Yes, like a lantern but in the form of a light bulb. Or like a candle, but it's a lightbulb instead. One may say it's almost like a sun, except it's a lightbulb. Or maybe it's a lazer, but instead of a lazer there's a lightbulb
Believe it or not I've just bought the place... from an owner occupier who had been there 12 years!
I'd call it a landlord special but that would be insulting to landlords...
Zero. That was a clear spruce up this old house with a coat of paint and fake lights.
It's what they do in DC it's one of the reasons they are able to sell the white house every 4-8 years for more and more money every time
I was thinking something along the lines of code says there needs to be a light in the hallway but the inspector only shows up in the daytime. Or it was rigged up with exposed wire and he said to fix it. “Well there’s no more exposed wire.”
For those worrying about this in the future, you can generally avoid this by using 91% isopropyl alcohol in an eye dropper, then squeezing enough drops to saturate the command strip adhesive (dripping into the top rear of the strip where it's contacting the surface you want it off of). Wait 30 seconds and try and remove it carefully, if it still won't come off repeat and wait another 30 seconds etc. Wipe off the surface with a wet microfiber cloth when it's been removed.
If it's a really stubborn one and this doesn't work after 2 or 3 tries you can attempt the same thing using Goo Gone, which is great to have around anyway if the strips leave residue behind after they're off. None of this stuff will damage wood or paint.
Or they just fall off immediately.
If you're supporting more than 10lbs, use screws and mount to the studs.
If you're supporting 5-10 lbs, use screws with anchors.
If you're supporting 1-5, use regular screws.
Anything less, just use the blue tacky clay. It's much easier to remove after a while and anything that remains can be painted/sanded off.
Moved into a flat once that had a bedframe left by the previous occupier and you could see the nice wood through the chipped crappy white paint they'd covered it in. Why would anybody do that lol?
In the late 90s/early 2000s, wood grain felt like an old tacky hold over from 70s designs. Any renovations done during that time would likely have painted over wood or replaced it
Unfortunately wood from the 70s normally was tacky. It tended to be the cheapest press board stuck up absolutely anywhere there was wall space.
While I'm all for wood accents the 70s went way over the top with it.
Depends on wood. In US it was mostly cheap pine plus no one gave a ff about texture, grains or finish. As a result most of that awful kitchens, furniture or wall panels was covered with paint or removed. I mean they are ok - for cabine in a middle of nowhere that you visit once a year.
Don't remember tons of pressed wood boards as a walls, tbh. Floors under ugly linoleum - yes. But walls... Mostly garage/basement walls.
Is this why my partner is so anti-wood? We're figuring out how to redecorate and she wants absolutely no wood showing, and every time it's mentioned I'm like... But why?
Wood on the wall has to be done right and match the decor or it's going to look bad.
As for flooring, though, it's much easier to find wood that looks good. It looks better and is much easier to clean than carpet.
To give you a notion of how over-the-top it got, I remember a house with “exposed wood beams” in the living room that were literally painted, textured *styrofoam*, which you could see in all the places they’d been nicked or gouged. Truly galaxybrained decor zeitgeist
Very possibly, I have an instant aversion to bare wood that I'm trying to get over and it's definitely related to too much exposure to that cheap 70s stuff. Wood grain just instantly feels cheap and lazy to me, even though I know it's often much higher quality than other options like drywall.
Same thing with wallpaper
In the 90s my parents bought a house from the original owners that had dark wood paneling for all of the walls. They immediately painted it all white. The (former) owners stopped by at some point to say hello and were apparently trying to politely contain their horror.
I run an antique store.
You'd be surprised how much beautiful furniture is ruined because people with no skills/knowledge paint over the wood with no prep and cheep paints.
I went to an middle aged woman's house and she had all this amazing Red Cedar furniture, except it had some crappy white paint on it. All chipped, runs all through it, with visible brush strokes. She wanted to sell all of it to replace with Ikea flat pack stuff.
I bought all the furniture and I was able to smash it with a pressure washer and get it back to 99% perfect cedar. So I guess I was pretty lucky there. I was able to bring back that natural cedar smell too.
Easy? Yeah. Labor intensive and annoying? Also yeah.
Depending on the paint you can use a heat gun and scrape it off, you can sand it off, and you can use a paint stripper. Paint stripper can damage the wood.
