Quit halfway through the addition edition https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7527-Shorewood-Dr-Salem-WI-53168/40334021_zpid/
$110k for that is the abomination.
What goes wrong in your life that you get that far and then decide to sell it?
>>2952305This is what happens when your sister-wife has filed for divorce and has taken your niece-daughter with herTruly dark times for uncle-daddy
>>2952207Sometimes it's better to just tear down and rebuild rather than trying to gut.
>>2952331Yes. But rarely
Another clumsy attempt to turn a house from the 1930s into an open floorplan. Seen lots of poor attempts but this is the first time I've seen a bookcase used to hide the back of an oven.
>>2952207Why are the headers fucked up like that? That passes code where you live?
>>2952320so basicly what all republican is deals with?
>>2952305The sale includes any personal items still in the home so it probably belonged to someone who died and now has been inherited by a relative that's not interested in the property.>>2952221There's also a rail line right behind the house and though not officially in a flood zone, it is at an elevated risk of flooding.
>>2952354This could have worked with a cooktop
>>2952360>so basicly what all republican is deals with?What did they mean by this?
>>2952421They meant "this is bait, please be stupid enough to bite".
Cash offer only house for sale in my country
>>2952566
>>2952566>>2952567Most of that looks easy to undo but I'd worry that the type of person who does that to the outside of their home is also doing lots of damaging things to the inside of the home.
>>2952354I'd be far more concerned about how much that floor/ceiling above is sagging since they removed the wall.
>>2952567>>2952566Imagine being a neighbor to this creative pile of garbage
>>2952207People will wonder why millenials and younger aren't buying houses while trying to sell this unfinished piece of shit for six figures.
>>2952867Go to college, go to grad, hope you can break 50k when you hit the ground running. Hope ai and foreign labor don't undercut your profession. Buy a $30k car so you can do said job, buy a $110,000 cut up hack-job of a double wide and pay 7% interest and taxes on that. Pull a goddess with your new palace. Go have kids and throw a huge wedding while you're at it. Take lots of vacations.
>>2953000>just pull yourself up by the bootstraps and eat beans and rice while living in a box for 40 years a-AAAAAAAAAAAA
>>2952585>>2952797he disconnected the heating because 'it saved money'he also discovered expanding spray foam and just attacked everything with it. his car is completely covered in it
>>2953378A froth pak is $350 and great foam is $3. There's about half as much yellow shit in the great foam so that's a pretty good roi.
>>2952566This is art.
>>2953115If you don't wanna homestead or own horses a box isn't that bad. Or it wasn't at least, box prices are probably as stupid as house prices these days.
>>2953795
>>2952566End HOAs with this one simple trick
>>2952566This is the fella that lived there: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/jury-clears-driver-of-deliberately-hitting-ex-partners-brother/35611055.html
>>2952566what if it was all a dream?
>>2952567>>2952566Based, my house my rules. Bootlickers need not apply.
>>2952354The range doesn't concern me beyond its lack of ventilation
>>2954754That over-the-range microwave on the opposite side of the room surely has enough air filtering power to handle the range that probably was once under it but now is behind the bookshelf.
>>2954643what is with one story houses having all this fucking roof
>>2955113Keeps the snow off so you roof doesn't cave in
>>2954754The lack of ventilation doesn't concern me, it's the deflection of that beam.
>>2952207>in case walking barefoot on legos wasnt enough of an endurance sport
>>2955221God I had a house with a kitchen that had slate tile just like this. It was abhorrent to walk on barefoot. Took days to pull it all out
>>2955154Maybe structural issues are why it's only $190k.
>>2952421man door hand hook car door
>>2955260How much are you supposed to pay for a 2 br ranch in Detroit suburb?
house posted in a nearby city on zillow, looks liminal as fuck, to use a zoomer term. I get the feeling living in this place would be unsettling at best.no rhyme or reason to the layout or flooring/paint etc, I think this was someone's flip before they ran out of money or something.
>>2955710has large rooms, lots of square footage, but just feels...odd. I wouldn't want to inhabit this structure.
>>2955711it looks like a rubik's cube of different houses got scrambled.
>>2955712corners of it look almost done, others look like they were extracted directly from a favela.no doubt this "bedroom" was only counted as such to raise the "value". the housing market is such a scam.
>>2955713has a large pool in the backyard too, with a ton of work this place might be liveable and maybe even valuable.
