On Mon, 3 May 2021 20:55:23 -0600, rbowman posted for all of us to digest...


On 05/03/2021 01:21 PM, Tekkie? wrote:
You have any reference to a Homasote house? What did they use it for;
wallboard, floors? IIRC Homasote has a very poor fire rating.


I'm coming up dry. The house was in the colorful part of Albany NY. I
can't remember if it was on Livingston Ave or one of the parallel
streets. From a quick look at Wiki it's still about 90% colorful.

I'm not even finding the product I remember. iirc they were in the
neighborhood of 2" thick, tongue and groove, with a white surface,
supposedly weather proof. I'd call the construction sort of post and
beam with large frames that were set with a crane. The homasote or
whatever it was, was used horizontally on the exterior like clapboard
siding.

The beams were exposed, that being where the not so eco-friendly redwood
came it. The floors were hardwood.

I don't know how Bernie the Priest sold the idea to the diocese. Most
of the people involved were from a sort of hippie commune. I visited it
a couple of times but preferred my apartment.

It was a fun summertime project while I was gainfully unemployed. Life
was good until I went home one night to find a note from the chief
engineer of a company I had worked for saying that another company that
we had done a joint project with was looking for me. It was a hard
choice, being summer and still having some weeks of unemployment left
but duty called. I moved to Springfield and lost track. Later another
guy who had worked on the project came to visit, The diocese had gotten
tired of amateur hour and brought in a real contractor to finish it. It
looked good enough that someone with an in at the diocese got it rather
than some random low income family.

That's how it usually goes. I dated a lawyer who was involved with a
project to collect bicycles for third world countries. She admitted that
they high graded the donations and any really nice bike didn't have a
snowball's chance of getting shipped to a ********. I ghosted, having
learned all I needed to know about liberal lawyers.

I never learned my life lesson's that fast. It had to be repeated, sometimes
more than once.

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Tekkie