What a mess.

wolram

Evo

Is that your house?

Hootenanny

That's not nice Evo, I'm sure Wolram doesn't live in a skip!

Ivan Seeking

It couldn't be. I don't see any smoke billowing out.

Evo

wolram

Whats left of it.

wolram

Just to the right of the skip is the covered over hole.

Astronuc

You have skip? I would've been happy to have a hole!

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen (40 years ago)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FatHLHG2uGY

wolram

Just before i took the pic i could not get to the house, it was surrounded by escaped sheep,
i had to help round them up, i am sure we missed one cause i keep hearing, BAAAR.

Poop-Loops

You Europeans and your brick houses. Hilarious.

wolram

Yep, this is all us poor Brits can afford a house made of brick nearly 200 yrs ago, we used to use a lot more wood in our buildings but then we stopped because they kept catching fire.

Andre

Brick build is bit more storm resistant too.

Astronuc

Beats straw or sticks.

Poop-Loops

Yeah, I'd like to see you all say that when an earthquake hits.

Oh, right, you Brits only get the midget earthquakes.

wolram

I read a piece about a guy building a wood framed straw walled house a short time ago, he was using untreated bales of tight compacted straw, i did not learn what he covered the straw with, it is amazing but there are adobe type buildings still in use in the UK some quite ancient.

turbo

My wife and I lived in a rented brick farmhouse for a couple of years while the new owner saved enough money to start renovations. The exterior walls were not insulated, so we closed off all the rooms except the kitchen, bath, and a small room that we used for a bedroom. The first summer there, I had logged, split, and stacked enough wood to fill the whole furnace-room, and I was pretty proud of myself until I talked to a neighbor who had actually grown up in that house, and he told me that wouldn't be enough. When they lived there, they only heated those rooms that we left open, and they filled the furnace room and much of the cistern-room as well. I ended up with over 20 cords of wood, and had to cut extra over the winter to keep from running out. Brrr!

wolram

Yes, the sun shines on the UK, apart from when it is raining.