>>2955714no telling what happened in this bathroom.it was only listed recently after being inhabited for years. who lived here?
>>2955710Probably converted from a regular floor plan to an "open" floor plan because flippers love that shit.
>>2955557$450k-$750k seems to be the going rate but I'm guessing most of those have a good deal more square footage. If the sagging house has a basement with a good foundation, doubling the effective usable space could be possible. Basement/foundation quality is a pretty big factor in the area.
>>2955712Looks like some morons fells for the open floorplan meme and destroyed the layout of the house that wasn't designed originally to be so open. As far as the roof slope goes, most states have laws about how high a ceiling's clearance must be for the square footage under it to included.If they haven't fucked up anything structural and none of the major house systems is in bad shape, it looks like something that could be /diy/ed into something nice at a good price.
>>2955715>who lived here?I would be willing to bet almost anything that it was a widow and that her husband did most of the damage. After he died relatively young from some work-related illness in the 80s or 90s she lived there alone on his pension for a few decades as the issues piled up and then when she died her kids (eventually) cleaned it out, cleaned it up and put it on the market because they know that it's a nightmarish money sink. Five will get you ten that there's still knob-and-tube wiring somewhere in there.>Old house, old additions, somewhat newer rennovations>Decades of shitty /diy/ experiencing compound failures>Mish-mash of details and styles>100% chance that whoever did it went with the cheapest option they could findYou see a ton of places like this in cities that had an industrial boom somewhere between WWII and the early 70s. I've helped gut/clean/etc. houses like this before and it's extremely recognizable; the older generations had enough shop classes under their belt to be dangerous but were mostly doing it themselves to save money, they ALWAYS cheaped out, they ALWAYS just slapped the new shit on the old shit when they could get away with it and even the jobs that weren't half-assed are usually failing because of age and nature. One time I was helping gut a post-war split-level millworker's special and the bedrooms had long carpet over short carpet over linoleum over plastic tiles over a wood floor. It's kind of interesting, though, because often these guys did one thing really well; there was a big awkward cast-iron drain pipe (which was <6' off the ground and went right through the kitchen) that was obviously DIY'd but the joinery was absolutely immaculate. The old boy who lived there certainly wasn't a plumber but nobody makes joints like that without being some flavor of pipefitter.Got the link? I'd like to see the exterior.
>>2955743Nothing in those pictures looks old enough to have had knob-and-tube.
>>2955752>Nothing in those pictures looks old enough to have had knob-and-tube.I doubt that there's much of it but I would be willing to bet that there's some of it somewhere based on a guesstimate of the original house (under all of the additions and shitty tile and ripped-out walls and tacked-on HVAC) being from the first few decades of the 20th century. Maybe in the basement or attic or just some of it disconnected in a section of wall somewhere.
>>2955729I'll check it out, but I don't buy it. In my midwest city 400-600 gets you a pretty serious mcmansion. 2 story 4-6 bed. 100k gets you a bad small house in a poor neighborhood in the metro. >>2955710The countertops aren't even the same. mary the oven. fuck the fridge, paint the actual brick. kill the flooring, the hood soffit, the hearth, cabinet doors and paint them if not replace entire cabs, old fans, yellow paint.It could be worse, but not much.
>>2955713lol wtf. >slant fan, no vapor barrier, window ac cut into wallthe fooring is kinda nice
>>2955710Oh, this isn't so bad, just needlessly open floorpla->that retarded recessed dual-fluorescent tube light that won't adequately light up the kitchen>elevated platform by a fireplace>>2955711>ceiling fan in the middle of a weirdly shaped hard tile room with the blades nearly smacking that support beam>hard tile despite the fireplace suggesting it's meant to be a living room>>2955712>carpeted living room has another suicide fan and a couch pointed to a cut off wall that can't possibly have a good tv setup>hallway randomly has one of those hotel sconce lights>>2955713>another confusingly placed ceiling fan that isn't cooling a damn thing, not even the gutted vending machine looking thing>fancy wood tile for a nigh-unusable attic room under the slope>>2955714>the fireplace is actually a whatever-the-fuck-that-is with a random black square hiding part of the window>>2955715>duct tape doorframe with a seemingly structural rope tied to a towel rack>absurdly high-up toilet paper roll holder that's also strangely close to the door frame>mirror over the toilet>ceiling light on a shoddily placed board
>>2955755>>2955752There's some plasterboard or texture on one of their bearing walls. I thought only the historic sections of my city would still be knob, but I've found it in 3 more of our suburbs. I can barely believe how much old shit never gets replaced. >>2955829That has to be rafters and kickers. Then the ceiling sheets would be breaking down from condensate. If I'm right, it'd make me want to pull my hair out.
