long enough to push the car off a trailer at the wreckers

[Anonymous No.1007132]

>>1006603
Let me guess, someone was stealing electricity to grow weed.

[Anonymous No.1007156]

>>1007119
This one's similar I guess

[Anonymous No.1007178]

>>1006580
lost

[Anonymous No.1007185]

>>1006812
>Partially original cabeling, something "new" from previous owners.

If you touch any of the original wiring, and it subsequently catches fire or injures someone, you are liable. Depending on what you're doing you also be required by reqs. to replace like-for-like.

There is a reason a qualified spark won't touch something like that. You should be ripping it all out & re-wiring completely.

[Anonymous No.1007190]

>>1006843
Yup. Google "suicide shower". The reason for the name should not require an explanation.

[Anonymous No.1007224]

>>1007185
Thats basically what is being done. But it's not possible to do all at once. Anyhow all the cables behind one fuse are replaced in one go, even the newish cables.

it was original and "new" now it's all new and proper cable with proper installations.

[Anonymous No.1007252]

>>1007128

[Anonymous No.1007308]

>>1007119
This?

[Anonymous No.1007314]

>>1006520
Same and this. One time I saw a plumber throw about 20 boxes of cgc compound like as far as he could because he was mad that a couple of them where in his way. Most of them exploded or and a tear in the bag after, ruining them. Like wtf nugga that was far more effort than moving 2 or 3 boxes 3 feet in any direction.

[Anonymous No.1007315]

>>1006580

[Anonymous No.1007316]

>>1006583
I'm a plumber and I don't even know what the fuck is happening here.

[Anonymous No.1007318]

>>1006583
is that a radiator?

[Anonymous No.1007321]

>>1006780
I haven't hit a rad before but I have hit a water pipe in the fucking ground. This was after spending a couple hundred on locates that said nothing was there.

[Anonymous No.1007326]

>>1006701
>Looks like attic rafters

Why would there be what looks like waterlines and gas line on the roof? This just raises more questions.

[Anonymous No.1007341]

>>1006500
this triggers me
>really big bullet for a light pole
>light pole in middle of sidewalk
>uneven unfinishable sidewalk, cant be fixed until dirt is made level and settles and refills and settles and refills again
>that shit morter on the wall
>that brick that is sticking out on the base of the house
Id fucking kill someone

[Anonymous No.1007351]

>>1006578
>>1006655
>>1006661
>>1006962
>>1006975
The pipe coming out of the was is upside down. The showerhead is straight. Without the bending pipes attached the water would hit the ceiling..
/diy/ I am disappoint.

[Anonymous No.1007352]

>>1006604
Thats a glownut, it lets you know the circuit is live.

[Anonymous No.1007353]

>>1006622
>>1006701
>>1007326
window with visible light at a non basementy level.. attic confirmed.

[Anonymous No.1007355]

>>1006671
Ive always wanted to try one of these.. I bet its cozy as fuck until it kills you.

[Anonymous No.1007356]

>>1007355
you could also wish for a hot water heater of adequate capacity

[Anonymous No.1007357]

>>1007353
So why are waterlines and gas lines in the motherfucking roof?

[Anonymous No.1007359]

>>1007355
>>1007356

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjA0aee07k

[Anonymous No.1007361]

>>1007341
You realise that is literally a building site, right? Everything you're complaining about is because it's unfinished. The lamp post is in the wrong location. That's it.

[Anonymous No.1007362]

>>1006640
All I see is a missing finishing.. Or would you rather fix it tight and squeak the living fuck out off it within a year?

[Anonymous No.1007363]

>>1007351
>The pipe coming out of the was is upside down

Okay, but what if the pipe is so low that a tall person can't get under it, so they turned if through 180 degrees and added the extension to raise it up by 6"?

[Anonymous No.1007364]

>>1007359
All of /diy/ should know about Big Clive.

[Anonymous No.1007365]

>>1007356
but this is infinite.. I can last all damn day.
>>1007359
Seen the video, thanks for the post though.

