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finished the new electrical installation, starting the false gypsum ceilings that will hide all the cables n shit, and add insulation

I really gotta finish this shit, I started it almost 5 years ago, past 10 months I did more than 3 years, where did that time go?
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>>2994252
>where did that time go?
probably some stupid degenerate shit

anyway, surely there's more than a hallway. CONTENT DUMP CHUD
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>>2994252
That's pretty coo-
>started 5 years ago
Shit nigger water you doing.
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One of my favourite shows translates to "Help, my husband is a handyman". You'd fit right in. It features couples in distress where the husband usually demolishes everything and then just does nothing for years or decades. There's one recently where the kitchen was removed in 2006 and he "never got around installing the new one, which is still boxed up". Another where the wife prepares food for the kids on the sink table next to the toilet. Mold, holes in walls, "temporary" outhouses, kids sleeping in the cold etc. I'd love to find more shows like that.

Share more pics anon! Are you the only one suffering, or are you keeping others hostage?
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>>2994473
I visited a boomer recently, and while he was a massive fucking fat ass, his pool was clean, his grass mowed, the stone grill he built 20 years ago is still functional, and his home was clean. I'm so accustomed to seeing old people letting everything go to hell that it was constantly surprising.

I blame painkillers. They leach the soul and drive out of people. The boomers that are on them can't even finish text messages.
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>>2994488
>The boomers that are on them can't even finish text messages.
can comfirm, i once didnt finish a booty call to your mom
she still came, tho
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>>2994470
pic suggests he's been too busy raping local women
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>>2994252
I was still in university when I started, I also took care of my sick grandma
then I got my masters and changed jobs
lost my license cus DUI for a year, so travelling to the apartament sucked

I decided to redo the electrical installation, so had to cut channels and re surface walls n shit
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I also was kinda depressed/lazy/unmotivated for a long time, because there was so much shit to do, and I would start doing something and 5 new things would come up...

picrel is me removing the old wallpaper
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I demolished the wall between my kitchen and balcony, and made it one square room

Water started getting in last year, I thought it was because when we made the new wall we couldnt reach properly and left a hole or something, so I decided to do the external insulation then (instead of during the summer) and fix the holes

>4 days of work (5 total cus it rained 1 day)
>me and my dad
>we start at around 7 am with the scaffold
>at around 7 pm we start dissasembling scaffold so they dont steal it
>load it up and take it home
>next day repeat
was so fucked

turns out water was from upstairs neighbour......
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>>2994962
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>>2994962
Cursed
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>>2994958
>nothing but steel, wires and concrete
Chud Environment
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>>2994960
wait a second i recognize these power outlets...
greetings form sunny Bulgaria, fellow estern european
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update on the chudpartament


>>2995185
мaхнaх ги ибaнитe кoнтaкти

I had 0 in the corridor, 3 in the living room, 0 in the closet
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>>2995551
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>>2995551
godspeed, пoжeлaвaм ти дa eбeш мнoгo в кибpитeнaтa кyтийкa кaтo я зaвъpшиш
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been fucking around and doing some plasters on some places, mainly this little extruded section I have in my living room in the corner, and doing some cleaning cus I am done with cutting the concrete panel for cables n shit
the extruded thing is full of some pipes, probably cabling, so I couldnt just remove it

today we did some of false ceiling construction that will have hidden lighting and will hide the hangers for the curtains, and it will kind of integrate the little extruded parts

it was so fucking retarded, we could barely fit the drill to screw the gypsum "skirt"
and we couldnt open the window or door cus we were working there, so we sweat our ass off

picrel is apparently how you are supposed to do it, drop a skirt, then cut it level to your desired ceiling and put the UD on it, and then you will know where all the CD have to end

>>2996208
мc бeбчe, ти ce вpъщa
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>>2996498
this is after we cut and I want to drop the inside of the little crevice a little bit to hide the disgusting parts where water came in and ita filled with shitloads or random plaster and cement

gonna plaster the little corner a bit, then clean the bedroom, and move everything to it, so the living room is free to work in (the doors are in the middle of it)

but work will resume in a couple of days, cus I gotta go to fucking Albania for work for 3 days.....
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>>2994963
You plan on doing the walls with Fibran or gypsum board?
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>>2994473
ADHD is a helluva drug
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>>2997046
fibran is outside insulation for houses (below ground especially) and floors

gypsum board will make eat up from my interior space, and you cant attach a painting afterwards...

the walls in the picture are finished with plaster and are pretty much completely straight

