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Funny project…

| Posted in General Discussion on May 17, 2002 06:19am

CAn you beat this one?

I hear a Jack hammer in one of my neigbhors house, run into him and find out he is

breaking up the floor in the livingroom to put in one of those fish ponds you buy at home Depot…woooeeee!!

There are all kinds I guess..LOL

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  1. KCPLG | May 17, 2002 07:31am | #1

    Ed

    tell him to be careful when he breaks thru the floor.

    its a  h e l l  of a drop from that redneck treestand 

    1. AJinNZ | May 17, 2002 10:56am | #2

      LOL.

      I cant help but wonder ....Wont it make the house awful damp? and where will the couch go? and what hapens if ya get home late from a party? wont ya fall in? 

      Wood Hoon

      1. grantlogan | May 17, 2002 01:32pm | #3

        Years ago, I worked on a house (approx. 4000 sq. ft.) that had no interior walls.  The bathtub was sunken in the middle of the living room and the toilet was freestanding nearby. I don't remember where the vanity was. The exterior was mostly windows. A couple in their sixties were the inhabitants. It was out in the woods and was apparently built without any permits. I peed in the woods while I was there.

        1. Don | May 20, 2002 03:38am | #12

          Have a friend who built a 4X12 pond, 2 ft deep on a glassed in porch.  Filled it w/about half dozen koi fish.  Was like the Viet  Namese jungle at noon on the Fourth of July.  Didn't have problems w/ a dry house in the winter.

          DonThe GlassMasterworks - If it scratches, I etch it!

      2. Azeddie | May 17, 2002 05:25pm | #5

        Thats what would happen with me....step in it late on a SAt might

        1. Sancho | May 17, 2002 06:25pm | #6

          Fresh fish for dinner  Darkworksite4: When the job is to small for everyone else, Its just about right for me"

      3. JohnSprung | May 17, 2002 09:30pm | #7

        > I cant help but wonder ....Wont it make the house awful damp?

        Very likely it will, especially if they don't have the windows wide open a lot of the time.  This sounds like what used to happen with water pits on foley stages -- always damp and smelly.  Then somebody had the brilliant idea to just use a kids' inflatable plastic wading pool for water, and fill the water pit with something else.  Emptying the water whenever it wasn't needed made a big difference.

        -- J.S.

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          JeffBuck | May 18, 2002 06:29am | #8

          Jeeze....you guys woulda laughed Frank Lloyd Wright right outta the Falling Water business!

          OK...just because it was falling over a few years back don't mean nothing......that....or the flat roofs in snow country. Or the stream running thru the interior of the entry.....Jeff                             "That's like hypnotizing chickens........."

                                                            

          1. FastEddie1 | May 18, 2002 07:25pm | #9

            Hope he doesn't hit a post-tension cable, or a water line.

          2. Azeddie | May 18, 2002 07:56pm | #10

            Well he can fill the pond from the water line....HARRRR

          3. 4Lorn1 | May 19, 2002 07:19pm | #11

            With all due respect to Mr.Wright and his architectural brethren with their aesthetic concerns I must say that I have never worked on a architecture run job that didn't end up with a leaking roof or worse. Falling Water was notorious, along with most other projects designed by Wright, for roof leaks. I read that it was rebuilt in the 80s and at last has stopped leaking due to the loving care of an engineer and contractor.

            I guess that if you have a stream running through your living room you can overlook a little extra water. Like many houses I see it has beautiful materials, sight lines and atmosphere. Would I live there? No. Hell no. It was designed as an experience not a house to be lived in. Some people who have tried have said as much.

  2. DavidThomas | May 17, 2002 04:53pm | #4

    Bet the cat loves it.

    David Thomas   Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska

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