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Post by Cher on Sept 15, 2006 9:17:43 GMT -5
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Post by offbeat on Sept 15, 2006 10:50:55 GMT -5
Cool place there Doc! Love that palm tree in front, I just don't know why I like them so much??!! Maybe I have lived in the North too long. They are just so different from what I am used to. I don't see any snow scoops laying around, now that would make your digs look more like home to me!!
Must be a long drawn out job to get a foundation to hold with all the "hard pack" dirt you guys have down your way! We don't have to worry about sink holes up here in the great white north. Take care!
Bill
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Post by stefan on Sept 15, 2006 11:45:42 GMT -5
So Doc is there a story behind these pics??
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Post by 181lizard on Sept 15, 2006 12:03:29 GMT -5
Somehow...the stories are starting to come to life! Is this where some of the foundations with the re-bar have occured? And just WHO is that hunka-hunka man in the pic Doc? I'm waiting with fish breath! (baited...get it?)
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Post by WyckedWyre on Sept 15, 2006 14:07:55 GMT -5
Yeah,
and who the H**L is Doc?
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Post by stefan on Sept 15, 2006 14:13:11 GMT -5
Holy Majoly- Did you see Doc's Cat- An electrical was running through his house when He took the picture- Yikes!
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Post by docone31 on Sept 15, 2006 18:18:00 GMT -5
Just got back from the shop. Thanks for posting the pics Cher. I guess they were large and you have dial up. whoopsie.
Hokay. Ralph has grown, he is an F1 Bengal. At three years, he is about 25lbs. He will be between 40 or 45lbs at maturity. He is my buddy.
The photos are pretty much of the wrap up of the exterior work. The back of the house was down 16". We are on sugar sand, and we had a washout, rather than a sink hole. an old irrigation pipe was still hooked up and pumping away. When one of the boys was under the house jacking, the ground let go. He got out, and we spent a week filling the hole. It was massive. The house had just been falling slowly into the ground.
The house is a small bungalow. It originally had 8 rooms and an hallway! I took them out and made the house one big room with two enclosures in the back. There, we do casting, metallurgy, and gold processing.
The original house was the meeting house for an old nudist colony. It had been added onto, badly. I fixed that. The house is cyprus, termite proof, weather proof, and hard as a rock. The outside sheating is cyprus. I installed board and batten, then cedar shakes, 4 1/2" on course.
Fat boy is in the photos. He has had a significant hand in doing the rebuild. Right now, we are putting in a front deck that will connect to a walkway to the back deck. The wood shed is now powered with 100amp., 220V service, with 120V standard service. I rewired all services with designated circuits. All are GFCI protected. Total service protection, including the house.
Fat boy has worked really hard for us. He has done a good job.
The photos show the side yard. Believe it or not, we are a suburb of Tampa. The land of pickup trucks, recnecks, and pitbulls. One mile down our road is a four lane road, two miles up from there is a six lane road. There is peace here at night, except for a drunk redneck and his wafe wapping each other. Then the cops come but it gets over soon enough. They leave us alone, we leave them alone. I also fix their jewelery. Never bite the hand that feeds you.
When the inside is done, I will post photos. Ralph will be bigger then.
Thanks Cher.
Hey CP, whatcha tink? Done goo?
Doc
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Post by docone31 on Sept 15, 2006 18:20:07 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, I forgot to add, the van is a 1986 G20 with a 383/350, 425hp small block. On the highway, it averages 25mpg. I built that also. It carried six tonnes with mileage from Los Angeles to here.
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Post by krazydiamond on Sept 15, 2006 19:43:04 GMT -5
doing real goo there Doc. almost looks like a dojo.
KD
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Post by docone31 on Sept 15, 2006 19:57:33 GMT -5
Having studied martial arts for over 28yrs., it is in my blood. The interior is all wood. I eliminated the sheet rock and have solid wood for the interior. After it ages, I will clear coat the interior.
Its in my blood.
Fat boy has been a real help on this project. We also homesteaded the property. Floriduh still does that. It eliminates emminant domain procedure.
Hey, 181Lizard, Fat boy is single. He is a general contractor who does anything. He even has all his teeth, showers a lot, and is really decent. He also is not a boozer.
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Post by cpdad on Sept 15, 2006 21:18:05 GMT -5
i will tell ya what i tink...i tink you done super goo job.....hahahahahaha....excellent....fatboy seems to be doing a very good job for you...and way to go on the cyprus..it will last for ever....you knew that didnt ya?...i miss florida....growing up we used to spend a lot of time there....my moms parents are some of the old ones that sold to disney back then....if they only knew!!!...the orange groves they owned...are now part of a monorail system.....i still love to go there...disney is my favorite place...(i can be a kid again)....still have family in kissemmee...and orlando....hope the sink holes get better.
