These pictures make my teeth itch

[AstonZagato]

eldar said:

blueg33 said:

talksthetorque said:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C20D7RJLXzs/?igsh=Z...
Sorry for the insta link but needed to be done.

OMG.

I would have divorced her instantly! That has to be one of the teeth itchiest things I have ever seen and I work in housebuilding!

Absolutely. Philistine of the first order.

My wife has a slightly less (passive) aggressive version of this. She puts the cutlery on the work surface above the cutlery drawer, knowing full well that I will sort it into said drawer. In her defence, she probably empties the dishwasher more times than anyone else in the house.

[Sigmamark7]

LunarOne said:

Mars said:

DodgyGeezer said:

Lotus Elan +2 said:

Why????

a question I asked myself about the garage too!!

Looks like the garage door would snag on the house wall.

And why build a garage that only fits a motorcycle or a car not made for 60 years? Because it's cheaper and we're supposed to be championing car-free lifestyles. And anyway, British houses have limited storage and no basement, so nobody in their right mind would want to put their leased SquashQuow in the garage even if it could fit!

I’m trying to buy a new house at the moment and have seen 3 houses where the owners have cut the garage in two, to create a utility room, leaving a 10’ long garage with a garage door on it. Worse still, on so many new build estates, 4 and 5 bedroom houses only come with parking for 2 cars and a single garage only big enough to put a modern car in if you climb out of the roof!

[Mars]

Sigmamark7 said:

LunarOne said:

Mars said:

DodgyGeezer said:

Lotus Elan +2 said:

Why????

a question I asked myself about the garage too!!

Looks like the garage door would snag on the house wall.

And why build a garage that only fits a motorcycle or a car not made for 60 years? Because it's cheaper and we're supposed to be championing car-free lifestyles. And anyway, British houses have limited storage and no basement, so nobody in their right mind would want to put their leased SquashQuow in the garage even if it could fit!

I’m trying to buy a new house at the moment and have seen 3 houses where the owners have cut the garage in two, to create a utility room, leaving a 10’ long garage with a garage door on it. Worse still, on so many new build estates, 4 and 5 bedroom houses only come with parking for 2 cars and a single garage only big enough to put a modern car in if you climb out of the roof!

I rejected a house when I was looking 2 years ago on the basis that they had walled off the double garage about only a foot inside the large garage door, and converted it into a "play room". It was done well but even though I don't park my car in the garage, I like to have a space for a workshop. Also, only 2 car parking spaces on the drive. Ridiculously limited for a 5-bed house. Should be one space for each bedroom IMO.

[havoc]

Mars said:

Ridiculously limited for a 5-bed house. Should be one space for each bedroom IMO.

Current housing density regs don't allow that unless you don't want a garden or you build a townhouse with a triple garage underneath*.



* Now there's an idea.

[C n C]

Somewhat off topic, but from another thread recently, I was surprised to learn that often car insurance is more expensive if the car is garaged than if parked on the drive. I'd not done any comparisons, but had assumed garaged would be cheaper as there's less risk of it being stolen, particularly with the rise of cases where thieves break into the house to get the keys for whatever is parked on the drive.

Apparently the reason given was that there are more insurance claims for garaged cars because more cars are damaged by incompetent drivers bending the car as its put in or taken out of the garage, rather than just leaving it on the drive.

I guess this makes sense - especially with the comically small garages which are so prevalent these days, and the increasingly bloated dimensions of the average car/SUV, but it still surprised me.

Edited by C n C on Friday 23 February 14:37

[swanseaboydan]

I think it’s also ladders / tools falling on the car

[Motorman74]

This sign is currently annoying me...

[Vanden Saab]

Antony Moxey said:

droopsnoot said:

Lotus Elan +2 said:

Why????

I think there's a general convention that a manhole like this will run in the direction of the pipes, with the pipes on the short edges of the aperture. That doesn't explain why they put the block paving on the tops, nor why they couldn't run the pipes along the driveway rather than diagonally across it. The latter would probably have added a tenner to the build cost.

They could have cut the blocks to align with the rest of the drive. Just because the manholes are at angles doesn't mean the blocks have to be.

like this

Edited by Vanden Saab on Monday 26th February 22:05

[21st Century Man]

A similar result can be achieved with a permanent marker.

[droopsnoot]

illmonkey said:

Antony Moxey said:

droopsnoot said:

Lotus Elan +2 said:

Why????

I think there's a general convention that a manhole like this will run in the direction of the pipes, with the pipes on the short edges of the aperture. That doesn't explain why they put the block paving on the tops, nor why they couldn't run the pipes along the driveway rather than diagonally across it. The latter would probably have added a tenner to the build cost.

They could have cut the blocks to align with the rest of the drive. Just because the manholes are at angles doesn't mean the blocks have to be.

That's just asking for someone to lift it, and then put it back in the wrong way around. And that one on the left would need to be half blocks and half grass, or make the drive wider all the way along to make it look right.

Lotus Elan +2 said:

There will be a man who puts bricks in man hole covers, then other men who lay the drive. The 2 shall never meet nor communicate in anyway.

Then the man to lower the man hole covers into the hole comes along and puts it in, looks bewildered but it wasn’t his job, mate.

Source: recently bought and sold (thankfully) a new build.

I expect cost will come into it. Someone will have decided that it's far cheaper to just get 200 made without considering how terrible they'll look. It's cheaper, so that'll be OK.

[Sporky]

droopsnoot said:

I expect cost will come into it. Someone will have decided that it's far cheaper to just get 200 made without considering how terrible they'll look. It's cheaper, so that'll be OK.

The job was probably awarded to whoever bid lowest.

[bobfather]

Motorman74 said:

This sign is currently annoying me...

'Child size' or 'childrens'?

[Silver Smudger]

bobfather said:

Motorman74 said:

This sign is currently annoying me...

'Child size' or 'childrens'?

I would prefer child's lifejacket if there is only one, or children's lifejackets if there are several

[Sporky]

Maybe it's a typo, and that's an Adrian Chiles life jacket. The picture on it looks just like him.

[talksthetorque]

At least it’s/it’s not padlocked.

[Kowalski655]

Open the box to find some has nicked it!

[Tycho]

Vanden Saab said:

Antony Moxey said:

droopsnoot said:

Lotus Elan +2 said:

Why????

I think there's a general convention that a manhole like this will run in the direction of the pipes, with the pipes on the short edges of the aperture. That doesn't explain why they put the block paving on the tops, nor why they couldn't run the pipes along the driveway rather than diagonally across it. The latter would probably have added a tenner to the build cost.

They could have cut the blocks to align with the rest of the drive. Just because the manholes are at angles doesn't mean the blocks have to be.

like this

Edited by Vanden Saab on Monday 26th February 22:05

[Indecision]

Our new village hall was built 3 years ago, and is full of finishes suited this thread. A fine example below:

[jules_s]

Indecision said:

Our new village hall was built 3 years ago, and is full of finishes suited this thread. A fine example below:

It's worse for Architects - I can see things there pretty much nobody else will see :|

[hidetheelephants]

some help for the unfamilar? The windows are maybe a bit wonky and the architrave is offset enough to drive any OCD sufferers daft, but other than that I'm coming up dry?