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   KCPLG | May 17, 2002 07:31am | #1

   Ed

   tell him to be careful when he breaks thru the floor.

   its a  h e l l  of a drop from that redneck treestand 

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   AJinNZ | May 17, 2002 10:56am | #2

   LOL.

   I cant help but wonder ....Wont it make the house awful damp? and where will the couch go? and what hapens if ya get home late from a party? wont ya fall in? 

   Wood Hoon

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   grantlogan | May 17, 2002 01:32pm | #3

   Years ago, I worked on a house (approx. 4000 sq. ft.) that had no interior walls.  The bathtub was sunken in the middle of the living room and the toilet was freestanding nearby. I don't remember where the vanity was. The exterior was mostly windows. A couple in their sixties were the inhabitants. It was out in the woods and was apparently built without any permits. I peed in the woods while I was there.

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   Don | May 20, 2002 03:38am | #12

   Have a friend who built a 4X12 pond, 2 ft deep on a glassed in porch.  Filled it w/about half dozen koi fish.  Was like the Viet  Namese jungle at noon on the Fourth of July.  Didn't have problems w/ a dry house in the winter.

   DonThe GlassMasterworks - If it scratches, I etch it!

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   Azeddie | May 17, 2002 05:25pm | #5

   Thats what would happen with me....step in it late on a SAt might

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   Sancho | May 17, 2002 06:25pm | #6

   Fresh fish for dinner  Darkworksite4: When the job is to small for everyone else, Its just about right for me"

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   JohnSprung | May 17, 2002 09:30pm | #7

   > I cant help but wonder ....Wont it make the house awful damp?

   Very likely it will, especially if they don't have the windows wide open a lot of the time.  This sounds like what used to happen with water pits on foley stages -- always damp and smelly.  Then somebody had the brilliant idea to just use a kids' inflatable plastic wading pool for water, and fill the water pit with something else.  Emptying the water whenever it wasn't needed made a big difference.

   -- J.S.

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   JeffBuck | May 18, 2002 06:29am | #8

   Jeeze....you guys woulda laughed Frank Lloyd Wright right outta the Falling Water business!

   OK...just because it was falling over a few years back don't mean nothing......that....or the flat roofs in snow country. Or the stream running thru the interior of the entry.....Jeff                             "That's like hypnotizing chickens........."

                                                     

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   FastEddie1 | May 18, 2002 07:25pm | #9

   Hope he doesn't hit a post-tension cable, or a water line.

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   Azeddie | May 18, 2002 07:56pm | #10

   Well he can fill the pond from the water line....HARRRR

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   4Lorn1 | May 19, 2002 07:19pm | #11

   With all due respect to Mr.Wright and his architectural brethren with their aesthetic concerns I must say that I have never worked on a architecture run job that didn't end up with a leaking roof or worse. Falling Water was notorious, along with most other projects designed by Wright, for roof leaks. I read that it was rebuilt in the 80s and at last has stopped leaking due to the loving care of an engineer and contractor.

   I guess that if you have a stream running through your living room you can overlook a little extra water. Like many houses I see it has beautiful materials, sight lines and atmosphere. Would I live there? No. Hell no. It was designed as an experience not a house to be lived in. Some people who have tried have said as much.

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   DavidThomas | May 17, 2002 04:53pm | #4

   Bet the cat loves it.

   David Thomas   Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska