looks ominous cold !. hope the situation improves SUBITO. and re fuck you pay me... put a buy me a coffee button on your shit maybe? its well worth it AND i think it works wonders for some people... its a lot less commitment but the same actual quiche as a months sub. ask miguel... i bought him a stack of coffees cos i love the micro fictions. just a thought anyways
unless I am missing some delightful subtley to your question ....
(Ko fi... that's like... something finance right... like DeFI... is that what hes getting at, he asks himself.)
... which I often do... the "buy me a coffee" just drops like £3 straight at you. there are plenty of pieces i have read where i would buy the author a coffee for that one time read because it was awesome... but i wouldnt want to do an annual sub. im thinking of starting to do it on some of mine... but i dont think i put the graft in to deserve it. YOU do... people that run a show like you, Erica, miguel, edith, SE reid, PNP, Sandalore etc... thats graft that is worth my money...anyone's money. i dont put any graft in that isnt just me having fun writing and learning from folk like you. if i could trade my lazy arse cats in tomorrow their cat food money would be going straight into subs. and my life would be better and the house would not look like a hairball.
Just a nit pick from a purely engineer’s perspective who is licensed in said state of snow storm. The loads from your roof are calculated correctly (which is nice to see), but are presented incorrectly; it’s just PSF, not ppsf. Don’t ask why the per is not thrown into the acronym. Likely because per is just a divider sign/operation and not a linguistic device. Also, the loads themselves actually have to travel the path of most resistance, not least, through the stiffest element, otherwise the loads find themselves on the ground at a moderate to high speed (depending on the height of the fall). Ask your landlord (this is the hard part) to provide a non brittle finish in his apartments since the roof/floors members are deflecting more than what is likely tolerated and prescribed by the finish itself. To this, you will likely get a kindly “fuck off”, but it’s worth a shot.
Fantastic, didn't know the acronym so I honestly just went with what seemed obvious. Hah, now I know something else.
The only issue I'm wondering is are you speaking decidedly about canted flat roofs. I talked to an old friend who contracted roofing in the area with his father from 11 to his 20s on and off. He said sounded like the kitchen was coming down but everything else was holding.
This is a 110 year old box Victorian with a slapdash rehab from 9 years ago on it. When the drywall comes down at the thaw, and I've been assured it will, along with the light fixture, and maybe I'm guessing part of the actual roof which I know is compromised seriously from other damage, the place will be uninhabitable. Unfortunately this would end up a net loss of the building for the owners (decent landlords, take money, don't raise rent, leave me the fuck alone) it wouldn't pass an inspection today, not at all.
Thank you for the autopsy, I'm goad I figured the roof loads correctly! Hurrah! (I only engineer words.)
Landlord owns a restaurant but if this happens they probably condemn the building or kick us out for a gut rehab and a price bump (this house paid off the note 6 years ago. 6x12x1050x2 units = 151,200, paid every month on time. And there's no renters protections in Misery, as you may know, and we've been off a lease for 7 years, so we're month to month on threat of structure fire (ain't no such thing as hallways crooks, and I'm a bigger crook than them, even if I know the Viet crime family they're related to, they're the L7 side of the family. Good folks tho.
I like my landlords, they're nice. The woman who owns the building gives me free sushi. They'll be second to last against the wall.
But yeah, we gonna prolly have ta move. Rent for a unit this size in this neighborhood is currently 400 above what we're paying, they never raised it once.
Thank you for your input, I'm sorta confused about the path of most resistance thing, but pardon me please, it has been an exceptionally long day.
Since the building is so old, you literally never know how they built it or what kind of damage has happened until you open it up. Usually, you see something goofy that cannot be quantified, and so you kind of have to be like “it’s been standing for 100 years it’s okay”, especially older buildings in and around STL city.
The path of resistance is actually very easy. Imagine you’re sitting weights on top of a marshmallow versus on top of a concrete block. The marshmallow has no stiffness, but the concrete block is (theoretically) infinitely rigid in comparison. So if you were to set it up in a wonky way where the marshmallow gets squished, it would stop squishing as soon as you got to the concrete block, because all the loads go into the concrete. (This is a very long winded answer forgive me).
