Have you ever sleep inside of shed?

[gsdx]

I would guess that the barely completed high school, if at all. Either that, or they watched some basics and thought they knew everything.

Just watch some of those 'first-time house flipper' programmes, or the families who try to reno their homes on 'Renovation Realities'.

Here's a sample The opening captions say it all:

 

[zoltanspawn]

Where to plumb the waste water? You'd need a professional to do that.

Oh come on now! We recycle the grey water and install a composting toilet. Get with the program.

 

[Kulindahr]

Sure, screw up a sewer line and see the amount of fines and the bill to fix it.

I've installed a sewer line, excavated one for repair, dug one up, cut it and rerouted it (replacing the original route would have run right into the oak trees that had messed it up), and (joy of joys...NOT) slipped an ABS sleeve inside of an existing sixty feet of old red tile. In each case, one thing was of paramount importance: in order to be sure we didn't so much as touch the company's line and just dealt with the property owner's line, the last two feet of the property owner's line was always inspected, then removed and replaced if necessary, by the company -- and that never cost less than $200, even if it took the two guys just fifteen minutes.

A guy down the road from where I grew up got frustrated installing a new line once, and got out his tractor. He managed to crack the company line.... and that error cost him $8k.

I avoid dealing with sewer lines any more; too much of this county is considered wetlands, and some bureaucrat decided that only licensed companies can install lines in wetlands, with the result that (once they had a captured market) the price of a new sewer line went from less than $5 per foot to over ten times that (I grant that in an honest-to-goodness wetland, that makes sense; guaranteeing the proper slope of a sewer line for fifty years in what is basically soft sediments can't be done cheap, but they don't charge by the actual difficulty, they charge by the land classification).

 

[Kulindahr]

Just watch some of those 'first-time house flipper' programmes, or the families who try to reno their homes on 'Renovation Realities'.

Here's a sample The opening captions say it all:

Not enough info in there to tell me if they have a clue or not.

 

[Kulindahr]

Oh come on now! We recycle the grey water and install a composting toilet. Get with the program.

If I lived in the countryside, I'd be doing that.

Meanwhile, a number of towns here are now composting the solids from the sewage; one mixes grass clippings and sawdust in and the temperature inside the compost heap is enough that it's maintained on the verge of spontaneous combustion; another uses just sawdust with the waste and doesn't get quite that hot, though if you peel off a fresh face of a pile that's "baking" and toss a wadded piece of paper on it, the paper will burst into flame in less than two seconds.

In the summer, the first of those operations actually has to draw heat out of the piles so it doesn't overheat and kill the bacteria that break everything down and sanitize it.

 

[nycguydowntown]

I need the address of your shed--I want to send a housewarming gift.