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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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donaldtoo said:
Meant to answer this last night, but, ended up watching Hallmark movies with DWifey... :cautious::cyclops::inlove:;):)

Could be, but, y’all’d need to put it on the side of a hill like it is designed for...and there aren't too many hills in Florida, from what I understand...! ;)
The model isn’t as far along as it normally would be at this point, as I got pulled off that project and on to another one for a bit before I got back on it, but, here is a Google Earth pic of the site and the view of downtown Austin...!!! :)

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Now, based on that, I’d recommend y’all GGs should purchase this site, and build a hill on it...

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Here’s 2 views of the house from the rear for reference...

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Then, from the front and out the back, y’all’d have this view...!!!!!!!!!!! :joyfull::joyfull::joyfull::happy:;):)

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You know I thought it could be a hillside structure, and by the way why were you up so early? You don't have a newborn in your house.;)
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Goofyernmost said:
I know you cannot relate, but, in the northern locations one also has to consider the fact the ground freezes and the foundation must be lower then the frost can penetrate. Frost can and does lift buildings if the foundation isn't seated low enough. My first house had that problem where the building built on a downhill slope didn't have a deep foundation on the exposed end and would push up that side of the house in the winter, cracking the basement walls like one would crack open an egg. The entire foundation had to be redone with the house sitting on top of it. In the winter we couldn't close the doors to the rooms and in places we could put your hand under the wall into the next room. That's how far it lifted that corner of the building. One of the many reasons why I have moved to the south.
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I didn't know that. Very interesting. I always thought that foundations were just a standard depth.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
I didn't know that. Very interesting. I always thought that foundations were just a standard depth.
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So did the builder of my house. They put the foundation the same depth all the way around. The problem was that the basement floor on one end was back-filled as would be normal for a level piece of land. So the ground level on the south end was well above the frost line. But the north end had the basement floor sitting on ground level so the base of the foundation was not deep enough to be below the frost line. So, it just simply picked that end up when the ground froze.
 
Rista1313

Rista1313

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MinnieM123 said:
Oh dear. Poor little guy. This reminds me of when Sears stopped making their huge catalogs, that they mailed out to thousands across the country. Used to love that catalog every year. Everyone in the family had their "section" that they'd gravitate to. Something for everyone . . .

It was 1993 when Sears stopped production of it. Unlike T, I was well into adulthood back then. I imagine it's probably even harder for a kid to lose a welcomed catalog of toys, though.
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Remember when theirs, and JCPenney's were about 2 inches thick? I bet the mail people don't miss that!
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Rista1313 said:
Remember when theirs, and JCPenney's were about 2 inches thick? I bet the mail people don't miss that!
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Toward the end you basically had to go to a Sears store and pick one up. I guess we should have seen its demise coming. It must have been awfully expensive to mail it. If only they could have hung in there a little longer they might have been able to be Sears/Amazon. They had everything in place all they had to do was load it onto there website.
 
Rista1313

Rista1313

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I paid for my first car 1977 Chevy Nova in cash $375... 6 month later the ball joint broke, but my parents had another 1977 Nova they were about to trade in, instead of trading it in they gave it to me (Wish I still had that car) and I paid my dad insurance (I worked at McDonalds and got social security, so money was no issue for me luckily) But I did learn how to pay bills that way...

We luckily still have 1 sears left. It wasn't on the closing list anyway. I always favored JCP over Sears... I dunno if it's because my Grandma worked there for awhile, or I just liked their catalog better. Speaking of catalogs... remember catalog showrooms like Witmark and Best? I worked at Witmark when I was 18.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Happy Saturday! Hubs and I are going to our niece's birthday party today, she is the one that comes often to stay with us. She will be 14! I can't believe she is that old already, it seems like yesterday she was just a little tot.

Oh and I just had to comment on a few of the conversations:
1. The Sears catalog......was wonderful I loved having it to page through. It was a sign that Christmas was around the corner and it was so cool to look at all the magical things for sale. We also got the Montgomery Wards and JC Penny catalog too and I like paging through them too. We also had Toyland at a store called Farm n Fleet, it opened just during the Christmas season otherwise the store was main farm goods, tools, clothes.....very boring for a little girl. So Toyland season was the only time I wanted to go to Farm n Fleet with my dad! While he spent an hour looking at the tools I was able to go drool over the toys!


2. As for new cars and kids. I can see why parent want their kids to have something dependable, but my parents and most of my friends parents either made their kids buy their car or did a hand-me down of the their car and that is still how it is in my area. My parents helped my sister buy a used car and when it was my turn they were in the market for a new car and the trade in value of their car was close to what they had given my sister for her car so I got their old car. While we were in school my parents paid for insurance as long as we were on the honor roll, that was my mom's idea of our payment. I guess she saw working hard to get good grades as a job and part of payment (besides education) was getting the insurance paid.

I bought my first car about two months after I started my job after college. The car my parents had given me was turning into a Flintstone car. No joke, my dad was changing the oil and when he was done he told me that unless I wanted my foot to go through the floor I'd better get a new one...soon! He had patched it and it held up for about 2 months until I found a used car that fit my budget. It was a used car but only was a year old with about 3000 miles on it. That lasted for 8 years, then it died. Literally, I would be driving and it would just die.

Luckily the car lived long enough one day for me to drive to the dealership, it lived through their test drive and I bought my first brand new car ever. That was in 2008 and I don't plan to buy another new car until I absolutely have to.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Goofyernmost said:
I know you cannot relate, but, in the northern locations one also has to consider the fact the ground freezes and the foundation must be lower then the frost can penetrate. Frost can and does lift buildings if the foundation isn't seated low enough. My first house had that problem where the building built on a downhill slope didn't have a deep foundation on the exposed end and would push up that side of the house in the winter, cracking the basement walls like one would crack open an egg. The entire foundation had to be redone with the house sitting on top of it. In the winter we couldn't close the doors to the rooms and in places we could put your hand under the wall into the next room. That's how far it lifted that corner of the building. One of the many reasons why I have moved to the south.
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I know about it, but, yes, definitely nothing we have to worry about down here engineering- wise.
And, woof! Whoever designed/engineered/built that house definitely didn’t do it right...!!! :facepalm:
 

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