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Motronic posted:This is so much better than trying to turn the town water plant into a residence. I think my favorite was the guy building a giant mansion out of earth/adobe, one layer at a time (i.e. like 3D printing only with mud bricks/straw). There was no reason, he just wanted to build a mansion out of mud I think because it was "the cheapest way" since the building material is easily available, don't have to pay anyone for it! Which makes perfect sense if you value your time at zero. Naturally the build was....not going quickly, and his wife clearly was already fed up (and maybe had already left him by the end of the episode when they check back in a year or whatever? At which point he was of course still nowhere close to done).
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BonerGhost posted:Was he also doing a round house or am I conflating two of them? I think you're right that it was round, or at least part of it was round, or maybe it was like a bunch of round masses bunched together? All I remember is it looked like absolute poo poo because he wasn't a pro at adobe mud bricks by any means, had taken him forever, had destroyed his marriage, and it seemed like it was still gonna take another 10 years for him to complete it. Also I don't remember how he was gonna protect it from the rain but it definitely didn't have much protection in its in-progress state, which in the UK.....yeah. edit: haha he finally finished it https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/houses/113080045/grand-designs-uk-castle-built-of-mud-finished--but-theres-dirty-laundry SyNack Sassimov fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Jun 24, 2022 |
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Building up the support walls where necessary to support block flooring edges. This is all pretty amazing to look at, living in a place where the concept of "build a house by just stacking blocks on each other with nothing holding them together except gravity" isn't in the realm of possibility due to the ground not being reliably in the same place at all times. I understand cutting blocks is a pain, but I'd take that in a heartbeat over not being able to use blocks at all, or if I did, having to use masonry fasteners to tie them all together. However, it looks like the space under the blocks for the pipes (which I'm also jealous of because you just plopped them down on the ground, looks like? Nothing holding them in place relative to the house either?) is basically just as tall as the pipes themselves. Is that an effect of photo angle, or is that space truly not much taller, i.e. it's not a crawlspace? So if pipes need to be fixed or relocated you have to pull up the floor/subfloor and the blocks below? Admittedly easier than cutting up and patching a concrete slab, but I would have thought still more annoying than having a crawlspace.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:My experience of housebuilding is more nightmares. The Can of Amontillado (edit since you're British, going to the can is slightly uncommon American slang for bathroom, sorry, it's a pretty lovely joke) edit2: 
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I keep telling myself this at every level of house but eventually... The house has to be visible Not if you put it behind a spite fence!
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Wait what. I thought I knew of all the British ways to gently caress up English, but... CILL? what in god's name Listen I'm not gonna say that American English is any kind of paragon when it comes to spelling because obviously English as a whole is just a dumpsterfire of the most insane and constantly variable mappings of letters to phonemes, but this is ridiculous. Why would you spell the word with a C? Really jobbles my jimlets. Lootles my lorries. Puts a tic in my spotted dick. Absurd. Sorry for the interruption chaps back to talking about windows.
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Jaded Burnout posted:The front fell off Is that normal?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Nothing can go wrong bobby. Famous first words.
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