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Sun, Jan 5, 1997 (18:36) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Are you building, or did you build, you own home? Or you having is contracted?
61 responses total.
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Response 1 of 61: Yves G. (yves) * Mon, Jan 5, 1998 (00:41) * 1 lines
The only contractors that I had was the electrician, for insurances purpose. But for the next one all have contractors for fondation, structure, roof. The money will tell me what I can do this year.
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Response 2 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jan 5, 1998 (10:35) * 1 lines
What's your first step? And when do you start?
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Response 3 of 61: Yves G. (yves) * Tue, Jan 6, 1998 (03:06) * 7 lines
The first step will be shopping for prices. I didn't did that before cause we where planing to build in about 4-5 years. But now, we've changed or mind and see it as a money placement (diversification). But I don't want to put more than 30k. So I'll see what I can do with that money. I know where I'll put the house, in what direction (heating saving), will be a cottage. I have a house plan that could fit to me, with some modifications. But I have to know how much $$$. If I don't have all the answers to my
questions, I'll wait next year.
What and where are you building?
P.S. Be patient if I don't write back quickly. I often have to consult my good friend the dictionary :o) (I have alot more to write down, later...)
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Response 4 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jan 6, 1998 (09:41) * 5 lines
I've got an 1100 square foot cottage under construction out in back
of my present 3000 sf house.
Check it out at http://www.spring.com/~house
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Response 5 of 61: Yves G. (yves) * Wed, Jan 7, 1998 (02:17) * 1 lines
I presume your present house is a comercial one? It's BBBBIG... and is my kind of house. Did you built it? Do you build yourself your new one? My present house is 3X smaller (about 945 square foot. 22X30, 2 levels, a cathedera roof in front). The one that I look at is the same size, but if I can affort it I'll make it 4' larger (for biger kitchen and bathroom).
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Response 6 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jan 7, 1998 (11:56) * 5 lines
No, it's noncommercial, I built it with some subs for different jobs.
The appraisal just came in at $155,000. I *almost* have the home
improvement loan I took out paid for. What did you think of the pictures
on the website, did they give you a good enough idea?
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Response 7 of 61: Yves G. (yves) * Thu, Jan 8, 1998 (02:39) * 3 lines
The pictures do give me a very good idea of the place. Someone seems to have been scanned at 16 million colors and reduced to 256 colors. All the definition in lightning is lost. The website look as an advertising site. Am I wrong? I don't understand "I built it with some subs for different jobs". (Did I mention somewhere that I'm french speaking, so I sometime have difficulties to read or write in English.)
So if you built it you have a lot of experience in wood working!
The house that is under construction must be the same looking. And at what step are you on the new building?
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Response 8 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jan 8, 1998 (22:36) * 3 lines
Just finished the framing, have a bit more interior framing to do.
I'll try and shoot some video and capture some stills.
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Response 9 of 61: Yves G. (yves) * Mon, Jan 19, 1998 (14:31) * 1 lines
What kind of fondation do you have to have? Do you have to dig?
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Response 10 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (08:25) * 4 lines
Pier and beam. No digging. I'm also checking out a house
to move on to the land this week. It's $20,000 including moving it
and it's about 1300 sf. Reminds me, I need to tell Garrett about it.
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Response 11 of 61: Yves G. (yves) * Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (02:22) * 2 lines
So it'll be the third house on your land. Are you building a village?
We have to dig 4' and have a cement fondation, to prevent the freeze lifting the house.
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Response 12 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (04:10) * 1 lines
Yep, a little cybervillage. All the places will have ethernet connections.
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Response 13 of 61: Yves G. (yves) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (03:41) * 1 lines
Ok, now I understand the reason for all that places. Was thinking that you had a BIG FAMILY ;o)
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Response 14 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (06:07) * 3 lines
I can get that house moved here, total cost ofhouse and moving is
$20,000. Not too bad!
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Response 15 of 61: Yves G. (yves) * Sun, Jan 25, 1998 (01:59) * 1 lines
1300 sqf. on one or two floors? Is the house very far from your land?
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Response 16 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jan 25, 1998 (15:29) * 3 lines
It's pretty far, about 20 miles. But the guy will sell it and
move it for around $20,000.
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Response 17 of 61: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Mon, Feb 23, 1998 (20:01) * 3 lines
Terry, are you putting us on about the cybervillage part?
Yves, does that mean you won't have a basement--just a foundation?
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Response 18 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Feb 23, 1998 (23:12) * 3 lines
Nope, every place is going to be wired for isdn and hopefully some day
T-1 or wireless. We are almost finished building our first "cybercottage".
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Response 19 of 61: Yves G. (yves) * Tue, Feb 24, 1998 (00:59) * 2 lines
Autumn, I'll have a basement. Didn't use the right word. As we have to dig 4', it doesn't cost much more to build a complete basement instead of just foundations. And as I never throw anything, I need lot of storage place :o)
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Response 20 of 61: Wolf (Wolf) * Tue, Feb 24, 1998 (19:26) * 13 lines
You're a pack rat, huh? I know, if you throw it out, something will happen and
you'll need whatever it was....