>>1007357
Because fuck the codes.

>>1007361
They literally botched the fucking job on everything. You don't build half the sidewalk while the ground isn't even level.
I've never see masonry work done that way.. you don't stack the bricks then add mortar.

In your country do they really just haphazardly slap shit together and cut off bits until it looks acceptable afterwards?

[Anonymous No.1007366]

>>1007363
Then that is 50% luck that the pipe angles worked out like that and 50% cowboy

[Anonymous No.1007369]

>>1007365
>You don't build half the sidewalk while the ground isn't even level.

...which bit of that isn't level to you?

You realise you can build houses on sloped ground, right?

>I've never see masonry work done that way.. you don't stack the bricks then add mortar.

>I've never see masonry work done that way.. you don't stack the bricks then add mortar.

It's fucking blockwork. Nobody needs to clean up the runs because it's clearly going to be fucking rendered afterward. You will never, ever, see that.

Stop sperging out over literally nothing, you fucking snowflake.

[Anonymous No.1007371]

>>1007369
To make the sidewalk even with the door (and symmetrical) it needs to follow the blue lines.
The ground level in red is several cm/inches lower where the rest of the sidewalk will need to be placed.
After the fill in the dirt, they would put the rest of the sidewalk ontop of that. Over time the sidewalk will settle unevenly and will crack apart.

[Anonymous No.1007373]

>>1007371
What in the actual fuck are you talking about? Do you legit have a mental disability? Some sort of spacial impairment? Do you also have difficulty with the concept of time, or linear events?

[Anonymous No.1007378]

>>1007373
I think you do.
Explain what you are having a hard time understanding.

[Anonymous No.1007404]

>>1007378
Why you're this autistic.

[Anonymous No.1007411]

>>1006579

Now that shit is impressive.

[Anonymous No.1007413]

>>1007366
> 50% luck that the pipe angles worked out like that
>3 90 degree bends
>luck

[Anonymous No.1007425]

>>1006862
what am i looking at here? a grounding rod?

[Anonymous No.1007428]

>>1006534
underrated post

[Anonymous No.1007432]

>>1007413
The stupid angle of the shower pipe head being able to be corrected with a handful of elbows so that it is pointing straight down and doesn't max off the heads swivel abilities.. like in my shit shower.

[Anonymous No.1007434]

>>1007413
>>1007432
nevermind, I just looked again.. It is pretty much maxed off..

[Anonymous No.1007532]

>>1007103
The scaffold company wouldn't be happy when they come to take down the structure and they have to get a cut off saw to get the poles out.

[Anonymous No.1007535]

>>1006799
It's fucking dirt bro.

[Anonymous No.1007543]

>>1007364

he's just the poor man's EEVblog

[Anonymous No.1007549]

>>1006843
Common in my experience in South America. Been shocked by one a couple of times while taking a shower.

[Anonymous No.1007552]

>>1007100
Jealous I do the same work in a quarter of the time and get raises and higher pay based on my skills and I'm not 45+ years old? I'm 23 and made $90k last year. I do commissioning on sights with electricians entering retirement age that don't make as much as me. The only reason I have to show up at all is because the electricians are either incompetent or too slow for the project they need done.

Ill take "scab" over "lazy piece of shit" any day.

[Anonymous No.1007554]

>>1007425
The fucked part is there is SO MUCH METAL around there they could have grounded it to, but instead bring a fucking bucket of dirt to "earth" the ground connection, so now it's insulated. Hopefully it made a good connection through the paint on the handrail.

[Anonymous No.1007559]

Found on an apartment complex. The whole wall was built this way.

[Anonymous No.1007563]

...and so was the whole front of the house.

[Anonymous No.1007564]

forgot pic

[Anonymous No.1007566]

[Anonymous No.1007567]

The entire apartment complex was done in the same style.