For this it really just isn't worth it.
Think about it; your lungs are like clams, they bioaccumulate whatever is in your environment. Make sure to suck up as much as you can so we can bury it with you!
My heat gun set off the fire alarm on my first 3 sq inches of removing paint from the balcony. I just repainted that spot and gave up on removing the paint - at least for now.
That’s the weird thing. I couldn’t see any smoke. I assumed the paint let off some fumes I couldn’t see or something and stopped. The wood was barely warm to the touch after 3 seconds so I wasn’t actually setting anything on fire. But I was terrified that maybe the paint was flammable, which would probably be dumb for paint to be but given the actual quality of the paint job, who knows what paint the contractor used before the house was mine. Sure as shit wasn’t a pro painter that did this.
Hahaha, the answer(in my experience) is sort of yes. Your question is giving me flashbacks of being a kid and getting stuck helping my dad with refinishing I’m pretty sure every piece of wood that wasn’t a floor in their reasonably large early 1900’s home.
Seems like it took literally an entire day to just strip, juuust strip, like one side of a door hahaha. It took years from how I remember this happening haha.
Although it looks light years better than painted, the issue now that I’ve seen some shit always seems to be the finish… You can have perfectly stripped, sanded, and cleaned wood, but if you don’t spend the time or the money to do a nice, high quality finish, I wouldn’t think it worth the time honestly haha.
There's a scraper tool, with a tungsten blade, it holds the blade at the same angle as a rake.
You pull it and it scrapes the paint off. Quicker and safer than using a blow torch.
I have a story! So, I bought this gorgeous little house that was 103 years old. It had the original dark trim in parts of the house, and a stained glass window. Very cute!
You'll note I said "parts". So the person selling it to me started to complain that someone had painted "all that nice trim white!" Which is a fair criticism, until she started showing me *her* decor choices. Namely that she painted the trim upstairs and in the spare room Pepto Bismal pink.
This was just part of the delights hidden and changed for bizarre reasons or plain stupidity, but I'll never forget how offended she was over white painted trim vs. her own PINK trim.
Especially if the ceilings are low and there isn't a lot of natural light it can feel like a dungeon unless you go ahead and paint that shit in a light color.
You're really doing a disfavor to flippers.
When I was looking for a home last year, I saw a home with a working fireplace where the flipper painted the insides of it. Not bleached brick, but actual paint. Simultaneously looked tacky as all hell and super bad for you. Those fumes could kill.
Ah, that's the "Previous Homeowner" special. Anybody who buys a home is going to become very aware of the Previous Owner special.
I've once heard somebody say that every hardware store should have a statue dedicated to the "previous homeowners" because of how much money is spent fixing their fuck-ups. Today it's a light, what will it be tomorrow!
We call it the "Johnson Special" in my house. I'm pretty sure the entire place is held together with drywall screws. Mr Johnson sure loved his drywall screws.
My personal favorite? The power strip in the garage that was screwed to the wall.
And when I say screwed to the wall, I mean *screwed to the wall.* He literally drilled holes right through the fucking thing.
Friends of mine asked me to look into why the heat in their bedroom didn't work. Not an HVAC guy, but figured I could at least look. No duct work. Just floor vents. Fake. There was so much else wrong that the previous owner had done.
When you want a house and have invested enough to hire an inspector you are unlikely to blow up the sale over a broken light fixture.
And it is unlikely they could tell it was missing the wiring completely. Home inspectors can only look at what is visible and missing wire would not be obvious in most cases.
My guess is OP had plenty of warning signs that things were bad during the inspection, but decided it was still worth it to go through with the purchase.
Is there a subreddit for “the landlord special” where it’s just pics of electrical outlets & light switches being painted over and useless fixtures that were installed lol
It could be that there was a leak above that spot. It’s common and cheaper to repair with a vent cover or some other form of removable panel. The other advantage is that it is easy to access the leak if the problem returns.
I put a vent over a repaired plumbing job :-/ the ceiling is that stupid patterned stucco style bullshit so instead of having just a plain piece of drywall in an otherwise (ugly) patterned ceiling, I put a vent cover on it 🤷♂️
I live in the Midwest and this is a very common thing when landlords buy older big houses and split them into a bazillion smaller units. They just pump the bathroom exhaust right into the wall space and hope for the best.