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Post by docone31 on Sept 15, 2006 21:38:50 GMT -5
Fatboy has done a great job with us. Before we met him, I was gutting the home and cutting up the debris and using the garbage to dispose of it. I fix the garbageman's jewelery so he did it for me. Two years of slowly cutting up joists, stringers, rafters. The interior had only 6'8"clearance, two layers of rug, three layers of sheeting over the rug, it was a mess. The house stunk, it had cockroaches everywhere, even pygmy rattlesnake eggs in the walls. The back of the house was down so the bubble in the level did not even register! The wall sockets had pieces of copper tubing between the wires, the outer moisture barrier was aluminum foil. The previous owner was a paranoid, and his wife had chronic alzheimers. She laid on her side, and picked every piece of grass from the lawn. The yard was a sand pit.
Fatboy, had been recently divorced. A bad one. I had hired him to install fencing on one side of the yard. He and another person, call him Felon Mark, made the three stooges look credible! They put in the posts in concrete, then picked the posts up to make grade. It was awful.
Two years later, Fatboy and I have become friends. I have learned to trust him. His work went from divorced shattered, to steady and concise. He used my house to work his hands back. He made fewer mistakes each time. Now, he is pretty accurate and getting back to his old work abilities. I cannot say enough about him. He has been there. He made some real doozie mistakes in the beginning, now he is getting much steadier. He has proven trustworthy.
I use one wall unit airconditioner to cool the entire home. The ceiling vents out hot air. Sands saw the home before the major work. It is all coming together, finally.
The interior of the home is all cathedral! I worked it all out without changing the roof line. I use pressure treated wood for interior framing over the studs. It really looks interesting. Fatboy was not certain about what I was doing, but now it is mostly done he is getting interested in the design work.
I just wish I liked Floriduh.
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Post by Cher on Sept 15, 2006 21:40:15 GMT -5
You're welcome Doc, happy to be of help.
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Post by 181lizard on Sept 16, 2006 13:47:04 GMT -5
Well...If I hear of any good women in the immediate Florida area that are lookin for an all around contractor with all his own teeth...I'll spin them your way Doc so "Fatboy" can meet em! Why...he'd be a catch in anyones book!
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Post by docone31 on Sept 16, 2006 17:57:30 GMT -5
I wish I had a camera when we came back from the shop. I should call him Plumbers crack wood butchery. He is doing good though. 5/4 PT is actually more expensive than 2 X 6 PT, so, we are going to use 2 X 6 for top decking. Should be real strong.
He is actually moving to Kansas. He got some free land there, in Marquette. I wonder if Marquette is ready for Plumbers Crack Wood Butchery however. In one day, he broke three of my drills! My 1/2 impact drill, my 3/8 variable speed drill, my Ryobi 18V. Arghhhhhhh.
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Post by 181lizard on Sept 17, 2006 12:44:18 GMT -5
You're letting him go to Kansas! Why? I didn't think anyone moved TO Kansas. All it took was one time seeing the Wizard of Oz & I knew I'd never go to there!(flying monkeys freak me out...)
And why don't you like Florida? (so ok...I get there's alot of q-tips)
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Post by docone31 on Sept 17, 2006 17:14:31 GMT -5
Aside from the Q-Tips, Floriduh is too flat, too hot, surrounded by water, too many palm trees, and Bubba rules the roost. If it wasn't for those things, there is no snow, no ice, and ugly people wear string bikinis.
Paradise has its price.
I miss Alaska. I miss the cold, snow, ice storms, 23hr days, 50day nights, the total severity of it all. I am homesick.
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Post by 181lizard on Sept 18, 2006 12:19:31 GMT -5
You & the misses could alway move to Warshington  It's got a little bit of all the best & it's right next to Orygun! |
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Post by docone31 on Sept 18, 2006 13:17:24 GMT -5
I tried selling in Portland at two flea markets for over 1.5yrs, and Vancouver for 1yr. No one wanted my stuff. I made jewelery for movie stars and rock stars but it was not good enough for the NorthWest.
I tried Tacoma. Just ended up losing a lot of tools and getting stuff I didn't want stolen. I ended up homeless in Seattle.
The irony. I loved the Northwest. Everything Alaska had plus I could just wear one shirt a day and sleep without plywood on the windows. I absolutely loved it. I even threw fish around at the fish market at the market down by the waterfront trying to get in there. I am too unique for their format. I went to Poulsbo. Same deal. I make all of mine.
Oh handmade, I want real jewelery. I was good enough to buy lunches when I had no money though.
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Post by krazydiamond on Sept 18, 2006 15:35:41 GMT -5
Aside from the Q-Tips, Floriduh is too flat, too hot, surrounded by water, too many palm trees, and Bubba rules the roost. If it wasn't for those things, there is no snow, no ice, and ugly people wear string bikinis. you forgot to mention THE BUGS, Doc! and snakes and spiders not to mention fire ants and other icky, gooey creatures that inhabit Floriduh. i liked living in Daytona Beach, but the bugs were more than this northern girl could take. i, too, found a need to go back to the snow and ice. not sure if i'd like alaska... KD |
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