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We made and planted an 8' x 4' raised garden last year and at the end of the season cleared all the plants into the composter.
This year we have not planted anything in there except for some Thyme..... This is what it looks like now ! |
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Originally Posted by CeejaySmiff
(Post 12509048)
We made and planted an 8' x 4' raised garden last year and at the end of the season cleared all the plants into the composter.
This year we have not planted anything in there except for some Thyme..... This is what it looks like now ! |
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For the past three plus years I have been building a new house doing most of the work myself including taking a untouched jungle of a lot and cleaning it up largely by hand with a chainsaw and a small tractor I owned. It is built a lot like what I understand British houses are built with masonry walls and brick covering. I built this way and even filled all block cavities with steel rebar and poured cement to have a strong house. I even made my own kitchen cabinets and installed granite counter top. Here is a couple of photos of cabinets. I bought the doors and built everything. The counter granite was found on Craigslist for $350 and I have about $1800 total in the project. All the wood is hickory. |
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Originally Posted by ddsrph
(Post 12509994)
For the past three plus years I have been building a new house doing most of the work myself including taking a untouched jungle of a lot and cleaning it up largely by hand with a chainsaw and a small tractor I owned. It is built a lot like what I understand British houses are built with masonry walls and brick covering. I built this way and even filled all block cavities with steel rebar and poured cement to have a strong house. I even made my own kitchen cabinets and installed granite counter top. Here is a couple of photos of cabinets. I bought the doors and built everything. The counter granite was found on Craigslist for $350 and I have about $1800 total in the project. All the wood is hickory. Well done. Someday we'll embark on our home build. |
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Originally Posted by steveq
(Post 12509996)
WOW. What craftsmanship. Amazing.
Well done. Someday we'll embark on our home build. Thanks. When you build whether you do it yourself or contract out it would be wise to learn as much as possible about building techniques. I highly recommend doing as much as possible yourself. I wired, plumbed and even designed and installed the HVAC system. The house is insulated two to three times code by using some recycled polyiso insulation I bought for pennies on the dollar. With a 1 1/2 ton heat pump my heating and cooling (which includes lights and hot water)averages about $80 per month. I will have 150k in the house and garage including lot in a very nice lake development with many houses 500k to one million due largely to their size and lake front lots. Here is a couple photos of my smallest in subdivision but best built house and garage. Both are still unfinished but getting close. |
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Originally Posted by WEBlue
(Post 12509302)
Nice garden! :rofl: Wish mine would self-start like that! I have had lettuce that bolts, seeds, and comes back the following year, all without me doing anything to it, but never anything else. In your bed I see lettuce, lots & lots of tomatoes, and some kind of squash or rhubarb leaves (?)….
Watermelon was the big disappointment last year - the plant grew easily enough but the watermelons themselves never got any bigger than tennis balls. |
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This weekend - hurricane preparedness...
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I have a kitchen question...
We had a leak a week or so back and our entire downstairs flooring and kitchen is ruined. It has been removed and it now resembles a building site. The kitchen units all had to be thrown away due to water damage as they sit directly on the floor. Back in Blighty I fitted our kitchen (I'm kinda handy) and the units sit on adjustable plastic legs rather than direct on the floor. This makes it easy to adjust their heights and level etc and protects the units in the event of a leak. Is it just a regional thing or do all USA kitchens sit directly on the floor? Would there be a building code in effect for this? |
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Originally Posted by Marc_ely
(Post 12514804)
I have a kitchen question...
We had a leak a week or so back and our entire downstairs flooring and kitchen is ruined. It has been removed and it now resembles a building site. The kitchen units all had to be thrown away due to water damage as they sit directly on the floor. Back in Blighty I fitted our kitchen (I'm kinda handy) and the units sit on adjustable plastic legs rather than direct on the floor. This makes it easy to adjust their heights and level etc and protects the units in the event of a leak. Is it just a regional thing or do all USA kitchens sit directly on the floor? Would there be a building code in effect for this? |
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I am talking about cabinet legs.
These are the sort of thing UK kitchen cabinets sit on: https://smile.amazon.com/Desunia-Cab...s=cabinet+legs The leak came from an installation error of a new fridge. The dickhead installer didn't tigthen the water line hose enough. It ruined the entire downstairs floor as it's all open plan. Thanks for the tip on the cabinets. |
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Originally Posted by Marc_ely
(Post 12514822)
I am talking about cabinet legs.
These are the sort of thing UK kitchen cabinets sit on: https://smile.amazon.com/Desunia-Cab...s=cabinet+legs The leak came from an installation error of a new fridge. The dickhead installer didn't tigthen the water line hose enough. It ruined the entire downstairs floor as it's all open plan. Thanks for the tip on the cabinets. |
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Originally Posted by Marc_ely
(Post 12514822)
I am talking about cabinet legs.
These are the sort of thing UK kitchen cabinets sit on: https://smile.amazon.com/Desunia-Cab...s=cabinet+legs The leak came from an installation error of a new fridge. The dickhead installer didn't tigthen the water line hose enough. It ruined the entire downstairs floor as it's all open plan. Thanks for the tip on the cabinets. Most base cabinets here are sitting on a frame made from two by sixes. This frame is set back about four inches from front of cabinets and the visible front portion is covered with tile or other decorative material. The cabinets are screwed to this frame and the entire cabinet/ frame unit is then screwed to wall. This locks in cabinets to allow rigid counter top such as granite and a tile Backsplash. If a big company installed your frig they should help cover damages from poor installation. |
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Originally Posted by Marc_ely
(Post 12514804)
I have a kitchen question...
We had a leak a week or so back and our entire downstairs flooring and kitchen is ruined. It has been removed and it now resembles a building site. The kitchen units all had to be thrown away due to water damage as they sit directly on the floor. Back in Blighty I fitted our kitchen (I'm kinda handy) and the units sit on adjustable plastic legs rather than direct on the floor. This makes it easy to adjust their heights and level etc and protects the units in the event of a leak. Is it just a regional thing or do all USA kitchens sit directly on the floor? Would there be a building code in effect for this? Kitchen cabinets, and banking, in the US are stuck resolutely in the 20th century. |
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Originally Posted by ddsrph
(Post 12514862)
Marc Most base cabinets here are sitting on a frame made from two by sixes. This frame is set back about four inches from front of cabinets and the visible front portion is covered with tile or other decorative material. The cabinets are screwed to this frame and the entire cabinet/ frame unit is then screwed to wall. This locks in cabinets to allow rigid counter top such as granite and a tile Backsplash. If a big company installed your frig they should help cover damages from poor installation. I had to fit a couple of units along a six foot length of wall in a new build that set the new owners back over 1.5 million bucks and that wall was was out of true by an inch and a half - the counter fitters must have cussed when trying to fit the stone backsplash, filling an inch and a half gap at either end with caulk must have looked effing abysmal, nearly as abysmal as the bespoke staircase with the lower step sticking out past the wall by a generous foot. Mind you, I have only fitted plywood base units here, chipboard crap obviously exists as my kitchen is and has that dog eared look where the corners start to open up but they have been installed in the method described above and are groaning under the weight of a 2" thick granite top! Things might be different up North/out West although my B-i-L fits kitchens as far north as New Jersey and hasn't indicated anything different up there. |
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Originally Posted by zzrmark
(Post 12514938)
That's posh, here they just screw the units together, once adjusted, and dump the stone counter on top - which the fitters then wedge when their not so flat countertop/your not so level units don't sit happily in unison.
I had to fit a couple of units along a six foot length of wall in a new build that set the new owners back over 1.5 million bucks and that wall was was out of true by an inch and a half - the counter fitters must have cussed when trying to fit the stone backsplash, filling an inch and a half gap at either end with caulk must have looked effing abysmal, nearly as abysmal as the bespoke staircase with the lower step sticking out past the wall by a generous foot. Mind you, I have only fitted plywood base units here, chipboard crap obviously exists as my kitchen is and has that dog eared look where the corners start to open up but they have been installed in the method described above and are groaning under the weight of a 2" thick granite top! Things might be different up North/out West although my B-i-L fits kitchens as far north as New Jersey and hasn't indicated anything different up there. |
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