In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:59:12 -0400,
wrote:

On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:55:32 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:48:45 -0400, FromTheRafters
wrote:

micky laid this down on his screen :
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 12 Aug 2020 01:14:01 +0000, Trevor Lee
Jennings m wrote:

So I have a stilited house. The floor sealed with spray foam Insulation, and
sealed with hardiplank. At the meter, I have a disconnect after it, then
goes into the house. I am wanting to run 3 basic outlets for small draw, and
one outlet for a 110v plug and play hot tub I have downstairs. It would be a
pain to run new wire from upstairs in the house, and feed it downstairs
somehow. My question is, could I tie into the disconnect I have downstairs,
and put another panel next to it so I can run new servises for downstairs?
https://www.homeownershub.com/img/py
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I can't answer your electrical question, but is your house a stilted
house?

Unless Trevor was lying in the first sentence, yes.

He said, I have a stilited house. I was checking if that's the same as
stilted.

We call them piling houses here but the objective is the same, to get
the finished floor of the living space above the FEMA plane. Most
people end up enclosing the lower level, usually illegally but there
won't be any flood insurance there so don't put anything there that
can't get wet. Also be sure the walls will blow out before the
structure is damaged if there is a flood or they might void your flood
coverage.

That makes sense.

It's been over 50 years, but my recollection is that the houses not on
stilts were not 2-story houses that really weree on stilts but the
bottom was enclosed. My recollection is that they were one-story
houses, probably with a pitched roof and an attic.

I once tried to use google street view to look at what is there 50
years later, but I'm not sure where I was, I looked again, in
Cutofff, where all the houses I saw were on the ground, and then at

517 Jackson St. Lafitte, Lousiana And on that little street there are
a half-dozen big houses on stilts, and one house on each side of the
street that is not. The one on the left is harder to see, and google
doesn't go farther down the street, but the one on the right is easy sto
see, tan stone or tan brick, attic that's too low to be usable for
living space, and it looks very new. Brown roof, perfect white edge
(gutters?) to the roof. And there is a white pickup truck in front of
it.

Fruther down the road in the distance is another big house on stilts and
probably on the left another one not.

I'd give the url but I'm looking on another computer.

So what's wrong with these two or three bulders that they built a ranch
house right ont he ground. Doesn't Lafitte flood every year or 5 for
certain. A quick google of Lafitte flooding found examples of
it flooding.


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