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I'm looking forward to following this! Do you know how far down the water table is? When I was a kid, my dad decided it'd be a good idea to drill a well in our backyard in the California hills. He went down some hilarious distance through mostly bedrock, and ended up with a well that could provide supplemental gardening water during the winter and ran dry every summer...for about ten years, then the pump broke and he couldn't get replacement parts without rebuilding the entire thing, so he just left it to sit.
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That sounds really nice, to be honest. What's the climate like?
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Oct 2, 2020 22:59
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If I recall correctly, as far as the house design itself is concerned the big things are making sure that the roof and siding are not easily flammable, because the #1 way fire spreads is by embers blowing in the wind and landing on something that can burn. So stuff like cedar shingles are out, but tar shingles with the pebbles embedded is OK and so is metal. Stucco siding of course is a solid pick, I think hardyboard also works well? Don't take my half-remembered musings as fact though. On a similar note, isn't it mostly all that ground brush that burns? If you can keep the blackberries and grass and so on cleared out and under control, that ought to reduce your risk.
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Oct 5, 2020 14:30
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What is it that makes standing seam so expensive? It's just fairly thin-gauge sheet metal with a few bends in it, right? I get that it's easy to gently caress up the installation, but IIRC kastein implied that even if you ignore labor costs it's really expensive.
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Oct 7, 2020 03:44
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kastein posted:That costs a lot more than the roofing paint does and I believe even requires a permit out here. I can paint and bolt whatever I want on my drat car any time though. It just happens to also be a house. Can you bolt a carport to your RV? 
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everdave posted:I know about those bizarre laws where you are a criminal if you collect rainwater…they could come enforce that over our cold dead bodies here don’t know what people put up with that Water rights are, like, one of the fundamental challenges of civilization. If you're downstream of someone else, do they have the right to consume all of the water that you would normally have access to? Usually, the answer is "no". But enforcement of that decision ends up manifesting as a bunch of really weird-looking laws that, at their root, are intended to ensure that people don't consume so much water that their neighbors run dry.
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Dec 18, 2021 22:44
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Mill the entire thing out of a single block of aluminum.
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Jan 22, 2022 16:25
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Last I heard, he's wrapping up the old house. Lots of fiddly trim and so on.
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May 29, 2023 14:48
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Dang, that's a solid day's work. Weirdest looking "drywall" I've ever seen though
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Jul 2, 2023 23:56
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It looks like the piers have a hole in the middle, which can be combined with a pin of some kind (e.g. a short piece of rebar) to keep the blocks from sliding around. Otherwise, gravity should do the job. Everything else is presumably nailed together.
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I guess plastic photodegrades, leading to it breaking down faster than a normal roof would? But it's not like that's a terribly big deal, it's easy to remove and replace when the time comes. EDIT: vvv ahh, nice TooMuchAbstraction fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jul 6, 2023 |
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