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Skriven 2013-10-25 20:55:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Re: Wires in pipes
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 10-24-13  08:51 <=-

 NB>> The gas-converted-to-electric ran the gamut.  Our house was built in
 NB>> 1900, and also originally had gas lights.  There's a couple places
 NB>> where we still have the capped gas pipes sticking out of walls...  :)
 NB>> But they did run the electric wires into the walls.  Upstairs still
 NB>> uses pull chains for the rooms, the stairs have push button switches,
 NB>> downstairs mostly have the regular wall switches... except the kitchen
 NB>> light is a pull chain...  :)

 DD> We had several of those push-button switches which got replaced right
 DD> smartly. I wish now that I had saved one or more as curiosities.

Ours still work nicely.  No need to replace something that's working
fine and isn't a danger...  :)  

 DD> But, this was in the early 60s when I was in my 20s and still knew
 DD> everything. 

Scary age... especially looking back at it... (G)

 DD> I still use a pull chain (as well as a wall switch) for my
 DD> main kitchen light. If I want to leave the fan running I just pull the
 DD> chain. Sometimes I come home and flip the wall switch as I come through
 DD> the door and wonder why I don't get light .... until it dawns on me
 DD> (after three or four flips) that I have to go pull the chain.   Bv)=

Hello-o.. ;)   You must have one of those ceiling fan/light fixture
combos, then...?  :)

 NB>> Good and bad things from progress.  ;)  And 2 X 4 studs aren't that
 NB>> size any more either... it's what, 1 3/4 X 3 1/2 or something...?

 DD> Current (since 1961) standard is 1.5" X 3.5" for a 2 X 4. I helped

Ok, thought it was something like that...  Only have watched other
people build stuff, and sorta paid attention to what they would be
talking about... :)

 DD> build a fairly up-scale house with a guy who was using salvaged lumber
 DD> from old National Guard supply depot buildings which had been
 DD> "surplussed" in a round of down-sizing. The warehouses and barracks
 DD> were built during WWII from full dimension yellow pine. So the wood was
 DD> well aged, very clear (Grade A - no knots), and much of it was in 24'
 DD> lengths. The problem was that the blueprints were for lumber using the
 DD> 1961 standards. So we had to adapt on the fly. And I don't care if I
 DD> never have to pull another nail. 

Interesting job...  I can see having way too much of nail-pulling from
the salvaged lumber, though.. :)

 NB>> Actually, I'd not have been surprised if Ruth had said that the
 NB>> farmhouse was made of stone... given the situation, I was also not
 NB>> surprised that the walls were instead filled with stone..  ;)  In
 NB>> either case, one couldn't easily run wires through the walls...  :)

 DD> I've built or helped (mostly) on homes from field stone, logs and
 DD> pre-cast concrete. Wiring and plumbing needs to be planned out well
 DD> ahead of time. Once the place is finished the only way to change things
 DD> is to knock it down and start over. And that gets both expensive and
 DD> frustrating. 

Quite so...  :)

 DD> Were I younger and wanting to build a place I would consider, very
 DD> seriously, the Davis Cave earth-sheltered homes.
 DD> http://www.daviscaves.com/index.shtml 

Years ago, we were toying with the idea of someday building a home, and
a partially underground structure was one of the possibilities... we
even got a book describing how to do it...  Not likely to happen now,
like you we are no longer young or likely to build... 

 DD> The residual heat from making the Meatball Pot Pie would warm your
 DD> underground home for nearly a week. More if you make the meatballs
 DD> first (instead of using the frozen called for in the first recipe).

I can imagine.  :)    Looks tasty, too...  :)

ttyl        neb

... Fired from orange juice factory - couldn't concentrate! !

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