Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam, To me, there is something offensive about not building something very well designed and well built. Properly designed even a small home can be expanded as needed. If you look at a Georgian design, the wings on either side are additions as fortunes improved. I have a picture of the old homestead first erected in Connecticut circa 1710 that was added on and improved to at least 1870. Possibly is still stands in some form. What a waste to throw up some cracker box that looks pretty but will be obsolete in twenty years and torn down in thirty. I need to get off my soap box as this is one of those things that drives me crazy. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 6/20/06, Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com> wrote: > > Maybe building long-lasting houses is the WRONG thing to do, Philippe! > Maybe we should build our houses to be recycled and easily replaced. > Most stick-built homes are vastly over-built for the conditions they > have to endure - hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes (large ones) > excepted. > > Here in Davis the value of the land often exceeds the value of an > un-modelled 40s-50s era home. So tearing down and starting over, maybe > adding a 2nd floor, makes a lot of sense. We did a remodel back in the > mid-80s and took down 2/3rds of the original structure. Rebuilt above > code although now we're insulated at about current code. > > Old does not make make valuable just as new doesn't make valuable - > good design and construction and materials do. > > Adam > > On 6/18/06, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: > > Such a pity to destroy this heritage. > > They should promote renovating a bit more over there. > > On the other hand I understand that there is a tradition of building > > wooden houses. > > Which doesn't seem ideal for building long lasting houses. > > > > Thanks for showing, > > Philippe > > (from Belgium, where they seem to be born with a brick in their > > stomach :-) > > > > > > Op 18-jun-06, om 16:43 heeft Don Dory het volgende geschreven: > > > > > America is a funny place. I live in a fairly quiet close in > > > neighborhood > > > that was built up in the late 1940's and 50's. Rather than deal > > > with what > > > exists, we tear down and start over with a new dream. So, first up > > > is the > > > new husband there to record the old house that saw the birth of his > > > step > > > children get demolished. > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album443/housedemolition > > > > > > This gentleman is quite happy in his job, he actually has a calling to > > > demolish houses and commercial structures as he left his previous > > > job to > > > create this business. > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album443/demolisherhappy > > > > > > And finally a somewhat longer view of what was going on. > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album443/housedemolitionhardatit > > > > > > It took this very talented person less than a day to completely > > > pulverise > > > this house, and about two days to cart off the debris. Translated > > > into the > > > Gulf coast, you got a lot of years of demolition to go. > > > > > > Enjoy the weekend, comments highly desirable, and go out and impact > > > some > > > silver halide or innocent electrons. > > > > > > Don > > > don.dory@gmail.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >