The previous tenant was a crackhead

"farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe) 09/25/2019 at 03:26 • Filed to: None

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Don’t look so bad huh?

Who does this?

Who installs an attic ladder across the hallway instead of along it?

Worse still every other house down this street has it installed correctly so this was a case of home improvement.....

*twitches*

pip bip - choose Corrour > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 09/25/2019 at 03:32

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genius!

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > pip bip - choose Corrour 09/25/2019 at 03:51

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right?

pip bip - choose Corrour > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 09/25/2019 at 03:52

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;P

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 09/25/2019 at 04:48

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A few weeks ago, our 6x4m sun blind fell from the wall. Whilst inspecting the damage, I noticed that the screws holding it to the wall were about 10 cm long.
I called the previous owner to ask who installed it, it was himself, following the advice they were given.
After fixing the wall, we reinstalled it with screws that had twice the length and were much thicker.
I’m now afraid of what else he has done to our house

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction 09/25/2019 at 05:04

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oh yeah...something like that is never a hopefull a sign...

my attic ladder is every bit the bad portent it looks like...... you should see what the guys done to the lectrickery up there...dudes diy’ed the shit out of it...all sorts of different colour cables tied up to eachother with no regards for what the colours actually stand for

theres no fixing that short off cutting the power and recabling everything

Snuze: Needs another Swede > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 09/25/2019 at 05:55

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Growing up as an electricians son, and now a home owner, one thing thats always bothered me... why will people screw around with their home wiring when they have no idea what they are doing, where the consequences could be BURNING YOUR HOUSE DOWN or DEATH, and yet people are terrified of touching plumbing?

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 09/25/2019 at 05:57

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If it helps...we have a wall in our house (made of timber) that is something like a sail...sails are not windproof or waterproof.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/25/2019 at 06:11

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clearly lectrickery just isnt as scary as getting whatever gunk clogged your drains on you.....i mean have you smelled that stuff??

but yeah....i dont get it either

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 09/25/2019 at 06:13

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that sounds unpleasant in cold season

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 09/25/2019 at 06:18

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It’s not helpful in the summer either.

It's the next project...

shop-teacher > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/25/2019 at 07:04

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When I pulled a knee wall out of my kitchen last year, I found two buried junction boxes plus a BX whip that was just hanging out there with a bit of tape over the end ... All hot, of course. The knee wall was only like 6' long. What always blows my mind, is putting that abortion together was WAY more difficult than it would have been to do it the right way.

Urambo Tauro > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 09/25/2019 at 07:23

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Can’t tell for sure from here, but... Because they wanted to i nstall it in line with the trusses/rafters, maybe ?

Snuze: Needs another Swede > shop-teacher 09/25/2019 at 07:30

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One of the pitfalls of not knowing what you’re doing - you’re gonna spend way more time/effort/material/money to do it wrong than it would take to just get it done right.

Tangentially funny story: m y dad and I got a call one time from a contractor he’d done some work with who was doing a basement remodel. His guys had cut into the ceiling and cut a bunch of wires, but they couldn’t figure out what they were because “they weren’t normal colors.” We go over and sure enough, there’s a whole rainbow of wires up there - purple, orange, brown, not to mention wires with traces like yellow/green and blue/white. We talk to the homeowner and it turns out his brother-in-law wired the basement for him, and his BIL was a controls electrician who wired up giant industrial machines. The work actually looked really good but it was definitely not up to code  and it was a fun one to troubleshoot and fix. 

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro 09/25/2019 at 07:37

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could be.... but going by all the other baffling stuff up there i doubt all that much thought went into it

i mean... he turned a good chunk of the floorboards on one side of the attic into shelves for the other side  of the attic

AdverseMartyr > shop-teacher 09/25/2019 at 07:49

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Well, I recall my electrician father telling me something about each lap of tape having an insulating factor of something, and for normal home wiring X number of laps of tape creates sufficient insulation for it to be safe temporarily.* Temporarily is anywhere from 1 hour to 35 years, isn’t it?

*This was probably about 30 years ago so I have no clue what the actual figures he told  me were.

shop-teacher > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/25/2019 at 13:48

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Wow, that’s wild!