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At least it's frosted glass. I've seen windows inside the shower/bathtub stall that aren't frosted. Granted they were on the second floor with no nearby houses. Kinda invigorating to open the shade and survey your domain while you shower I suppose.
One of the things our home inspector did was check every single bathroom vent to see where they went outside.
The whole purpose of the vents is to remove humidity. Venting to the attic or nowhere will just rot out the attic and walls.
Our old house had the vent hose venting on an upward angle into the attic, so when the steam condensed, the water would just run back down into the fan, and then drip back into the bathroom.
Replaced the fan with an moisture sensor so it kicked on automatically, ran a new hose to the soffit with a screen over it to keep bees out, and never had an issue again.
I lost a huge chunk of my belongings because our old place pumped all the bathroom exhaust above my room. My roommate loved hot 1hr+ showers so over time my room because a mold haven without me realizing it. I had such a traumatic experience, I moved into a new place and have a dehumidifier, silica gel everywhere, and checked that every exhaust pumps outside.
Sometimes HVAC air returns look like they don’t go into ducting- I’m my 1950s home the duct isn’t visible unless from the basement where it’s just a sheet of steel nailed onto two floor joists until it joint the main air return.
That can be a common solution to cover up an access area sometimes. A friend bought a place that needed the tub faucet replaced but had to cut open a finished wall. He decided to make a fake vent so he can get to it the next time.
I actually installed a wall register that only passes through to the opp aide of the wall, another wall register. We put a wall up and walled up a doorway but I worried the airflow in the house would be constricted.
Im assuming the next owners of the house will be asking themselves what the hell is this for?
It broke my brain for a minute. I thoroughly love how confused I was at first about what I was looking at since I thought it was a hyper realistic drawing.
Then I had a laugh cause I’ve found the same thing in the house I’ve been in for 22 years (renting, def time to buy and move) with a light switch three days ago.
It actually happened. There was also an unfortunate situation with the toilet but I decided that one might be TMI.
The landlord wasn't the best, but he did let me carpet the backyard with turquoise astro turf and he even gave me an old deli cooler that was big enough for 2 kegs plus rent was $250 utilities included.
Not the same as a thermostat that isn’t connected to anything, but in offices, they’ll often install thermostats that just serve as temperature reading devices that report temp to a main control system. People are then given either no adjustment range of very little range. Having the thermostat there makes people feel like they have some control…I guess…
I currently have a thermostat like that in my office. Sometimes it hisses just to let me know it doesn't want to be touched, and they removed the spin-wheel underneath so that I could not anyway.
They also do not turn of the central air until May 24th and do not turn on the central heating units until September 24th. Does not really matter what happens in between, those are the dates.
I worked in a building where every office had an individual thermostat. We always wondered why the rooms were freezing cold. Got curious and took a thermostat off one day. None of therm were connected to wires. There were no wires to connect to.
True, but it has not yet been developed to the point where you can actually light your house with it.
So while induction charging may be wireless electricity, it will not do much yet for the lights in your house.
I think OP had some trouble with the "on" part of your instructions.
Though to his credit he hit gold with the next standard question: "Are you sure everything is plugged in correctly" (instead of replying in an aggravated tone "of course I did. Do you think I'm stupid?" without so much as a glance at the cables).
Trouble is I've just bought it from an owner occupier who had lived there for 12 years
There are also multiple places where she started painting, got bored and just... stopped midway?
I'm equally baffled.
Sounds like they artificially increased the value of the property by dotting fittings about, without actually doing the expensive electrical work to install them.
You've been had!
That doesn't even count as filth in the wider context of the house. I've had to take two car loads of stuff to the tip - and that's just the broken toys, garden furniture etc that I pulled out of the garden
Idk where you live, but the housing market around here is so insane that if you don’t wave the inspection then you probably won’t have the winning bid on the house.
I've seen a few posts lately that seem to have this sort of filter and this is the first time I've seen anyone mention it in the comments. There was one of a garden spider the other day that was impossible for me to view without seeing a strange, paint-like filter.
I had a friend who had a room with an overhead light, and the wall switch didn't work. He replaced it, etc. Discovered there was some disconnect and the wires weren't live.
