u/Corvus-Nox — reddlx

How to hammer the Ivar together quietly?

Edit:
My plans: find a rubber mallet, only assemble between 5-8pm.

I was also thinking I could try to find an adjustable clamp to press the dowels into place instead of hammering them.

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So I bought enough Ivars to span my wall, before learning that they are assembled with a hammer. I assembled four before someone in my building made a noise complaint. So now I don’t know how I can assemble the rest of them.

Any tips to make it quiet? I had the panels on a double folded blanket on the floor, and also put a piece of blanket between the hammer and the block of wood they provide to distribute the blow. But it’s still quite loud and I have four more to assemble :/

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u/Corvus-Nox — 2 days ago

▲ 4 r/ruggable

Why are the area rugs only available in portrait orientation?

I don’t know where else to ask this lol. But if area rugs are meant for the living room, why are all the designs with an orientation always vertically oriented? (For example: https://ruggable.com/products/morris-and-co-owl-willow-green-tufted-rug?size=5x7&system=rug-cvr. If I put a couch on the long end of the rug then the animals are oriented sideways).

There’s several designs I like but I don’t want to sit on my couch and have the artwork be perpendicular to me. I would expect the design to be oriented so it’s right-side up from where I’m sitting on the couch. But only the smaller rugs have the artwork oriented horizontally.

Am I just misunderstanding something? How many use cases are there for someone to arrange their living room with the couch on the short side of the rug? Does everyone have long but narrow living rooms now?

Or it would be cool if they at least gave the option, like a 5x7 and a 7x5 so you could choose a landscape orientation for the images where it’s possible to do so.

u/Corvus-Nox — 1 month ago

▲ 3 r/Writeresearch

Missing person is found unconscious in hospital: what do police do?

In my story a character is reported missing but it turns out they’re in the hospital after a car accident and unconscious. The person who reported it is a friend/coworker, so not next of kin or anything that would give the hospital reason to contact them.

My story’s set in Canada, if that matters, though I don’t imagine the rules will be too different in the US. I’ve been reading up on how a missing person case investigation works from the Toronto police website: they say that if an adult is found then they need consent to reveal their location to the person who reported them missing.

So what do the police do if the missing person is incapacitated and unable to consent to their location being revealed? Would they wait until the person has recovered enough to speak? Would they let the reporter know that they’ve found the person but not tell them where?

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u/Corvus-Nox — 3 months ago