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It's also possible that that the American view of the value of energy efficiency or anything, really isn't worth a tinker's drat anywhere else in the world. Disclosure: I'm American, in America, and I think we're dumb and shortsighted. edit: of course it's a new page. This is in reference to the value of more energy-efficient windows.
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Youth Decay posted:Why you should be proactive in fixing leaks in brick walls: peanut posted:I appreciate that moss and mushrooms. If you let it go long enough, you'll have a lovely plush carpet. Tad squishy, though. Also, username-post combo on the initial post.
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Darchangel posted:If you let it go long enough, you'll have a lovely plush carpet. Tad squishy, though. Also, username-post combo on the initial post. If it's part of your sunken waterfall tub, it's a feature! Update to the stud finding expedition: I'm not feeling confident in any of the results of tapping long nails into drywall around electrical boxes or counting inches from the corners, but building maintenance is coming for inspections in two weeks, so I'll wait and defer to them. Meanwhile, looking for an entertainment center that's sturdy enough to be the base for a TV mount, just in case.
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That seems like a decently made, if jury rigged, booby trap. This probably belongs in the OSHA thread, instead.
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Phanatic posted:No you won't. Nobody spends more for a home because the windows are more expensive. That won't even factor into the appraiser's estimate. Maybe not directly, but when looking for a home (in North Carolina, not known for its temperature extremes) I definitely gave some options less consideration because I could tell that they were less well insulated and would incur higher ongoing costs. Opinions about what is worth paying for in a home are as varied as the homes themselves, and anything that someone might notice and care about could potentially influence the number and quality of offers that you get when selling.
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Holy poo poo! After seeing that, I would leave that house and flat out refuse to do any more work in there. Who knows what else is lying in wait? Disarm any further traps with the long arm of an excavator.
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Baronjutter posted:Top 5 Dumbest Building Products He's doesnt seem to understand house wrap, does he?
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When looking for a house there were multiple choices in the same 1970s neighborhood I went with one that had windows replaced recently because there were no drafts compared to the houses with OG windows that seemed to do nothing
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Slanderer posted:He's doesnt seem to understand house wrap, does he? What do you mean by this? He seems to understand just fine that perforated house wrap is garbage because it's permeability is vastly suboptimal to things like Tyvec.
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moist turtleneck posted:When looking for a house there were multiple choices in the same 1970s neighborhood My house buying was similar, except I bought the cheapest house with concrete block walls I could afford (lots of termite ridden wood houses in my area). First upgrade was new windows to replace the old jalousie windows in my house. 6 - 6' x 3' double pane vinyl Pella 350 series windows were something like $550 each. I was looking for hurricane resistant windows but they were sold at a higher model and were around $900 each if I remember correctly.
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Splicer posted:If you're not planning to live there for 20 years then you'll still see increased returns on your sale of the home. If the home isn't supposed to stand for 20 years then that's hosed up (or Japanese who build entirely different kinds of houses and don't count). http://www.seiko-h.jp/sale_search/detail/380001-15352 For reference, this 6 bedroom shithole was "built in 1982." It looks like everyone's grandma's house (my in-law's house). A full remodel would cost over $100,000, but you could do a new build with a better floorplan and plumbing upstairs for $150,000+. This house sucks, plz blow it up and restart.
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Motronic posted:What do you mean by this? He seems to understand just fine that perforated house wrap is garbage because it's permeability is vastly suboptimal to things like Tyvec. Permeability is only one factor though! Drainage is also important. Woven house wraps behave different than tyvek, and placing standing water on it is demonstrates nothing useful!
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peanut posted:http://www.seiko-h.jp/sale_search/detail/380001-15352 I can’t read any of that site, but those were the pictures she took to SELL the house? Lmao
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The bathroom looks pretty clean if it's original. If i was home hunting and it was in my price range I would at least look at it in person. E: Google translated this below the pictures quote:The wind blows! ! South facing! !
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The Gardenator posted:The bathroom looks pretty clean if it's original. If i was home hunting and it was in my price range I would at least look at it in person. I guess, but when I was selling I was told to Clean out all brickabrack poo poo that clutters Pick up broken pots and trash from the back yard Don’t hang your clothes from the window treatments Etc At least for picture time I mean really, even granny can tidy up a bit. How much was this going for again?
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Slanderer posted:Drainage is also important. This just leads to more questions. What building method do you subscribe to where you need to drain through house wrap?
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Motronic posted:This just leads to more questions. What building method do you subscribe to where you need to drain through house wrap? Not through, but downards. With traditional tyvek, water that gets behind the siding can get trapped there against the housewrap. That's a bad thing for wood siding, and also probably doesn't help with water ingress through fastener holes. With drainable housewrap materials, it provides a surface that has grooves or channels to allow water to flow (or wick) downwards immediately. Showing that tyvek is the most impermeable to standing water under pressure is a just a bad test lol, and i'm pretty sure whatever standards they test to don't do that.
