1000 gal hot water tank under my house

[mbryner]

I was thinking of a complete room/ sub level instead of just digging the hole for the tank.

Yes, complete basement w/ 2 car garage, mech room, storage, and shop area.   It was hard enough getting the building dept to approve having a tank under the basement because its proximity to the footings.   Had to get it approved by a geotechnical engineer.  A separate room instead of tank-hole would have been impossible.

[mbryner]

Of course you don't have the space issues I have where going down is about the only way to get additional storage space

Envisioning Jens' complete subterranean system of storage, cogeneration, fuel.   Little holes in the yard belching steam and smoke.   No ice or snow over his yard.   Every once in a while a rumble in the ground from something gone wrong below....   

[BruceM]

I"ve never seen anything like your cast arch doorway, Marcus.  Amazing craftsmanship! 

[mobile_bob]

Marcus:

that arch is killer, it looks like an entrance to a mausoleum!

so maybe you should make the rest of the engine room out of stone, or cast concrete
so when you expire you can be laid to rest with your lister!

think about it, all you need is some glass jar filled with wmo and kero mix, sealed up well
and when judgement day comes you will be the only one with artificial light!!!



seriously though
nice work!

bob g

[quinnf]

Thanks for all the nice comments.   [snip]

OK, that's enough detail for now.  The kids are awake.  

Marcus

I suppose it might be too late for you to use, but a friend posted this inscription over the door of his baby's room:

"We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed."  1Cor 15:51

Quinn

[BruceM]

Quinn, you should have put a warning on your post, I almost hurt myself laughing. 

[vdubnut62]

The door way is really cool, I keep looking in the background for Gandalf , Bilbo or Frodo and company!
Very Tolkien-esque. excuse the atrocious spelling.
Ron

[quinnf]

Was that arch cast in place, or lifted into position after the it was cast?  Nobody takes the time to do things like that anymore, yet those kind of details were relatively common around the time the Listers first became available.  How appropriate. 

Quinn

[mbryner]

"We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed."

Every night between 1 am and 4 am, there's bound to be a baby crying somewhere in my house.

Was that arch cast in place

I wish.  It would have been cool to cast it and then lift it into position, but alas, it was cast in place.    Casting in place allowed us to tie it together with rebar.    But here's the prototype we were semi-copying:



Thanks again, guys!

[mbryner]

when judgement day comes you will be the only one with artificial light!!!

My wife came by and was reading this thread and is laughing hysterically.   Actually we're both laughing pretty hard.  She says she'll keep your idea in mind, mobile-bob!

quinn's post too!   

[mobile_bob]

you can have your next of kin bury the whole thing in sand after they put you away.

then 3500-5000 years from now when they rediscover the tomb of what they will assume to be some pharoah, (Marcus the first, and his queen)
they will mavel at the techological advanced nature of your civilization, figuring the listeroid had to have come from alien technology.

i am picturing an indianna jones wanna be, bullwhip and all, applying the hand crank to the lister, after deciphering the glyphs on the walls of the tomb
and getting a huge smile on his face as the first smoke rings emerge after 35 or more centuries.

obviously as the global warming alarmist would have you believe, the CO2 levels will be so high by then that simply starting the listeroid will
doom the planet by consuming the last vestiges of oxygen and burping out enough CO2 to usher in the end of times.

wow, that might make quite a movie plot huh?



bob g

ps. put a bottle of oxygen in the tomb for the listeroid.

pss. it just occurred to me that the lister should be placed on an elevated throne, similar to how the intercontinental missle was in
the movie "return to the planet of the apes"

you have to admit, it would be funny as hell to look down and see them pondering what the hell is this all about??