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Evo said:Is that your house?
Hootenanny said:That's not nice Evo, I'm sure Wolram doesn't live in a skip!
:rofl:Ivan Seeking said:It couldn't be. I don't see any smoke billowing out.
Evo said:Is that your house?
Just before i took the pic i could not get to the house, it was surrounded by escaped sheep,Astronuc said: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 :rofl:
Poop-Loops said:You Europeans and your brick houses. Hilarious.
Andre said:Brick build is bit more storm resistant too.
Astronuc said:Beats straw or sticks.
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 said: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.
Poop-Loops said:Yeah, I'd like to see you all say that when an earthquake hits.
Oh, right, you Brits only get the midget earthquakes.
turbo-1 said: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!
And you're using that crazy Celsius scale, too, so that is a very high winter temp compared to us. We routinely get weeks when the temperature doesn't get above 0 deg F. Luckily, this little log house heats up nicely with a tiny wood stove and a few cords of dry wood. I say "luckily" because the remainder of the wood that I stacked last summer is buried under several feet of snow and I'm really happy not to have to dig it out and re-stock the wood shed.wolram said:I have kept this place warm with 800 watts, but so far temps have not fell below -5.
turbo-1 said:And you're using that crazy Celsius scale, too, so that is a very high winter temp compared to us. We routinely get weeks when the temperature doesn't get above 0 deg F. Luckily, this little log house heats up nicely with a tiny wood stove and a few cords of dry wood. I say "luckily" because the remainder of the wood that I stacked last summer is buried under several feet of snow and I'm really happy not to have to dig it out and re-stock the wood shed.
Large overhanging eaves and a tight roof. It doesn't hurt to do some preventative coating with Thompson's Water-Seal, too. Something that I will probably do this summer after I spray one more time for false powder-post beetles. Insect damage is a bigger threat than water damage, but I don't mind spraying for bugs because the compound is made from Borax and is non-toxic to humans and pets and my beloved little chipmunk buddies.wolram said:How do you stop a log house getting water logged?
If you look closely, you'll see a vole in the bottom-right of the picture. She was quite bored and dejected for a while because no chipmunks had showed up, and she was watching the vole (second fiddle) until the chipmunk appeared. The chipmunk kept running to me looking for seeds, and it took a while for her to figure out that the little girl on the patio was the one with the seeds. After a minute or two of caution, greed overcame newness and a new chipmunk-feeder was accepted into the clan.wolram said:Cool pics Turbo, i would not mind some of those rascals about my property.
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