Comments on: Berry Road Blunder http://www.beltstl.com/2007/07/berry-road-blunder/ Built Environment in Layman's Terms Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:32:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Chris Powers http://www.beltstl.com/2007/07/berry-road-blunder/comment-page-1/#comment-5953 Chris Powers Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:08:14 +0000 http://www.beltstl.com/?p=147#comment-5953 LOL, I've driven by that a few times. They house my step-brother lives in is very much like this one. It was a house from the 30s or 40s that got an expansion sometime later. They built a garage and a room over the garage... The problem his house has is structural as well as plumbing and electricity. Even the best intentions of a well laid out plan can't help if you don't do your homework. The house has tons of issues due to poor design, like this house--it probably was a DIY job. If you don't consult the design experts, the plumbers and electrictians then things can go wrong, terrible wrong. Unfortunately people sometimes think designers just "make things look nice" but there's far more to it. They need to know fire codes, understand how electricity and plumbing is routed and often Ned permits. As the case of my step-brothers house, when he had a flood...all sorts of bad problems were discovered that needed fixing due to bad remodel job. Had they consulted a design team, and of course the plumber and electritian, the repair from the flood would have cost a lot less... The shortcuts people make, sometimes, can cost you big. I keep remembering that when I see houses like this one... What hidden dangers are there by non-traditional remodels... LOL, I’ve driven by that a few times.

They house my step-brother lives in is very much like this one. It was a house from the 30s or 40s that got an expansion sometime later. They built a garage and a room over the garage… The problem his house has is structural as well as plumbing and electricity. Even the best intentions of a well laid out plan can’t help if you don’t do your homework. The house has tons of issues due to poor design, like this house–it probably was a DIY job. If you don’t consult the design experts, the plumbers and electrictians then things can go wrong, terrible wrong.

Unfortunately people sometimes think designers just “make things look nice” but there’s far more to it. They need to know fire codes, understand how electricity and plumbing is routed and often Ned permits. As the case of my step-brothers house, when he had a flood…all sorts of bad problems were discovered that needed fixing due to bad remodel job. Had they consulted a design team, and of course the plumber and electritian, the repair from the flood would have cost a lot less…

The shortcuts people make, sometimes, can cost you big. I keep remembering that when I see houses like this one… What hidden dangers are there by non-traditional remodels…

]]> By: Remiss63 http://www.beltstl.com/2007/07/berry-road-blunder/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Remiss63 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:22:00 +0000 http://www.beltstl.com/?p=147#comment-507 I hadn't seen that first house before. What a massive contradiction the brick base and the rest above is . . .<br/><br/>It's great to see the results of all your investigations. Wonderful. I hadn’t seen that first house before. What a massive contradiction the brick base and the rest above is . . .

It’s great to see the results of all your investigations. Wonderful.

]]> By: samizdat http://www.beltstl.com/2007/07/berry-road-blunder/comment-page-1/#comment-503 samizdat Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:05:00 +0000 http://www.beltstl.com/?p=147#comment-503 I grew up around this area. Flower Hill Ct.(just down Berry) then Yosemite, down Kirkham. I have always loved this house on the corner and am overjoyed and amazed every time I see it again and it is unaltered. Naturally, I'm also extraordinarily apprehensive about its condition every time I pass bay, as well. I don't suppose you saw the biiig white house on BRP just up the street, did you? I recall, from my childhood, someone telling me that that house had once had a third story, before a fire took off the original third. I grew up around this area. Flower Hill Ct.(just down Berry) then Yosemite, down Kirkham. I have always loved this house on the corner and am overjoyed and amazed every time I see it again and it is unaltered. Naturally, I’m also extraordinarily apprehensive about its condition every time I pass bay, as well. I don’t suppose you saw the biiig white house on BRP just up the street, did you? I recall, from my childhood, someone telling me that that house had once had a third story, before a fire took off the original third.

]]> By: alfonso http://www.beltstl.com/2007/07/berry-road-blunder/comment-page-1/#comment-490 alfonso Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:24:00 +0000 http://www.beltstl.com/?p=147#comment-490 quite interesting quite interesting

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