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"Skeatsan''co" <overthemoon@overthemoonagain.co.uk> wrote in message
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Bah, over-enthusiastic backing up yesterday. Lost old posts and things. I
say, isn't that 'Clean up all headings and posts,' efficient? 8(((
Power supply has arrived. It is BIG. Husband decided if I wanted 'that'
power supply at X pounds, then 'this' power supply at X*2+X will be so much
better. So it is, sweetie-pie, but what a lot of money!!!!! Leave well
alone now until the son returnes, then bully him.
>>
>> I never use more than one floor. Control-freak, me.
This is a fib. Current crop of houses have two stories - no fundaments. 8)
>>
>> If you don't use fundaments, do you level the terrain before
>> building?
Oh yes. The whole plot, before I start. Landscaping comes later.
I like having height differences on my lots. I built an
>> awful house on a hill, three separate pieces connected with
>> stairs. It is not convenient in any known sense of the word, but
>> it sure is mighty ridiculous!
No-no-no! Such houses are artistic! Progressive. Er.. Modern? Anything, but
not ridiculous. My Cliff-fall House must be on about six or seven levels,
top down to the swimming pool. Stairs everywhere. Those floating ones, and
lots of deco-like steel railings. Almost like a ship. Looks fantastic at
night from the sea-side. All lit up.
Hell to live in though, I would think. Need the stamina of a Olympic
athlete.
Never ran the house with toddlers/children yet. use it as a Batchelor pad.
very outdoorish.
Designed by Vulcans. Lived in by idiots.
>>
>> How can you have a house without storeys but with stairs?
The same way as you said, about the three pieces connected by stairs. 8)
Where
>> do the stairs go to?
Up... and down... Or down and up. What do you mean? Enter front door...
study on right, living area on left, double doors ahead. Stairs from hall
down to walkway to kitchen/dining block or tuen left there to bedroom, down
a few stairs.. Or, stairs from living area balcony to swimming pool... or
top story stairs to outside, short walkway to back of the loo on lower
balcony barbie area.
8( Would you like pictures? I am not running the house at the moment but
can soon drop it on the side of a cliff somewhere.
What is it you have agains fundaments?
Up/down level from kitchen to garden makes me mad. Foundations/basements not
usualy a UK thing. Or porches. was a interesting little prog on TV last year
about a lady who wished to buid a timber-framed 'typical' eastern seaboard
??? type house in the UK. She ordered all the parts from the US. Was a
lovely house. Porches all round lower story. Looked very American. The sort
of house Stephen King likes to use when setting up a typical American
'small-town' perfection type thing??
Anyway. Last heard nobody would give her planning permission. Lovely house,
but... Not British.
Of COURSE it wasn't! That was the whole point!!
But stick-in-mud planners said 'tut-tut' take it away. Would spoil the look
of the village.
Hmmm... and little brick retirement bungalows in rows doesn't spoil the
look?
You
>> can put wallpaper on them so they fit in with the rest of the
>> house.
WALLPAPER!!!! On the OUTSIDE??? Holy smoke!!! What's the paper made out
of?
>>
>> T.
>>
> I hadn't come across this meaning of fundament before. Made me laugh.
> Look it up in the dictionary. Is that the word you use in the USA?
> Different countries, different meanings.
😉)
>
Arrr. Is good that. made me smile. Brought a new meaning to 'give him a kick
up the fundiment.'
So a 'foundation cream' would be smeared all inside a building trench before
the concrete gets poured in.. right?
Don't ask about 'foundation garment.' it's not polite.
Granny.
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