Re: Re: Tearing Down my house. Need advice please

[Guest guest]

According to what I was told by an expert, when you tear down a moldy house, you

are supposed to bag all the materials and take them to a hazardous waste dump. 

It was also my understanding that you should NOT rebuild on the same piece of

land because the toxins are in the soil.  And, as Live suggested, the people who

are tearing down the toxic house should be wearing PPE (Personal Protective

Equipment---basically a HazMat suit and a special type of respirator).  Do the

experts here agree with these recommendations?  Should Semco rebuild on the same

piece of land?

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[Guest guest]

Interesting article on home recyclers..

Not a good idea in this situation, I'm sure we all agree, but relevant to

home tearer-downers

This Old Recyclable House

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/magazine/28house-t.html

[Guest guest]

Wow, you are going to start fresh.. that is great..

There are great green, modular homes out there..

They are not mobile homes, they are hgh end products. You could do very well

buying one,

some that I have read about seem very nice.

They are built as well or better than many homes that are built completely

on site...

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:15 PM, semco_semco_semco <

semco_semco_semco@...> wrote:

> Oh no. It is the ONLY place I can rebuild. PPE is not going to be a

> problem, but not building

> on my lot is.

>

>

> >

> > According to what I was told by an expert, when you tear down a moldy

> house, you are

> supposed to bag all the materials and take them to a hazardous waste dump.

> It was also my

> understanding that you should NOT rebuild on the same piece of land because

> the toxins are

> in the soil. And, as Live suggested, the people who are tearing down the

> toxic house should

> be wearing PPE (Personal Protective Equipment---basically a HazMat suit and

> a special type

> of respirator). Do the experts here agree with these recommendations?

> Should Semco

> rebuild on the same piece of land?

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > _

>

[Guest guest]

They don't meet the Florida Windstorm Standards. I live 1500 feet from the Gulf

of Mexico.. I wish there was ANYTHING affordable about building a house here.

Just the glass alone you are required to put in windows now icost a fortune.

> From: LiveSimply <quackadillian@...>

> Subject: Re: [] Re: Tearing Down my house. Need advice please

>

> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 1:51 PM

> Wow, you are going to start fresh.. that is great..

>

[Guest guest]

Wow, that sounds like a serious problem. Have you ever seen these

concrete domes that are layered over a foam

inner structure?

Perhaps a concrete dome house might be strong enough to withstand the

150 -180 mph winds encountered in

strong hurricanes.. You could even make a complete sphere, suspend the

dome around the perimeter with concrete pilings.

http://images.google.com/images?q=concrete dome house

That might even withstand a flood. What is the elevation your house is

being built at? Is it up a bit from the coast?

I know what you mean about the windows. The people we got our windows

from do a lot of business in tropical areas, and

we inquired about the Dade County certified ones, but they were (I

think) twice as expensive as the ones we ended up with, and less

energy efficient.

We have triple-paned tempered glass windows.. They are NOT able to

withstand a projectile shot out of a cannon at them, though.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:26 PM, C A <semco_semco_semco@...> wrote:

> They don't meet the Florida Windstorm Standards. I live 1500 feet from the

> Gulf of Mexico.. I wish there was ANYTHING affordable about building a house

> here. Just the glass alone you are required to put in windows now icost a

> fortune.

>

>

>

>> From: LiveSimply <quackadillian@...>

>> Subject: Re: [] Re: Tearing Down my house. Need advice please

>>

>> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 1:51 PM

>

>> Wow, you are going to start fresh.. that is great..

>>

>

[Guest guest]

Is there any way you could build somewhere else? I don't think that

building right near the seashore makes sense right now unless you are

up a substantial elevation.

Even neighborhoods like Lower Manhattan would be threatened.

If the sea level rose just a very few feet. Wall Street would

literally be " underwater " ! In Holland they build dikes, but here,

there isn't the agricultural motive they have there. The entire

Continental shelf, out hundreds of miles from the current shoreline,

was exposed during the last Ice Age, the shoreline is subject to

substantial variation.

[Guest guest]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:07 AM, semco_semco_semco

<semco_semco_semco@...> wrote:

>

> My house is at a 33 ft elevation. One of the highest parts of this area.

Wow, for Florida, that is high! Excellent.

>

> Actually, there is one of these dome houses on Pensacola Beach and it has

stood during all

> the hurricanes, but I don't know if it has had moisture problems.

>

Ventilation would seem to be the key, but I don't think it would be

hard in an area like that, sea breezes are great.

> Someone tried building Hebel Houses for a while here, a concrete type house,

but stopped

> when it was discovered concrete actually HOLDS water.

That is terrible.. I think that people should be able to build what

they want unless its HIDEOUSLY UGLY..

Around here, housing values have increased and often, people buy

beautiful, often even historic houses to tear

them down and build bigger.. But people are beginning to fight back..

Thats different than an agricultural review board..

we just want to prevent MacMansions.

> Unfortunately, my neighborhood has an architectural review board. It's a cute

> neighborhood, but the dome house wouldn't fly. It needs to look " new

victorian " .

>

>