>>2997456
yes
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>>2997516
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>>2997516
>>2997524
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isolation up, gotta put the gypsum on
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>>2997516
No strain relief?
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>>2998251
its a tiny apartament board, fuck u mean strain relief...
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>>2998251
Euros got weird electrical shit

They make fun of us for our plugs and low voltage and then they just yeet appliances and connectors into their ceilings and don't secure their wires to anything its crazy.
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>>2995552
Are there no junction boxes for the electrical? Just wires popped out of the drywall?
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>>2998284
Junctions are usually mounted in the wall as thats where the cable channels are run. In apartment made of concrete panel - the loops are run inside a plastic hose that leads to the main.
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>>2998251
>>2998283
>>2998284
>>2998301


the apartament is manufactured from concrete panels, and is one of the first produced (think mid 60s, later ones had actual cable "pipes/hoses")
so originally the cables ran under the floors, and the outlets were external, as it was cheaper to produce
only the lights had junction boxes

I was not going to do anything with the installation originally, only change the main breaker box, but after looking at how fucked it wqs I decided to redo everything completely
so I thought about it for a bit, came up with:
>move breaker box to closet to hide it, the panel is too thin to do it like >>2998301 so external
>extend main supply to it
>to every room comes a main cable that goes in a junction box that is attached to ceiling, somewhere in the middle of the room, cable is in a plastic tube
>from junction box pull cables to every outlet
>outlets are drilled into the concrete panels
>with a wall chaser cut the panel from outlet to ceiling
>new lights, new cables
>new position for light switches, so more drilling and cutting
>plaster vertical paths to outlets/switches
>false gypsum ceilings hide the junction box and horizontal cables, bonus straightens ceilings and add isolation
>make a little gypsum cover to hide the cables going into the breaker box
shrimple as

thats the best I could come up with considering the circumstances
usually brick has junction boxes above outlets, cable tunnels n shit, but concrete panel blocks are cursed
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>>2998304
here is the old breaker box, it was in the hole on that pic
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slept 3 hours last night

barely did anything today
pinched the cable for the lamp between the gypsum and metal profiles again.... (did the same thing in the bedroom lmao)
so that was infuriating af

ran out of CD profiles as well
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>>2998251
for what?
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removed the bathroom door, some of the plaster on the external wall was detached from the panel, so I removed most of it
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>>2994962
Man, I'm pretty sure that doing something like that to our commie blocks would get us in huge trouble, mainly because the walls the balconies are attached to are load-bearing.
I've simply installed windows and insulation on my loggia, and now it's a plant room.

>t. butthurt belter
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>>2998305
Why was there so much rust?
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>>2999887
normal steel
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>>2999853
>mainly because the walls the balconies are attached to are load-bearing.
idk what the fuck you mean but
>external walls are VERY rarely load bearing
>a panel with a large hole for a door and window isnt exactly strong
>the concrete panel walls do not extend to the balcony
>the only thing extending out of the "room" is the horizontal "floor" panel
I am pretty sure now its better for the balconies because there is something actually connecting my balcony to my neighbours balcony, instead of a bunch of small L-shaped profiles and glass
>>2999887
idk, commie materials and 50+years old?
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>>2999922
>idk, commie materials and 50+years old?
Must be the commie materials. My house is 75 years old and the completely open Cutler Hammer break panel, which is in a carport outside of the house, looks better than that. Picture related, from google.
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need to order bathroom door and for the entrance
bathroom door has 2 months delivery....
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>>3000438
wrong pic
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where the fuck are you living in this place while this is going on
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>>3000446
depends on what I want to do
either at my dads apartament where I have a bedroom and where my xbox is
or at my moms place where I have a huge room with a bed, sofa, and where my pc is (and a closet room)
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>>3000448
assuming this is eastern europe/western asia, you own this apartment? what are the monthly costs associated with owning this place and not living there? this would be unthinkable in the united states; apartments are rental-only and have a constantly rising monthly cost which is very expensive. condominiums are the equivalent of "owned apartments" and are also terribly expensive due to the mortgage payment on the unit, as well as home owners association fees and taxes and such.
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>>3000451
water/electricity is like 15 cents a month, with me just using lamps and power tools
property/waste tax total is around 50 euros a year, with waste being the higher share at 30-35 euros
we have a company that takes care of the apartament building, thats like 7 euros a month
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>>3000438
Be careful with the interior doors if they are made out of MDF sandwich - the screws on the handle wiggle out over time.
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>>3000542
I wiggle out of ur mum hehe

gottem



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