Tiling a Floor, 3-4-5 Rule & How to Position Reference Lines

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EYS Short: Tiling a Floor: Positioning Reference Lines

Uploaded by EngineerYourSpace on Mar 21, 2012

Tips on how to position your reference lines to start laying down your tiles so you end up with the best results for your room

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• Tiling a floor
• where to draw reference lines
• how to draw reference lines
• 3-4-5 rule
• tiling tips
• engineer your space
• DIY. how to tile a floor
• chalk line

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My Comment: I knew about the 3-4-5 ft rule, but I never knew how to measure it out with arcs! THANKS! What kind of double-sided tape do you use for the vinyl tiles?

Answer: Glad you liked my "arc" trick! 

I used the tape sold by Modularity Tiles ($49.00 per roll - 2.7" wide) and the name of the company that makes the tape is "Sigaway" (the type of tape is called "original")

One-Sheet Plywood Boat - Tiny Yellow House

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This looks fantastic, and I can't wait to try it out!

My comment on YouTube:

Fabulous! You give us hope for the world... LOL but true! Can't wait to build this boat and try it out at Lake Atitlan, where I live in Central America, and people commute to work across the lake every day. Loved the glass bottom in the boat. Really great touch, and the removable seat for when it rains! You apparently have thougt of everything!

Another Useful Comment:

Not to rain on your parade. If you want a real bonding flexible boat building agent, go to West Marine and buy the West System epoxy resin. Last longer cure faster and MUCH STRONGER. Also can be used for every step from structure to finish (paint etc.).

alvis17jd 2 months ago

Mud Girls Natural Building Collective : Welcome!

www.mudgirls.ca/

Mudgirls Natural Building Collective is a network of women who build natural buildings for ourselves and each other, as well as helping others build their own.

We are a network of women who build natural buildings for ourselves and each other, as well as helping others build their own.

We specialize in building with cob, as well as other natural material such as strawbale, driftwood, adobe, cordwood and recycled materials like glass, car tires, glass bottles and more.

There are two overlapping collectives within the network – one, a bartering collective that is local to Lasqueti, and a second that is worker-run and for-hire which includes women in Courtenay and Nanaimo, and on Denman, Lasqueti and Saltspring Islands.

The second collective is a consensus-based, non-hierarchical collective of women that support each other to gain training and employment.

... more:  http://www.mudgirls.ca/

Check out the new Mudgirls Blog at:

http://mudgirls.wordpress.com/

Referred by Chelsea, who visited Panajachel March 2012, and assisted on the film "2012 The Mayan Word"

Cargotecture & Sunset Magazine’s Idea House 2011

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HyBrid Architecture coined the term cargotecture in 2005 to describe any building built partially or entirely from recycled ISO shipping containers. HyBrid Architecture and it’s affiliated construction firm HyBrid Assembly continue to work with developers, government agencies and individuals to realize these viscerally unique and environmentally sensitive projects. 
See pricing at http://www.cargotecture.com/page14.html (expensive but can be DIY)

Sunset Magazine’s Idea House 2011

 

 

HyBrid was chosen by Sunset Magazine to create the Idea House for their Celebration Weekend in Menlo Park, California held in June 2011. read more »

See pictures of building and retrofitting at Cargotecture:
http://www.hybridarc.com/cargotecture-c-series/ 

 more: http://www.hybridarc.com/cargotecture-c-series/

Hybrid Architecture

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House from Shipping Containers

House layout on TV, made from two shipping containers in Seattle, Washington. I think this was on HGTV. Great idea! http://www.flickr.com/photos/catherinetodd/4094659390/

More ideas: http://www.hybridarc.com/

HyBrid arc

architecture research and construction

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HyBrid Architecture | Assembly

contact: Robert Humble or Joel Egan
1205 East Pike Street Suite 2D
Seattle, WA 98122
email:info@hybridarc.com
tel: 206.267.9277

Hybrid Architecture

Hybrid Architecture: www.hybridarc.com

Established in 2003 by Robert Humble and Joel Egan, HyBrid Architecture and HyBrid Assembly integrate design, research and construction into one seamless process. The utilization of off-site fabrication technology allows for evocative solutions to complex programmatic restraints. Ultimately, HyBrid is interested in maximizing efficiency, whether that be in time, money or natural resources.

