Feb 21, 2008 by happy go lucky | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)
im looking for something simple to build im limited with tools...
any ideas?
Places like Home Depot will do all of your cuts on wood that you buy there ( normally for no cost ) you just have to tell them what you want and a lot of design plans have a supplies and cutting legend included
So you're really not limited by lack of larger tools, then you are really just assembling, sanding and finishing your project
You just need a cohesive plan, imagination and the desire
stinkinggenius2003 | Feb 21, 2008
A nesting box perhaps? I've got the plans if you want them.
MikeK | Feb 21, 2008
What do you have in the line of "tools"?
Scotty | Feb 21, 2008
try a bird house,shoe shine box,mail box,magazine holder,when you say your limited with tools.all you need for the above is a saw,hammer,ruler and some nails or glue.
jimd52936 | Feb 21, 2008
What would happen if I built an unconventional house that did not meet the building codes?
Sep 15, 2008 by Unorthodox | Posted in Green Living
I am interested in a building a house using non-traditional and unconventional building methods. This house probably would not meet the local building codes. I already understand that securing any necessary financing to build the house would be difficult and that it would also be more difficult to insure the house once built. What I am not sure of is how the local government would react if I built a house without any effort to satisfy the building codes. Would there be any legal action taken against me? Would they try to prevent me from occupying my own home?
Before you even START building, you'll have to get a building permit from the city or local government. To do this, you'll have to provide them with architectural renderings (blueprints) that show every aspect of the house: dimensions, building materials to be used, electrical and plumbing schematics, and what the exterior will be made of, as well as other things.
Some localities dictate what the exterior must look like. For example, in our city, the exterior of the house MUST BE at least 70% brick.
If there is nothing adherently dangerous about how you're building the house--such as building a "hay bale" house--it's possible you could argue your case before the city's board of adjustments to get a variance. (BTW--hay bale houses are supposed to be VERY save, VERY easy to build, and VERY energy efficient. Those would be good arguing points if that's what you are trying to build.) If they give you a variance, there are various times throughout the building process you'll have to have inspectors come out and inspect the work that has been completed. (Electrical when the electrial work is finished to make sure it's up to code, same thing for plumbing, insulation, framing, etc.)
No matter what, it would be unadvisable to start building without the proper building permits. Not only can the city come in and tear down what you've already done, but you can be subject to fines and even jail time.
Dawn F | Sep 18, 2008
Was the Rockefeller building part of the buildings built during the Great Depression?
Mar 26, 2009 by Park | Posted in History
I know the empire state building, GE building, and the Chrysler building were build, but not sure of the Rockefeller building.
Cost for building 2nd Story on top of exsisting house in Australia?
Mar 08, 2007 by princess_becca11 | Posted in Decorating & Remodeling
My partner and i are condsidering building a second story onto an exsisting house. This is my parents house, and we can't afford to buy land and build so are considering building onto there house and living on the 2nd story? Any ideas or suggestions?
You will need to get some advice from an Architect. The answer to your question will depend on the local government requirements for your area, the capacity of the existing home to carry the additional loads, the planning feasability, your budget, the impact of the proposal on the adjoining properties, and so on.
Archicentre Limited ( www.archicentre.com.au) which is wholly owned by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects will for a nominal fee, send out an architect to prepare a preliminary design report for that property.
I think it will be money worth spending whatever the outcome, as you will be in a better position by reason of the report, to persue the matter further or make other plans for your future home. Perhaps there is an alternative development opportunity on the site which you have not considered, and an archtiect is in a better position to advise you.
Your idea might be a good one.... and certainly any strategy which reduces urban sprawl and optimises the sharing of resources with family members should be encouraged in principal.
Good luck
Icy Gazpacho | Mar 08, 2007
How long does it take to build a 12 story building?
Feb 09, 2007 by some_guy_times_50 | Posted in Renting & Real Estate
How long does it usually take on average to build a 12 story building, from the initial site preparation to completion? I ask because the city I work in there's such a building going up, and they started work on it about a year ago. Is that a long time for such a building, or is it about normal?
Depends a great deal on the complexity of the building. A two storey hospital could take much longer than a 20 storey simple structure office block.
If it's a very simple structure then it's quite slow progress but if it's a complicated structure with varying design elements, complicated services, high standard of finishes then it's not a long time.
If the client has made very specific or unusual requests this can seriosuly slow down construction.
Budget can play a part - if budget isn't so much of a problem then you can hire in several tower cranes, lots of plant and workers and get the job moving quickly.
Did the 12 months include site preparation as this can take a long time? The ground might need decontaminating, consolidating, there may be complex foundations.
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Tall Stacker Pegs Building Set
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Teaches Proceed b conform, Size and Color Relationships.
Recommended Age Class 3 and Up.