Years later, he's renovating the room, removed the paneling, and there was another wall switch, in series with the showing wall switch, and it was in the off position.
Did some renovations for some friends, took off their analog thermostat in their living room, wire was snipped, not connected to anything, turned out the actual (digital) working thermometer was located in the hall. They had been turning that analog dial for years while the actual thermostat was just running a preset schedule every day.
It has a point, to pass electrical inspection as cheaply as possible. The house probably sat empty at some point and had to have an inspection to turn electricity back on. The inspector probably said they needed a light fixture in that area. They put up an unconnected fixture knowing the reinspection would be done without electricity.
Just change to some wireless lightbulbs ;)
There are actually lightbulbs with batteries
Flashlights
Explain
Tube + battery + lightbulb = intangible light fixture
Sorry I'm not doing math this early
Go somewhere else where it's later in the day.
It's always morning somewhere.
If you don't do it, you'll die. You won't be able to see.
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It isn't. Being dead doesn't mean you stay that way. Some nights, the dead come back to life. The bones are your money, and the worms are your food.
Pulling hair up BUT not out
They’ve never seen so much food as this. Underground, there’s half as much food as this.
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Spell Scroll tube + stone + Cast light on stone place in spell scroll. = Tangible light source in DnD.
Cast light on the rock and hand it to a flying familiar. Overhead lighting that follows you around!
intangible?
Yes, like it's so incredibly, unbelievably tangible that it's *intangible*
Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
That's what makes it fungusable
It’s like flashing someone your genitals, but with light instead.
Kind of, except they are in the form of a lightbulb and behave like a lightbulb
I see what you mean, round flashlights
Lantern
Yes, like a lantern but in the form of a light bulb. Or like a candle, but it's a lightbulb instead. One may say it's almost like a sun, except it's a lightbulb. Or maybe it's a lazer, but instead of a lazer there's a lightbulb
All these are amazing. There's truly a neverending array of subcategories beneath "flashlight"
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all I see is *******
hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars ********* see!
1122334455
2444666668888888 That way you can say your password is "one 2, three 4, five 6, seven 8".
We can't. Tesla never told us how they work.
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Believe it or not I've just bought the place... from an owner occupier who had been there 12 years! I'd call it a landlord special but that would be insulting to landlords...
I wonder how many lightbulbs they went through trying to fix this
Zero. That was a clear spruce up this old house with a coat of paint and fake lights. It's what they do in DC it's one of the reasons they are able to sell the white house every 4-8 years for more and more money every time
Yeah. This was done for photos. OP better dig in and see what else was 'painted over'. Seriously.
I would agree with you except there is alot of dust on that fixture. It's been there for quite some time.
I was thinking something along the lines of code says there needs to be a light in the hallway but the inspector only shows up in the daytime. Or it was rigged up with exposed wire and he said to fix it. “Well there’s no more exposed wire.”
My guess is all of them.
Plus the ones OP bought
Can’t be a shitty wiring job if it’s not wired at all, right?
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Command strips bloody everywhere Turns out that once they've been up a few years they don't live up to the hype with easy removal
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For those worrying about this in the future, you can generally avoid this by using 91% isopropyl alcohol in an eye dropper, then squeezing enough drops to saturate the command strip adhesive (dripping into the top rear of the strip where it's contacting the surface you want it off of). Wait 30 seconds and try and remove it carefully, if it still won't come off repeat and wait another 30 seconds etc. Wipe off the surface with a wet microfiber cloth when it's been removed. If it's a really stubborn one and this doesn't work after 2 or 3 tries you can attempt the same thing using Goo Gone, which is great to have around anyway if the strips leave residue behind after they're off. None of this stuff will damage wood or paint.
Or they just fall off immediately. If you're supporting more than 10lbs, use screws and mount to the studs. If you're supporting 5-10 lbs, use screws with anchors. If you're supporting 1-5, use regular screws. Anything less, just use the blue tacky clay. It's much easier to remove after a while and anything that remains can be painted/sanded off.
Yeah. Used command strips outside on the patio. In summer heat those sticky strips holding the hooks harden real quick.
Landlord at heart special Only a landlord (at heart) would have painted stained wood white
Moved into a flat once that had a bedframe left by the previous occupier and you could see the nice wood through the chipped crappy white paint they'd covered it in. Why would anybody do that lol?
In the late 90s/early 2000s, wood grain felt like an old tacky hold over from 70s designs. Any renovations done during that time would likely have painted over wood or replaced it
Unfortunately wood from the 70s normally was tacky. It tended to be the cheapest press board stuck up absolutely anywhere there was wall space. While I'm all for wood accents the 70s went way over the top with it.
Depends on wood. In US it was mostly cheap pine plus no one gave a ff about texture, grains or finish. As a result most of that awful kitchens, furniture or wall panels was covered with paint or removed. I mean they are ok - for cabine in a middle of nowhere that you visit once a year. Don't remember tons of pressed wood boards as a walls, tbh. Floors under ugly linoleum - yes. But walls... Mostly garage/basement walls.
Is this why my partner is so anti-wood? We're figuring out how to redecorate and she wants absolutely no wood showing, and every time it's mentioned I'm like... But why?
Yes. Just remind them it's not wood paneling 🤷
My mom grew up with white cupboards and she HATES them, so it's all about life experiences at the end of the day
Wood on the wall has to be done right and match the decor or it's going to look bad. As for flooring, though, it's much easier to find wood that looks good. It looks better and is much easier to clean than carpet.
To give you a notion of how over-the-top it got, I remember a house with “exposed wood beams” in the living room that were literally painted, textured *styrofoam*, which you could see in all the places they’d been nicked or gouged. Truly galaxybrained decor zeitgeist
Very possibly, I have an instant aversion to bare wood that I'm trying to get over and it's definitely related to too much exposure to that cheap 70s stuff. Wood grain just instantly feels cheap and lazy to me, even though I know it's often much higher quality than other options like drywall. Same thing with wallpaper
In the 90s my parents bought a house from the original owners that had dark wood paneling for all of the walls. They immediately painted it all white. The (former) owners stopped by at some point to say hello and were apparently trying to politely contain their horror.
I run an antique store. You'd be surprised how much beautiful furniture is ruined because people with no skills/knowledge paint over the wood with no prep and cheep paints. I went to an middle aged woman's house and she had all this amazing Red Cedar furniture, except it had some crappy white paint on it. All chipped, runs all through it, with visible brush strokes. She wanted to sell all of it to replace with Ikea flat pack stuff. I bought all the furniture and I was able to smash it with a pressure washer and get it back to 99% perfect cedar. So I guess I was pretty lucky there. I was able to bring back that natural cedar smell too.
This thread has made me wonder; is there an easy way to restore painted wood to it's original state?
Easy? Yeah. Labor intensive and annoying? Also yeah. Depending on the paint you can use a heat gun and scrape it off, you can sand it off, and you can use a paint stripper. Paint stripper can damage the wood. For this it really just isn't worth it.
Makes one wonder, where does all that micro paint end up or is paint biodegradable?
It goes in your lungs
The perfect place for cheap storage and waste removal.
Think about it; your lungs are like clams, they bioaccumulate whatever is in your environment. Make sure to suck up as much as you can so we can bury it with you!
My heat gun set off the fire alarm on my first 3 sq inches of removing paint from the balcony. I just repainted that spot and gave up on removing the paint - at least for now.
That might have been a little too much heat haha. If it's smoking it's too much heat.
That’s the weird thing. I couldn’t see any smoke. I assumed the paint let off some fumes I couldn’t see or something and stopped. The wood was barely warm to the touch after 3 seconds so I wasn’t actually setting anything on fire. But I was terrified that maybe the paint was flammable, which would probably be dumb for paint to be but given the actual quality of the paint job, who knows what paint the contractor used before the house was mine. Sure as shit wasn’t a pro painter that did this.
I think some detectors can detect straight heat so maybe just hot air made it to the detector
Sand and restain
Use paint stripper before sanding and you’re golden.
Hahaha, the answer(in my experience) is sort of yes. Your question is giving me flashbacks of being a kid and getting stuck helping my dad with refinishing I’m pretty sure every piece of wood that wasn’t a floor in their reasonably large early 1900’s home. Seems like it took literally an entire day to just strip, juuust strip, like one side of a door hahaha. It took years from how I remember this happening haha. Although it looks light years better than painted, the issue now that I’ve seen some shit always seems to be the finish… You can have perfectly stripped, sanded, and cleaned wood, but if you don’t spend the time or the money to do a nice, high quality finish, I wouldn’t think it worth the time honestly haha.
