pgkobrien
70586
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You could build another house with all the lumber
May 1, 2024 11:11 PM
pgkobrien
70586
1475
16
You could build another house with all the lumber
travler9000
Impressive work.
OaksParcel
Basically how I'd build queue lines leading to/from rides in Roller Coaster Tycoon
zFUBARz
Now if anybody remembers that weird triple deck post from a week or two ago. THIS looks solid. An absolute eyesore, but Solid construction at least.
amcconnell92
LurkMasterP
Bill the carpenter who specializes in staircases: "let me tell y'all about the best contact I ever had"
DaDudeAbides
“Levels, Jerry”
v
AnneMakesMistakes
silentxer0
yes, this is a normal thing in pgh.
haunter64
oh i feel someone calling out my minecraft house
jakisall
"legal" apartments, Frankenstein a house to overcharge for a room.
TheWonderfulWizardOfOs
Look at the billionaire with all their lumber
LitterBoxKing
The more I stare, the more improvised angles and nooks I find...
circlebreaker
Right? What on Earth is happening with those railings?
Beezebubbles
Having a fire exit on every floor is handy. Although, this looks like a house that has been subdivided into units on every floor.
HapilyDamaged
yeah safe bet those are private entrances for renters.
Thanlarkis
My knees disapprove
SteveD31415
#1 I would have loved this as a kid.
drdorman86350
Do you handicap accessable?
shanasphone350
Are you reading my mind?
Badgerbadgerson3
Fucking Dragonlance architecture over here. Be careful next time a weird old man comes in and starts rearranging your chairs.
uplock
Make sure to lock everything in your safe and put on your fireproof underwear.
PiercedViking
That pic makes me really want some spiced fried potatoes.
IliveIdyeIliveagain
I've never seen the movie Inception but do I have to?
wadenelson1
Tornado would take the house but leave those stairs built like a brick shithouse.
LabiusCorpus
Stairs like an Escher drawing.
superman0000
When I put rides too close together in Roller Coaster Tycoon.
trigonman3
Harry Potter and the First Apartment after Graduating
NotTinyPancakes
reminds me of my early fallout 4 builds
AnyUsernameWillDoForMe
It looks like rollercoaster tycoon
SeriousIy
The more you look the wilder it gets. Stairs dont line up where they come together, the first deck extends needlessly under the higher stairs, many of the segments aren't parallel, the random lumber added for weird angled handrails, a handrail added on the side of another handrail (bottom left corner). Is this poor construction, bad photoshop or AI?
NickRivieraMD
there's so much artifacting in the image. I am kinda leaning towards AI, although it could just be jpg artifact for all I know
ImGoingToGoFallAsleepOnABench
Eh, I can't find any of the usual tells - all the nonsensical-looking details at least look correct, plus I wouldn't expect AI to throw those plant pots on top of the weird deck under the stairs. The doors and windows all look normal, and the incongruities in the houses and stairs look, well, human-made. A lot of the smaller details would get messed up in an AI image (the ladder on the other side of the fence on the left, orange plastic mesh on the right, for example).
calamityjanine
who has been building like me in fallout 76. who. stop this, it's illegal unless that land is owned by indie developer bethany esda, the rest of us have to follow the law (of gravity)
DeltaBladeX
Seen worse, at least those looks safe
zFUBARz
YES thank you, that's what I was talking about. /gallery/KPyjOuT/comment/2392998657
LitterBoxKing
Maintaining that is going to be an absolute pain in the ass.
getthismanabeer
If you look at the google satellite image it's apparent that the original deck setup was just replaced by this.
BlairT1
Contractor here: that actually looks well designed and executed. Nice
zFUBARz
Yeah, looks pretty solid at first glance, would hate to be the neighbour, but it appears well made at least.
1337erOfMen
I’m glad I’m not the only one who kind of likes what I see here. It’s interesting construction.
distraingotnobrakes
Really? What about the weird inaccessible area with the hanging plant pot? Or the weird angle piece added on the right side at the bottom of the stairs we’re looking down?
