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Lutha Mahtin posted:new cabin just dropped This is loving poetry: quote:The cabin has been redesigned for maximum connection to the surrounding desert…
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"parcel is remote but close to pavement" Oh, ok.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:new cabin just dropped The first pig's straw cabin is totally gone.
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Saint Freak posted:"parcel is remote but close to pavement" That just means it’s in the middle of nowhere but has easy access to a paved road. Basically reassuring you that it’s not some patch of desert 50 miles from a real road.
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Saint Freak posted:"parcel is remote but close to pavement" it probably looks pretty "remote" to people coming from denser parts of the LA metro area 
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Should I put a jack post and a beam under these joists until I hang the drywall?
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We need to redo siding and windows next spring and you’re really making me want to do vinyl. Our other option is Hardie lap (or seamless steel if we want to shell out) but I’ve always had vinyl on other houses and I at least know what I’m doing with that.
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Cyrano4747 posted:That just means it’s in the middle of nowhere but has easy access to a paved road. It's certainly a unique neighborhood. I think, to fit in with the neighbors, the buyer will immediately need to put up a fence and aquire 20 or more non-running vehicles. https://maps.app.goo.gl/2Z35pGqMkeTx27gT8
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I don't use tiktok much at all but there's a local home inspector who has a great one full of content for this thread, thanks to the horrible flippers around here. Choice: https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7019038763707944198 https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7017799629249006854 https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7005237453204327685
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Stop calling EIFS stucco before I get mad.
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Oct 16, 2021 13:05
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Tezer posted:Stop calling EIFS stucco before I get mad. Sometimes it really is stucco though. Edit:for future reference I used to work do a stucco contractor that I refer to as the stucco fuckos.
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Oct 16, 2021 18:14
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All siding should be cedar planks or redwood shingles. I will not take any further questions.
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Oct 16, 2021 21:59
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nm posted:All siding should be cedar planks or redwood shingles. I will not take any further questions. All buildings should be sunk into the side of a hill and have verdure upon, along with round, brightly-painted doors. I care not where you direct any questions. I'll be on my bench with some Old Toby.
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nm posted:All siding should be cedar planks or redwood shingles. I will not take any further questions. 
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:All buildings should be sunk into the side of a hill and have verdure upon, along with round, brightly-painted doors. I care not where you direct any questions. I'll be on my bench with some Old Toby. Used to have a freind with a buried house. Word of warning: under no circumstances should you consider putting skylights in a house covered in dirt.
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“Dirt vents” struck off the list of dream house features, with regret.
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nm posted:All siding should be cedar planks or redwood shingles. I will not take any further questions. Exactly what I wanted my garage sided in when I built it: cedar shake. Then I priced it.  I resisted the siren song of cheap vinyl and went with Hardiebacker clapboard instead. Almost 20-years later: no regrets 
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:All buildings should be sunk into the side of a hill and have verdure upon, along with round, brightly-painted doors. I care not where you direct any questions. I'll be on my bench with some Old Toby. This is also fine. While that post was mostly not serious, my parent's coast house has 1960s unpainted redwood shingles and they've only had to replace a few which is loving impressive. My house has what I believe to be 100 yo cedar or redwood clapboard that some jackass po covered in stucco (it did appear to have been done properly) that I would love to un cover, but I'm sure that's impossible. nm fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Oct 17, 2021 |
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Oct 17, 2021 03:51
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My dad made a couch out of chipboard and used foam cushions covered with vinyl.
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Darth Brooks posted:My dad made a couch out of chipboard and used foam cushions covered with vinyl. That's one way to say "my parents are divorced."
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Darth Brooks posted:My dad made a couch out of chipboard and used foam cushions covered with vinyl. Was it see-through?
