/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>Tenants complain about it being cold in their apartment
>Cold as shit, show up and they're wearing parka, scarf, and gloves inside their apartment
>I point out that their windows are wide open in sub-zero temperatures, and explain that they need to keep them closed
>"But I need some open, so I can get some fresh air"
Wish I was joking, but damn, these college kids can be really brainless

>Tenant complains about seeing rats/ mice in their apartment
>food crumbs/ cookware/ trash all over the floor
>grease/ oils all over cabinets and countertops
>open bags of rice on the vinyl tile floor, which is literally pitch black in areas from tracking in dirt and never cleaning
Try not living like an animal, and maybe the other animals will stay away

>>1314394
could be worse
you could be renting the unit utilities included

:(

>>1314404
Are you saying that you're living in a cold, rodent-infested apartment Anon?

>>1314394
i had this in uk. they deserted in the end so i sold their shit but still had to spend hundreds to clean up

>>1314381

shoulda let it acclimate friend

>>1314423
Nope

>Be 17
>trying to build a mitered keepsake box to impress a girl
>can't get the 2 long sides the same length
>throw on ground
>pour kerosene on milled cherry boards
> burn and stomp
>tell girl it won't be ready in time for her birthday
>never try again

>bro and I trying to get workshop together
>parents say we can use garage
>spend 3 weeks cleaning half of the filthy rat shit infested garage with junk in there head to toe
>"oh anons were using the garage to park our cars when your done, you can't do that shit in there"
>stop cleaning it
>spend weeks looking to rent a place
>grandpa finally catches wind
>lets us use his garage
>spend a month cleaning that out
>at least no rat shit

>finally start working on our ideas
>winter.exe
>too cold to work
>warm enough twice this winter to spend some time working
>grandpa is moving in and selling the property in the spring
>wont get to use it much more
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>1314482
Fucking god I know this feeling all too well. Just spent most of the fall cleaning out my folks' garage and built a proper workbench in there. Now it's too cold to even hold a hammer without shivvering like Michael J. Fox.

>>1314488
Get a kersone heater and wear some winter clothes. I was in my shop comfy with 15f degree weather.

>>1314488
yeah it sucks anon, at least you will be able to use it all spring thru fall tho

>be me
>first week at my new handyman job
>things are going ok
>I'm no master but I have the skills to do almost all the required repairs
>learning some new things on the job
>about to learn a very important lesson
>boss tells me to replace a temperature control thermostat on a shower
>i ask "is it a power shower or boiler fed?"
>they say power shower
>i think that's a bit weird since power showers tend not to have replaceable/serviceable parts now days
>"so it's just a straight swap, you want me to take the old one out, new one, in?"
>"yeah just pop it in"
>get to disassembling shower
>this does not look like a power shower
>it's not a power shower
>confusion
>can't find isolation valves
>have done many plumbing jobs in the past
>have noticed that if there's water presure in the pipe you can usually loosen a nut, see a drip or get a spray and quickly tighten it back up before any serious leak occurs
>and I can just "pop it in"
>turn pressure control tap full off
>start to remove thermostat retaining nut
>no drips
>keep removing nut
>no leaks
>keep removing nut
>no spray
>keep removing nut
>EXPLOSION OF WATER
>the thermostat shoots out across the cubicle
>giant torrent of water floods out of hole where thermostat used to be
>try to force old one back in but the water presure is too strong
>later find out that it won't go back in at all
>soaked to skin
>run downstairs and ask where the main stop cock is
>no one knows
>NO ONE FUCKING KNOWS WHERE THE MAIN WATER STOP COCK IS
... continued

>>1314949
>I rush around plant rooms
>access hatches
>dry risers
>turning off everything I can find
>cold water flow stops
>but not hot
>battling against scalding water I try to force the thermostat back in while aligning the nut (which by the way has a non-standard, extra-fine thread which is impossible to align)
>three plumbers later we find out which valves are what
>and that neither of the thermostats fit back in
>soaking wet all over
>bleeding
>call it a day
later that week...
>I buy the correct thermostat and it slides right in, no problem.
>AAAAAAAASKJHASKJHSJFGF
>if they had gotten the right one the first time around we may have avoided all this despite my fuck up.

I still have the job more than a year later so, learn from me, cause a giant flood on your first week and you're set for life.

>>1314949
>>1314953
Holy hell anon.

>>1314968
Two more things in this fuck up I forgot to put in:
It flooded the restaurant on the floor below.
The de-humidifier they hired to dry the place off afterwards was provided with the wrong transformer and said transformer burnt a hole in the floor.

> hammering down nails into hardwood
> too young to into predrill
> already mad becaue half a box of nails bent and fucked
> hit thumb
> raeghurl hammer at cement floor
> hammer bounces wuth the deft grace of a ballerina, knocks out a front tooth
> continues upward, knocks a paint tin off overhead shelf
> paint and blood everywhere, project now looks like a stanly kubrick movie

Don't throw your toys kiddies.

>>1314989
oh no... that was a clusterfuck.

>>1314381
>I dropped my router
>router
That's what you get for not using hand tools.

>>1314953
Water stops lol if you do this shit turn the valves on to see if they leak before pulling shit jfc baka desu senpai famalamadingdong

>>1314999
>tries to make a mitre joint with hand tools
>fails

>>1314394
>tfw management company does all this for me
It's nice just sitting back and collecting money from my rentals.

>>1314404
>you could be renting the unit utilities included
why on gods green earth would you do that? They'll probably take up coin mining.

>"oh anons were using the garage to park our cars when your done, you can't do that shit in there"
Buy a house newfriend

>>1315021
>Water stops lol if you do this shit turn the valves on to see if they leak before pulling shit

not sure what you didn't understand about my story there, nothing was leaking untill everything was leaking. there were no water stops or isolation valves, we later ripped out the wall and installed some.

>>1315038
M8 GPUs right now are probably more a piece than most landlords here charge in two months.

>>1315032
>what is a miter box
>what is a shooting board
You're an idiot.

>>1315087
I have a mitre box, but there's still a degree or two of error in the cuts made with it. And once I sand the joints without any jig to keep my sandpaper at 45°, it's no longer correct. I definitely need a shooting board, as well as a hand-plane.

>>1315036
Yep, I can imagine,can't wait get some of my own. Maintenance work can be lucrative if you find the right employer but fuck all the headaches and stress that can come with it, especially at higher levels of management.
>>1315038
Yeah, i agree, including utilities is foolish, unless you have a hard time leasing it out. My coworkers comp a portion of water + sewer with their tenants which seems to strike a good balance

>>1314381
>dad buys cheap chainsaw
>does its work for a bit then chain drops about everytime you use it
>put in a corner "i will fix it" dad says
>fast forward 2 years
>still there
>try cleaning the mechanism, get a new chain, nothing fixes it
>take it to repair guy, says cheap model has defective tension mechanism so i buy new one (100euros, my money not his)
>go home, cut more things in a day than in years
>dad gets mad coz he was about to repair it
>lmao son you got fucked the chainsaw was perfectly fine
>fast forward 2 years again
>chainsaw still in that corner

not that mad, but sometimes makes me wanna murder him

>>1314949
>>1314953
I just a few months ago cut an old copper pipe when renovating one of my flats. It was the hot water pipe and the amount of water that can rush out from such a pipe is impressive.
One thing I learned from this is that if you decide to start working on something that is a part of the water systems the building first find out from where you can cut the water and then make sure you have unobstructed access to that place.
These days I have the keys to the shut-off valve in that building. There is only one valve and you have to shut off the whole building.

>>1315369
>the amount of water that can rush out from such a pipe is impressive.
same anon... flashbacks.

>Drilling through external wall in behind a service panel for mains water and shit
>Customer is on the other side
>Ok mate im going in 400mm from the corner is there anything in the way?
>He measures
>Nah man you're good
>Drill through wall
>Drill shits the bed with a bang
>Bro you hit my incoming mains wtf

YOU COULD SEE THE FUCKING CABLE RIGHT THERE AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN TELL ME HOLY SHIT REEEEEEEEEEEE

>Moral of the story, never listen to customers

Here’s a recent one.
>Be me
> young blue collar faggot right out of trade school
> got call back on $30-something an hour job from big company
>gotta take a few tests, did one that was basic shit like “can you read, understand basic math, Ect.”
> long wait time, now two months into hiring process (not an idiot so I’m still putting my resume left, right and center)
>Job is something I genuinely have an interest in doing as a career
>go to take their second test, which is to show if you can actually use tools
>been several months since I had the chance to build something with steel
>”I’m sure I’ll do great! I got four tears of fabrication and welding education and practice under my belt!”
>finally go to shop location, the test is to make some screws out of a dowel and drill some varying size holes in a plate of steel, and tap some of the holes.

>test is timed, tools used were all hand tools and only power tool was a drill, should be easy.
>I put the rod in the vice, keeps spinning as I tap it with a die no matter how tight the Vice is, Vice has soft copper jaws, I never used them before
>instructor had to come and show me how to clamp it in properly.
>skip to drilling plate
>First gotta pilot the holes
>Smallest drill bit is 1/8”, dull as shit, use anyway because I spent too much time making screws out of rod and layout for holes.
>Drilling eight pilot holes took an age, didn’t know why at the time
> I was work hardening the steel
>Failed the test because I didn’t finish the test
>”Yeah your work is great and but you took so long, gotta get a bit faster”

At least I got a pair of gloves out of it, and the instructor was a pretty cool guy.


Tl;DR: Awesome job test I failed because I couldn’t use soft jaws on a vice and I work hardened steel as I drilled into it.

>>1315846
What the fuck did they have you drilling that work hardened from an electric drill?

>>1315036
Remove rent seekers REMOVE RENT SEEKERS you are the worst rentier you are the burhger smell

>first day as a mechanic in another country.
>get to fix a shitbox project my boss had lying around
>engine out almost everything replaced
>goes back smooth
> 10 bolts on a sump cover thingie plate with zero use but holds back oil
>5 snapped

>ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

>if I ever find the engineer who designed it I'd kill him

>>1314381

>spend 3 days to repair and upgrade an old notebook
>leave the "Ready for Windows 98" sticker and install Lubuntu 16.04
>3am in the morning, everything is ready
>"tomorrow will take a few pics and show off"
>place it under the bed and go to take a pee
>step onto it and destroy its 12" display
>D A F U QQQQQQQQQQQQQ

>>1315895

Oh and to add, I never even had to remove the goddamn plate in the first place.
Just removed it by mistake

*facepalm*

>>1315855
>>low effort reeeeee

>>1314489
>Get a kersone heater and wear some winter clothes. I was in my shop comfy with 15f degree weather.
Are those safe to use in a closed garage?

>spend absurd amount of prep time measuring, planning, researching any parts I'm unfamiliar with
>finally go to tackle project
>make repeated fuckups on simple things throughout project

Literally every project I ever do

>forget to put on flare nut before making flare

Whom are you all quoting?

