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Sasquatch wrote:
> Hey, everyone! Just a heads-up that I just updated our house blog.
> I'd been stowing away photos with no time to make the blog entries, but
> now everything is up to date. Here's a list of the most recent
> entries...
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> The View From Our House So Far
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...use-So-Far.aspx
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> Building the Staircase
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...-Staircase.aspx
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> A Place For The House Plans
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...ouse-Plans.aspx
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> Floor Deck for Second Floor Being Built
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...eing-Built.aspx
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> Electrical Service for New House With Temporary Service Panel
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...vice-Panel.aspx
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> Magazine Review: New Old House Magazine
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...e-Magazine.aspx
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> Floor Deck for First Floor Being Built
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...eing-Built.aspx
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> Walk-out Basement Walls Framed
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...lls-Framed.aspx
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> Gravel Fill In Garage Foundation
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...Foundation.aspx
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> Waterproofing and Insulation For Concrete Foundation
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...Foundation.aspx
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> Runoff Barrier for Construction of New House
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...-New-House.aspx
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> Changing House Plans
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...ouse-Plans.aspx
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> Building Permit for Construction of New House
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/...-New-House.aspx
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> Let me know what you think.
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> - John
While you're excited about the house, go build yourself a little
"safety vault". It doesn't have to bee too big. Take a copy of your
plan and put then inside of something like a 4" plastic pipe with caps
of both ends. Throw in all of your photos (on paper from a real
printer, not an inkjet). Then throw in a copy of your building permit,
site plan, construction contract, title report, pics of your septic and
field, etc. Label the "pipe' from every direction and slide it into
something with a double-layer of sheetrock on all sides -- maybe
between floor joists or exposed studs in your mechanical room.
Then, 20 years from now when your're going old and senile and you need
to look at something, you'll have your docs.
There's a 99% chance you'll never need the docs. But if you do ....
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| Sasquatch 2006-10-16, 1:25 pm |
| Pat,
You're appealing to my obsessive-compulsive side. You shouldn't
encourage me. But that's a good idea. Thanks. Actually, I was
thinking about stamping our last name and the year into the foundation
someplace. Maybe I should just include the URL for MyNewOldHouse.com.
:-)
Thanks,
John
Pat wrote:
>
> While you're excited about the house, go build yourself a little
> "safety vault". It doesn't have to bee too big. Take a copy of your
> plan and put then inside of something like a 4" plastic pipe with caps
> of both ends. Throw in all of your photos (on paper from a real
> printer, not an inkjet). Then throw in a copy of your building permit,
> site plan, construction contract, title report, pics of your septic and
> field, etc. Label the "pipe' from every direction and slide it into
> something with a double-layer of sheetrock on all sides -- maybe
> between floor joists or exposed studs in your mechanical room.
>
> Then, 20 years from now when your're going old and senile and you need
> to look at something, you'll have your docs.
>
> There's a 99% chance you'll never need the docs. But if you do ....
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| "Pat"> wrote
> While you're excited about the house, go build yourself a little
> "safety vault". It doesn't have to bee too big. Take a copy of your
> plan and put then inside of something like a 4" plastic pipe with caps
> of both ends. Throw in all of your photos (on paper from a real
> printer, not an inkjet). Then throw in a copy of your building permit,
> site plan, construction contract, title report, pics of your septic and
> field, etc. Label the "pipe' from every direction and slide it into
> something with a double-layer of sheetrock on all sides -- maybe
> between floor joists or exposed studs in your mechanical room.
>
> Then, 20 years from now when your're going old and senile and you need
> to look at something, you'll have your docs.
>
> There's a 99% chance you'll never need the docs. But if you do ....
Thats what I did on our last house.
There was a 36" h wall seperating the living room from the dining room and
at the end of the wall was a 16"x16" column 42" h with a finial.
Inside that is where I put my time vault.
4" pvc with glued caps on both ends.
In it were the original jobsite blueprints with seals stamps etc.
All the permits, receipts, etc.
I never told the new owners it was inside that column.
In 100 years maybe Bob Vila's great grandson will discover them on one of
his remodeling shows. heh
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"Sasquatch"> wrote
> Actually, I was
> thinking about stamping our last name and the year into the foundation
> someplace. Maybe I should just include the URL for MyNewOldHouse.com.
