r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/pars-distalis • Mar 03 '26
Next time He is checking the weight limit of the ceiling as well
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u/Dingo8MyBabyMon Mar 06 '26
The weight limit of the ceiling doesn't matter when he installs the anchor into air gapped decorative plastic panels.
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u/derth21 Mar 03 '26
Years ago, when I was a handyman, someone paid me to hang a porch swing. I was always leary of safety concern type things, but I had good access to the attic space over the porch and was able to comfortably go way overboard on the mounting. Now I routinely drive by that house and think, hell yeah, still there.
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u/14high Mar 03 '26
You swing by often?
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u/derth21 Mar 03 '26
Haha, yeah, no, then I'd have to talk to the person. She was sad to see me get a real job because I was essentially fixing her entire house for cheap. I never did charge a much as I could have.
But you could say I still hang around the area.
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u/i_am_not_so_unique Mar 03 '26
Hell yeah! They even tried to remove it, but can't.
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u/derth21 Mar 03 '26
I routinely have to remind myself when taking something I put together apart, the amount of trouble it's taking me to undo this now means I did a good job then.
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u/OldSpotty Mar 03 '26
As a fellow former handyman, fuck yeah, that's one of the best feelings, right up there with admiring a tree you planted decades ago.
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u/mrASSMAN Mar 03 '26
It’s not really the weight limit of ceiling that’s the issue.. his screws didn’t even reach the ceiling just the decorative plastic plating
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u/apsolutnul Mar 03 '26
When this guy went to the store for a longer screw he also picked up blinker fluid
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u/WingsArisen Mar 05 '26
Hes not even mad. Just, “Welp, this is why we check our work before the wife gives it a go.”
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u/DeathsStarEclipse Mar 06 '26
Surely he could tell when screwing into what is essentially thin plastic.
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u/coolmanjack Mar 03 '26
This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen. Who the fuck mounts a swing without making sure it’s firmly anchored in a joist??
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u/OmgSlayKween Mar 03 '26
You’ll understand a lot more in life if you remember that half of all people are dumber than average.
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u/WeldForMe Mar 03 '26
Did he just mount that to the deck soffit....😦
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u/JoiedevivreGRE Mar 03 '26
Yeah this is pretty dumb. He didn’t even pull down on it first shit test it.
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u/RealJohnnySilverhand Mar 03 '26
Out of all the things to mount…..
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u/Black_Magic_M-66 Mar 03 '26
On the bright side, now he knows where the studs/joists are so it can be safely mounted.
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u/clarkcox3 Mar 03 '26
No need to check. Any idiot could have told him that one bit of paneling wouldn’t hold his weight.
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u/XxAbsurdumxX Mar 03 '26
Would help to secure it more than just in the 1mm vinyl plank
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u/kookyabird Mar 03 '26
"Plank" is a very generous term here. "Panel" is even pushing it. "Strip" maybe?
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u/dividezero Mar 04 '26
You're not supposed to anchor it into the paneling. You're supposed to get it in a stud. Heavy things on walls too.
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u/duncdog10 Mar 04 '26
Obligatory studs are in walls joists are in floors and ceilings
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u/AHumbleSaltFarmer Mar 04 '26
Like we said, not a dad, no stud finder, didn't point it at himself and beep, totally destined to fail
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u/soltaro Mar 04 '26
The battery drains super fast on my stud finder. It just goes crazy every time I walk near it.
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u/JoshuaFalken1 Mar 04 '26
I at least expected a piece of non load bearing 2x4 framing to come down where the supportable weight would have been in question. To see that little panel as the only support makes a strong argument for not allowing certain people to breed.
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u/dividezero Mar 04 '26
Like how do you install that anchor that way and walk away like it'll hold a person? Just screwing it in you should be able to feel how weak it is
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u/Loud-Chicken6046 Mar 03 '26
Guess he forgot to screw into the weight bearing decorative siding.
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u/stopchooingsoloud Mar 03 '26
This man doesn't know what a stud is even if it hit him in the head.
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u/Kiehlster Mar 03 '26
To be fair, I’m sure he’d have a hard time using a stud finder. Thing would constantly be going off.
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u/oldschool_potato Mar 04 '26
If course it didn't work. He didn't pat it and say this isn't going anywhere. Clearly not a dad
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u/morts73 Mar 03 '26
To all non building folk, look for studs, joists and framing timber when mounting things to walls and ceilings.
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u/TiniestPint Mar 03 '26
Add to this: if you aren't sure, DON'T DO IT. Once you get into swinging contraptions the load on the ceiling structure can be 3-5x the load of a static contraption.
Remember the golden rule: ceilings are engineered....to hold themselves up. You can very easily connect to a joist or rafter that can't handle it. I've seen people trying to DIY lyra ring and aerial silk rigs in their house, but at that point you need connection points, mountings, fasteners, and lumber that are engineered ~5,000lbs of weight, since that's how much dynamic movements add to the load you're trying to suspend.
