These pictures make my teeth itch

[Mars]

Promised Land said:

so called said:

It used to be an old standard that bedroom lighting was not centered but nearer to the windows.
This was so that you didn't cast a naked silhouette onto the curtains for your neighbours entertainment.
Lots of old rules have been forgotten.

Is that true about light position?

I know they’re always closer to the window than the centre of the room as on a lot of sites we have to put a nogging in the trusses for the electrician to fix his pendant to and the drawings always show the light closer to the window than centre.

I thought it was because natural light comes from that direction so they fitted the light closer to that side.

Every days a school day.

Until the mid-80s my Dad was a Technical Director for a major house builder. He told me this about the lighting and that doors were usually hinged so that when opened, they obscured the view into the room from outside. I always thought it made more sense to have a door open so that it was against a wall when open, making the most of the available space and ease of entrance but not if you apply these "modesty" rules...

[CanAm]

Mars said:

Until the mid-80s my Dad was a Technical Director for a major house builder. He told me this about the lighting and that doors were usually hinged so that when opened, they obscured the view into the room from outside. I always thought it made more sense to have a door open so that it was against a wall when open, making the most of the available space and ease of entrance but not if you apply these "modesty" rules...

And also so that it smashes into the face of any burglars hiding behind it!

[LargeRed]

.... driving at night when the above appeared .....

I was not a 'alone'





Little while later Maureen appeared ......



I really must stop putting in the miles.

[Blown2CV]

S6PNJ said:

I call fake as the handle is the right way up and if the door was upside down, the euro lock and door spindle position wouldn't be interchangeable (I think).

unless the frame was also upside down

[MartG]

WTF !

[Mammasaid]

MartG said:

WTF !

Art for art's sake

http://www.langbaumann.com/?option_id=75

[anonymous-user]

shih tzu faced said:

^^ the poor door looks absolutely horrified, and who can blame it.

There’s a bit of Munch’s The Scream going on.

Edited by shih tzu faced on Sunday 4th July 21:48

More like a cheap inflatable sex doll!

[alisdairm]

Cakey Pig said:

What is causing itchy teeth here? I don't get it.

[Steamer]

Mammasaid said:

MartG said:

WTF !

Art for art's sake

http://www.langbaumann.com/?option_id=75

'elf and safety' might have put in a couple of objections..

..The older I get, the worse I am with heights - the looks of that staircase makes my knees feels a bit odd.

[bucks]

[anonymous-user]

bucks said:

Pic 1 The oven seems to be asking for help to get out of there.
Pic 2. You can already see a worn bit where people cut across.
Pic 3 Just Incompetent.

[mko9]

bucks said:

I am guessing there is more of a hill there than is apparent in the photo, and the wandering path is to make it wheelchair accessible. Otherwise, why not just follow the sidewalk around to the left?

[Swampy1982]

bucks said:

This is how I imagine Tyson Fury's caravan to look...

[DodgyGeezer]

[67Dino]

bucks said:

”You idiot, I said I wanted you to fit a kitchen in my pad, not pads in my kitchen”

[Rostfritt]

so called said:

It used to be an old standard that bedroom lighting was not centered but nearer to the windows.
This was so that you didn't cast a naked silhouette onto the curtains for your neighbours entertainment.
Lots of old rules have been forgotten.

My house had the lights in the two main bedrooms over where you would put the bed, with a pull string switch above it. In one room both the switch and the lampshade were on a small block of wood, so when you pulled it, the lampshade swung about. Utterly mad layout and ripped out as I rewired.

I also had the doors swing the wrong way round, which I haven't got round to sorting, despite the rewire moving the switch. So now I have to shut the door behind me before I can turn the light on.

[Ambleton]

DodgyGeezer said:

This is the most annoying thing I've seen for a while.

I guess the person line painting wrote the measurements down wrong and then corrected half way through the job. Or were told they were being too generous.

[Steamer]

Ambleton said:

DodgyGeezer said:

This is the most annoying thing I've seen for a while.

I guess the person line painting wrote the measurements down wrong and then corrected half way through the job. Or were told they were being too generous.

Or maybe the bases around the trees over on the right cause the offset in each row - whatever the reason (and it had better be a good one!) that is one hell of a mess.

Surely the spaces need to end level / square at the other end of each row anyway?

...Plus, if it was the tree causing the offset, would it not have been better to just keep a 'half space' for motorbikes maybe?

[stemll]

Steamer said:

Ambleton said:

DodgyGeezer said:

This is the most annoying thing I've seen for a while.

I guess the person line painting wrote the measurements down wrong and then corrected half way through the job. Or were told they were being too generous.

Or maybe the bases around the trees over on the right cause the offset in each row - whatever the reason (and it had better be a good one!) that is one hell of a mess.

Surely the spaces need to end level / square at the other end of each row anyway?

...Plus, if it was the tree causing the offset, would it not have been better to just keep a 'half space' for motorbikes maybe?

They aren't just offset. The spaces either side are a different size as the offset is moving as you go down the line

[anonymous-user]

stemll said:

Steamer said:

Ambleton said:

DodgyGeezer said:

This is the most annoying thing I've seen for a while.

I guess the person line painting wrote the measurements down wrong and then corrected half way through the job. Or were told they were being too generous.

Or maybe the bases around the trees over on the right cause the offset in each row - whatever the reason (and it had better be a good one!) that is one hell of a mess.

Surely the spaces need to end level / square at the other end of each row anyway?

...Plus, if it was the tree causing the offset, would it not have been better to just keep a 'half space' for motorbikes maybe?

They aren't just offset. The spaces either side are a different size as the offset is moving as you go down the line

In engineering terms, more than likely an accumulative error.