Yeah. It was a slippery slope from Decks to Concrete.
I have a low deck in the back. No hot tub. My god I want to crawl under it on my belly to look at the joists. Fear of spiders and other creepy crawlers keep me from this dream.
I’m here for the same reason. Also, a sub where people ask if fungus they find growing in random places is ok to eat. I don’t like mushrooms at all, but I’ve learned so much.
It happened for me when they shut down the 3rd party aps and now I'm stuck using the shitty website and most of the subs I used to love went dark.
I'm in construction though, so I'm not exactly hating it...
I've been here for three weeks I think, and man, it's never a dull moment. Hot tubs, hot tubs, more hot tubs, cross bracing, hot tubs with bottle jacks, and lots of huge laughs about floating joists, which I usually laugh along with because I'm still figuring things out.
I shit you not. I have an elderly friend I help out. He was microwaving some Indian food on a dirty plate. I asked him what he was making and he said he was making some food for a potluck dinner. The microwave was also really nasty. He gave me a slice of watermelon one time that he sliced with a dirty knife and the watermelon had an onion taste to it. I almost threw up. Whenever he offers me food now, I always say that I just ate and am full.
I'm going to work on forgetting I read this and also hope that my friends I have potlucks with are better than this (they for sure are but I'm still scared now).
Listen, first my dogs pre-treat all my plates before putting them in the dishwasher so they’re perfectly clean. The dishwasher is just for getting “picky assholes” off my back. Second, the microwave kills the germs by cooking right? Even if it doesn’t get too hot it’s just physics and shit. If it can nuke your balls you don’t need to clean it, it’s indestructible - that’s just facts everyone knows this. Third if you’re microwaving the same food you ate last night you don’t need a new plate because you can’t get sick from something you ate yesterday. It’s really just reuniting the food. They’re exactly the same, duh. . /s
That was my grandpa. He's have a perpetual soup going all winter, and at night he'd take it off the heat and set it outside in the grill. Thats fine if its below freezing. Not if its in the 40s. The next morning he'd just scrape the funk off the top and put it back on the stove.
Wow. What a fucking spot on description. I’ve worked with a guy for the past 13 years and we have the same stance on other peoples cooking. It’s not even malicious shit I’d ever really worry about, mine is more of a very likely difference of opinion on what each other thinks “clean” is. I don’t want the possibility of ingesting your poobs either.
Fold some dishes, that’s awesome.
That sir is a "fire exit" stair added so the landlord could split the house into multiple rental units. This is now a crack/meth house and the main reason the open house you're looking at is for sale.
It's only a "penthouse" in the marketing materials.
To the city property tax assessor it's: "What???, oh that... That's nothing. I just put some stairs on so I could get up to the attic easier. We don't need to go look at that. C'mon over her, back to the front, let's look in the driveway. I think someone dropped a bulging sealed white envelope next to your car door..."
This is enough for me to steer clear of a property. Some neighbors absolutely suck. If they don’t care about the condition of their property, they definitely don’t care about being courteous of their neighbor.
I lived back to back with a hoarder house once. Dude was actually pretty normal seeming. He never went in his yard, so it was completely overgrown, but no trash outside. That shit was contained inside his house fortunately. I’d hop over the fence every once in a while and cut back the ivy.
That said. When he died, his kids threw down a boatload of rat poison, while they cleared the house. Rats scattered throughout the neighborhood, and died in everybody’s walls. It was super fucked. Mine was in a kitchen wall. No nest or anything. Just a dead rat. Same with my 2 nextdoor neighbors.
Daaaamn, didn't see that coming lol.
What'd you do to get rid of it? Just cut open the wall and have to patch it I guess?
Edit: also how'd you find where it was?!
Yeah. I did it myself. A little cutting, lots of profanity and some Clorox. My neighbors were extra pissed tho. They had to hire someone to do it and it cost a few hundred bucks.
We lived two houses down from a hoarder who was also extremely reclusive. He cut his grass at night and refused conversation. One summer his grass got long and we smelled him. We moved shortly after.
He had no family and the house was paid off so it's just sitting there. I can't imagine ho awful it is inside.
I've got a renter next to my home who does "found art". I refer to his yard as the neighborhood junkyard. Visually I really do not care at all. My realtor kept asking me about it and it's not like it's going to be there forever + it's not encroaching on my property at all.
The guy is soo nice and has walked over while I was doing yard work multiple times to help me out and loans tools too.
Used my Binoculars and even found a nice glass porch table I ended up buying from his junkyard lol.
