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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:24:50 PM EST
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Why does the brickwork suck so bad? |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:25:23 PM EST
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Is this OP?
Congrats on the new house! Does it double as a bunker? 
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:25:30 PM EST
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Wow. I like the ability to keep a room dark as well, but I think I'd have gone with a more conventional design and simply added something like these shutters which you see all over other parts of the world. They would address your lighting, security, etc concerns just fine without giving you a potentially very unpopular house design. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:26:04 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Cars come with locks too. Glass isn't all that durable. Perhaps you've noticed? |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:27:11 PM EST
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Quote HistoryBecause if I wanted to sell it, retrofitting giant picture windows for the convenience of burglars is so damn hard to do...How can we cut giant holes and install windows? Otherwise, I think you'll be unpleasantly surprised about cutting windows later into exterior structural walls. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:27:46 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You know what they call a basement in Oklahoma? A swimming pool. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:28:12 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Why does the brickwork suck so bad? |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:29:27 PM EST
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I thought it was more because of the basalt rocks. I salvaged Atlas sites around Forbes AFB and all but the Bushong site were flooded out to beat the band with groundwater. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:30:32 PM EST
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@nickmemphis
Buy some of these for the windows you do have. You'll love them (I do). http://www.rolladen.com/ |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:31:23 PM EST
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Is this OP? https://i1.party411.com/p411/Portals/0/images/products/photo-op-dracula.jpg Congrats on the new house! Does it double as a bunker? 
I guess we'll find out. ...or not 
 DUN-DUN-DUUUUN!!! - Sound Effect |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:32:14 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's Oklahoma. That tree in the front lawn is probably the only source of wood for 500 miles. 
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:33:28 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol explain the sawdust one please, I missed that one. Also, this has got to be the most visually boring house I've ever seen. I understand wanting to be secure with yourself and your shit, but this is just......over the top. Some of you guys literally live in a state of paranoia. The sawdust guy was a guy complaining that he had to vacuum the wood shaving from the studs during the construction of the house. Not a finished house, a house during the course of construction. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:35:13 PM EST
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It's Oklahoma. That tree in the front lawn is probably the only source of wood for 500 miles. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Why does the brickwork suck so bad? |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:38:49 PM EST
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I got more roof vents on my garage.
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:41:28 PM EST
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Is it a strip joint? Where's the windows? |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:44:01 PM EST
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I'm from Kansas, Topeka, where everyone has a basement. It's weird that basements are like hens teeth here. Fur Realz. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:45:12 PM EST
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The rear lot is fenced, I'll be installing a gate for the horse, and a 'lectric fence so she doesn't butt-lean it, which I had bought all that literally the day before the fire so I still have it all. The bedrooms have egress windows, the office/gunroom has a commercial grade door (it opens out, with steel studs and a full commercial deadbolt. The room itself has double thick fireboard drywall and Simplex-Grinnell fire protection sprinklers with glass ampoule fuses) The porch used to be part of the LR, but Roxie needs a place to go in a hailstorm. And fuck windows, I hate sunlight, and clear skies. I wish it was 100% overcast 100% of the time or night. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:45:36 PM EST
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@nickmemphis Buy some of these for the windows you do have. You'll love them (I do). http://www.rolladen.com/ The rest of the house has ordinary windows, btw. Two bedrooms, the gunrooom/office, a kitchen with a commercial island suitable for Gordon Ramsey to cook in, and wait'll you see the finish. There's gonna be no it's what other pussywhipped people like bullshit. Function over form ever after. The kitchen is for cooking, not for having the neighbors approve. The living areas are for comfort, with no thought given to if the neighbors approve. People generally choose shit because it's what everyone else chooses and God forbid they exert peer pressure. Fuck y'all, this is MY house and I'll do it the way I like. Suck it. Only the bare minimum is given to cosmetic features, and that only because the Bank of Oklahoma Loss Draft fags control the purse. When i design a kitchen, I figure a kitchen is for preparing food. When I design a gun room, I focus on security and doing gun stuff When I design a bathroom, I focus on luxury and washing my ass. At no point ever, except when forced, do I make the primary focus about whether anyone else thinks it looks pretty. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:49:48 PM EST
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OP is happy. Who are we to judge blood sucking, overcast loving, night stalkers? |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:52:38 PM EST
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Interdasting. The rest of the house has ordinary windows, btw. Two bedrooms, the gunrooom/office, a kitchen with a commercial island suitable for Gordon Ramsey to cook in, and wait'll you see the finish. There's gonna be no it's what other pussywhipped people like bullshit. Function over form ever after. The kitchen is for cooking, not for having the neighbors approve. The living areas are for comfort, with no thought given to if the neighbors approve. People generally choose shit because it's what everyone else chooses and God forbid they exert peer pressure. Fuck y'all, this is MY house and I'll do it the way I like. Suck it. Only the bare minimum is given to cosmetic features, and that only because the Bank of Oklahoma Loss Draft fags control the purse. When i design a kitchen, I figure a kitchen is for preparing food. When I design a gun room, I focus on security and doing gun stuff When I design a bathroom, I focus on luxury and washing my ass. At no point ever, except when forced, do I make the primary focus about whether anyone else thinks it looks pretty. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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@nickmemphis Buy some of these for the windows you do have. You'll love them (I do). http://www.rolladen.com/ The rest of the house has ordinary windows, btw. Two bedrooms, the gunrooom/office, a kitchen with a commercial island suitable for Gordon Ramsey to cook in, and wait'll you see the finish. There's gonna be no it's what other pussywhipped people like bullshit. Function over form ever after. The kitchen is for cooking, not for having the neighbors approve. The living areas are for comfort, with no thought given to if the neighbors approve. People generally choose shit because it's what everyone else chooses and God forbid they exert peer pressure. Fuck y'all, this is MY house and I'll do it the way I like. Suck it. Only the bare minimum is given to cosmetic features, and that only because the Bank of Oklahoma Loss Draft fags control the purse. When i design a kitchen, I figure a kitchen is for preparing food. When I design a gun room, I focus on security and doing gun stuff When I design a bathroom, I focus on luxury and washing my ass. At no point ever, except when forced, do I make the primary focus about whether anyone else thinks it looks pretty. Don't forget extra ventilation in your gun room, and if it isn't too late plumb it for a dehumidifier. It's your house, it should make you happy. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:54:25 PM EST
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I keep imagining that house with an chain link fence, 12 cameras and no windows. It will, literally, look like a prison. If safety is that much of a concern, as to drastically alter your living situation to this degree, you are living in the wrong place. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:58:07 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Rolladden are awesome. They provide security, storm proofing, and light control. Don't forget extra ventilation in your gun room, and if it isn't too late plumb it for a dehumidifier. It's your house, it should make you happy. Dry? Excessive humidity? Hah! More like fire up a humidifier. Sometime I, apparently, sleep with my mouth open like a cretin. And my uvula is cracked and swollen for days. gag me with a dehydrated uvula. 
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Posted: 4/23/2018 3:59:34 PM EST
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Be a hell of a place to shoot it out. Has windows like an armored car
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:02:14 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @crimsontideshooter The sawdust guy was a guy complaining that he had to vacuum the wood shaving from the studs during the construction of the house. Not a finished house, a house during the course of construction. I have to admit, I've done it. Right before the drywall went up in the house I'm in now I went through and made sure things were clean and generally tidy. Not sure what his reasons were but I did it for moisture control. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:03:50 PM EST
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REMEMBER THE ALAMO !!!!
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:05:56 PM EST
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Grow Op upgrade huh? Don't want any curious eyes peaking in any windows?
What happened with the fire? Grow lamps short out? 
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:07:15 PM EST
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If you want to soften the look for the neighbors.... build some faux framing with plexiglas and mount to exterior. Looks like windows... isn't windows.
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:07:19 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: OP will be “That guy” on his street and will have to order Girl Scout cookies online. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:08:28 PM EST
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looks like a prisoner camp. Why are there no windows?
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:08:40 PM EST
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*Snip* And fuck windows, I hate sunlight, and clear skies. I wish it was 100% overcast 100% of the time or night. When it's overcast I like to look out the window at the beautiful cloudy sky. Plus I like to look at my dags play in the yard and watch the birds. Glad your happy though. Probably going to have a hard time selling it. A friend of mines husband decided to design his own house. It was a pretty fucked up floor plan. The entire 2nd floor was the bedroom, a really large bedroom. The bottom floor was a jumble of rooms with a layout only he could appreciate. The design flaws didn't really jump out at first when you walked in but after visiting awhile your mind would be filled with fuck. The architect tried to talk sense into him. When it came time to sell it took over 5 years. It was on a good piece of land in the country, a really nice area. There were other houses not fucked up, those sold quickly. I'm not sure how much under the market value they finally sold that cluster fuck for. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:08:59 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You'd hate my house. I'm sitting in my 20x20 sunroom reading this thread. It has (5) 5'x5' windows and a 6' glass door out to the pool. No blinds or shades either.
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:09:34 PM EST
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Pic of the original house.
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:10:02 PM EST
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Because if I wanted to sell it, retrofitting giant picture windows for the convenience of burglars is so damn hard to do...How can we cut giant holes and install windows? |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:10:45 PM EST
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Damn skippy. Got 12 cameras and a 2Tb Zmodo system NIB and ready to go.  |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:11:00 PM EST
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I hope you really, really like it because nobody else is going to want to buy and live in that pillbox. 
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:13:02 PM EST
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:14:26 PM EST
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My wife says it looks like a public restroom in a state park.
To me, looks more like a central office or pump station. Don't know what to say.... you gotta admit, OP, it's just kinda.... ummmmm.... odd.
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:15:26 PM EST
[#38]
I think y'all are wrong, but it's cool. Que sera sera.
bed time here. I'll update this thread soon.
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:16:53 PM EST
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My wife says it looks like a public restroom in a state park. To me, looks more like a central office or pump station. Don't know what to say.... you gotta admit, OP, it's just kinda.... ummmmm.... odd.A public restroom is designed to accomplish the function of being a restroom at maximum efficiency. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:18:12 PM EST
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Where are the windows?
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:18:13 PM EST
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Seriously, awesome house. I too am happier with fewer windows, I like the privacy and security more than natural light.
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:18:47 PM EST
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Does it have a storm shelter???
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:22:58 PM EST
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Just curious though, do you not like windows? |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:23:00 PM EST
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I think y'all are wrong, but it's cool. Que sera sera. bed time here. I'll update this thread soon. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:23:12 PM EST
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I think y'all are wrong, but it's cool. Que sera sera. bed time here. I'll update this thread soon.
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:23:41 PM EST
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I like it fuck windows.
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:26:15 PM EST
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You've prewired each of the corners of the house for 3 POE drops for your camera system, right? Thanks. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:27:29 PM EST
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Not trollin' I'm just a strange guy. Shit looks like a drug house and a prison. |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:30:28 PM EST
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1.) house destroyed by fire
2.) build replacement house without fire exits 3.) ? 4.) profit |
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Posted: 4/23/2018 4:31:24 PM EST
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I've got a question that's not related to your lack of windows. Did you rebuild on the slab or did you tear out slab and start over from scratch?
If existing slab, any concerns of steel reinforcement being compromised by heat? |
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