>>1316205

We found the new guy

>>1316196
> forgot to thread jack cover onto cable before soldering jack to cable

That feel bro, that feel..

>>1315038
>why on gods green earth would you do that?
the house in question is on radiant heat which supplies the entire dwelling, so i have to rent the unit heat inc. They pay their own electric.
>buy a house
I own several lol

>>1316248
>irony: the post

Pretty minor, but this was just this week. Father's belt sander hasn't worked in years and he never cared enough to troubleshoot and fix. Say fuck it and unbolt it from the bench, and open it up; I'm going to need to use this soon enough. Spend half an hour dealing with screws stripping and find that there is nothing wrong in the case. Motor runs just fine.
Eventually I figure out that it's just a broken drive belt, but I did all this work beforehand, and now I need to figure out how to get the disc off so I can get the pulley guard off. That bitch couldn't budge. I got pissed and started going at it with punches and hammers. Had to get to an appointment, so I left it there. When I got back to it, I made a sort of a gear puller device and managed to get it off, and sure enough, shredded drive belt. If the replacement I ordered doesn't work there will be hell to pay.
I really need to clean up my work area too. My father doesn't do anything but bicycle maintenance these days, and his workbench is a mess. The kiddie workbench he built for me years ago is buried in junk. And the fucking mice.

>>1316196
>put in flare nut backwards.

>>1314982
What do you mean

>>1314982
Wrong transformer? What do you mean by that?

>>1316153
When I lived in Iraq they were the only source of heat, so yes, smoke doesnt come out of thats your concern. You can always opt out for electric heaters if you dont trust them

>>1315749
Fuck i did similar
>be me new dumbass at work
>hey mount this 4x6 sign on this wall.
>daycare on opposite side, no problemo. >drill 3 holes, all good in da hood
>4th hole BAM as building is plunged into darkness.

Drilled into mains, metal stud arced nearby probably saved my life

>>1314994
I now have cameras all over my bench for my jewtube channel, fuck I wish I had them then though, would have been sublime to replay that shit in slow-mo.

>>1316196
>>1316258
> forget to apply heatshrink before splicing wires
The struggle is real.

>>1314482
even worse if you do metal shit and your hand freezes if you touch anything. Also my milling machine (most expensive thing i ever bought) is rusting like crazy all the time i'm gone for more than 3 days. I can't wait to get my own shop next year.

>Work only allows one earbud
>Use wired earbuds with one ear cut off so less hassle
>Upgrade to wireless ear buds only connected to each other
>Cut left one off
>Both stop working

>>1316464
Just solder or twist them back together

>>1316481
Been trying, after a few attempts I think the wires are too thin for someone of my limited ability to strip (4 of them in a small cable).

I managed to melt it off with an electric stove though so Im hoping I can fix them once I buy a proper soldering iron

>get on pronhub
>start jacking off
>video freezes
>sit there with your dick in your hands
>jack off aggressively
>realize you clicked on gay porn
>video starts with a guy taking it in the ass
>NUT
>realize what just happened
>question yourself if you're interested in men
>tell your parents the good news
>your mom accepts the change
>your dad doesn't except
>cry
>go on pronhub
>jack off aggressively tell your dick explodes
>go to church
>ask God to give you a new dick
>go to bed
>wake-up with a new dick
>repeat

>>1316529
IT dude here, it's like really small speaker wire so you just use a wire stripper to remove the plastic insulation, then you use a lighter or something to carefully burn away the coating insulation, then isolate the wires and test. Then put some heat shrink on, solder and heat shrink and you're done.

>>1316760
>heat shrink
He'll be lucky if he can even get electrical tape to go over such thin wires, unless there's some sub-1mm heatshrink I don't know about. That insulation can usually be taken care of with the soldering iron itself, with a little wiping on brass wool or a sponge of course.

>>1316848
Hot glue blob and heatshrink over it.
Just, for the sake of the thread, place the heatshrink on the cord before soldering.

>>1314489
>15f
Try -31f for a change, it's that cold every now and then here

>>1316182

I have the same issue, probably an attention to detail deficit/poor working memory. are you good at math? Because I'm not

>>1314394
Boot them. If they cant be assed to pick up food trash they will fuck up your shit anon

>>1314482
Built a tin shack with a dirt floor and make a wood stove

>>1314953
100% running pex and a junction box in a closet with every single fucking water line have in a shut off and a gate valve in there for main.

>>1315036
Ffs i cant wait. I hate peoppe so fucking much. At this rate i wont ve avle to quit my job till mid 50s

Feelsbadman

>>1315038
Yeah, i figured all bills paid would be cool.

>rent apartment because add in paper
>ad says washers and dryers, pool, internet, and conferance room for games and activities


>pool is boarded over and chain link barbed wire fence with keep out signs
>conference room is used for storage as rebtal they don't fucking ise it and charge $500 a day to rent it
>10amp breakers to all things
>unable to access
>maintenance man super pissy and has to trip
>charge $20 when breaker does it's thing
>5 gallon hot water heater split every 2 apartments
>no thermostat
>internet is cox, you have to pay to hookup and use
>doesnt fucking work
>pay repair guy 2 trips
>says 400 people are stealing my internet
>charges me a 3rd time.
>turn 360 degrees
>move the fuck out.
>no deposit back
>there's a hole in the wall
>it was there when i moved in
>find out nobody ever gets a deposit back
>work 80+ hours a week
>cannot take off work and sue scammers

...all bills paid

>>1315066
>not isb mining

>>1315531
Yup. Jerked washer out to replace, pull ice maker line in 2

>i wild fire hose apears!

>>1315855
What the fuck non english speaking shithole do u hale from anom?

>>1316153
Yeah, just good ventalation and propane heater is 100% safe bit expensive af

>>1316182
Same. Sucks anon

>>1317069
Did you not check out the property before signing? Were these "maitanance fees" in the lease?

>>1316350
>Forget heatshrink.


Like clockwork. Every fucking time

>>1316529
Use your teef

>>1316575
The fuck......?

>>1317079
No and no.

I may literally be retarded.

Should have punched that cunt bulldyke mamager in it's fucming face on the way out.

>>1317080
I tend not to use a proper splice when wiring, but that's because nothing I ever do is load bearing in the slightest. Upside is I can easily desolder it to put the heatshrink back on.

>>1316896
>>1317077

Thanks for the support bros. Yes I'm good at math but horrible at memory, especially juggling multiple tasks like remembering to take my tape measure from one spot to another while thinking about what cuts to make. If I don't obsessively measure things multiple times I am guaranteed to fuck it up in some dumb way.

> Wife says paint the living room.
> I say yes dear. What color?
> She has paint sample paper ready to go.
> Go to Sherman Williams.
> Buy 3 gallons of Alpine White in eggshell.
> Forget to ask for shot of black.
> Sherman laughs because I’m no pro.

>hvac installerfag
>minisplit replacement for server room
>15' flat roof, foreman is bro, gets us a crane for condenser
>we show up, i start laying out new indoor head while chucklefuck #2 is pumping down & cutting out outdoor unit
>oh hey crane, just in time, let's get the old condenser down & new one up, bye crane dude, happy friday
>i & fucklechuck go back inside, i resume piddling around server room, he goes up to yank the lineset ends into the attic & ball it up
>why the fuck is the indoor head still running, we killed its buddy
>the pale ghost of chuckles totters down from the attic
>whispers "there's still refrigerant in the lines"
>check personally
>realize the mistake & feel a small part of my consciousness pass into the next realm
the motherfucker pumped down & cut the wrong unit. just basically walked across the roof & picked a random central conditioning unit to dick down. best part? server room unit was half the size of the normal ones & obviously the one once you saw it
made him call the boss, call the crane guy, talk to the client, i'm not explaining this shit, you do it. cranebro laughed his ass off & came back for free. i don't know what the foreman said on the phone but from 8 feet away it didn't sound like he was singing
that was a long friday

>>1316575
/diy/ btw

>>1316575
holy fucking kek

>>1317518
What a fucking moron, cutting some random unit, top kek though.

>>1316464
>half an hour deali
I think it's the Jaybird Run true wireless that you can use the one bud and not bother pairing the other. They clip right into your ears, and there are no wires involved. They're the most competitively priced for what they are.

>be young, stupid, just married
>wife says we can get *solid* cherry wood coffee table and end table from wealthy sister for cheap
>spend money on tables
>get tables two months later and find out sister in-law *brush* painted them with million coats of black paint
>cherry wood
>brush painted
>spend hours trying to strip paint
>get through black paint only to find sister in-law put on million coats of primer
>clean tables of stripper goo
>whip out sander and start 80-gritting that shit
>get through black paint
>get through primer to reveal beautiful cherry wood
>get through microscopic cherry wood veneer to reveal particle board
>almost have rage heart-attack at 22

Luckily it was a few years later that I found out my rich sister in-law sold us veneer cherry coffee and end tables for the *exact* price you could buy them new but without the shitty paint job.

>>1317518
Reminds me of a story a guy I work with told me.

>Used to work at a Carpet place in a high end area
>Couple comes in and picks out a nice expensive wool carpet for their house
>Pay for it and setup the install
>The lady calls to complain that no one showed up to install her carpet
>Boss is pissed that installer didn't do his job
>Installer swears he did the job and he's a good worker
>Boss gets pissed that customer is trying to pull a fast one on them and tells her what's what.
>Lady gets her husband involved and he's a lawyer so he's threatening to sew them for all this
>Boss goes out to the house and it is indeed not the carpet they bought installed.
>Calls installer to come out and explain why he's lying about installing the carpet at the house
>Installer never shows up
>Boss goes back to shop to fire the installer who is now sure is a fucking con artist who is lying about selling carpet and selling it to other people or something.
>Installer gets back and asks why the boss didn't meet him there
>Finally it clicks after they shout at each other
>Installer installed brand new carpet in wrong house
>They go to the house to figure out what to do
>They get there and ask the woman why she let them install carpet in their house if she hadn't paid; she though it was a surprise from her husband
>Husband shows up and starts threatening to kill them
>Asking why the fuck they would come into his house when he's not home and try and scam his wife into buying carpet and how they are con men or rapists
>They tell them that they can just keep the carpet (duh) for free
>Man says that he hates the new carpet and wants the old stuff back (which has been cut up and hauled to the dump)
>Eventually they agree to just pay the guy like 1k to drop it
>Still have to get carpet installed in the buyer's house and end up doing it all for free because the boss basically called the woman a con artist.

>>1318044
>Boss goes to fire installer for the fuck up and installer shows him the paperwork that shows the install was at that address
>Finds out that the person in charge of the paperwork (his wife) was working on some sort of mailing list for their kid's school and she wrote the address of one of the kids instead of the client.