[Anonymous No.1007570]

>>1007567
jesus christ

[Anonymous No.1007576]

>>1006862
>>1007425
>>1007554
I've actually come across the story behind this before. The generator is actually grounded to the frame and therefore the catwalk, but plant safety rules said it had to be attached to an earthed ground rod. So.... they attached it to a ground rod in earth.

Y

[Anonymous No.1007579]

No gfci protection, since the outlet is feeding the bathroom light, wouldn't want the lights to go out when you trip the gfci, now would you?

[Anonymous No.1007581]

>>1007579
Feeding the light via the switch, I should specify.

[Anonymous No.1007588]

>>1007567
>>1007559
Looks kinda neat actually

[Anonymous No.1007596]

>>1007579
>>1007581
Chances are they took the lazy method and just ganged up the wires on the outlet's screws. Not the way you are supposed to do it but we both know that shit ain't wired right anyway. That means the status of the GFCI wont effect the light. If it was done the right way, with two pigtails going off the incoming wires, one to the outlet and one to the switch, it would also still work if the GFCI tripped.

[Anonymous No.1007600]

>>1007567
>>1007566
>>1007564
>>1007559

Believe it or not that was a legit style for awhile. Probably because it was cheaper and faster then doing it right. There was a few places out here in the 70's that were made that way.

[Anonymous No.1007605]

>>1006562

I work on UK construction sites. This isn't uncommon. Scaffolds have to have a minimum width to conform with the HSE spec.

If that means the standards are inside of the foundation boundary of another build so be it.

And just because that is the case, it doesn't mean work on that second build should halt.

The tubes can be cut off, filled and it will still be below the final damp course. It's really not an issue.

[Anonymous No.1007606]

>>1006843

The way these are set up is fucking retarded, but the CONCEPT is actually really good. By heating up the water at the source, you save a tremendous amount of electricity, and the plumbing is simpler.

[Anonymous No.1007609]

>>1006843
https://youtu.be/cNjA0aee07k

[Anonymous No.1007610]

>>1006604

As >>1006618 already said, the resistance is way too high, also could be a bad contact. Otherwise the conductor is of bad quality or it is simply taking too much ampere, which also shows the fuse elements don't work properly.

[Anonymous No.1007613]

>>1007606
>you save a tremendous amount of electricity
My water heaters uses zero electricity. At least out west in the US most water heaters are gas.

[Anonymous No.1007641]

>>1006580
>somebody actually did this to their house

[Anonymous No.1007643]

>>1007119

[Anonymous No.1007647]

>>1007609
Pay attention anon, that post has already been made.

[Anonymous No.1007660]

>>1007613

Most water heaters in regions where you find those shower head heaters are solar with exterior tanks.

The shower head heater is much cheaper on every front except the cost of operation which the difference of a few hundred US dollar mean nothing to you. The people making less than 10 USD a day it makes a hug difference for.

Here it costs 100 coconuts for an electric shower head heater, 1500-2000 coconuts for a solar heater and there is no main line LPG supply and it costs about 1.34 coconuts per lbs of lpg so gas is out of the question and to have a 200 gallon tank of water being kept warm the cost of electricity is astronomical. All this is before the cost of additional plumbing

I as a project manager for a big company make 1500 coconuts a month so everything but the showerhead heater is really fucking expensive.

[Anonymous No.1007665]

>>1007647
So what.

[Anonymous No.1007668]

>>1007185
>There is a reason a qualified spark won't touch something like that.


yep, my house was built in the 1950's it has similar tar-cloth first-gen/pre-gen non grounded nomex
we'd have to get the whole house rewired, i mean this bitch still uses fuses, but it has breakers in the electrical service drop box/meter

and like 2-3 outlets in the kitchen and the 220v outlets are nomex circa 1980

no idea who though mixing and matching the two was a good idea

looking at, at least a $5k job, without adding a few outlets, for a retrofit

[Anonymous No.1007671]

>>1007357
it could be a place the doesn't freeze, or a weird crawl space for a second story it's next to, that has a bathroom

i've seen it done, usually lazy fucks, hell i've seen water ran up the outside of a building just screwed down, here, and since we don't freeze in the winter, they can last years without a problem

[Anonymous No.1007672]

>>1007665
Redundancy is only good when it's power supplies or safety systems.

