Zkribbler's House -- Watch it being built!

[Zkribbler]

--I just had a concern. There'll be doors opening off the No. 2 & No. 4 posts. Is the thickness of the posts going to be a hinderance to the doors...making them too narrow, etc.?

If so, is it too late to go with normal-sized posts in the No. 2 & No. 4 spots?
If not, please ignore this post.

[Lancer]

Bah, in for a penny; in for a pound. Do the double posts in the normal fashion. --This puppy is never gonna fall down.

I was just looking a Tito's drawings that he gave me before I left Jagna. His roof extension and balcony only extend 1 meter, not the 1.5 meter I showed in my hand drawing posted above. (I thought my roof garden looked too big.) Because he engineered the roof supports for 1 meter overhangs and because I don't really need or want the extra half meter, we need to go back to the original one-meter overhang and one-meter balcony.

I'll re-do my drawing. And I think I'll send a copy of it, plus Tito's drawings to you via snail mail.

If you want them to actually arrive send them LBC, they have a courier pack I'm pretty sure.

[Lancer]

--I just had a concern. There'll be doors opening off the No. 2 & No. 4 posts. Is the thickness of the posts going to be a hinderance to the doors...making them too narrow, etc.?

If so, is it too late to go with normal-sized posts in the No. 2 & No. 4 spots?
If not, please ignore this post.

The doors off the bedrooms to the balcony of each?

Keep in mind that with the building out to the edge of the wall all the protrusion of the posts may be inside the building. For instance iirc the stairwell would get a corner...

The only way to change that would be to build the wall off the back of the post as far as possible considering that you still have to catch metal bar to tie the wall into. Backish in other words.

If you do this your posts will protrude to the outside of the house like mine does at my place up the road. Also though, there would then be a small ledge below the windows which we could angle when the wall finishing is done.

Something I'd like to get is the wall plan facing the ocean. I suggest something sturdy like a poured wall that goes up a meter or so. Remember, you're on the ocean, right on the ocean. Sturdy.

[Zkribbler]

The doors off the bedrooms to the balcony of each?

... and the front door, and the door to the street-side balcony.

I wasn't thinking so much about the space the posts would take up front-to-back but rather side-to-side. But upon further thinking, let's say the posts do take up a lot of room. The door can just be "cheated" a little to one side. No problem.

These are the 'droids we're looking for. Move along.

[Lancer]

Okey Dokey

Good news. For whatever reason I don't have to be there this morning when I want to rest, but after lunch when its hot in Pondol and cool at your place.

[Zkribbler]

Roof watertank

On the right side of the roof is an area made up of a flower box "peninsula" and a shallow pool. It will be about 3 1/2 meters long, 2 meters wide and 1 meter tall -- 7 cubic meters. That area instead can be used for the rooftop watertank, if it's big enough. What do you think?

[Lancer]

That's allot of weight. When faced with the same question most people here go with a tower. That way if there is a quake you don't have a tank coming through the house as an uninvited guest. Dolores is outside taking a pic of our tower and tank which I'll post in a few.

That said, people do put tanks on roofs. You should discuss with Tito what sort of support such a thing would require, I got no clue.

[Lancer]

Dolores took a series of really super pics...



She took them from many different angles.

[Lancer]

I never saw my water tank so well...

[Lancer]

That's it! Super job Kadoo...

[Zkribbler]

When faced with the same question most people here go with a tower.

Ah ha! I thought your tank was on your roof. A tower makes things much simpler. (It's gonna wreck my view is one direction tho. )

[Lancer]

If it helps any here's how your water crosses the road. I bet they had fun doing this...



Your water meter can be put anywhere as long as the meter reader can get to it.



There are some woodsy spots over that way you could kinda hide it...but it does have to be higher than the faucet on the roof.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Your water meter can be put anywhere as long as the meter reader can get to it.

That's a spot the meter reader can get to it? What happens when there's five feet of snow on the gro--

Oh.

Never mind.

[Lancer]

The world ends.

[Zkribbler]

Thanks, Lancer. I needed that.*

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* Lancer's post comes from another thread.