• @[email protected]
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    51 month ago

    Upstairs is where they keep all their drug money and exploits. This is a passive way to deter their parents from exploring.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        Well not anymore now that you bring this up. Thanks dude. Now where am I supposed to hide everything from the robot dogs?

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    Tell me that you don’t have children (or older parents) without telling me that …

    That said I like floating stairs slightly more than these but these are good with me.

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    61 month ago

    I remember at my college we had stairs that had holes on the side (from the top down it covered the whole area probably with some overlap) and I used to have dreams/nightmares of having to do parkour to get through the place

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    I’m a handyman. This will not pass an inspection because it lacks the handrail necessary to be code compliant. That’s before even getting into tread width and lack of trip resistant rise.

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      Are all countries the same for housing codes?

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        They might vary on issues like how high a riser or how wide a tread should be but if they are going to bother to have a code then they will usually contain things like the need for a railing.

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        In most cases you’ll need an inspection when you go to buy a home. Anytime you’re changing a house you have to ask yourself “Will this hurt the ability to resell it later on?” This is going to end up on an inspection report and it’s either going to have to be remedied or it’s going to drop the value.

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          Possibly, but if homes are in demand and everything else is good, the homeowner could just say ya, I’m not lowering the price or fixing it, if the past couple years are anything to go off it will still sell for asking.

          The house I bought with my partner had a non permitted external “extension” (just a separate room not connected to the main house with air conditioned office) and other safety issues on the inspection. We still bought the house, got 2k off for the house not having any ground wiring.

          A significant portion of house flippers also don’t bother with permits (or inspections) and do a lot of remodeling that requires a permit, they still sell. I understand why permits exist, but as a homeowner doing work on my own home I’m not paying the government shit to allow me to work on my property. Fuck permits.

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            Sometimes these issues can prevent financing. If you have enough money to pay cash then it’s not an issue. But most people can’t do $300k in cash.

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    This is clearly a work in progress. The stair planks are meant to bolt onto those reinforcement beams, and likely a hand rail will appear for the last half of it.

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      I don’t see any holes for the bolts that’d attach said planks and rail…

      Granted, the image isn’t blessed with an abundance of pixels, and suffers from an excess of JPEG… but from what can be seen, I expect we’d still be able to see some trace of holes or other mounting points if this wasn’t supposed to be a finished product…

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    In so much of this cookie-cutter “hip” newer housing, it’s either this or a dangerously steep angle, sometimes even both at the same time.

    Enshittified architects building enshittified spaces thinking only of how it looks, not how it’s supposed to be lived in with safety and comfort from Day Two onward, the novelty wears off very quickly and you’re stuck with an unnecessarily, potentially deadly space.

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      Linoleum. He won’t go down to the landing to the basement. He’ll do one, maybe 2 steps. So that’s where I keep his food. Even if I forget to shut the door, he won’t go down there and annihilate the bag.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        Meanwhile, my dog is so stupid, he’ll jump onto slippery vinyl floors from couches and chairs. I’ve actually seen him slip, fall sideways and body slam into the ground. I found him limping one time and I’m reasonably sure it was from jumping off the couch, which is when I finally put my foot down and blocked him from jumping up onto it. Built a little ramp instead.

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            11 month ago

            It’s where he’s allowed to cuddle/lay in your lap. It’s easier than having guests get down on the ground for it, and there are two couches, one allowed and one not. So guests that don’t want a begger of pets can choose.

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    I actual quite like this. It looks totally impractical at best and dangerous at worst, but I think it looks pretty cool.