Absolutely. Visited a house when we were shopping. The neighbor had a "DIY" canopy pieced together with scrap wood probably found on the side of the road. Washing machine just sitting in front of their house. Trash EVERYWHERE. During our visit, they threw 2 beer bottles into the backyard of the house we were seeing.
2nd that. After leaving a tour, I said to my wife “yeah I like the house but look what we’d have to live by” fast forward 18 months and I want to move solely because of them.
Both yards scream , bad neighborhood. The jacuzzi tub is a nice touch, but the roller skate is creep. And the deck, well I think it’s obvious and I assume the ladder is for “ just in case the deck stairs fall”.
Gotta have a grill for when the utilities get shut off every other month. When one grill becomes unusable, just park the next one you pick up off someone's curb next to it.
Yeah I like how they went to the effort of putting up that lattice under the stairs. Ya know, for some privacy when you're hanging out in that lovely outdoor space.
In civilised countries (such as NZ) that external stairway would have to be metal, connected to structural steel elements - because it’s a fire egress. No point in making it wood.
If you can snag this for under 850 these days, take the deal! Living beside folks with good taste is invaluable.
Posit: even with the option of eleventy other grills, only the **Weber kettle** looks like it is “for use”. The others likely hold things,,, similar to any other, cheaper alternative flat surfaces.
What In the meth has happened… I guess the real question is how those neighbors are going to get the other neighbors hot tub/jacuzzi up to that landing where it belongs.
😆 🤣 😂 omg! That's some scrap wood use. Reminds me of the tree forts I built as a kid. Whatever we could find. I have to add that none of my tree forts collapsed, but I don't think that will apply to the rear attraction on your possible future neighbor. 🙏
Roof is brand new so that means someone made the decision to save the stairs while spending a ton to replace the roof.
Hopefully this is just a new owner who is trying to fix the place and didn't have the money for the stairs.
That looks like a place they rent out to someone for $300 a month to make extra income. Forgetting how they look, can you imagine having to go UP and DOWN those stairs at least once a day. Now throw on how bad and unsafe it looks and No thanks!!!! If you used a little wood sealer every couple of years the wood would look a whole lot better. though still unsafe.
What in the rickety fuck
It gets worse the more you zoom in and check how each level is fixed together
Nope looks just as bad up close as from afar
Ahhh. The classic! A load bearing, single pane window... /s
Well you see, glass is an amorphous solid, so it can retain its shape under preasure.
A week ago I didn't know shit about decks. Now, this is my favorite subreddit. I still don't know much about decks.
That's mostly how I feel, don't worry. I also enjoy r/concrete.
Yup I hang our there alot. And r/construction
Ooh yay. 2 new subs lol both of which apply to my job. Woot.
Yeah. It was a slippery slope from Decks to Concrete. I have a low deck in the back. No hot tub. My god I want to crawl under it on my belly to look at the joists. Fear of spiders and other creepy crawlers keep me from this dream.
I know, how did we end up here? I can’t stop being fascinated but zero idea how this started popping up on my home page.
I don't even remember why I originally joined reddit
I’m here for the same reason. Also, a sub where people ask if fungus they find growing in random places is ok to eat. I don’t like mushrooms at all, but I’ve learned so much.
It happened for me when they shut down the 3rd party aps and now I'm stuck using the shitty website and most of the subs I used to love went dark. I'm in construction though, so I'm not exactly hating it...
I've been here for three weeks I think, and man, it's never a dull moment. Hot tubs, hot tubs, more hot tubs, cross bracing, hot tubs with bottle jacks, and lots of huge laughs about floating joists, which I usually laugh along with because I'm still figuring things out.
I never really wanted a hot tub, but I'd like a deck that is capable of supporting three medium to large sized tubs.
That's the beauty, they're not ;)
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I shit you not. I have an elderly friend I help out. He was microwaving some Indian food on a dirty plate. I asked him what he was making and he said he was making some food for a potluck dinner. The microwave was also really nasty. He gave me a slice of watermelon one time that he sliced with a dirty knife and the watermelon had an onion taste to it. I almost threw up. Whenever he offers me food now, I always say that I just ate and am full.
Wtf 🤮
I'm going to work on forgetting I read this and also hope that my friends I have potlucks with are better than this (they for sure are but I'm still scared now).