Must be nice to have such a big house Terry. Mine is a modest 1180, 3 bed/2
bath. Have a good yard too and it's in a very nice subdivision. Would love to
build something that, maybe, I have a hand in designing the layout and stuff, but
don't you have to be mega rich first?
Oh, and I would LOVE a basement. As the water tables are so high around here
the basement would always be flooded.
Yves, maybe you can teach us some proper French. I pour through French
dictionaries but it doesn't help with sentence structure and verbs and stuff.
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Response 21 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Feb 24, 1998 (23:12) * 3 lines
No basements anywhere to be found in Texas. We're just not a land of
basements. I'm not sure why, they just don't happen in these parts.
Maybe something to do with the soil??
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Response 22 of 61: Yves G. (yves) * Wed, Feb 25, 1998 (01:50) * 3 lines
A Basement would be a extra cost only to have more space? Better have a garage.
Wolf, about the researches in dictionary, I know what your talking about. I ofen have to do it. No problemo giving you some help.
P.S. Yes I'm a pack rat and love it. But when I have to repair something in the house and find the right bolt, on a Sunday morning, I take a great pleasure to show my trophy to my wife :o)))
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Response 23 of 61: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Feb 25, 1998 (17:09) * 1 lines
no basements in Texas because of the coleche (sp?) the limestone rock that prevades all of Texas underground. And in San Antonio they depend solely on natural filtration through this rock to clean their water (no water treatment at all!) so basements and [1~screwing up the soil/sediment down there is a no no.
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Response 24 of 61: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Feb 25, 1998 (20:29) * 1 lines
Previous owners put on an addition to my house in the 70s without digging a basement, just "crawl space" (like who'd want to crawl around in there?) You can really notice the difference when you walk into this room, the temperature drops a couple of degrees. With no basement, where do you all keep your washer/dryer?
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Response 25 of 61: Wolf (Wolf) * Wed, Feb 25, 1998 (20:30) * 2 lines
thanks, Yves. The stuff doesn't translate directly does it? That's the problem I
have with German. Have to use software to write letters to my grandparents...
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Response 26 of 61: Wolf (Wolf) * Wed, Feb 25, 1998 (20:33) * 6 lines
Autumn, I had to laugh at that, dunno why, just hit me funny. We've got a
utility room off the kitchen. I do know life with a basement and running up and
down the stairs to do laundry, to get stuff from the freezer (way back when I
lived in Kansas). Really miss having a basement. This house doesn't have
much for storage space. Like to do something with the attic, but it gets
so muggy here.
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Response 27 of 61: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Feb 25, 1998 (20:47) * 1 lines
I'm always envious when I go in those new house models, you know, where they have the washer/dryer upstairs by the bedrooms in a hall closet? That's revolutionary to put the thing right where it's needed. Terry, you make sure to incorporate that into your cybervillage!
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Response 28 of 61: Yves G. (yves) * Thu, Feb 26, 1998 (02:59) * 2 lines
On my futur house plan the washer/dryer are on the main floor. This will gives me more space to put my "pack rat" things in the basement. But I'll have to buy a fitness machine to keep us in shape...
Wolf, your right, direct translation's never a good thing, look at my writing style :o)
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Response 29 of 61: Wolf (Wolf) * Thu, Feb 26, 1998 (20:04) * 4 lines
you're doin' well though Yves! Tres bon (?)
Autumn, i'm always envious when i take a look-see at a new house. love to do
it though cuz it gives me ideas on how to make mine look better.
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Response 30 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Feb 27, 1998 (01:19) * 7 lines
I talked to a lady tonight who said "Don't, do not, under any
circumstances, get one of those combination washer dryers. She knows
wherefore she speaks, as she manages about 100 properties.
Duly noted. As well the autumnal suggestion to locate the washer / dryer
where they are most needed.
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Response 31 of 61: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Feb 27, 1998 (22:01) * 1 lines
Ha ha, never saw my name in adjective form before! My brother works for one of the local builders (whose house models are gorgeous)--came in to work Monday to discover the builder had absconded with all the $$$ and fled. Needless to say, my brother's out of a job. :-( Hey Terry, need a general contractor for your village? Hell of a commute, though... :-)
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Response 32 of 61: Wolf (Wolf) * Sat, Feb 28, 1998 (18:36) * 1 lines
that's a rotten thing to do. is a manhunt out for him?
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Response 33 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Mar 1, 1998 (08:49) * 2 lines
It would be a hell of a commute, not at that stage quite yet, right now I
need an electrician to finish the cottage.
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Response 34 of 61: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sun, Mar 1, 1998 (20:49) * 1 lines
They think he might be in Ohio (yeah, that's where I'd go!--does anyone know an emoticon that denotes rolling one's eyes?) Of course, the subcontractors and bank are hopping mad, not to mention all the prospective homeowners who put down deposits but didn't go to closing yet!
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Response 35 of 61: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Mar 2, 1998 (09:08) * 3 lines
rolling one's eyes: exasperation, disgust, disbielf
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best I can do Autumn but not sure it fits the situation -- that sure stinks!