[Anonymous No.1007675]

>>1007559
>>1007564
>>1007566
>>1007567

they were giving a place to ivy to grab onto the building

[Anonymous No.1007684]

>>1007672
Irony.

[Anonymous No.1007686]

[Anonymous No.1007688]

>>1006500
My fucking god I'm dying lmao

[Anonymous No.1007690]

>>1007686
man, i don't even work in construction and know this is wrong

[Anonymous No.1007710]

>>1007543
eev seemed cool at first but now he just seems like a cunt about everything
Hes like one of those people thats had way too much money for way too long.

[Anonymous No.1007717]

>>1007686
Oh wow... This is utter madness and cringeworthy

[Anonymous No.1007723]

>>1006540
Brilliant!

[Anonymous No.1007726]

>>1006577
What's the white bucket on the left doing?

[Anonymous No.1007728]

>>1006663
Yup. Much cheaper

[Anonymous No.1007730]

>>1007030
Got a chuckle out of me

[Anonymous No.1007731]

>>1006796
That's a model home, no access to garage.

[Anonymous No.1007732]

>>1007559
Pointing the joints cost extra.

[Anonymous No.1007740]

>>1007099
A little mud and some judicious sanding and you're set

[Anonymous No.1007765]

>>1006724
Why did you hire people that couldn't take any instruction that you may need to give?

[Anonymous No.1007768]

>>1007765
I've never seen a drywaller who wasn't Hispanic and their boss who was white guy who half mangled Spanish.

[Anonymous No.1007770]

>>1006622
Hahaha, there's a spot in my basement like this where they ran a pipe, but it's even better: they didn't bother cutting any of it, just bashing out chunks with a hammer.

[Anonymous No.1007772]

>>1007559
>>1007564
>>1007566
>>1007567
Just stick to building your homes out of wood, leave the brickwork to the Europoors.

[Anonymous No.1007775]

>>1007365
>but this is infinite
So is a tankless heater

[Anonymous No.1007776]

>>1006663
wonder if it was some dumb code thing that said they were only allowed to use a certain material, so this was the outcome.

[Anonymous No.1007777]

>>1007357
Water lines could be for solar thermal

[Anonymous No.1007788]

OC, three thousand items: http://dwg.ru/bsk

[Anonymous No.1007791]

>>1007686
I've become a god at plaster and sanding because of shit like this

[Anonymous No.1007792]

>>1007740
>>1007791
Proper plasterers don't sand m8.

[Anonymous No.1007810]

>>1007792

They are drywallers. Not plasterers.

In america they call dry wall compound "plaster"

[Anonymous No.1007812]

>>1006801
>>1006802
>>1006803
>>1006804
>>1006805
Please stop, that is physically hurting me

[Anonymous No.1007820]

>>1007810
he's right though, a good plaster/drywaller, will lay down his compound and not need to sand his shit

it saves so much work in the long run to just do it right the first time

[Anonymous No.1007823]

>>1007770
Please take a picture. For posterity.

[Anonymous No.1007828]

>>1007820
Eh, there's always little shit you still need to knock down. It's never even when you fill in big holes.

[Anonymous No.1007845]

>>1007828
come back when it's half way dry with a clean puddy knife and knock it down

no halfway decent drywaller sands their shit, it wears through the paper on the actual drywall

[Anonymous No.1007878]

>>1007788

lmao @ ur mudhut, Ivan

[Anonymous No.1007902]

>>1006724

I would guess that's speaker line, the audio receiver goes there.

[Anonymous No.1007924]

>>1006580

almost certainly the supplier got the dimensions for the door mixed up, and the installers put it in to fill the hole until the replacement arrived

[Anonymous No.1007948]

>>1007710
True. I can't stand him.

[Anonymous No.1007966]

>>1007792
Are you on crack? All plasterers should still sand their shit.

[Anonymous No.1007985]

>>1007966
If you do it properly you won't need to sand. after you do your second coat then you get out all the imperfections by going over it with a float then you can trowel it and you're are left with a smooth wall.

[Anonymous No.1008005]

>>1007985
This guy gets it, any other than this is not plaster but joint filling..

[Anonymous No.1008010]

>>1007845
>puddy knife

Stop that.

It's a "putty knife" I.e. a knife for applying putty.

[Anonymous No.1008034]

>>1007559
I don't see this much on exteriors, but that looks like fairly decent brickwork... if it were unintentional they wouldn't have made it past their 2nd job, and they've obvious done many more than that. Also you can see that the door frame edge is correct, so they obviously knew how to do it the traditional way.

One things for sure, the spiders, bees, wasps, mold, and mildew owe this dude a big fat thank you.

[Anonymous No.1008036]

>>1007686
that's gonna take 3X as long to joint fill than it would have taken to just to it right.

[Anonymous No.1008044]

>>1006622
>>1007770
>just bashing out chunks with a hammer.
every door handle was installed this way in my home...

it was owned by a 400lb crazy cat/dog/bird lady.. i can only imagine watching her chisel out a hole just big enough to shove the knob assembly in...

it was a pain in the ass to make a jig to cut a proper circle hole through all the shit...

[Anonymous No.1008045]

>>1008036
yup. I would have it redone and have the plasterboard guy fuck off unpaid.

[Anonymous No.1008054]

>>1007041
what is the little side water outlet for, some kind of drain to keep it from rotting?

[Anonymous No.1008055]

>>1007606
Theoretical concept yes, but letting line voltage at 30+A anywhere near the shower is a death trap, especially in a dinky plastic showerhead made in some podunk factory china...

[Anonymous No.1008064]

>>1006502
>not embedding the forms at all
Gg no re

[Anonymous No.1008065]

>>1008054
Pressure relief valve, apparently. More often than not they're broken so either piss out water, or have been sealed up to stop them pissing out water (and thus won't relieve any pressure should it be needed).

[Anonymous No.1008067]

>>1008065
Yeah, they pop randomly, scaring tourists for no reason (I mean, if I was showering in a suicide shower, something making a loud noise would scare the crap out of me.)
In the video posted ITT, he shows one with a separate small shower head at the end of a tube, used to wash "down". (Turn on the annotations.)
Useful when you crapped yourself in fear, I guess.

[Anonymous No.1008077]

>>1007532
They'll feel better when they send in a big fat invoice for some pipe and a few minutes of labor.

I love it when reliable clients wreck my stuff.

[Anonymous No.1008081]

>>1008077
I used to work in a scaffold companies yard when I was younger and I always wondered why there was concrete in some of the poles maybe its because of them being concreted over.

[Anonymous No.1008130]

>>1006509
That guy will probably have muscles for days. 3 days even.

[Anonymous No.1008133]

>>1006540
I don't see what's wrong. First I like to make friends with the toilet, then I let it take my poops.

[Anonymous No.1008137]

>>1006602
Just audibly yelled "NO" in a grocery store.

[Anonymous No.1008170]

>>1007006
yeah, but no /diy/.

[Anonymous No.1008188]

>>1008137

[Anonymous No.1008241]

He couldn't even get the foundations right the useless cunt.

[Anonymous No.1008288]

>>1008241
The architect never signed it.

[Anonymous No.1008289]

>>1007985
Fuck that, paper tape, 2x base coat, 1x top coat and hand sand when top coat dries.

[Anonymous No.1008294]

>>1006522
my first window looked like that lol

[Anonymous No.1008297]

>>1007030

[Anonymous No.1008305]

>>1008010
i have a weird accent, and never spell shit right

the fact you still knew what i was talking about, means it doesn't matter how i spell it

[Anonymous No.1008309]

>>1008289
why would you do that, that makes bulges in the middle of the wall, i bet you don't stagger your joints either, stop being a newfag to drywalling

fill the gap, let it dry that coat the place where you filled the gap and a little over each side of the gap, if you do another coat you and sand it, and aren't plastering the wall, high gloss paint will show your shitty work

and you'll get called back to fix your shit or taken to court in burgerland

[Anonymous No.1008340]

>>1008309
That's why sheets are recessed. For butt joins just take the plaster out wider so you can't notice the extra thickness. Not even in Burgenland by the way. And seriously who the fuck would paint walls with gloss?

