This is a floor in a house

"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion) 04/24/2019 at 22:34 • Filed to: None

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It’s an old house that belongs to the university where I work. ~10 years ago it was renovated and turned into a themed house for residential students. The flat bit there with the linoleum or whatever was for a washer/dryer. Side note: If I had to stack two air conditioners for storage, I would put the smaller one on top.

Now, it’s office space, and I was working at the desk to my left in the pic. I kept rolling into it if I relaxed my legs too much. This would drive me absolutely bonkers. Luckily I was only there a few minutes.

shop-teacher > functionoverfashion 04/24/2019 at 22:40

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That's some serious saggage!

functionoverfashion > shop-teacher 04/24/2019 at 22:43

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and yet, they’ve just accepted it and built around it. I mean, if you had a glass of water on the desk you could see the angle. 2-3 degrees I bet

ttyymmnn > functionoverfashion 04/24/2019 at 22:44

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The floor in my dad’s hone office has a slight slope. The chair always rolls away from the desk when I sit in it. Drives me mad. 

shop-teacher > functionoverfashion 04/24/2019 at 23:05

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So often nobody has any fucks to spare.

ranwhenparked > functionoverfashion 04/24/2019 at 23:07

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Hey, its character. As long as its structurally sound, you don’t always want to go around trying to level everything in an old building. Recipe  for lots of cracked plaster and possible distorted doors and windows. 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > functionoverfashion 04/24/2019 at 23:08

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One of my coworkers has a floor like that in her office on campus. In her case, it has to do with her office happening to be where two parts of the building meet that  were built a few decades apart.  They had to rearrange her furniture and get her an office chair without wheels because she wound up having pains from bracing herself to keep from rolling down hill to the corner of her office all day.

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > functionoverfashion 04/25/2019 at 00:02

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Get one of those plastic floor protector things, preferably with enough squish to keep the chair from rolling away so easily.

Been thurr.

facw > functionoverfashion 04/25/2019 at 02:51

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I mean, many desks have adjustable feet.

Longtime Lurker > functionoverfashion 04/25/2019 at 03:07

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What is a themed house?

Svart Smart, traded in his Smart > functionoverfashion 04/25/2019 at 09:13

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Many of the residence halls/houses at my alma mater were like this. Visible, perceptible sag in the floors.

functionoverfashion > Longtime Lurker 04/25/2019 at 09:33

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B asically anything other than a greek house where students live together based on a common interest. Like, performing arts, or a particular major, or in this case it was the Eco House, for environmental science majors and the like. 

functionoverfashion > ranwhenparked 04/25/2019 at 09:34

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True. This building has LOTS of character. 

functionoverfashion > facw 04/25/2019 at 09:35

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But that won’t stop the chair from ramming my ribs into the desk every time I pick up my feet

functionoverfashion > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 04/25/2019 at 09:36

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haha, oh boy. Yes, buildings love being joined together! At my previous job we had to constantly keep the roof clear of snow all winter in a particular spot because it wasn’t done properly (old building meeting new) and leaked water down the walls. This was just the tip of the iceberg the builder left behind. But yeah

functionoverfashion > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: 04/25/2019 at 09:37

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that would probably help a lot! Thankfully I don’t have to sit there much, I was just working on the computer there. 

functionoverfashion > Svart Smart, traded in his Smart 04/25/2019 at 09:38

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The house I lived in as a senior was like this. But it wasn’t campus-owned.

The living room floor moved a LOT when you jumped on it. 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > functionoverfashion 04/25/2019 at 10:21

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Our library is a 1951 concrete building with additions in 1965, 1973 and 1980 that probably tripled it’s size. Perhaps fittingly, archives occupies the entirety of the oldest part of the building with some of our office spaces expanding into newer parts of the building.

BigBlock440 > functionoverfashion 04/25/2019 at 11:19

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If I had to stack two air conditioners for storage, I would put the smaller one on top. 

But the smaller one is easier to lift from the floor. T he bigger one is presumably heavier and the elevate starting point will make it easier to lift.  

functionoverfashion > BigBlock440 04/25/2019 at 11:29

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Hadn’t thought about it that way. I dislike just about everything about window a/c units except the way the air feels when they’re running. 

BigBlock440 > functionoverfashion 04/25/2019 at 13:13

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I’m sure whoever stacked them there didn’t think about it that way either.