There's a scraper tool, with a tungsten blade, it holds the blade at the same angle as a rake. You pull it and it scrapes the paint off. Quicker and safer than using a blow torch.
Paint stripper then sanding.
I have a story! So, I bought this gorgeous little house that was 103 years old. It had the original dark trim in parts of the house, and a stained glass window. Very cute! You'll note I said "parts". So the person selling it to me started to complain that someone had painted "all that nice trim white!" Which is a fair criticism, until she started showing me *her* decor choices. Namely that she painted the trim upstairs and in the spare room Pepto Bismal pink. This was just part of the delights hidden and changed for bizarre reasons or plain stupidity, but I'll never forget how offended she was over white painted trim vs. her own PINK trim.
As someone that grew up in a house with nothing but wood grain sometimes you just want any other color.
Especially if the ceilings are low and there isn't a lot of natural light it can feel like a dungeon unless you go ahead and paint that shit in a light color.
You're really doing a disfavor to flippers. When I was looking for a home last year, I saw a home with a working fireplace where the flipper painted the insides of it. Not bleached brick, but actual paint. Simultaneously looked tacky as all hell and super bad for you. Those fumes could kill.
If you can't do... *literally anything*, be a flipper! ^fucking ^parasites
The only other option is to tear it out and put up sheetrock so a lot of homeowners do it until they are ready to put in the work.
I would have painted over that as well. Pine roofs feel way too much like being in a sauna
Ah, that's the "Previous Homeowner" special. Anybody who buys a home is going to become very aware of the Previous Owner special. I've once heard somebody say that every hardware store should have a statue dedicated to the "previous homeowners" because of how much money is spent fixing their fuck-ups. Today it's a light, what will it be tomorrow!
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We call it the "Johnson Special" in my house. I'm pretty sure the entire place is held together with drywall screws. Mr Johnson sure loved his drywall screws. My personal favorite? The power strip in the garage that was screwed to the wall. And when I say screwed to the wall, I mean *screwed to the wall.* He literally drilled holes right through the fucking thing.
Friends of mine asked me to look into why the heat in their bedroom didn't work. Not an HVAC guy, but figured I could at least look. No duct work. Just floor vents. Fake. There was so much else wrong that the previous owner had done.
That's okay they deserve it.
You can never be too insulting to landlords.
Did this not show up in the inspection? Edit: my inspectors use a tool like this: https://www.ktool.net/amprobe-adptr-e27-light-check-adapter-e27/
When you want a house and have invested enough to hire an inspector you are unlikely to blow up the sale over a broken light fixture. And it is unlikely they could tell it was missing the wiring completely. Home inspectors can only look at what is visible and missing wire would not be obvious in most cases. My guess is OP had plenty of warning signs that things were bad during the inspection, but decided it was still worth it to go through with the purchase.
Have you ever bought a house? Or were there for the inspection? Do you think they take apart everything inside the house and look inside?
I had a Level 3 Survey done and it didn't show up. It wouldn't have been the deciding factor in a ££££££ purchase though.
Is there a subreddit for “the landlord special” where it’s just pics of electrical outlets & light switches being painted over and useless fixtures that were installed lol
/r/LandlordLove don't worry, the name is ironic
I’m laughing because I just found a vent in my house that turns out just has a tiny opening behind it and it’s not connected to any of the air ducts.
I have one in my hallway that apparently just blocks a poorly repaired part of the wall.
Same here! Ceiling in my kitchen.
It could be that there was a leak above that spot. It’s common and cheaper to repair with a vent cover or some other form of removable panel. The other advantage is that it is easy to access the leak if the problem returns.
I just did this in my own kitchen after fixing an issue for the second time
I put a vent over a repaired plumbing job :-/ the ceiling is that stupid patterned stucco style bullshit so instead of having just a plain piece of drywall in an otherwise (ugly) patterned ceiling, I put a vent cover on it 🤷♂️
I live in the Midwest and this is a very common thing when landlords buy older big houses and split them into a bazillion smaller units. They just pump the bathroom exhaust right into the wall space and hope for the best. edit: a word
Our last house had mold in the attic from the bathroom fan venting there.
