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Post by factorychef on Jul 17, 2011 10:50:20 GMT -5
50% of Vinton still without electric power. Maybe 6 more days for some. My weather station that I have at home read 127 for wind speed that lasted fo 12 minutes. People with the wrong insurance are getting hosed. Our insurance is actual replacement cost and we will do just fine. The house came out OK, not bad for a house built in 1861. Many new houses had lots of damage. It will be a long time before Vinton recovers.
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Post by Tamarack on Jul 17, 2011 11:05:54 GMT -5
Thanks for the update FactoryChef. Neighbors will step in where insurance fails and Vinton will bounce back.
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Post by paulschlimm on Jul 17, 2011 11:10:52 GMT -5
Dang, Chef. Thanks for the update, and I'm glad you didn't have much damage. Houses in 1861 were built of sturdy stuff, no?
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Post by brucemacneill on Jul 17, 2011 11:18:14 GMT -5
Dang, Chef. Thanks for the update, and I'm glad you didn't have much damage. Houses in 1861 were built of sturdy stuff, no? That was back when wood was wood and by now it's petrified. New construction using that semi-pine-more-like-balsa wood doesn't stand a chance, IMHO. My house in Michigan wasn't that old but it was old and if you wanted to put a nail in a 2x4 stud, and they measured 2x4, you had to drill a pilot hole first. Age has some benefits. |
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Post by paulschlimm on Jul 17, 2011 12:42:44 GMT -5
The house I grew up in was duckboard and plaster. Ditto my grandparent's house. I never KNEW you had to look for a "stud" to hang stuff until we moved into the Townhouse in Fayetteville after we got married. We just sort of drove the nail into the plaster and hung away  |
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Post by sekhmet on Jul 17, 2011 23:34:37 GMT -5
This old house is built of solid boards and 5x5 in the corners and around the doors and windows. When they did the roof we were a little nervous. Tough as the day it was built. 1886, 125 years this summer.
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Post by philen on Jul 18, 2011 8:08:17 GMT -5
So sorry to hear the news of Vinton.....but I know that in time the people will recover. It's been almost six years since Katrina hit down here in the south and for the most part things have recovered, but if you look in the nooks and crannies you will still see signs of destruction. I don't think the Mississippi Gulf Coast has made much of a recovery at all. Neither has parts of New Orleans.
Our house is coming up on its 10th birthday. I sure hope it will last a long time but I'm afraid my inexperience as a carpenter and a designer will show up sooner than it should. The framing for the house came from Germany. The 2x4's had a nice tight grain and was heavier than domestic 2x4's. I just lucked up and foreign materials were cheaper at the time. I had a lot of good subcontractors working on the house, all except the boy that put the shingles on the roof. Katrina took about 1/4 of the shingles off the roof and I could tell the way that the shingles came off, the boy did not put them on correct. He had an old air compressor and had the pressure set too high. When the nails went in, they fractured the shingle in a circle about the size of a nickle around the nail head. When the shingles came off, the nails stayed in place with a nickle size piece of shingle left under the nail head. I've had to occasionally replace shingles (hired it out since I can't climb on the roof anymore) after a strong wind blows through.
I wish I had built one other home before I built the home I plan to stay in for the long haul. There are so many things I would do different. (Like have a storm cellar)
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