21/ I am not saying that alternative building techniques are terrible and should never be used. They have different pros and cons. For MOST people, the cons drastically outweight the pros. You can see that this is true by noting that people, when spending their own money >>>
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22/ 99.99% of the time don't use these alternative techniques. (but sometimes they do! "pole building" is one alternative technique, and farmers use it all the time ... for barns and outbuildings ...but never for their houses. Hmm...almost as if they Know Things...)
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24/ The problem I have w WoG is that the posts have more in common with female instagram vacation photos than they do with masculine domains that deal with reality. It's looks and mood, back filled with hand waving and third hand talking points, and no reality.
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25/ Read 30 books on home building. Set up some concrete forms. Tie rebar. Screed concrete. Anchor sill plates to a foundation. Frame a wall. Tilt it into position. Carry the joists up, toe-nail them in. Carry plywood up, lay the roof. Nail it down.
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26/ Carry a few thousand pounds of asphalt shingles two stories up an extension ladder, one 70 lb bundle at a time, one one shoulder. Nail a few "squares" (100 square foot exposed area) of roofing down. Don't forget the flashing Install an electrical subpanel. Run water pipe
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27/ Re-route a cast iron sewer line...by hand. Dig a new trench for it, with pick and shovel. Install a French drain. Apply asphalt water proofing with a brush to the outside of a foundation. Hang drywall. Do trim finish carpentry. Get a tile saw, and lay tile.
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28/ Take a timber framing class. Sharpen chisels and hand planes. Help carry 500 lb timbers. Knock the mortises and tenons together by hand using a massive hammer "persuader" made from a log. Tie ropes to the bents and pull them into position.
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29/ I've done all of this, and more. I've helped build conventional houses, and I've helped build an alternative (timberframe) house. Get some callouses. Get some splinters. THEN I will listen to your opinions on this stuff.
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callus of you to correct me in public
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