classical_hero
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The Great Head.
How so bro?
And why haven't these gems found their way to the members photos thread yet?
I think there's precise two photos of me on CFC somewhere and I don't intend to double that number with dodgy decades-old ones.
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azzaman333
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Either I don't socialise and I feel depressed because of it, or I do socialise and I feel depressed afterwards. FML.
classical_hero
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I have massive debts relatively speaking and I do not see any way out of my current predicament due to health issues.
I'm having my kitchen redone, which means that the contents are spread throughout the rest of my flat and there are men crashing around in there. (One of them thinks he can sing.)
It's also scheduled to take several days, in none of which my kitchen will be available.
It's also scheduled to take several days, in none of which my kitchen will be available.
Time for a diet!
My bike ate one of my trousers this morning
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The university sports day this year is in a period when nobody is in the department, therefore we might not have a team :/.
And bureaucracy! One of the postdocs needs to give a presentation tomorrow about the project on which we're currently working on, so he asked for some details for it. Due to some insecurities there I asked if I should maybe be present in the meeting.
Turns out I can't, because I'm officially not on the project. I'm doing half of the work for it, know all the details, but can't attend the meetings o_O.
Don't mind too much though, would be at 8:30 in the morning.
My bike ate one of my trousers this morning
.The university sports day this year is in a period when nobody is in the department, therefore we might not have a team :/.
And bureaucracy! One of the postdocs needs to give a presentation tomorrow about the project on which we're currently working on, so he asked for some details for it. Due to some insecurities there I asked if I should maybe be present in the meeting.
Turns out I can't, because I'm officially not on the project. I'm doing half of the work for it, know all the details, but can't attend the meetings o_O.
Don't mind too much though, would be at 8:30 in the morning.
warpus
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When I moved into this place, the basement had a carpet. Me, my mom, and my dad removed that carpet and replaced it with a nice looking floor.
When I was in New Zealand the house got flooded and the floor had to be replaced.
On Friday the basement got flooded again (due to a different reason) and the floor is now getting replaced.. again..
The fourth floor.. let this one be the final one!
When I was in New Zealand the house got flooded and the floor had to be replaced.
On Friday the basement got flooded again (due to a different reason) and the floor is now getting replaced.. again..
The fourth floor.. let this one be the final one!
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Tile with a good floor drain to a sump? It has some disadvantages, but it would withstand any future flooding incidents better than pretty much anything else, so best chance to be the final one. This was developed for swimming pools, but I have seen it used for flooring in a few homes and one very trendy restaurant. As flooring it is very easy to maintain because it is impervious to liquids, though it has to be 'recoated' every few years. Recoated in this case meaning you pour a bottle of not terribly expensive stuff on it, spread it around with a mop, and let it dry.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Well, the problem has never been the floor - just unrelated accidents. On Friday what happened was one of the pipes burst.
I am getting a similar replacement floor - standard wood tile type stuff.
I am getting a similar replacement floor - standard wood tile type stuff.
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That isn't a 'problem floor', but it is probably the most susceptible to water damage of all possible choices. Even carpet can be properly dried and come through more or less unharmed. During my days in the remodeling business I would always recommend something other than wood for a basement floor...but of course I took my share of payments for putting them in. In the end, always give the customer what they want.
warpus
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Yeah, you're right.
If there is a third flood and I have to replace the floor again, I'm moving out.
Not even selling the place, I'm just grabbing my bags and getting tfo
If there is a third flood and I have to replace the floor again, I'm moving out.
Not even selling the place, I'm just grabbing my bags and getting tfo
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Yeah, you're right.
If there is a third flood and I have to replace the floor again, I'm moving out.
California is always beckoning! My next door neighbor's house is for sale, no basement floor problems (in the desert we don't do basements), no flooding problems unless I overflow my pool, no frozen pipe problems...it is a virtual paradise.
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Foundations have to go deeper than the frost line, or freezing ground water can cause frost heaving. When you are digging that deep anyway you might as well make a basement. We don't get freezing that penetrates the ground, and we don't have any ground water to speak of anyway, so our foundations are footings just a couple feet deep. Basements for the very short maybe.
I must admit that it is currently hailing on my house though. That's what happens when you try to be nice to a Canadian I guess.
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Lots of building codes have provision for what are called 'frost protected shallow slab foundations'. They are insulated around the edges and (in theory) the heated space above the slab prevents ground freezing under the slab so no frost heave occurs. The thing about them is that there is a heating requirement for the space, so builders can't use them under a space that is expected to not be kept above a minimum temperature (64 F, maybe? at least where I lived in Idaho IIRC).
Why Tim personally thinks this is really dumb:
Usually the builder isn't the long term homeowner, and 'must be kept heated to avoid damage' is a pretty wild stipulation to expect people to pass on and keep track of. The 'I took a two week vacation in the dead of winter and came back with a nice tan and a busted house' stories aren't every day events, but they do happen.
It should be noted that what I think is never of any significance to people who write building codes.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Why would I do that, you would see this rant on here a couple days after I moved in:
"Just moved into my new place.. Guess who my new neighbour is.. Timsup2nothin ....
Just kidding..
errr.. *slowly walks off stage* (yes, there is a stage)My basement actually opens up onto the back yard, so it adds $10k to the value of this place and makes things a bit more awesome. It also means that water floods from the outside generally don't happen - there is a pump there, and most of the water just flows down the hill instead of affecting the house, not even during crazy rain or crazy snow melting activities.. the pump only comes on every once in a while. yeah, the only water problems I have to fear come from within the house.. (I should knock on wood I guess)
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Hey! I might be a jerk, but I'm a really good neighbor!
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