Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Digest for misc.consumers.frugal-living@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic

The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Feb 06 09:57PM -0800

On 02/06/2017 10:32 AM, Michael Black wrote:
> built it, he was living in fair isolation, but it became a much less rural
> area in more recent times, "civilization" encroaching on the "wilderness"
> and suddenly people not liking that ugly eyesore of a home.
 
The "suburb" I live in was built cheesily so that returning Korean War
vets would have a place to live. Under 900 SF, corners aren't square,
the plumbing and electrical work was done by third-graders with inferior
materials, and the design precludes any sort of expansion that doesn't
involve knocking down at least half of the house. No insulation, we
put some in the "attic" ourselves. The thought of the City Assholes
wanting to preserve "values" is laughable. If they were concerned about
that they wouldn't have planted magnolias and Chinese elms as street
trees and then neglected trimming them -- giving the residents a free
lesson in the concept of "self pruning".
 
Apparently some SoCal architects are building (or threatening to build)
a house out of multiple stacked containers -- adding insulation, glass,
DESIGN, etc. The picture looks fine.
 
 
--
Cheers, Bev
You know it's time to clean the refrigerator when
something closes the door from the inside.
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