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I might consider buying brick house.
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wesleywillis posted:I might consider buying brick house. At the very least, it is mighty-mighty.
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Nov 24, 2017 12:39
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Can't believe I'm the first person to post that y'all should move to Western Australia, where all the homes are brick because we're not very smart but at least we're Different™.
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~Coxy posted:Can't believe I'm the first person to post that y'all should move to Western Australia, where all the homes are brick because we're not very smart but at least we're Different™. Yeah, but you have only two seasons - fiery and less-fiery - and all kinds of fierce wildlife, including hoons, salties, cassowaries, dingoes, and bogans. Of course you need brick houses. 
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That floor is terrazzo. Was super popular in the fifties and sixties. If you can find a concrete guy that knows what he's doing, getting it polished and sealed up makes for a REALLY nice floor. Way nicer than tile, though you are locked into the visual choices that were made when it was poured. A lot of the houses down here that were built with terrazzo have had tile laid on top, but more and more are refinishing the original floors during renovations/flipping. Anyone that puts tack-strip into terrazzo floors for carpets is a loving war criminal.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:At the very least, it is mighty-mighty. Definitely a perfect place to be letting it all hang out.
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I can't hate the house too bad, though I'm not really into the whole "this is the jail where Billy the Kid was imprisoned" look. Some of the design choices seem...manageable, but it sure feels awkward.
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Youth Decay posted:It's burnt adobe brick which is what a lot of houses in Tucson are made of (if not plain adobe), but most builders have the sense to plaster/paint the interior walls so it doesn't look like a dungeon. Nah it looks more like a sheriffs office in the old west.
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Youth Decay posted:And what kind of drugs were they on when they tiled this bathroom? I had to come back as I just noticed the sunken tub, the tile is like a colorblind test.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > DIY & Hobbies > Crappy Construction Tales: I just noticed the sunken tub, the tile is like a colorblind test.
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That adobe house owns bones, and really represents the best of Tucson architecture. Some questionable choices inside, but man, put some plaster on the walls and get rid of that awful paint and bathroom and we're in business.
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Those walls are solid brick but only 2 bricks thick. You can see around the window how thin the walls are.
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Baronjutter posted:Those walls are solid brick but only 2 bricks thick. You can see around the window how thin the walls are. How thick do you need them to be? It's in the desert.
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Jaded Burnout posted:How thick do you need them to be? It's in the desert. I thought desert dwellings often had really thick walls to help regulate the temperature? Keep the heat out during the day and the cold out during the night? Big thick adobe or mud brick walls and poo poo.
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MrYenko posted:That floor is terrazzo. Was super popular in the fifties and sixties. If you can find a concrete guy that knows what he's doing, getting it polished and sealed up makes for a REALLY nice floor. Way nicer than tile, though you are locked into the visual choices that were made when it was poured. A lot of the houses down here that were built with terrazzo have had tile laid on top, but more and more are refinishing the original floors during renovations/flipping. Terrazzo also lasts forever. It might crack, but that's it.
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Indolent Bastard posted:I'm sure it will be fine. That stuff is tough and long lasting. I dunno. This stuff has already cracked under a few pressure points where other stuff has hit it, or put pressure on it. And it's only a couple of years old.
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Youth Decay posted:Like why are there bars on all the windows? Original owners were werewolves, obviously. Civilized werewolves, but you need to be able to lock up tight when your adolescent werewolf kids have a temper tantrum. Floors and walls need to be able to stand up to routine wear and tear from your claws.
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Baronjutter posted:Those walls are solid brick but only 2 bricks thick. You can see around the window how thin the walls are. This thread's wisemen don't know how it feels.
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therobit posted:This thread's wisemen don't know how it feels. I'll readily admit to living in a one-trick pony of a country with regard to climate. Block the gales and stop the rain and you're good to go.
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How would you even decorate this? It looks like a dry goods storage. therobit posted:This thread's wisemen don't know how it feels. I GET IT
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Magic Hate Ball posted:How would you even decorate this? It looks like a dry goods storage. I'd recommend a brick or brick-related theme. Like maybe a brick shelf for your brick collection, and a brick table, and a brick couch.
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I'm not in love with that particular terrazzo floor, but I'd consider a house very much like it if I was in the South West US. For this one, I'd probably look at bamboo flooring and leave the bathroom floor. I like the layout of the bathroom, but god drat that tile.
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Bad Munki posted:I'd recommend a brick or brick-related theme. Like maybe a brick shelf for your brick collection, and a brick table, and a brick couch. The Contemporary Danish Brick Shithouse Collection
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Proteus Jones posted:I'm not in love with that particular terrazzo floor, but I'd consider a house very much like it if I was in the South West US. Yeah, Dazzle Camo probably isnt the bet idea for a bathroom
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Magic Hate Ball posted:How would you even decorate this? It looks like a dry goods storage. Cinder blocks. Also You'd have to play this song at least a few times per day. https://youtu.be/rrBx6mAWYPU?t=2
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Is crime a huge problem in that desert? Those are some serious cages around the windows that I'd expect from an old timey wild west jailhouse or a warehouse in a high crime area. Looks super institutional or depressing on a house. There certainly property crime issues in my city but you almost never see bars on windows, specially on houses. Also quite often it's a huge fire code violation.
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Baronjutter posted:Is crime a huge problem in that desert? Those are some serious cages around the windows that I'd expect from an old timey wild west jailhouse or a warehouse in a high crime area. Looks super institutional or depressing on a house. There certainly property crime issues in my city but you almost never see bars on windows, specially on houses. Also quite often it's a huge fire code violation. I think it's going for an Old West Sheriff aesthetic, not crime prevention. Plus there's at least one window that's missing the vertical bars for half of it, so I imagine they're removable. I'd be afraid of exit in case of the fire as well. I'd probably remove/chop-off the bars and install IR cameras if I was that worried about crime.
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I don't know why, but minus those window bars, I absolutely love that house. I love it so much. I cannot explain why because I objectively dislike almost every part of it, but as a whole, it is wonderful and I would legitimately love living in it, I think.
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Bars are common on ground floor windows of toilets, showers, bathrooms and kitchens here, especially new houses. These smaller windows are likely to be open all day/night to air it out. Older houses have floor-to-ceiling sliding windoors in every room. The locks are lovely and they're easier to rob.
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https://i.imgur.com/0IEcAia.mp4
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Someone mistook the screensaver for the plans
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If the door opened inwards, that'd be perfect.
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Is it just an illusion or does that stretch crossing the door sag a bit? Also, nice stress crack developing on the sheet rock there.
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This is a puzzle in one of those escape rooms, right?
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Manifold Destiny
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This is a puzzle in one of those escape rooms, right? fermun posted:this is a solar hot water system. the way it works is that there'd be a pump pumping propylene glycol through collectors on the roof to a heat exchanger inside the two tanks on the left, maybe that third one as well. that would heat up the water coming in off the street to between 120F/49C and 140F/60C then there'd either be a regular hot water heater to get it to whatever the target temp is. Farmdizzle posted:plumber chiming in... Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Nov 25, 2017 |
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The Russians just circulated the water up to the roof. (My own idea for hideously complex heat exchangers is to run the water through a radiator for PV first, to cool those panels to a more efficient temperature, plus pre-warming the mains water, before going into the collector.)
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Proteus Jones posted:Manifold Destiny 
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