[Magdalen] Rent.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

yes it is : )

Slabs can be quite interesting too... plumbing is cemented in while the slab 
is poured.... depending on the soil condition (we have a strong sand/ clay 
mix in this part of the state), extreme drying out can cause the 'hourglass 
effect' where the clay dries out and the sand moves into the voids... 
causing damage to the slab... we've always been told to water the perimeter 
of our homes weekly during the hot weather.

Lynn

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Scott Knitter" <scottknitter at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 3:05 PM
To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Rent.

> I admit it took me more than one annual visit to our Benedictine
> community's abbey (a large home in Houston, with a two-story "great
> room" that has been fitted out as the oratory) before I realized there
> is no basement. :)
>
> I guess I visualized and assumed a basement was there but eventually
> decided I had never figured out where the door to the stairs was and
> had never heard of anyone going down there. It's a different climate
> and geological/geographical category there, from here between a Great
> Lake and the midwestern prairies.
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> All the homes I've lived in in Detroit suburbs and in Syracuse had 
>> carpeted hardwood throughout. The kitchen floors were also hardwood 
>> covered with linoleum. It wasn't until into the 70s that it started 
>> changing to plywood. Down here in southern TX most homes constructed 
>> since 60s are on a cement slab first floor and plywood upstairs.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA