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stealie72 posted:I dont see -20 on there. It’s there in Celsius. Maybe he’s British and uses Fahrenheit for highs and Celsius for lows. 
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stealie72 posted:But either way. Idiot needs to bury his shitpipe deeper. The problem isn't so much the sewage pipe, it's the fresh water pipe. That fucker's pretty likely to burst because the cold WILL get that deep. 1.5m is the depth recommendation for Denmark, and we rarely get -20C, -10C is the worst it usually gets(pre-windchill). So yeah, if that fucker doesn't burst from frost within three years, I'll be drat surprised.
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PurpleXVI posted:The problem isn't so much the sewage pipe, it's the fresh water pipe. That fucker's pretty likely to burst because the cold WILL get that deep. Bursting is the good option here. The bad option is that the water pipe and poo poo pipe just crack and leak all over each other for a few years.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Bursting is the good option here. The bad option is that the water pipe and poo poo pipe just crack and leak all over each other for a few years. Artisanal self moisturizing compost bog?
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Also just the fact that there should be several feet of separation between the sewer and potable water pipes.
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silicone thrills posted:Isn't alot of the whole tiny house on those lovely RV frames/trailers just because most municipalities won't let you build houses under 800sqft anymore? Yeah. You also don't have to pay property taxes on them.
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silicone thrills posted:Isn't alot of the whole tiny house on those lovely RV frames/trailers just because most municipalities won't let you build houses under 800sqft anymore? The most recent International Building Code allows for *most* tiny houses (bedroom minimum 70sf, forgot what bathroom minimum is but it's nothing crazy) but the local codes can be more restrictive. Also subdivisions and HOAs often have ridiculous minimum square footage and many banks won't do mortgages on 1-bedroom houses. However, a big reason why people build tiny houses on trailers is to avoid having to follow any building codes at all. Even without the size limitations, the ladders, lack of loft egress, composting toilets, etc. in many of them wouldn't fly. There are some well-built tiny houses but a lot of deathtraps as well. Here is a good, fully permitted tiny-ish house on a foundation in rural Georgia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ47z67L4l8.
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Youth Decay posted:Here is a good, fully permitted tiny-ish house on a foundation in rural Georgia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ47z67L4l8. That sink is bad. It shouldn’t be divided.
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B-Nasty posted:These fuckers basically forced my hand to get a big ol' silver maple chopped down. They would hang out all day and gorge themselves on the maple sap excreting 'honeydew' (sticky sugar sap poo poo) on anything under the tree. We bought our house midsummer in 2018, and no one explained the SLF issue up front, and I was appalled at the hordes of these things on our few trees. So I did some research over the winter, and the PSU Extension has a good resource site. I looked at https://extension.psu.edu/spotted-lanternfly-management-for-homeowners and compared it to what I could buy and safely use. I appropriately mixed dinotefuran and treated our trees, and it cut down on the insects a TON. I also waited until after things flowered, etc, etc, etc. Montgomery County was a wasteland of dead insects everywhere for a while. Ew. There's some neat research coming out of PSU and Cornell on ways to address this, including a natural fungus from NY that already exists in their vineyards.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Bursting is the good option here. The bad option is that the water pipe and poo poo pipe just crack and leak all over each other for a few years. This is what the locals told me was why you can't drink the water when I was working in Mexico City. They laid the inflow and outflow pipes shittily and on the same sides of the street when they were developing the city, and of course never did proper maintenance or fixes. All the pipes have cracks and the poo poo water mixes with the tap water and voila, cholera.
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Youth Decay posted:Here is a good, fully permitted tiny-ish house on a foundation in rural Georgia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ47z67L4l8. That's quite good, but when I think "places that need to embrace good, cheap, small houses", I'm not sure rural Georgia (where land is presumably cheap and population density is low) springs to mind. Tiny house projects seem way more interesting when they're done in areas where home ownership is generally only a dream for most people due to extremely high cost of living or very small amount of space.
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Alarbus posted:We bought our house midsummer in 2018, and no one explained the SLF issue up front, and I was appalled at the hordes of these things on our few trees. So I did some research over the winter, and the PSU Extension has a good resource site. I looked at https://extension.psu.edu/spotted-lanternfly-management-for-homeowners and compared it to what I could buy and safely use. I appropriately mixed dinotefuran and treated our trees, and it cut down on the insects a TON. I also waited until after things flowered, etc, etc, etc. And for anyone with SLF and/or EAB: keep checking regularly. The research is ongoing and recommendations change. Use the reporting tool for SLF to tell them where you've found SLF. Follow the schedule of when to do things. Just order your tree bands now so you've got them for the spring. For the maples at my friends houses I was spraying Talstar (bifenthrin) this year. It was lasting at least a couple of weeks, and I was using very little per tree. I did have to dig out a different set of nozzles for the backpack sprayer to attempt to get it further up the trunk, which meant I was in a bunny suit, eyepro and a respirator. Suiting up and waiting for it to try/getting back out of the gear took longer than the treatments but ya know, neurotoxins and all, so it's time well spent. Edit:  DO NOT USE bifenthrin if you have cats around that may be outdoors before the treatment can fully dry. They are missing an enzyme that most other mammals have (to break it down) and it will kill them very quickly if they get into it.I guess I should start a pesticide/invasive species thread. Motronic fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Nov 21, 2019 |
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 Tiny House Minnesota Style.  Or do it Quebec style with power and everything. The lack of building codes is the biggest driver I see for people I know interested in Tiny House. The above YouTube link that Youth Decay shows a good, proper, house but it's $78,000. These people want a TinyHouse for under $10k. All I need to do to see the logical outcome is drive around and see the ice shacks people build near me. Truck caps for roofs. Plastic sheeting for walls. Pallet wood loving everything. At least a home has resale value, I can't imagine someones 400 sqft portable fart box is going to have much value in 20 years.
