i've been a diy'er since about the age of 4. no, literally, i've been through a large amount of really odd projects... two huge reconstructions with my old man, and now finally, my own:-)
but plaster has been one of those things that i've never really "gotten"... I mean, I can do simple tape&joint compound repairs, but if I need to do large patching, like if i had to chisel out walls to replace knob&tube, i would have to bring in a professional to do the repairs...
first, for the record - what full 2" dimension is referred to as "rough hewn" wood. though if ya knew that, sorry to preach:-)
zoikers... ya gots yer work cut out for ya... but it does sound like you've got some really cool materials that you just cant find anymore to work with.
though, it doesnt sound like you have the truly cheap construction - the wood that you're describing is way too nice. if your walls were made with that horrendous horse-hair wallboard/plaster crap that crumbles in your hand - THATS cheap construction...
well.... as for my place....
i bought one of old summer homes of the wannamaker family, and am now the 3rd owner of it... there was absolutely no expense spared in the construction. i've got (original) quarter-cut red-oak floors, still unstained, but finished. my main support is a 4x4 hunk of stone and concrete. plaster walls throughout. 9' ceilings.
now - the electric... AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE... scary, scary shit... it was put in post-construction, and replaced the gaslights throughout, so i've got the oh-so-fun-to work with Knob&Tube shit.
To make it worse, the guy i bought it from should never be allowed to wire anything ever again. its horrible. i've got cut lines, wires out in the open, bare wires exposed, chains and lamp-grade wires hanging everywhere he decided he wanted a light...
yeh, drywall sucks ass for sound dampening. even if you stuff it with insulation, which makes it much better, it doesnt really compare to good old fashioned lathe&plaster.
i cant imagine a concrete house being all that worthwhile, actually. if you get any settlement at all (and what house doesnt settle?), you are going to have horrible cracks throughout.
i guess that the concrete walls could be finished over by drywall, or patched, but concrete is not exactly the most flexible material.
for those of us who own a 100+ year old house, we're all too familiar with crazy-ass schemes to install modern infrastructure. i've got an 8" hole chiseled out of my foundation where the sewage went in.
i've had to sawzall friggin' gas lines for gaslights.
i have to deal with knob and tube wiring.
of course, the construction of my house, is still *infinitely* better than any of the cookie-cutter tract homes made in the last 40-50 years.
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except that they arent making money, and are a drag to TimeWarners finances, who are looking to spin them off.
Steve Case has been in trouble for cooking the books once, and has obviously fooled TimeWarner into mergin with them.
AOL is an albatross - one that absolutely should be profitable, but arent.
AOL is an albatross... Steve Case has been managing an incredibly corrupt firm.
In addition, I think that a merger of this type would have extreme trouble getting through the SEC. This has "monopoly suit" written all over it.
i've been a diy'er since about the age of 4. no, literally, i've been through a large amount of really odd projects... two huge reconstructions with my old man, and now finally, my own :-)
but plaster has been one of those things that i've never really "gotten"... I mean, I can do simple tape&joint compound repairs, but if I need to do large patching, like if i had to chisel out walls to replace knob&tube, i would have to bring in a professional to do the repairs...
so, if ya gots some pointers....
yeh yeh yeh... i gots lathe & plaster :-)
some things, they just dont build like they used to...
of course, working with plaster is very high on my "call a contractor" list.
and - getting a plaster guy is like getting a real barber. there are none that are under 80.
right, you dont have air flow (black mold) problems with a proper HVAC system.
Well, me too! That would seriously kick ass, but where are you going to find Amish carpenters to come out and build things for us outsiders?
Lancaster, PA. arrange it through the mennonites.
first, for the record - what full 2" dimension is referred to as "rough hewn" wood. though if ya knew that, sorry to preach :-)
zoikers... ya gots yer work cut out for ya... but it does sound like you've got some really cool materials that you just cant find anymore to work with.
though, it doesnt sound like you have the truly cheap construction - the wood that you're describing is way too nice. if your walls were made with that horrendous horse-hair wallboard/plaster crap that crumbles in your hand - THATS cheap construction...
well.... as for my place....
i bought one of old summer homes of the wannamaker family, and am now the 3rd owner of it... there was absolutely no expense spared in the construction. i've got (original) quarter-cut red-oak floors, still unstained, but finished. my main support is a 4x4 hunk of stone and concrete. plaster walls throughout. 9' ceilings.
now - the electric... AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE... scary, scary shit... it was put in post-construction, and replaced the gaslights throughout, so i've got the oh-so-fun-to work with Knob&Tube shit.
To make it worse, the guy i bought it from should never be allowed to wire anything ever again. its horrible. i've got cut lines, wires out in the open, bare wires exposed, chains and lamp-grade wires hanging everywhere he decided he wanted a light...
its un-friggin-believable...
yeh, drywall sucks ass for sound dampening. even if you stuff it with insulation, which makes it much better, it doesnt really compare to good old fashioned lathe&plaster.
i cant imagine a concrete house being all that worthwhile, actually. if you get any settlement at all (and what house doesnt settle?), you are going to have horrible cracks throughout.
i guess that the concrete walls could be finished over by drywall, or patched, but concrete is not exactly the most flexible material.
you are talking about "new construction".
for those of us who own a 100+ year old house, we're all too familiar with crazy-ass schemes to install modern infrastructure. i've got an 8" hole chiseled out of my foundation where the sewage went in.
i've had to sawzall friggin' gas lines for gaslights.
i have to deal with knob and tube wiring.
of course, the construction of my house, is still *infinitely* better than any of the cookie-cutter tract homes made in the last 40-50 years.
please educate yerself:
acts of gord
no one is in the habit of selling consoles at a loss.
and this obnoxious drivel got modded up???
Hey Mods, get your crack right here.
and yet, shipping computers in hostein-decorated boxes was considerred "professional".
who knew.
You are extremely wrong - an implementation of an idea is protected under a patent.
CD/DVD production costs are an order of magnitude less than tooling a line to print ROM boards, ad printing them.
bah... you need joint compound, and drywall tape.
otherwise the cracks will just keep coming back through the plaster.
BLAFSKI ! I need you to get me on all the news stations... why? because we may be dealing with the two most dangerous people in the world.
geez... engineering is applied science.
computer "science" is a branch of mathematics, and not a particularly easy one.
or, if people realized that computer science wasnt a science at all.
structure of the f'ing document?
is that why the damn thing formats my shit on its own and thinks, that its being HELPFUL?!?
grumble.. grumble.....
it was the embedded version of XPLectrix.
boogie woogie woogie.
yeh, i an remember beating a hooker to death with my SimBaseballBat...
yes, but all those are johnny-come-lately's.
methinks that prior art is going to be a concern for msft.
twm, the window manager from whence all others came - has a pager concept, too.
when does superman fly backwards?
this ought to be funny - how exactly did geology change evolution since the 60's on?