Projects

more: http://www.hybridarc.com/

c160 scout, base price: $29,500

 More: http://www.cargotecture.com/page3.html

Green future is possible! The eco house of Simon Dale

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www.GoodNews.ws

Uploaded by TVGOODNEWSTV on Sep 22, 2011

http://goodnews.ws/

The house; It was built by myself and my father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved in and cosy. I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).

The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry.

Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings. Main tools used: chainsaw, hammer and 1 inch chisel, little else really. Oh and by the way I am not a builder or carpenter, my experience is only having a go at one similar house 2yrs before and a bit of mucking around inbetween.

This kind of building is accessible to anyone. My main relevant skills were being able bodied, having self belief and perseverence and a mate or two to give a lift now and again.This building is one part of a low-impact or permaculture approach to life. This sort of life is about living in harmony with both the natural world and ourselves, doing things simply and using appropriate levels of technology. These sort of low cost, natural buildings have a place not only in their own sustainability, but also in their potential to provide affordable housing which allows people access to land and the opportunity to lead more simple, sustainable lives. For example this house was made to house our family whilst we worked in the woodland surrounding the house doing ecological woodland management and setting up a forest garden, things that would have been impossible had we had to pay a regular rent or mortgage.

Why are we doing this? First answer: It's fun. Living your own life, in your own way is rewarding. Following our dreams keeps our souls alive.

Second answer: Our society is almost entirely dependent on the availability of increasing amounts of fossil fuel energy. This has brought us to the point at which our supplies are dwindling and our planet is in ecological catastrophe. We have no viable alternative energy source and no choice but to reduce our energy consumption.

The sooner this change can be begun, the more comfortable it will be. For our energy consumption to decrease we must reduce consumption and dramatically increase the productivity of our land. This will require developing infrastructure and skills to enable locally self-reliant living. The simplest, sustainable solutions involve small-scale permaculture type land management systems centred around individual or small groups of dwellings.

There is significant and growing energy at the grass-roots to start implementing these low impact developments. This enthusiasm comes from a combination of intellectual concern and the innate appeal of living closer to nature...

Read the full story »
http://goodnews.ws/blog/2011/09/23/green-future-is-possible-here%E2%80%99s-an...

Green future is possible! The eco house of Simon Dale WWW.GOODNEWS.WS

Solar bottle lights in a Ugandan Kitchen

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Solar bottle lights in a Ugandan kitchen | 50W Plastic bottle daytime light
 

Uploaded by sendacow on Jan 5, 2012

http://www.sendacow.org.uk Helen from Uganda shows how she is trialling using 1.5 litre plastic water bottles as a way of lighting her dark kitchen in the daytime. She uses the bottles, filled with water and a little bleach, grouped in 3s over her cooking areas in her dark mud kitchen with grass roof. Techniques like this can reduce eye strain and the need for electric lighting where electricity is too expensive or not available.

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Comments:

• You could make larger "windows" by grouping more bottles together. You could also embed them into the mud walls when the house is being constructed, to let in more light from the sides. Attaching cloth flaps (from old clothes or feed sacks) over these windows would serve as shutters if you don't want as much light coming in.

  ElveeKaye 

   
• @ElveeKaye : Making "windows" embedded in the walls by grouping more bottles is a great idea. You could do colored water for "stained glass" windows! And as you suggested, if you want curtains, using feed sacks or old cloths - sewing together old t-shirts, for example - could make great curtains What a great idea. Can't wait to try this here in Guatemala.

  CommentsSurvey (Catherine Todd)

Hotel Royal Mansour Mahdia (TUNISIE)

Karim Ben Salem

 at Hotel Royal Mansour Mahdia (TUNISIE).

Facebook · November 15, 2011
 

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=116873891758960&set=a.116870685092614.21440.100003090504837&type=3&theater

This is going to be (one of) my rooms one of these days...

Plan of Notre Dame de Paris

Note: I didn't know this book existed! Can't wait to order it and start to work...

"In 1845, architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc undertook one of the greatest projects in the history of restoration: the 23-year refurbishment of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. This faithful reproduction of the restored murals, notable for their originality of design and for the soft and subtle harmony of their coloration, presents 60 full-page plates."

