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This product will eliminate odours in your home, but only in one plane (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 72 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

You see this on a lot of products. This is because a lot of people simply don't understand how cubic meters work, or need to think about it where they know pretty much how much floorspace they have. And in practice it doesn't matter, most people have ceilings somewhere around 2.5 meters and these indicators aren't that precise anyways.

[–] ouRKaoS 34 points 5 months ago

A 2m ceiling seems rather claustrophobic to me

[–] sajran@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago

I might be wrong but I assumed it's perfectly obvious to OP and it's the kind of joke where something is funny because you stretch the meaning to read it literally. I chuckled actually, despite it making perfect sense.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How does that work when a standard door is 2.1m tall?

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Anyone who has ever done anything related to doors knows, there is no such thing as a standard door.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

My wife: We don't need to replace the door frame just the door

Me crosscutting and ripping my new door to fit the old frame: Great idea honey

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That’s usually from the previous home owner who thought they could install the previous door themselves and not knowing the difference between a rough opening and finished opening.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There is absolutely a minimum size that doors need to be for almost any house. Yes you can incorrectly install other doors, but codes provide a minimum size for professionals to follow when installing. Which is 2.1m in most of the world. Other places will have their own standard size door, but yes every country absolutely has standard door sizes.

Why do you claim otherwise…? Just go look up any big box store door catalog lmfao, plenty of standard door options for even home owners. If you’re cutting a door to size, you’ve done fucked up in almost every case.

And it’s funny you say something like this while being completely off base about story heights… fucking lmfao. Sure we should listen to your “expertise” hahahah, you don’t even know how tall a room is, yet we should trust you know anything about doors? Really? Seriously… dude?

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Most ceilings are a foot and a half or more above the door

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You had a great post going until you screwed it all up by saying ceilings were only 2m high.