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What kind of foundations do the buildings on either side of you look like In Texas we have thick gooey clay that can move 5cm from drought to torrential downpour, a dozen times a year, and sit on a 7.5cm un-reinforced concrete slab-on-grade. Ten million homes like this. Yes they all have a crack down the middle, but doesn't impact the overall structural integrity of the house sitting on top Pretty sure anti-aircraft guns in Dover sit on less substantial foundations   
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I've only spent more than 24 hours in England once and I was 16 on a school trip and distracted by the things 16 year olds are so my memory is fuzzy on the subject but, Are these posts on a time delay? Is it really that wet and gray in England in June? Seems awfully wet  if it were not for the time stamp I'd assume this was taken in late NovemberGodspeed
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I'm sure the real answer is "this is way cheaper than doing it your way, do you have any idea what cement costs, and how many trucks it would take to fill this volume?" but sure seems like you could do the foundation a lot faster by just excavating the foundation box and pouring a continious slab? Especially when you take into account your time, equipment rentals, bunch of deliveries of fill dirt/rock, labor of people scamming their own family etc might be break-even? 
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Wow I noticed your setback from the fence, went back to the OP to look at the plan diagram and WOW you're at the bare minimum lot line offset, huh? Does that free up extra usable lawn space or were you just trying to follow the footprint as closely as possible or what Also looks like your added some extra foundation in the center vertex where both halves meet. Do you own your driveway or is some of it right of way? Looks good great job 
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Is purple a normal safety barricade color (colour?) in your part of the world? We have those same barricades but I've only seen them in orange, once or twice in safety yellow
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Jun 27, 2022 19:56
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Me imagining 99's plant room  
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Jun 29, 2022 11:55
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Not gonna lie, spend a non zero amount of time contemplating your build pretty much each dayNotJustANumber99 posted:We leave quite a few options in the plant room cos obviously all the plants in here are going to need access to get their roots through 
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Yeah I think they tried selling the mini back in the 50s or 60s and immediately had to take it off the market because they didn't realize Americans expect to drive their car at 70-80mph for 2-3 hours non stop, every day and it just wasn't built to do that; whereas the island of Britain in the middle narrows down to something like 70 miles at one point Also tiny windy medieval roads suck for going anywhere faster than walking speed, and everyone is constantly driving on the wrong side of the road sorry not sorry
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I was in Texas recently and there was a thing on the news about the state wanting to re-sign the stretch of I-10 from San Antonio to El Paso as 85 but didn't have the funding for it. Only about 100 miles have been re-signed from 70 to 85 so far. That stretch of I-10 is flat desert with no settlements beyond a service station every 50 miles or so. Most people are cruising along at closer to 90. Nothing to hit. Even the raised highways that run through the sleepy suburbs are 70. It was 55 from the oil crisis in the 70s through the mid 90s though
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One can dream
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Jaded Burnout posted:Given this is retrospective I’m guessing you already figured out you need to be more assertive with these guys. I think you missed a zero there, pretty sure he's got 200k in the foundations alone
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"listed building" carries a lot of weight in brit culture, based on the Grand Designs shows I was binging peak-lockdown
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Not sure if your plant room is going to get enough sun that close to the fence
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One layer above the ground floor you have a single line of red brick, is this a racing stripe, air/moisture break, fire break or just some sort of spacer so you can use a standard 3m 2x4 or whatever I'm definitely not a masonry wizard but seems like in the states nobody is building their houses with racing stripes at ankle level (not sure what you call that in metric either)
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NotJustANumber99 posted:with 200mm of insulation I thought this build was south of the artic circle Edit: maybe this is australia, where heat sinks rather than rises
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"local man dies of broken spine: apparently the man was leaning against the wall when suddenly a chain reaction of every stud twisting loose caused a shockwave that ran down the drywall causing his spinal cord and spleen to burst from the shockwave" "It was just too fast to get out of the way. The whole house was wound up like the tightest steel spring. There was a creak, a pop, and half a second later it was over and all the drywall was crooked. You could feel the shockwave move through the air and through you" "It was like living in the most resonant, tightest wound drum" one family member was overheard commenting News and weather at 7 Hadlock fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Aug 2, 2022 |
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Local Florida man dies in front of entire family proving he can suck his own dick, breaks neck. Family trashes house to hide shame, concocts wild story about house exploding. News at 11
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Looks like you got the upgraded, "I plan on doing something with my attic some day, maybe" trusses. Any, uh, plans for upstairs yet. Looks like you have roughly 1000 sq ft between two rooms up there to start that coffin-building business you were talking about last page Edit: Sorry to hear about your brother in Florida
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An L shaped sense of security. Robbed blind and haven't even moved in yet, wild
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What's UK for mullet + camaros on cinder blocks
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Jaded Burnout posted:Mario and Wall-luigi.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:
Nice looking plant room, can't wait to see what you decide to put in there. Looks like it gets some excellent afternoon sun
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Ive just sold on ebay the leftover thermolite blocks. 300 blocks. There's an economics podcast where they interview some factory manager in Russia that's been there since the Soviet era when they were doing the barter system and passing around gazprom (oil/gas) IOUs Apparently they had a couple million bricks in a yard at the factory, barter payment for some shipment order they produced. Due to inflation and brick's near-gold like ability to not degrade from the elements they had chosen to hang on to them as a durable store of wealth, rather than sell them on the market for cash in a hyperinflation environment
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Kind of curious if firewood theft is going to become a thing this winter
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This image is forever burned into my memory I can never look at a McDonald's the same way, ever again
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Hadlock posted:Kind of curious if firewood theft is going to become a thing this winter I think about this a lot for some reason
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Hadlock posted:Kind of curious if firewood theft is going to become a thing this winter 
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Wouldn't you just use something like 3M 5200 or 4200 to bond the tiles together that can't be mechanically fastened, or whatever the roofing equivalent is
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Hydroponics system going into your plant room looking mighty fine
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In the UK because you drive on the other side of the road, does that mean the drive thru runs clockwise around the building? Because it looks like you're setup for cars to wrap counter clockwise around the building like they do in the states
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Maybe it's just an optical illusion but are your roof tiles supposed to look like a wavy tribute to Gaudí
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Minus the last two photos looks like you're building a McDonald's
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Just run a winch from your habitable attic down through the ceiling into the sun roof with a body harness, then walk down from the attic. Bing bong so simple
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NotJustANumber99 posted:
Loft in American generally in an urban context is industrial space converted to uncomfortable residential; in a rural context it means poorly conceived spare upstairs bedroom. In either case, it appears we've accidentally settled on an agreed upon definition here and today.
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Where is the plant room in this latest render
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Leperflesh posted:I bet your incredibly deep and powerful foundation is strong enough for you to install a shark tank below the table in the great hall although that will mess with the heated floors probably my brother in christ have you heard the good news about tropical shark tanks
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Failed Imagineer posted:Tbf most people don't take such a rigid/thrifty/perverse definition of "self-build". I keep expecting to open thread and 99 is now milling his own blocks or has started a small steel foundry in the unused breakroom I keep waiting to see what he's gonna plant in the plant room  it's gonna be monstera deliciosa with all the heat and humidity from leaking hoses
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