Non Footy Chat Thread

[Avenger]

Kalkite is where our place is.

Suity

Are you serious? I would have been there and walked past you. My mate's place is in a street named after a car. ;-)

 

[Suitman]

Ours is in a street named after a flower.

Suity

 

[Avenger]

Ours is in a street named after a flower.

Suity

Small world Suity. I love it there but everytime we come back from Thredbo or Perisher those kangaroos scare me as I go down the bends. Especially at dusk. Been hunting near there too. There is a little Nepalese guy that I met there that jumps off hills and goes parachuting and catches all these winds and shit. I couldn't believe how far he ascends. Literally BASE jumps and stays up in the air for hours. Amazing shit.

 

[Suitman]

Small world Suity. I love it there but everytime we come back from Thredbo or Perisher those kangaroos scare me as I go down the bends. Especially at dusk. Been hunting near there too. There is a little Nepalese guy that I met there that jumps of hills and goes parachuting and catches all these winds and shit. I couldn't believe how far he ascends. Literally BASE jumps and stays up in the air for hours. Amazing shit.

Yep, small world.

There wouldn't be a telephone booth near your place, would there? ;-)

Suity

 

[Avenger]

Yep, small world.

There wouldn't be a telephone booth near your place, would there? ;-)

Suity

There is and a vacant block. Come to think of it my street can also be named after a flower. There used to be two gay guys living next to the vacant block.

 

[yy_cheng]

There is and a vacant block. Come to think of it my street can also be named after a flower. There used to be two gay guys living next to the vacant block.

SUity and Avenger

 

[Suitman]

There is and a vacant block. Come to think of it my street can also be named after a flower. There used to be two gay guys living next to the vacant block.

Just confirming that I wasn't one of them.
We have friends on that side of Kalkite and drive up your street regularly, and it is that side that we go down to the "beach" in summer.
We are on the other side of Kalkite, the side zoned commercial.
And Gronk, if you're looking for somewhere nice, and reasonably cheap, PM me.

Suity

 

[Hollywood Jesus]

Suity is more than willing to sell the left side of hid bed, Avy.

 

[Suitman]

Suity is more than willing to sell the left side of hid bed, Avy.

Only if you're buying it, Princess.

Suity

 

[Avenger]

Attention HJ

http://www.realestate.com.au/blog/house-made-of-31-shipping-containers/

http://www.lifestyle.com.au/tv/grand-designs-australia/episode.aspx?id=472511

 

[strider]

so what is the benefit of building a house like that?

 

[Noise]

so what is the benefit of building a house like that?

I think if you only use a few containers you can build a cheap small house. But once you start using 31 containers I don't think it would be that much cheaper.

I also wonder if they get super hot/cold due to lack of insulation in the roof.

 

[strider]

I think if you only use a few containers you can build a cheap small house. But once you start using 31 containers I don't think it would be that much cheaper.

I also wonder if they get super hot/cold due to lack of insulation in the roof.

exactly - if you are content to live in a rusty tin can then it can be cheap - but by the time you resurrect them to be "nice" (like the house above) it ends up costing more than building a normal house

I assume one advantage is it might be more stable than alot of current building materials - if you secure the containers together well then you might not get the problems with movement that timber and brick houses get???

 

[Kornstar]

exactly - if you are content to live in a rusty tin can then it can be cheap - but by the time you resurrect them to be "nice" (like the house above) it ends up costing more than building a normal house

I assume one advantage is it might be more stable than alot of current building materials - if you secure the containers together well then you might not get the problems with movement that timber and brick houses get???

Plus you'd never have to worry about termites....

 

[Gronk]

I think that a stack of shipping containers is quirky, but in time it will end up to be a rust bucket and frowned upon by those looking for architectural merit.

The reason people have gone down that path before is that they are 100% insulated and can be purchased 2nd hand for $3k each. So that's a cheap way to achieve some "bones" to your site.

They only thing I would question is that containers are designed to be structurally strong in their native rectangular shape, but what happens when you start cutting door, window and corridor openings ?

Also you are stuck with room dimensions that must be 1 container wide or long.

 

[strider]

at least there'd be no fights over who gets the "big" bedroom

 

[Gronk]

Tony said he's not going to provide support wind farms or large scale solar via the Clean Energy Fund.

Meanwhile he is bending over for his mates in coal and fossil fuels ...

 

[SDM]

Settle down Gronk, Chevron is a great company, which looks after the needs of Australia and our environment. They told me so in that ad on TV they paid for.

 

[yy_cheng]

I think that a stack of shipping containers is quirky, but in time it will end up to be a rust bucket and frowned upon by those looking for architectural merit.

The reason people have gone down that path before is that they are 100% insulated and can be purchased 2nd hand for $3k each. So that's a cheap way to achieve some "bones" to your site.

They only thing I would question is that containers are designed to be structurally strong in their native rectangular shape, but what happens when you start cutting door, window and corridor openings ?

Also you are stuck with room dimensions that must be 1 container wide or long.

You can put more than one together and open it up. That's what the grand design person did

 

[Incorrect]

You can put more than one together and open it up. That's what the grand design person did

What do you do with all the migrants that are hiding inside the containers if you don't want them?