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Wasabi the J posted:Based on that and the painting saying "Go Hokies" I'm guessing it's right near the college. Pulaski is 30 miles from VA Tech and there's no shortage of cheap housing in Blacksburg and Christiansburg much closer to campus.
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Wasabi the J posted:Based on that and the painting saying "Go Hokies" I'm guessing it's right near the college. I swear to God, I thought that sign said "Go Honkies" and I was like "Yup, sounds about right"
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Someone needs to burn this monstrosity to the ground and salt the earth. I'm the delta between the original price and the asking price. I wish there were some way to know which projects they thought increased or reduced value. Having it painted but with overspray on the brick and windows, even completely covering the glass above the AC window unit- was that a plus or minus? Adding a bedroom at the cost of the living room- raise or lower the price? kid sinister posted:^I like the stairs over the stairs. Inside or outside? I think the double stairs of death out front are the only way to access the house without scaling the blue tarp cliffs.
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Those are party stairs. Why not build a path from the street going up the hill, by the Honkies sign???
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If they built a path in a new place they would have to haul away the old stairs instead of leaving them underneath to rot  Yeah, building stairs that meet the side of the front porch in front of the Honkies sign would have been a little less steep and the front of the house would have looked better from the street. But stairs have already been there, so why would they do something other than the way it's always been done?
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I sort of want to buy that outright just so I can spend weekends taking out all of my frustrations by screaming and hitting it with an ax until it collapses.
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Hey remember that doofus shower with river rocks all over the bottom? I got you one better: 
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Ashcans posted:Hey remember that doofus shower with river rocks all over the bottom? I got you one better:
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Ashcans posted:Hey remember that doofus shower with river rocks all over the bottom? I got you one better: Makes me feel like I'd be showering surrounded by bees.
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Anybody remember those pebble-filled walls, like at an Elementary school, where the pebbles were like 2-5mm in diameter and sometimes had shells? I know this seems like a fever dream, but I distinctly remember my Elementary and Junior High years picking rocks/shells off of the wall.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Anybody remember those pebble-filled walls, like at an Elementary school, where the pebbles were like 2-5mm in diameter and sometimes had shells? I never picked the aggregate off myself, but I remember seeing the pits where other students had.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Anybody remember those pebble-filled walls, like at an Elementary school, where the pebbles were like 2-5mm in diameter and sometimes had shells? The elementary school I went to for kindergarten and 1st grade in TX had those, and a pebbled floor too. It was a weird part-indoor part-outdoor space, like the wide long hallway was open on either end and the classrooms were on the sides. It was torn down in 2011 and replaced with a much nicer building.
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Pebbledash! My primary and secondary schools were both like that, as were most of the surrounding housing estates.
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Wolfsbane posted:Pebbledash! Correct me if im wrong. The photos in your link. Did they really use old beer bottles and assorted glass in this stuff?
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In high school the pool was lined with that finish and it sucked trying to dive in the shallow end, let me tell you.
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fist4jesus posted:Correct me if im wrong. The photos in your link. Did they really use old beer bottles and assorted glass in this stuff? It was/is a stucco treatment any you basically used whatever cheap roughage you had around. Entirely old glass is called bottledash, or you could just mix some in with gravel to add a little color/sparkle if the local rocks were too boring. The pieces are small and they get worn down by the process, so it's not a wall full of knives if that's what you're thinking.
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Related, when I was a kid people would top walls by putting a layer of mortar/cement and then jamming broken bottles in it. Because barbed wire is too expensive, I guess?
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Ashcans posted:Related, when I was a kid people would top walls by putting a layer of mortar/cement and then jamming broken bottles in it. Because barbed wire is too expensive, I guess? This is really common in third world countries. Broken bottles are free (or very cheap, recycling deposits forfeit) and available. Barbed wire is comparatively expensive and hard to come by.
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H110Hawk posted:This is really common in third world countries. Broken bottles are free (or very cheap, recycling deposits forfeit) and available. Barbed wire is comparatively expensive and hard to come by. But enough about England.
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tangy yet delightful posted:But enough about
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Wolfsbane posted:Pebbledash! From what I remember of my childhood in Runosmäki, one of the advantages seemed to be that it takes a lot of both effort and materials to get graffiti to show up on it.
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I don't think this is necessarily crappy construction or even that bad but I've never seen anything like it and to me it's a bit goofy:
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tangy yet delightful posted:But enough about England. Hey..! Actually yeah this was really common where I grew up. Only commercial places used barbed (or more commonly razor) wire, residential either used broken glass and dealt with FUD from the neighbours about its legality, or stuck with the time-honoured tradition of yelling at the kids to get off the dang walls. Broken stones often used too. When I went back home as a late teen I walked out into the yard and some kids jumped down and scattered away, from climbing on the same walls I got yelled at about when I was a kid. Circle of life, so beautiful, single tear.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I don't think this is necessarily crappy construction or even that bad but I've never seen anything like it and to me it's a bit goofy: This world doesn't have enough love for Mansard or Gothic Arch Roofs
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:This world doesn't have enough love for Mansard or Gothic Arch Roofs Today I learned that Mansard roof means different things in different languages. e: Also what the gently caress the dude's name was Mansart anyway 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Today I learned that Mansard roof means different things in different languages. So what's a Finnish Mansard roof? The one you posted is pretty typical for the US. ETA: Although usually the windows stick out rather than recess, and that one's badly proportioned.
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Bonster posted:So what's a Finnish Mansard roof? The one you posted is pretty typical for the US. This, usually: 
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Wolfsbane posted:Pebbledash! Holy poo poo I finally know what it's called.
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Jerry Cotton posted:This, usually: That (in the US) is a Gambrel Roof
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Jerry Cotton posted:This, usually: We call that a gambrel roof here in the US. edit: beaten
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I call that a barn roof (and I like it.)
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:This world doesn't have enough love for Mansard or Gothic Arch Roofs In the US the mansard roof is a ubiquitous feature of stand-alone fast-food restaurants and that's all I can see when I look at a house with that kind of roof.    
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I'll never be able to unsee that in Paris again.
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Every lovely condo that goes up in my town has a roof like that. A sort of fake pitched roof around the edge to hide the actual flat roof covering most of the building. Local design panels always call for them to make the building look more "residential" and "fit in". When apartments go up that can admit they are a flat-roofed box and not try to hide it they can actually have some fine looking apartment building architecture rather than "I'm just a really big single family house! No really!" poo poo.
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Fun fact: the Mansard roof has no architectural purpose but originated as a tax dodge - houses were only taxed on the area below the roofline, so some genius started building the top floor inside the roof.
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 Tax-free!
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Buff Skeleton posted:
 It has walls on two of four sides.   There are untaxable.
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Untaxable teepee sounds like a band name
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I woke up this morning with a bad hangover And my teepee was low-cost again This happens all the time It's untaxable
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