>>2955743>Got the link?https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1812-S-Bardo-St-Visalia-CA-93277/457664733_zpid/>>2955720>>2955731definitely flippers, this particular listing has no price history but I figured out yesterday the house sold in august for $210k:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1812-S-Bardo-Ln-Visalia-CA-93277/16242082_zpid/same house, address is slightly different (St vs Ln). so some retarded flippers bought it for $210k, knocked down a bunch of walls and made a mess of the floor plan, realized they were in over their heads or ran out of money, and are now trying to pawn the mess over to someone else for 100 fucking thousand dollars more and wash their hands.somehow they think they did 100k worth of work on this house.being in the housing market for a few months has made hate flippers with a passion.
>>2954754This sort of thing is why most mortgages require home inspections.
my mancave tiny bathroomit always rustles autist’s jimmies that my toilet is not centered under skylight. but its close enough fer me to urinate standing up and i wasnt moving roof rafters around…
my shop100% built by me save fir hiring some essays to help me finish flatwork and one guy to assist me with hardie siding. abomination because the buildings propoertions are off- I had to s of free lumber and plywoid from my job. (commercial construction superintendent)So I went with 92 1/4 studs, 3x4 bottom plate + 6” stem wall for a ceill heught of about 8’6”It is two stories, but i should have used 1041/4 studs but muh free 8’ cdx plywood….
>>2956424It's like some video game where the devs were to lazy to put textures on the floor
This screams "my relative died and I want to put zero money into selling the house".
I've got something good. Let's start with living room/shower and sink combo.
>>2957166Nothing to see here, just walk trough kitchen
>>2957167And we arrive at the entrance and ... TOILET?
>>2957166That's a weird layout but judging from the locks on the door, that's an unsafe area. Maybe the wall layout was restricted due to it being a repurposed space. Can't imagine any sane person laying things out that way if they have a blank canvas.
>>2957106asbestosfloor tiles definitely, ceiling tiles maybe, plumbing elbows likely
>>2957168as a shy pooper I wish my bathroom had that many deadbolts
>>2957168Love the dick-height window so I can show off to the neighbors
>>2956424that is pretty dope bro give us the tour
>>2957182Much of the housing stock around here was built during peak asbestos so you're probably correct about the floor tiles. I'd tile over them rather than remove them. The drop ceiling would have to go. Unfortunately ceiling tiles of that age are almost always crumbly around the edges. Have to seal up the basement and have some Home Depot parking lot expendables come over to remove the tiles.
>>2955221>>2955231Baby feet pussies. Slate is the GOAT
>>2957325it's worth getting ceiling tiles tested, good chance they aren't asbestos and you can save some money, but if they are asbestos you want them removed carefully and the basement sealed off and fully cleaned of the dustthe flooring is going to be organically bound so if you just keep the dust down by wetting them and wear a respirator you can scrape them up and bag them yourself
>>2956424The shed is cute but the tiles around it look creepy
>>2956424Where are the path and the house?
>>2957326Slate tile looks like diarrhea
>>2955829I can't imagine the amount of money wasted to ruin a property like that.
>>2957168An entry door that opens outwards. So you can access the hinge pins from outside the house. That way if you lose your keys you can get in by just removing the hinge pins and pulling the door out of the frame.
not quite an abomination but still>>>/pol/521374624
I am both ashamed and proud of this one.
>>2952566>sorry about your meth addiction>how did you know?
>>2957622
>>2957667
>>2957668
>>2955710Is this in upstate NY? This looks extremely similar to a floorplan of a house we looked at in the catskills like 6 years ago. It was super bizzarely laid out and was a great deal for the space but needed a ton of work i couldnt afford to do at the time.
>>2955829>a random black square hiding part of the windowgotta be the chimney>>2956424nice anon
>>2956407caveat emptorshouldn't be shopping for a house if you don't have a basic understanding of framing etc, just stick to renting.
