The official "WTF" thread

[mat200]

$200k+ Teaxas house made of cardboard ..not even OSB ..






after a strong wind ..









ThermoPLY .. less than 1/3 of what OSB is in terms of weight ..

 

[David L]

LOL

 

[Smilingreen]

$200k+ Teaxas house made of cardboard ..not even OSB ..


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ThermoPLY .. less than 1/3 of what OSB is in terms of weight ..

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To me, if I have a house, I want it as heavy as it can possibly be. Why are they worried about weight? It's not like it is a racecar. Did ya'll see the drywall screw run right through the middle of the electrical romex? Maybe the romex is a structural part of the house. I mean. if you are going to use cardboard to build the house.......shit, why not romex. too.

 

[David L]

I remember sitting on a plane and the lady next to me was from Europe, thinking Germany, she was looking out the window as we were getting close to landing and she commented on the new construction houses she saw saying they looked like match sticks or tooth picks.

 

[tigerwillow1]

The standard German house is "built like a tank" compared to USA houses. The exterior walls are over a foot thick, built with clay blocks. The interior walls are also blocks. Floors are poured concrete, even for a second story floor, and the roofs are tile. In the last decade or so, wood frame houses have started to pop up, but even they are more robust than in USA. Smurf tubes for wiring are embedded in the walls during construction. No easy fishing wires through the block walls like we can do.

The sentence about sitting on a plane reminded me about the Beverly Hillbillies episode where Jed was flying for the first time. As he looked out the window during the DC-8's takeoff roll, he said (as close as I remember) "By doggie, if this thing goes much faster it's gonna leave the ground!".

 

[TonyR]

The standard German house is "built like a tank" compared to USA houses. The exterior walls are over a foot thick, built with clay blocks. The interior walls are also blocks. Floors are poured concrete, even for a second story floor, and the roofs are tile. In the last decade or so, wood frame houses have started to pop up, but even they are more robust than in USA. Smurf tubes for wiring are embedded in the walls during construction. No easy fishing wires through the block walls like we can do.

The sentence about sitting on a plane reminded me about the Beverly Hillbillies episode where Jed was flying for the first time. As he looked out the window during the DC-8's takeoff roll, he said (as close as I remember) "By doggie, if this thing goes much faster it's gonna leave the ground!".

Any insulation added to those block walls?

 

[gwminor48]

Maybe they used a Reolink?

 

[David L]

Pretty Kewl, one day

 

[tigerwillow1]

Any insulation added to those block walls?

Blocks with integrated insulation are one way. I imagine that is newer technology. If you want to spend 12 minutes on an overview this struck me as a fairly decent video. Seems to me this type of construction is less tolerant of shoddy workmanship than with a stick-built house.

 

[David L]

Another share , figured here was a good place since WTF was I thinking, LOL

Been playing with the best way to light our burn piles. I am still using gas, just seems to get er going best. So came up with an idea of shooting a lit arrow into the burn pile to light it from a distance. Bought this for fun:


Funny, Bow has hole for arrow to go through. Figured an arrow a burn, 20 burns , plus I get to play while watching the burn, haha

Well, seemed like everything I tried I could not keep the arrow lit, plus these arrows are not accurate so I over shot the burn pile a few times, hahahaha.

So I looked around for something else that would work. Ding, Ding, Ding PINE CONES burn great, let me try that, Well could not get one to stay lit. GAS, ya that's the ticket, LOL, so I poured some gas on one end, lit it, threw/lobbed it QUICK before I burnt myself.

Tah Dah, a Pine Cone Grenade Works Great!!! Plus they are fun too. hahaha

So now the Bow and Arrow goes to my grandson

 

[mat200]

Another share , figured here was a good place since WTF was I thinking, LOL

Been playing with the best way to light our burn piles. I am still using gas, just seems to get er going best. So came up with an idea of shooting a lit arrow into the burn pile to light it from a distance. Bought this for fun:

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Funny, Bow has hole for arrow to go through. Figured an arrow a burn, 20 burns , plus I get to play while watching the burn, haha

Well, seemed like everything I tried I could not keep the arrow lit, plus these arrows are not accurate so I over shot the burn pile a few times, hahahaha.

