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Norman's House

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It's basically like this for 800 miles west, and 1500 miles north. Why would we truck in bricks? 90% of the houses are wood.
 
Gosh all the emptyness, it must be sort of scary to be surrounded by it. I like the way that in England, even when you rekon you're proper out in the sticks someplace, you round the bend and there's someones house or a lone phonebox or something. I don't think I could mentally deal with the possibility of getting properly lost then eaten by bears.

Norm's house is coming on eh! Is it quite common to just throw up your own homestead in your parts Johnny?
 
claire said:
Gosh all the emptyness, it must be sort of scary to be surrounded by it. I like the way that in England, even when you rekon you're proper out in the sticks someplace, you round the bend and there's someones house or a lone phonebox or something. I don't think I could mentally deal with the possibility of getting properly lost then eaten by bears.

Norm's house is coming on eh! Is it quite common to just throw up your own homestead in your parts Johnny?
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The emptiness isn't something you think about that much. This is a city of two million, and it feels the same to be here as any other city. But the emptiness is there. I sometimes have to fly to the central interior of the province on business, and when the plane heads north, it passes over the first mountains just north of the city, which have the ski hills etc, but then after that, it's just hundreds of miles of snow capped mountains with nobody there. It's an eerie feeling, looking out at that.

When you're driving, most of the roads have been there a long time, and you're never far away from a town, farm etc, although in mountain passes, you can go twenty miles without any habitation. I kind of like the emptiness, but if we're on vacation, and we stop the car on the highway at night, wild horses couldn't drag the kids out of the car. They're seriously freaked out.

We went camping years ago, and got into the campground at night, with a thunderstorm approaching. As the thunder rolled, my wife and I were out merrily setting up the tent, while the kids cowered in the car under blankets. They're urbanites to the core.


Teardowns are fairly common. The land value has become so high, that it's cheaper for people who own a piece of property to tear the old house down and build a new one, if they want a new house. Also, lots of people are like mini developers. They buy a house, tear it down, build a new, bigger one, then sell at a profit.
 
 
I'm interested in the bulding pics, how do you guys insulate against your winters the timber boards look real flimsy?
 
Janh said:
I'm interested in the bulding pics, how do you guys insulate against your winters the timber boards look real flimsy?
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First of all, it's not that cold here. They'll use less insulation than they would east of the mountains.

As I understand it, the insulation is one of the last things to go in, after the plumbing, electrical etc is done - then the insulation goes in before the interior drywall.
 
Continuing the tour of the greater Vancouver area:

Burnaby, the city contiguous with Vancouver directly to the east. This is eastbound on the Lougheed Highway.

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0826.jpg?t=1180915637

Coquitlam is east of that. This is North Road, looking north to Burrard Inlet and the mountains above Anmore/Belacarra.

http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/?action=view&current=IMG_0833.jpg

Port Moody, to the northeast of Coquitlam:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0836.jpg?t=1180915777

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0847.jpg?t=1180915812

Sulphur piles

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0854.jpg?t=1180915840

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0861.jpg?t=1180915882
 
 
Going to North Vancouver; the tunnel before the Second Narrows Bridge:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0881.jpg?t=1180916259

The Second Narrows, looking north toward the North Shore Mountains:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0884.jpg?t=1180916285


North Van, near Third Avenue, looking south across Burrard Inlet to Vancouver:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0897.jpg?t=1180916488

Approach to Lions Gate Bridge:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0902.jpg?t=1180916544

On the bridge:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0905.jpg?t=1180916612

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0910.jpg?t=1180916636

The Causeway through Stanley Park:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0915.jpg?t=1180916686

Leaving the park, onto Georgia and Alberni Streets:

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http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0922.jpg?t=1180916787

Robson Street:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0929-1.jpg?t=1180916845

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0930.jpg?t=1180916869

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0931.jpg?t=1180916970

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/refreshment_66/IMG_0932.jpg?t=1180917073
 
That's a good idea, he'll probably like it.If you don't include the ones of his wife.
 
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