I got pulled into a thread on home repair by Legal Twitter
I got pulled into a thread on Legal Twitter, but this time, just about home repair and previous DIYers. Enjoy?
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EBS - @estockbridge · 1h
A couple weeks in, and I’m convinced of what I suspected at purchase: the previous homeowner was a DIY-er who unlike me did not seem to know his limits.
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Kathryn Tewson - @KathrynTewson · 1h
oh no do you have a mr fixit
@solarbirdy can tell you stories about her mr fixit
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Kathryn Tewson - @KathrynTewson · 1h
mr fixit the loathed
mr fixit the despised
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[This link is where I came in]
@solarbirdy replying to @KathrynTewson and @estockbridge
oh no
where do i even start
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mr. fixit wanted to live in a studio apartment he built in the basement. it wasn't heated so he tried to patch a radiator into the main house's heat. but he didn't want to pay for a radiator so he used a refrigeration coil and a fan.
he did not know about unlike metals corrosion
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he wanted a kitchen for obvious reasons but he wanted to save on wire
so he tapped into a knob-and-tube light fixture in the basement
but wait my story gets better
he ran short of wire so he used some doubled zip cord on the neutral and a coathanger on the hot
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I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP I SWEAR
it was behind a cabinet and soldered (possibly welded) together so it did not burn the house down
somehow
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a good story is about how he wanted a fireplace and there had been an incinerator in the basement so he had a flue
so he built this massive fireplace out of rough-cut stone and cement
when i went to UW i noticed an econ building built at the same time had exactly the same rocks
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i'm 1000% convinced he went down there with his pickup and just offloaded a bunch one night
i can't prove it
but i know it in my heart to be true
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the punchline, of course, is that this was _his_ apartment, where _he_ lived
...and where he did absolutely his best work.
he was a very energetic homeowner
unfortunately
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rahaeli - @rahaeli · 56m
Oh my god I'm so sorry
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it's mitigated a little by the fact that i am _convinced_ his intentions were good
he was by god gonna make this the best owner-occupied student boarding house he could
and you can tell by the way that the dumbass shit he pulled was _much_ more work than just doing it right
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i _still_ have salvage lumber pulled from his... improvements... when i pulled them out.
antique old-growth doug fir
too bad about the HOLY HELL WHY SO MANY NAILS THEY AREN'T HELPING ANYTHING WHY?! though
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EBS - @estockbridge · 1h
A couple weeks in, and I’m convinced of what I suspected at purchase: the previous homeowner was a DIY-er who unlike me did not seem to know his limits.
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Kathryn Tewson - @KathrynTewson · 1h
oh no do you have a mr fixit
@solarbirdy can tell you stories about her mr fixit
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Kathryn Tewson - @KathrynTewson · 1h
mr fixit the loathed
mr fixit the despised
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[This link is where I came in]
@solarbirdy replying to @KathrynTewson and @estockbridge
oh no
where do i even start
-----
mr. fixit wanted to live in a studio apartment he built in the basement. it wasn't heated so he tried to patch a radiator into the main house's heat. but he didn't want to pay for a radiator so he used a refrigeration coil and a fan.
he did not know about unlike metals corrosion
-----
he wanted a kitchen for obvious reasons but he wanted to save on wire
so he tapped into a knob-and-tube light fixture in the basement
but wait my story gets better
he ran short of wire so he used some doubled zip cord on the neutral and a coathanger on the hot
-----
I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP I SWEAR
it was behind a cabinet and soldered (possibly welded) together so it did not burn the house down
somehow
-----
a good story is about how he wanted a fireplace and there had been an incinerator in the basement so he had a flue
so he built this massive fireplace out of rough-cut stone and cement
when i went to UW i noticed an econ building built at the same time had exactly the same rocks
-----
i'm 1000% convinced he went down there with his pickup and just offloaded a bunch one night
i can't prove it
but i know it in my heart to be true
-----
the punchline, of course, is that this was _his_ apartment, where _he_ lived
...and where he did absolutely his best work.
he was a very energetic homeowner
unfortunately
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rahaeli - @rahaeli · 56m
Oh my god I'm so sorry
-----
it's mitigated a little by the fact that i am _convinced_ his intentions were good
he was by god gonna make this the best owner-occupied student boarding house he could
and you can tell by the way that the dumbass shit he pulled was _much_ more work than just doing it right
-----
i _still_ have salvage lumber pulled from his... improvements... when i pulled them out.
antique old-growth doug fir
too bad about the HOLY HELL WHY SO MANY NAILS THEY AREN'T HELPING ANYTHING WHY?! though
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