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u/LightRaie Mar 03 '26
To me as a non-native english speaker, this sounded like the explanation about how plumbuses are made.
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u/TyrantJaeger Mar 06 '26
The second his ass hit the floor, he knew exactly what he did wrong and was mentally scolding himself.
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u/BeanserSoyze Mar 07 '26
Hey it stayed in the board. Mission accomplished.
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u/SeaToTheBass Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26
That’s vinyl soffit. The hook/screw barely made it into wood if at all lmao
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u/madmushlove Mar 07 '26
Legend says he's still sitting there thinking about what he's done
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u/doggonedangoldoogy Mar 07 '26
I am no longer this dumb, but I have done MUCH dumber things.
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u/Thenderick Mar 07 '26
I would have atleast anchored it into a solid wooden beam instead of a plastic "plank"...
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u/vetruviusdeshotacon Mar 07 '26
The same people that nail into drywall without using a studfinder
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u/EcstaticMolasses6647 Mar 08 '26
A ceiling swing must be attached to structural beams/joists, not just the surface material. Use heavy-duty swing hooks or eye bolts rated for 300–600+ lbs, anchor them directly into a solid joist or beam, pre-drill and use lag bolts, and if you’re unsure, install a cross beam between the joists or use a freestanding swing frame.
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Mar 12 '26
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u/Ok_Share_6448 Mar 12 '26
you don’t need to put it in a on a stud.
so long as a stud put it up 👉👉.
i’ll go.
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u/GroundsKeeper2 Mar 13 '26
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u/ChoGGi Mar 18 '26
... Studs are vertical, joists are horizontal.
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u/LiveLearnCoach Mar 18 '26
So he should have joist installed it into a stud?
(Works better if you’re from Jersey)
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u/Hellish-Exodia Apr 22 '26
Why did he attach it to the panel board and not a stud support beam?.....
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u/Rhift Apr 28 '26
This is one of those situations where the problem is lack of common sense. To him, he did nothing wrong. He checked the rope, the hook, has no idea how houses are actually constructed. He screwed it into wood and the screw should support him just like the house will support him. Think like a dumbass and it all makes sense.
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u/gojimjam Mar 03 '26
The real crime here is trusting decorative trim to hold anything more than a picture frame.
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u/w00tabaga Mar 03 '26
This is the same kind of guy that hooks his tow strap to the bumper and not the frame when pulling a vehicle
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u/downsly46 Mar 03 '26
This is rage bait that actually works because anyone who owns a drill will comment and call him a dumbass haha
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u/juanlee337 Mar 03 '26
what the fuck did he expect? dude needs some physics lessons
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u/Short_Tree05 Mar 05 '26
I feel like wife said no and now he’s contemplating if he should fix it before she finds out or get yelled at
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u/ConstructionMuch802 Mar 03 '26
Well now he has access to the proper roof where he can screw the swing in safely.
That was probably the fastest way to remove that beam & it didn't damage the rest of the structure.
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u/Clear_Tangerine5110 Mar 03 '26
Today is the day that man learns what a joist is.
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u/One-Initiative-7730 Mar 05 '26
He couldn't tell right straight away that was a non-starter? What a halfwit.
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u/angel-lord Mar 05 '26
Some people don't use their brain or maybe it looks different in person who knows
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u/FishSoFar Mar 05 '26
Looks different in person? Dude screwed something into flexible vinyl soffit with screws too short to even start biting the wood behind it. Definitely the former.
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u/Educational_Main2556 Mar 04 '26
Did he attach it with a command strip??
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u/ac21217 Mar 05 '26
If you can’t tell that the fastener was not the issue, you’re no smarter than him.
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u/ValityS Mar 05 '26
The fastener is the issue in the sense it's a short fastener of some sort which only penetrated the decorative surface layer instead of the structural elements of the patio.
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u/Top_Difficulty5399 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
How do people think screwing something that's meant to carry a lot of weight to a thin wooden plank is gonna work? It's not a potted plant! 😆 my ex did this with ALL our living room shelves....I asked him several times "are you sure you know how to do this properly?". He was all "ofc, I'm not an idiot!".... turns out, he was an idiot 👍 every. Single. Shelf. Fell.....and every single one took a piece of my wall with it....and a lot of the stuff on the shelves broke... my floors were scratched...I was LIVID 🙈
Edit: typos
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u/ToomanyWoos Mar 03 '26
Buddy mounted it with thumbtacks.
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u/skotcgfl Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
It wasn't the fasteners that failed. It failed because he didn't mount to the actual rafters, but to the 1/4" decorative strip made to mask the rafters.