This all happened back in the 80's so there were no cell phones or computers to check along the way. Ended up costing them something like $10k to fix it all.

>>1318028
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>Do fibre to the home installs
>Assigned job for douchebag real estate agents office
>Do job for douchebag real estate agents
>Head douchebag who owns the company has built a fucking huge wanky house behind the office with big windows so he can spy on his minions
>He comes out at the end of the job
>Hey mate so you're doing my house today too right?
>Nope sorry, only got the job for this office
>Someone else will be turning up soon for your house
>A blatant fucking lie
>Civils team had fucked up and there was only one fibre tube at the boundary which I used to connect the office
>He will have to pay through the nose and go through a months long fuck around to get a new tube broken out from under the street

Kek, fuck real estate agents.

>>1316464
Tuck the loose one in your shirt

Why the fuck are there so many UK fags here?

>>1316350
>>1317080
just slice the heatshrink longitudinally and melt it onto itself. That's what I do.

Just glued this, how fucked am I?
20 planks, altogether, 18 of them already glued together as 3 boards of 6 planks.
Didn't have more than 3 long clamps.

Everything is planed quite well, but only simple butt joints.

>>1318172
Glued together like this and planed before big glue up.

I'm a noob in case you can't tell.

>>1314949
>water stop cock

don't you have one on you at all times?

>>1315531
When I'm at a kegger, I often find myself contemplating just how much beer is flowing through that little tap pipe.

>>1316464
>Upgrade
that's where you're wrong

>drilling into concrete to install satellite antenna
>this is some tough fucking concrete
>drill having some trouble
>try some more
>drill bit fucking shatters (my guess is it got so hot that it expanded, got stuck, and then broke because the motor was still going: if the drill bit itself can't turn the rest of the drill is going to turn)
>drill goes flying to the left
>breaks huge window glass panel, fucks up wood flooring inside the house
>big shard of hot metal in my hand
at least nobody got seriously hurt r-right

>>1316205
We’re quoting bob. He’s the new guy who keeps fucking up.

>Buy old as fuck house
>Begin renovating. Rip out carpet in upstairs hallway
>Find loose floorboards so nail back down
>Take carpet to tip
>Come back to flooded house
>I mailed through heating system feed AND return pipes to anradiator

>building shelving unit today (Sunday)
>got all the gear and supplies the past two days
>find out that someone "borrowed" all the stainless steel screws I was going to use which I already had and didn't buy more
>weekend project rescheduled for next weekend

I intended to let the shelving unit paint dry from today to the 1st of Feb when it needs to be used. Now there won't be enough time for the paint to cure fully before the 1st.

>>1318173
>>1318172
That's quite fine. I always build the entire table top then plane it as a whole. it is easier to get it flat for me that way. Though, if it is fairly wide, reaching the middle is a bitch. I highly recommend using one of these as they make life much easier for projects like that.

>>1315898
I've done almost this exact thing instead I realized that I was about to step on it and tossed myself to the side and over it too hard to control and I smacked my head against my door and gave myself a concussion

>>1317956
That wasn't funny at all you fucking underageb& /b/tard.

>>1318028
Had something similar happen, except it was a dining table, and underneath coat 7 of various colour of paint was... nailed on 2mm ply on top of some cheap ass boards.

Jokes on that shitty table, though, I drilled holes in it, stuck a table saw on and used to build a new dining table.

I win!

Somehow I win.

>>1318382
>gave myself a concussion
wew

>be me
>13 yo beta fag
>walking to school
>see a twig
ultratardmode.wav
>get twig
>has slingshot
>shoots it
horrifiedscreamintesifies.jpeg
>don't go to school
>finds out the next day some kid got a twig in his face..

>>1316575
Hi r/4chan! Top kuk!

>>1318467
Gotta save that shit man. Bodies heal, electronics don't

Two days ago get call from brother that his truck died on road while driving and wouldn't start with a jump so he had it towed to a local shop. Says that the tech there told him that the alternator and battery were shot and quoted him $950 with labor to replace both. His trucks an older pos so I told him to tell them not to touch it and we'd come pick it up over the weekend.

So Sat morning I pick him up and we go to look at the truck. He pops hood and I see that the fucking live wire snapped off from alternator so he had been running off battery till truck died. Anyway I'm crimping a ring connecter to the wire to reattach and this fuckhead in a black jeep pulls up to us. Rolls down his window and informs us that were on private property and cant work on the truck here. This is after this dipshit got 50$ diag fee to try and fuck brother over on 950$. 10 minutes later I almost strained my finger flipping the guy off as we pulled out of there.

>>1318044
Holy fuck.

>be me
>buy house in apartment block
>have really shitty home owners association
>boiler guy couldnt sign off on the inspection because theres a relay to a safety fan on top of the building that was loose.
>ask the hoa to shut off the power so i can work on it
> no response but do get asked 300 times to please fix boiler or ''face consequences''
>aaaaargh the stupidity

>i wake up one day: this will be the day i fix it
>go in like leeroy jenkins
>live wire is litteraly under....
>*zap*
>cold water
*zap*
>mains
>spend another 3 hours cussing and zapping because some mongeloid designed this.
>hands numb, couldnt even feel anything
>felt like a dog beaten by pavlov himself for weeks every time i saw a water pipe
>but i fixed it hell or high water

>>1316860
It got to negative 15 and that was plenty.

>>1314381
>the wood literally explodes
Tell me more, you vapid faggot

>>1318556
How old are you, and your brother?
And wow fuck

>>1318556
FREEDOM ISN'T FREE

>>1314381
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzCfd0eaWoA&list=PLzsHUQDWXILIBNRv6bSipSkpsy2RM5AUk

Related, this series made me realize i need to thoroughly inspect a house my self before buying

>Buy house after inspector gives it an OK
>start remodeling
>open up the walls
>termites have turned the structure into swiss cheese
>mold everywhere
>basement full of radon
>remodeling project turns into basically just building a copy of the house

>>1318250
Thanks anon.
Will report back with results when finished.
Can't use electric tools, after making my gf watch all those Paul Sellers videos with me, she says I can't use power tools or Paul will be disappointed, to which I had no good answer.

>>1318624
Inspectors are lazy lying fucks. Holy shit, when I was attempting to buy my first house, I had to have two inspections due to some discount I was getting on purchasing the house.

>First inspector comes through and tells me everything's A-OK
>Sign some papers, put down money
>Second inspector comes and points out a fucking laundry list of things that are wrong with the house
>Plumbing under the house is busted and leaking raw sewage
>ENTIRE KITCHEN (walls, floor, everything) needs to be removed and rebuilt >Attic is a goddamned aviary
>Call first inspector and light him the fuck up
>Claims he did nothing wrong and totally did his job
>Go through the paperwork he handed me over the phone, with each area of the house that he OK'd that clearly was total shit
>Inspector's manager calls me and suggests we do a conference call
>Tell the manager this is pointless, because it's going to be 20 minutes of "nuh uh, uh huh"
>20 minutes of "nuh uh, uh huh" later...
>Manager asks me if I would like a refund
>YES, I think not doing a job and lying about it warrants a refund
>Asks me how much of a refund I would like; how much of a value do I think the work was worth?
>Pause for a minute to contemplate how absurd this question is
>Demand full refund
>Get a check in the mail for $1 less than a full refund

And that was only the shit that I put up with due to inspectors at ONE HOUSE during that endeavor. The best part was when we were doing the walk-through, I noticed the kitchen seemed really off, and asked the first inspector about it. "NO PROBLEMS HERE!" Lying cunt.

>>1315066
if you don't give a flying fuck about the electricity, you can use older hardware that would otherwise not be profitable

>>1316860
Florida here, think the coldest I've felt so far this winter was like 29. Stay mad

>>1318028

>>1318044
AHAHA!

>>1318184
Put a flow meter on it.

>>1318227
Fiuuuuuuuug

>>1318556
Push truck backwards 4 feet. In the street now. Can him a faggit and throw your trash out in his parking lot from now on

>>1318662
Living in a place that has any sort of inspection or zoning laws....

>>1315852
I assume 1/4” mild steel, I have absolutely no idea why it work hardened, I’ve drilled 1/4” mild steel on drill presses and never had issues like that before, only difference was they gave me a pretty sturdy looking drill to use, maybe it was alloyed or something (doubt it but they didn’t tell what it specifically was, I think it’s safe to say it’s mild steel though.)

Still annoyed that happened.

>High school wood work class
>I'm one of the few people that can actually do things right
>Making a bedside table
>Making the table top using the nicest wood I could get my hands on, its the last part
>Finish it and its perfect, I'll put it on next class, I'll leave it in the store room for now
>Come in next class and someone from another class has stolen it
>Get mad as fuck and go through all the other classes stuff
>Eventually find my baby attached to some cunts mutant looking table
>Carefully remove my top, thank goodness it wasn't damaged
>Proceed to smash apart the other cunts table with a mallet and throw the parts into the scrap bin
This was the day I realised that I had it in me to murder someone if they stole from me. Never actually found out who it was that stole it.

>>1316848

Just use thin glue lined heatshrink, if its not tight when its shrunk then squeeze it together while its hot and it'll adhere to itself.

Test

>>1319041
Test

>>1315036
as long as they don't con you out of all your profit it sounds like a pretty good deal
my dad has a few rentals and he does it all himself since the tenants he has are high quality

>>1314989
this is why I try to not throw shit when I'm mad
it just makes things worse

>get first computer as a lad
>parents got a new office desktop so I get the old one
>decide to put my knowledge to the test and do some basic things like clean the dust out and replace thermal paste
>get dust cleaned up
>go to pull heatink out
>cpu is almost glued to the heatsink
>it's a AMD based system so the ZIF socket lets the cpu come straight out
>bent pins
>no chance of getting a new cpu
>spend literally all day bending pins with the end of a pen

>>1318883
Getting ripped off.

Getting a better deal by pointing out flaws that i can easily fix.

>>1319089
Credit cards and mechanical pencils my man

>>1319005
Kek, reminded me of maybe my best ever now.

>be me
>love dbl drags
>(car audio competitions)
>random old man apears
>says his niece lives here last he new
>notfor5years.jpg
>"meh, yall got a big garage.
You mind if i store some lumber in it for 90 days?"
>uhhhh......?
>days later
>big truck pulls in
>unloads half a semi load of rough cut walnut
>never see or hear from man again
>4 years latter woodshop
>buy 4 15" kicker compVR
>buy 2 1500 watt amps
>build massive solid walnut bandpass box
>have to take the seat out of 3/4 extended cap ford to instal in back seat area
>add 2 extra batteries beside stock ones
>it's a deisle. Tons amps.
>try and get another alternator or 2 on it but descide on test run anyway
>me and buddy get in truck, throw in bass mechanix cd
>earth shattering bass
>people come running out of class because wtf is happening?
>front half of box grenades
>thick ass lexan and walnut splinters shrapnel
>bust my passenger window and windshield
>we get cut all to shit.
>anger.gif
>descide to toss it in the old house behind me and dad's for 3 months and fix it next year.
>dad demos house because it didbt have a door and i hid my shit so well nobody knew it was there.

