Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
SKIP books, get 'em while they're hot!!! Skills to Inherit Property
Come join me at the 2024 SKIP event at Wheaton Labs
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
SKIP books, get 'em while they're hot!!! Skills to Inherit Property
Come join me at the 2024 SKIP event at Wheaton Labs
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
Xisca - pics! Dry subtropical Mediterranean - My project
However loud I tell it, this is never a truth, only my experience...
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
Xisca - pics! Dry subtropical Mediterranean - My project
However loud I tell it, this is never a truth, only my experience...
EBo --
Master Gardener (Prince George's County, MD, USA)
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
EBo --
Master Gardener (Prince George's County, MD, USA)
Note: the last two links directly open/download files, they don't link to a web page.
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
EBo --
Master Gardener (Prince George's County, MD, USA)
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
EBo --
Master Gardener (Prince George's County, MD, USA)
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
EBo --
Master Gardener (Prince George's County, MD, USA)
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
Praying my way through the day
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
You know you are rural- if you get a big black stain on the seat of your daily wear pants and no-one knows for a month...
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
Pearl Sutton wrote:Jerry McIntire:
Thank you for the citrusinthesnow link!
...Have a great day sir, and put me on your prayer list please :D
Praying my way through the day
I don't know of any PUR SIP makers who have the steel skins available. There is one in Florida that makes magnesium board skins which are mold-proof and don't need sheetrock.
...Have a great day sir, and put me on your prayer list please :D
Glad to!
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
John Daley Bendigo, Australia The Enemy of progress is the hope of a perfect plan
Benefits of rainfall collection https://permies.com/t/88043/benefits-rainfall-collection
GOOD DEBT/ BAD DEBT https://permies.com/t/179218/mortgages-good-debt-bad-debt
John C Daley wrote:Adding to accessibility I have been in wheel chairs and / or had arms and hands damaged through fire.
I found there are many things people forget about
- doors that cannot be opened with a elbow,
- doors that need to be pulled towards you
- narrow doors
- doors at the end of corridors that have no side space to allow the door tone levered open
- footpaths that are too steep or have a excessive cross fall they tries to pull the chair into the kerb
- wheelchair crossings that tip you out.
- ball style door handles
- wheel chair access paths too steep, too narrow or with a step at one end.
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
"People get out your way, when you're on fire". Richard Prior
John Daley Bendigo, Australia The Enemy of progress is the hope of a perfect plan
Benefits of rainfall collection https://permies.com/t/88043/benefits-rainfall-collection
GOOD DEBT/ BAD DEBT https://permies.com/t/179218/mortgages-good-debt-bad-debt
John C Daley wrote:Have you read my topic on 'benefits of rainfall collection', it may encourage you to capture the roof runoff into tanks
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
SKIP books, get 'em while they're hot!!! Skills to Inherit Property
Come join me at the 2024 SKIP event at Wheaton Labs
Mike Jay wrote:So Pearl, what's the status on the Maison? Is this the year that construction begins?
I will be breaking some of the rules, but if I can explain to him WHY I need to break them, I doubt we will have issues. They won't be unsafe, just better design than codes covers.Rules are always meant to be broken, provided you know what the rules are and enter into your rebellion with intelligence.
The reality with any green build, especially if you’re acting as GC, is you’re likely to be the only one who really cares about getting the many details right, especially if the architect and subcontractors have never built like this before — they were just doing what they always do.
You built to code, code is the minimum to pass this test. Congratulations your grade is a D-
Building codes make buildings safer but they have nothing to do with good design, good construction practices, best materials to use and how to apply them.
Codes are designed for the average person, not for people with health limitations or non-suburban lifestyles. (Pearl Sutton) (I said that one after reading too much codes nonsense. It's not designed for non-suburban tract houses, it's really not. I can rant that thought for days.)
How are you going to get people to adopt something that makes total sense in a world that follows the "we been doing it this way for 20 years, if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality?
I see builders falling generally into three camps: first the production builder who's not interested in going beyond code minimum; then the custom builder who works with architects and will build anything, but at very high cost; and third, the designer/developer or designer/builder who gets around the shortcomings of the first two (quality/cost).
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
EBo --
Master Gardener (Prince George's County, MD, USA)
SKIP books, get 'em while they're hot!!! Skills to Inherit Property
Come join me at the 2024 SKIP event at Wheaton Labs
Mike Jay wrote:Yay, it's going to happen! This will be fun for us to watch. Hopefully it will be fun for you too Pearl
Keep the inspector happy and you should be good. It is hard to find people who care even 1/5th as much as you do. And if you do find them they'll probably be expensive. Good luck, we're rooting for you!
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
Brian Shaw wrote:You've clearly put alot of thought in this - I scanread most of what you wrote, and scanned the first half of responses. You seem like me - lots of time to think of something better than what you're doing now, and the ideas just evolving and improving over time.
A few thoughts (possibly not all relevant if my scanning wasn't deep enough) albeit skewed by my own perspective by what i'd want:
- See if you can plan for progressive "as you go" upgrades. Most houses are designed to go up once and not really allow you to go behind the walls again, i've seen designs that paint themself into a corner where it may be fine now but in a few decades if things are degrading youre left with no alternative but total teardown. I'm hoping to design in such a way that I can go from using reclaimed things at first to easily upgrading to new in the future with much less work than the way normal houses build things in - everything being 'hyperserviceable' really right down to the frame members of the house itself. For instance i'm wanting to put up not monolithic walls but removable 'wall panels' 4x8 feet that let me open up the wall ENTIRELY to directly access anything behind including utility runs and direct inspection and repair of damaged framing if ever necessary.
- Is it possible to make anything 'moveable' as in not permanently locked down? Building codes may change, for the worse, or other situations may force a move to different land. It's something nobody likes to think about, but I keep hearing things like the EPA harassing a man for making ponds on his own property and other nonsense... so I seriously fear the future political oppressions that will come from overzealous (and rapidly bankrupting) agencies looking for a pound of flesh. My own life plans have increasingly shifted to allowing the ability of things to not only construct but DEconstruct and be moved - either on the property or a thousand miles away. I want to build a modular house using standard sealand container/intermodal freight container sizes, so they can be easily dropped onto a semi flatbed or even railcar. Unlike the flimsy mobile homes which really are meant to never be moved again I want to make mine a bit more robust so that disconnecting, moving, and reconnecting is possible. This gives me alot of flexibility, right down to even if I simply misjudged the hill drainage on the land maybe, or if some future problem in any other way makes the land untenable to stay at permanently.
- It's probably not within the skillset of the majority of permie types but i'm wanting my own designs to feature around future mechanization/automation potential. For instance there's a way you could design a gutter that a "gutter clearing robot" could clean it - and a normal design requiring human intervention to do. All maintenance need not be a chore or an expense if all it takes is a little electricity... that could apply to inspection too, what if you had a plumbing line that you can easily run a tiny little inspection camera along to be sure there's no leaks?
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
This post was based on a very inaccurate understanding of what I'm doing, please be sure to go to the next page to read my replies.
Pearl
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