This is some environmental storytelling right here. I see a story of an electrician, all out of appropriate lengths of wood, working past five on the night before the drywallers show up.
I am not a builder… but that does not seem right
Submitted 1 day ago by bees@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
grue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That can’t possibly be an actual electrician’s work, can it? That’s got to be the work of a homeowner who didn’t know the correct way to locate an outlet in the middle of a stud bay.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Nah, it’s been awhile, but I’ve been an electrician. When you get a foreman who has made it to that special level of asshole, your give a fuck starts to run out incredibly fast. Even if you’re not the kind of guy who would do this yourself, someone working with you probably is.
With that said, I don’t think this would pass code, but I’m honestly curious as to which part it violates specifically. The wire doesn’t look like it’s secured properly at least, but this might be one of those things where this is where they learn that they need to write some new passages.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I had a semi related, IRL, Bethesda style enviornmental story telling ‘event’ involving a wall happen once.
Back in college… I wasn’t actually in this one fraternity, but was friends with almost all the guys in it, was good friends with the core group that restarted its local chapter that had been dormant for like a decadenor two.
So one day, its video games and beer, and … well, this one room needed to be renovated, so we didn’t give a fuck. One guy loses at Smash Bros, fucking fist through the wall.
… After he walks back a bit, we notice… wait wtf there’s something… on the frame…?
We tear out more of the wall, and no shit, there is a miniature time capsule in the form of a note saying basically 'Cheers to any future (fraternity name)‘s, from the class of 1982!’ … and there is also a fucking can of Rainier … from 1982.
So the dude who initially Donkey Kong’d the wall gets dibs on the 30+ year old stale beer of course, downs it immediately.
… The funny part is that this was always supposed to have been a dry fraternity, no alcohol allowed.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I hope you put a can of beer back in there with a note before you sealed it back up.
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I am not familiar with the removing a section of drywall in order to hang a TV technique
lud@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
They probably wanted to figure out what the hell was up with that wall.
BigPotato@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Use stud finder /beep move it two inches /still beep/ move it further /still beep/ move it again /still beep/. “Stud finder must be broken” Get another stud finder /still beep but the whole section again/ “I need to know what’s behind this wall before I just bolt this TV to this fucking thing” /cut away the drywall/ “I better make this look like something stupid for fake Internet points…”
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 6 hours ago
Thewhole “story” seems dumb. They only checkt at that exact same height and decided to open up the wall.
knightmare1147@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Oops all studs
rdri@lemmy.world 1 day ago
tomi000@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How does it end?
Akasazh@feddit.nl 15 hours ago
The house rolled over
rdri@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They probably couldn’t watch Netflix that time 😔
Etterra@discuss.online 20 hours ago
That’s not the worst cludge I’ve ever seen, but it’s good and stupid alright.
But imagine, won’t you, an electrical outlet box attached with directly to the oven’s gas line. The outlet was for the microwave. My friend no longer lives in that condo lol
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
My friend no longer lives in that condo lol
By choice? Or by being forcibly evicted by the rapid expansion of heated gas?
Dasus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Broken@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The stupider part is that it would be easier to stack out from the other direction.
There are 8 pieces of wood @ 1.5" each = 12" Studs are 16" on center.
So to stack from the right would be 2 pieces to be in the same place.
You can even see the gray box that opens to the wall behind it. That is attached to the stud on the right…its that close. But here I go applying logic to crazy.
doughless@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My house is over 30 years old, and the studs are 24" apart. Frustrating when I need to hang things built for 16". 😭
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Your house is incorrect. 16" on-center wall studs have been a thing for way more than 30 years.
Broken@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It hurts to even read that. I can’t even imagine your frustration.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Or just put the box 4" to the right, directly on the stud. Why on earth they thought it had to be exactly where it is is beyond me.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
perhaps it is centered between some further away objects and they cared about aesthetics.
A7thStone@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
But the gray box is in the way of that solution.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ah yes. Load bearing connector box.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
America…land of the lawless.
altphoto@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
This is what happens when my wife goes…honey let’s move the TV to the left! Its not centered. Oh that’s not enough! Let’s try another 1.5"! Oh! Not enough! …not enough!.. Not enough!..
