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Old 05-07-2021, 03:38 PM
 
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I cant since my house is brick.
Really? You know what is inside the wall's, next to the brick? How are the shingles (via nails) attached to your house? What about the ceiling that you look at every day? You know what holds the insulation from not dropping on you from your ceiling?
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Old 05-07-2021, 04:06 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Really? You know what is inside the wall's, next to the brick? How are the shingles (via nails) attached to your house? What about the ceiling that you look at every day? You know what holds the insulation from not dropping on you from your ceiling?
Here in Florida, we have what you called the Spanish Mission style house.
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Old 05-07-2021, 04:09 PM
 
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You know what holds the insulation from not dropping on you from your ceiling?
I always figured it was the moons gravity kinda equaling things out.
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Old 05-07-2021, 04:26 PM
 
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It adds $36,000 to the price of new home on average. It is high time we get rid of the tariffs on Canadian lumber. That is not the whole solution but it is a start.
They did.

Last December they reduced the tariffs from over 20 percent to 9 percent.

Trump admin. didn't fuss about it because it was admitting they screwed up by putting the tariffs on in the first place.

It was the original cause for lumber costs increasing and then the pandemic just added to it.
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Old 05-07-2021, 04:33 PM
 
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Here in Florida, we have what you called the Spanish Mission style house.
So, the entire house is not framed in wood, to include the roof, which in a normal house the roof is supported by trusses (that hold the roof up) to add the actual roof?

I'd love to see plans like this, I could be wrong as I am not a house builder, however, I have some experience with housing.
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Old 05-07-2021, 04:52 PM
 
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So, the entire house is not framed in wood, to include the roof, which in a normal house the roof is supported by trusses (that hold the roof up) to add the actual roof?

I'd love to see plans like this, I could be wrong as I am not a house builder, however, I have some experience with housing.
It’s a magic house. Needs no wood for framing and needs no electric current for power.
Switches give power, stucco is structural.
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Old 05-07-2021, 05:19 PM
 
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The free market will work it out.
Where is there a free market?
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Old 05-07-2021, 05:28 PM
 
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Last summer I build a small 10x10 deck and was trying to decide should I use pressure treated pine or composite. Over a two week period the PT pine deck boards were within 15% of the composite deck boards. My decision was made for me.
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Old 05-07-2021, 05:35 PM
 
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Where is there a free market?
China is buying up all of the lumber with the money that the USA borrowed from China to pay Trump's Covid bonus money.

Or is it the other way around ?
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Old 05-07-2021, 06:06 PM
 
Location: mancos
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Im removing a 10 x 10' wall to make 2 brs into 1 br Both sides sheathed in 1x12 pine.Whole house built like that including ceilings. Milling it into new trim. The lumber in this house is worth more than the house.built in 1896.
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