I beg to differ my young friend. You can have a foundation without a solid concrete slab. The foundation walls can be framed and poured into a trench around the circumference of the structure. There is a footer poured into the trench, usually below the frost line for the area it's built in. In the case of a home with a basement, yes there's a slab floor poured into the void and the foundation walls consisting of poured cement or concrete blocks set on top of it.
I had Architectural drafting classes in my final two years of high school. The senior year was a two hour class at the end of the school day where we designed and built a huge concession stand with a garage on the football field during the second semester. Talk about hands on instruction.:yeah:
My plans were chosen as the basis for the project.:D
The first semester assignment was a home design that I think a classmate's contractor father copied and used without my permission.:-?

My parent's home had an earthen crawl space under the floors, with a block foundation.
A slab foundation serves double duty as a foundation and a floor. Which makes for an interesting experience when you need to get at the plumbing.:hmmm:

So agree on the plumbing on solid slabs. , when you got contractor grade tools, all your relatives expect you to do contractor grade things.



I messed up on grannys house, I released a cloud of radium and herpes on her, but hey, her second toilet works great!:)

The HORROR!.:haha:

What? No Benzene?:-?

It would be if I wasn't so thick skinned.

The three that immediately spring to mind are strip, piled and raft.

My property 'floats' on polystyrene rafts.

House boat?

Sure, just look at the title under his avatar... he's the chief of the darn thing.








Until Mrs. Buna comes home. :O:

Better to live on a houseboat than a boathouse. :sunny:

Got the monitor stand sorted. :yeah:

http://imageshack.us/a/img12/2551/f1nn.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img818/5091/3p9k.jpg

Raises the monitor up about as high as possible, and is plenty wide enough to let me slide the keyboard up underneath it when I want it out of the way. Also far sturdier than the one I was using.

I don't know if I mentioned that I finally got the desk lamp that I wanted, but you can certainly see the glare of it in that picture. Here it is in all its glory:

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Even up high like that it still lights up the desktop quite well, and the quality of the light seems really good to me so far... I liked the Ottlite tasklight I got so much that I got one of their desk lamps and I'm pretty happy with it. I don't think I'm having the kind of eyestrain trying to read at the desk that I had with the lamp I used to have which was right down on the desktop over what I was looking at.

Also got some cord management stuff at Ikea and Microcenter... might not need all the stuff I got at the latter place so I haven't opened it yet. We'll see once I get the Ikea stuff up under the desk, which I should be able to do this weekend when I have time to unplug stuff and move the desk out a little.

:up: I'm going to look into doing the same thing with my monitor. Thanks for the idea. As it is now, I find myself always craning my neck to view the monitor. With a herniated cervical disc it becomes a bit painful.:nope:

Looking pretty cool frau :cool:

Should hook the CPU up to your large screen TV. Gaming larger than life! :D

*springboarding off this comment*

From someone who is a huge gamer, I highly suggest attaching an HD cable from your GPU port to your TV.

Turns any game from good to awesome.

It actually turned a pile of rehashed crap like the latest Call of Duty into somewhat playable.

Imagine what it would do to a an actual good game, Like SH3 with gwx, it looks nice, trust me.:D

+1

I'd do that if my laptop had an HDMI port. :woot:

What's funny is my two daughters play on a 52 inch screen with the Play Station 3. I'm still using a 21 inch monitor when I do get to play. :-?