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Wouldn't the sawdust insulation continue to settle so in a few years you have the top half of the all with no insulation at all anymore?
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Feb 26, 2017 21:05
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FCKGW posted:Wouldn't the sawdust insulation continue to settle so in a few years you have the top half of the all with no insulation at all anymore? Just collect drier lint, leaves, twigs, and other types of kindling from around the house and jam it in there.
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Feb 26, 2017 21:08
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Facebook Aunt posted:Just collect drier lint, leaves, twigs, and other types of kindling from around the house and jam it in there. Pump the dryer exhaust directly into the walls IMO
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Feb 26, 2017 21:09
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FCKGW posted:Wouldn't the sawdust insulation continue to settle so in a few years you have the top half of the all with no insulation at all anymore? I believe you'd have a compensatory effect from the gradual buildup of termite mounds.
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Feb 26, 2017 21:11
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FCKGW posted:Wouldn't the sawdust insulation continue to settle so in a few years you have the top half of the all with no insulation at all anymore? Yes. I've torn down a few old walls and there's always like a twenty-centimetre layer of sawdust on the bottom where it used to go all the way up.
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Feb 26, 2017 21:19
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Feb 26, 2017 23:31
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What the gently caress
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Feb 26, 2017 23:33
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Feb 26, 2017 23:34
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Lol they could have just used it for two weeks to get that distressed antique paint look without the effort.
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Feb 26, 2017 23:38
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If a time traveller pops out of that thing, run.
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Feb 26, 2017 23:54
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Jerry Cotton posted:Yes. I've torn down a few old walls and there's always like a twenty-centimetre layer of sawdust on the bottom where it used to go all the way up. Wait, where are you finding walls full of sawdust?
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Feb 27, 2017 03:09
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Slugworth posted:Wait, where are you finding walls full of sawdust? The problem is that they aren’t full of sawdust.
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Feb 27, 2017 03:12
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To be fair to that terrible idea, they said the walls would be full of wood wool, not just plain ol sawdust. Less problem settling, even more flammable! 
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Feb 27, 2017 03:20
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Slugworth posted:Wait, where are you finding walls full of sawdust? That sounds like homesteader houses from the end of the 19th/start of the 20th century. So I'm sure it's not too uncommon for that time period.
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Feb 27, 2017 03:27
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Slugworth posted:Wait, where are you finding walls full of sawdust? Old walls usually come with, you know, old houses.
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Feb 27, 2017 03:28
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Do you ever look at a project and just want to punch someone in the mouth?
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Feb 27, 2017 03:41
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NancyPants posted:Do you ever look at a project and just want to punch someone in the mouth? Look at those towels, dude. The people who own those towels have enough troubles in their life as it is.
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Feb 27, 2017 03:43
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flosofl posted:That sounds like homesteader houses from the end of the 19th/start of the 20th century. So I'm sure it's not too uncommon for that time period. This awesome video about traditional Finnish log cabin construction also shows them using sawdust for insulation (and tarry rope for filling gaps, oh and they built the entire thing using just axes, saws, and a hand drill).
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Feb 27, 2017 04:01
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Jerry Cotton posted:Look at those towels, dude. The people who own those towels have enough troubles in their life as it is. I wish you hadnt pointed those out. The doortable captured all my attention the first time.
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Feb 27, 2017 04:33
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~Coxy posted:We're even going to have brick-laying robots building our houses Real Soon Now™! Laying our streets too! Suspect Bucket posted:Well, the nice thing about having sawdust insulation and no plumbing is that you can just poo poo in the walls and everything will be just fine!* Something similar is actually a thing. You put a big glass tube in the middle of the house through the roof and open to the sky, throw in a bunch of manure, then your poop tube will keep your house warm... for awhile. Slugworth posted:Wait, where are you finding walls full of sawdust? Look up cellulose insulation. It's really old but has been making a comeback in recent years.
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Feb 27, 2017 06:03
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Platystemon posted:Bricks don’t grow on trees. Yeah, but they're common as dirt. It's like somebody said "Man, these tounge-and-groove wood floors are easy and look nice! Heeeeeey..."
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Feb 27, 2017 06:57
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This awesome video about traditional Finnish log cabin construction also shows them using sawdust for insulation (and tarry rope for filling gaps, oh and they built the entire thing using just axes, saws, and a hand drill). I actually grew up in a log cabin in Northern Wisconsin (My family has owned it since we were loggers in the 19th century and it was the 1960s when my hippy parents had me) that we had to stuff oakum in the cracks every year. Otherwise winters were no fun with gales ripping between the logs and icicles forming indoors.