Mirilali
Looks like the deck area with the potted plants is accessible by the stairs behind the middle level's stairs . (The entrance is in the red square). No ideas on the weird railing bit, maybe it just felt lacking and they wanted more options for taller people.
NickRivieraMD
that stairwell heads down and its head is on a level that's below the potted plant level
Ghode
getthismanabeer
Ah someone else that knows /r/decks is leaking
FinkeLisEinhorn
Is this Dormont in Pittsburgh? There is a lot of this kind of thing in that area, and honestly this really good compared to some of the stuff I've seen.
DarkSock
/gallery/KPyjOuT/comment/2393001729
ReverseSyzygy
LMAO, I was thinking "This has to be Pittsburgh or State College"
SeriousIy
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERES ANOTHER PHOTO?!
Zmasteri
Seriously
SeriousIy
This person gets it!
pgkobrien
Where is this?
DarkSock
It seems they could have saved a houses worth of lumber by just extending a walkway out laterally and making much smaller flights of stairs going to the higher and lower doors, instead of hugging the terrain and then getting back up to floor elevations...
kjb72
Wtf is going on here.
UndergroundLurker
The street is on a hill higher than the house. You park your car, then walk down some steps, before walking up more steps to your preferred entrance. Doesn't look like there's room for parking on the street in the background of the original photo.
ReverseSyzygy
Guessing that's parking
trigonman3
So they're going to build another apartment on this balcony. Great.
ReverseSyzygy
bet it's parking
imredheaded
Just more stairs actually
Ghode
location 510 Carothers Ave #3, Carnegie, PA
bamcobra
Ha ha. I made a comment, above, that referred to a place in East Pittsburgh that had the exact same layout.
kc2syk
WOW, $550/mo rent! I haven't paid that little since 1998.
Snooj
You have to live in Pennsylvania, though.
Mirilali
Right near/in Pittsburgh even...
spookyactionatadistance
What's wrong with the Pittsburgh area though. I live in Montreal and for a while maintained a blanket avoidance of all continental USA, even for stopovers. It's even baked into my contract. But it seems to be a mostly blue part of the country. Are there specific reasons
FinkeLisEinhorn
No reason at all, people are just haters. There's douchebags all over the place, Pittsburgh included but no more than is usual. Its just a smaller city with a lot of character thats imbedded into a lot of big hills. Its an interesting and kind of unique set up for a city. There are a ton tunnels and bridges if youre into that kind of thing. There are definitely far worse cities with far shittier people than Pittsburgh.
pfunk81
THAT ONLY RAISES MORE QUESTIONS.
CerisCinderwolf
Especially about the 'shadow person' in the alley, walking in broad daylight. Those legs seem to go way up there. Daywalkers, man...
RecurringNightmare
the "legs" are the facade/window of the house across the street, clearly identifyable in OPs picture...
shadowstom1
I bet the house is on a hill and that's the "off street parking" for a lil extra rental rate.
zFUBARz
Makes a lot of sense actually
ReverseSyzygy
I bet that's exactly what it is.
bamcobra
Niece lived in a third floor near Pittsburgh that could be this place. Stairs needed rebuilt when she was there. This would have provided much safer access to the parking area in rear which was off an alley up the hill.
Ghode
The house with all the stairs.....its backyard is basically 2 stories high, i'm guessing the empty lot used to have a garage on it
MxMenagerie
LITERALLY my first thought
solaslunas
3 floors, 3 tenants. stairway access for all 3 to back lot which may have had parking
Chawzilla
The floor is lava
FluxSagrie
well it ain't lava, but that is going to be a muddy mess of a yard with any hint of rain.
