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WCDT: Filler fun week (Dec 24th - 28th, 2018)
Case:
People build houses from brownstone? :-o
Like... for living in?
(click to show/hide)semi-tongue-in-cheek. I live in a place with very few buildings that are older than 70 years. No, not termites... the neighbors thought we needed help help renovating and... things went downhill from there and then we had a lot of space to build new houses on, see?
oddtail:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 26 Dec 2018, 03:32 ---
--- Quote from: oddtail on 26 Dec 2018, 03:07 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 26 Dec 2018, 02:15 ---Maybe Hannelore should move to this apartment building. If the landlord hasn’t evicted Melon for putting a hole in the floor they probably wouldn’t mind her installing a private washing machine.
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Wait, landlords have a problem with people having a washing machine at the place? That's a thing?
...I don't think I know of a single place anyone I know lives, owned or rented, that doesn't have a washing machine. I mean, hand-washing all your clothes seems so "early 60s".
(I mean, I'm vaguely aware that US has a lot of laundromats and whatnot, but doesn't using those add up to a shitton of money?)
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Marten and Hannelore's apartment has a communal laundry room used by everyone living in the block (that's how Juicy's knickers got mixed into Hanners' laundry and is the origin of Hanners' vendetta against the other woman). Mostly, I think it's a structural issue - Older brownstones don't have strong enough floors to handle the vibration of drum washing machines and strengthening the floors would be fantastically expensive, even if it was practicable. Most landlords found it easier to modify the basement into a laundry room with industrial-type washing machines or, as is the case with this building, strengthen just one unit on the top floor (possibly connected to the rooftop utility room) to act as a laundry.
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That makes sense. I forgot about laundry rooms. Thanks!
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 26 Dec 2018, 03:32 ---
--- Quote from: oddtail on 26 Dec 2018, 03:07 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 26 Dec 2018, 02:15 ---Maybe Hannelore should move to this apartment building. If the landlord hasn’t evicted Melon for putting a hole in the floor they probably wouldn’t mind her installing a private washing machine.
--- End quote ---
Wait, landlords have a problem with people having a washing machine at the place? That's a thing?
...I don't think I know of a single place anyone I know lives, owned or rented, that doesn't have a washing machine. I mean, hand-washing all your clothes seems so "early 60s".
(I mean, I'm vaguely aware that US has a lot of laundromats and whatnot, but doesn't using those add up to a shitton of money?)
--- End quote ---
Marten and Hannelore's apartment has a communal laundry room used by everyone living in the block (that's how Juicy's knickers got mixed into Hanners' laundry and is the origin of Hanners' vendetta against the other woman). Mostly, I think it's a structural issue - Older brownstones don't have strong enough floors to handle the vibration of drum washing machines and strengthening the floors would be fantastically expensive, even if it was practicable. Most landlords found it easier to modify the basement into a laundry room with industrial-type washing machines or, as is the case with this building, strengthen just one unit on the top floor (possibly connected to the rooftop utility room) to act as a laundry.
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From the exterior images I’ve seen it doesn’t appear to be a brownstone. It looks like a standard apartment complex.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: oeoek on 26 Dec 2018, 03:41 ---Aaand now we know exactly where Melon lives compared to Roko...
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You think that’s bad? I’m trying to come up with a way to catalyse a thermite reaction with baking soda and whatever that liquid was…
zisraelsen:
A baking soda container is just what melon uses to store her pure sodium.
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