All of my triggered as i watch the last 2 years of money and work litteraly burn.

Shit happens tho. And it was an expensive fucking hobby i really couldnt afford.

One day tho....

>>1319005
Did you write your name on it or mark it? If I saw just a slab of wood laying around in a school woodshop Id say its fair to assume its fair game

>>1319105
>build wtf you want, where u want and how u want.

Whatevs

>>1319177
so the guy never came back for his lumber and you used it?

got kinda lost there

>>1314471
kek

>>1319177
I hate it
jigaboo music so loud

>>1315855
Says the guys whop is horribly jealous he's not doing the same

Oh comrade do tell about your glorious contributions and great value additions

>>1316340

FUGG.

>Widening door frame to fit hanging sliding blind
>Mains panel nearby
>Electrician looks into it and guarantee's me that everything is going vertical and I can cut along THIS LINE
>Grab 7" grinder with a diamond wheel and plunge in.
>Concrete dust everywhere
>Got muh swimmers goggles and a wet rag to breathe through
>Feeling some odd vibrations
>Stop grinding
>It's my phone
>Fuck that Imma finish this cut first
>Resume
>Door swings open and a whole heap of shouting
>Apparently I cut through the mains going downstairs

Took for fucking ever to trace that bitch.

>>1318227

Seems weird that they would run such critical parts right under wood floor planks

>>1319177

Your writing style is annoying and your story was very hard to follow

>>1319336

If I got it right.

He basically put some stuff in a house and his father burnt that house down because it had no door.

The man with the lumber had no place in his story

>tfw there are people who would have posted in this thread but their fuck ups were so bad that they died in the process

>>1320585
F

>>1320585
A neighbor was using a propane heater hooked to a Pig INSIDE his garage. It leaked one day and he never saw another day and I lost half my garage... 4 houses away and several windows.

>>1319336
>>1319343
how could you possibly not understand this?

>>1314394
Female college tennants are the worst. They live in such filth it's baffling and they have even less knowledge of basic house care than numales.

I recently had one call me saying a light bulb was burnt out. I told her where I kept a stash of them at the rental unit. She didn't know how to change a old screw in style bulb. I had to drive 45 mins there and back to screw in a fucking light bulb for a person who is pursuing higher education.

>>1314404
Ryan?

>>1314953
You always shut water off before before doing something like that. Whether it's from the main or if there is a shut off valve to that line. Water like that can literally create 10's of thousands of dollars worth of damage in a matter of minutes if in a finished house/building. I'm sure you learned the lesson, but just responding for other diy'ers who may try something similar.

>>1314989
A guy I used to work for had a temper like a bastard. He was a house flipper. Anytime something went wrong, even in the slightest (which happens all the time in house flipping business, those flip shows on tv aren't forcing that shit in there for extra drama) he'd chuck shit all over the place. I can't tell you how many walls I needed to patch even after the walls have been painted and baseboards caulked and whatnot.

>>1320616
John?

>>1320627
That's actually my name.....spooky. you from canada?

>>1320614
The apartment building I take care of is in a college town chock-full of tenants like that, i.e. young professionals, international students, etc and the lunacy you see on a daily basis really is unbelievable. Plaster can be hanging from the ceiling, but they won't call until it's already fallen. Mice and cockroaches can scurry past their feet all day and they'll think nothing of it. It's better than working at a section 8 complex like I used to, but not by a large margin

>>1318090

Because us UK fags like /diy/ and do trade/handy/relevant work too?

>>1320609
>a Pig
A what?

>>1320622
That happened to my university once a while ago; builders made a water leak in the floors above the physics lab. When water started to drip around the high voltage laser, everything had to be turned off in quite the hurry. All the carpets were ruined, or so my dad tells me.

>>1320646
This is perfectly logical though, only a functional retard would go to college in 2018.

>>1319260
Yeah. No earthly fucking idea who he was, why he had a fucking truckload of kiln dried walnut, or where he ran off to.

>>1319289
Lol, sorry grandpa.

Shit is fun.

Been studying how to build lithium packs and rebuikd certain pooular models of blown subs for like 20% of new replacement cost. Found a fucking tripple alternator bracket for my shitbox 2000 blazer.

3 220amp alternators should be pkenty of juice.

Taking cues from the watercooled flashlight bro. Gonna wrap copper pipe around whatever i can for the subs and build amp cases with water jackets and heat sinks.

Check out the 1:05 mark. Fuuuuug https://youtu.be/w0ShRKEknkM

>>1319336
Like i give a fuck

>>1320609
F

>>1320614
WHAT IN RIGHT FUCKING SHIT ANON.

Shoylda showed that cunt a youtube vid or tell her to have litteraly anyone else look at it

>>1320625
Kek. Faggot gets what he deserves for being a tryhard houseflipoing cunt.

>buy house
>pay sales tax
>pay for rehab
>sell house with 30% capitok gains tax
>expect to make any fuckibg moey at all

or

Buy house
>sling some paint
>fixtures
>carpet
>rent for well over wtf the bank payment is
>keep for 366 days
>put it up for sale for retarded amoubt of money
>rent forever or sell to n idiot and upgrade

>>1320791
Pigs are those 6 foot long, 3 foot tall propance tanks you usually see next to a cabin or trailer in BFE.

>>1320898
Yup.

College is a fucking joke. Dropped out of junior college twice. Make more than most of my educated peers doing fuckall. Spent the last decade casually studying personal finance and investing. Currently shopping for a 3rd rental with an 800+ credit score to add to my empire. Can't fucking wait to hire my bros dad as a property manager. Good ones are hard to find and he said when i get a 5th house he'll handle them at 4% of the rents. Gonna toss an extra 1% in a savings account and write him a check when he descides to retire.

Win kose or draw everyone needs a roof over their head. And nice houses are always had on the cheap because of faggot flippers and people that inherit them out of state.

>All of these water fuck ups
Is there a cost effective way to auto shut off water if there a bursting leak somewhere? (For after the work is done, obviously just use the main shut off for doing the work)

All the hardware / systems I see are hundreds of dollars without even including labor which seems like a lot when they make stuff for garden hoses that are 1/10th the cost or less.

>>1321012
Good on you

>>1321012
Haha what a fag
I went to college, already on my 4th and my credit score is 801+ and I'm paying my family 6% and they are already retired and dead. So suck it.

>>1316258
did this one time with a 24 pin amphenol connector and wanted to kill myself.

>>1321013

>All the hardware / systems I see are hundreds of dollars without even including labor which seems like a lot when they make stuff for garden hoses that are 1/10th the cost or less.

What kind of auto shut off do you have for detecting garden hose leaks?

The only way I can see an auto shut-off detecting a major leak is by measuring pressure and being able to notice a dramatic drop in pressure then closing off.

But then as soon as you fling your half inch tap wide open it is akin to the same pressure drop you'd find if a half inch pipe were to split

>>1321143
I was looking at flowmeter shut offs that automaticly shut off if you use too much water for as low as $10, but upon further research for a good link I cant find any that reset itself.

Thats basically what i want a flowmeter that resets daily hooked to an automatic shutoff. Measure how much water I use if I do dishes, shower, and a couple loads of laundry in a day and set it to that.

Im not even worried about water damage as they would just flow down into my concrete basement, I just dont want a water bill for days of constant water usage if itd break when Im away

>>1317075
How new are you

>>1318880
Don't forget pissbottles, anon.

>>1321196
Thanks for reminding me! I have one I need to empty in the neighbour's yard.

>>1315339
Well you have the tools now.

>>1314394
>Tenants complain about it being cold in their apartment
>Cold as shit, show up and they're wearing parka, scarf, and gloves inside their apartment
>I point out that their windows are wide open in sub-zero temperatures, and explain that they need to keep them closed
>"But I need some open, so I can get some fresh air"
i lived with someone like this, granted he knew why it was cold and just had the window open so he could smoke weed and not stink up the place, which is rather courteous imo. the problem was he left the heater on while he did it so while it struggled it racked up a huge energy bill that made the landloard bitch and moan

>>1320614
i live with someone like this now, theyre a communist. turns out the shit you see online of commie numales being inept is actually true. i have given up on keeping a decent home because he never does dishes and when he does he does them wrong somehow. he also fucked up my last teflon pan and bangs really loudly and constantly clogs the shower and his dumb slag girlfriends keep breaking my bathroom door because they keep locking it by accident and just forcing it open instead of turning the latch like someone who is at least only slightly mentally disabled and not a full retard commie piece of shit

>>1318556
LAND
OF
THE
FREE

>>1314489
>15f
>Cold

>>1318044
I'm not even from this board but that was a great read

>>1318507

That explains this website, everyone has CTE and immaculate electronics

>>1318624
>>1318662

When I bought my first house the water heater shit the bed not one week after I closed. I hadn't moved in yet so it had a couple of days to leak into half the hardwood floor in the living room.

I called up the home inspector (who charged $450 for less than an hour of work) and asked him how he was able to report the pump on the drip pan operated well when it didn't exist. He claimed the previous homeowner must have uninstalled it when they moved out. OK buddy, I'm sure that 80-year-old woman took the pump with her to the old folks' home.

>>1321349
Don't paint us all with the same brush

>t. commie who is very gainfully employed, practical and courteous

>>1321453
Wow, you are critical of society yet participate in society? Hypocrite much?

>>1321465
I assume this is what you're baiting for, so I'll spare you the wait

>>1321470
damn Matt Bors, you sure got us

A locksmith one. I still keep kicking myself.

>be me, on my training, when phone rings the training in the workshop is taken to the road.
>one of the last, but the most interesting, was a 9/10 qt girl whose sliding door wouldn't open.
>Her dad, and then her, had utterly fucked the handle (this happens all the time) and even the actual locking mechanism, to the point it was all hanging out of where the handles had once been.
>Can't see whats wrong. uPVC and the hooks were in, so no forcing it open.
>Lock doesn't even really exist anymore, so no reason it shouldn't just slide open when using a latch turner. this indeed seems to retract the latch and hooks/shoot bolts.
>Door still won't open.
>headscratch.bmp
>I notice a little dimple on the door, like the end of a pin. It's tiny, really, bout the size of a large nail with a rounded end. Not trained yet, so don't speak up.
>Goes around the other side for a look, which means next door letting him in through their house, sliding up the fence, and then picking his way through the conservatory door (pushing out the set of keys in it first)...and no luck.
>We fuck around for nearly an hour, trying to work out what the fuck. The lock doesn't exist. The latch and hooks seem to retract fine.
>Finally, one of us (I forget which) pull the little pin out. It's an old fashioned locking stud. Door slides smoothly open.
>Put new handles on, get paid, leave.