>>2952567The main question that determines all the rest is, Pink Floyd or George Floyd?
>>2957863ronnie of course
>>2955713>>2955714I need to sleep. These stupid ceiling fans are making me laugh like a hyena. Who thought of putting fans there?!
>>2957863>>2954251
>>2955715>>2955714Did they just randomly cover everything with a layer of white paint? I could imagine if you saw the original colors some of it would make a bit more sense.
>>2957166>living room/shower and sink combo.That's for shooting porn movies. So you don't have to move all the cameras and lights around for different scenes.
>>2957166>>2957167>>2957168
>>2952354My house was built in 1921 and has an open floorplan and works fine. The kitchen is just oriented the same way as the rest of the house.It's actually quite nice since we have two small kids and I can sit in one place and see the entire area they can get to.
>>2954754I fucking toured this house, it was shit. Had been a grow house for weed. Literally 30-40 outlets in every room. "Buyer takes responsibility for bringing unpermited additions up to code"
>>2955713Imagine how many air mattresses and gaming PCs could fit in there. You could have a barracks of 4chan users in your attic
>>2957622>>2957667>>2957668>>2957669There should be a little disclaimer at the start of these threads that if your posting something you personally did or witnessed, it probably isn't as funny or fucked up as you think it is.
>>2956420Was at a BnB that had that same sink. Takes up way too much space for what it adds in functionality.
>>2959194Looks fake. the spacing is way too tight. No one uses that many rafters. The sheathing thickness gives away the fake. It would be waving af if someone did try to staple down sheets onto that a roof that moves around that much.
>>2959166i'll post one of the same exact 20 images next time
>>2957658I'm proud of you. If it works and doesn't leak while holding up long enough for you not to be bothered by it, by all means, send it.
inch and a half offwell done framers
>>2959304No leaks and I sent it straight to the boss because he ordered the tank a day after he needed it and didn't give us any fittings to adapt it to his unusual purpose so it is what it is. They found it pretty funny, especially when I found a female coupler after having made one.
>>2959409inch and half, sooo double 2x4.
>>2959444Imagine taking furniture up those stairs.
>>2959505>Imagine taking furniture up those stairs.Maybe if you take it apart first.
>>2959444This is an artform. It should have been a lift. I'd put a mint diy venue or recording studio in the basement.
>>2952354I fucking hate open floorplans.
>>2955710Looks like some shit a high ranking yugoslav communist party member would leave behind.
>>2955713The 45 degree angle fan lmfao
5524 111a St NW, Edmonton, CA
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>>2960302That's pretty sick though. Imagine standing up there and looking down at the peasants groveling below you...
>>2956420>that wiringBare copper for grounding and twist caps. No waggos in the USA huh. You people are truly 50 years behind the rest of the world in electrical installation.
>>2959194>posting aislop
>>2960302>>2960303would have been supremely based if applied to the whole house
>>2959444Now we're talking. It isn't a proper abomination thread until we see stairs from hell
>>2959444You HAVE TO BE FUCKING WITH ME.
Oh nice bathroom
>>2960713Not only that, it's also stairs!
>>2960671Door is in crooked.
>>2960717Ideal stairwell coverage angles from that toilet. Keep an AR mounted on the wall next to the shitter and even when you're vulnerable, you've got the advantage. >>2960671Door handle is conveniently placed at foot height for easy opening with your fucking toes
>>2960759Round door handles suck for that. You need to be barefoot to open them. If that were the idea it would be a lever handle.
>>2959505>Imagine taking furniture up those stairs.Those are "stairs" into the basement of a house that's probably a few centuries old.
>>2957166>>2957167>>2957168Mini apartment
>>2960783It probably started life as a ladder down to a root cellar. Someone "upgraded" it to stairs.
>>2959444Reminds me of that guy on YouTube who does maintenance on lighthouses, theres all kinds of claustrophobic corridors with staircases like this
>>2960886Please link. I wanna do that job. I hate being a mailman, today was 8 inches of snow and our metrises and llvs are useless in that. Got stuck for 2 hours in a guy's buried lawn in my metris. Post master doesn't give a shit and yelled at me to tale a llv, that shit is equally useless. None of the fucking subdivsions, mostly flat, were plowed and these pieces of shit still wouldn't budge. It is a fucking TESTAMENT to me being an exceptional driver and mailman I managed to get 115 of 513 boxes done. Fuck management.