So I looked around for something else that would work. Ding, Ding, Ding PINE CONES burn great, let me try that, Well could not get one to stay lit. GAS, ya that's the ticket, LOL, so I poured some gas on one end, lit it, threw/lobbed it QUICK before I burnt myself.

Tah Dah, a Pine Cone Grenade Works Great!!! Plus they are fun too. hahaha

So now the Bow and Arrow goes to my grandson

For you david ..

 

[Sybertiger]

The standard German house is "built like a tank" compared to USA houses. The exterior walls are over a foot thick, built with clay blocks. The interior walls are also blocks. Floors are poured concrete, even for a second story floor, and the roofs are tile. In the last decade or so, wood frame houses have started to pop up, but even they are more robust than in USA. Smurf tubes for wiring are embedded in the walls during construction. No easy fishing wires through the block walls like we can do.

The sentence about sitting on a plane reminded me about the Beverly Hillbillies episode where Jed was flying for the first time. As he looked out the window during the DC-8's takeoff roll, he said (as close as I remember) "By doggie, if this thing goes much faster it's gonna leave the ground!".

After a couple of WWs do you blame them?

 

[looney2ns]

Wow, lighting anything with gasoline is a recipe for disaster.
The vapors from the gas is what is dangerous, and can travel rapidly out and away from the pile and ignite.

I saw a guy light a bonfire with gas once, he was 20 feet from the pile when he lit it.
He received 2nd degree burns on his face, arms, lower part of his legs (shorts) and hands.
All that from a quick flashover of the vapors all around him.

 

[tigerwillow1]

I don't think there's any way to stop boys from playing with fire.

 

[looney2ns]

I don't think there's any way to stop boys from playing with fire.

Oh there is, it's just not a desirable solution.

 

[Smilingreen]

Wow, lighting anything with gasoline is a recipe for disaster.
The vapors from the gas is what is dangerous, and can travel rapidly out and away from the pile and ignite.

I saw a guy light a bonfire with gas once, he was 20 feet from the pile when he lit it.
He received 2nd degree burns on his face, arms, lower part of his legs (shorts) and hands.
All that from a quick flashover of the vapors all around him.

Gasoline vapors are also heavier than air. They spread out across the ground and you won't know you are standing in a pool of them until someone throws a match. Same thing with propane. You will instantly be Irish jig dancing.......

 

[TonyR]

Gasoline vapors are also heavier than air. They spread out across the ground and you won't know you are standing in a pool of them until someone throws a match. Same thing with propane. You will instantly be Irish jig dancing.......

I recall being shown a B & W film in Naval Air bootcamp June of '69 where a 6 foot step ladder was behind a hanging white sheet, a bucket of gas on the top, it's lid covered, the room sealed so no drafts, bright light shining on the sheet with the ladder between the light and the backside of the sheet, the camera on other side of the sheet. What the viewer saw was a white sheet with the shadow of a ladder with a bucket on the top.

When the lid was remotely removed from the bucket, with no drafts in the room, you could see the dark, slow-moving, rolling wave of gas vapor come out of the bucket, roll down the ladder steps one by one, like slow moving water, until it hit the floor then began slowing rolling across the floor.

When it got to a ignition source about 6 feet or so away it ignited and the flame traveled A LOT more rapidly, up the ladder and blew up the can of gas. This was all filmed in slo-mo. I remember it to this day.....very impressive.

When I moved into a house in CA in '76 I easily understood why natural gas water heaters in the garages were placed on a 2 foot tall box instead of flat on the floor.

 

[wittaj]

No thanks LOL

 

[wittaj]

Workers face massive fine after shocking act is caught by 7-Eleven surveillance camera: 'It's an outright betrayal'

"This kind of lawlessness endangers public health."

www.yahoo.com

 

[TonyR]

Workers face massive fine after shocking act is caught by 7-Eleven surveillance camera: 'It's an outright betrayal'

"This kind of lawlessness endangers public health."

www.yahoo.com

Co. pays the fines, so the workers should be jailed, IMO.