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Response 36 of 61: Wolf (Wolf) * Mon, Mar 2, 1998 (20:13) * 1 lines
what is all that??
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Response 37 of 61: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Mar 3, 1998 (13:32) * 1 lines
I don't have a key for the rectangles. Funny, it doesn't look like eyes rolling, does it? You practically need a legend for some of these cues. Someone needs to publish a list!
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Response 38 of 61: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Mar 3, 1998 (17:34) * 2 lines
now I'm confused.
did my words come out funny?
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Response 39 of 61: Wolf (Wolf) * Tue, Mar 3, 1998 (17:40) * 1 lines
stacey, you can't see it? whatever you did came out in a bunch of squares!
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Response 40 of 61: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Mar 3, 1998 (23:09) * 3 lines
No, she can't, Wolf, part of the difference between
telnet and web protocols...I've just gotten used
to it...
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Response 41 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Mar 4, 1998 (06:10) * 10 lines
Well, I made my offer and it was accepted. It's a 6 bedroom house with a
huge pool, a 16' high frame around the entry doors, a sunken den with
wall to wall fireplace facing the backyard and pool, and a huge living
room. One of the folks living there now said when they first the place
they expected to see a huge long table with a bunch of Vikings sitting
around with big turkey legs, etc. They got that feeling from the long,
long living room and the huge entry door.
It's very open inside, and the backyard and pool are spectacular. I'm
pretty excited that I've made a good find.
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Response 42 of 61: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Mar 4, 1998 (15:37) * 2 lines
congratulations paul!
sorry about the squares everyone!
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Response 43 of 61: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Thu, Mar 5, 1998 (02:04) * 1 lines
Great news, Terry! When do you go to closing?
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Response 44 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Mar 5, 1998 (03:22) * 3 lines
As soon as possible, I'm meeting with the lendor tomorrow, or I should
say later today!
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Response 45 of 61: Wolf (Wolf) * Fri, Mar 6, 1998 (20:09) * 3 lines
COOL!! Terry, my refinancing came through too, we close next week!!!!!
well, as to the squares, guess i used web protocol, don't know how to do telnet.
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Response 46 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Mar 6, 1998 (20:32) * 3 lines
Lender meeting went well, inspection went well, we did a pit stop on my
credit report, and I have a $20k offer for spring.com domain name, which
won't hurt things.
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Response 47 of 61: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Mar 6, 1998 (23:53) * 1 lines
We're going to be someone else?
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Response 48 of 61: Wolf (Wolf) * Sat, Mar 7, 1998 (17:57) * 1 lines
now that sounds like fun *grin*
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Response 49 of 61: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Mar 9, 1998 (09:45) * 1 lines
i LIKE role playing!
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Response 50 of 61: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Mar 10, 1998 (09:09) * 1 lines
Really?
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Response 51 of 61: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (16:54) * 1 lines
*naughty grin*
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Response 52 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Sep 16, 1999 (22:56) * 9 lines
The cottage is nearly finished. All that's left is the painting,
plumbing, cabinets, septic tank, and trim. The electrical is all in, the
plumbing is 75% complete, the painting is 33% complete, and I've got to
put the end connectors on all the ethernet wiring, cable/satellite tv
wiring and audio wiring. Oh, and there's the flooring . . .
Well, maybe not "nearly finished"!
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Response 53 of 61: John Burnett (mrchips) * Fri, Sep 17, 1999 (00:57) * 1 lines
Terry, sorry to change the subject. But on the main page, there is a news anchor woman for News 8 Austin. I am wondering if that might be my old friend Leesa Clark? Do you know? And if it is her, might you know e-mail address for her or the station (call letters, website, anything?)
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Response 54 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Sep 17, 1999 (08:09) * 3 lines
I'll try and find out.
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Response 55 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Sep 17, 1999 (08:18) * 6 lines
Nobody there named Leesa Clark, according to the receptionist, who I just
called.
http://www.news8austin.com/
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Response 56 of 61: John Burnett (mrchips) * Fri, Sep 17, 1999 (11:25) * 1 lines
Thank you. That woman on the screen could be her double.
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Response 57 of 61: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Sep 17, 1999 (12:13) * 5 lines
Could she have changed her name or gotten married? Maybe it's her clone?
I need to get the screen refreshing again, it's stuck on that pic!
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Response 58 of 61: John Burnett (mrchips) * Sat, Sep 18, 1999 (03:18) * 1 lines
Anything's possible. Thanks, Terry. I'm going to do some of my own nosing around and see what I find. But I'm glad the screen was stuck because I saved the pic!
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Response 59 of 61: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Sep 18, 1999 (18:33) * 1 lines
wish I had thought to do that!!!
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Response 60 of 61: John Burnett (mrchips) * Sun, Sep 19, 1999 (00:50) * 1 lines
Marcia, will e-mail it to you.
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Response 61 of 61: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Sep 19, 1999 (01:29) * 1 lines
Thank you, John!
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