>>2959444>>2960671>me trying to build paths in rct2
I don't have any pictures unfortunately, but I used to rent a place in NYC. They wanted to rent out their basement, but I guess some law said it had to have a bathroom. It was built into a hillside so the basement had its own door to the outside, under the 3 story house.Anyway, they decided to build the bathroom in what used to be the stairs to the first floor. So you opened the bathroom door, and immediately stairs started going up to the right. A little ways up, a small platform with a toilet and a window. Then the stairs went to the left, a bit higher, and the shower was connected to where the first floor door used to be I think, now no door. The best part was that they tiled all of it, including the walls and stairs, so once I got out of the shower and slipped, fell down all the tiled stairs and broke the door at the bottom. No major injuries but I felt like an idiot, at least I managed to dodge the toilet on the way down
>>2960713>>2960717POLSKA GUROM
>>2961475build it just for fun
>>2961484The south-east landing is a 5 panel closet door.
>>2961475>whats going on in there?>may i watch?
>>2961485Statistically speaking, that's the perfect design for a southeast landing.
>>2961475Point yourselves out on the drawing. I'm Bedroom #4 Full Bsth 43.
>>2961503im mudroom and laundry with TWO baths and sinks, no washing machine, shower or external doors.
Took my coats for a walk and they got all muddy so now I'm in the Coat Bath.
>>2961475>no external doors
>>2960746I think there may be more problematic issues here...
>>2961498>>2961485Yes, build it. It's not that retarded compared to some things architects ask for
>>2959166I also like to criticize people’s efforts when I have nothing to contribute.
>>2959294>>2961577Cry about it.
>>2961512I was going to say you could use the garage for access, but then realized instead of a door it has one massive window.
>>2961475>bedroom 2>no bed>3 walls of cupboards>only space not taken up by cupboards is the window and door
>>29614753bd/7baFinally architecture for a polygamous cult with ibs
>>2961054> once I got out of the shower and slipped, fell down all the tiled stairs and broke the door at the bottomLooney tunes shit, lol.
>>2959444Old, cramped stairs are oddly comfy to meYeah it's bad if you fall and you can't use it if you're an invalid, but ladders for accessing lofts and basements are common and nobody bats an eye.
>>2961505Mud bath and laundry bath or watching bath and exhibitionist bath?>>2961512>>2961936Clearly you go through the sliding roof on the south view, right next to the L shaped all window and no doors master room>>2961503The ginger kids room, FFS the guest bathroom is biggerLately, I'm a gourmet kitchen with 12 chairs and no fucking oven or hob
>>2961957For the family on the go
>>2954545I'd still get rid of the hedge and put up a short fence of some type. Those hedges belch out a lot of mold spores. Found this out from my Mom's place that had a hedge right against her house. Her house had white plastic siding on it that was always speckled with black splotches all over it. That shit is mold spores. It's a real bitch to get off even with a powerful pressure washer. Best thing to use was those magic (spongy) erasers by Mr Clean but they only last for a short time. People plant a lot of stupid shit right next to their home and end up with problems one day. Have to think this shit through in advance. Having a massive fur tree start to send a root through your foundation is always fun.
>>2960746Nice stairs (and door). I saw a place with that type of ladder stair setup before. It was insanely dangerous. Almost better to use a fire pole and slide down. Build your lats and triceps going up too.
>>2955121In TX?
>>295555730 years of your life + tip
>>2959444Reminds me of my grandparent's old ass farm house. They told me I wasn't allowed to go up there, and thinking back on it that was probably because neither of them would have been physically capable enough to climb up after me if I was horsing around up in the attic or something.
>>2952567brown or schizoid?
>>2962594>>2954251
I need more baffling, terrible design decisions and deathtrap-tier workmanship.
>>2962862wtf
>>2962862i like this one actually, my workshop is in the basement, and the number of times i've had to fight to get lumber or pipes down there around a corner, i would have LOVED to have been able to just toss them down the stairs from the front door.
>>2962859I like the idea of separating the toilet, but that bath is claustrophobic.
>>2959166 see >>2961601
>>2961475it gets funnier the more i look at it.
>>2960783The light coming through the door implies the 1st floor is above ground, meaning this is some dude's second floor stairwell.