More: http://www.doverpublications.com/designsampler/0201/sample70a.htm

From: Designs and Ornaments from the Chapels of Notre Dame Sampler Home

About this Book Excerpt 1  --  2  --  3  --  4  --  5  --  6  --  7

© Dover Publications. You can browse our complete catalog of over 9,000 titles at www.doverpublications.com or visit your local bookseller.

From: Designs and Ornaments from the Chapels of Notre Dame Sampler Home

About this Book Excerpt 1  --  2  --  3  --  4  --  5  --  6  --  7

© Dover Publications. You can browse our complete catalog of over 9,000 titles at www.doverpublications.com or visit your local bookseller. --- Also see: Viollet-Le-Duc: The French Gothic Revival [Paperback] Jean-Paul Midant (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Viollet-Duc-French-Gothic-Revival/dp/2914199228/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

Livraria Lello ~ Library / Bookstore in Porto-Portugal

We could do a lot of this kind of decoration, wood carving and design in the new AtitlanArts.com Design Studio here in Panajachel, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. We can also draw from the incredible Mayan artistic designs, paintings and carvings, along with my beloved Medieval architecture and design. We could make a large ceiling light in stained glass even though we don't have a skylight area. In fact, we could paint directly onto the plastic roof panels used now for skylights. So many wonderful ideas here!




http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=TtMfYjWf9M4

See "Lello Bookstore" folder with more screen shots from the video. Here's a few of my favorites:

Archways and Ceilings ~ Groin Vault / Cross Vault

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Groin Vault / Cross Vault 10x10 ft $830

Groin Vault / Cross Vault 6x6 ft $404

http://www.archwaysandceilings.com/ceilings-made-easy_groin-vaults.php

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Email response to find the estimating link:

Jim@archwaysandceilings.com:

You have to go further in the web-site by either clicking on the "Archways Made Easy" or the "Ceilings Made Easy" on the top bar.  Then you select the specific type of arch or ceiling you are interested in.

Jim Scott
Archways and Ceilings

"Since 1988"
877-303-2263

archwaysandceilings.com

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Worked! Excellent prices and easy installation. 3 to 5 days delivery. Can't wait to try it!

How to build a Dome Ceiling - in 8 minutes and 20 seconds

How to build a Dome Ceiling is a video illustrating how easy and quickly an Archwayandceilings product installs. The video was shot at a local jobsite and was not edited. The dome took 8 minutes and 20 seconds to install. Now, that's fast!

Comment: How to finish the dome?

"You can do it with mesh and plaster... the easier way in my opinion is to use 1/4" flexible drywall and cut into pie pieces and simply press / screw them into place. I will have "how to" drywall videos up by the end of the month to show this method. Also, I will post a picture gallery tomorrow to illustrate this method as well."

Archking57 

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Prices and more:

Uploaded by Archking57 on Feb 8, 2010

All you need to know about Archways and Ceilings Made Easy in 60 Seconds! Learn about our different products from Groin vaults, Dome Ceilings, Barrel Vaults, Cove Ceilings and Archways. Once you have figured which ceiling or arch kit best fits your needs, get an instant quote at the click of the mouse. Place orders online or over the phone, it is that easy! The product will ship directly from our warehouse in 3 to 5 days directly to the job site! That's it!! You will have a beautiful archway in no time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvQpKJezik

6 foot dome costs $330.00 and installs in less than 30 minutes

3 foot archway costs $20.00 and installs in less than 2 minutes

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Archway & Ceiling Kits | Groin Vault | Dome Ceiling | Barrel Vault ...

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Archways & Ceilings- affordable, quick and easy to install (DIY Friendly). The leader in curved framing since 1988. Over one million archways and ceiling kits ...

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A Customer Review With Archways & Ceilings Made Easy

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Aluminum Puzzle Lamp

Dying to try this gorgous lamp, apparently made with just one pattern and strips of aluminum:

Excerpt from: http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/pattern_puzzle_lamp_shades/

"On a related site (related to the IQ light site: www.iqlight.com/) I found some more cool lamps. The one below is famous, not that I knew that. It’s called “Turbo” and was designed by Louis Weisdorf (there’s no wiki on him!) in 1965.


Here’s another photo of it. Apparently you can still buy these for a mere £499.00 (36″) or £852.00 (62″). Ouch.