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Yooper posted:The lack of building codes is the biggest driver I see for people I know interested in Tiny House. The above YouTube link that Youth Decay shows a good, proper, house but it's $78,000. These people want a TinyHouse for under $10k. All I need to do to see the logical outcome is drive around and see the ice shacks people build near me. Truck caps for roofs. Plastic sheeting for walls. Pallet wood loving everything. At least a home has resale value, I can't imagine someones 400 sqft portable fart box is going to have much value in 20 years. lmao that's literally shanties. Edit: Added quote. Space Kablooey fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Nov 21, 2019 |
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Yea I was going to say 'Tiny House' is just more rebranding on age-old solutions like 'living in a shanty', just like we have 'Coliving Solutions' instead of 'bunkhouses' and 'gig economy' instead of 'day labor'
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Dr.Smasher posted:That looks more like ice fishing huts, honestly. It is. That area is famous for running power to ice fishing shacks.
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All I hear is the Trailer Park Boys theme
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Here's a bunch of grover house pics. I didn't follow the thread at the time so some are new to me. https://twitter.com/BoldlyBuilding2/status/1197999531671130112?s=19 lol the ducts.
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Oh my God I never saw those loving ducts. Goddamn. Why the gently caress would you do that poo poo in flex ducts? That loses you a bunch of power and makes the whole thing noisier. Unless of course you're just too lazy and/or stupid to calculate what firm ducting you need ahead of time and actually get the appropriate parts...
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https://twitter.com/BoldlyBuilding2/status/1198001407107960834 I finally understand 
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Plastik posted:You do realise that the Tiny House Movement is and was a way to minimize housing costs, right? Like you're railing against poor people for not being able to afford homes? For 20k you can also find a used 3br/2ba single-wide, so I still don’t see how tiny houses are anything but manufactured homes for the instagram/youtube set. Also how do you get a splitter on the water/sewer hookup to fit 3 on a pad?
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crazypeltast52 posted:Also how do you get a splitter on the water/sewer hookup to fit 3 on a pad? This is one of the easier parts of plumbing, believe it or not.
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Jaded Burnout posted:This is one of the easier parts of plumbing, believe it or not. Florida too I guess, I was thinking places where it freezes.
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crazypeltast52 posted:For 20k you can also find a used 3br/2ba single-wide, so I still don’t see how tiny houses are anything but manufactured homes for the instagram/youtube set. Its a fad. They are "new" and "interesting" so people want to pay that premium to not have space.
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crazypeltast52 posted:For 20k you can also find a used 3br/2ba single-wide, so I still don’t see how tiny houses are anything but manufactured homes for the instagram/youtube set. Probably stigma of living in a trailer park.
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crazypeltast52 posted:For 20k you can also find a used 3br/2ba single-wide, so I still don’t see how tiny houses are anything but manufactured homes for the instagram/youtube set. That's not the entire picture, but it's a fair assessment of a major driving force behind them, which is smaller homes that don't look poor and old fashioned like mobile homes and RVs do.
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there wolf posted:That's not the entire picture, but it's a fair assessment of a major driving force behind them, which is smaller homes that don't look poor and old fashioned like mobile homes and RVs do. Also the fun of having a fort with a loft bed and stuff. It's a treehouse for grownups. After decades of poverty mocking there's nothing fun about a trailer park.
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Facebook Aunt posted:After decades of poverty mocking there's nothing fun about a trailer park. So you're telling me Trailer Park Boys *isn't* a documentary?
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A cafe/teppanyaki restaurant in my town, lmao.
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I feel there's absolutely a classist element to all the Tiny House stuff, "the only people who live in trailer parks are like, poor people who drink malt liquor" and all that, so you call it a "tiny house" instead so it's quirky and hip instead and appeals to young people with middle-class backgrounds and college degrees.
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C.M. Kruger posted:I feel there's absolutely a classist element to all the Tiny House stuff, "the only people who live in trailer parks are like, poor people who drink malt liquor" and all that, so you call it a "tiny house" instead so it's quirky and hip instead and appeals to young people with middle-class backgrounds and college degrees. What sort of College degrees? They type with no prospects of employment?
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wesleywillis posted:What sort of College degrees? They type with no prospects of employment? But you repeat yourself
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C.M. Kruger posted:I feel there's absolutely a classist element to all the Tiny House stuff, "the only people who live in trailer parks are like, poor people who drink malt liquor" and all that, so you call it a "tiny house" instead so it's quirky and hip instead and appeals to young people with middle-class backgrounds and college degrees. Tiny house hipsters get the most publicity (young attractive white people get clicks) but there are also many individuals on fixed incomes, single mothers, and the underemployed who are attracted to the idea of having a well-built, cute little house that they can afford to own. They don't want a trailer because mobile homes are poorly built and generally look like ugly vinyl boxes. These people seem to make most of the positive comments on the videos of the tiny house hipsters. Basically it's a product of the current housing situation in the US, which is that The Rent (and Mortgage) is Too drat High.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I finally understand I always thought it was because he was tooting his own horn over building his house himself. 
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peanut posted:A cafe/teppanyaki restaurant in my town, lmao. hows the food
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crazypeltast52 posted:For 20k you can also find a used 3br/2ba single-wide, so I still don’t see how tiny houses are anything but manufactured homes for the instagram/youtube set. Not if you're going to try and get a mortgage on it, because you don't have 20k just sitting around in your bank. Source: tried to get a mortgage for a used trailer, rather than having to buy a brand-new one, and watched the bank rep do their level best not to just laugh me and my then-partner out of the room. Followed by them giving us a pamphlet for the brand of trailers that bank prefers working with.
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