I mean, it's not a fuck up because little surprises and oddities like that happen, and in the end she couldn't open the door, and neither she or her dad could figure it out either, but it turned a literally 5 minute job into a circus.

>Image related, except without the chain, a third of the size, and as far from the actual lock/latch/handle as you can get, at foot/toe level, and so easily overlooked.

>>1323081
Semi-related question. The Previous Owners were fucking morons and completely fucked the handle on the sliding glass door. I mean total retards here. Even though it was held together with screws, which they sheered off because the door is heavy as fuck, they just tried to glue it back on with super glue. The whole area around the handle looks like shit and in locking mechanism was ripped out when I got it.

Anyway, on to the question. I have replaced the handle twice now, not counting the replacement handle the PO used which was junk, and every time the metal bends/cracks or the handles start coming unscrewed. I've spent $15 and $40 dollars on replacements and none of them hold up. The door is oversized and uses double pane windows. I've already cleaned the tracks and wheels so I can't make it slide any easier. It is just a heavy ass fucking door and no handle I've tried is up to the task. I'm thinking of just replacing everything with wooden handles, but then it won't lock. Ideas?

>>1323099

Two out of five jobs you find the customer has made the job harder like that. Hm, got a few ideas. I would first install some 'repair plates' for added structural integrity, if you can do so without further fucking the door (like screwing/drilling the wrong place and shattering the glass). One option might be to initially 'open' it/trigger the latch with a normal handle, and attack a fucking barn door handle to actually pull it around. Otherwise you are looking at some really fucking beefy handles, and if it's uPVC there is actually a semi limited selection on that front.

Take a few pictures? I might have other ideas if I can see a few examples, and maybe make a new thread.

>>1323099
>>1323121
>A few handle ideas

https://www.duffells.com/products/hoppe-atlanta-lever-lever-92mm-pz-unsprung-white-23994/
>3 three screws, rather than the usual 2.
>Use long and thin high quality bolts instead of screw.

https://www.duffells.com/products/fullex-502-series-patio-handle-set-white-24596/
>Long and close

https://www.duffells.com/products/winkhaus-palladio-lever-moveable-pad-92mm-pz-unsprung-white-24029/
>more of the same

https://www.duffells.com/products/hoppe-atlanta-lever-lever-92mm-pz-unsprung-white-23994/
>more of the same.

https://www.bullerltd.co.uk/door-handle-1297.html
>'barn door'/heavy duty style handle. With bots, or heavy duty screws, it should (being wider against the door) take more force if you use it to apply the actual pressure. The issue is you might have to deglaze the door to get to the other side of the metal to screw in the bolts. Unless you go right through and have the bolts end up outside the door and weld them so some numbnuts doesn't think they can break in by unscrewing them. And it would look hideous.

>>1323122

Er, cationary note, don't try and degraze ANYTHING you might struggle to lift/carry, and yours sounds like a big fucker. If that glass pane falls on you it will fucking crush you or at least trap you under it pretty much helpless, and that's if it doesn't break. And remember these fuckers are filled with gas, and have to be put back the same way they were put it, or the heat from the sun won't be able to escape and it will crack or even explode when the weather gets a bit warmer.

Honestly I'd just try a sturdy 3-hole handle with bolts.

>>1323099
>>1323125

>>1323121
Exterior door handle that came with the house (the door was broken when I got it). Note the screws sheared off in the handle.

>>1323122
Replacement handle I recently purchased for $15 recently. Note the cracking in the frame on the top part and the bent support. The wood handle also kept coming unscrewed. A real pile of shit. I don't have the remnants of the $40 handle set as I tossed it in disgust.

>>1323121
The handle on the door now. All of that nasty looking crush is glue from when these tards tried to glue a handle on. I have been told that acetone can remove super glue but I don't want to try it around the white plastic. Otherwise, the door is in fine shape structurally.

The handle is the same handle that went with >>1323130 but uses the outside handle from >>1323131. The holes lined up and the outside handle accepted screws of a larger diameter so I frankensteined the two together. This means I have no locking mechanism because the cheap white handle they used doesn't allow one.

>>1323125
I've removed the entire door by myself from the track to service the wheel and clean the tracks. I am not a manlet so it was easy enough. The door itself is fine. It was a custom order and has no maker marks or tags anywhere on it.It is 8 feet tall (floor to ceiling), which is why it weighs so god damn much.

>>1323130
>>1323131
>>1323133

For the glue, perhaps something like this? PVCu Solvent Cleaner? Pic related. I've not had the opportunity to use it on a mess like that, but it is a solvent clean designed especially for uPVC plastic.

What sort of lock did the door used to have? Or have space for? Because if it is/was a typical eurocylinder, then I would go with one like the first link here >>1323122 with three screw holes and use bolts. You just need to find something sturdy enough that >>1323131 doesn't happen to the next one. I'd also keep the handle you have, and reinstall it a few inches below the turning handle that allows you to lock it, again with bolts instead of screws. That way you cay use both at the same time to open it and lock the fucker.

If it's a custom made exta-large door then if this doesn't work then I'd either get a more experienced lockie in to look or consider just replacing it at ludicrous expense.

Modern kit is honestly 90% cheap and total shit, through out the world, and there will be very few setups that will take the strain of an 8-foot heavy-as-fuck custom door, because everything is either small and wood, or uPVC/composite designed around being a certain size. The bigger swing-and-slide doors aren't even being made anymore to my knowledge.

You really might have more luck with something a little more antique. Shit was made rugged and strong, for massive heavy wooden doors like in churches.

Or even a fucking barn door handle
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/26669822765553683/

>>1321453
Kill yourself piece of shit.

>>1323159
No.
Fuck off bootlicking scum.

>>1314482
Had this happen to me a few times years ago.

>Family members use garage for storage for 2 years.
>They have no intent to take their junk back.
>Threw it all in the trash.
>Come home one day. Sister is throwing here shit in the garage now.

>Upstairs bedrooms being used for storage.
>2 for my brother and his wife.
>1 for my sister.
>Sister leaves her stuff and never comes back for it. Has papers and books from when she was in highschool dating back to early 2000s.
>Fuck cleaning her shit. Take the small bedroom for my tech room. Moved all my bothers shit into the other room he is using.
>All cleaned up. Tables and desk set. Computers and other electronics set up.
>Sister sees that its nice and clean.
>Tells me to get my "junk" out so she can use it as a storage room.
>lolfuckyou.gif
>Gets mad and said mom told her that she can use the room that Im using.
>Told her that mom didnt say shit.

>>1323166
Humans do not nor should they ever need an entire room for storage.

>>1323171
Sister is lazy. Every time she moves she dumps shit into my moms house. She used the biggest bed room for "storage". Nothing is stacked or packed right. Everything is spreed out single layer in the whole room. One day I went in there a long time ago to put repack her shit and stack it in a corner of the room. I spent about 3 hours cleaning it up. Few days later she came over, went into her junk room and turned it into a mess again.

Most of her stuff is shit. Old mail, school papers, baby stuff, and other junk.

Now when she moves, she just piles her shit into a closet, spare bedroom or shed. She never does anything with the stuff. It just sits there till she moves again. Because of this habit she has moved mice from one to another house.

What pisses me off in the past is that family members ask me to "borrow" my stuff and want to "borrow" my nice stuff.

>Brother wants to use my surge protector in his shed to he can plug a heat lamp and fan in for his turkeys.
>Told him it costed me $30 and if he wants one to go buy one.
>Only surge protector I have and using it for my computer.
>Say its going to be for a few days till he "buys one"
>Told him no.
>He just ended up using one of his orange extension cords with a 3 way plug on it.

I loaned out tools in the past. Not power tools or what not, but precision screwdrivers, normal screw drivers, and other tools for mostly working on electronics. Never again. A lot of them came back with chewed up ends because fuckers like to over tighten screws or use the wrong bit. Some of them I never got back.

>Dads girlfriend sees that I have 2 laptops on a shelf
>Can I borrow one?
>Tell her no.
>She asked why.
>Told her they don't work.
>Doesn't believes me.
>OMG EVERY FUCKIN TIME (sister and dad is the same, gotta see it to make sure it doesn't work)
>Show her the netbook, the screen was busted.
>Show her the other one, it doesn't go past the Gateway logo.
>Asked if I will get them fix and if I do if she can "borrow" one.
>Told her that I'm not fixing them.
>She gets mad and storms off.

Only reason why she wants one is so she can stay in bed and play fackebook/pogo games.

>Brother helps me replace a busted outlet in the bedroom.
>First time doing this, only seen images and read from books.
>Told him he is wiring it backwards.
>Says that how old houses are wired that don't have ground.
>He finishes up and leaves.
>After he left, I wire it up right.
>Never ask my brother for help again.

>>1323290

>Sister calls me up and wants me to look at her dryer or some shit.
>Go to her house, she wants me to unplug it.
>Why?
>Because it shocked me when I tried.
>lolnope.png
>DO IT REEEEEEEE
>fuckthisshitimout.gif
>Left, she can do it herself.

Other stories is mostly computer/tablet/cellphone troubleshooting and some other retarded shit that my family is helpless at.

>>1315043
Learned my lesson the hard way also bro. Always have ballvalves pre liquid tefloned. And open.

Take a shower and put the valve on. Dont panic and crossthread it or fuck something up. Then just clse the valve and deal with shit.

It's not fun. But it only takes one water meter shutoff buried in 2 feet of dirt and mud to learn yuh.

Or like my clusterfuck have a meter thst won't fucking shut off all of the way.

Hell, anymore some sharkbite ball valves would be a good idea since you can slam it on coooer, pex, or cpvc

>>1321385
Right?

Can someone screencao it? On mobile and cant piece together 5 screenshots because half a tard

>>1323099
Broseph u on /diy.

Get some pics and lets weld u up a fucking handle. Hell i think i got a handicap rail somewhere. We can break both planes of glass before we fuck up the next handle.

>>1323171
Fuckoff bro. My favorite hobby and past time is digging through old shit and cobling other shit together.

Seriously considering a $3,000 cuckshed for storage. Probably well under $1,000 worth of shit will go in it. Worth it for piece of mind when i bust out a tailight or need a new breaker at 2am. I should probably build it myself but i dont grt off the ground anymore and dont want a 5 foot roof. ...maybe i can build all the trusses and cut and predrill tin and hire out the roof?

Hoarding shit is fun until it becomes impractical. Like my shed stacked to the ceiling i wont even look at till fall. Ir your house starts getting full.

Typically i just go throw out 4 pickup loads of shit when i run out of room.

I knew i was a hoarder when my mom and step dad loaded a uhaul and what didnt fit got tossed. They've never been happier. Meanwhile i get bumbed when i have to toss a pickup load of sgit i will never use.