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Feb 27, 2017 07:47
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Wrong video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlNF_Lru68w
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Feb 27, 2017 09:16
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~Coxy posted:We're even going to have brick-laying robots building our houses Real Soon Now™! You joke, but these guys seem to be getting somewhat close: http://fbr.com.au/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcrO8ONcfY It's from here in Perth, and it looks like it uses some sort of glue instead of mortar. They say it's because the house will be rendered, which I guess makes sense, the regular cookie cutter house you see here in the new developments are all pretty much 100% rendered, so it's totally pointless to do a quality mortar job that will just be covered up by cement. As an aside, I rendered the main living/dining room in the house we bought last year, because it was 100% hideous brick, and it was by the far the worst loving DIY thing I've ever done. Took ages, required 2 coats of render (one to fill joints, one to coat), then a coat of white set (lime putty and plaster), then a top coat because I was loving useless at getting the white set smooth. Every step was a nightmare, but I'd never tried it before, so I figured I'd give it a go. Should have just glued some gyprock to the bricks and been done with it, would have taken me a couple weeks instead of months of swearing.
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Feb 27, 2017 10:12
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JBark posted:You joke, but these guys seem to be getting somewhat close: That's who I mean; they've been at it for years. All the best to them really, but the time consuming and costly part of building a new house is not really the few days it takes some skilled brickies to lay 29 courses. (It's the three months it takes western power to install your meter lol)
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Feb 27, 2017 13:21
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Slugworth posted:Wait, where are you finding walls full of sawdust? Older farmhouses in rural MN/SD loved to install dirt/sawdust insulation. The mouse problems are just stupendous.
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Feb 27, 2017 14:28
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NancyPants posted:Do you ever look at a project and just want to punch someone in the mouth? Hey if we're allowed to use Pinterest as a source for this thread we can keep it going forever. Just like Pinterest using"free" pallets as a quality lumber source forever E:  for example.
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Feb 27, 2017 14:44
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cakesmith handyman posted:Hey if we're allowed to use Pinterest as a source for this thread we can keep it going forever. Just like Pinterest using"free" pallets as a quality lumber source forever My dad was in the army and got deployed to Panama during that whole Noriega thing. He's told stories about turning a blind eye to things like shipping crates and pallets going missing because impoverished Panamanians were using them to fix and even build houses. No one could bring themselves to poo poo on people so desperately poor that our trash was a godsend. And now we live in an era where DIY lifehack upcycle goobers proudly post pics of the same sort of construction tacked haphazardly onto middle class homes. God bless America.
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Feb 27, 2017 15:00
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Zahgaegun posted:Older farmhouses in rural MN/SD loved to install dirt/sawdust insulation. Iowa seems to have gone with newspaper instead.
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Feb 27, 2017 15:22
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The least stupid idea from Dahir Insaat. It's still stupid, but it's the least stupid. Humbug Scoolbus fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Feb 27, 2017 |
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Feb 27, 2017 16:52
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cakesmith handyman posted:Hey if we're allowed to use Pinterest as a source for this thread we can keep it going forever. Just like Pinterest using"free" pallets as a quality lumber source forever I swear these pinterest people have a network to let them know where the free pallets are. It seems like they show up within 10-15 minutes of us throwing them out, and they end up taking them all, even the ones that are literally falling apart.
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Feb 27, 2017 16:58
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Jerry Cotton posted:Old walls usually come with, you know, old houses. Others have answered that it seems to be a regional thing, so cool. Around here it was either newspaper or nothing in the hundred year+ homes.
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Feb 27, 2017 17:01
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mcgreenvegtables posted:Saw this at the Boston Opera House yesterday I've got a similar connection sitting next to me at my office. The building has two telephonics rooms and all of the ethernet drops lead to one or the other, but there isn't a patchover panels managing direct connections between the two, so we patch our floor 1 switch to our floor 3 switch on a pair of jacks under my desk. They resolve the issue among other tenants with virtual LANs, but it's managed by the building administrators and I am not confident in them.
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Feb 27, 2017 17:16
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Liquid Communism posted:Iowa seems to have gone with newspaper instead. I paid good money and the utility (at the behest of the government) chipped in a couple grand to fill my attic and walls with (borate soaked) newspaper!
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Feb 27, 2017 17:48
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Blue Footed Booby posted:God bless America. Ooh I wish it were confined to the US, neighbors showed us pictures of their relatives who threw out perfectly good furniture and replaced it with literal piles of pallets Katosabi posted:they end up taking them all, even the ones that are literally falling apart. You mean already partly broken down? Bonus! In-laws have the shredded newspaper insulation in their attic, it's disgusting and if they ever empty their crap out we'll replace it.
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Feb 27, 2017 18:12
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https://imgur.com/a/OFVfk Wow...just...hot drat.     
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Feb 27, 2017 20:42
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Slugworth posted:Fascinating. Having spent several years tearing walls down in old houses, I never stumbled upon one filled with sawdust, from top to bottom or simply piled at the bottom of the stud. Well newspapers didn't exist when old houses were built.
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Feb 27, 2017 21:01
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Jerry Cotton posted:Well newspapers didn't exist when old houses were built. you talking persian old, european old or american old there friend?
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Feb 27, 2017 21:05
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Bud K ninja sword posted:you talking persian old, european old or american old there friend? There is no American old.
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Jerry Cotton posted:There is no American old. just making sure we were on the same epoch
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