>>2962861*Plop* (echo) plplplplplplplplplplp
>>2962860I looked at a house like this in Fargo lmao like why TF did they not plan for the fridge WITH the kitchen
>>2962859>When your 4 daughters hit their tweens
>>2962859I once did a design similar (in principal) to that, different layout though and not a full tub shower, just a larger shower with a drying/changing space. The idea was that it was a bathroom shared between two bedrooms and this gave privacy to someone in the shower or toilet in case others came into the bathroom.>>2962862So am I seeing right that all they needed was two more risers? If I'm seeing this right, it looks like they had enough room to get a 36" wide landing at the top of the stairs but chose to put in a 45-degree bend at the top?
>>2952567>>2952566>tfw it gets grade II listed
>>2963049Was it new construction? Lots of these really weird kitchen abominations are due to trying to make older homes into open floorplans, which creates weird kitchens without enough wall space for appliances. If it was new construction, you have to ask yourself what other boneheaded decisions did the builder make if they fucked up the kitchen layout that much.
>A bad idea, terribly executed>in 6 parts
>>2963381
>>2963382
>>2963383
>>2963384
>>2963385>your in-floor imitation crab meat sculpture isn’t turning out as well as expected>tfw you realise you can save it with accent lighting and pirate doubloons
>>2963386Time to pour in resin so everyone can enjoy the art.
>>2963386should have painted the cement to a matching red hue
>>2961475>architects are cooked>not a single range
>>2963386What the hell is being showcased? Connections for radiant heating?
>>2963458That's in the backyard (which isn't accessible).
>>2963492Biblically accurate chicken roaster.
>>2960578Stairs to hell, more like
>>2963386what the fuck is it supposed to be?
>>2959444Love to see it.I very much enjoy some ancient non-standardised solutions like that. My gramps had a stairway to the workshop cellar that was 1m wide, but it didn't stop it from also being a stairway to the attic.He simply took 5 stairs (wooden boards) off and you needed to climb the ledges they were originally resting upon for the first few steps kek.And duck a bit while going down to the cellar.
>>2961354- Oto dom.- No powiedzmy.
>>2954251Tommy Lee Jones fell off quite originally I'd say.
>>2962861Temple of Solitude.My bro spends 30 minutes on the shitter each time, I think he'd like his little kingdom to look like that.
>>2963105>ut in a 45-degree bend at the top?No, I think those are simply two regular stairs leading straight from the door to the staircase beginning.
>>2963596No, I was wrong and you were right.
>>2963588I've seen 19th century homes with stairs meant for women and children. The rise is about half as high as for normal stairs. Even for a manlet like me, they're tedious to use and you end up skipping several steps. The run is typical length, making skipping steps a bit more annoying. When I was in elementary school, we lived in an A-frame house with a ship's ladder to get up to the sleeping loft. Quite good use of space but glad we had moved by the time I became a drunk teen.
>>2963492tis a thing of beauty, not an abomination
>>2962860Home owner is a spartan and needs extra cover to recharge his shields.
>>2963636Turning that webm into a bloated gif is the abomination.
>>2952207Fresh Balkan boys OC
>>2959444>how you see your staircase at 4am during a REM phase.
>>2961957>3bd/7ba>Finally architecture for a polygamous cult with ibsJeets
>>2963995These people shit more in day than I do in one month. How are they not all dead from dehydration?
>>2963699my grandad doesn't know how webms work and I wanted to text it to him.
>>2961475JACK & Jil Fun Bath #2 is especially important
Michigan House of Horrorshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw0s2zNglqg
>>2964598I hate these fucking useless slobs.>I've never used this type of ladder
>>2964612>I'm not going to climb up there>For obvious reasonsI'M FUCKING FAT.
>>2964598Well that's rough.
>>2963579>he doesn't know
>>2961054>NYC>hillsideWhat?
>>2963050Showers
>>2964624It was in Marble Hill, Bronx (kinda)
>>2964144many are
>>2964616An hour later.
>>2964613He may have been more worried about the remaining stairs collapsing under his weight rather than the ladder being the problem. Some of the problems in that house reek of mental illness rather than mere incompetence.
>>2964598>you need a permit>you need a license and LLC for that permit>you need a degree, certification, and on the job training for a license>you need a city inspection >you need a city inspection again after you've corrected the red tags>you need to bribe the inspector or take the city to litigationI don't have a problem with inspectors. Some are really knowledgeable. This know-it-all fat ass wouldn't know what to do installing half of the things he glosses over. That's before accounting for the shoestring budget the contractors of these slums are working with.
