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Leperflesh posted:Do they only get built like in the nevada desert outside any municipality where the county building rules are more or less nonexistent or something? Pretty much.
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Lol just lol if you are building a hippy off the grid house and calling ‘CORPORATE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS’ to your
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If you did want to get an approved Earthship-style building, I assume you'd have to get an architect to sign off on your plans and say "yeah, your walls made out of tires and old soda cans won't fall down, and I'm staking my livelihood on this signature."
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:If you did want to get an approved Earthship-style building, I assume you'd have
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"I'm invoking the Air Bud defense, there's no rule that my dog can't be my building inspector" "Yes there is. Your dog is not a licensed architect"
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:If you did want to get an approved Earthship-style building, I assume you'd have
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I don’t know what you are all worried about; you just fill the walls with cement so when they do collapse it kills you in one strike rather than burying you alive. 
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There's been enough engineering research into things like rammed-earth walls and straw/tire bale construction that it generally wouldn't be too hard to pay an engineer for the time to get familiar with the state of the art, check what you've built against the researchers' recommendations, and walk the inspectors through their findings. They're getting common enough in the western US that a lot of states have started explicitly adding these construction methods to their codebooks, too
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Leperflesh posted:Do they only get built like in the nevada desert outside any municipality where the county building rules are more or less nonexistent or something? There are a lot more places without building inspection, probably a lot closer than you think. But yeah. The Chairman posted:There's been enough engineering research into things like rammed-earth walls and straw/tire bale construction that it generally wouldn't be too hard to pay an engineer for the time to get familiar with the state of the art, check what you've built against the researchers' recommendations, and walk the inspectors through their findings. They're getting common enough in the western US that a lot of states have started explicitly adding these construction methods to their codebooks, too This isn't sufficient for any muni I've worked in or am aware of (that doesn't have this in their code book). You are DEEP into getting zoning and building variances LONG BEFORE you start. And the first professional you have to hire is a lawyer, not a structural engineer. And you'll be agreeing to pay their PE firm to inspect it after you've paid your engineer to stamp it. If it's in the code book, great. Even if you want to do it different - you can probably get away with it with your engineer. But if the manner of construction literally isn't in the book? Yeah, I'm not signing off on that. That's MY liability now.
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The biggest problem is probably the materials. You are building a structure out of literal trash, most or none of it is going to be warrantied. A couple of those tires have dry rot / telephone poles have deep cracks / etc. and now it's not up to code since I'd imagine that 'all materials are free of defects' is in pretty much every building code ever. Unless there is a tire and pole recycling and inspection outfit that resells this stuff.
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Akira, but a house.
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Leperflesh posted:I always wonder how the hell earth ships pass inspections. Like, you call up the city inspector and they just look at their copy of the code books, and look at your house, and back at their code books, and... yeah, this poo poo just isn't compatible, period? historically they're mostly out in the sticks and exempt, yeah, but they also clear the building inspector gauntlet more often than you'd think. in any case being out in the desert's a good fit for the design, it calls for dry, hot climates with an unobstructed view of the western sky, which is obvy hard to satisfy somewhere like a built-up city. i took some classes with a woman who ran her own successful permaculture home construction business, designing and building one-off homes for clients. iirc she preferred straw-bale n chinked cordwood designs (earthships specifically are a trademarked design and not well-suited to our cold and damp climate) but had to deal with the same regulatory headaches you'd get w an earthship. there are specific municipalities considered 'havens' for weird houses because of local ordinances worded favourably for goofball construction, while in other cases she said miracles happen when you reach out to your local inspector as a first step, build a rapport, and demonstrate a good-faith desire to build a safe and code-compliant home. and there are some that were built as special projects by architecture/permaculture students and had all the usual barriers removed but which are also one-offs you can't just duplicate Ambrose Burnside fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Sep 21, 2019 |
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I found beastMasterJ's VRBO . https://www.vrbo.com/955072?adultsCount=1&arrival=2020-01-30&departure=2020-03-01
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IncredibleIgloo posted:I found beastMasterJ's VRBO . Liver surgery 
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untzthatshit posted:I don't even really know what to say about this one..Apparently it's a temple of some sort but what god would allow this? We are your Groverlords
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There's a long running British TV series called Grand Designs where they follow self-builds. It's not that unusual for coupes to split during the build; through some mix of the stress and the blokes becoming obsessed with 'their' project. The episode that just went out was this build: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-83905949.html The wife and the kids left him mid-way through the build. edit: a random article with some of the 'best' builds https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/70126/the-best-houses-from-grand-designs
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Pablo Bluth posted:There's a long running British TV series called Grand Designs where they follow self-builds. It's not that unusual for coupes to split during the build; through some mix of the stress and the blokes becoming obsessed with 'their' project. The episode that just went out was this build: I mean it looks like it was at least finished so that puts it above most of the builds they have on the show. Those bathrooms look baaad though. Then again, I'm the rugs hastily put down after realising that it's a concrete echo chamber it's impossible to hold a conversation in. Edit: on second look I might be the unpainted staircase, the seeming total lack of blinds on any windows or the perverts telescope, just too many to choose from! Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Sep 21, 2019 |
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The guy who built it is in a wheel chair so the concrete floors do have a purpose. It was meant to have a fancy staircase but he ran out of money.
