Shit thread.
>>1006502
Lol nice form work boys
>>1006506
Imagine being the poor cunt that has to clean that up.
wtf.
>>1006510
Multi purpose scaffolding?
Only downpart it shrinks every time it's used..
>>1006519
I don't know but I used to work on these new builds and literally nobody gives a fuck.
>>1006522
Nothing particularly unusual about that, unless they left it that way.
>>1006530
I know but It's a mess.
>>1006510
What is the issue?
>>1006560
Scaffolding will be a permanent addition.
Was this you?
>>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!
>>1006562
Just saw off posts and make light posts for torches.
When life gives you lemons.
>>1006577
>>1006578
>>1006579
>>1006580
>>1006583
>>1006562
I didn't notice
>>1006584
>>1006586
>>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.
>>1006603
what the fuck. I know nothing about electrics someone explain why that is red hot.
>>1006602
ahah best mitre ever.
>>1006603
So hot.
>>1006604
bad contact, resistance, lots of current
>>1006612
I cannot begin to believe that this actually works
>>1006621
All it needs is to work in the driveway, and possibly the test drive.
>>1006621
More like a before photo than after photo.
Remember, Ivan, this wire always goes to earth.
>>1006629
But it works !
>>1006640
To be honest I almost did this. Luckily Commomsense 2015 kicked in and did the transition under the door jamb.
>>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"
>>1006578
Super hipster industrial shower head.
$99.98 Plus shipping.
>>1006644
For much of that, it wouldn't take much to fix with better finishing touches.
>>1006655
Kinda had that Dr. Seuss shit going on with me.
>>1006629
>>1006602
>MDF fag
lol
>>1006578
For when a tall man wants water on his head.
>>1006583
with all those fittings would that have been cheaper with copper?
>>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.
>>1006602
There was an attempt.
Huehuehue
>>1006602
Could throw some compound on it and fill the gap to shape and paint.
>>1006603
holy fuck
>>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.
>>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.
>>1006672
nothing a whole tube of caulk won't fix. xD
>>1006676
>put too much foam in a frame it can move it around and distort it.
This is true.
>>1006671
At least its easy to cut the power
>>1006603
Is that you, verrol?
>>1006609
is that a booby trap?
>>1006622
As a structural engineer this one is painful.
Luckily it looks like attic rafters, so it will probably be fine.
>>1006699
Just in case someone tries to steal his mouldy potatoes .
>>1006704
Thought it was fried chicken trap for Jamal.
>>1006709
It was probably this guys chicken.
>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
>>1006667
I'm pretty sure this is the result of giving up.
Dry Wallers didn't speak English and were dicks. Covered everything.
>>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
>>1006603
The Glownut!
>>1006577
Its the baling twine that got me in this picture, gotta love rednecks.
>>1006593
What am I looking at, did you try to drill through a radiator?
>>1006779
>try to drill through brick external wall, estimate height - should just miss the radiator
>oops
>>1006612
NO FUCKING WAY
>>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.
>>1006796
>dark row of tiles
Do you know how to expand images, you fucking retard?
>>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.
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noice slavs diy
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.
>>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.
>>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.)
>>1006814
Other end of the cable was not that good either.
>>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.
>>1006818
>killed the a/c
Any good HVAC company can fix anything on a recently new a/c for a fraction of the price
>>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.
>>1006510
>literally union work
"Not MY Job™"
>>1006799
>single piece of slate cut perfectly to fit
You have brain damage don't you
>>1006671
Is... that an electric showerhead?
>>1006629
>>1006578
I want to duplicate this for my tall roomate
>>1006802
This looks exactly like the "NEWLY RENOVATED!!" place I rented in college
>>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
>>1006580
I'M DONE! I'M DONE WITH THIS THREAD! fuken...
>>1006580
I like this
>>1006578
Cause buying one of these is sooo hard...
>>1007006
i didn't even know those existed, awesome
>>1006843
impoverished countries put electric heating elements in the shower heads as an alternative to actually installing a water heater
>>1006522
>tfw most of the doors/windows in my house look like that because I was too lazy to clean it up
>>1006609
>load bearing leftovers
>>1006671
>knife switch
>humid environment with water going everywhere
Dear Christ that's a major hazard
>>1006843
Yeah. Hear is some /int/ anon's OC.
>>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.
>>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.
>>1006634
She'd have to teach her cats how to use a can opener first.
>>1006837
jealous you work in a scab shop and make shit?
>>1007099
wait what?
>>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.
>>1006799
go visit an optometrist, ASAP.
I mean, seriously: there's a fucking footprint in it, FFS...
>>1007099
where is the "my mind is full of fuck" image when you need it
>>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.
>>1007101
I guess they run out of plasterboard and had to use all the left overs.
>>1006584
2 extension rings and a cover and it's good. Looks sloppy as fuck though
>>1006612
This would hold long enough to push the car off a trailer at the wreckers
>>1006603
Let me guess, someone was stealing electricity to grow weed.
>>1007119
This one's similar I guess
>>1006580
lost
>>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.
>>1006843
Yup. Google "suicide shower". The reason for the name should not require an explanation.
>>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.
>>1007128
>>1007119
This?
>>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.
>>1006580
>>1006583
I'm a plumber and I don't even know what the fuck is happening here.
>>1006583
is that a radiator?
>>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.
>>1006701
>Looks like attic rafters
Why would there be what looks like waterlines and gas line on the roof? This just raises more questions.
>>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
>>1006578
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>>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.
>>1006604
Thats a glownut, it lets you know the circuit is live.
>>1006671
Ive always wanted to try one of these.. I bet its cozy as fuck until it kills you.
>>1007355
you could also wish for a hot water heater of adequate capacity
>>1007353
So why are waterlines and gas lines in the motherfucking roof?
>>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.
>>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?
>>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"?
>>1007359
All of /diy/ should know about Big Clive.
>>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?
>>1007363
Then that is 50% luck that the pipe angles worked out like that and 50% cowboy
>>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.
>>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.
>>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?
>>1007373
I think you do.
Explain what you are having a hard time understanding.
>>1006579
Now that shit is impressive.
>>1007366
> 50% luck that the pipe angles worked out like that
>3 90 degree bends
>luck
>>1006862
what am i looking at here? a grounding rod?
>>1006534
underrated post
>>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.
>>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.
>>1006799
It's fucking dirt bro.
>>1007364
he's just the poor man's EEVblog
>>1006843
Common in my experience in South America. Been shocked by one a couple of times while taking a shower.
>>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.
>>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.
Found on an apartment complex. The whole wall was built this way.
...and so was the whole front of the house.
forgot pic
The entire apartment complex was done in the same style.
>>1007567
jesus christ
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?
>>1007579
Feeding the light via the switch, I should specify.
>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
>>1006843
https://youtu.be/cNjA0aee07k
>>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.
>>1006580
>somebody actually did this to their house
>>1007119
>>1007609
Pay attention anon, that post has already been made.
>>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.
>>1007647
So what.
>>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
>>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
>>1007665
Redundancy is only good when it's power supplies or safety systems.
>>1007672
Irony.
>>1006500
My fucking god I'm dying lmao
>>1007686
man, i don't even work in construction and know this is wrong
>>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.
>>1007686
Oh wow... This is utter madness and cringeworthy
>>1006540
Brilliant!
>>1006577
What's the white bucket on the left doing?
>>1006663
Yup. Much cheaper
>>1007030
Got a chuckle out of me
>>1006796
That's a model home, no access to garage.
>>1007559
Pointing the joints cost extra.
>>1007099
A little mud and some judicious sanding and you're set
>>1006724
Why did you hire people that couldn't take any instruction that you may need to give?
>>1007765
I've never seen a drywaller who wasn't Hispanic and their boss who was white guy who half mangled Spanish.
>>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.
>>1007365
>but this is infinite
So is a tankless heater
>>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.
>>1007357
Water lines could be for solar thermal
OC, three thousand items: http://dwg.ru/bsk
>>1007686
I've become a god at plaster and sanding because of shit like this
>>1007792
They are drywallers. Not plasterers.
In america they call dry wall compound "plaster"
>>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
>>1007770
Please take a picture. For posterity.
>>1007820
Eh, there's always little shit you still need to knock down. It's never even when you fill in big holes.
>>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
>>1007788
lmao @ ur mudhut, Ivan
>>1006724
I would guess that's speaker line, the audio receiver goes there.
>>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
>>1007710
True. I can't stand him.
>>1007792
Are you on crack? All plasterers should still sand their shit.
>>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.
>>1007985
This guy gets it, any other than this is not plaster but joint filling..
>>1007845
>puddy knife
Stop that.
It's a "putty knife" I.e. a knife for applying putty.
>>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.
>>1007686
that's gonna take 3X as long to joint fill than it would have taken to just to it right.
>>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...
>>1008036
yup. I would have it redone and have the plasterboard guy fuck off unpaid.
>>1007041
what is the little side water outlet for, some kind of drain to keep it from rotting?
>>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...
>>1006502
>not embedding the forms at all
Gg no re
>>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).
>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
>>1006509
That guy will probably have muscles for days. 3 days even.
>>1006540
I don't see what's wrong. First I like to make friends with the toilet, then I let it take my poops.
>>1006602
Just audibly yelled "NO" in a grocery store.
>>1007006
yeah, but no /diy/.
He couldn't even get the foundations right the useless cunt.
>>1008241
The architect never signed it.