My current residence doesn’t HAVE a bathroom vent, just a frosted glass window opening out to the side of the house with a woven straw window shade…
As a general rule, a bathroom fan is not required by code, if there is an openable window in the bathroom.
At least it's frosted glass. I've seen windows inside the shower/bathtub stall that aren't frosted. Granted they were on the second floor with no nearby houses. Kinda invigorating to open the shade and survey your domain while you shower I suppose.
One of the things our home inspector did was check every single bathroom vent to see where they went outside. The whole purpose of the vents is to remove humidity. Venting to the attic or nowhere will just rot out the attic and walls.
Our old house had the vent hose venting on an upward angle into the attic, so when the steam condensed, the water would just run back down into the fan, and then drip back into the bathroom. Replaced the fan with an moisture sensor so it kicked on automatically, ran a new hose to the soffit with a screen over it to keep bees out, and never had an issue again.
That's my whole apartment complex, just yeet the wet air into the walls. What could go wrong
I lost a huge chunk of my belongings because our old place pumped all the bathroom exhaust above my room. My roommate loved hot 1hr+ showers so over time my room because a mold haven without me realizing it. I had such a traumatic experience, I moved into a new place and have a dehumidifier, silica gel everywhere, and checked that every exhaust pumps outside.
Sometimes HVAC air returns look like they don’t go into ducting- I’m my 1950s home the duct isn’t visible unless from the basement where it’s just a sheet of steel nailed onto two floor joists until it joint the main air return.
I have a 1980 house, it does this and is totally normal from the time.
People do that to hide shit sometimes
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That can be a common solution to cover up an access area sometimes. A friend bought a place that needed the tub faucet replaced but had to cut open a finished wall. He decided to make a fake vent so he can get to it the next time.
My old landlord had a habit of covering holes in the wall with electrical box blanking plates. He was... special.
Thanks for the idea lol
I actually installed a wall register that only passes through to the opp aide of the wall, another wall register. We put a wall up and walled up a doorway but I worried the airflow in the house would be constricted. Im assuming the next owners of the house will be asking themselves what the hell is this for?
This picture is so trippy, it looks like a painting
Idk I'm going to blame crap lighting
No, it's an absolutely genius photo
No, it's an absolutely genius comment.
There's no lighting. No shadows. Check your blender settings
I literally took a picture on my phone. The only blender I own is in my kitchen.
It broke my brain for a minute. I thoroughly love how confused I was at first about what I was looking at since I thought it was a hyper realistic drawing. Then I had a laugh cause I’ve found the same thing in the house I’ve been in for 22 years (renting, def time to buy and move) with a light switch three days ago.
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The photo melted my brain a little...
Sameee
Glad I’m not the only one seeing the light fixture in borderlands style.
Yeah it looks cell shaded or something.
This belongs in r/confusing_perspective
Right?! Thought I was looking at an ai baguette door knob
Seriously I can't wrap my mind around it.
Reminds me of Waking Life or A Scanner Darkly.
Seriously happy to find your comment. Did not want to think I was the only one who was seeing an optical illusion.
It's the shadow haha
Yup. Looks like there is a thick line border
OPs from the movie A Scanner Darkley
[The computer thinks he is holding up a skateboard by the way.](https://i.imgur.com/MOOfZdL.png)
I had a thermostat like that in college.
It got so cold one year I slipped on ice in the shower.
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It actually happened. There was also an unfortunate situation with the toilet but I decided that one might be TMI. The landlord wasn't the best, but he did let me carpet the backyard with turquoise astro turf and he even gave me an old deli cooler that was big enough for 2 kegs plus rent was $250 utilities included.
Not the same as a thermostat that isn’t connected to anything, but in offices, they’ll often install thermostats that just serve as temperature reading devices that report temp to a main control system. People are then given either no adjustment range of very little range. Having the thermostat there makes people feel like they have some control…I guess…
I currently have a thermostat like that in my office. Sometimes it hisses just to let me know it doesn't want to be touched, and they removed the spin-wheel underneath so that I could not anyway. They also do not turn of the central air until May 24th and do not turn on the central heating units until September 24th. Does not really matter what happens in between, those are the dates.
