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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social

I am currently about an hour into processing another series of Who The Fuck Built This House revelations, it’s hard to make things like pants matter right now

AND In attempting to replace that door today, we have discovered that not only is that door a different dimension from literally every other door in this house It's not a standard sized door at all
aug 15, 2025, 1:14 am • 58 0

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social

Not me thinking that this was a tv show I could watch until I saw the text.

aug 15, 2025, 4:04 am • 1 0 • view
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Well now I have a new idea

aug 15, 2025, 5:09 am • 0 0 • view
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social

Hell yes, Dental Fraud Enthusiast strikes again! Though, “listen: lop off an inch from the top and make the hinge side 5 degrees off of plumb” is extremely 50s-60s of your house. MCM is the “fuck it, we’ll do it live” era of construction.

aug 15, 2025, 2:31 am • 1 0 • view
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social

The amount of baseboards in this house that are just unsanded 1x4s 😖

aug 15, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
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ZanziBrie Buck-Buck McFate @briesmith.xyz

"Who looks at baseboards?" -- Some finish carpenter in 1962

aug 15, 2025, 3:11 am • 1 0 • view
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runningbyrd.bsky.social @runningbyrd.bsky.social

I had one room in the house i grew up in that had 6 distinctly different doors. Size and design.

aug 15, 2025, 1:22 am • 1 0 • view
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tara 🌺 @magnolia2010.bsky.social

oh nooooo, that's so annoying, i'm sorry. we had to deal with that at junior league HQ and it was a THING.

aug 15, 2025, 2:46 am • 2 0 • view
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Matt @sirmatt.bsky.social

After installing 10 sets of identical shades in my house, I got to the window in my office and discovered that it was 4 inches wider than the others. I only realized this after drilling holes and hanging the shade, which left 2" on each side. Why?

aug 15, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
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Jennifer Rose @jenni4iowa.bsky.social

I have an entirely different vision of "dimension" here.

aug 15, 2025, 2:38 am • 0 0 • view
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social

What the absolute actual f

aug 15, 2025, 1:17 am • 0 0 • view
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social

@mbunchanumbers.bsky.social described this house’s construction as “vibes-based” one time and it’s about the truest thing I have ever heard

aug 15, 2025, 1:54 am • 4 0 • view
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Steve-o @stenac.bsky.social

The single fucky door is the bane of my existence. I generally like living in an older neighbourhood, but holy fuck do I question that every time I have to fix/reno something

aug 15, 2025, 1:23 am • 2 0 • view
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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net

I read that as “… in a different dimension…” and thought “yes, please. And where might this door be?”

aug 15, 2025, 1:22 am • 2 0 • view
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Would be a vast improvement at the moment

aug 15, 2025, 1:54 am • 2 0 • view
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justthisguy.net @justthisguy.net

I’m constantly searching for that door. You’ll let me know if it comes up?

aug 15, 2025, 3:07 am • 0 0 • view
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Obvs

aug 15, 2025, 3:14 am • 1 0 • view
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Jeff Terando @jeffterando.bsky.social

Ahhhh!!! I had this happen to me in San Francisco! Turns out the door was 2 in shorter and about 1 in wider than standard doors. When I got the custom replacement made the guy at Home Depot told me those were “hong Kong measurements” so the previous contractor was probably from there

aug 15, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
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Kacie @kacienr.bsky.social

the truest tweet I ever read was “no person on earth is a greater scoundrel and fucker than the person who owned your home before you. thanks for saving $18 buying the heater with no identifiable model number that takes Dumbass sized filters you honorless fuck”

aug 15, 2025, 1:31 am • 33 0 • view
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Poetry

aug 15, 2025, 1:55 am • 1 0 • view
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Also wth, I know I was following you before, why am I not now

aug 15, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz

spent a good chunk of my evening dealing with a neighbor who owns a house in the historic district and discovered the six vinyl replacement windows in it were installed fraudulently by a previous owner w/the permit claiming they were wood & now the ARC isn't letting her keep them

aug 15, 2025, 1:58 am • 14 0 • view
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social

I would give a great deal to read these emails

aug 15, 2025, 2:11 am • 8 0 • view
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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social

That’s a dirtbag move by the ARC. “Doing nothing meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards,” is a thing one could say. I mean, conceivably your local ordinances are more strict, but I think your neighbor could tell them to sit and spin, especially if they have that documentation.

aug 15, 2025, 2:27 am • 0 0 • view
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz

TBH she's the victim of fraud and I said she should talk to a lawyer and recover the costs of replacing all her windows from the title insurance company, previous owner, previous owner's real estate agent, and so on, bc they all are liable. otherwise what are all those closing costs for?

aug 15, 2025, 4:03 am • 12 0 • view
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Luis Villa @lu.is

Ugh, we had to do something like this at great cost a few years ago. Shortly afterwards S.F. (in part due to reporting by @sfchronicle.com) fixed the rule.

aug 15, 2025, 3:24 am • 1 0 • view
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Courtney @caread.bsky.social

Hell is living in a Historic District (obvs not like /gestures vaguely, but it is its own kind of hell). Think you have property rights? Think again!

aug 15, 2025, 2:07 am • 1 0 • view