Poor design thread

[Hairy]

I'll be more specific on this, *****ing Heinz tomato sauce bottles. I get proper annoyed when it's served at restaurants.

I would also ... don't they carry All Gold .... all the other stuff is just red sauce.

[Patchelicious]

https://instagram.com/p/BgOHcpkAtxQ/

[Hairy]

I found this out the hard way when I did my own built in cupboards and ordered all the boards square.  Much planing and sawdust created and children had to wear earplugs for weeks to avoid being permanently scarred by the language.

 

Flat concrete roofs - I know a very reputable structural engineer who suggests to almost anyone who wants one (and wants it not to leak) that they should put a timber / steel truss and sheeting over it.

[BigDL]

Not bike related . . . . . But just one of my pet peeves.

 

There should be a building law against building a residential house where the walls end higher than the roof cladding.

Sooner or later the thing starts leaking there with the water running down the wall inside the house.

And the plaster always starts cracking on top those exposed walls after a few years as a result of weather exposure.

Where is it needed between units for fire safety regulations, the top of that wall should also be covered with roof cladding.

 

Yes, you can say stuff like doing it properly and doing maintenance and what about individual taste and all those things.

 

But why in hell build a flaw into your building that someone will have to redo or maintain later?

That is just piss-poor design.

 

The roof cladding must cover all the building walls if viewed from the above, problem solved.

Flip, good point.

 

Another thing, wtf is behind this ever increasing South African love affair with Tuscan style columns and pillars? Midstream, where we used to live, was full of these weird buildings

 

 

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[Patchelicious]

I never knew that roofing had such a deep and passionate support base.....

[Kalahari Vegmot]

Flip, good point.

 

Another thing, wtf is behind this ever increasing South African love affair with Tuscan style columns and pillars? Midstream, where we used to live, was full of these weird buildings

 

 

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Yea.....But it's midstream.....

[PhilipV]

Yea.....But it's midstream.....

Where taste is the inverse of disposable income.

[Traveler]

Yea.....But it's midstream.....

Since this is a family friendly environment I cannot use the nice Afrikaans name that building style.

[stefmeister]

Flip, good point.

 

Another thing, wtf is behind this ever increasing South African love affair with Tuscan style columns and pillars? Midstream, where we used to live, was full of these weird buildings

 

 

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Typical Jozi things.

 

On that note.

2.2d Ford rangers with a raptor kit.

 

 

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[Traveler]

Typical Jozi things.

On that note.

2.2d Ford rangers with a raptor kit.

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A Ranger with any Raptor kit.... still wondering why some Hilux owners also try to Crap-tify their vehicles? Like clapping Titan Stickers on a Giant?

 

On that point the first real Raptor rolled of the line in Rosslyn a week ago.

[andreas17777]

Typical Jozi things.

 

On that note.

2.2d Ford rangers with a raptor kit.

 

 

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Same with bmw’s with an m badge or sport pack but it’s still just a 1.6

[the nerd]

 

On that point the first real Raptor rolled of the line in Rosslyn a week ago.

 

OT, ecoboost?

[PhilipV]

Typical Jozi things.

 

On that note.

2.2d Ford rangers with a raptor kit.

 

 

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Sitting on my hands here.

[Kalahari Vegmot]

Golf's with GTI badges.........

 

GP Province Wrangler owners......

 

My hands escaped......

[Traveler]

OT, ecoboost?

Yes, 2.3l Ecoboost and 10spd gearbox.... wonder why not go with 12spd?

[mazambaan]

He he the flat concrete roof is the gift that keeps on giving    I was in an engineer's office a day or two ago and he was on the 'phone to a builder at his holiday house on the coast - putting a roof over their upstairs outside terrazo from the bedroom because its floor, the downstairs roof, could not be stopped of leaking.

 

He's managed building projects that run to R100m up.