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| Thread ID: 104863 | 2009-11-10 23:30:00 | Sheets of Polystyrene | johcar (6283) | PC World Chat |
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| 828939 | 2009-11-11 03:42:00 | We are lucky if our homes don't rot around us!!! What with the Leaky building saga and all. Central and Local Government are running for cover. The builders and contractors have all gone pretend broke to avoid their part in this scandal. Leaving the hapless home-owner to pay for their incompetence.:horrified |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 828940 | 2009-11-11 03:53:00 | We are lucky if our homes don't rot around us!!! What with the Leaky building saga and all. Central and Local Government are running for cover. The builders and contractors have all gone pretend broke to avoid their part in this scandal. Leaving the hapless home-owner to pay for their incompetence.:horrified I think your local politicians have contracted with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to buy all the spent fuel rods for playground equipment for your schoolyards too. T hat will make it easy for your children to play on them at night as they glow in the dark. But then again, so will your children. Kewl! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 828941 | 2009-11-11 03:55:00 | I know this is callous but most of the people were rich bastards whose houses I could only dream about. I see them on TV next to a huge architecturally designed house. I can find sadder things to be sadder about than rich people who bought or built a lemon house. I cant seem to relate to rich people I live in Neil Home spec box house (The whole Street is a Neil Home street) I bought when I was single now with dragon and 2 kids its bursting at the seams. Thanks to them if I win lotto and buy a pad it wont be plastered (just me inside it) and it will have eaves. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 828942 | 2009-11-11 06:27:00 | Architects designing out of the ordinary, house had roofs with a slope and overhanging eaves for a reason so the stupid architects get rid of them go for flat roofs no eaveas, rain comes in how thick do they think we are? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 828943 | 2009-11-11 06:45:00 | Architects designing out of the ordinary, house had roofs with a slope and overhanging eaves for a reason so the stupid architects get rid of them go for flat roofs no eaveas, rain comes in how thick do they think we are? The trick was to combine this idiot practice with untreated timber, that was a cunning mix. Lawyers waxed (and still wax) mighty fat on the results. The borer problem will be a while yet, but it is sure to come. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 828944 | 2009-11-11 07:29:00 | you don't need treated timber if you use Douglas fir | gary67 (56) | ||
| 828945 | 2009-11-11 07:34:00 | Do borer only like pinus radiaita and dont munch douglas pine? My Uncle has a genuine log house it is made of untreated douglas fir but it would take the borer beetle a while to get through the 1 metre logs. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 828946 | 2009-11-11 08:45:00 | you don't need treated timber if you use Douglas fir The weather boards underneath the horrible cladding are Douglas Fir. Unfortunately they are also VERY dry and split as soon as you show them a nail now. When I attach the coving beneath the window-sills (which was removed when the cladding was installed), I am going to have to pre-drill the nail holes! SJ - I am getting the roof replaced over the room where your bed is! :) Not that there will be too much chance of precipitation dripping through any gaps at the time of the year you will be visiting anyway.... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 828947 | 2009-11-11 16:56:00 | Douglas fir is just a snack and a minor inconvenience to their travel for US wood-eating bugs . Doug can be used adjunct to- or superior to pt-lumber, but must not be a bearing wood unless certain caveats are met . If it's not pressure treated with a copper-based solution - it will last about 3 years . ANY lumber that touches concrete, cement, rock, stone, masonry is required to be pt-lumber . Since creosote is banned (carcinogenic) the codes call for pt . ANY lumber within 18 inches of ground-grade level is required to either have a pt-barrier or be made entirely of pt-lumber itself . Any wood that is used as support for a building (subframe or rim joists, etc) are to be entirely of pt-wood . Here's a post I made on YouTube about some carpenter ants: . youtube . com/watch?v=hFLE2X6nHjM" target="_blank">www . youtube . com These guys don't actually eat the wood - they bore through it eating microbes and tiny organisms for themselves - but they can drop a house pretty quick when they go hunting . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 828948 | 2009-11-11 17:50:00 | Do borer only like pinus radiaita and dont munch douglas pine? My Uncle has a genuine log house it is made of untreated douglas fir but it would take the borer beetle a while to get through the 1 metre logs. Yes according to industry standards Douglas does not need treating borer hates it unlike Pinus which borer loves. Douglas is stained pinkish so that it cannot be confused with Pinus |
gary67 (56) | ||
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