Do not marry. Its hell. But if you do, patch that wall real good… Oh I can still see the seam! Sand it again! Yes orange peal…nope! The paint looks a little off. Paint the room!. Oh you’re gonna hate me…can you move the TV another 1.5" please?
cattywampas@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
altphoto@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
Finally someone gets it!
flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
I hope you’re joking when you say your marriage is hell. If you’re not, maybe consider not being married? You deserve to not live in hell.
altphoto@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
It’s a joke but it is hell in many respects. I like the way my hell makes me feel.
Like if she starts a one way conversation that extends for one hour and you don’t want to be the receiver so you move a little to test the waters but then she screams at you for walking away.
Logic says…well this wonderful person could do better with a wall. But nah! Its you! Your must listen to all the unactionable statements. Yup, that’s marriage. I’ve been here for almost a quarter century.
No matter what society says marriage is to make children and have them grow and become part of the society. Love is relatively new. We’re more like cattle who work on things for a company and then purchase those things at a discount so they profit off that discount… Whether it is a profit based on pure time to money to money to time transactions or time to minerals to money to time transactions. The government wants you married to make children. So don’t marry for that and keep it open at all times. Like the very best friendship you ever had regardless of all the god damn yada yada yada. Once she’s done with that, it’s all perfectly fine. Just shut down and keep the ears listening. You can mentally escape to a six flags…you’re about to drop into an outside spin loop!..and so then I said to her “heck no!”…and she walked away! Can you believe it?..and you drop! Noooooooo!..she continues… It wasn’t that exciting! LOL. Life’s a cookie, take a bite…Noooo! Lemon cake!!! Fine take another bite!
joenforcer@midwest.social 14 hours ago
…are you OK?
leftytighty@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
I sleep in a big bed at home with my wife
cattywampas@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Just gonna sister in another stud. And another. Juuust a few more.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
another one
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s okay, they’re using that special load-bearing drywall.
qx128@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If it works, is it really broken? Just add more screws.
dditty@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I know the adage “if it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid” is a thing, but this might be the exception to the rule
frezik@midwest.social 1 day ago
It doesn’t apply to safety items at all. Your car will function fine without seat belts.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
The Troll Handyman
madcaesar@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Reminds me of the troll head meme where the head copies into oblivion
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Don’t take off the panels on your electric and light switches. You’ll find that they’re all like this.
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s like when I first looked into the gap in the sheetrock around my breaker panel and discovered that my basement has at least 1 (and likely many more) fully wired outlets that were just sheetrocked over at some point. I definitely would have been happier if I hadn’t known that.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wowzer trousers that’s bad. There’s even an outlet just to the left, what’s that all about??
Buuut
A stud finder works by sticking to the drywall screws just under the wall paint. A stud finder wouldn’t pick this up unless the hangers screws the drywall to that piece for no reason.
Zozano@aussie.zone 1 day ago
They’re more like depth detectors now. They dont work on magnetism, they work by detecting the ultrasonic echoes of what’s behind the wall.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 day ago
Both kinds exist.
It is helpful to have both.
barsoap@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
In other words they’re good at knocking on the wall.
deur@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Nah, modern stud finders can tell the difference between “drywall with stud behind it” and “drywall without stud behind it” with some rf whatever the hell it does
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Gnomes. Gnomes live inside and use magic to tell you where the stud is. That’s show it works.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh yeah I totally forgot about the fancy ones. Never loved using them much but I’m sure that’s what the kids call “skill issue.” I’ll lay my life on the line defending the honor of my Stud Buddy though
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Going by the writing on the wall, it’s for a 3-way dimmer switch. It also is likely the picture was taken during its install and not from someone trying to find a stud
Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 day ago
On top of everything else, the new outlet isn’t even close to even with the old one.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Couldn’t even bother to level the blocks 🙄 smh.
vrek@programming.dev 1 day ago
To verify your stud detector works you must point it to your self, make a beeping sound, turn to your significant other and tell them “I’m a stud”
podperson@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Standard dad calibration technique.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
I do that on my husband. He’s never too amused.
Hupf@feddit.org 9 hours ago
xkcd.com/952/
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 day ago
I do miss doing that to my ex-wife. There were those small things that I can’t enjoy being single. Well. For now.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Just think of all the things you can do without ever consulting someone else. Single has its perks!
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I don’t have the willpower to not make this joke to my wife.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I bought one, put up to my dads back, let it beep, and said to him “i think its defective” 🤪
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Dad v2.0
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I taught my toddler to scan her mom (my wife) and say “look, I found a stud!”
Willy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I always thought of a stud as a male horse whose main job is supplying baby horse juice. I’m guessing that’s not what you mean?