Pictures!

Also the concept of home insulation seemed to have never occurred to the British. What is the R value of stone anyways

Four?

Actually, IIRC it's < 1.

*sigh* You know, I came back here cuz Spaceturkey was going on about all the comments I was getting for the lacy teddy pic. It seems to have been rather anticlimactic. >_>

Oh well. Sup?

Well, while taking the dog on her morning walk Mary noticed an odd rainbow effect on all the local streets. A call to the road department revealed that one of the snowplows that went around last night had a deisel fuel leak!

So, an hour of scrubbing in the tub with various detergents and shampoos followed for our furry friend...

Okay, why don't attachments show?

All out brick facade houses are wood frame...I never heard of a one that's actually structurally MADE from brick.

though there is a growing minority of homes in hurricane areas made from Concrete.

Personally, I want a Dome Home! A lot of these are made from concrete.



Nont necessarily THAT house but a floorplan I found while Googling...

You really do have a great looking house. The snow looks cool too... although I'll stick with the sunny California weather.

That almost looks like something out of Star Wars.

How the hell do you put up display shelves for your extensive model collection on curved cement walls?

a band saw^^

Hang them same way they did the models in the Enterprise E?

I can tell you flat out shep that in England the frames are brick. You have a brick outer wall then an air gap, then a brick inner wall. The inner wall is usually plastered over and so looks much like our sheet rock. Not much insulation there but the house will last forever. Its to do with the continuous damp weather there and the fact that they do not have the temperature extremes that we do. I still have a newspaper clipping from somewhere in scotland that says "78 degrees and no relief in sight".

Man you are reminding me of my dad. He built 2.5 of our houses, one of which I lived in for almost 18 years.

Forever or until there's an earthquake. Brick construction tends to disintegrate during an earthquake, doesn't it?

I live in a hurricane-prone area. A friend of mine built a concrete-framed house. It's rated up to Cat 3, I think, and his heating/cooling bill is much lower. If/when it catches on, construction costs will probably be lower as well - just a guess, though.

Not the ones we get - all that happened last week was a few chimneys falling, and that happens in high winds, too...
TBH I can't imagine living in a house that isn't double brick skin. It's all I've ever known...
Oh, and modern houses - post about 1970 or so - have insulation between the two skins, so that isn't as much of a problem as it used to be...

Almost every house in the US is wood framed and then any brick is attached to the outside as a veneer. Really no such thing as a real brick house or even a real brick wall around here. I took masonry in high school, many so called masons here have never made a real 8" brick wall with a flemish bond or whatever.

My house is actually double brick on the exterior walls. Brick on the outside, a former owner had foam insulation blown into the space, brick, and then plaster over chicken wire.

The interior walls are wooden frames with plaster over chicken wire, and we're talking about 1930's plaster, not the stuff you mix up today.

Lots of old houses around north Jersey made of stone.
Our basement in the house I grew up in (built 1878) was made of big-ass boulders piled up and cemented. The main house is wood frame, though. But cruise around the older areas in Bergen county and you'll see a few solid stone houses, a few with stone facing, etc. You hadda do something with all those stones you pulled out of the fields when you plowed. May as well make a house out of them!

Hmmm...cool, but:
- Tiny master BR
- Single-sink master bath
- No coat closet
- no garage
- no fireplace
- no basement, and therefore not enough indoor common area aside from the combo Living/Family room.

Man, I love stone houses. If I win the lottery I'm buying one in Tuscany, like this one....they are all over that part of Italy.


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