[Anonymous No.1008354]

>>1008340
for easy cleaning in the kitchen, if they can't afford to tile all the walls

[Anonymous No.1008420]

>>1006522
if you dont like it, carve it out

[Anonymous No.1008422]

>>1008305
Just accept the correction and move on with your life

[Anonymous No.1008442]

>>1008422
Tbh senpai, I say "puddy" as well. Just realised how retarded it sounds

[Anonymous No.1008464]

>>1006639
Oh it's one of those fancy new DC outlets

[Anonymous No.1008498]

[Anonymous No.1008499]

[Anonymous No.1008512]

About electric showerheads...

They are turned on by water flow. A diaphragm, pressured by the water, closes the circuit which feeds a resistance(pic related). The resistance heats the water and allows only a very small current through, which can only be felt if you touch the showerhead or the water handle (this last case only happening if it's also not grounded). The main risks are if the installation is done niggeriggedly like >>1006671 or if somehow the water contacts the circuit above the diaphragm, which I have never heard of. Though I did hear of people that managed to get poisoned by the gases coming from their water heaters, kek.
Also, constructions norms here request the use of a residual-current circuit breaker, which should cut the current immediately if you get shocked. However, most of our contractors don’t even know what the word “norm” means.

t. Huelander

[Anonymous No.1008513]

>>1008289
I'm talk about plastering mate not taping. Taping is good if you want it done quick but It's never as good a finish as plaster.

[Anonymous No.1008518]

>>1008498
Even by huehue standards that's surprisingly poor.

[Anonymous No.1008519]

>>1008512
Not all suicide showers are created equally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjA0aee07k

[Anonymous No.1008522]

>>1008512
If the head is properly grounded, a functioning RCD will kill it every time it switches on.

[Anonymous No.1008550]

>>1008518

For real. That has to be one or two guys that have never cut board or mixed concrete in their life attempting something while stone drunk.

It even looks like thay they cast the whole column and THEN the beam.

Concrete doesn't bind like that, João.

[Anonymous No.1008561]

>>1006843
I-It... looks l-l-like it............

[Anonymous No.1008564]

>>1008550
It looks like those are wood that was covered in concrete.

[Anonymous No.1008592]

>>1008512
>The main risks are if the installation is done niggeriggedly like >>1006671 or if somehow the water contacts the circuit above the diaphragm, which I have never heard of.

http://www.thelocal.se/20110404/32990

[Anonymous No.1008718]

>>1008513
OK now I know you are fucking with me, a setter that does their job right would never plaster their joins without tape

[Anonymous No.1008730]

>>1008718
Yeah. I use skrim tape on the flat joints and internals and use metal beads on the reveals. I'm talking about this proper plastering not taping.

[Anonymous No.1008748]

>>1008718
There's tape and fill which is quick and cheap but scrim tape and plastering is better, you just don't refer to it as taping and plastering. Just commonly know as plastering.

[Anonymous No.1008756]

>>1007252
Can't tell if they spliced 25 times or if they somehow didn't have two feet of pipe.

[Anonymous No.1008762]

>>1007686

Oh come on, I did this shit all the time. The plasterer doesn't give a shit.

[Anonymous No.1008784]

>>1008762
if that was me I'd redo it before i plastered it would only take 5 minutes to do it properly and save you ages trying to skim it that so it doesn't look wonky as fuck.

[Anonymous No.1008832]

>>1006637
>>1006638
Looks like apts I was looking at. Guy buys them, pit's in new counter tops and new appliances and new carpet and calls it a day. They put this fake wood over tile so they don't have to rip it up so the dumb college girls go "omg, my apt has hard wood floors" and charges $1000/mo no joke...

