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patrickl:


--- Quote from: shmokes on August 29, 2008, 04:23:38 pm ---Of course there are.  That's not what I meant.  It's not like you're forbidden from building a basement just because you don't have to have one.  But basements are a helluva lot more expensive than a second-story, and they're less marketable (lack of sunlight, for example).  But where it freezes, the foundation of the home must be below the frost line.  In NYC, for example, that's four feet . . . and the foundation has to go deeper than that.  And many places get a lot colder than NYC.  So they build basements there as a matter of course, not just because someone wants a basement.

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The foundation doesn't have to stand on a basement. In the Netherlands we put our houses on concrete pillars that are rammed into the ground until they stand on something solid. The foundation is then put on top of these pillars.

I've lived in several houses with basements. I wish my new house had one, but indeed the resale value is low since you can not use a basement for much. I guess a garage can have basically the same function and it's cheaper to build has a higher resale value.

ratzz:


--- Quote from: shardian on August 21, 2008, 11:54:26 am ---I hate my neighbors, but they don't hate me.

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Same here!

I sometimes think that I am too considerate and they just live their life doing what the hell they like. Luckily they are not noisy often, but they seem to have a blow out once a month!

Paulson:


 They hate me regardless of me working or not...so stuff em'

Ummon:


--- Quote from: patrickl on August 30, 2008, 06:05:48 am ---The foundation doesn't have to stand on a basement. In the Netherlands we put our houses on concrete pillars that are rammed into the ground until they stand on something solid. The foundation is then put on top of these pillars.



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Um, what if it doesn't hit anything?



--- Quote from: ratzz on August 30, 2008, 09:20:17 am ---
--- Quote from: shardian on August 21, 2008, 11:54:26 am ---I hate my neighbors, but they don't hate me.

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Same here!

I sometimes think that I am too considerate and they just live their life doing what the hell they like. Luckily they are not noisy often, but they seem to have a blow out once a month!

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Like, what kind of blow-out? Sometimes those are the most entertaining things in the neighborhood.

MK3FAN:


--- Quote from: shmokes on August 18, 2008, 09:12:07 pm ---I've been hitting my cabinet hard for the past few weeks, but I actually have a few hours in a day to work on it.  My wife gets home from work about 5:30.  We make and eat dinner.  It's 7:30 usually before I can start working on anything.  So for the past few weeks I've been out using my jigsaw, router and/or drill on something nearing a daily basis.  My neighbors must be getting so sick of listening to it.  I think it really is pretty impolite.

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Well, I am a drummer. If I wanna get behind the skins after 8 PM or so, I actually go over to the neighbor's house and make sure that I won't be disturbing them. I doubt that they can hear the drumming inside their house anyway, but it CAN be heard if you are standing outside MY house. They have never complained or even said anything to me about it in the past. But then-again, I almost never play past dark. I always make a note to myself to ask them because I know I sure as hell wouldn't want someone making a bunch of noise when I am trying to relax or whatever.

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