The house next door...or how to NOT build a house

[jdurand]

It sure didn't take log for you to become accustomed to flying that drone

I did practice in the house last night and a bit over the picnic table, but those were hops. The videos are the first long flights.

I guess a few decades on operating machine tools and building surface mount electronics pays off.

[jdurand]

Does that stairwell look small to you? Seems like it should be more rectangular. I'll try for better pictures tomorrow if it's not windy.

[IntheGroove]

Spiral staircase to the basement perhaps?

[Frank S]

You are having a house built. this other thing that is the subject of the thread will be a just another stack of kindling for the next brush fire.
For only the second time in my adult life I am currently living in what I call a nailed together stack of dried kindling. it may have 1850 sq ft and 7 rooms + 2 bathrooms and an enclosed sun porch. but I also completely replaces the wiring to above anyone's code and installed a dozen smoke/ monoxide And gas leak detectors and there are fire extinguishers through out I doubt if I will ever be completely comfortable living in something made out of materials which should be reserved for furniture or cord wood.. Some wood used in the construction of a house is fine but the primary material to construct one should not have grown in a forest. If this thing ever gets blown away or burns I will use the settlement money to build one half the size out of rock concrete and steel 100 yards deeper into the property. but it has been here now for 50 years.

[jdurand]

I went to take more pictures yesterday. Had a nice long flight and then found I'd forgotten to install the SD card.

So, fresh battery and decided to try the "headless" mode as it's supposed to be easier. Well... the rotation was slightly out of trim so the drone was slowly turning. Kewl, automatic pan of the camera. Only...it's reference to "head" was also rotating so now the controls didn't work relative to the physical head or what I had originally set as the head. I sort of had it under control but a small breeze came up so time to land...and it wound up flying over my head fairly fast headed towards the other fence so I cut power. Landed upside down in the kiwi arbor. No damage but the rough landing apparently glitched power because the SD card was corrupted. I couldn't even post a video of the less than stellar landing.

I had to climb on the roof with a long electrician's pole to retrieve it.

No more headless mode!

[jdurand]

Video time! Still getting used to flying and I occasionally get a power loss. ???

[Frank S]

Yeah I hate the low rise wide step stairs to me they seem more dangerous than the only slightly steeper 7" rise. That whole short height riser code only came into existence because the person sitting on the panel when the codes were made up was only 5 ft 2in. just barely out of school so they still remembered being 4 years old and having to climb what used to be the standard height. with their little short legs.
As for the 12" treads that's fine as long as there is a 1 to 1 1/2" nesting from the next tread above leaving 10 1/2 to 1 inches
As I was growing up I often visited one of my uncles their stairs to the made over attic were 9x9 continuous for a 12 ft total height, and only 36" wide in later years once he nad my aunt got into their 80's they installed a grab rail on both sides. My aunt still climbed those stairs until she was well into her 90's
My shop will have 7x11 1" overlap with a 180 turn back landing but the only code I build to is Frank's

[jdurand]

No idea, but their windows more or less look at our roof line, so it's already the tallest building in the neighborhood.

I still wonder where they're planting all the trees they want.

[IntheGroove]

Yea! You're getting the hang of it. Better than I ever did.
So was there a house on that property before or is this some new view ruining project?

[Frank S]

10 ft ceilings means at least 11 feet from floor level to floor level and could be much more
yeah it would make for a long stair obscenely long with a straight landing half way up with less than 6" risers and 12 inch treads. still long even with an inch of tuck under for the treads.
9in x9in stairs are steep but if my Aunt could still climb them into her 80s before needing a hand rail it couldn't have been too bad.