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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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| 828949 | 2009-11-11 19:27:00 | I live in Neil Home spec box house ( I lived in one of those sort of houses for 22 years. Nothing wrong with it other than being a bit small. It was built in the 60's before all the nasty materials like particle board became popular. Now we have an even older rimu house. There is a bit of borer holes here and there but it's been here for 90 years and will outlast us. Borer isn't a major concern unlike say, Aussie termites which can eat a house in no time. This house doesn't leak, has no rot and is as solid as a rock. Why can't they build them like this now? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 828950 | 2009-11-11 21:03:00 | I lived in one of those sort of houses for 22 years. Nothing wrong with it other than being a bit small. It was built in the 60's before all the nasty materials like particle board became popular. Now we have an even older rimu house. There is a bit of borer holes here and there but it's been here for 90 years and will outlast us. Borer isn't a major concern unlike say, Aussie termites which can eat a house in no time. This house doesn't leak, has no rot and is as solid as a rock. Why can't they build them like this now? $$$$ - or rather, profit.... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 828951 | 2009-11-11 21:19:00 | Hell yeah, have you priced up Rimu?? and the trees take hundreds of years to grow, hence their hardness and the difficulty in borer actually eating it. | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 828952 | 2009-11-11 23:44:00 | Borer love rimu, although heart rimu slows them down a bit. My Uncle had a flat sides and roof Spanish mexican style pueblo house which now be about 90 years old in the Graham Valley and guess what it leaked like a sieve in the rain. Have we learnt anything about flat roofs and no eaves in NZs stormy climate.? Seems not |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 828953 | 2009-11-12 01:13:00 | $$$$ - or rather, profit.... I don't mean necessarily with Rimu. I'd settle for Macrocarpa or some other similar wood. I mean they WAY they built them. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 828954 | 2009-11-12 01:13:00 | Just throw it in the bin. Not really sure what you were looking to do with it. | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 828955 | 2009-11-12 09:52:00 | Just throw it in the bin. Not really sure what you were looking to do with it. Which means I would have about 20 rubbish bags of the stuff to get rid of. I was hoping for some ideas to get rid of it for no cost... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 828956 | 2009-11-12 09:57:00 | Fire. | Metla (12) | ||
| 828957 | 2009-11-12 10:49:00 | Could we slice MP's into useful sized billets? No borer could stomach them any more than we can. And for ps sheets, - try putting as much as possible into a large plastic leakproof bag, add 1 cup of petrol and tie the bag tightly. Next day put in a similar quantity of ps foam, and re-tie bag - same petrol will largely be there. Repeat until foam is gone. Put bag, petrol, and foam into the bottom 1/3rd of a 5 litre pail and hide in rubbish bag. If you are uncomfortable with the idea of putting this muck into the rubbish system, use the Metla trick and fire it - it will only be neccesary to burn a litre or less of PS un-foamed plastic. Naturally, it is not a good idea to go burning plastic in a residential area, so first tie the bag containing the petrol and PS to the shirt-tails of any of the myriad cyclists rocketing down the footpaths in the vicinity of Auckland's Civic Theatre around 5:30 pm on weekday evenings. Judging by tonights crop, there are plenty to choose from. All expendable. It is potentially more entertaining than pushing the sods into skateboarders. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 828958 | 2009-11-12 19:56:00 | You have missed your true profession R2x1, you should become a TV Comedy skit writer, I don't laugh much normally but you are a really good joke maker. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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