Ohh dear me... I thought you were suffering from 'W' era French aversion.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > May be nothing more than 2x6 vs 2x4 framing and with thicker insulation
> > to fit.
>
> That could be. It is unusual around here, though. This thick wall
> construction is more normal farther north, but not down by Missouri.
> Whatever it is inside the walls, it does make for a very quiet house.
>
> It's the voids that have me really puzzled. I've found several that
> don't appear to be serving any useful purpose. One, which did happen
> to have an access panel revealed a metal duct going to who knows
> where. One of these does show on the blueprints with no explanation.
> It may have to do with a heat-exchanger on the chimney and the
> insulated garage.
>
> This small subdivision has no outlet. Just a single street ending at a
> T-intersection. Two call-do-sacks* are off the intersection. We're
> right on the corner. Now that the bushes are gone, the backyard is
> feeling a little naked. Need to plant bushes, I guess. There are a
> bunch of evergreens back at the boundary with the neighbor, though, so
> plenty of privacy in that regard. There is another house back behind.
> Instead of another street behind ours, somebody bought that entire
> block and put one house on it. One. It's a rather big house. The yard
> is landscaped as a prairie. Rough neighborhood.
>
> AG
>
> *Yes, I do know how to spell it correctly.
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