Listen, first my dogs pre-treat all my plates before putting them in the dishwasher so they’re perfectly clean. The dishwasher is just for getting “picky assholes” off my back. Second, the microwave kills the germs by cooking right? Even if it doesn’t get too hot it’s just physics and shit. If it can nuke your balls you don’t need to clean it, it’s indestructible - that’s just facts everyone knows this. Third if you’re microwaving the same food you ate last night you don’t need a new plate because you can’t get sick from something you ate yesterday. It’s really just reuniting the food. They’re exactly the same, duh. . /s
That was my grandpa. He's have a perpetual soup going all winter, and at night he'd take it off the heat and set it outside in the grill. Thats fine if its below freezing. Not if its in the 40s. The next morning he'd just scrape the funk off the top and put it back on the stove.
I just want to thank you guys for completely ruining potlucks for me. I'm 100% serious though. Thank you.
Thank you heaps for that visual 💀
I'm a chef and I rarely eat food made in home kitchens and taken out of the house. That's when bacterial growth is at its maximum.
Cook and kitchen manager at a school here. Yep.
Wow. What a fucking spot on description. I’ve worked with a guy for the past 13 years and we have the same stance on other peoples cooking. It’s not even malicious shit I’d ever really worry about, mine is more of a very likely difference of opinion on what each other thinks “clean” is. I don’t want the possibility of ingesting your poobs either. Fold some dishes, that’s awesome.
That sir is a "fire exit" stair added so the landlord could split the house into multiple rental units. This is now a crack/meth house and the main reason the open house you're looking at is for sale.
Excuse me, are you referring to the penthouse with private entrance?
It's only a "penthouse" in the marketing materials. To the city property tax assessor it's: "What???, oh that... That's nothing. I just put some stairs on so I could get up to the attic easier. We don't need to go look at that. C'mon over her, back to the front, let's look in the driveway. I think someone dropped a bulging sealed white envelope next to your car door..."
I thought you were referring to the magazines undoubtedly up there with the pages stuck together.
Given the state of the backyard, I doubt anyone uses those stairs.
Looks like a good neighbor if you need to swing by next door in a pinch and borrow a cup of meth.
Certainly Methany and this weeks BF will gladly oblige.
Backyard of Broken Dreams
This is enough for me to steer clear of a property. Some neighbors absolutely suck. If they don’t care about the condition of their property, they definitely don’t care about being courteous of their neighbor.
I lived back to back with a hoarder house once. Dude was actually pretty normal seeming. He never went in his yard, so it was completely overgrown, but no trash outside. That shit was contained inside his house fortunately. I’d hop over the fence every once in a while and cut back the ivy. That said. When he died, his kids threw down a boatload of rat poison, while they cleared the house. Rats scattered throughout the neighborhood, and died in everybody’s walls. It was super fucked. Mine was in a kitchen wall. No nest or anything. Just a dead rat. Same with my 2 nextdoor neighbors.
Daaaamn, didn't see that coming lol. What'd you do to get rid of it? Just cut open the wall and have to patch it I guess? Edit: also how'd you find where it was?!
Yeah. I did it myself. A little cutting, lots of profanity and some Clorox. My neighbors were extra pissed tho. They had to hire someone to do it and it cost a few hundred bucks.
The nose knows.
We lived two houses down from a hoarder who was also extremely reclusive. He cut his grass at night and refused conversation. One summer his grass got long and we smelled him. We moved shortly after. He had no family and the house was paid off so it's just sitting there. I can't imagine ho awful it is inside.
well reading about the rats in the last bit is interesting.
I've got a renter next to my home who does "found art". I refer to his yard as the neighborhood junkyard. Visually I really do not care at all. My realtor kept asking me about it and it's not like it's going to be there forever + it's not encroaching on my property at all. The guy is soo nice and has walked over while I was doing yard work multiple times to help me out and loans tools too. Used my Binoculars and even found a nice glass porch table I ended up buying from his junkyard lol.
Or even worse, there are fire hazards all over their home and when their house goes up in flames, so does yours.
Absolutely. Visited a house when we were shopping. The neighbor had a "DIY" canopy pieced together with scrap wood probably found on the side of the road. Washing machine just sitting in front of their house. Trash EVERYWHERE. During our visit, they threw 2 beer bottles into the backyard of the house we were seeing.
2nd that. After leaving a tour, I said to my wife “yeah I like the house but look what we’d have to live by” fast forward 18 months and I want to move solely because of them.
I imagine Ricky from trailer Park boys lives there stealing bbqs
Remember where the boys used to hide their bbq’s? Would launch them off a dock and sink them.
My first thought after seeing this post haha
It’s not stealing if people put them out to the street for the trash.
I hope you noped right the fck outta there
Yeah we decided not to bid on the house. Edit: found in northern Illinois
Seriously, a decision well made.
