After a quick check back it looks like all the posts and photos are still there, so we didn't lose anything did we? Just note that after going back to look at the old pages, you have to go to page 1 again to click "view newer replies" for the current pages to reappear.
nickjohnson wrote:
Thanks Jim. In the greater scheme of things it's no big deal. Oh, by the way did you and Glenn know that you need a licence to have that much fun!
It was good for the soul Nick! Getting back in the air and working on two assignments with Glenn was just what I needed to get back in the swing of things after that short bout with mortality
Oh one should never make light of climbing back in the saddle. Since it all worked out well one can say that the trip with Glenn was an ideal opportunity. Don't you just love the way that hindsight is always 20/20? BTW, what spring flowers do you Texas folks have for the house? I find that tulips are a great antidote for builders dust - just say 'in.
I don't think the post count is the driving force behind the "archiving". A couple of days ago, I noticed that the Automotive thread, which was about 90 pages had dropped back to a single page. The second post in that thread, is now Fred's post saying the thread had been archived. The Automotive threads approximately 90 pages, spanned a 5 year period. I suspect that the archiving has more to do with the length of time a thread is active, than it's actual post count.
Well Nick, now that you brought it up, we are down to just a couple of punch list items and things should return to "normal" around here. The cleaning folks are coming tomorrow morning, hope they're bringing a bucket loader to haul the dust out. I've got good contacts in the furniture industry in North Carolina so we ordered our bedroom furniture direct from the manufacturers. Looks like it will be a few weeks before that begins arriving. My architectural work has been good to me in many ways over and above the revenue it produces. When Sheila and our designer picked out the lamps, chandeliers and sconces for the bedroom and bath, I looked up the manufacturer and called their distributor at the Design Center in Houston and introduced myself. They asked if I would send them some examples of my work and about ten minutes later I was a dealer and everything went from retail to about 40% of that. Nothing to sneeze at because everything is polished nickel and top of the line. Did the same thing with all of the Kohler fixtures, it just never hurts to ask.
When it's all finished I'm shooting it for the installers so I'll post a few shots. Good news is, I never gave up on the quality I hoped for, it was a real head to head and many buckets of Benjamin Moore were expended in the process, but it's pretty beautiful. The one problem with doing something like this is, I stood in the foyer this afternoon and looked at the living room and dining room and began to envision the transformation that it needs.............................ugh!
I knew this was coming, and it makes sense, but "doors off" flights really should only be done by well briefed professionals. Putting amateur photographers in that situation for a kick is just inviting disasters like this. I don't like blaming pilots right off the bat but this company was way too cavalier and the pilot's cockpit management was severely lacking.
Went to a night photoshoot at RNAS Yeovilton on Thursday with a company I've not been with before. Considerably cheaper than TLE but IMHO you get what you pay for! 150+ shooters and aircraft all lines up at an angle to the hangar line. Luckily we had a half-decent twilight as, once darkness fell, their lighting system was so simple it did almost nothing - no re-enactors either! But I did get to see the RNHF Phantom, and we had access to the hangar where there were a few RNHF and other aircraft under repair/storage. The 'final' Sea Vixen AIB report was published this week - as yet unidentified contaminants in the hydraulic system caused both the main and reserve undercarriage systems to seize!!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Well Nick, now that you brought it up, we are down to just a couple of punch list items and things should return to "normal" around here. The cleaning folks are coming tomorrow morning, hope they're bringing a bucket loader to haul the dust out. I've got good contacts in the furniture industry in North Carolina so we ordered our bedroom furniture direct from the manufacturers. Looks like it will be a few weeks before that begins arriving. My architectural work has been good to me in many ways over and above the revenue it produces. When Sheila and our designer picked out the lamps, chandeliers and sconces for the bedroom and bath, I looked up the manufacturer and called their distributor at the Design Center in Houston and introduced myself. They asked if I would send them some examples of my work and about ten minutes later I was a dealer and everything went from retail to about 40% of that. Nothing to sneeze at because everything is polished nickel and top of the line. Did the same thing with all of the Kohler fixtures, it just never hurts to ask.
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When it's all finished I'm shooting it for the installers so I'll post a few shots. Good news is, I never gave up on the quality I hoped for, it was a real head to head and many buckets of Benjamin Moore were expended in the process, but it's pretty beautiful. The one problem with doing something like this is, I stood in the foyer this afternoon and looked at the living room and dining room and began to envision the transformation that it needs.............................ugh!...Show more →
Hope the cleaning folks do as good a job as you wish for and deserve. Hold off on that living room / dinning room deal will you. Get the current project squared away first. Just a moment - I've seen what your up to. It's actually a whole house replacement. After all it's only a year or so since you did the flood damage and the kitchen re-model. Will there be anything else left to do?
