Wright Chat

We have the initial draft of the engineering for the rooves of the house. Quite a lot of steel involved - as opposed to stacking and wedging 4X2s to create the roof and fall... http://www.4sure.co.nz/downloads/davies-mcrae-1st-draft-engineering.pdf I still don't know what the cost is for all this he...

Thanks Richard, for the thought - but we are so far down the line of design and drawings that to change now would result in me having a seizure of some kind. I never in my wildest dreams imagined there is so much to specify in a house, BUT I have thought of EVERYTHING. Experienced people say "O...

I get the same behaviour SDR. I hereby volunteer to become a moderator here - with the only idea being to change the posting rules, and to delete spam. Who can I talk to to try and fix this forum? Currently it is broken beyond belief - and did I mention I am a web developer? I have no experience wit...

That is a stunning model!



Makes my efforts look lame!



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Sorry for the lack of updates - but there is precious little to report! In the week prior to Christmas we finally got our "Resource Consent" approved. Our house plans violated a couple of local building rules: we broke the "Recession Plane" in a couple of locations, and have an e...

This probably isn't much help to you, but I'm posting it anyway.



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I can answer this, having studied the design of Usonians fairly extensively, particularly Jacobs #1 in Madison. His approach, was to create a 1-foot thick roof space, using 4"x2" timbers stacked on their sides. This creates extra strength in the roof (To support those heavy snow falls you ...

They look good!



However, I have hired a true craftsman to do the built-ins for our Jacobs-derived design. The man is a perfectionist, and he is 73 years old. I hope he lives long enough to finish our home...

Funny, the price quoted for GW is the exact same price it is costing me to build my Jacobs 1-derived home in New Zealand.



If I were resident in the USA - I'd buy it. No question.

Why would anyone - apart from a pedant - want to reproduce the shocking furniture FLW tortured his clients with? Even the man himself admitted in later life he had often "been tortured by furniture of my own design". And hell, if he admits it - it MUST be severe. Frankly, I don't rate any ...

I disagree - the web site is positively awful. It makes the Jacobs #1 (www.usonia1.com) site look good - and that site is absolutely diabolical: designed by Flash-loving retards for similarly know-nothing owners. It's a genuine shame. No - sadly Mr. Chuck Lohre your web site is terrible: mostly it j...

But what is this strange "typewriter" thing mentioned in the description? o_O



Some sort of manually operated printer?

Jacobs I.



But I am somewhat biased: http://4sure.co.nz/nzonia

Spam doesn't do ANYTHING if you ban anonymous postings, and add a CAPTCHA test to the signup page.



Hey - then we'd have NO SPAM postings at all - ever.



This isn't rocket surgery - just conventional wisdom, which the conservancy seem utterly and completely ignorant of, and uncaring about.

RJH - please feel free to email me the photos you speak of: I am most happy to host them for you on my own domain.



chris*at*4sure.co.nz



I'll send you the URLs and a directory listing as soon as they are uploaded.