[Anonymous No.1008840]

>>1006818
been there done that. I was simply adjusting a fan shroud on top of a commercial RTU since the old screw hole had rotten and cracked. When I turned the fan shroud, the hole lined up just over the condesnor coil. wasnt even thinking when I dropped the screw through.all the refrigerant...gone.

[Anonymous No.1009007]

>>1007099
Offcuts.

[Anonymous No.1009036]

>>1006761
that's friggin hilarious

[Anonymous No.1009077]

Affordable fathers dat gifts? <50$ ples

[Anonymous No.1009082]

>>1009077
grill him a steak, and tell him he's an awesome dad, stop being a faggot and think he needs some faggy gadget to know you appreciated him, grow a pair and tell him, and don't cheap out on the steak

[Anonymous No.1009085]

>>1009077
No gadgets. He'll use them once and throw it in the back of the cabinet. Like anon said, why not make a good meal for him instead. And mow the lawn

[Anonymous No.1009088]

>>1009085
>And mow the lawn
this, and talk mom into giving him a bj, or hire a hooker, and you'd be the perfect son

[Anonymous No.1009093]

>>1009077
A blowjob

[Anonymous No.1009097]

>>1009077

[Anonymous No.1009111]

>>1009097
those are some detailed balls, my 30 year old balls aren't that wrinkled yet

[Anonymous No.1009120]

>>1009097

[Anonymous No.1009254]

>>1008730
>>1008748
OK fair enough, in shitpostland we usually refer to taping and shit as setting, which I guess is where I got confused.

[Anonymous No.1009269]

>>1009254
Whenever I talk about plastering on this board here seems to be confusion between the two. I used to do taping using machines they are amazing at least 10 times faster than doing it by hand. Pic related its the taping tools I have they are expensive (£2700) but I made the cost of the tools back in no time.

[Anonymous No.1009282]

>>1006579
must know did he died?

[Anonymous No.1009291]

>>1007357
My house was built on slab in the 70s and there's gas in the attic. No water though.

[Anonymous No.1009293]

>>1009291
Gas in the attic is normal in places without basements, like a good portion of the south.

[Anonymous No.1009332]

>>1006603
That's one of them fancy LEBs
Light Emitting Bolt.

[Anonymous No.1009384]

>>1009282
It wouldn't be on the internet if he did.
Do you really think there are people out there that have gifs of people dieing?

[Anonymous No.1009401]

>>1009384
Have you not seen the military and rekt threads over on /gif/? Or any of the dozens of shock video sites that have been around for pretty much as long as streaming video?

[Anonymous No.1009412]

>>1006540
Good enough for Frank Lloyd Wright, good enough for me.

[Anonymous No.1009418]

>>1009412
Lets be honest, he was more of a function follows form kind of guy. Which is why all his roofs leaked. Cause mother nature don't give a fuck how stylish your shit is, she is still gonna rain on it.

[Anonymous No.1009451]

>>1006639
laughed and choke on air

[Anonymous No.1009472]

>>1009401
Most of those are hoax videos. Pretty sure that its illegal to show that kind of stuff to a public audience or something.

[Anonymous No.1009476]

>>1009472
There's nothing illegal about it.

[Anonymous No.1009485]

>>1009472
Is "I'm pretty sure" your code phrase for "I'm assuming without evidence but framing as a strong conviction"?

[Anonymous No.1009500]

>>1009472
...

[Anonymous No.1009521]

>>1009472
>illegal
By some country's legislation, maybe.
Not by American federal law, the one 4chan have to follow. 1st amendment for the win.
It may be illegal for you to watch...

And the guy didn't die, the wall don't fall on his head nor crush him.

[Anonymous No.1009530]

>>1007314
All trades are a bunch of bitches. I've seen every trade do that shit

Not My job goes in both union and non union circles.

