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[Kahaih]

Rules of screenwriting.

21. Light switches are flicked so fast they break the sound barrier creating a dramatic sonic boom.

22. Nothing magical can happen without dramatic hand gestures combined with scowls that rival those of a constipated toddler.

 

[The Loner]

 

[Kulindahr]

I watched a video of a guy building something like that but it was really creative: first he excavated a massive pit, then leveled and compacted the bottom. Into the pit went five big shipping containers, two side by side and the other three side by side at a right angle to and up against one of the first two. When those were in place he dumped gravel around the outside of the set-up with a heavy-duty ground cloth barrier between the gravel and the ground. then he went into the container the touched all the others and used a torch to cut two arched doorways into the container parallel to the first one, cutting through both container sides so he could just step into the second container. When the doorways were cut he wrestled a thick rubber gasket into place that covered the sharp doorway edges and connected the containers snugly. Once the first two containers were connected he dumped gravel between them. Next he went into the three containers with their ends by the first one one at a time and cut doorways from them into the first container and connected and sealed those with massive gaskets as well.
Access to the core container was done in two ways: a ladder angled at 75 degrees instead of straight down (the same angle recommended for setting up a ladder to get to a roof) where he used a huge HDPE culvert tube as the passage for the ladder, then on the other end of the container where the doors were he installed a ramp. The entry for the ladder used a metal cover that was concealed under a section of decking that could be lifted up, and the entry for the ramp was inside a big storage shed, concealing both entrances nicely.
He used some concrete for stabilizing the ramp entrance, but mostly covered everything with gravel separated from the soil with ground/gardening cloth, though the gravel on top of the containers was covered in heavy-duty impermeable black plastic, and that was covered with soil. When it was all done and the soil compacted he covered the area with sod. So to anyone who hadn't seen the project from the beginning all that was visible were a gazebo with a deck that surrounded it and a large garden storage shed on opposite sides of a nice lawn -- while underneath was a shelter with about six times the volume of the one above.

There was a bit of humor at the end when he said that was the easy part; now he had to argue with his wife over how to finish and furbish the interior.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

There was a bit of humor at the end when he said that was the easy part; now he had to argue with his wife over how to finish and furbish the interior.

Yeah, I was wondering if he planned to install electricity and plumbing and make the place into a dwelling.

After doing all that, though. how much cheaper is it than building a regular house of the same size?

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Okay, here's a question just for the heck of it:

@ChristianGianni, dude, how many avatars can you go through in one 24-hour period??

 

[Alistair]

Okay, here's a question just for the heck of it:

@ChristianGianni, dude, how many avatars can you go through in one 24-hour period??

We had a member here in the ‘00s that changed his about every 15 minutes. Maybe as little as 5

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

We had a member here in the ‘00s that changed his about every 15 minutes. Maybe as little as 5

I cannot imagine going to that much effort.

 

[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

 

[The Loner]

 

[ChristianGianni]

 

[Kulindahr]

Yeah, I was wondering if he planned to install electricity and plumbing and make the place into a dwelling.

After doing all that, though. how much cheaper is it than building a regular house of the same size?

He already had a regular house of the same size. This was his shelter for the collapse of civilization.

 

[Kulindahr]

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So who got to keep the fish?

 

[The Loner]

 

[Alistair]

 

[ChristianGianni]

So who got to keep the fish?

There was no follow up sorry

 

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[purina]

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[The Loner]

 

[ChristianGianni]

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