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[sshaff]

Charlie... Sure looks like that home will be plenty comfortable. Wishing you the very best there!

 

[fcurrier]

Charlie, I have to ask. Will your new home sit on a slab or have a full basement? (Frank "The Cellar Dweller").

 

[glippert]

Charlie - The new place looks really nice. Will you be putting a basement under it? Are these homes built "on-demand" or is yours already built? And is weather a factor in getting it set up (other than having to move snow)? Just curious...

Under Edit: Looks like Frank types faster than me, but is just as curious!

 

[cmcleod]

Charlie and Wife..thats a great looking house, taht will soon enough become your new HOME.!! Its good to see the rebuilding projects are in the works. Well, now I know you're all NOT normal, but grief is part of the healing process, regardless of our normalities or craziness..hahaha..

What a souvenier, huh? yicks. I know when we had that energy surge here a few years ago that took out all our kitchen applicanes and new furnace, the electrical part in the oven, that melted was given to me by the repair man. He still can't figure out why it didnt start a fire..what with gas line being so close. I call that a blessing..scarey though to think of what could-of's.!

sending you and yours goodness along the way as you create a new way up north.

Cathleen

 

[wkashner]

Charlie, What kind of heating system is in your new home?

 

[stanner]

Charlie,

My wife saw the Hickory cabinets, and now she wants to redo our bathroom....

Seriously, she has wanted hickory for a couple of years, our bath is torn apart readying it for the cabinets, and we were wondering what the cabinets would look like against a wood tone floor, so we enjoyed the pics.


My fire was started by lightning, which got into the piping/wiring and exploded the dishwasher. The tile countertops suppressed the fire enough to unsolder the water connections so the water lines helped suppress the fire- still did 68000 bux in damage... I don't wish that experience on anyone...

 

[digger]

Wayne K.
This year it's gonna be LP. By next year after the wood stove gets put back, it's gonna be tied to the house for cheap heat.

 

[bjamison]

Charlie - nice looking house!

I use to joke with people and say that I was looking at maybe buying a new double wide home. I'd buy one half for now and put the other half on lay-away...

We had a two bedroom over a basement addition put on my house a few years ago, and while it was a dramatic improvement over what we had, when I look at these new modular homes, they really do a nice job with them and what is amazing (to me) is every square inch of space is well thought out for maximum use.

 

[aschumacher]

Charlie, we are all familiar with the extensive damage done by the fire. But I note you refer to your special built log furnace. With the bad news, what else survived? Some of us have seen aerial photos of ur property and know there were a number of buildings...your DOT plow ok? How about your forklift? Any slightly good news in this disaster??

 

[digger]

Allen S.
I'll leave the pics big.
The stove actually fared very well, but since it was setting 2 ft. from the forklift, I can't take a chance on using it again, just in case.

The plow truck, I sold a couple years ago after getting the 240A.
The 240A and forklift didn't fair to well, LOL

 

[rrschmitt]

Charlie,

Was that recepical for a light switch or a plug outlet that caused the fire? Did it short out? Cheap switch? Bad switch. Any lessons learned from it to pass on for the rest of us not to use or do in the future?

 

[digger]

Ron S.
There are no lessons to be learned on this one, other than to install smoke detectors in all areas of your house and or shop.
Our new building will have a zone system with a main control panel in our living area.

The receptacle/outlet self destructed internally.
It's one of those one in 500,000 shots that decided it was our time,LOL

It would be nice if it could actually be blamed on something, but there just isn't anything.

Having been an commercial industrial electrical contractor for many years, I have seen it happen once or twice, but not to me, Grrrrrrr

I actually saw a 277 volt welder outlet explode once that had nothing attached to it.
When it blew, there was a car parked about 8 ft. away and it actually blew a hole in the door and parts of the receptacle ended up on the opposite side seat.

 

[digger]

Something some what funny.
Going down to my office, before and after, LOL

 

[aschumacher]

Your wife let you have an office of your own ! ?

 

[aaytay]

Allen-
Yeah, and notice is had an "Employees Only" sign on the door. Kinda like the "No Girls Allowed" sign we used to put on our FORTS when we were kids.

 

[digger]

We're getting closer!

All covered waiting until Wednesday to pour the walls.

 

[fcurrier]

Nice dirt! Do you have to import rocks?

 

[nbextermueller]

Charlie, this is just amazing, you are really moving along there! I live in suburban St. Peters MO. (Meaning subdivisions as far as you can see.) There are 2 houses right up the street from me that had house fires this time last year. Not bad enough to raze, they are repairing both. One just finished about 2 months ago. The other still sits, half repaired (gutted, half finished siding, new windows, ply still on the doors and where the garage door should be. Nothing on the interior fixed) now almost a year later. It's crazy... People stop by piddle around every few days, but I makes my street look like trash.

I admire your everlasting hard work and great attitude. Also thanks for turning CCS back on. Keep us posted, and have the best Turkey day you can have!

 

[thoffman]

Damn Charlie you guys have that muck front in the ground already? Looks to be 6" - 8" already. Good to see that the contractor has the frost blankets already to go.

 

[digger]

Friday we had no frost at all, this morning we found spots 10 to 12" thick, Grrrrrrr