traditional new home project - part deux

[cousineddie]

Well you see, thats what Im liken about you, not afearing to ask cousineddie a question agin and you called me edward, my momma used to call me edward, bless her little heart and God rest her soul. Now since yer such a friendly type feller and since your so interested in hearin what ole cousineddie has to say, Im going tell you what the traditions was in our neck of wood befur stick framin. Mind ya now, not that i was around back then.
You see, folks built there homes from the hole tree and made em into logs or beams. Way back then, folks were poorly moneywise but they was actually plenty rich cause they had lots of neighbors and friends to help em raise there homes. Money was so scarce that they couldent afford no nails, so they joined them beams by way of mortis and tendon type joinry. Fact is, iffen a body had the misforturn to have there house burn down, they would sift threw the charred wood to get any nails that might be left. Nails was made by hand back then by the smithy, and most folks couldent ford em but they did have real sharp chisels, planes and saws and the like, so they could notch them beams and join em with the tendons. Feller told me that them Chinese folks knowd how to do it 5 thousand years ago, magine that.
Now they be very few of them type homes around being that they was done such a ways back, but iffen you git a chance to be seeing one, theys a joy to behold. Kinda brings a tear to my eye if you know what i mean.
So thats cousineddies tale of the tradition of mortis and tendon joinin befur stick framin. Hope you enjoyed me learnin ya whats i knowd bout it and anytime ya needs to know somthin, just ask ole cousineddie.
Bye fer now.

[djswan]

Well said Edward,

That was before the age of Home Depot.

I can understand why it is difficult not to design something that looks like everthing was purchased from Home Depot. It's a holiday tradition today. Don't miss the Thanksgiving Day sales.

Carry on

D-money out

[cousinbirgco]

Cousineddie, what have you been up to? I'm out of town for the weekend and come back to find you've been very busy indeed.
I had no idea you were such of fountain of information.
Just one small comment and I'm not criticizing but
it's mortise and tenon.

[cousineddie]

Well mister smar-tee-pants, people knowd what I was talkin about. You think you so smart just cause you went to collidge. I don't see no one askin you no questions. They been askin cousineddie cause they knowd they goin git a strait answer, not some double speak with the bifercated tongue like you use to given.

[cousinbirgco]

Now cousineddie, don't get so excited, I was just trying to help and you know, you could have gone on in your education if you had paid more attention in school.

[cousineddie]

Well mebbe I would have been payin more attention iffen theyd a been learnin me somethin I was intrested in. What the heck was I gonna be doing with Women in Society, English Poetree and stuff like that there. That type learnin was more for you cityslicker types eatin your keeche and tea.

[cousinbirgco]

Now you know I grew up in western Pa. just like you. How do you figure I'm a cityslicker? Anyway, this is getting off topic, I need you to post another picture for me because the spam filter doesn't like me. I don't want that fella from Texas to think you don't know anything about flashing details.

[cousineddie]

Sometimes you go to fer, but Ill post your photoe fer you, but I gets to explain what the pickture is about cause folks know when I tells em somethin they can rely on it.

So heres the cypriss siding showin the coppry flashing underneath protecktin the stone work on the foundation. The siding has priming on the back, ends, top and bottom to protect it from pickin up water from rain and such. I stuck that siding to the house with galvanyezed staples and man, its on there, thats fer sure. When cousineddie does somethin, it done the right way, not like cousinbirgco.

[cousineddie]

The front porch is built the way it was back in the day, ceptin fer the nails and a hidden teco here and there) and the brackets under the garage porch have some old time joinery but the rafter tails is a modern concoction to look like an open soffit but much stronger and gives a spot for the vents to be. Another thing I needed show my cousin, he don't knowd how lucky he was to haven me a helpin him.

[cousinbirgco]

A yankee gutter system off the back porch captures about 2/3'rds of the roof water and sends it to two 1000 gallon underground storage tanks. Four large leader pipes handle the water even during heavy rains. The water is then used for watering trees, shrubs and lawn areas. A small pv panel will be used to power the pump to move the water where it's needed. The driveway will be finished with 4 inch base stone, item 4 and 3/4 inch top gravel to maintain as much rainwater on site to reduce storm water overflow in local drainage systems.
Sorry, I wanted to post pictures to go with the description but have apparently reached the MB limit.

Here are the picts showing one of the four leader drains for the yankee gutter off the back porch which drains to the underground concrete storage tanks. When each tank hits a thousand gallons, it overflows to a drywell system (2nd pict). Thanks Kevin.

[ROGERL]

Hey, Love your photos house looking good. Those high pitch gables look great. Is that a new house or a remodel job? Thanks, Roger

[cousinbirgco]

Hi Roger,
Thanks for the kind words. The project is a new house
with a 19th century look but modern energy
conservation and technology. We try
to make it look like its been there a while by
fabricating the carpentry details on site and using as
many traditional materials and design features as needed.

[csintexas]

[cousinbirgco]

well, thanks chris, now if one were to, let's say start using
an image hosting service, such as Webshots?,
(and I'm not sayin Ima gonna),
but let's say one were to do such a thing,
how would one, connect to it from the browse box
after hitting the attachment box? Haven't quite figured
that one out yet, but I guess I'm just not a mr. smar-tee-pants
like you and cousineddie.

Now as to your comment about collecting all the nice rainwater,
I thought about using the water for domestic use but it gets
complicated in our neck of the woods as soon as you want to
connect collected rain water to the house system but the
water will be put to good use during dry summer months.

[csintexas]

I don't know webshots in particular but most of these services give you a URL of the photo which you can then paste into your post:

(something like this)
2. Grab the photo's URL:

*http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3006/2863943500_67de51f9c7_o.jpg

and then you just wrap image tags around it [img] ....jpg [/img]

so you don't actually load it as an attachment you just paste it in your message like any other text.