Builds Skilful Motor and Math Skills.
Product Description
A lady's first building set. This three dimensional stacking set teaches children to value ahead as they plan where they will set the Tall Stacker Pegs to raise the next platform. Includes 100 Tall Stacker Pegs, 17 Crepe Rubber shapes, and 1 heavy-set Crepe Rubber Pegboard. For ages 36 months - 6 years.
Customer Reviews
My almost 3 year old daughters love this toy!
I bought this set for Christmas for my twin girls who were almost 3 years old. They absolutely love playing with it! They spend a good amount of time (20-30 minutes) stacking everything and trying to use all the shapes and pegs. For now, they get the basic idea of how to stack things and build it up and as they get older they'll learn more about how to build more elaborate things using fewer pegs. Many of their current creations are covered in pegs but they are having fun and learning!
Lots of pieces
This has plenty of pieces to build whatever you can imagine. They also see more pegs on amazon if you need more, but this supplies my 5 daycare kids with enough to share without fighting. Fun fun, add some figures in and it's a mansion, add some balls, and you have an obsticle course. The options are endless.
Fabulous buy great toy!
My daughter is 2 1/2. My sister recommended the smaller version of this in the summer and she literally played with it for an hour. As soon as she got up the next morning before she would even eat she wanted to play with this toy. I homeschool and I get this out when I'm doing schoolwork with my son. She loves this toy and plays with it constantly and that is saying a lot since she doesn't play with a lot of toys. My son who is 9 loves to build things with her with it! It's a great toy and I love that i can take the smaller pieces with us and she can have it with her in the car. CANNOT SAY ENOUGH GOOD ABOUT IT!!!!
2009-11-08
| Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
Lots of fun!
This tall stacker pegs set is colorful, sturdy and keeps my grandchildren (ages 4 & 8)busy for hours.
A wonderful addition to the things I have for them to play with when they visit each week.
The different shapes connecting the pieces to build levels makes them create wonderful, imaginative structures.
A great find!
2009-10-21
(new york, ny USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
My toddler loves it!
Bought this for my almost-3-year-old and she loves it. I know it's helping her small motor skills and it keeps her busy for a good 10-15 minutes at a time! We talk about the colors and shapes as we play with it. Glad I bought it for her!
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A vehicle digs a big hole. A cement mixer pours cohere. Carpenters put up walls. Bricklayers, electricians, plumbers, and painters do their part. Through brilliantly forthright words and pictures we follow each step, and before our eyes a accommodate is built.
Customer Reviews
A great way to build a house
We are currently building a house so this book has been the perfect companion to this process. My little boy (two and a half) is able to make connections to the pictures in the book to what is going on in 'real life' with his house. If you are building a house and have a small child, I highly recommend this book.
2008-10-15
| Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
How to build a house
A very nice book for toddlers to see how houses are made. Our grandson loves machinery and how things are made. Nice art work.
Excellent book for preschool and toddlers
When I saw this book only had an average of 3.5 stars, I had to write my own review. My two boys LOVE this book. One is 5 years old, with mild autism, and the other is a highly gifted [...]. The text IS simple, and short, but the pictures allow for plenty of exploration and explanation. We talked about all the different people involved in building a house, the family moving in when it was complete, etc.... In my mind, this is an excellent book for sharing. Parents can expand on the simple text as they see appropriate.
Little disappointed
This book had some great pictures and gave good information about what happens when you build a house.
I must say that I was disappointed in the incredibly short sentences. I should have known it would be like that considering the author, but I guess I thought the subject was a little more advanced so maybe the language would be too. Nope.
2006-10-31
(Columbus, MS USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 3
Often requested
My kids love this book. They ask for it (and other Barton books) to be read over and over. The pictures are simple and appealing. Byron Barton is definitely on to something. Get this with My Car -- both are especially appealing to infants and toddlers.
2005-11-13
| any old fool (Oak Park, Illinois) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4
ZOOB ZOOBMobile Car Designer Set
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Develop Multiple Vehicles at the Same Time, or Try the Impressive "12-Wheeler"!
Deluxe Storage Box with Convey Handle, Storage Tray
3 Instruction Guides, for Root Connections, 9 ZOOBMobile Vehicles, with the addition of 4 Jumbo Vehicles!
Product Description
ZOOB is "The Emotional, Mind-Building Modeling System". The five ZOOB shapes move after you have put them together, allowing everlasting fun with your ZOOB creations!
Item is in stock and available to ship.
Customer Reviews
Cool cars
Toy was purchased for grandson who likes to build things. He immediately went to work on creating a new car. He loved it!
2009-12-23
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
Great toy
The kids loved this toy and in seconds were able to construct several automobiles of different shapes and sized. It is also very derable because as the evening went on people did step on some of the designs by accident and the just came apart rather the broke due to the pressure of an adults weight.
