The Construction Thread

[Saint Peter]

This is not funny......

I would write a check for the $800.000 before the typo was fixed.

 

[thør]

I would write a check for the $800.000 before the typo was fixed.

Is an offer on Lit a valid contract?

I wonder if he'll trade for an old subaru?

 

[daylightwarrior]

This is not funny......

I was laughing the whole time I wrote that. Punctuation was optional.

 

[thør]

I was laughing the whole time I wrote that. Punctuation was optional.

I might be crazy, but I'm not stupid.

 

[daylightwarrior]

I might be crazy, but I'm not stupid.

Well, don't be fooled. I am as stupid as I look.

 

[thør]

Well, don't be fooled. I am as stupid as I look.

right...........

 

[Xander]

Yes, thank you for rubbing it in! The drop in the housing prices went for outrageous to merely ridiculous. My agent thought it was funny. There are so many homes on the market that people are losing their butts on it's not funny.
Who in their right mind would buy a $250,000 house for $800.000? (Why Engineers of course)! (that was a poke at thør) . anyway this really gets me.
I let a duplex get away from me a couple of years ago that has tripled it's price.

I just don't have enough of the ready to buy something, pay mortgage and remodel it all at the once right now. If I did it wouldn't sell anyway.

Well this is why I am interested in this specific building. Since right now, it pays for itself, as it sits. That would make it a bit easier for me to go in there and remodel the units as the become empty and before the new tenants move in.

making fun of engineers is a spectator sport, or at least it should be

 

[daylightwarrior]

Well this is why I am interested in this specific building. Since right now, it pays for itself, as it sits. That would make it a bit easier for me to go in there and remodel the units as the become empty and before the new tenants move in.

making fun of engineers is a spectator sport, or at least it should be

Even here I can't get my paws on a duplex/fourplex. Even a run down POS that needs a $100,000 in repairs is still a money pit by about 3-4000 a month in mortgage. (I have about $350.000 in ready so I could put a good sized down on it too). I just would like to be close to even after a year. Forget repairing and flipping, it just isn't happening right now.

Just because I make fun of engineers (in more ways than one) doesn't mean in some small way they don't have some redeeming valve.

 

[Xander]

Even here I can't get my paws on a duplex/fourplex. Even a run down POS that needs a $100,000 in repairs is still a money pit by about 3-4000 a month in mortgage. (I have about $350.000 in ready so I could put a good sized down on it too). I just would like to be close to even after a year. Forget repairing and flipping, it just isn't happening right now.

Just because I make fun of engineers (in more ways than one) doesn't mean in some small way they don't have some redeeming valve.

Oh I hear what you're saying. This is why all in all, you'd have to be able to sit on it for a while without getting hurt.

My cousins are both Engineers. They are just fun to poke at once in a while hehe.

 

[luxey313]

I got my girl-cam working. Having fun taking pictures of shit:


30 pounds of tools without the bolts:

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/rosco_rathbone/hangingbelt1.jpg

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/rosco_rathbone/beltonfloor.jpg

I've had three beaters. The first one was called "The Hammer Of Thor", the second one was "End-Of-Fucking-Story" (has to be said in a Trinidadian accent) and this one is "The Problem Solver". The next one is going to be called "The Sockdolager". The wizard candy dispenser is for scale.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/rosco_rathbone/problemsolverandwizzie.jpg

did you wear all of that on the subway or carry it in a bag?

and those tool are amazing. severe looking.
and all sharp ended
I have never seen something like that

 

[daylightwarrior]

Oh I hear what you're saying. This is why all in all, you'd have to be able to sit on it for a while without getting hurt.

My cousins are both Engineers. They are just fun to poke at once in a while hehe.

I left my computer on when I left. I seldom do that. I'm soaking wet from delivering a effluent pump and some other materials for a pretty nice basement bathroom/kitchenette I started. Yesterday and today have been very different for me outside of work.

We still have some of the week left to poke fun at engineers. I'll start again later.

 

[Xander]

I left my computer on when I left. I seldom do that. I'm soaking wet from delivering a effluent pump and some other materials for a pretty nice basement bathroom/kitchenette I started. Yesterday and today have been very different for me outside of work.

We still have some of the week left to poke fun at engineers. I'll start again later.

Soaking wet, as in sweaty, or did something spring a leak somewhere?

Those little basement projects are pretty fun to do. BUt Oh boy, can they ever turn into a pain in the ass, from time to time.

Since it's still sub zero temps here. I am waiting until after lunch to get soaked dealing with outside waterlines. I'd rather deal with that when it's not -10 degrees outside.

 

[thør]

Soaking wet, as in sweaty, or did something spring a leak somewhere?

Those little basement projects are pretty fun to do. BUt Oh boy, can they ever turn into a pain in the ass, from time to time.

Since it's still sub zero temps here. I am waiting until after lunch to get soaked dealing with outside waterlines. I'd rather deal with that when it's not -10 degrees outside.

I have guys working outside right now where -10°F is considered a heat wave for this time of year.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I have guys working outside right now where -10°F is considered a heat wave for this time of year.

The heat's in the work, boys.

 

[Xander]

I have guys working outside right now where -10°F is considered a heat wave for this time of year.

And I would be too, if I knew that I wouldn't be soaking wet most of the time working today.
Generally, we avoid laying in a foot of water, when it's below zero. Sometimes we have to though.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Gravity 1 Rosco 0

This is what a bionic leg looks like from the outside:

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/rosco_rathbone/scarleg.jpg

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/rosco_rathbone/scarleg2.jpg

Note the stigmata like white scar on foot: molten slag dripping in the same place for years. It always lands right there.

did you wear all of that on the subway or carry it in a bag?

and those tool are amazing. severe looking.
and all sharp ended
I have never seen something like that

The pointy ends are for aligning holes. I carry the whole thing in a duffle bag.

 

[thør]

The heat's in the work, boys.

Well, with the gear one has to wear to be warm and safe, steady is the pace. Sweating might warm you up temporarily, but it'll freeze your ass before lunch.

 

[daylightwarrior]

Soaking wet, as in sweaty, or did something spring a leak somewhere?

Those little basement projects are pretty fun to do. BUt Oh boy, can they ever turn into a pain in the ass, from time to time.

Since it's still sub zero temps here. I am waiting until after lunch to get soaked dealing with outside waterlines. I'd rather deal with that when it's not -10 degrees outside.

No just from loading/ unloading all this stuff. I had a rain slicker on but it was really coming down. Of course I can't park anywhere close.

For those who think I'm a softy, I peeled logs to build log cabins at real log homes outside of Missoula MT. for three years. We peeled them outside. It didn't matter if it was raining, snowing, freezing or hot. We were outside trying to keep up with production for the indoor guys. You used a draw knife and you worked as fast as you could. Even when it was cold, say -15, I was in tee shirt, boots, gloves and light pants because you cannot break into a sweat. (it makes you sick and really cold) the second we stopped we bundled up as well as we could.

So anyway, I don't mind saying it's 50 today, I done it and I know what it's like. I would move up there again but SU won't even think of it. (She's a So Cal gal).

 

[daylightwarrior]

And I would be too, if I knew that I wouldn't be soaking wet most of the time working today.
Generally, we avoid laying in a foot of water, when it's below zero. Sometimes we have to though.

I alway liked how when you get out of the water everything freezes solid. Annoying but cool none the less.

This thread could degrade quickly if we started talking about taking a leak in cold weather

 

[Xander]

I alway liked how when you get out of the water everything freezes solid. Annoying but cool none the less.

This thread could degrade quickly if we started talking about taking a leak in cold weather

I've, on a few occasions, been able to take off my overall and jeans, and stand them in the corner of the room, because they turned into ice, from water or sewage.

Let's not degrade Roscos thread. It's cool as it is, without too many pee jokes in there. hehe.

 

[deathbypickle]

currently this is my bathroom

had to cut bagel out cause he is an asshole and didn't want his image reproduced without his knowledge :eyeroll:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a301/dragonflypickle/nobagel.jpg

 

[daylightwarrior]

I've, on a few occasions, been able to take off my overall and jeans, and stand them in the corner of the room, because they turned into ice, from water or sewage.

Let's not degrade Roscos thread. It's cool as it is, without too many pee jokes in there. hehe.

I though standing them up was fun. I usually was so cold I couldn't believe it.

Re: pee jokes. I'm in accord.

 

[daylightwarrior]

currently this is my bathroom.

Cool ! I see progress.

What's with the sig stuff? A bet?

 

[Slowlane]

Come on now, no teasers.

Well. the story needs a little background. Sometime in the early nineteen-seventies there was a code change that allowed all wooden buildings of less than three stories to be wired in Non Metallic sheathed Cable. (Before that time thy were all conduit.) So a lot of us who had been pipe runners found ourselves pulling rope. (NMC, Romex)

I was sent out to put the electrical service on a 24 unit apartment building that someone else had wired. (he got sick or something) In those days every service of that type was built by hand instead of using a meter assembly like we do today. And, since this was all new it was very unusual for one person to wore the building and another to install the service.

Now the problem. There is a cable that runs between each meter and the breaker box in each apartment. This cable (SER) consists of four insulated pieces of wire and one bare one (the bare one being the ground). The insulated (black) ones were usually colored this way – one with a red tracer, one with a blue tracer, and one with no tracer at all.

Since the neutral conductor in the code is white there is no designated neutral conductor in the cable. Since there were a red wire and a blue wire in the cable and they were clearly laid out in the code as power conductors we used the black wire for the neutral and taped or painted it white. Everybody did it that way – that is everybody except the guy who wired this particular building --- he used blue for neutral.

I had never run across anyone who used blue before (I had never heard of such a thing) the way I wired my end and the way he wired his end were – to say the least – incompatible.

When to power company turned it on the transformer blew and it dropped the line fuses for about three blocks. The power was reset everywhere except my building in about half an hour. It took them another day to get a transformer for my building. By the time they got back I had figured out what went wrong and had fixed it.

When the power company got back the asked me if I had found anything wrong. I said, “no”. When they powered it up and it worked I just shrugged, “Bad transformer I guess”

It’s a good thing they didn’t go look at the service – it was literally welded together.

 

[deathbypickle]

Cool ! I see progress.

What's with the sig stuff? A bet?

yup. the PATS didn't go 19-0
the av is me losing


i will have more pics soon
i want to get the sub floor down
we just plumbed the new drains, soon the pex water lines will be redone
and the vanities will be all set to be put in place, well aftert he tile job


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