not so pros

[junkman]

Stone..brick ..fake stone ......etc , is the norm in the ~UK. You live in a wood house in the UK and its looked upon as unusual to say the least.

Wood is standard here for residential ,the new building products i do not know if i would call them wood though ,my lap siding is cement board stuff and most of the plywood is chips of wood held together with glue ,even the stone on my foundation and columns on front porch is fake stone ,not my preferred choice of materials ,but it is whats available these days . When i lived in new england as a kid ,there were some stone homes there ,do not see many out in the north west though .We do not even have basements or cellars here like we did back east .

 

[Simondo]

Wood is standard here for residential ,the new building products i do not know if i would call them wood though ,my lap siding is cement board stuff and most of the plywood is chips of wood held together with glue ,even the stone on my foundation and columns on front porch is fake stone ,not my preferred choice of materials ,but it is whats available these days . When i lived in new england as a kid ,there were some stone homes there ,do not see many out in the north west though .We do not even have basements or cellars here like we did back east .

Just shows you how different parts of the world are ! All i see is stone and brick around me with a few exceptions .

 

[GCJenks204]

Someone say new home construction?

Simon, I think most of it is tied to the ages of our country. Much of your country has been fully built up and existing houses could be 100's of years old.

Canada and the United States are both considerably younger countries and still in the process of building up our cities and towns.

The above houses all built this year will open as model Homes next week. Starting price about $450 000 including lot.

 

[Genius]

Wood is standard here for residential ,the new building products i do not know if i would call them wood though ,my lap siding is cement board stuff and most of the plywood is chips of wood held together with glue ,even the stone on my foundation and columns on front porch is fake stone ,not my preferred choice of materials ,but it is whats available these days . When i lived in new england as a kid ,there were some stone homes there ,do not see many out in the north west though .We do not even have basements or cellars here like we did back east .

Everything around here short of a mobile home sits on a foundation 4' down to get below a frost line.

The strangest thing to get used to with homes in Texas is no one there has a basement.

A basement is so nice to keep chit.

Just shows you how different parts of the world are ! All i see is stone and brick around me with a few exceptions .

A house built with stone around here would cost a absolute fortune.

 

[Simondo]

Someone say new home construction?

Simon, I think most of it is tied to the ages of our country. Much of your country has been fully built up and existing houses could be 100's of years old.

Canada and the United States are both considerably younger countries and still in the process of building up our cities and towns.

The above houses all built this year will open as model Homes next week. Starting price about $450 000 including lot.

How true...some of the places go back to at least the 1500s. We built many more green oak framed houses once before oak became used up with ship building. There isnt that much big oak here now.

 

[Simondo]

Everything around here short of a mobile home sits on a foundation 4' down to get below a frost line.

The strangest thing to get used to with homes in Texas is no one there has a basement.

A basement is so nice to keep chit.



A house built with stone around here would cost a absolute fortune.

Its a stupidly expensive way to build here to...if you go the natural cotswold stone rout ! Hence the fake stone made with dust .

 

[USMC615]

The subdivision and building boom has taken off again here in mid-Ga for the last few years. Was dead there for a few years after '07, like many other places that fell victim to it as well.

 

[junkman]

Its a stupidly expensive way to build here to...if you go the natural cotswold stone rout ! Hence the fake stone made with dust .

I am building a rock wall right now of fake lick it and stick it fake stone ,just dont seem right ,but it matches the house ,part of living in plastic world i guess .

 

[GCJenks204]

Everything around here short of a mobile home sits on a foundation 4' down to get below a frost line.

The strangest thing to get used to with homes in Texas is no one there has a basement.

A basement is so nice to keep chit.



A house built with stone around here would cost a absolute fortune.

Couldn't agree more. I just don't understand construction without basements.
We are in a clay bed flood plain so most houses require poured cement piles 20ft below grade with 8 or 9ft poured concrete basement walls.
Some areas in Canada are cement block foundation but we are almost exclusively form poured or ICF poured.

 

[Simondo]

I should point out that i am a fan of timber houses and by NO means think stone is a better choice. Folks say to me "why dont you tare your place down and put up a stone house " Noooo thankyou, I like having a frame house just fine thankyou very much.

 

[Genius]

I think the cat found a new friend

 

[leadfarmer]

slow day at work so my monkey saw an me played alittle

 

[leadfarmer]

32in bar an this thing drinks like a drunkin sailor [emoji12]

 

[Jimmy in NC]

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I think the cat found a new friend

Appears so!

 

[Redfin]

How is your day playing out so far

Well, I was sent out if my area to work today and came across and old saw shop. Stopped in and asked the fella if he had any old dead saws.

He took me out back and opend up his shed. It was stacked some places, floor to ceiling with saws. I could write a list of the saws he had in there. I only have 20 bucs in my pocket today. He said he was going to be cleaning out this shed come fall so I gave him my number to go help him. I will have a wad of cash when I go.

 

[Genius]

Well, I was sent out if my area to work today and came across and old saw shop. Stopped in and asked the fella if he had any old dead saws.

He took me out back and opend up his shed. It was stacked some places, floor to ceiling with saws. I could write a list of the saws he had in there. I only have 20 bucs in my pocket today. He said he was going to be cleaning out this shed come fall so I gave him my number to go help him. I will have a wad of cash when I go.

Dibz

 

[Sty57]

Well, I was sent out if my area to work today and came across and old saw shop. Stopped in and asked the fella if he had any old dead saws.

He took me out back and opend up his shed. It was stacked some places, floor to ceiling with saws. I could write a list of the saws he had in there. I only have 20 bucs in my pocket today. He said he was going to be cleaning out this shed come fall so I gave him my number to go help him. I will have a wad of cash when I go.

Dibz

Dibz'er

 

[Redfin]

Dibz

Sorry Ross, I already called it when he opened the door.

 

[exSW]

Sorry Ross, I already called it when he opened the door.

Ah, you know, some of us live closer and have trucks.

 

[leadfarmer]

Well, I was sent out if my area to work today and came across and old saw shop. Stopped in and asked the fella if he had any old dead saws.

He took me out back and opend up his shed. It was stacked some places, floor to ceiling with saws. I could write a list of the saws he had in there. I only have 20 bucs in my pocket today. He said he was going to be cleaning out this shed come fall so I gave him my number to go help him. I will have a wad of cash when I go.

Don't forget who your buddies is [emoji41]