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I just came upon This. It's very much the same as my house in physical respects, but completely different, as far as how it is set up, etc... (If you look close HERE you might recognise the same part of the house from the first web site....). (look at the wall pattern (all steel with baked-on enamel)) DaveS
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I've always thought those houses were so cool!!!
There is one in Bloomington, IN that has bowling balls uses in the flower beds instead of plants. It was funny, they were all different colors.
There is a completely restored one down the street from where I live.
Very cool. I didn't realize the steel was on the inside, too ... I thought it was just enameled siding.
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Serious qestion.
Do your electronics work fine or do you get alot of static?? Maybe better reception?
Curious about the EMF effects.
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I'm in the process of building a shop building and a carport which spans from it to the house. The carport is all metal as is the shop roof.
Electronics work fine under it. Even laptops connecting to the wireless router. AM radio might be slightly off though. I doubt metal buildings have any more to do with EMFs than do cars.
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Aw Dave- you're adorable!~!! That's you at the piano and in the home pages, rigHT? You're exactly as I imagined you in photos!! That almost NEVER happens!! Usually I am wrong by a few decades and a gender or two! but you look EXACTLY like I thought you did!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even to the canoe!!! Nice home pages, I love peoples home pages!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing- your home pages go well with coffee(*!*)! (for me anyway*) Sincerely,
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I have to glue strong magets on the back of it. The trouble is, if somebody closes a door too hard (they're all sliding metal doors) it can make picures move downward!
Closing the doors, one feels like singing, "WE ALL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE.... "-- it makes that kind of sound. (and the outside of mine is yellow (with a silver roof!)
quote:Originally posted by sizzled: Serious qestion.
Do your electronics work fine or do you get alot of static?? Maybe better reception?
Curious about the EMF effects.
Yes, there is a huge effect. I have to put the radio antenna in a window that points toward the broadcaster's antenna (when I put on "air america" or "npr")
I have a feeling it may be very good to live in metal- you are shielded to a certain extent (not totally, due to the windows) from the 60-cycle EMF fields emanating from all the power lines. The earth's (constant) magnetic field is slightly altered, but still present (compass still works but is a little off (even more than our declination here))
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Thanks Dave!
Fascinating!
LOL! "We all live in a yellow submarine....!"
Before I got my roof fixed...I felt like singing,"There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza....!!!" Posts: 4258 | From over there | Registered: Jul 2001
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Interestingly I tried the radio yesterday with the metal door closed...yep, you'd have to use an outside antenna like on a car or RV to pick up AM, the other stuff seems unaffected though.
But is an antenna worth the effort anyway? The only thing on AM radio as far as I can ascertain is two opposite ends of the political spectrum both wailing piteously about how the other is bringing about the end of the universe as we know it.
or sports,
or preaching.
sometimes you even get to listen to grain futures quotes.
I'll take my rock oldies FM stations and not waste my money on the AM antenna.
Metal is good.
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That is very cool, Dave. I'm a historic preservation consultant, we consider the Lustron houses to be pretty important. They are also disappearing quickly.
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wonder why they're disappearing...we're starting to use metal framing for houses around here quite a lot...
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For some reason, Lustrons seem to bother some people. Though they are extremely durable and minimal upkeep, when something does have to be done it can be a real challenge- it's more like auto body work, which can be frustrating because a repair is never "just like new". Also, alterations are impossible, or at least, extremely difficult. The Lustron is very compact, which some of us like, but others have a hard time with. The original insulation is not the greatest, though improvement is easy. I have a friend whose opinion I usually respect, who has done alot of traditional repair, who is one of the "non-believers"- he has actually said things like "Nobody's gonna want that house- someone might buy it as a teardown for the property value...". (he doesn't have auto-body work experience, evidently...)
One thing that happens-- in the winter, if you get 3 feet of snow, after a while it slides off in a violent avalanche-- it actually could be dangerous if you happen to be shovleling the walk at the wrong moment! (One year it piled so high it obliterated the front windows!). There were originally snow-check boards hung from the top of the roof that prevented this, but they broke right off after a heavy snow a few years ago.
quote:Originally posted by charlie: wonder why they're disappearing...we're starting to use metal framing for houses around here quite a lot...
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