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Pablo Bluth posted:the concrete floors do have a purpose Yeah to keep people inside from falling to the ground.
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Pablo Bluth posted:The guy who built it is in a wheel chair so the concrete floors do have a purpose. It was meant to have a fancy staircase but he ran out of money. Concrete seems like a really poor choice for that. I get it - low rolling resistance, but what if he falls? The rolling resistance of almost any other "hard" flooring is going to be nearly the same and much less likely to give you a skull fracture. Or ensure that any plate or glass you drop immediately shatters everywhere.
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I think it's more that heavy wheelchair traffic maybe tends to gently caress up flooring? I imagine soft or hardwood would get chewed up very quick. Maybe tile would be OK, but that's just as hard as concrete. Linoleum is probably fine too, but also usually pretty ugly. Dunno about stuff like bamboo or composite or whatnot. Some folks just like a concrete floor, too.
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What an adventure, to climb that staircase! Will my high heels land on a tiny triangle of even and flat stepping area, or will I step on the large rounded edges, sliding backwards and falling to my death? I'm sure it's a lousy photo, but that's a lousy staircase.
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An entire staircase made of toilet tank lids.
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Are you sure these are stairs and not art? Honest question, it'd look fine as art but the idea of having to actually use those is very nope. Imagine how much worse it would be if you were at all mobility or vision impaired.
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Leperflesh posted:I think it's more that heavy wheelchair traffic maybe tends to gently caress up flooring? I imagine soft or hardwood would get chewed up very quick. Maybe tile would be OK, but that's just as hard as concrete. Linoleum is probably fine too, but also usually pretty ugly. Dunno about stuff like bamboo or composite or whatnot. In this case, I wonder if it was simply that they had no money for a decent floor covering so just dumped some clear resin over the freshly poured concrete and called it a day? Theye didn't even slap a layer of white emulsion on the staircase.
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PetraCore posted:Are you sure these are stairs and not art? It would be a convenient way to limit drunk people from entering a bar. The exit could be just a slide down, kinda like this:  Here's some more, uh. Creative stairs. https://www.boredpanda.com/creative-staircases/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic Some of these don't have any kind of hand rail or parapet because it clashes with the designer's esthetics. This is safest of them in that regard as there is a railing on the wall side and it doesn't rise too high before you reach the wall of the upper floor, but goddamn this looks like a killer otherwise.  This at least is obviously just art:   edit: oh, oh, oh! I have found the perfectly named website: https://www.stairporn.org/ (it's work safe, you dinguses)
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I legit thought this was some small model on a kitchen countertop and was going to make a Richard's spine joke
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https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/d5v31d/bathroom_floor_is_literally_dirt/quote:tl;dr: Moved into new house. Upon cleaning downstairs bathroom, found decomposed mice and the laminate peeled back to reveal earth underneath. No foundation, just dirt. Please help me. 
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When I said I wanted a “hot shower”, that’s not what I meant!
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Youth Decay posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/d5v31d/bathroom_floor_is_literally_dirt/ Psh, they're renting? I need some life-ruining investment in my schadenfreude. Also, 2.6k for a 2b/2ba isn't THAT amazing of a deal for San Diego. Sure, it's expensive here, but you can find places around that price, even in the area they're in. I guess they just REALLY wanted a house over an apartment?
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Also, 2.6k for a 2b/2ba isn't THAT amazing of a deal for San Diego. Sure, it's expensive here, but you can find places around that price, even in the area they're in. I guess they just REALLY wanted a house over an apartment? Well now they have a house over an escarpment.
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The house is built over a tunnel to Tijuana.
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Jaded Burnout posted:Well now they have a house over an escarpment.  I read the thread closer and it sounds like the linoleum was just placed on top of plywood that's so old and waterlogged that it's falling apart and LOOKS like dirt, so it doesn't sound like they're getting out of their lease after all.
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Platystemon posted:When I said I wanted a “hot shower”, that’s not what I meant! Is that a drywall it's built on? Am I correct in assuming that drywall is far far less resilient to moisture damage than ceramic tiles?
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By popular demand posted:Is that a drywall it's built on? In the same way that gasoline fumes are less resistant to fire than asbestos, yes.
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