One day i will have a warehouse like the mythbusters to just fuckoff in day and night.

>>1323295
>what is a breaker
>what are gloves
>what is wooden shit
>what is an electrician

>>1318883
t.pajeet

>>1323271
Just burn the shit or haul it to the dump. Don't put up with that bullshit.

>be me
>be carpenter
>apartment manager called in cause windows are not waterproof and there is water everywhere as a apartment tenant told them
>there was no rain in two or three weeks
>mmkay ill check it on it
>arrived at tenants apartment
>ding dong carpenters here
>door opens and a fucking stink wall and heat already hits my face
>ohnonotthatkindofretards.jpg
>checking on windows
>water dropping down the windows
>walls wet
>floor wet
>mold everywhere
>told them that newer windows are almost air tight and there is no air/heat circulation
>they look at me like i was a retard
>told them they just have to open windows from time to time cause this is a condensation problem
>they did not believe cause that never happend in any other apartment and that im just too lazy do my fucking job right
>yeawhateverhaveagoodday.gif
>apartnemt manager called again and said the tenants told i did not fix anything and that i talked shit
>told the manager what kind of greasers dwell in there and explained what the problem here is
>also told him cause of the tenants in this apartment is mold and wet spots everywhere
>told the manager to get the mold removed and to get some forced ventilation in there
>we will take care of this

I hate these kind of stupid fucks with nasty as fuck apartments knowing everything better

>>1323362
They had nice airtight windows but not a single hvac vent? Causing an air tight room where moisture couldnt escape? Im not sure if I entirely follow

>>1323378
Hvac vents are not a big thing here. Most apartments just have kitchen/toilet vents for frequent use.

>>1315093
>I have a mitre box, but there's still a degree or two of error in the cuts made with it.

Have had 3 mitre boxes, too much slop in all of them to trust with fine work like a jewelry box. Table saw for the win.

>>1323362
>harass renters about a design flaw in the apartment as if they have anything to do with it
>don't bother telling the building's manager what's going on until he calls you
jesus dude, pull your head out of your ass

>>1323362
NOT ME!!!

>be aspiring real estate tycoon.
>shitty investors.
>DEALOFALIFETIME.GIF
>rid the place of vermin and bugs amd mice
>what about the people
>the cucks like this ARE vermin.
>toss in washer/dryer for $50 month payments.
>sling some paint and fixtures.
>double rents


P
R
O
F
I
T

>spend a good month planning project
>bought all the stuff I need
>dont know how to implement something
>project on indefinite hold

JUST

>>1314489
Better, install a pellet stove. Burns just as clean, fuel is cheaper.

>>1314953
om nom nom

>>1323290
>surge protector
>heat lamp
Literally the most robust appliances unless they're pulling hundreds of watts per filament.

>>1323308
That's not storage anon, that's making a worthy collection. Everyone on /diy/ should have twice the tools and materials they'll ever need, just because you can.

>>1323517
Is it a Raspi? It's a Raspi isn't it?

>>1323625
Is why i have 3 skill saws. Never know when one will blow. Junk it or salvage some parts. Me amd bros wanna buikd a shed. 4 or 5 bros and 3 framing saws.

>>1321012
Community College here is a breeding ground for dumb asses. Most of the students there are there because they don't want a full time job yet after high school and the government pays for most of it.

A small percentage of the students go to a 4 year college. Most just get the associate degree or a certification and call it good but end up working at a job that has nothing to do with what they went to college for. A good amount of the students will go back for a second associate degree or certification because they did nothing with their first one.

Some of stupid shit I hear here from the students/future students
>I went to college for blah blah blah and don't have a job that is related to my study.
This is because they got a degree or certification for something stupid or the career field doesn't exist in the county.
>I cant wait to have the college experience at the college here.
The college is a community college, there is nothing to experience.
>You cant own a business without a business degree.
God you are retarded.
>You cant do web design/development, programming, graphic design, etc without going to college.
Your retarded too.
>Your going to get no where without a degree in something.
Thinking shit like this is going to get you no where.

>>1323295
Might as well throw some more stories ion here. I use to work as a supervisor for a big box store and deal with entitled retards all the time

A month before I quit I had a women that needed help connecting her sound bar. (I hate when retards come in wanting free help and support on electronics.) She ad a RCA brand sound bar that uses composite audio. She wanted to connect a Wii to it but as she said "I don't know how to connect the sound bar to the tv. I told her to connect the red and white plugs from the Wii to the sound bar and the yellow jack to the tv. She told me she didn't understand. Fuckin really. Told her that the jacks and ports are color coded and showed her a picture of what they look like. She goes on and asked if the yellow has to be connected since the Wii is connected to the sound bar. Told her yes, it has to be connected to the tv. Then she says she only wants the sound bar connected to the tv. Told her she cant because the model of tv she as doesn't have audio out. Says she still doesn't understand. Drew her a fuckin picture and sent her on her way. Still feel like she is going to fuck it up some how.

Middle aged women comes in and wants a micro USB card for her 3D printer. Told her that she needed a micro sd card. She said yea a micro USB card. I hope her 3D printer burns her house down. I should asked her what she does with it because she an no idea on basic computer shit. People also shouldn't buy shit if they have no idea what it does just because its hot, trendy, ect.

Guy needed a power cable for his phone. Asked him what kind of phone. Told him ok, you need a micro USB cable. Showed him where they are and told him as long the box says micro USB that he will be ok. Yells at me and tells me that Im throwing terms at him that he doesn't understand.
>You understand what gas your car needs
>You understand how to use a microwave
>You don't understand that I told you that you need a micro USB cable.

>>1314394
god I hate renters
>get a call from owner saying the provided fridge has died and have to grab a new one to replace it
>kinda weird since its only a year old but whatever
>get the new fridge and go to the place
>she bitches that all her frozen food had to be thrown out
>its the middle of winter and 10 degrees out
>"why didnt you just put it on the porch?"
>"because food doesnt belong outside"
>look at fridge
>door seal literally ripped off and the constant running of the pump killed it

>>1323831
>>"because food doesnt belong outside"
>Then where did it come from?

>>1314394
>>1323831
this

I am poor but I get some work from a guy who owns rental houses. all kinds of odd jobs not just at the houses

>house has a 1 car extra long garage
>people move out
>go to check it out
>garage is full of garbage
>they put their garbage in the garage instead of putting it at the edge of the street for pickup
>spend half a day picking up nasty old garbage
>they had very cheap used or maybe even donated furniture. broke it and left it in the house


>house has new floors and some new carpet
>someone rents the house
>go to check things out after a few months and the smell of dog piss is extremely strong. like irritating your nose and eyes strong
>to make a long story short she got evicted in a little less than a year
>the dog piss is so bad
>the floors are less than a year old but they need replaced because of how much dog piss is soaked in
>new floors got replaced after less than a year. no sanding cleaning or refinishing. it was too bad and just got replaced
after getting evicted she and her mom are calling him a fucking slumlord and shit after she rekt the house

>>1323479
>In a country where hvac vents are not a thing like in the US
>Opening your windows for air circulation is fucking common sense
>Politely explain to tenants they should just open these windows from time to time to avoid mold and condensation and so on
>Pissed greasy ascotial dweller tells me how to do my job and that i am just lazy cause i cant fix his messy shit in two minutes
>still play it polite and ignore his shit
>get called a few hours later by manager before you even got the paper work done

Tell me more how deep my head is stuck up my ass

>>1314482
Maybe you and your brother should buy his house :^)

>>1323875
Still sounds like a design flaw to me

>>1323625
>Is it a Raspi? It's a Raspi isn't it?

It's a drum machine, I've decided to scrap the original casing and getting rid of the control board to trigger it with a arduino.

Just not seen as a necessity here to use power for something you could do by opening the windows for five minutes or less.
Just simpler, cheaper and you don't have something that's gonna break on you.

>>1323769
>education only matters if it directly increases the value of your labor

Neck yourself

>>1323784

Sounds more like a little knowledge has turned you into a total passive-aggressive cunt, bro. I get it though. Dealing with people can suck. However, only that last one sounds like it qualifies as a rage moment, and even then barely.

>>1324038
Completely true. But when you complain about not getting a job after getting a potentially jobless degree, regardless of how intellectually enlightened you now are, you're being a prick. He never complained about people taking jobless degrees in general, just that they complained about it.

>>1323866
>they put their garbage in the garage instead of putting it at the edge of the street for pickup

I had an aunt and cousins that used to live with our family, and they would fill the trashcan until it was overflowing and was troublesome to tied the bag.
Anyways, since they overfilled the trashcan, it usually meant it was heavy, so my aunt would drag the trash outside then tie and dump the trashbag on the floor next to the big trashcan.
Since there are wild animals like coyotes in my neighborhood, they would go and tear the bag open and spread trash all over the front yard. That shit was annoying because it was usually me having to pick up the mess.

>>1323769
Such truth anon.

1st college. Apartment had no windows. Was alsways late for class and exhausted. Pretty sure there was a gas leak looking back on it. Got so far behind said fuckit.

2nd college. Work my dick off learning html, flash, photoshop, anything to do with web design.

Dreamweaver comes out. Now it's easier to make a web page than a word document and it even shows you the code in split screen mode.

FUCK

Godaddy comes out, makes it even easier. Every faggot i know is now a web designer

Flash is on the way out folks. It eventually dies.


Hey life, can i at least get some Vaseline?

Took cisco class in high school and worked my ass off. Wanted a 4 year degree the closest i could get to just making web pages.

My job is redundant years before i finish school.

Never even made a descent site after that. Paying my brother in law to make mine now and i will just manage it.

Lesson learned. Adapt or die. Worth it. Had some awesome parties. Learned a lot about life outside of my 1 horse town.

>>1323831
Everyone wants to be rich or get a badass career.

I just want to be able to afford a property manager and a handyman.

The struggle is real anon.

The second i hit 50k a year quitting job and busting ass on rentals untill hit 100k a year. Then funnel 50k a year into growing it plus equity to buy more. Reach a comfy 3-5 mill in assets, sell the company.

0 debt, 0 liabilities because paid off and ambulance chasing lawsuit theft fags, stashes of cash all over the place as well as other shit like precious metals.

Start small side gig buying rentals all over again until it makes enough i can pay someone to manage shit again.

Work a couple days every 6 months to pull out equity and reinvest in shit i casually shop for.

Make millions again by that time.

Every few properties in llc. And paid off.

Die.

Sell all assets.

Heirs get life changing payday and if they listened to me at all they will be richer than i ever was.

>>1323866
Such is life.

Should have tried a bug sprayer with bleach and water. Probably warp the floor some but may have saved some headache.

Used to be so pissed off about no pet policies all over.

Having no pet policy and $1,000 fine if an animal is caught in the house. Deposit is nonrefundable. Eviction process starts that day. Hire lowes to quote new carpet instal if its ruined. Floors also. My attorney is free. Might never get it. But they wont forget about it and they will never be able to get a home loan or a car until i get paid.