> :-)
Again, this was something I did on our last house too.
In the corner of the garage conc slab while it was still wet I put my wife's
and my initials and the year and a 2002 1/2 dollar.
DL + SL
2002
O
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| Sasquatch 2006-10-16, 1:25 pm |
| The garage slab would be the easy place to put our initials, but the
slab is less permanent and more prone to being covered in the future
compared to, say, the cement foundation wall of the center portion of
the house. I want it to be ***PERMANENT*** and not easily removed so
that it is still there in 100 years. What would be a good way to stamp
our name and the year into the concrete, considering that the concrete
is already in place? Is there a tool and templates that can be used to
engrave dry/cured cement?
- John
Don wrote:
> "Sasquatch"> wrote
>
> Again, this was something I did on our last house too.
> In the corner of the garage conc slab while it was still wet I put my wife's
> and my initials and the year and a 2002 1/2 dollar.
>
> DL + SL
> 2002
> O
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Don wrote:
> "Pat"> wrote
>
> Thats what I did on our last house.
> There was a 36" h wall seperating the living room from the dining room and
> at the end of the wall was a 16"x16" column 42" h with a finial.
> Inside that is where I put my time vault.
> 4" pvc with glued caps on both ends.
> In it were the original jobsite blueprints with seals stamps etc.
> All the permits, receipts, etc.
> I never told the new owners it was inside that column.
> In 100 years maybe Bob Vila's great grandson will discover them on one of
> his remodeling shows. heh
They used to put newpapers inside the walls for just that purpose -- so
they could be discovered later during rehab.
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Sasquatch wrote:
> The garage slab would be the easy place to put our initials, but the
> slab is less permanent and more prone to being covered in the future
> compared to, say, the cement foundation wall of the center portion of
> the house. I want it to be ***PERMANENT*** and not easily removed so
> that it is still there in 100 years. What would be a good way to stamp
> our name and the year into the concrete, considering that the concrete
> is already in place? Is there a tool and templates that can be used to
> engrave dry/cured cement?
Go to a craft show and find the people doing the engravings in stone.
You know the ones, they say "Welcome" or "Welcome to the Sasquatch's"
with a picture of bigfoot. You know what I mean.
Have them come out and do that to your wall.
They cut the design out of a rubber mat, hold it in place, and
sandblast the stone to get the design. They could do a wall easy
enough.
Otherwise, you'll have to resort of a Dremel tool and a dust mask.
[color=darkred]
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> - John
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> Don wrote:
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Sasquatch wrote:
> Pat,
>
> You're appealing to my obsessive-compulsive side. You shouldn't
> encourage me. But that's a good idea. Thanks. Actually, I was
> thinking about stamping our last name and the year into the foundation
> someplace. Maybe I should just include the URL for MyNewOldHouse.com.
Nah, the whole internet thing is just a passing fad.
[color=darkred]
> :-)
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> Pat wrote:
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Don wrote:
> "Pat"> wrote
>
> Thats what I did on our last house.
> There was a 36" h wall seperating the living room from the dining room and
> at the end of the wall was a 16"x16" column 42" h with a finial.
> Inside that is where I put my time vault.
> 4" pvc with glued caps on both ends.
> In it were the original jobsite blueprints with seals stamps etc.
> All the permits, receipts, etc.
> I never told the new owners it was inside that column.
> In 100 years maybe Bob Vila's great grandson will discover them on one of
> his remodeling shows. heh
Next time you're in FL, you out to go back, knock on the door, tell
them you forgot something and ask if you could go get it. Then take
the top off the column, grab the tube, and walk out. That'll get them
thinking.
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| "Pat"> wrote
> Don wrote:
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> They used to put newpapers inside the walls for just that purpose -- so
> they could be discovered later during rehab.
Beer & soda bottles.
Nothing like finding a 90 year old Rolling Rock bottle, or an original Coke
Bottle.
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| I epoxyed the garage floor and the imprint was still very visible.
How about one of those precast aluminum panels, about 8"x12"?
"Sasquatch" <linux4all@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1161015104.624133.123210@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> The garage slab would be the easy place to put our initials, but the
> slab is less permanent and more prone to being covered in the future
> compared to, say, the cement foundation wall of the center portion of
> the house. I want it to be ***PERMANENT*** and not easily removed so
> that it is still there in 100 years. What would be a good way to stamp
> our name and the year into the concrete, considering that the concrete
> is already in place? Is there a tool and templates that can be used to
> engrave dry/cured cement?