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Slanderer posted:Not through, but downards. With traditional tyvek, water that gets behind the siding can get trapped there against the housewrap. That's a bad thing for wood siding, and also probably doesn't help with water ingress through fastener holes. With drainable housewrap materials, it provides a surface that has grooves or channels to allow water to flow (or wick) downwards immediately. Down is still down, perforations or not. And tyvec is in fact permeable (just less so), so it accomplishes this same thing without the risks of wind-driven rain and the like gushing through. Just look at good building school performance statistics in regards to how much permeability is appropriate. The science shows it's a lot less then perforated, which is what the more expensive breathable materials provide. Perforated is nothing more than a cost cutting measure to use cheaper materials. And don't even start talking about fastener holes being an issue when comparing to cheap rear end perforated plastic. I've yet to see a reasonable academic building performance study that says anything more than "at least it's not tar paper" in regards to these perforated wraps. E: want to talk ab out something novel that reduces install time and might actually be better all around at a relatively low cost? Let's talk about Zip and similar systems. Motronic fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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Slanderer posted:Not through, but downards. With traditional tyvek, water that gets behind the siding can get trapped there against the housewrap. That's a bad thing for wood siding, and also probably doesn't help with water ingress through fastener holes. With drainable housewrap materials, it provides a surface that has grooves or channels to allow water to flow (or wick) downwards immediately. Moisture getting stuck behind housewrap was a major contributing factor to Vancouver's leaky condo crisis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_condo_crisis posted:A major contributing factor to the crisis was the increase in the use of cladding systems such as acrylic stucco and exterior insulation finishing system (or EIFS), which are highly resistant to infiltration and exfiltration of water and moisture. Unlike more traditional materials, such as wood siding or cement-based stucco, a critical flaw of the new materials is that any water or moisture that penetrates into the system, either through cracks in the surface (caused by thermal expansion or damage), unsealed joints, or incorrect flashings, becomes trapped inside the wall, potentially causing deterioration, rot, and mould.
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Burt Sexual posted:I guess, but when I was selling I was told to US $58,000 in a hilly neighborhood. That's basically land price which assumes the buyer will tear it down or remodel completely. My town is full of houses like that. Suburban Shikoku isn't a hot market for house flippers.
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peanut posted:US $58,000 in a hilly neighborhood. That's basically land price which assumes the buyer will tear it down or remodel completely. The Japanese system must at least have comparatively lower construction costs than the US, right? I'm assuming that all the scale will allow prefab modules to work much better there than they ever have here.
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Yes, catalog parts are standard in new construction so all the sizes and colors are compatible. It helps that houses were/are traditionally measured and planned using tatami mat units (3x6 feet) which works for everything from hallways and doors to visualizing furniture placement. Labor is expensive but not as bad as you'd expect. Once the frame and roof was on our house (one day) two brothers finished the interior over 3 months. New construction is usually estimated as $5000 for each "tsubo" 2-mat square (36 sqft) of floorspace. Of course that varies starting from $3500〜 depending on materials and fixtures. Typical new family houses are around 35 tsubo depending on budget (1300 sqft).
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$138 a square foot? Yeah, that's not unreasonable.
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Dillbag posted:Moisture getting stuck behind housewrap was a major contributing factor to Vancouver's leaky condo crisis. Hadn't heard of that, and it looks like there was a similar crisis in New Zealand.
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The MSJ posted:Guys, I think you need to know something about these forums. I just saw this over in PYF. #5 Grover
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Has Grover really been gone almost five years? It doesn’t seem that long.
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poo poo, they're on to us. Quick guys, activate the Shadow Protocol.
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AFewBricksShy posted:I just saw this over in PYF. I didn't realize "hey dumbass why did you insulate your interior stairs holy poo poo you're a contractor FOR WHO NOW?!" constitutes harassment.
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Oh, cool - I've never been on the conspirator side of a government conspiracy before!
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My five year old plays some form of Slenderman with his friends. I guess it worked.
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Wait, what's #9 referring to? Were there actually murders perpetrated by internet lunatics who had somehow been led to believe Slenderman was real and thus... needed to kill someone for some reason because of it?
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Buff Skeleton posted:Wait, what's #9 referring to? Were there actually murders perpetrated by internet lunatics who had somehow been led to believe Slenderman was real and thus... needed to kill someone for some reason because of it? Yes. 
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Buff Skeleton posted:Wait, what's #9 referring to? Were there actually murders perpetrated by internet lunatics who had somehow been led to believe Slenderman was real and thus... needed to kill someone for some reason because of it? Yes. That said, they were children. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-wisconsin-slender-man-stabbing-sentence-20180201-story.html
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Buff Skeleton posted:Wait, what's #9 referring to? Were there actually murders perpetrated by internet lunatics who had somehow been led to believe Slenderman was real and thus... needed to kill someone for some reason because of it? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing It’s disturbing.
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Just one attempted (and amazingly unsuccessful) murder, as far as I know.
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quote:The city of Madison, Wisconsin held a one-day bratwurst festival to honor the victim
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i just laughed out loud at that one before my brain told me how hosed up and stupid that was.
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sneakyfrog posted:i just laughed out loud at that one before my brain told me how hosed up and stupid that was. Choose your post adventure! Choice A Wisconsin's gonna Wisconsin. Choice B No one in that state is slender.
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im from minnesota, i have nothing good to say about those cheeseheads.
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