New carpet and shit is expensive I'll be fucked if someone fucks it up.

Tried being mr. Nice landlord.

>dude moves in. Tell him shits fucked up and needs fixed before anyone can live there. "Anon i am a handyman and will fix free. Just take materials off rent!" Against better judgment do. Does and absolute shit fucking job. Leaves a giant pile of shit in the back yard. Have to redo it all, have shit hauled off. Didnt pay rent for 6 monthper er our agreement.

>Anon nunber 2. Is bro from way back. Been great friends for 2 fucking decades. Would take a bullet for the guy. Started a new job, short on cash, says he will paint the inside of the house for 1 months rent. Cool. Not at all worried since new carpet going in. Lives there a few months. Electric in my name because he doesnt get it switched. Short a few months rent. Moves out leaving all kinds of useless shit behind. Owes us $800 to this day while braging about new wife and awesome job that pays on fb. Go to clean house. Half ass shitshow painting. Missed tons of shit. Did 0 ceilings. Had charge account for him at hardware store. He gets two horribly obvious shades of paint mixed everywhere. Have to repaint with new carpet.

>NEVER FUCKING AGAIN.

New policy and wife agrees. Never rent to friends or family again. And when you 30 days behind on rent, gtfo. All bills are shut the fuck off. Be an adult and get them turned on yourself.

>>1323866
Is a shitty deal but a damned good job anon. Jist now learning how shit people can be and becoming a handyman / appliance repair man / HVAC technician out of necessity.

Learn all you can so one day soon you can be your boss. Fix most anything you need to yourself and save a fuckton of money to go towards more rentals until you simply cannot keep up. Then hire a you.

>>1323866
>sealing timber wont stop the dog piss smell from escaping
you do know how sealing works right?

there are loads of remediation methods related to fogging to remove odours. usually it's just as simple as opening all the windows for a few days. did you think birds dont shit in trees? why do you think most houses dont reek of pine forests at all times? smells go away
>t. my dad is old and crazy. i fixed his years of dog piss smells by just opening his windows and now it doesnt smell of dog piss anymore.

>>1323899
it is a design flaw. there's no ventilation. dwellings are never designed to be like sealed boxes.

only time I ever had condensation problems like that was when i lived in a shitty garage basement conversion that was never meant to be built-in to a dwelling space.
>shower has some retard tier extractor fan with a 60mm hole vent outside
>no duct work
>just a fan on the exterior wall and a hole mostly covered by the fan housing so it doesnt blow air
>surprise it doesnt vent shit
>gas kitchen
>no flues
>no rangehood
>no flue gas heater
>surprise anything that generates heat also generates water here
>basement apartment
>paint is peeling off the walls
>is that mold?
>no its salt
>cool fuzzy crystal salt walls growing
>ok.jpg
>upstairs bathroom isnt sealed
>i keep telling them everytime they mop their floor it rains downstairs
>they insist on throwing a bucket of water over their floor to mop it
>ok its your house lmao
>giant sliding glass door only egress point
>they complain about the noise and tell me i must be wearing it down also why is it always so humid that its covered in condensation open the windows in 0C weather while its raining to let it dry out pls

some people are just retarded. but also in australia its common for dwellings to be ruined by weed grows. people rent for 6 months and turn the whole house into a hydro farm.

>>1323866
Oh, another thing. You should ALWAYS do a video recorded walkthrough with the tenant. Even ask if they would like to check unser the house and in the attic with you if they like. If no have them sign a waiver for it also.

If it's a shithole when they move out record a video of going through the property. Bonus points for roaches and mice and shit. Take pics of cleaning bill or pickup loads of shit you haul away. Take pics of pesticide guy if he allows or the truck at the property at least. And a pic of his bill.

Put it all into a video. Post it to your wall. Tag them in it. SAY NOTHING. Do not provoke them. Watch the carnage. Log screenshots of the shit talking and all of the comments on your post. Print it off. Number it. Keep thumb drive eith copies and your vids.

Anyone says you are a slumlord. Show them it.

>>1323875
Easy anon.

Get a fucking body cam.

>>1323991
Jokes on u. It would take machinery and an hour or 2 to get any of my painted sut antiwue windows open. Got doors but theres enough fucking drafts we good

Literally last night
>Be me, 20 with parents, just out of college, broke af welder
>Just starting leatherworking hobby, decide gotta learn basics of woodworking because steel tools, workbench, rigs, Ect. Would cost more than wood and I got no metalworking tools at home other than files and hammers

>See dremel bit for burnishing leather online
>I have a dremel rotary tool
>$20, nope, not paying $20 for chunk of conical wood with a screw in it
>Go saw 1’ cube of wood, start using a chisel on top of cutting mat until it is a solid cylinder
>Predrill with smallest drill bit I got in dremel b/c no drill at moment
>Gdi, dremel was like 9 degrees off
>Screw In wood screw in there anyway
>File off head by filing a cut around the head then bending head off
>file off threads
>plan on putting this wooden angled mess onto the dremel then placing pencil graphite against it at each end to mark off where I should be cutting next
>Pit dremel in tiny Pic related, along with two bits of kinda flat wood between jaws and the dremel
>Wooden bs I made is securely in the dremel
>Plug In (dremel set off)
Idea works with pencil
>watched too many wood lathe videos and have retarded idea with chisel I knew was retarded and dangerous but did anyway b/c “Vice should hold!”
>Exactly what you think would happen happens
>Dremel now on floor, still on and the wood abomination is still in the chuck, as it dances on my floor
>Unplug it then try again with pencil
Graphite because didn’t get a well defined enough circle
>FORGOT TO TURN OFF DREMEL
>plug it in
>WASNT SECURELY IN VICE
>Fuck
>Scare family in the house
>Realize there’s a reason people do this trick with drills and not fucking dremels
>Tfw you got a perfectly fine old cast iron Vice with 6” jaws and the whole world but no bench to mount it to.
Still gonna try the same thing again, but this time hopefully with a drill and predrill correctly before cutting the wood block, b/c broke graduate too much of a Jew to spend $20.

>>1324789
Corrected pic

>>1324703
Bought my house to discover what i assumed was a big dirt pile covered in leaves was a dumptruck load of mutherfucking trash...

The fuck!

And someone was either banging dope or diabetic. Mutherfucking needles everywhere. Took 4 days of shoveling and a load of dirt just in case i missed one and to smother the rotten food smell. Fucking reee.

>>1324789
Sounds like every single fucking project i do... i feel your pain

>>1323784
so many hot and trendy printers on the market nowadays

>>1316205
newfag spotted

>>1316575
kek

>email topic: manhours meeting
>go to the meeting
>expecting to be grilled on manhours/overtime by supers
>instead its corporate HR
>15 mintue speech starts
>i think we should stop using the term manhours
>we should call it personhours. it will help our image in todays diverse workforce
> ".................."

>>1325984
should've raised your hand and told them you don't identify as a person

>>1325984
Wow.

>>1321039
Never change, Gary.

>>1321039
>I'm paying my family 6% and they are already retired and dead
College even gives diplomas to idiots that give money to dead people. Good to know

>>1323295
>not asking her what the problem was before driving over
>not unplugging a potential firehazard, for a family member no less
>not ensuring the ground wire was securely installed on the washer
>still driving out to get details so you could just tell her to fuck off in person

You sound like a cunt.

>>1318624
I started watching the series because your description made it sound interesting, but God damn that shit is terrible. Guy's just running around making lame jokes, chick's putting on a fake act of "too mature for this shit" then in the third episode they compete making hipster overhead lighting, and it all looks like abysmal garbage.

>>1323290
Costed you? Jesus man.

>>1320614
Hope you got a screw out of her to make it worth your time.

>>1323166
Shut up. Stop typing. You're triggering me with flashbacks to my indolent, lazy, piece of shit hoarder family.

>>1320644
416

>>1318044
Great read.

>>1323166
>Gets mad and said mom told her that she can use the room that Im using.

I fail to see how your mom would have any say in the matter... unless... you're not still living with your parents, are you?
It's like you don't see how you're likely the biggest burden on them being a freeloading asshole moving around or even throwing out people's shit because you believe it's not valuable to them.

Your parents probably don't give a shit about your siblings keeping some stuff at the house, because they're proud of their kids going out and living their lives. Whereas on the other hand, they have you--a miserable little faggot, griping about how unfair it is that you don't have free reign over how the house is run.
Here's an idea, sport. Move out.

>>1326533
>you're not still living with your parents, are you
If you're 20 and going to college in an expensive city like Vancouver, there's no reason not to be living with your folks.

>>1326711
Financially benifitial as it may be, it doesn't discredit anything I mentioned. But if you're the same guy that was bitching to begin with, you've got a pretty strong track record of missing the point with gusto, so whatever.

>>1314381
>buy 20 ton press
>have several vintage machines to clean up and restore
>put a countershaft into press to push spindle out
>previous guy had hammered it in and it was mushroomed
>end up cracking the countershaft arm and the mushroom spindle fucks up the bore of the pulley

>costs almost what I paid for the machine to replace it on ebay

That sort of guilt and regret of being a retard is awful.
Its like when you wreck your car and you know how dumb you are. It sucks.

all this hate on living with your parents.. lol im 30 im living with my parents well not by choice.. i have a pitbull and its damn near impossible to rent a place...but i love it! i have about 26k in the bank. i just bought a mercedes e550, and will be buying my first house by the end of the year!

>>1326742
Im 27 living at home
Parents have already said they wont ever kick me out, dont even necessarily want me to leave.
Said they are willing me the home when they die. I get along with both of them well.

It sounds really manchild like, but I have friends, I have a career job, I went to college, work isnt that far.
I dont have any plans on really moving out. The only thing it hurts is my ability to date, but at this point I dont think I really care.

>>1326764
There's a huge difference between the other guy and someone like you. Getting along with the parents and admitting there's some manchild vibes about the situation implies you're not making the situation uncomfortable enough to be projecting any issues here.
Other guy, however, felt vindicated in venting pathetically that his family are assholes that store stuff in a house he doesn't own or pay rent on, and admits he just throws other people's shit out on whims. Guy's setting off red flags of entitled faggot everywhere.

>>1326732
> spend months.
> and months.
> and fucking months.
> looking for an IBM Model 30 monitor.
> fucking.
> find.
> one!
> plonk it on my bench, spend 30 minutes just sitting in front of it, smiling upon its glorious glass face.
> finally switch it on, shit is perfect, no burn in, amazing contrast, clean as a whistle short of yellowed plastic from 20+ years under fluorescent light.
> "I'ma retrobrite the shit out of you my beauty, you deserve it after a life well lived"
> remove screws with the precision and care of a hear surgeon.
> lid catches on something as I try to remove it.
> pivot around a little to try a different angle.
> step on sync cord, half removed backshell gets yanked askew as a result.
> FTSSSSSSSssssssss.ss..sss..
> birds fall silent.
> leaves freeze in mid descent.
> dripping taps pause.
> red mist descends.
> literally walk outside and scream every profanity I know to the cruel blue sky, kick the everloving fuck out of one of our wheelie bins.
> walk back in and stare for another 30 minutes, unable to comprehend how I could be such a complete and total hamfist.

Once I had composed myself enough to remove the back cover and view the inevitable carnage it hit even harder. Not a spot of rust on the metal shields, fuck all dust in it, shit was as clean as you could hope for.

> That sort of guilt and regret of being a retard is awful.
God. Fucking. Damn anon, I know that feel. I'm still angry about it as I type, 18 months on. RIP. You deserved better than me little beastie ;_;7

>>1326711
Vancouver is a fucking shithole and I hate even living somewhat near it

>>1324774
here in brazil it`s the oposite. Landowners fuck people over and they can`t do anything because the law works in their favor. And apartments here live in a crazy limbo where the building is maintaned collectively, so even if the rent is expensive you have to pay for elevator, cleaner, doorman and fucking collective water because people are too stupid to add individual meters.
>everything in the building is decided with demcoracy, through meeting
jesus fuck the pain

>>1326852
Opening it up while its plugged in and switched on?
Too dumb for this thread lol

>apartment is cold
>problem is the radiator in living room
>everybody says the thermostat is stuck
>everybody says it's easy to fix
>"just take the knob off and jiggle the needle with pliers"
>open thermostat, see needle, jiggle it
>suddenly the fucker shoots out
>black dirty water spits out through living room
>stick my finger to the hole, stop the leak
>wife tries to find the small part that flew out
>water starts running in the radiator, begins to heat up
>hot as fucking fuck
>finally part is found, take finger out and put thermostat back together while hot water sprays everywhere
>radiator now okay so I guess everybody was right

>>1326878
> unsure if retarded or retarded

>>1326852
Thats shit anon. I did something similar to a sony helmet tv. Pulled the neckboard off crooked and cracked the nipple off the back of the tube. Fuck nice things.

>>1326998
>radiator now okay so I guess everybody was right
Kek

>>1318491
you have to go back.

>>1323362
what fucking utterly nigger tier apartment has hermetically sealed doors and no vents in it anywhere

even my shitty comblock style apartment at least has a hood over the stove

also
>talking shit at the tenants
did they build the fucking place? fuck you

>>1321039
No.

Because you are a faggot and wasted 4 years becoming a faggot cubicle cuck liberal while i been living my life and learning...

>>1326742
Congrats anon.

>>1326861
>time to buy an apartment complex in Brazil

>>1326998
Oh anon i needed a laugh. Gg

>>1316575
only an underage faggot would write a story this dumb

>>1327516
Not that guy, and agree college is mostly a scam, but that joke soared over your head.
He was just writing one-ups in every regard.

>>1327516
>the state of (you)

Seems like you wouldn't be cut out for higher education regardless.

>>1327546
>thinking i give 2 halves of a flying fuck about comments on a mexican vasectomy image board.

And nice try faggot i know it's you.

First week at new job..

>Been using grinders for over 20 >years without accident.
>Grind a bracket off
>Boss stands behind me yelling as >he wants to make a friendly >conversation...

>Ziiiiing.. there goes the grinder in >my finger...

>FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

>turn around to berate the asshole.
>he disappeared as Iam bleeding like >a pig.

>Wtf just happened?

>>1327571
Maybe not, but have fun writing 600 hours of code a week while I shitpost and fuckoff for the same money and hours.

>thinks taking even more useless as fuck math classes and shit has any real world applications.

Anon i carry the internet in the palm of my hands. There is pretty much 0 reason to be a collegecuck.

99% of collegefags work their ass off just to be a wageslave while I work half as hard learning how to buy and operate businesses and invest so i don't even have to work.

It's okay anon. I will make sure and supply you with a meme 401k, dental, and a 2 week vacation a year.

Then you can work until you die because retitement is a joke these days and i can spend the rest of my life adding to my lambo account.

It's truly dumbfounding to see such brilliant people mindlessly plug away when even someone "not cut out for higher education" can at the very least retire with 5 times the income of an average wageslave and not hardly have to even checknon it...

>>1327588
Nice recovery.

>move in to apartment
>no coax outlet
>call cable company to set it up
>tell me theres no live cable, need to run a new line
>thats fine just get it done
>company fucks around for 2 months, sends a total of 6 techs, each one says "hey you need a new line but i dont have equipment for it" after having established that with the very first tech
>work with building maintenance to check around in the apartments maintenace closet
>we cut a hole in the wall and find the coax line thats supposed to go to my apartment
>nfw cable company does absolutely nothing for 2 months while building maintenance and i solve the issue in less than half an hour

>>1327590
Lrn2grntxt
fgt

>>1327598
Dude. This guy missed the point and got Gary Oak'd so hard that it embarrasses even ME a little.

>>1327598
you seem a bit triggered by the idea that most people are more educated than you

>>1327590
how am I supposed to read this?

>>1324774
>The raincoat
ok fine
>crocs
crossed the line

>>1327598
>t. too dumb for college

>>1327641
Really? You come to a board where you can samefag to your heart's content, no one could REALLY know, and you leave your trip on and fuck it all up? God damn Catsby... It's a good thing you take decent pics. Now shoo, go back to your board.

>>1327654
I simply couldn't be fucked to remove it after posting in my thread on /p/, sorry. /diy/ is my board these days desu, I just don't trip here. Will not happen again. Here's a mallet I made the other day, as my rubber hammer was shit for chiseling.

>>1321453
Fuck off commie

>>1327598
>t. guy who doesn`t pay for collge because he doesn`t live in the third world

>>1327666
I was refering to myself desu

>>1327614
My ISP wouldn't hook up the dsl network without having me pay a technician to do it.
Two separate houses. Just did it myself, felt pretty good about that.

>>1327659
Looks pretty good, like a little wooden Mjolnir almost. I'll tell you in this thread for the other: good pics. You're one of three or four posters that I lurk /p/ for, the rest seem to be juvenile shitposters. Cheers sir.

>>1327678
cheers m8

>>1327617

>>1327617
ME? Do you mean Mechanical engineer?
t. Electrical eng student

>>1327618
Not at all. Quite the opposite actually. I fucking love that so many people have degrees. The public school system did all of the hard work anyway. All you have to do is unfuck yourself from the bullshit they teach and take a little initiative and you can have a whole litter of A+ brains doing the grunt work excited as fuck they have a 9-5 and a 30 year mortgage with a 4 year old bmw to brag about.

>>1327641
You have to go back

>>1327641
>>1327659
Fuck off tripcunt

>>1327714
I have disguised myself now, no need to worry

My uncle died a few months ago. Me and my grandfather, who is probably too old to do this, go to clean his detached garage. He lives like 10 hours away so we drive spend the gas getting up there. The house was shit, guy obviously didn't care about maintaining it. My great grandfather had built that house by hand during the great depression and most the stuff in there looked like it. Didn't even have AC. Just a giant wood burning furnace in basement and some window AC units. Lucky 90% of the junk had been removed so we planned on sleeping in there with air mattresses. Nope, didn't want to get lung fucked with the smell of must in the air. The garage we came to clean was covered in weeds and hidden shit in the weeds. Finally open the garage and it's full of junk and rat shit. Spiders everywhere plus junk covered the walls. Decide we need to order a dumpster for all this. Look closer and start to notice stuff like nice snap on air tools and wrenches. Probably 100's of screw drivers and other miscellaneous stuff. The guy was a mechanic so he had an engine hoist, 200 gal air tank, 1,000s of $ in hand tools. Spend a week making the place nice so we can sell for decent amount.

Grandfather has to split the selling process with his brothers (my uncle's) son. Son says he will take care of it.

Sells the house for 1/3 the price it's worth, not to mention my great grandfather built it and even my dad grew up in it. Whole family is pissed at him.

>>1327749
That's worth a lawsuit if you care enough. You have a duty to execute an estate responsibly, and selling a house for 1/3 its value and having thousands of dollars of tools disappear is not responsible.

>>1326764
>but at this point I dont think I really care
That's the spirit!

>>1327598
Talking from actual experience, college people as of right now in 2018 are the biggest retards you can talk to. Their worldview is warped and twisted due to living sheltered fromt he real world and being a sheltered recluse of the education system and the media propaganda machine. They have no real world skills, they can't change a simple lightbulb or modify anything, their mindset is that "society" should provide things to them so they don't need to know how to do anything else other than memorizing a 300 gender list. It is literally infuriating and nauseating to see the current state of "academia".

I'm a guy who actually IS in mensa, so spare me the pseudointellectual bullshit you unicucks are going to spill as a reply. College is free in my country and I still dropped out as I couldn't mentally bear the effeminate self-hating cuck madhouse that is university.

I have more respect for a tinkering tradesman than for some worthless and useless unicuck manchild.

>>1327749
No jury would convict you if you murdered your cousin.

Just saying.

>>1316182
>Put new fan in kitchen
>Light some has bugs in it
>Try to take it off, should be easy
>Will not come off
>Take down fan
>Use every method to get it off
>Finally comes off after an hour
>Put fan back up
>Fan won't work
>Take fan down to check wiring
>Wiring good, WTF
>Motor turns out to be bad in fan
>Buy new fan
>Put it up
>Fan does not work still
>Have wife say, "You just put in new switches, maybe it's that?"
>Is not switches, but she nags until I take off new switches to check connections
>Screws won't go back into switch plate because plastic electrical box threads are stripped now
>Buy more screws, reinstall switch plates because they are fine
>Turn on fan, light works but now fan
>WTF!!!!!
>Take fan down and check wiring for motor again, is fine
>Read random internet forum about fan suggesting sometimes it needs a push start
>Push fan, turn on fan, fan works
I fucking hate goddamn DIY sometimes

This one is my best
>Be roofing salesman, sell job
>Check attic, all good except big ass black insulated conduit next to big closet like area near back of attic
>What's in this?
>Just HVAC stuff?
>You sure?
>"Positive, I do all the work here myself"
>Installing roof
>Roofers hears what sounds like water running after he punches a nail
>Homeowner comes out screaming that water is coming in upstairs
>Doesn't know where water main shut off is; we finally find it on our own
>Get in attic to look at WTF just happened
>Small lake by conduit and big closet thing
>Look in it, find water heater tank in THE FUCKING ATTIC
>No perforations in tank, so check conduit
>Idiot homeowner ran his water line AGAINST THE ROOF SHEATHING WITH NO BLOCKING
>Sues company
>Don't get paid for job

>>1318491
BEING THIS FUCKING, GO BACK NIGGER BEFORE I START POSTING GORE