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Darth Brooks posted:My dad made a couch out of chipboard and used foam cushions covered with vinyl. hey, you know what, at least its bedbug-proof
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Chip board looks cool in a, "hey, that's neat" kinda way. Not as a kitchen theme. Imagine cleaning a splatter of spaghetti sauce from that.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:That's one way to say "my parents are divorced." No, he was just Darth Brooks fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Oct 17, 2021 |
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You coat it with an epoxy or urethane coating my dudes. OSB is gross tho as a construction material.
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nm posted:All siding should be cedar planks or redwood shingles. I will not take any further questions. Pine or fir planks work just fine in practice. If they start to rot it's usually near the ground and you can just replace that part if you like, using a 45 degree cut to make the splice. But they can last a really long time if taken care of.  Standing variants  Horizontal variant  Air gap behind all types of course.
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Wasabi the J posted:You coat it with an epoxy or urethane coating my dudes. Okay but the joke is "unfinished wood". Unfinished wood in a kitchen. SMH
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His Divine Shadow posted:Pine or fir planks work just fine in practice. If they start to rot it's usually near the ground and you can just replace that part if you like, using a 45 degree cut to make the splice. But they can last a really long time if taken care of. Tag yourself, I’m dubbelfasspont.
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Scrolling this page while eating breakfast and when I hit those cabinets, just slowly stopped chewing.
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Darth Brooks posted:No, he was just That's pretty cool. Just easy to assume it's something done as a bachelor move to avoid paying for furniture. I keep putting off building my own couch but I'm more of a fan of craftsman or mission than plywood. I'd like to build one that can be disassembled and moved by one person, using dimensional lumber, slotting the posts and notching the horizontal supports to drop and lock into the posts. As few fasteners as possible, basically. Plans are annoying to find, and the bulk of DIY couch plans online are "start with a stack of pallets" and the end pictures look like something I would have built in Iraq on my deployment downtime.
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nm posted:This is also fine. One of my friends bought a house with a slate roof and teak siding. It was built by and for a shipwright in the 1800s. There was a hurricane and they lost some roof tiles. They tried to find someone to replace them and the closest person that was willing to make them some was in Wales. I went over to see how bad the damage was; while inspecting their attic, I found knob-and-tube wiring that was still in use, about a hundred or so planks (3/8" thick, 8" wide, 8' long) of that teak siding, and ~80 or so new slates. I joked that they could sell the siding and slates and have the house for free. Except for the knob-and-tube and the bulk cotton waste/paper waste insulation, that house was the opposite of crappy construction.
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Hey, you built these stands with harmonic loads in mind, right? https://v.redd.it/gef9ruo701u71
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FISHMANPET posted:My 1909 house has vinyl siding (we bought it like this). Having grown up in the suburbs I had an aversion to vinyl siding as well, but I actually like it on this house. One of the things I realized that makes Vinyl siding look crappy is the overlap on long blank runs on new houses. Use reglets. The joints can become a facade feature, especially if you align them with or center them on windows and doors. No lovely seams anywhere.
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Double A Double V
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MisterOblivious posted:Used to have a freind with a buried house. Word of warning: under no circumstances should you consider putting skylights in a house covered in dirt. This makes me think of how in one of the Little House books, they lived in a dugout and a cow got on the roof and stepped through it. I think the entire thing collapsed eventually.
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PainterofCrap posted:Exactly what I wanted my garage sided in when I built it: cedar shake. Hello blue-Hardie (although mine is HardiePanel with their battens over the top) and cedar friend   Also, never use HardiePanel unless you are paying someone to do it. What a gigantic PITA. Great stuff, lasts amazingly well, but jesus what a nightmare to install. ROJO fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Oct 18, 2021 |
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Whoever invented backstab outlets really deserves a place in hell. And the scabs that use them should be right beside them! I had 2 backstabbed outlets fail after only 3 years of use. One made quite the show; all I was doing was plugging a cell phone charger in. I was greeted with a ball of vaporized metal and plastic coming at my face. The hot wire had apparently fell out and touched the ground from what I could tell. At least when the second one failed, all it did was stop working. It prompted me to remove and re-wire every single outlet in my house.
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