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Old 06-10-2005, 10:18 PM
Al
 
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Yes, I suppose. I just meant a gun is easier to get than almost anything
that requires a zoning board's approval. Fill out a form. Claim to be
emotional stable. Wait 24 hours and with one, you can do to property values
all the damage the zoning board is trying to prevent.

"Al" wrote in message
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That was a pretty mild rant considering it is a zoning board that you are
dealing with. You can get a gun with 24 hours notice.
"tennis maynard" wrote in message
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Rob wrote:
Of course in that case it helps to
have a bit of insulation between your rock and the ground, otherwise
most of the heat goes the wrong way.... If you are installing a new
greenhouse, consider spending the extra 100 dollars or so to put a layer
of high density foam insulation under your greenhouse floor. Regardless
of what your flooring material is. I wish I had done that.


If I can ever get the morons at the building permit to pull their
heads out of their...um...well, you know...I am planning on putting the
styro around the foundation up top glazing level, about 4" above ground.
At that point, I think insulation under the floor might be a bad
idea...at least with the insulated foundation down past the permafrost
line, the ground beneath should be at about 50 degrees, right? Or at
least substantially warmer than the outside air. This should help with
the heating, n'est-ce pas? What do you think Rob?

The latest form the building code folks (who have never heard of polycarb
as a building material - how long's it been around? 30 yrs? 40? - and
can't get their stories straight from one person to the next, or even
from one phone call to the next)is that I can't have a gravel floor in
the attached GH as they are concerned about the moisture rising out of
the ground through a gravel floor and causing mold in the house - despite
the fact that it will still have its external coverings intact. Had
planned a moisture barrier on the house wall but was told not to bother.
Of course the ambient humidity in the GH in the summer will probably be
in the 90% or higher range. Just like the normal outside humidity here.

And I can't have it but half the size I need because of some ratio about
open back yard space being at least 25% of the total lot size. So if you
have a 40-acre lot, and the house sits so you only have 10 acres behind
it, you can't build a 20 foot greenhouse??????????? Stupid or what? I
don't have a huge lot but the lot behind me is barely bigger than my
current back yard. Go figure.

So I have to apply for a variance (more money) and of course it takes 2-3
months for a hearing. So that means I just MIGHT get to start building in
late Dec/Jan. Oops! The ground'll be frozen then!

Wish I lived in a free country instead of a one resembling the communist
USSR. Seems in a country founded on property rights and liberty (not
'family values' [Whose family values? Mine? Yours?] as some say) we have
neither now.

Please pardon the rant, but the whole process has been very frustrating.