>
> - John
>
> Don wrote:
>
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| "Pat"> wrote
> Don wrote:
>
> Next time you're in FL, you out to go back, knock on the door, tell
> them you forgot something and ask if you could go get it. Then take
> the top off the column, grab the tube, and walk out. That'll get them
> thinking.
Hah!
When I built the house in 2002 I intentionally left the top part of the
column loose so that I could install the time capsule at a later date.
Then about a year ago when I put the pipe in I went ahead and countersunk 2
screws on each of the 4 sides, caulked and painted over them. So that for
all practical purposes it looks complete with no hint of whats inside.
Don't ask why, but when I put the tube down in the column I went ahead and
took a digi-pic down inside the column showing the pipe setting there.
Maybe I should email that pic to the owner and not tell them where the pic
was taken..............
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| Sasquatch 2006-10-16, 1:25 pm |
| Don't you guys think that, with these time capsule schemes, there's a
good chance that the building will be razed in 100 years and no one
will notice the time capsule? ...especially if it's hidden inside a
column?
I grew up in a tiny town. When I was a kid, a house was razed. It was
the house of an excentric old man. A few years later, evidence was
found that indicated the man had hoarded a great deal of money during
his lifetime which he kept inside coffee cans that he hid inside the
walls of the house. No one remembered seeing the coffee cans, but the
people who demolished the house said that, if the cans were there, they
never would have noticed them. People actually went to the landfill
where the material from the demolished house was dumped, but they
couldn't determine exactly where to search and gave up.
True story.
- John
Don wrote:
> "Pat"> wrote
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> Hah!
> When I built the house in 2002 I intentionally left the top part of the
> column loose so that I could install the time capsule at a later date.
> Then about a year ago when I put the pipe in I went ahead and countersunk 2
> screws on each of the 4 sides, caulked and painted over them. So that for
> all practical purposes it looks complete with no hint of whats inside.
>
> Don't ask why, but when I put the tube down in the column I went ahead and
> took a digi-pic down inside the column showing the pipe setting there.
> Maybe I should email that pic to the owner and not tell them where the pic
> was taken..............
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| "Sasquatch"> wrote
No one remembered seeing the coffee cans, but the
> people who demolished the house said that, if the cans were there, they
> never would have noticed them.
Perhaps that could occur if they took a few D9's and just rode over the
whole place then scooped it up and dropped it in the back of dump trucks.
But that has to be a rarity.
Where my house was built it is very rare to do such a thing, in fact, I
can't say its ever happened except for a few incidents with old crack houses
in the blighted downtown area.
I'm pretty certain my 3' x 4" pvc pipe will be recognized as *different* and
discovered for what it is.
Besides, by the time they get to that point I'll be long gone and it won't
matter anyway......
Maybe I should have spray painted it gold.
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| Sasquatch 2006-10-16, 5:25 pm |
| Well, this guy was a recluse, and his place was a 125+ year old folk
house, falling apart, and filled with junk, so the coffee cans would
have just blended right in. Plus there's always the chance that they
were never there in the first place. My Great Grandfather had a
similar reputation. He was known for not trusting banks. According to
my Grandma, people always said he was a miser and kept his money in his
basement, again, in "coffee cans." ...except that when he died there
were people waiting in line to search for the "coffee cans." And there
weren't any. Turns out that the reason he didn't have any money in the
bank wasn't because he didn't trust banks. He just didn't have any
money.
- John
Don wrote:
> "Sasquatch"> wrote
> No one remembered seeing the coffee cans, but the
>
> Perhaps that could occur if they took a few D9's and just rode over the
> whole place then scooped it up and dropped it in the back of dump trucks.
> But that has to be a rarity.
> Where my house was built it is very rare to do such a thing, in fact, I
> can't say its ever happened except for a few incidents with old crack houses
> in the blighted downtown area.
>
> I'm pretty certain my 3' x 4" pvc pipe will be recognized as *different* and
> discovered for what it is.
> Besides, by the time they get to that point I'll be long gone and it won't
> matter anyway......
> Maybe I should have spray painted it gold.
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