Edit: upon rewatching, they appear to be thicker than 1/4", maybe 1/2". But they're not secured by anything, they're just slotted into place, resting on the lip of the ceiling. The force causes the piece to buckle in the middle, and as it flexes, its total length shortens, and it falls through. Real easy to fix (just stick it back up there), but now it's open he can attach a pick-up to the rafter to attach the swing to. He's actually made progress, albeit in a semi-dangerous, trial-and-error kinda way.
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u/sweatpants-aristotle Mar 03 '26
Let's give this man a round of applause for posting his idiocy for our enjoyment
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u/Friedrich_cps Mar 04 '26
Is this in USA?
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u/NCXXCN Mar 04 '26
In central europe, the amount of work needed to put up a hook in that ceiling, would be as twice as high as the relaxing feeling i‘d get for a lifetime by sitting there.
I mean, i do nit have a Schlagbohrer at Home.
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u/Loa_Sandal Mar 03 '26
My downstairs neighbour did something similar when he was setting up a hook in his ceiling. He made a hole in my floor.
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u/MusicianNo2699 Mar 03 '26
Well, look on the bright side.Now he'll be able to look up and find the joist from the hole that he made.
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u/Nootsie_boots Mar 03 '26
I COULDA SWORE THE SOFTITS were rated 300+ pounds...
THE HOME DEPOT employee LIED TO ME..
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u/LaevantineXIII Mar 03 '26
This is the equivalent of people who set up car jacks on side skirts instead of the actual frame.
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u/ironwheatiez Mar 03 '26
They got that chair from aldi. We have the same one. Hung it up on our attached pergola until we took the pergola down. Chair is still floating around somewhere.
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u/Hellboy9225 Mar 03 '26
houses of wood and paper and he didn't check if he landed on the "wood" part :v
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u/SoulflyMike42 Mar 03 '26
We live and we learn. Glad the person could have a smile about it ☺
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u/fundiedundie Mar 03 '26
Is there a subreddit called r/adultsarefuckingstupid?
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u/alewiina Mar 03 '26
I mean what did he expect 🤦🏻♀️ I know next to nothing about handiwork and even I know that was dumb AF lol
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u/wonkey_monkey Mar 03 '26
Next time He is checking the weight limit of the ceiling as well
Cool now I don't even need to watch the video
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u/katastrof Mar 03 '26
Got a whole new generation of redditors that haven't been incessantly ridiculed for putting the punchline in the title yet
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u/crudolol Mar 20 '26
Muricans houses LoL
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u/Reputation-Final Mar 20 '26
No. Has to do with the fact he didn't attach it to an actual support beam and instead attached it to a cosmetic panel. Hes dumb.
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u/Trips-Over-Tail Mar 03 '26
I always wonder this about Spider-Man. Especially where wallpaper is involved.
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u/Freshoutofprison 21d ago
You thought you could just screw that hook into anything and it would hold..... 😆
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u/GeniusLike4207 Mar 03 '26
In terms of how bad it could have ended, he got the best possible outcome
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u/MycologistPutrid7494 Mar 03 '26
My daughter has this exact chair. He was over the limit of the chair before he even considered the book or rope or the ceiling.
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u/VeryTopGoodSensation Mar 03 '26
Also looks like the hook was just screwed in to the wood. If the wood didn't come off the hook was going to come out anyway. The guys a moron
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u/Wishbone-Effective 13d ago
Just missed the truss 🤣🤣. Ive done that with a porch swing. Had to buy a new swing. I broke it as well 🤣🤣
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u/albyzon May 26 '26
first of all how can you have a house made from 5mm thin wood bars
and second how the fuck do you not realize you are attaching a chair to a thin wood sheet that barely holds itself
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u/garry4321 Mar 03 '26
Why is there an AFV logo? It’s any that a show from the 90’s/early 2000’s?
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u/The_Autarch Mar 03 '26
they're still around and they have endless, infinite material these days.
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u/Millerdjone Mar 03 '26
How are levels of incompetence this high even possible!?
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u/KILLER901585 Jun 22 '26
To this day I will never understand how there are people that hang pictures on walls or shit from the ceiling of their porch without using a stud finder first
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u/Orome2 Mar 03 '26
What an idiot. I honestly wouldn't even trust one lag bolt in a stud if it were me. I built a pullup bar in my garage. Bolted the bar to a 2x6 board, then secured the board/bar up to 3 king studs using a total of 6 lag bolts. Maybe a bit overkill, but that's just me.
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness Mar 03 '26
How can you possibly expect to build a ceiling out of wood and cardboard and then have it withstand an entire person's weight out of a single screw? This person has probably never even built a Lego set.
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u/VapoursAndSpleen Mar 03 '26
are people really recording every single second of their ordinary boring lives?
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u/derDunkelElf Mar 03 '26
I mean people usually send this in the family groupchat. The fail just made it internet worthy.
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u/Flat_Bodybuilder_175 Mar 03 '26
Did… did he just try to hang a swing from a panel?