Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 16:03:43 GMT
There's a tv series about floating houses of various sorts, from shantyboats to mansions. I have not seen it yet, i just discovered it. The series is in 14 episodes. Link is to a search engine because there's various outlets now serving the files in various formats and restrictions, so you pick your favorite.
EDIT:
After watching episode one of the series, i call "bullshirt!" on the series.
The floating house is over $1 million, the "lot" they will occupy is over $1 million, the house has various features with hype, added mostly to be different. A sparsely growing herb plant is not going to add insulation to the roof. Solar panels facing in random directions in a normally foggy location are not going to be worth their cost. Apparently the builder didn't know if the house would float, or break apart while launching, or if the 1.5 inch thick plexi submarine viewing window set in stainless steel frame was going to break out. According to the show, that one window was the hardest part of the entire 3-story construction. The owners intend to block the submerged basement's emergency exit with bikes, and the builder provided electric hoists for the bikes. The tugboat crew rammed the house into the dock. These people have money, and they intended to waste it to show it.
Watching another episode, a 24ft cat shantyboat, both of the hulls have non-watertight large openings in the tops, to allow flooding and sinking. The insides of the wooden hulls are not treated to resist water condensation or flooding. There's no pumpout of the hulls. The show states that the way to gain headroom isn't to increase the height of the walls, it's to make the roof a complex arch.
So to sum up: this is a show to sell advertising time on a tv station. It's not a how-to, it has no good advice, this is at the BS level of The Seasteading Institute (a huge misleading misnomer). The show's narrator is talking just to make noise, not to guide you with any common sense. I will most likely mute the audio on the show from now on, get a good laugh at the mistakes, and enjoy the occasional pictures of nature.
EDIT:
After watching episode one of the series, i call "bullshirt!" on the series.
The floating house is over $1 million, the "lot" they will occupy is over $1 million, the house has various features with hype, added mostly to be different. A sparsely growing herb plant is not going to add insulation to the roof. Solar panels facing in random directions in a normally foggy location are not going to be worth their cost. Apparently the builder didn't know if the house would float, or break apart while launching, or if the 1.5 inch thick plexi submarine viewing window set in stainless steel frame was going to break out. According to the show, that one window was the hardest part of the entire 3-story construction. The owners intend to block the submerged basement's emergency exit with bikes, and the builder provided electric hoists for the bikes. The tugboat crew rammed the house into the dock. These people have money, and they intended to waste it to show it.
Watching another episode, a 24ft cat shantyboat, both of the hulls have non-watertight large openings in the tops, to allow flooding and sinking. The insides of the wooden hulls are not treated to resist water condensation or flooding. There's no pumpout of the hulls. The show states that the way to gain headroom isn't to increase the height of the walls, it's to make the roof a complex arch.
So to sum up: this is a show to sell advertising time on a tv station. It's not a how-to, it has no good advice, this is at the BS level of The Seasteading Institute (a huge misleading misnomer). The show's narrator is talking just to make noise, not to guide you with any common sense. I will most likely mute the audio on the show from now on, get a good laugh at the mistakes, and enjoy the occasional pictures of nature.