Reminds me of my first house. It was built before plumbing, when they eventually got water, they installed a bathroom under the stairs. The tub was a ceramic half sized one with the claw feet. Eventually I replaced it with a shower. Wish I'd kept the tub, it was unique!
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Hey, it's the guys who installed my kitchen counters! They sent a measuring crew to validate everything before fabrication, and I confirmed with them thay everything loomed right, but during the fabrication process, someone screwed up the citout for the apron sink. Fortunately they did it the right way and didn't cut it deep enough. But what did the installers do? Should they ask someone on site? Maybe check the original measuring and layoit diagram? Nah. Let's unplumb the sink drain, pull the cast iron sink forward, prop it up with a 1x2, and install it with a two inch gap between the apron and the cabinet front. No, that's how people are doing it these days, they tried to say. You just need to add more cabinet filler pieces to close the gap. Unbelievable.
And this was after I stopped them from running one of the counter slabs right up against one of the side walls. The natural slab wasn't long enough to allow that, so the cabinets end about 3" from the wall. No big deal, and I finished the cabinet row with a finished end piece, had already tiled under the cabinets right to the wall anyway, and installed a fancy skirting board around the visible gap space. And it solved the problem of the cabinets finishing about flush with an arch to the dining room, the trim around which would have posed a problem if I had run the cabinets right into the wall. No problem for these guys though. Without even checking to see where that slab should sit, they tried pushing it against that wall immediately, ran it into the archway trim, then pulled out an oscillating saw to carve it up to make room. Those boys were good with some things, but following a design plan or making decisions on the fly were just like in the video. I bet those guys were supposed to have installed the tub rotated 90 degrees but didn't check with the homeowner.
I once worked in an IT environment where several very expensive servers and their accoutrements were prepped for installation, then put in an empty, locked office for a long holiday weekend, after which the servers were to be installed in our data center.
After the servers were put in temporary storage and my team had gone home for the day, there were some construction guys doing some kind of construction work in the area directly above the empty office. Whatever they were doing, they in some way unsealed a radiator unit or maybe cut it away and didn't plug the tubing (I know a lot less about radiators and plumbing than I do about IT). They, presumably, didn't realize this and went home for their holiday weekend as well.
After the long break was over, my boss - whose office was adjacent to the storage office - came in and observed that it was unusual for his carpeting to be so squishy. Turns out, as I'm sure you guessed, water from the compromised radiators had dripped onto the servers throughout the entire vacation, then leaked into the carpet and spread out to his office through the shared door between them.
As soon as my team got in, we were all immediately removed from our duties for the day and tasked with helping him to move the servers over some of the forced air sections of the data center to work on blowing the water out of them. These efforts were bolstered by some of the biggest mobile fans I'd ever seen - I have no idea where we even got them.
The servers were there for at least a week, but I think actually weeks. In the end, I think only one of the servers failed to boot and the rest stayed running for the rest of my tenure there. Still, I'm sure it was scary for a while for my boss - the one who authorized the original payment and who decided where to store the servers.
Can anyone remind me where this animation comes from and the name? I am a sucker for stop motion kind of animations
Pat a Mat, it’s a Czech show
It’s been popular in the Netherlands for decades under the name “Buurman en Buurman”(Neighbor and Neighbor).
I only learned now that the dubbing was something they did specifically with the Dutch release. Can’t imagine this show being silent.
That for me is incredibly strange. Basically means for the Netherlands a massive change was made in the original medium. If it makes it better or worse I can't tell, but I would personally always check the original to understand better what was the original intent of the show (which I plan to do with this one. I need more stop motion animation in my life)
That explains all the home canned foods in the basement.
It's an old Czechoslovakian show called Pat & Mat. Took me a while to remember the name, it's been a long time since I last saw them on TV. Really good and universal slapstick humor.
Very funny. There's a channel on YouTube https://youtu.be/XVjbFbOx7Ls
Okay only thing I want to know is that tool to link the pipes a real thing, because damn I want that. I mean I see large versions used to link gasl ines and huge water mains, but never handheld versions.
Is it not just a heat gun with a shaped nose? It'll soften and expand the pipe slightly before fitting them together, where they'll cool and constrict into place
Heat guns are also used to make plastics such as PVC piping pliable for the purposes of bending
There are types of pex fittings that you use a special tool to stretch sort of like they show, but they appear to be using grey pvc electrical conduit which would be glued (and not plumbing) so who knows what's going on.
Yeah I thought that was part of the gag using gray pipe. But I had people like this working on my plumbing and had to fire their ass.
I couldn't find anything, but I'm a bit confused as it looks like the pipes are plastic. Maybe it's a thing common in Europe.
In the UK at least I think "push-to-fit" is the standard these days for plastic water pipes and doesn't require heating.
https://www.screwfix.com/c/heating-plumbing/pipe-fittings/cat831504?pipefittingsystem=push_fit
It is cheaper!
Where did y'all find video of my current bathroom reno?