Any Structural Engineers in here

[CNS]

Let me get this straight- you actually want to build a giant concrete box and live in it, while also attaching 3/4 of a concrete box to the back so you can watch TV in the snow?  (And also in the 110 degree summers!)  Yep, this is officially the most Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) idea ever.  Retards read this thread and think:  "Jesus effing Christ this mothereffer is Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)."
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First of all, no.  I don't want my outdoor room to be concrete walled.  Just my bedroom area, and again, it will be finished so that it looks just like any other interior normal wall.

Second of all, have you ever heard of a masonry(brick or stone) building?  All said and done, it is pretty much the same concept. 

[Tobias]

....but with fresh air, natural light, and I never have to worry about any one calling it a man cave(hate that).

Also, TV trays are wildly underrated.  

You should probably be drinking something nicer with all that money you saved by not building a life saving tornado room.

[jtksu]

The whole house is a tornado room cause it's a giant concrete box!!!  I'm just glad he's building it in joco, I wouldn't want that ugly ass house raping my property value.

[CNS]

The whole house is a tornado room cause it's a giant concrete box!!!  I'm just glad he's building it in joco, I wouldn't want that ugly ass house raping my property value.

Not in JoCo.  LvCo.

It will be glorious. 

[jtksu]

If you ever need some extra bucks, you can rent out some of your concrete rooms to the prison.

[ArchE_Cat]

How did I miss all of this.....

[ew2x4]

CNS- check out nanowalls. They're rough ridin' bad ass.

[slimz]

I'm also having a hard time with your tornado safety concrete bedroom.  To be a bedroom, don't you need an egress?  Wouldn't that make it less than ideal for a tornado?

Heavy door that can latch in multiple spots along the jamb in case of storm.  Same method used for building a tornado room in the basement.  Concrete walls, concrete lid(yes you can vault concrete too), steel door with 4 secured latch points.  Concrete walls can be furred out and have drywall on them(same with ceilings), steel doors can be vaneered with wood.  Will make for an ultra quite room as well as a shelter. 

While you basement dorks are sitting under some incorrectly installed secondary beam wishing it was all over, I can be watching Katie Horner on my flat screen while sitting in bed and the storm can stay as long as it feels like it needs to.

Some day, a future Howard Carter is going to dig up CNS Casey's bedroom and discover his corpse oriented toward the flat screen and deduce that CNS was the ancient Emperor of Kansas, buried in his royal tomb with his most valued possession, the flat screen device he used to communicate with his goddess Qu'Atey Hor Nar.

[CNS]

CNS- check out nanowalls. They're effing bad ass.

This is very similar to what I had in mind.  I have a vendor that I work with on other products that has a similar system only instead of hinging off of each, they operate like a panelized divider wall(individual panels that stack when stored, but track next to each other and seal when closed).

Thanks for the heads up.  They look awesome.

[CNS]

How did I miss all of this.....

Thoughts? 

[WillieWatanabe]

CNS, you sound rich. This makes me not like you.

[CNS]

CNS, you sound rich. This makes me not like you.

Not at all, just planning ahead.  Wife and I have decided not to move, as we previously planned this year.  This means we stay in our house(our first) so we can buy land/pay it off, and stock pile money to get what we want.  The house won't be big at all, but it will have the things we want so that we can stay there until we are unable to maintain it.  

The wife and I do alright, but this is just long term planning here, guys.

[Mikeyis4dcats]

CNS- check out nanowalls. They're effing bad ass.

This is very similar to what I had in mind.  I have a vendor that I work with on other products that has a similar system only instead of hinging off of each, they operate like a panelized divider wall(individual panels that stack when stored, but track next to each other and seal when closed).

Thanks for the heads up.  They look awesome.

KI?

[AppleJack]

Rich people are cool.

[CNS]

CNS- check out nanowalls. They're effing bad ass.

This is very similar to what I had in mind.  I have a vendor that I work with on other products that has a similar system only instead of hinging off of each, they operate like a panelized divider wall(individual panels that stack when stored, but track next to each other and seal when closed).

Thanks for the heads up.  They look awesome.

KI?

wut?   

[Mikeyis4dcats]

CNS- check out nanowalls. They're effing bad ass.

This is very similar to what I had in mind.  I have a vendor that I work with on other products that has a similar system only instead of hinging off of each, they operate like a panelized divider wall(individual panels that stack when stored, but track next to each other and seal when closed).

Thanks for the heads up.  They look awesome.

KI?

wut?  

KI makes a stackable glass wall panel product, looks very nice.    Collapses on itsself.

http://ki.com/genius_wall/

[ChiComCat]

Sounds like a wall you find in a banquet facility when separating rooms.  Those are usually pretty shitty. I guess if your dream ends at a shitty house, at least they are achievable.

[jtksu]

Dude doesn't want a glass house, he wants a concrete house.  Just how tornado-proof do you think a glass house would be?  Also, everyone would be able to see him dropping douces and banging his wife, basically like the ape exhibit at the zoo.

[CNS]

Dude doesn't want a glass house, he wants a concrete house.  Just how tornado-proof do you think a glass house would be?  Also, everyone would be able to see him dropping douces and banging his wife, basically like the ape exhibit at the zoo.

I like to think of it more as an awesomeness aquarium.

Lots of banquet wall n00bs out today.

[Trim]

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/369696/january-03-2011/sign-off---home-improvement-tip

[sys]

cns casey, i support your housing concept.  sorry i got to your thread so late.