• @ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    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.)

    • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      244 months ago

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

      • @rekabis@lemmy.ca
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        124 months ago

        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.

          • @rekabis@lemmy.ca
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            4 months ago

            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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      104 months ago

      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.

      • @ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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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.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      64 months ago

      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?

    • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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      4 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.

        • @M500@lemmy.ml
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          24 months ago

          I guess it depends on how close the breakup was to the installation.

          If she just broke up with him the days after he paid to have it installed, then I’m taking that wood back with me.

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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            4 months ago

            That’s a good point and I agree. I was thinking it would also depend on the conditions of the breakup. If it was due to infidelity, then yeah, I want my floor back.

    • @Mamertine@lemmy.world
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      104 months ago

      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.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        84 months ago

        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.

        • BarqsHasBite
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          14 months ago

          Unless there’s like structural or water damage you can fix it over time.

            • BarqsHasBite
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              4 months ago

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

              • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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                54 months ago

                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.

      • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        44 months ago

        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.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      454 months ago

      Nah, it’s just where people invent intriguing fictional back-stories for mundane pictures they find. Same as it ever was.

        • @quaddo@lemmy.world
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          34 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?”

      • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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        34 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.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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      -14 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.

    • @kattenluik@feddit.nl
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      34 months ago

      I will genuinely never understand these comments, who cares? Is it supposed to be funny that you don’t believe it happened and care so much?

      Especially with something like this that doesn’t sound like something that’d never happen, way crazier things happen regularly. I just can’t wrap my head around it why these kinds of comments are on nearly every meme.

      • @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        These kinds of comments will always be found on bullshit memes because there always going to be a portion of the population that’s smart enough to know when something is bullshit. It’s just how it works.

        It’s like this:

        Kids are cute when they’re not trying to be cute. However, they’re fucking obnoxious when they’re trying to be cute.

        Genuine things usually net the appropriate response from people who appreciate genuine things. When something is disingenuous, it should be called out.

        • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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          44 months ago

          Smart enough to know when something is bullshit, but not smart enough to understand that nearly all of them are bullshit?

          It is like those wrestler critics saying it is all fake as if anybody cares enough when the main point is that it is entertaining.

        • @Obi@sopuli.xyz
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          34 months ago

          It’s not like I need every meme I see to be based on reality, but there’s been this trend of faking stuff and passing it as real and that’s where it goes too far for me. I’m not sure this one qualifies though, I can read this as purely being humorous and not really trying to sell itself as real.

        • @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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          24 months ago

          These comments are not left by smart people.

          The smart people know its a fucking meme, so its veracity is about as important as its eligibility for a home loan.

          • @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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            -14 months ago

            Right… because the comment section on shit meme posts like this are clearly NOT full of people that took it seriously.

            (obligatory /s)

            • @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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              04 months ago

              Engaging with the premise doesnt mean you genuinely believe the premise. Its fun to play along. Youve known this since childhood, it didnt change when you got older.

              • @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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                -14 months ago

                lol…. Okay. There no convincing you. Let’s just pretend everyone knows this is fake and are all in on the joke despite all the people arguing that it totally happened every time these types of posts get called out.

                We can stop now.

    • Melkath
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      54 months ago

      He shouldn’t have spent so much time in Turbo Time.