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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
That is where it was when we bought the place.

Likely the only reason my DH agreed to this particular house. He really only had a few requirements, larger than a 2 car garage, detached, the house had to have a basement with a work room and the master bedroom had to hold a king sized bed.

Now his thought process on the detached garage is garages are built on concrete slabs, as time goes on they settle and there are cracks and clevises, some gaps in garage doors and very difficult to plug those tiny gaps in overhead doors as they settle. He wanted the garage separate because if critters big or small got in there they were not getting in the house. We had mice twice in the garage. Once in his toy, his Fiat X19 trunk/hood area over the winter and once after that in a car that we were going to sell that we didn't get around to for a while. Now I have little boxes of decon around the garage and the beverage of choice in little tupperware bowls is antifreeze. No mice since. But you will recall the opossum that took up residence that took some time to evict.
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Are soil conditions that different up there, that the weight of vehicles will settle a garage slab that much?
Some definitely prefer detached garages down here, based on personal preference, but, either way there are not usually any settling issues pertaining to the weight of vehicles. Most garages are monolithically poured and attached with the rest of the slab.
 
Gabe1

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Andrew C said:
DW got a hitchhiking ghost antenna ball this year. But she still has not replaced her Oswald one with it yet.

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I have a couple dozen of them or so, maybe more. I've been collecting them for a long long time. My favorite one this year is the Mickey Flamingo.

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My DS the year before gave me the garden version

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Gabe1

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donaldtoo said:
Are soil conditions that different up there, that the weight of vehicles will settle a garage slab that much?
Some definitely prefer detached garages down here, based on personal preference, but, either way there are not usually any settling issues pertaining to the weight of vehicles. Most garages are monolithically poured and attached with the rest of the slab.
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It isn't really the soil make up it is the freeze thaw cycle, that is why we loose so many driveways, streets, major water pipes. The ground shifts as it expands as it gets very cold. That is why the overwhelming majority of homes here have foundations vs slabs. When that ground freezes and expands things just start pushing. You see it with many homes too not just those on slabs where after many years the foundations start pop'n some cracks over the years. We have a drain tile system and we skipped the sum-pump and went for an ejector pit.
 
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Gabe1

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donaldtoo said:
Yep, when I was a CM, the 50% off DDP was great. Just so darn much food... :confused:
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That is why this time much to my sons dismay DD and I went with the CS plan this year. She had not been down in many years, she eat like a bird but often so big meals are not her thing. This way we had room for some snacks, didn't waste so much time getting to and from ADRs and loosened up some flexibility that FP+ took away.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
It isn't really the soil make up it is the freeze thaw cycle, that is why we loose so many driveways, streets, major water pipes. The ground shifts as it expands as it gets very cold. That is why the overwhelming majority of homes here have foundations vs slabs. When that grown freezes and expands things just start pushing. You see it with many homes too not just those on slabs where after many years the foundations start pop'n some cracks over the years. We have a drain tile system and we skipped the sum-pump and went for an ejector pit.
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Slab/foundation is the same thing to us, as the terms are used universally down here. We just don't have traditional basements, although we do have what we call Texas Basements (at least in hilly Central Texas, anyway) on so many sloped, hillside lots.
Ironically, funny thing about all that, is that y'all probably need the attached garages more than us...! :)
 
Gabe1

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donaldtoo said:
Slab/foundation is the same thing to us, as the terms are used universally down here. We just don't have traditional basements, although we do have what we call Texas Basements (at least in hilly Central Texas, anyway) on so many sloped, hillside lots.
Ironically, funny thing about all that, is that y'all probably need the attached garages more than us...! :)
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Here, slab is a solid piece of concrete. Some older homes don't have basements and have crawl spaces beneath so the house is still raised up off the ground. I'm guessing but I think our basement is about 10 feet deep or maybe more. Our zoning only allows for full basements. Additions in relative small scale can have like a 4 foot foundation to form somewhat a crawl space. Over the years the additions that fail, you'll see them more slanty than the rest of the house or if they have tried to add an attached garage. Freezing ground does some unique things. Last year we had a hump in the middle of our driveway that wasn't there before. It sank back down in the spring but there is now a pretty little crack that is about 75 feet long. :cautious: Harsh winter, lots of sub zero lots of snow.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
Here, slab is a solid piece of concrete. Some older homes don't have basements and have crawl spaces beneath so the house is still raised up off the ground. I'm guessing but I think our basement is about 10 feet deep or maybe more. Our zoning only allows for full basements. Additions in relative small scale can have like a 4 foot foundation to form somewhat a crawl space. Over the years the additions that fail, you'll see them more slanty than the rest of the house or if they have tried to add an attached garage. Freezing ground does some unique things. Last year we had a hump in the middle of our driveway that wasn't there before. It sank back down in the spring but there is now a pretty little crack that is about 75 feet long. :cautious: Harsh winter, lots of sub zero lots of snow.
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Oh my.
WAY past time to move south, young lady...! :D ;) :)
 
JenniferS

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Andrew C said:
DW got a hitchhiking ghost antenna ball this year. But she still has not replaced her Oswald one with it yet.

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All this talk of antenna balls ... my last 3 Altimas have all had the antenna integrated into the windshield (or rear window, I forget which), so no antenna ball for me. Or Hubby's Buick. :(
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
Yup. He drives me crazy half the time, but he does look after all of us. He's also come a long way from when he offered me peanuts on the plane back in middle school:joyfull:. Although he did call the epi pen an allergy stick a few weeks ago. Took us a good three minutes before I got what he meant.

San Angel really needs to pilot a nut-free menu. Having three entrees (the fourth that I can't eat is a shrimp entrée, migraine trigger for me) that I can't eat because of nuts is silly, and since nuts are a common allergy, they need the two versions of the menu like they were testing at SciFi and others recently.
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huuu.. since when Mexican food had that overload of nuts? o_O
 

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