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Wow, I don't know whether to laugh or to recoil in horror...
The garage door opener was pretty ingenious, though. :-)
I remeber the kids next door to a friends house were have garage door opener races. That setup would kinda take the fun out of it.
Funny and stupid. I can't believe that dryer plug setup. It amazes me. He put all that work into it and didn't bend the wires aound the prongs like your supposed to. People are so lazy.
Don't you love it when mechanics do home repair. My buisness partners dad was a mechanic. Everything he built or fixed had mechanics wire on it somewhere. My favorite was when he hung a chandelier and ran short of chain and used mechanics wire just "temporaly" still hanging after 15 years.
"The garage door opener was pretty ingenious, though."i think the poop bottle (oops, i mean pop bottle) at the clean-out was a keeper
Wow. That's all I can say. WOw.
Isn't that something? I feel so much better about my DIY skills now. Best to know one's limitations or at least educate yourself on how to do a job. When I got my house there was a light switch near the shower ungrounded........ lamp cord run from boxes and stapled to the outside walls........http://www.etherhuffer.typepad.com
I could be wrong, but I'm almost certain that the photo of the auto-radiator hose used for a drain pipe coupling is a shot of the repair that I did on my Dad's house way back when I was but a wee lad. Only it wasn't off a 1945 Pontiac, it as my old '73 olds.....;-)
" If I were a carpenter"
You size the heating system by the CID of the house. Big block house needs a big block sized radiator!http://www.etherhuffer.typepad.com
"I could be wrong, but I'm almost certain that the photo of the auto-radiator hose used for a drain pipe coupling is a shot of the repair that I did on my Dad's house way back when I was but a wee lad. Only it wasn't off a 1945 Pontiac, it as my old '73 olds.....;-)"
I've seen radiator hoses used for drain couplings before myself. I figured there was a little creative license in that description since there wasn't such a thing as a '45 Pontiac.
So if mechanics use radiator hose, then who was it who replaced a rotted section of vent stack in my old apartment in NYC with a Shæffer Beer can with both ends can-openered out?
I figger it musta been the electrician; he used electrical tape to make the joints....Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
My buddy and I remodeled a house last year, the cold water line to the kitchen sink was a 4' section of hydraulic hose. Sure hope it wasn't "used" when it went in.
Was that I beam actually sitting on ceramic tile "shims" ?!?
Real trucks dont have sparkplugs
All classics
I particularly enjoyed the cardboard paper protecting the PCVC from the flue contact.
Water heaters are a rich source of amusement in the HI industry, because so many DIYs think they can do it. (Plenty of interesting elec panels, too.)
"Best" I saw was the gas water heater (in the room open to the baby's room) with no flue - but an open basement window nearby! (And yes, subgrade bedrooms with no secondary means of exit....)
It was in a rooming house. First time I called the local building department
With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord; I will praise Him in the midst of the throng. For He stands at the right hand of the needy, to save them from those who would condemn them to death.
- Psalms 109:30-31
This was sent from a friend so I have no idea of the sources, but those sure are scary. These show why I like codes.http://www.etherhuffer.typepad.com
They're all on the ThisOldHouse website........(including many more)Here's a link....scroll down to "DIY Disasters" and see Nightmares Chapters I, II, and III.....as well as some additional "horror stories" http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/
I recently replaced the frozen/shattered CPVC supply lines in someone's apt. The lines were wrapped in heat tape, wrapped back on itself, that had been "extended" with speaker wire/black tape. The 'electrician' took the opportunity to replace the plugs with ungrounded ones that would fit in the two-slot outlets.
Oh man, those were great. My favorite was the stubby little chimney next to the gable end. Hilarious. (Unless it's your house of course).