>>2964726If a contractor is given a shoestring budget, they can simply refuse to accept the job. There's no law against discriminating against cheap slumlords.
>>2964877The people working on that house can't afford to not take a job. The foundation repair is worth more than the value of the unit, by my estimate. I feel as though one can find another McRental or McMultifamily in Detroit.
>>2964144>These people shit more in day than I do in one month. How are they not all dead from dehydration?
>>2963995After you have some five star vinalu you understand why they can't stop shitting themselves to death.
>>2964598>>2964616>>2964726>>2964898>>2964877I have been dragged into horror shows like this before, particularly run down lake houses. It's more of a case of everyone involved whether homeowner, unfortunate contractor or lackadaisical inspectors in hootnannyville that looked at it went>It's absolutely fucked no matter what we doAnd as such it's now in "safe and effective" territory and no matter what you add on, tell the homeowner, get "passed" on inspection will be "safe and effective" because anything is better than nothing on something so fucked it has to be demo'd but can't be (for money/even more retarded reasons dreamt up). They're boomers white elephants that overgrew and got terminal tumors from lack of maintenance or even being improperly built from the start. I'm one of the people that will have the honesty to tell them how fucked it is and they STILL want me to work on it either doing bare minimum/ "keep it going" maintenance like it's an ancient farm tractor.This one lake house I'm working on now is a hilarious shitshow. It was originally box shaped and the wife wanted to add two turrets on either side, with merlons and crenels it would look like a fucking bridge gatehouse. Sounds based but it's mcmansion octagonal turrets, and because she had these added the foundation failed and because it's next to a lake and has trees all around it literally everything is warped. The floors are also not framed as strong as the should be and everything on it is in either a state of being half done or half demo'd. From what I understand they used it a bit when the kids were younger but a divorce happened and the place was literally in limbo for 20 years because she kept going to court with him for years and no one knew who was getting it. It also has to do with the distance of being in the middle of nowhere with no hardware/other stores for miles.
>>2957166>ah yes, love watching TV while the washing machine runs>shower in the cornersoh, it is in Poland, lol>otodomoh, it IS in Poland
>>2961354Polska półpiętremftfy
>>2964598How do you POSSIBLY fix something like that? How can you justify trying to fix that instead of rebuilding it completely?
>>2965257As long as the roof hasn't been leaking for years, something that age is definitely worth fixing.Rip off the siding to make sure there are no surprises. Depending on the surprises, maybe you demolish.If not, you completely replace the foundation. This might sound like a huge undertaking but isn't with a competent team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxLmLUia8sQThat new section that's sagging gets a new foundation too. Maybe even dig a basement for it. While replacing the foundation, maybe raise the house up by a foot so the siding isn't in the mud.Replace the siding. The small porches might also need fixing.Patch all the cracked walls. Fix the stairs. Brand new furnace. Get the water tanks installed.Then you get a competent team to paint the insides.
>>2965268>watch some YouTube videos>call up your friends and family to completely replace your house's foundation with you>they say yesGod damn, there are decent people left in the world. That's awesome.
>>2965274It should be pointed out that a few of the friends were professional brick layers and he got a professional engineer to evaluate how to hold the house while it was in the air. They weren't going in completely blind.
>>2963789I want to be mad but the roofline overlapping the window is peak top notch Balkan architecture
>>2959409Just figure out where it's supposed to be and use a sledge to tap it into placeThen put screws in at an angle through the drywall and bottom sill
>>2962060>On the goFkn lmaoooooooo
>>2963579We've all been there
>>2963156I believe it was a new build split level and they made the kitchen counter bigger and thought the fridge could go against back wall of the 1st floor but the windows were too close now that I'm thinking about it
>>2963579Remember kids - when drilling anchors, make sure you actually hit the brick.
>>2952207>Quit halfway through the addition editionshould've started a youtube channel
>>2960671move the knob to the top of the door and this is fine
>>2965712I agree. Just no children or elderly people allowed on the stairs.
>>2955260fo' the grove
>>2957168lmao
>>2957106linoleum, drop ceiling, that sexy staircase landingNow this, is a great mancave
>>2965914That's old timey VCT tile.