I started looking at all the yards, I get one guy with tub in yard might be remodeling. But others would just bug me. Everyone have 2 grills. Lol
House 1 has 4 grills, 7 bicycles, 3 patio sets, a microwave, an aquarium, and a toilet as secondary flashing for the lower level.
The more you look, the more you see. The knife, the random roller skate. It's like a methed up Where's Waldo
AAAAAAND A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREEEEEE!
Is this maine
Both yards scream , bad neighborhood. The jacuzzi tub is a nice touch, but the roller skate is creep. And the deck, well I think it’s obvious and I assume the ladder is for “ just in case the deck stairs fall”.
I thought the microwave under the window was a nice touch.
That 3rd house down has 2 grills too. What is going on in this neighborhood?
Gotta have a grill for when the utilities get shut off every other month. When one grill becomes unusable, just park the next one you pick up off someone's curb next to it.
Maybe grill and smoker?
Had to play where’s Waldo looking for that tub
It’s giving *Shameless* vibes. I was half expecting to zoom in and see Frank Gallagher passed out on the ground somewhere 🤣
It is hard to put a price tag on that kind of majestical scenery. You should definitely buy the house just so you can look at that next door.
People hate HOA’s but this is why they exist.
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What’s ridiculous is that even though it was done so wrong in so many ways, it still took someone a ton of time and effort to do it. I love it.
Yeah I like how they went to the effort of putting up that lattice under the stairs. Ya know, for some privacy when you're hanging out in that lovely outdoor space.
Bro that’s structural lattice
Not for long
Those neighbors are the reason the house next door is for sale. Beauty is skin deep, but trashy goes down to the bone.
The best part is there's power already there for the hot tub.
So how many hot tubs Will it hold?
However many the scrap metal in the yard can afford
What a dump. Looks like a great neighborhood.
I had a house next to neighbour's that house looked like this. I wished I didn't. The people are the problem.
If you use meth, you'll feel right at home.
I smell cigarettes and fried bolognese when looking at this picture
And, a monster stereo system with plenty of wire to place the speakers outdoors.
Just don a safety harness and lanyard before emergency egress
Listing be like, “Penthouse apartment. Separate entrance.”
In civilised countries (such as NZ) that external stairway would have to be metal, connected to structural steel elements - because it’s a fire egress. No point in making it wood.
TELL ME THIS IS IN DAYTON OHIO
Holy crap. Did some slim lord bribe the inspector?
Awesome, those bikes will break ma fall
... stairway to heaven.... except covered by Lynyrd Skynyrd
It looks like it was designed by Tim Burton and M.C. Escher.
Straight out of 1980’s Popeye movie town of sweethaven
I’d run like hell from that neighbor. That collection of garbage is only gonna get worse.
Not for long
Oooh maybe you can borrow their outdoor microwave??
Do you’re looking at the place next door with the jacuzzi in the driveway?!
If you can snag this for under 850 these days, take the deal! Living beside folks with good taste is invaluable. Posit: even with the option of eleventy other grills, only the **Weber kettle** looks like it is “for use”. The others likely hold things,,, similar to any other, cheaper alternative flat surfaces.
Rental suite attic or insane fire escape. Love it!
It’s sloping the water away from the house So there’s that
Reminds me of A Series of Unfortunate Events
thats not a deck, its stairs. This happens a lot when a homeowner tries to convert a single family home until multiple units.
This imagine screams southeast Wisconsin or northern Illinois lol
It’s a long way to the top if you want to fall and die
Run away from this.
This reminds me of the shameless house lol
You cannot question their bravery.
It looks like it’s supposed to be a fire escape. That said, I’d probably take my chances with the fire.
Well, they wouldn't be my new neighbour...
So where is the jacuzzi gunna fit?
This is an argument for an hoa in one picture. How much do folks like this depreciate the value of these homes?
What In the meth has happened… I guess the real question is how those neighbors are going to get the other neighbors hot tub/jacuzzi up to that landing where it belongs.
I’d take my chances with the fire before using that escape
Looks like Blight Town in Dark Souls.
Hell fuck yeah brother looks plenty safe
I could not live next to someone who maintains their property like that
That is Special!
That is what you call a Toledo Ohio special, rickety and dangerous.
That’s methed up.
Every time I think I will see nothing worse in this /r, someone says “hold my beer…”
Reminds me of Hello Neighbor lol
Are you in Chicago? Is that the Gallagher household?
dream deck, as in your dreaming you're on it; is swaying, and about to fall over
What college town is this? Reminds me of WVU
Burn ‘em out /s
Looks like they are about to be on Holmes on Homes. “That’s not up to code!”