WARNING!
This toy costs MUCH less elsewhere. Do your research before buying from this seller. I love shopping at Amazon, but couldn't believe the price listed here.
Great for the mind!
Gave it to our 6 year old son for Christmas last year. He loves anything with wheels and he loves Legos. Zoobs combined the two very well. He has transformed these little things into everything!! These are a quality toy!
At first I hated the toy but now I love it!
My son gets bored easily but I am surprised he still plays with this toy over and over. At first my opinion of it wasn't good. He looked at the complicated models that came in the pamphlet and became frustrated and wanted me to make them. I tried for a few seconds and couldn't do it and gave up (okay I didn't try that hard but I was trying to watch a movie!). My husband was more patient and built a few of the models. It took him some time as you have to study the pictures closely to figure out how to do it. For a while this toy was annoying for us "mommy, daddy make this one----please! Well after the pamphlets were misplaced and after laying down the law that if he can't play without getting frustrated we would put the toy away he began to explore on his own. Then magic happened--he began making all sorts of self-invented vehicles. Now he plays for extended periods of time and proudly shows me his creations. I am impressed by the complexities of some of his vehicles. I guess you get better with so much practice. Now I love the toy! Another good toy my son loves is "super marble run". This one is another winner.
CITIBLOCS Original Wooden Building Block Set - 200 Piece
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No stick – no snaps – no small parts
Age old proportions newly crafted in wood for all generations of builders
Made of trifling weight pine
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Our most stylish Citiblocs set, with 200 pieces, it gets builders of all ages uneasy about the possibilities! Toddlers to teenagers, Citiblocs advance logical thinking & confidence. Build, originate, create, succeed without frustration. Citiblocs building blocks fit all ages, all expertise levels, all imaginations, all pocketbooks.
Customer Reviews
great for all ages!
I ordered these for my 3 year old grandson after seeing them recommended as an educational toy. Everybody who visits-no matter the age-ends up building structures with them-ships, towers as tall as my grandson, etc. Even his almost 1 year old brother plays with them. They are so simple but so much fun
Absolutely Awesome!!
We were first introduced to this item at a museum in uptown Charlotte. They were made by a company called Kapla, however, Kapla blocs cost twice (if not triple) the amount I paid for citiblocs. The entire family has enjoyed these blocs and it helps keeping the brain active and creative for all. I even had a group of middle school boys over and they chose to play with these for over 2 hours which beat the amount of time they played the PS3, IPod touch, and Nintendo DSi altogether. We purchased 4 200piece sets for a total of 800 so that everyone could participate at once to build and play. The only thing I would do now is purchase a set of color blocs as well. These blocs look and feel the same as the ones in the museum. I see no difference. Great product.
So FUN!
I disagree with the person who reviewed these blocks for her 3-year-old and said it was too expensive for not a lot of fun. The toy itself doesn't deserve any negative reviews. I do think that some kids just doesn't like blocks, no matter how cheap or expensive they are! SO... these blocks are for kids who love blocks, and if you have those kids, get this set. It is reasonably priced, and the blocks are so stable that even my 2-year-old can handle. We actually got 3 sets of the 54-pieces for each of my children, the ones with colors (light green and light blue, red and blue, and orange and yellow). This way, there is no argument as to whose set is whose.
My children do not automatically gravitate towards these blocks, but when they see me sitting down and building something, their interest gets perked immediately. Once they start, they can play with these for a while. However, I think 2 or 3 year olds will not play with these for a long time, because they just usually don't play with any toys for a long time!
I have 3 kids, and I extensively research all my toys before making any purchase. Most toys are clutter, but these, despite how many pieces there are, are not. They are educational, fun, and creative. They touch on both your scientific side and your creative side. Also, these are fun for adults, too (I play with them all the time), and it's a perfect thing to sit down with your children to do. I can't play dressup, and I hate race cars, but building blocks and making things architectural, artistic and balanced is a turn-on for an adult like myself.
*****!!!
2009-12-31
| Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5
Great for creativity and fine motor skills
I bought this kit for my 3 year old and am very happy with the purchase. There are so many fun things to build with these blocs. I like the fact that there is no one particular way to use this set. Imagination and creativity at best. It has helped my son in building fine motor skills as he has to hold and place the blocks with precision and at angles. The only reason I gave this 4 stars is that a couple of blocs in my package have chipped edges :(
gotta love the simple toys
it's simple, wood blocks. Purchased these as gift for a three year old. He may be on the young side, but we both enjoy this more than lincoln logs - much more versatile. He hasn't pulled them out to play with on his own yet, but it's been a good activity for us to do together and I suspect as he gets older he'll enjoy using these alone too.
