new trick

[chilehunter]

well during one of our early christmas dinners my little nephew comes to me with this egg & a little bet, saying I cant break this egg inbetween my 2 hands.
I'm like yea right I'm a man I can break the egg no problem I never seen/heard/tried this trick the money wasnt a issue & wouldnt make him pay, I didnt want the egg all over me so I thought about it for some time before I said ok I'll prove I can break it (he kept egging me on to try it) his farther said he couldnt break the egg when he tried before.

well at first try I couldnt break the egg - not kinding! & I'm like being kinda macho & wont let the egg win so I put alot more effort into it & I finally broke the egg, & yea the yolk flew all over & on to me but wow I aint kinding you need to put some real effort into breaking the egg!


put the raw egg in the center of your 2 hands & push together without clasping your fingers together to smash the egg. just plain ol' open handed pushing against the egg. its harder than you'd think!
try this in a area thats easy to clean up since the yolk goes flying IF you do break it!

yea I got suckered into the machismo bet against a egg give it a try for the heck of it.

 

[chilliman64]

sorry to say dude, but that is a very, very old trick!!! in fact, I'm surprised you managed to break it as from end to end an egg is one of the strongest natural structures you will find.

 

[chilehunter]

well ok it was new to me, like I said I never heard about this trick before.
so are you saying I should be wearing a big " S " on my chest (superman) since you say its the strongest natural structure

I believe the design of the egg can be the strongest structure but the egg its self is not! which we all know you can smash a egg no problem.

I'm sorry for going of subject but no one take any offense with what I'm about to say because its not really meant towards you just the human race in general.
why is the human race so smart when it comes to some things but when it comes to dwellings they're complete morons!!!!
really how stupid are you to build the same style of dwellings that the natural disaster just destroyed.
why does the gov't & insurance co. allow people to rebuild the same crappy dwellings in areas that are prone to disasters ?

the answer is in dome homes!! not the stick kind (lumber) but the concrete kind which costs about the same to build & is far cheaper to maintain also is far superior to the current designs of dwellings nowadays. the only thing you'd need to worry about is earthquakes, thats it! your class 5 hurricanes,bullets,fires are nothing for concrete dome homes! hell throw a party at your house for the class 5 hurricane coming, they're that safe.

this technology has been around for several decades, the only reason I can think of is why people dont build them is the dome homes dont conform to peoples thoughts of what a house should look like

the same dwellings they rebuild after the disaster are nothing more than 1 big pork barrel project! (for those outside of USA it means a waste of money)

 

[Baldman]

This went from a egg to this... wow! I guess I am a moron

I have yet to lose my dwelling in a natural disaster... maybe if it happens we will look at something different, maybe. I doubt what you speak of is the answer for everything... concrete does 2 things, dries & cracks

Do you have this type of structure? I would like to see it if so. I did a search and they look interesting.

well ok it was new to me, like I said I never heard about this trick before.
so are you saying I should be wearing a big " S " on my chest (superman) since you say its the strongest natural structure

I believe the design of the egg can be the strongest structure but the egg its self is not! which we all know you can smash a egg no problem.

I'm sorry for going of subject but no one take any offense with what I'm about to say because its not really meant towards you just the human race in general.
why is the human race so smart when it comes to some things but when it comes to dwellings they're complete morons!!!!
really how stupid are you to build the same style of dwellings that the natural disaster just destroyed.
why does the gov't & insurance co. allow people to rebuild the same crappy dwellings in areas that are prone to disasters ?

the answer is in dome homes!! not the stick kind (lumber) but the concrete kind which costs about the same to build & is far cheaper to maintain also is far superior to the current designs of dwellings nowadays. the only thing you'd need to worry about is earthquakes, thats it! your class 5 hurricanes,bullets,fires are nothing for concrete dome homes! hell throw a party at your house for the class 5 hurricane coming, they're that safe.

this technology has been around for several decades, the only reason I can think of is why people dont build them is the dome homes dont conform to peoples thoughts of what a house should look like

the same dwellings they rebuild after the disaster are nothing more than 1 big pork barrel project! (for those outside of USA it means a waste of money)

 

[chilehunter]

I'm gonna use CDH = concrete dome homes

baldman - I never said you're a moron for building a shed house, for what its worth I wouldnt have a problem buying something like that if it has a decent amount of acreage.
but if money wasnt a issue & I wasnt contracting it myself or getting sweat equity you bet I'd build a CDH in a heart beat!

yes you can say I'm a moron also since I'll be building myself a stick house next year on 20 acres, but its for sweat equity, I'm not a block head (concrete/block workers) so I cant do CDH work nor fully understand building a CDH. plus I'm looking for a resale & people have a certain thought of what a house should look like

the CDH I'm talking about is not 100% concrete it also has foam inbedded into the mixture.

cracks & dries oh wow doesnt everything dry! you ever heard of dry rot ? termites nor dry rot affect CDH! neither mold! well if you get mold you just wash it off vs stick homes you have a serious problem because it can cost you some serious $$$ to fix.

cracks, you will learn all about those once your new house is built! cracks happen because of settling or just plain ol'bad design of the structure, so that'll happen even for stick homes!

why I'm calling certain people (govt/ins. co./cits) morons is in areas stricken with disasters often. I'm sorry to say if you build the same style of house in a area that those kinds of dwellings have been destroyed before in that area & then build that same style only to have it get destroyed again buy another disaster & then build the same thing again you are a fool/moron or whatever you want to call them!
if you walk into the highway & got hit by a car & then did it again sometime later, what would you say ? they're a moron, say kind of thinking when it comes to dwellings! IMO.

no I dont have a CDH but I've seen one that I would love to have, its in FL really nice design with carport underneath

 

[Baldman]

I am still checking the domes out... very interesting.

I admit that I am a moron... way too much $$ going into this building, but this is what we wanted... and no matter what there will always be something bigger and better

When I said dries and cracks I was quoting the concrete specialists... and meant it in the way that nothing is forever as much as we would like for it to be.

I guess I could have worded my original reply better, cuz I wasn't upset... just having fun with the 2 very different subjects being tied together. (and it lets me talk about the building, again )

 

[chilehunter]

baldman - dont worry its my fault I kinda went way off subject. but not really since chilliman said " an egg is one of the strongest natural structures you will find " & I took it from there about structures, so I guess hes half to blame for this J/K

yes new con can cost you alot more than just buying a pre-exsisting house, sometimes. it depends on some things but right now buying pre-exsisting homes are a better deal. but I understand when building new you're building it for the way you want the house.

for some reason pics arent showing up for me right now, so I cant show(find) you that dome home I like. but if you're really reading some of the info about them you might see where I'm coming from. that these dome structures are the future! like I said these dont conform to peoples thoughts of what a house should look like, but they're far superior to whats being built nowadays!
& not to go off on a another subject but where did all the people of new orleans go ? to the dome for safety!

like another guy said to me that framed in germany years ago, usa is building cracker jack box houses that wont stand the test of time! which is true, just look at the materials & the methods to build them. your brand new home nowadays would be lucky to last 50 yrs, or mold will put a dent in your wallet because of how its built. or just the simple fact of people wanting slam bam get me into the house deal, you'll be amazed how many people are hacks in any field when it comes to new con.

 

[Sickmont]

There's a guy in the panhandle of Florida who's built a huge CDH, and when Hurricane Ivan was passing over up there the news crew were staying in his house with him...and the place didn't even budge or get a scratch. Everything around outside of his place was shredded, but his place was fine. Didn't even knock the doilies around. Only problem i noticed was the ridiculous cost....approx. 5 times more expensive than a similarly sized home of regular construction.

 

[Baldman]

CH all is well I had never heard of those until your post and we might have entertained the idea of building one, that is until we seen like Sickmont said that they can be as much as 5x more... that would have more then likely killed the deal

In the future we might have to build a small one for emergencies/disasters... since we don't have a basement... yet. LOL Always something to think about or do

 

[chilehunter]

http://www.monolithic.com/thedome/cost/index.html

I know this is going off only 1 website that says they're about the same cost to build them as normal stick homes. the pictures are not showing up for me on their site for some reason, but I remember some of them & yes they're nice & then theres also your very basic ones that kinda look cheesey. but then again some stick homes look cheesey also.

even if they costed a little more to build the costs of maintaining them is far less & you start saving as soon as you move in. insurance costs ? gotta be really low since nothing can really destroy them only earthquakes.
& wouldnt it be nice to go to sleep when a big storm is heading for ya & knowing you'll wake up safe with your dwelling still intact.

like I said baldman I just went rambling on, this has nothing to do with your building. I just believe in areas prone to disasters (heck even if you're not in a area like that) they should be building CDH take FL for instance every other year they get hit & many homes are destroyed but then they build the same crap again = 1 big pork barrel project for the govt & insurance companys
doing the same thing over & over again & expecting different results is insanity!