>what's with the Russians and Mexicans pissing on all the things

[Anonymous No.1009534]

>>1007314

Did that on my site and you would end up with a bill for material and clean up, all including administration fees, mobilization and everything.

Then you'd be lucky if you get a contract with me again.

[Anonymous No.1009552]

>>1006629
Now if my Cyrillic isn't letting me down, that says "Eureka!", kek

[Anonymous No.1009566]

>>1009418

People say he didn't really expect much of his stuff to last. Like if he built a house for a guy, it should die with the guy. Don't know how accurate that is.

The window in the picture, the story goes, wouldn't open because of the table installed in front, as per his design. His solution after the fact was to cut that circular bit out of the table.

Form over function really struck me at the Guggenheim, my mind stuck on modern practicalities: These windows must leak like a sieve! This place must be hell to heat in the winter! Hey, how about a decent bathroom?!

[Anonymous No.1009654]

>>1006603
>Grounding bar
>With a nut glowing red hot
>There is enough current passing through a short somewhere to make a rather large nut glow red hot

[Anonymous No.1009694]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr1wuILFwXg

[Anonymous No.1009706]

>>1009530
Controls enjuhneer here, we have problems with the opposite of Not My Job, That's My Job!. When we're debugging panels, we have to wait around for electricians to open the panel, then disconnect wires, then this, that, and the other thing.
We usually end up having one guy stand watch for security while we do our thing. Recently we got kicked out of a factory because they were having union issues and union didn't trust us.
We just want to make things work and go home, we're not evil sappers or something...

[Anonymous No.1009708]

>>1007314
I've seen painters paint around bags of plaster and bits of wood before instead of moving them. the usual response is "Not my job".

[Anonymous No.1009713]

>>1009706
>union
Fuck that noise. Being unionized has its perks, but more often than not, at least in my experience, the amount of shit you have to deal with isn't worth it.
And fuck working with unions when you aren't a part of said union, you can't ever get a goddamn thing done.

[Anonymous No.1009871]

>>1006502
Those steel beams look like they are falling over.

[Anonymous No.1009974]

>>1007125
underrated post

[Anonymous No.1010091]

forget the shed of doom and see this gem courtesy of some russian crew

[Anonymous No.1010094]

>>1010091
see it... and despair

[Anonymous No.1010095]

>>1010094

[Anonymous No.1010096]

>>1010095

[Anonymous No.1010098]

>>1010096
my personal favorite
damocles lintels

[Anonymous No.1010100]

>>1010098

[Anonymous No.1010102]

>>1010100

[Anonymous No.1010103]

>>1010102

[Anonymous No.1010104]

>>1010103

[Anonymous No.1010105]

>>1010104

[Anonymous No.1010107]

>>1010105

[Anonymous No.1010108]

>>1010107

[Anonymous No.1010109]

>>1010108

[Anonymous No.1010110]

>>1010109

[Anonymous No.1010182]

>>1010098
ahahaha I've seen people try and get away with having the lintel only just on the wall but this what the fuck.

[Anonymous No.1010193]

>>1010091
>>1010094
>>1010095
>>1010096
>>1010098
>>1010100
>>1010102
>>1010103
>>1010104
>>1010105
>>1010107
>>1010108
>>1010109
>>1010110
Jesus fuck that is the shittiest building I've ever seen, please tell me its actually in Russia

[Anonymous No.1010223]

This thread has set a new level for rustling my jimmies.

...But I can't look away.

[Anonymous No.1010380]

>>1006799
>>1007535

[Anonymous No.1010392]

>>1010182
here, have another one XD

[Anonymous No.1010394]

>>1010193
Russia indeed about 3 years ago
fun fact
he paid around 150k $ for it

approx. repair costs 170k$

[Anonymous No.1010423]

>>1010392
For fucks sake.

[Anonymous No.1010452]

>>1006586
/o/ here, this is nightmare fuel.

[Anonymous No.1010682]

>>1009077
Buy a top shelf scotch (or whatever he is into) and grill him an quality steak, spend time with him.