[Magdalen] Rent.

[Jay Weigel]

Our entire upstairs (except bathrooms) is carpeted, and the carpet is
GROSS. I shudder to think, however, what's under it. Only the floors in the
living room, which we don't use, and the TV room, which functions as our
living room, are hardwood. The entryway is linoleum and the kitchen/dining
area is a hideous mauve-colored ceramic tile. The builder constructed this
place out of leftovers or whatever he could, um, appropriate from building
sites he was working on. S/O maintains that he also apparently constructed
the place without a plumb line.....

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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
>>
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