Good counsel Nick, I wish you lived closer Nothing new will be started until this one is firmly put to bed. Been a couple of years since "the flood", so the only spaces remaining to update on the first floor would be LR, DR, some tweaks to a guest room, a powder bath and a power room. LR/DR would really be mostly furniture and area rugs, a chandelier update.
You surmise correctly, but here's the reasoning. The past three or four years we've had an ongoing conversation about "downsizing". The reality of doing that in today's Texas market really means buying something with less square footage, on a postage stamp lot with a view of neighbors side walls and a wood fence 15' from the back patio and.......... here's the kicker, all this for a mere $250 to $400 thousand more. So, while it's more work and disruption than selling, closing and moving into a new home, we get to keep everything we love about this house and put up with the update hassle. You can't even get a lot like ours anymore, no one is allowed to have the forest and forest view "on" their property, you can only look out across the street at it, that alone is a deal breaker for me. Last but not least, doing it this way uninvolves the property tax vultures, move into that million dollar "downsize" and they'll be at the door the following December 31st with a bill for $27,000, and every year after. See, this has been thoroughly thought out,.........................I think!
Speaking of the flood, there's not a day goes by that I don't wonder and worry about the logic behind placing 120 gallons of hot water in someone's attic. What could possibly go wrong? If I was Chairman of State Farm, I'd pay each and every insured's tab to replace those attic units with Rennai instant hot water units. One 60 gallon hot water heater going toes up would be an automatic $200K claim. I'm looking into that as we speak!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Speaking of the flood, there's not a day goes by that I don't wonder and worry about the logic behind placing 120 gallons of hot water in someone's attic. What could possibly go wrong? If I was Chairman of State Farm, I'd pay each and every insured's tab to replace those attic units with Rennai instant hot water units. One 60 gallon hot water heater going toes up would be an automatic $200K claim. I'm looking into that as we speak!
Well .... yes! In the UK the positioning of water storage tanks has created a revolution in our use of and design of domestic buildings. Our house was built with a cold water storage tank in the loft (roof space). That was required because of low / fluctuating pressure of the mains water supply. Accordingly, household water pressure was created only by gravity acting on the water held in the loft tank. We now have a mains pressure water supply which negates any need for cold water storage. Our hot water space heating is also pressurised and heat is provided by a condensing, modulated, gas boiler. The same device also provides on demand hot water to the sinks. In an apparently perverse eccentricity, hot water for the shower is by means of an electric flash boiler unit, hung on the wall inside the cubical. Yes, I knew you'd like that. So we don't store any hot or cold water. Older UK houses now have no need of the loft tank or the water pressure it provided, so lofts have become valuable living space. New houses are often built that way from the start.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Good counsel Nick, I wish you lived closer Nothing new will be started until this one is firmly put to bed. Been a couple of years since "the flood", so the only spaces remaining to update on the first floor would be LR, DR, some tweaks to a guest room, a powder bath and a power room. LR/DR would really be mostly furniture and area rugs, a chandelier update.
You surmise correctly, but here's the reasoning. The past three or four years we've had an ongoing conversation about "downsizing". The reality of doing that in today's Texas market really means buying something with less square footage, on a postage stamp lot with a view of neighbors side walls and a wood fence 15' from the back patio and.......... here's the kicker, all this for a mere $250 to $400 thousand more. So, while it's more work and disruption than selling, closing and moving into a new home, we get to keep everything we love about this house and put up with the update hassle. You can't even get a lot like ours anymore, no one is allowed to have the forest and forest view "on" their property, you can only look out across the street at it, that alone is a deal breaker for me. Last but not least, doing it this way uninvolves the property tax vultures, move into that million dollar "downsize" and they'll be at the door the following December 31st with a bill for $27,000, and every year after. See, this has been thoroughly thought out,.........................I think! ...Show more →
I can exclusively reveal (as they say in the "news" papers) that you have downsizing absolutely nailed. We did ours and halved our floor space. Everything else stayed exactly the same. Especially the never ending - "yes, I know we need the space, but you can't get rid of <insert name of lump of old tat masquerading as a family hareloom> "..... It ever was thus.