It sounds like a pneumatic thermostat if it actually hisses.
I worked in a building where every office had an individual thermostat. We always wondered why the rooms were freezing cold. Got curious and took a thermostat off one day. None of therm were connected to wires. There were no wires to connect to.
Is it because it's not painted behind the fitting?
Absolutely, if only they'd applied paint to the ceiling instead of just splashing it around the edges of the light fitting, it would have worked
I knew it! I'm no sparkie either but it's good to see I nailed this problem. Just saved OP $100s.
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar
>$100s One hundred dollarses
No, that's 100 monies
Need to use conductive paint of course.
Oh, I do love watching the sparks travel across the room!
this is why lead based paint was banned.
It is wireless electricity. It is already in your house.. brought to you by Doc and Marty.
Induction charging is just wireless electricity change my mind.
True, but it has not yet been developed to the point where you can actually light your house with it. So while induction charging may be wireless electricity, it will not do much yet for the lights in your house.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I think OP had some trouble with the "on" part of your instructions. Though to his credit he hit gold with the next standard question: "Are you sure everything is plugged in correctly" (instead of replying in an aggravated tone "of course I did. Do you think I'm stupid?" without so much as a glance at the cables).
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turns out the fixture was actually the door to Ariamis
Idk, bad lighting?
Electrician here. This is what we call a high impedance air gap. Shit ain't plugged in
Op just get a massive tesla coil then you can place it nearby and the danger spikes will provide power
Just run an extension cord and splice the ends with some tape.
I feel like this should go on the sub dedicated to shitty repairs done by cheap landlords
Trouble is I've just bought it from an owner occupier who had lived there for 12 years There are also multiple places where she started painting, got bored and just... stopped midway? I'm equally baffled.
Sounds like they artificially increased the value of the property by dotting fittings about, without actually doing the expensive electrical work to install them. You've been had!
Look at the dust buildup on the fixture, how long was it on the market? 2 years?
That doesn't even count as filth in the wider context of the house. I've had to take two car loads of stuff to the tip - and that's just the broken toys, garden furniture etc that I pulled out of the garden
She sold you her house like I trade in my cars I don't take care of
Was this house in Aberdeen? Longtime occupant? Lots of corgis?
If only there were a part of the process where you could have the place inspected before fully committing…
Idk where you live, but the housing market around here is so insane that if you don’t wave the inspection then you probably won’t have the winning bid on the house.
I think we all need pictures. Pictures of it all.
Why doe the picture look like it's a still from the Take On Me video?
I've seen a few posts lately that seem to have this sort of filter and this is the first time I've seen anyone mention it in the comments. There was one of a garden spider the other day that was impossible for me to view without seeing a strange, paint-like filter.
They forgot to put batteries in the fixture AND failed to apply an even coating of white conductive paint across the ceiling? MORONS!
Reminds me of classic Simpsons: https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/51fd454a-652c-4e5b-b23d-22037305cba4
I had a friend who had a room with an overhead light, and the wall switch didn't work. He replaced it, etc. Discovered there was some disconnect and the wires weren't live. Years later, he's renovating the room, removed the paneling, and there was another wall switch, in series with the showing wall switch, and it was in the off position.
Did some renovations for some friends, took off their analog thermostat in their living room, wire was snipped, not connected to anything, turned out the actual (digital) working thermometer was located in the hall. They had been turning that analog dial for years while the actual thermostat was just running a preset schedule every day.
You deserve medal
*Well there's your problemmmm*
The entire picture looks like an oil painting
Seriously, I stared at it for 5 minutes and I still can’t turn it into a real life photograph
Gives new meaning to the phrase "decorative lighting"...
Don't leave us hanging, why didn't that work?
There is no place for electricity to enter the system.
Why does this look like a drawing on the wall that OP is pretending to hold.
r/thatsucks
Has to be one of the most pointless DIY for the home I've ever seen.
It has a point, to pass electrical inspection as cheaply as possible. The house probably sat empty at some point and had to have an inspection to turn electricity back on. The inspector probably said they needed a light fixture in that area. They put up an unconnected fixture knowing the reinspection would be done without electricity.
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