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Mouse update 7
3 years ago
Mouse was released yesterday from the hospital to return to the apartment in Ballard. This means she is stable and she sees the doctor Monday about her shoulder replacement.
She is back to eating normal meals and feeling good about life as a whole. Talked with her this evening and she sounds good and is upbeat this is a good change.
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Myself I've been working on different things at work. Been playing with house designs for an inexpensive home. Something that has me thinking is a 18 foot wide by 48 foot gothic arch house. It could easy be a three bedroom home with two bedrooms in the loft.
With an 8 inch thick wall you could get an R 30 in the wall and roof. I worked out the rough cost of making the wall/roof trusses at thirty-five hundred dollars for a 60 foot long home. For insulation I would use styrocreat because it doesn't burn... granted you have to make it... but at about ten dollars a cubic yard that beats fiberglass. Myself I like the idea of steel roofing but you could stucco the whole outside of the home. Then apply a polymer elastic coating over that for sealing everything.
The layout would work for a nice shop space too it would be easy to heat and cool. Some would say it's too narrow. Maybe, maybe not. It all comes down to what you are doing in the space. For working on a car or truck it's lots of room. Building airplane parts again lots of room for what you will be doing. You will just need to plan out your work space.
Blessings all be safe out there guys, the crazies are out there!
She is back to eating normal meals and feeling good about life as a whole. Talked with her this evening and she sounds good and is upbeat this is a good change.
Not much more to add.
Myself I've been working on different things at work. Been playing with house designs for an inexpensive home. Something that has me thinking is a 18 foot wide by 48 foot gothic arch house. It could easy be a three bedroom home with two bedrooms in the loft.
With an 8 inch thick wall you could get an R 30 in the wall and roof. I worked out the rough cost of making the wall/roof trusses at thirty-five hundred dollars for a 60 foot long home. For insulation I would use styrocreat because it doesn't burn... granted you have to make it... but at about ten dollars a cubic yard that beats fiberglass. Myself I like the idea of steel roofing but you could stucco the whole outside of the home. Then apply a polymer elastic coating over that for sealing everything.
The layout would work for a nice shop space too it would be easy to heat and cool. Some would say it's too narrow. Maybe, maybe not. It all comes down to what you are doing in the space. For working on a car or truck it's lots of room. Building airplane parts again lots of room for what you will be doing. You will just need to plan out your work space.
Blessings all be safe out there guys, the crazies are out there!
jailthe hospital. The road to recovery is many small steps. May she hasten along it!I don't know if I would want to live in a house without a basement, personally. My house is a 24' x 40' Cape Cod, but the 'attic' is all cold storage (especially in February). The basement has the utilities plus washer and dryer and three work benches, along with an area I use for computer stuff. YMMV.
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I've never tried to buy large blocks of EPS, just the 2" foam board that's like 10 bucks for a 4x8
Seems like the typical 'attaching the beads together with heat' is just better all around, if you're able to get it supplied in the shape you want. Stronger, lighter, more r-value, less energy inputs so should be cheaper (but we all know that ain't how the real world works)
Only shits of it is getting big enough blocks to carve out the arch shapes you'd want. Wonder if it is heat-bendable without destroying the foam, you can certainly laminate thinner sheets of the XPS foam into an arch if you've got a structure to attach it to...
On gentleman on YouTube has on going videos of what he is doing. Creative Building I think it's the YouTube channel.
Another gentleman shows how he makes his gothic arches with sheeting and 2 by lumber. I like how he puts a straight 4 foot tall stem wall at the bottom of his arches. Make putting base cabinets in easy.
It's all about learning new things
The aircrete and styrocrete seem cool, especially for rodent-resistant insulation re:the latter.
I'm sticking with tried and true rock in my cement, just scared of the variability in both alternatives.
Yup, learning's what life's about. I'm blessed with a total lack of building code where I'm at. Taking full advantage of it with this, mostly into the earth-sheltered stuff.