Realistic Cost of Building a Cabin - Straight Dope
2012年9月11日 · Me and my best girlfriend were idly daydreaming about buying property together in Minnesota, somewhere between the Twin Cities and Duluth, and we looked online and found several 5 acre properties between 15-25K. Between our two families that seems totally do-able, and all the sudden our daydreams seem like they might be possible. But we don’t know thing …
How far down under my house can I legally dig? - Straight Dope
2008年11月8日 · Assuming that a) I own my house b) I don’t hit any water, sewage, or power lines and c) digging under my house won’t affect the structural integrity of my house or its foundation, how far down can I dig, from a legal perspective? Can I build a five story house under my own two story home? I am imagining something like… digging a stairwell out in my …
Superstition: putting a coin behind a room's baseboard?
2002年6月10日 · I’ve always put a current year coin in any structure being built, like a barn or cabin. Don’t know about baseboards, or any internal carpentry project but I could easily see the tradition applying to other parts of the construction process. I don’t think of it as a superstition, more of a tradition.
OSB subfloors - how long can they stay "wet" - Straight Dope
2014年7月24日 · Before problems start? Long story short - We’re in the middle of building a house - The framing was completed about 2 weeks ago. The roof is on, but not completely covered with felt (front half is, back half is not, plus the two access holes). Since then there have been several good rains in the area - in the second floor there is a large area where water has …
Theory behind insulation - Factual Questions - Straight Dope
2024年11月6日 · The basic rule is that different materials have different levels of convection. That said, if wind blows through your wall then convection is sort of irrelevant since as much as you might try to build up the warmth of the air inside your structure (assuming we’re in a cold climate) it will just be blown away with fresh, freezing air.
Turkish Airlines pilot dies in flight - Factual Questions - Straight ...
2024年10月10日 · Emergency landing at JFK after Turkish Airlines pilot dies midflight (yahoo.com) The flight was from Seattle to Istanbul. The pilot lost consciousness somewhere over Nunavut (a northern Canadian territory). It was decided to fly the four hours to New York, rather than land at Iqaluit (possibly less than an hour away) - a Nunavut community of 7500 which is …
Is there a specific ceremony for "deconsecrating" a church?
2024年8月17日 · No formal rite is required for the deconsecration of a church building and there are no official deconsecration rites in the liturgical books issued by the Vatican, the issuing of a profanation decree by the responsible diocesan bishop suffices (Haunerland 2016, p. 68; Zimmerhof 2012, pp. 10, 19, 47–48; Leonhard 2012, p. 131). Still, there is ...
Chinese people knitting when i want to see the rest of a youtube clip
2024年10月24日 · Recently (latest 2 years?) i have noticed that my favorite youtube clips reagulary get stopped whithin the last 30 minutes (lets say) of the clip, by an asian woman knitting or doing other nice housework. Why does this happen? Does this only happen here in Norway? Or is this something other people notice? It is quite annoying if you are engaged in some long …
Do you know what the Gra-Y (or Gray-Y) was? Were you a member?
2017年1月25日 · We lived in southern California. It was in the late 1960s, possibly early 1970s. Gray Y was a youth club, part of the YMCA, hence the “Y” part of the name. Kind of like the Indian Guides, which we also belonged to, or the Cub Scouts, which we also did. We did stuff, like held pinewood derbies (those little wooden cars you carve yourself and race down a track), we …
Is it possible to parachute safely to earth from a tall building using ...
2012年8月18日 · Online news provider The Saudi Gazette reported on Wednesday that a housemaid jumped from the window of her employer’s unit on the 7th floor of a building. The report said the victim used an umbrella as parachute to escape. The victim fell on the pavement and died. Back to the drawing board!