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

[jdurand]

Our new house finally has a point.

[jdurand]

In the pit they're starting to install windows. Also putting down underlayment on the roof, looks pretty thin. The wind is already peeling some up.

[PDXsparky]

I like your new house much more than the pit house.

[jdurand]

In our California neighborhood stucco has been the norm, no idea what they're going to do.

[Frank S]

In our California neighborhood stucco has been the norm, no idea what they're going to do.

I know where there is a house here in Tx that the guy took lathing screen and stapled it to the exterior then pulled and shaped it to look like random rock formations then sprayed it with shot-crete and hand painted each stone shape to look like natural rocks. You had to get real close to even tell the wall was not made of natural stone.

[PDXsparky]

I know where there is a house here in Tx that the guy took lathing screen and stapled it to the exterior then pulled and shaped it to look like random rock formations then sprayed it with shot-crete and hand painted each stone shape to look like natural rocks. You had to get real close to even tell the wall was not made of natural stone.

Just like they do at Disney

[jdurand]

All day today they were tarring the flat part of the roof and just on the section of sloped roof I can see from our yard they've added 3 skylights and 6 sewer vents.

They worked until 7pm, don't know if the flat sections are done yet. The tar pot is sitting in front of the house.


Here's the workshop on our new house. The roof timbers will be all treated with fire and bug proofing paint before everything is sealed up. Seems Russians in this area are really really against flammable houses.

[Frank S]

All day today they were tarring the flat part of the roof and just on the section of sloped roof I can see from our yard they've added 3 skylights and 6 sewer vents.

They worked until 7pm, don't know if the flat sections are done yet. The tar pot is sitting in front of the house.


Here's the workshop on our new house. The roof timbers will be all treated with fire and bug proofing paint before everything is sealed up. Seems Russians in this area are really really against flammable houses.

My kind of folks

[Frank S]

I've seen a roof done like this before after the first layer of tar is applied they came in and installed a full wrap flashing then a second layer of tar then a vulcanized layer of rubbery fabric of about 1/4" thick and gravel on top of that

[IntheGroove]

Just like most places that are against flammable schools...