2009-12-30
(MN) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
Steven Caney's Ultimate Building Book: Including More Than 100 Incredible Projects Kids Can Make!
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Ever doubt the sanity how a suspension bridge can cross a gap thousands of feet encyclopaedic? Want to know how to build a comfortable causeuse chair out of cardboard boxes? Or what keeps a stupendous cathedral dome from collapsing?
Discover the answers to these and many more questions in Steven Caney’s Remotest Building Book, a wonderfully comprehensive exploration of contrive, construction, and invention that will stimulate the curiosity of children and adults akin. Much as David Macaulay's blockbuster The Way Things M did for machines and devices a decade ago, this definitive amount from best-selling author Steven Caney details the ins and outs of construction in all its fascinating forms.
Wall-to-wall with exciting building projects guaranteed to engage anyone from age 4 to 104, the Deciding Building Book gives easy-to-follow instructions for creating extraordinary models and toys that are as much fun to make as they are to play with! Readers are also introduced to a off the target variety of household materials and tools that can be cast-off for building, along with fascinating insights into the architectural and design properties of everything from drinking straws to yurts. A mammoth think up in its own right, this book has been under construction for more than a decade. The d is hundreds of superbly illustrated pages that will coach and fascinate armchair architects of all ages for years to down attack. Two-color with more than 2500 b/w photos, illustrations, and industrial drawings
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Steven Caney's Ultimate Building Book
This is an excellent book whether you're an adult or child. Not only are there interesting projects to do, the author explains about the different types of architecture (buildings, bridges,etc.) found throughout the world. He also includes nature made structures such as beehives, spider webs, beaver dams, nests, termite mounds, etc. A very detailed, but easy-to-read and understand book to share with your child.
Excellent resource for teachers and parents!!!
This book really is the "Ultimate Building Book." I am a teacher of third and fourth graders and plan to use this book to supplement my teaching in the upcoming year. It has wonderful construction ideas for children, step-by-step pictures, key vocabulary, great descriptions of all kinds of buildings in both the natural world and those constructed by people, and even includes stories and other language arts connections. Of course the connections to science, social studies, and math are natural outcomes of the projects. Wow! One could teach from this book with no other curriculum and fill a year with child-centered activities and learning. Creative students will love the ideas supplied in this book and every child will be challenged to look at the many forms of construction we see around us with new eyes. I'd recommend this book to parents of kids ages 4-14 and to teachers who enjoy providing creative educational instruction.
2009-07-17
(Nevada, USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
fantastic building book
Our homeschool group met yesterday and the kids had a fantastic time building with 5 of the different building systems in this book. My kids and I were inspired to make a swimming pool noodle raft using a building system of our own. All of the moms at our meeting are ordering this book after seeing mine.
As others have said, the first half of the book is all about every kind of building type you can think of, skyscrapers to wigwams. The second half of the book includes very simple, clear instructions for many different kinds of building systems and things to do with them. Two of our favorites are a PVC greenhouse for kids and a stale bagel bird feeder. Throughout the book are little tidbits about inventions and their inventors. What a great book!
the best "how to make things at home" books I have seen
Man, this book has it all for the 'kid at home' project center. It has not only the project but the history of what the project is based on and real life examples of how the principles are used and it just keeps going. It may be a bit daunting for a 10 year old to try to tackle this book by themselves but once they get going it just keeps giving.
I highly recomend this one for anyone who has kids at home.
2009-04-27
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
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AT&T Pro-am: Setting up tournament is like building a small city
08.02.10
It's around 4 p.m. on the Tuesday before the AT&T Pebble Littoral National Pro-Am, and Brad Howland is working out the logistics of turning a as a whole refrigeration constituent.
Howland is fatiguing to accommodate the wishes of Thump Giger, the Pebble Run aground Co.'s director of unconventional events, who wants the doors of the 20-foot-want refrigerator to unresolved toward the back of the Third Fairway courteousness tent's scullery.
To turn the big insulate box as Giger wants it, Giger, Howland and Angela Turrini — Howland's "regarding person" from the tent enterprise — detect that part of the temporary plywood deck and its artificial bailiwick covering have to be removed.
No sooner had they unquestionable on a solution did Tom Shea — a fellow of the Hartmann Studios group that built the fleeting floors and put up the tents — initiate tearing the fake turf off the department to be removed.
"Another poser solved," Howland said.
From there, Howland moves on to the next refractory to solve, part of his job of preparing the event's infrastructure to harmonize hundreds of whiz and amateur golfers competing the AT&T this week and 150,000 golf fans who will be in Pebble Coast to watch them.
"We invent a small metropolis," Howland said.
To do that, Howland and about 65 body members done in the last five weeks building momentary floors, raising tents, installing signs, placing potted plants and staking the score around three golf courses to unravel spectators from the playing common.
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