I also know entirely too much about plasterwork and tuckpointing now. Give me a hawk, a level, some hardwall to mix, and I could finish a six foot wide ten foot wall in three hours, I guarantee it. Christ. I remember wondering why all the plastering tutorial videos on Youtube were from England... Well, now I know.
Yeah, there are properties all over the city (especially north of the Delmar Divide) where you'll see ONE hole above ONE hollowed out room where the roof caved in on houses just like these and that's what turned it into a bando. It's just very rare in Tower Grove fuckin Heights.
Some straight lime plaster that was probably older than god, but very, very poorly done. And one patch from when they "rehabbed" this unit that was, very, very bad.
Yeah, I've got an idea of some of the innards here, I took down a wall, it... Wasn't pretty. Got down to plaster with horse muck and hay in it. Then porous brick, so I found out where the water was seeping in, then identified the external tuckpointing that was rotten, and the building bows out on one side but you know, that's just neat. If they sold Thistle Hardwall in the US I'd already have that fucking wall replastered, but the United States is fucking stupid. I could probably get a 25 kilo bag of that shit at a gas station in the UK. I could order a pallet of it for 5k to the US. SO MUCH FOR GLOBALISM.
We're just going to move to another brick building. It's STL. I will die under the rubble. They've been calling the New Madrid Fault since before I was born.
Since it's at near zero we may stay through tomorrow. But Thursday the high is 30. That's below freezing but enough to cause enough melt to collapse the kitchen. Friday high is 33, that's the thaw that will make us homeless.
Fook 😱🥶
Fuuuuck. I hope you and yours stay safe and stay warm. We're strangers but there is a thick wool blanket I can ship
We got plenty blankets and a support network, this is just going to be an immense pain in the ass.
looks ominous cold !. hope the situation improves SUBITO. and re fuck you pay me... put a buy me a coffee button on your shit maybe? its well worth it AND i think it works wonders for some people... its a lot less commitment but the same actual quiche as a months sub. ask miguel... i bought him a stack of coffees cos i love the micro fictions. just a thought anyways
Is that Ko-fi or is it actually buy me a coffee now, there are So many of them.
unless I am missing some delightful subtley to your question ....
(Ko fi... that's like... something finance right... like DeFI... is that what hes getting at, he asks himself.)
... which I often do... the "buy me a coffee" just drops like £3 straight at you. there are plenty of pieces i have read where i would buy the author a coffee for that one time read because it was awesome... but i wouldnt want to do an annual sub. im thinking of starting to do it on some of mine... but i dont think i put the graft in to deserve it. YOU do... people that run a show like you, Erica, miguel, edith, SE reid, PNP, Sandalore etc... thats graft that is worth my money...anyone's money. i dont put any graft in that isnt just me having fun writing and learning from folk like you. if i could trade my lazy arse cats in tomorrow their cat food money would be going straight into subs. and my life would be better and the house would not look like a hairball.
On the ancient internet there was a buy me a coffee service called, I shit you not “Ko-fi” that was the company.
ah I see. it didn't take off over here but then.... ive never been that embedded in the interweb. never had a twitter account even.
Just a nit pick from a purely engineer’s perspective who is licensed in said state of snow storm. The loads from your roof are calculated correctly (which is nice to see), but are presented incorrectly; it’s just PSF, not ppsf. Don’t ask why the per is not thrown into the acronym. Likely because per is just a divider sign/operation and not a linguistic device. Also, the loads themselves actually have to travel the path of most resistance, not least, through the stiffest element, otherwise the loads find themselves on the ground at a moderate to high speed (depending on the height of the fall). Ask your landlord (this is the hard part) to provide a non brittle finish in his apartments since the roof/floors members are deflecting more than what is likely tolerated and prescribed by the finish itself. To this, you will likely get a kindly “fuck off”, but it’s worth a shot.
Thank you for coming to my autopsy.
Take care and God bless.
Fantastic, didn't know the acronym so I honestly just went with what seemed obvious. Hah, now I know something else.
The only issue I'm wondering is are you speaking decidedly about canted flat roofs. I talked to an old friend who contracted roofing in the area with his father from 11 to his 20s on and off. He said sounded like the kitchen was coming down but everything else was holding.
This is a 110 year old box Victorian with a slapdash rehab from 9 years ago on it. When the drywall comes down at the thaw, and I've been assured it will, along with the light fixture, and maybe I'm guessing part of the actual roof which I know is compromised seriously from other damage, the place will be uninhabitable. Unfortunately this would end up a net loss of the building for the owners (decent landlords, take money, don't raise rent, leave me the fuck alone) it wouldn't pass an inspection today, not at all.
Thank you for the autopsy, I'm goad I figured the roof loads correctly! Hurrah! (I only engineer words.)
Landlord owns a restaurant but if this happens they probably condemn the building or kick us out for a gut rehab and a price bump (this house paid off the note 6 years ago. 6x12x1050x2 units = 151,200, paid every month on time. And there's no renters protections in Misery, as you may know, and we've been off a lease for 7 years, so we're month to month on threat of structure fire (ain't no such thing as hallways crooks, and I'm a bigger crook than them, even if I know the Viet crime family they're related to, they're the L7 side of the family. Good folks tho.
I like my landlords, they're nice. The woman who owns the building gives me free sushi. They'll be second to last against the wall.
But yeah, we gonna prolly have ta move. Rent for a unit this size in this neighborhood is currently 400 above what we're paying, they never raised it once.
Thank you for your input, I'm sorta confused about the path of most resistance thing, but pardon me please, it has been an exceptionally long day.
Since the building is so old, you literally never know how they built it or what kind of damage has happened until you open it up. Usually, you see something goofy that cannot be quantified, and so you kind of have to be like “it’s been standing for 100 years it’s okay”, especially older buildings in and around STL city.
The path of resistance is actually very easy. Imagine you’re sitting weights on top of a marshmallow versus on top of a concrete block. The marshmallow has no stiffness, but the concrete block is (theoretically) infinitely rigid in comparison. So if you were to set it up in a wonky way where the marshmallow gets squished, it would stop squishing as soon as you got to the concrete block, because all the loads go into the concrete. (This is a very long winded answer forgive me).
I also know entirely too much about plasterwork and tuckpointing now. Give me a hawk, a level, some hardwall to mix, and I could finish a six foot wide ten foot wall in three hours, I guarantee it. Christ. I remember wondering why all the plastering tutorial videos on Youtube were from England... Well, now I know.
Yeah, there are properties all over the city (especially north of the Delmar Divide) where you'll see ONE hole above ONE hollowed out room where the roof caved in on houses just like these and that's what turned it into a bando. It's just very rare in Tower Grove fuckin Heights.
Some straight lime plaster that was probably older than god, but very, very poorly done. And one patch from when they "rehabbed" this unit that was, very, very bad.
Yeah, I've got an idea of some of the innards here, I took down a wall, it... Wasn't pretty. Got down to plaster with horse muck and hay in it. Then porous brick, so I found out where the water was seeping in, then identified the external tuckpointing that was rotten, and the building bows out on one side but you know, that's just neat. If they sold Thistle Hardwall in the US I'd already have that fucking wall replastered, but the United States is fucking stupid. I could probably get a 25 kilo bag of that shit at a gas station in the UK. I could order a pallet of it for 5k to the US. SO MUCH FOR GLOBALISM.
Probably better you’re leaving so that you don’t die when the next great earthquake hits and takes out 30% of the old brick buildings we have here!
We're just going to move to another brick building. It's STL. I will die under the rubble. They've been calling the New Madrid Fault since before I was born.
Fuck. Usually we get slammed but Blair stayed out of New England. Hope you find a room
Since it's at near zero we may stay through tomorrow. But Thursday the high is 30. That's below freezing but enough to cause enough melt to collapse the kitchen. Friday high is 33, that's the thaw that will make us homeless.
Flagrant "that" abuse, this is how you know I'm fucked up.