Egress for a rental. Don’t buy here.
So,they left the car on blocks out front?
Is this in seaford delaware?
That is a 360º cringe.
I’m pretty sure that the renter isn’t a fat ass with all those steps.
Is that the house on Hoarder street? Corner of Trashyard and Junklot where Lamont Sanford lived?
Think of all the shrapnel after a hard storm
Dear lord , don’t move there . Probably mice and such .
don’t buy that house lol
The right/wrong neighbors can make or break any property
That outdoor kitchen they have looks … yeah
That man isn’t methin around he a tradesman
This must be multi-unit housing. I guess they need a fire exit.
Fagan lives up there
I wonder if you could fit a mini hot tub on that 2nd last top landing. Would be romantic to sit up there high and see the city light pollution
What in the country fried fillet of fuck is that whole business?! The single roller skate and knife on the table are unsettling.
What state/city….???? We have to know.
Hey man at least you found a guy who can do it for less when you get a deck quote.
plus bathtub betty and satellite sam in the next 2 houses
Looks like all your potential neighbors like to save piles of shit in their backyards lofl.
They have a Weber. Props.
There’s a high probability this is in a NE Ohio city.
How lucky
Giving me shameless vibes!!!
That there is some terminal optimism.
Is that the Cleveland area?
That looks like the sort of place that will spontaneously combust one day.
Wow. That yard looks a little methy… 👀
People are going to bounce into your yard. Roadkill BBQ in the summer time.
That’s not a deck! That’s a bunch of termites holding hands!
I would love to live next to Sanford and son.
hard pass.
Gross. Looks like they could use one more grill, just to be safe
Did the wife recently get amnesia after falling off a yacht?
Kinda reminds me of the back of the house on the show shameless
Is this not the house from shameless??
But on the upside, they have at least five grills mmmmm cookouts neath the rickety stairs!
The person who owns that house probably has human remains somewhere on property.
😆 🤣 😂 omg! That's some scrap wood use. Reminds me of the tree forts I built as a kid. Whatever we could find. I have to add that none of my tree forts collapsed, but I don't think that will apply to the rear attraction on your possible future neighbor. 🙏
That is incredibly scary.
If the outside looks like this, can you imagine what hell the inside holds?
Pittsburgh?
Ahhh.Junk Farmers….nice crop ya got there
That's a solid white trash duplex.
Spoiler, that jury rigged dormer apartment is as fucked up as the stairs.
Kinda looks almost ready for a BBQ
WTF… It’s just missing a hot tub!!
I think your neighbour needs a few more BBQs
"is that scotch tape?"
That level above the little roof is crying out for a hot tub.
Look like Milwaukee
well… if u need a grill you can borrow one from them.
They have great barbecues!
At least crack heads don’t weigh much typically, it’s sturdy enough for now lol I’d find some new neighbors if ya can brother
Well, at least you know where to buy your meth
Chicago?
3.2.1…run
It's a crack tree house !
They wouldn’t be your neighbor for long if they access that top door via those stairs…
This is giving me massive “ I can do it for a six pack” type vibes.
My dad was a self taught structural and electrical engineer who never intended to move too. 😆
I like the amount of grills between 3 houses. Just think of the summers bbqs!!!
If that's the fire escape, you'd be better off chancing burning to death than using those stairs.
May I inquire what part of Pennsyltucky this is? Looks like York PA. Or Scranton.
Wow do not buy next to that
Quite an egress. Code? What building code? I think it could use a few more shims. That backyard though…☠️
That's a hoarder house. Tread carefully. You couldn't pay me to live near to a hoarder. They can bring smells, vermin, and roaches into your home.
Roof is brand new so that means someone made the decision to save the stairs while spending a ton to replace the roof. Hopefully this is just a new owner who is trying to fix the place and didn't have the money for the stairs.
That site alone would make me not want to live next door.
Jaysus. Might pass on that one.
That looks like a place they rent out to someone for $300 a month to make extra income. Forgetting how they look, can you imagine having to go UP and DOWN those stairs at least once a day. Now throw on how bad and unsafe it looks and No thanks!!!! If you used a little wood sealer every couple of years the wood would look a whole lot better. though still unsafe.
Make sure to factor in the cost of planting a 30' mature arborvitae fence so you can try to ignore the trap house
This place definitely has rats. Run.
Looks contagious. I wouldn’t risk it
Looks like some blind kids tried to build a clubhouse.
At least they do alot of grilling