• Tathas@programming.dev
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    Who breaks up with someone and then falls asleep while they’re still in the house?

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    Toilets are relatively affordable (about $100 for a cheap but perfectly functional one) and actually quite easy to install. Unless there’s deliberate damage that’s not visible in the photo, this should take a trip to the hardware store and less than an hour of work to fix.

    (A really malicious ex would have taken one of the kitchen cabinet doors. A matching replacement would probably have to be custom-made.)

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      Toilets are heavy, I’d be more concerned about physical danger from anyone willing to carry a toilet out of a house.

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        Toilets are heavy

        …since when? It’s only ceramic, not cast iron.

        And yes, the integrated jobbies aren’t light, but they are just unwieldy due to their size. The rest of them (at least 90+% of all residential toilets) you can just disconnect the tank from the seat and take each part out separately.

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          They are still an absolute pain to do on your own, especially if you are a small woman

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            Tip for next time - when having to lift a toilet, and you have at least a fingertip gap between the tank and the wall, you can do a vertical lift in the following manner:

            1. Take the tank lid off, disconnect the water feed.
            2. Drain the water from both the tank and the bowl. Bowl can be done by taking a large sponge or plunger and just ramming those down to push the water through the S-bend.
            3. Stick one hand down into the bowl’s drain hole, curl fingers up into that S-bend to hold it like a pail handle. Use a small face towel (don’t know the English term) if you need padding.
            4. Hold the back side of the tank with your other hand to stabilize the entire toilet.
            5. Lift with the hand that is in the drain hole.

            The weight of the tank should balance out the weight of the front part of the bowl, giving you a reasonably balanced object, albeit not a light one. By lifting from the drain hole, you are putting the lifting motion close to the centre of gravity, making it a lot less awkward. If that is still too much weight, unhook the tank from the bowl and move separately, just be aware this will make the bowl quite front-heavy, you will need to switch hands and stabilize from the front of the bowl.

            But still lift from the drain hole, it will still be easier than most any other method.

            Source: not a plumber, but have done my fair share of toilet swaps in my time. Blue-collar jack-of-all-trades father who worked as head of maintenance at a large hotel showed me that trick.

    • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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      I had to help parents replace a hinge on some that were made 15 years ago.

      Company out of business, all stickers faded, different sizes in different places.

      Happy to say after 3 trips to hammer barn, 3 days of trying different things and pulling my back twice (fucking low corners) we finally…

      Gave up.

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        I bought a house built in 1979 and never renovated – drop ceilings in every room, wallpaper, and carpet that used to be pink. I replaced everything - ceilings, walls, and floors. I even had to replace structural elements because the termite damage turned out to have been “repaired”.

        I dared not touch a single thing in the kitchen.

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      When was the last time you priced toilets? I was just looking at them at Lowe’s and they’re all $500ish. Maybe they have some cheap ones in the back?

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      10 months ago

      I remember something about a guy who had paid to put hardwood floors in his girl’s place and then after the breakup he tore them up and took the wood with him.

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      I bought a house that was a foreclosure. I think they took what they felt they owned. That included a sink, all the smoke detectors, all the door knobs, all the appliances. It was strange.

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        In 2009 I was trying to find my mom somewhere to live. There were a lot of houses for pretty cheap since the 2008 crash had just happened. That was good, since my mom doesn’t have any money. Since she doesn’t have any money I went looking at a lot of foreclosures. Most of them were missing all of the appliances, all of the light bulbs, pretty much everything not bolted down (plus a few things that were), and a lot of them had holes kicked in the walls, counters destroyed, and whatever else the former owners could do to vent their anger at the banks. We ended up renting her an apartment since neither of us had the money to repair all the damage and missing features from the foreclosure houses.

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              If you had money to buy a house ($$$) you have money to DIY (¢). What you listed is small fry.

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                Borrowing money from a bank is not the same as having cash to buy all new appliances, fix pissed on carpet, and repair walls and counters that somebody took a sledgehammer to. Do you think that all houses are purchased with cash?

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                  …you have money to pay that mortgage, right? If yes, then these things are minor in comparison. But you’re saying the minor things busted the whole purchase, instead of the major thing of a mortgage on a house.

                  Buy used appliances, yes they are around. DIY carpet (which you didn’t say before, so I think you’re doing the slow trickle of just adding more and more now), DIY holes in walls (see it was holes in walls before, now it’s walls). Put a piece of plywood on the counter until you can do something better. You can do this over time too. This stuff is cheap, cheap, cheap compared to a mortgage. Chow.

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        It’s probably safe to assume that a foreclosure sale involved at least some level of malicious compliance, especially one due to the 2008 housing crisis.

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      I remember this one, he was a plumber who had installed the toilet and decided to take it out of spite. Super mature.

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          10 months ago

          And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
          And you may find yourself in another part of the world
          And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
          And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife. And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”

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        10 months ago

        At the very least, I can’t find this image without text referencing the toilet being stolen anywhere, so whoever originally posted it seems to have claimed that.

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      10 months ago

      Define a microblog please. Because anywhere you can post text can be a microblog lol. Not just the ones I’m the sidebar.

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    10 months ago

    If someone did that to my bidet I would be forced to terminate any international treaty I had with them.

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    The best part about this meme is that it totally happened!