MrSwissroll
Those stairs ain't gonna last too long then...
captainswoopty
Not when it snows out.
snrsquishy101
The lava is also wood stairs
spamjam
The rent is high
bamcobra
I’m guessing that one room third floor rent will pay back the stairs in less than 6 months.
schrodingerscatfood
pleaseconsiderthatImightbejoking
Because it's easier to get a permit to build a house and then do this then to just build some nice apartments.
hornpile
zombies
MrCement
So you can go to your friend's house faster.
Apollymkatistrafia
Tree house but not with friends? Only thing I'd do it for.
cellfreeDNA
So you can turn one house into multiple apartments.
MicroChannelMaster
Single family home divided into three units because fire codes dictate all apartments need two egress points. Greedy landlord would rather build this monstrosity to cram people together into one house to extract obscene amounts of wealth than, ya know, just sell the house to someone.
codeacrobat
Lost a bet. Held a beer.
CommentProvider
Stairs.
mixel08
It looks like something I'd build in minecraft
GameofFutons
Probably got too high while playing Rollercoaster Tycoon
worldrecordstudios
https://youtu.be/YklszBMIEcc?si=il5s1UFK2IBT37sC
oldpotatoes
skrimg59
emergency exit regulations
DemSumBigAssRidges
Renting by the room.
ShimmerinStrider
Apartments
FlyYouFLCL
Converted family home into apartments. The quadplex I lived at was obviously converted. 2 car spot for a quadplex with a very similar stairway section.
VosperOfAntarctica
"A house divided is worth twice the rent."
Jcuabear
Campus housing, probably.
Valatros
Probably apartments, but. But! If i was frequently going between both houses i'd want a not-dirt option too. I'd have just made a path, but I don't see a ground level door on that house as an option. Weird.
vindik8or
There's a flight of stairs going underneath the second-level case. Probably a door around there somewhere
DropDrop
Some people want more than just the front door, they want to be able to use the back door too. Some people have a back door that's easy to go in and out of, but some people need to put in more prep work, for example these stairs, in order for people to get in and out of their back door.
ME2BNS12
Apartment fire code laws in many US places require two points of egress
oldpotatoes
Fire code states *enter rule*
Wood burns
Landlord: add a pirate's ship worth of wood
ToasterDent
Here's two pointing egrets!
icommentwithsteveharvey
Hurro
Better make them both combustible.
nclu
Yeah, point access blocks are legal in so many other places and they have better outcomes with regard to fire. Our regulations come from a poor history of making the egress that exists overly vulnerable
ToasterDent
It's ok, the wood was covered in tar pitch first to protect it from the elements!
ME2BNS12
Even better, these release copper chromate fumes when burned
nevernotsure
That's where the flavor comes from
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ME2BNS12
Most houses have whats called an internal stairway
TheBigBadBonerBiter
oldpotatoes
That cat is looking at some internal stairs right now, and it's given him some eternal stares.
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MechanicalRomance
Yeah, theres a door that leads to the internal stairway that is to remain locked at all times except for emergencies. Ive lived in places like this. Thats how the renos work. Moving walls is no big deal, stairways are structural, you dont move them. All the rooms still access the main stairway somehow. Id put money on it.
ME2BNS12
Like I said, the law requires two points. And inspections are regular. Only ground floor apartments allow big windows as a second point (in some places).
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
My house used to be a duplex conversion and they just walled up the stairway and put a door on it.
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
what wizardry is this?!
ME2BNS12
wizardry on multiple levels
crunchyDANGERhaystacks
Chicago
XRay0976
Too soon
armagetz
They didn’t really build it like Dresden said you know.
4Astaroth
I like some of their songs but I don't know what those stairs have to do with them.
Doismellbacon
Sure it's not Kansas or Boston?
AlfredDPrince
It's all America
4Astaroth
When the last eagle flies over the last crumbling mountain...
brownribbon
How do you know this is Chicago?
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brownribbon
I don’t, but I’m not the one making baseless assumptions.
oldpotatoes
How don't you know it ain't not?
HighFlyKai
oldpotatoes