It is described as:

TURBO is built by 12 identical white-sprayed spiral shaped [aluminum] segments whose exterior follow the face of a globe. The inner part of the TURBO light does not blind and the bulb is completely screened.

This lamp should be really easy -heh- since it’s made with only one pattern piece. Anyone care to sketch it out for us?"

DESIGNER CEILING LAMP SHADE, Puzzle Lamps, Paper lamps

History of the Puzzle Lamp, from IQ light.com: http://www.iqlight.com/iqsys.htm

Designer Holger Strøm started taking an interest in the rhombic polyhedrons in the early 1970s while he was employed by the Kilkenny Design Workshops, Ireland.

As a packaging designer he used cardboard and paper for his experiments in search of the polygon best suited as an element for building lampshades. 

The rhombus was chosen as the basic element, and the rhombic triacontahedron as the geometric model for the construction.

Assembly needed to be as simple as possible, and after several experiments a hook was placed in each corner of the rhombus, the hooks being connected in pairs by a soft curve. Regardless of whether three, four, or five elements meet, the corners form decorative circles. ...more: http://www.iqlight.com/iqsys.htm Also called "Puzzle Lamps"

 Here is a simplistic illustration showing the concept of construction using just the one pattern interlocking pattern piece (a discussion of the lamp shade geometry is here).

Below are two photos of lamps made by people over at Craftster. I think these are very striking. There’s no reason you couldn’t make some yourself. I think they’d look good in oaktag. I’ve made smaller lights (rather like luminarias) out of that before and they came out very nice.

(Note: I want to make the star shape, but haven't found instructions yet for this one!) 

 Source: http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/pattern_puzzle_lamp_shades/

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From IQ LIGHT.com:

 Source: IQ Light.com: http://www.iqlight.com/iqsorts.htm

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Designer Lamps Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBjWzTGHHoo

Uploaded by bhui42 on Feb 5, 2011

Self assemble
DESIGNER CEILING LAMP SHADE

COLOR ------------- WHITE
MATERIAL----------TRANSLUCENT POLY CARBONATE PLASTIC
FEATURE----------- FLEXIBLE, UNBREAKABLE, DURABLE,
EASY WASHABLE
DESIGNER LAMP SHADES is fabulous for occasions like weddings and parties as it creates a unique and beautiful ambiance in any room or space.
LAMP SHADES will definitely make a
wonderful Christmas / Birthday / New Home-Owner
present and is also suitable for anyone who is up to a mind / Instead of using LAMPSHADES just as room / ceiling lightning's/ and light Pillar,
it could also be used as floor lamps, wall, .corner & ceiling mountings,
Shapes can be customized as per requirements and designs.

UNLIMTED MOODS:-
Let the lights reflect your mood. Choose the colors you feel.
UNLIMTED STYLES:-
Light up your party deck, dress up your shop, and romance your bedroom.
UNLIMTED IDEAS:-
With our premium quality material you can bend and twist to your desire, be it round oval, diamond........at least many different shades.
Lamps are made of a white plastic - so just change the color globe for a completely different effect.

Facebook: IQ Designer Lamp Shades

Home Decor · Phagwara

https://www.facebook.com/pages/IQ-Designer-Lamp-Shades/170731456283940?v=info&sk=info

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How to make a Ball with 30 elements:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIAE5iQkpKw&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL



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Where to buy: Here's one place: http://puzzlelamp.blogspot.com/, puzzlelamp (at) gmail.com 

I want to buy sheets. I know it's available somewhere in Guatemala City, but I'm not sure where. USA?

"TRANSLUCENT POLYCARBONATE PLASTIC" for lamps 

www.alibaba.com ›

Source on Alibaba.com; Buy on AliExpress.com; Get Accurate Quotes from suppliers Post an RFQ now>>. View as: Product ... translucent polycarbonate plastic sheeting(China (Mainland)) ..... Translucent PC lamp cover(China (Mainland)) ...

Of course, someone is selling them under the IKEA name:

Pendant Ceiling Lampshade IKEA Light Cord ZE Light INV

http://www.secureonlineshopping.co.za/ikeastore/product/3819/pendant-ceiling-lampshade-ikea-light-cord.html 

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These look like they are made out of paper: (Instructions in Spanish!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crzDSEU8mRo&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Esfera de papel (Parte 1 de 5) = Sphere of paper (Part 1 of 5) 




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crzDSEU8mRo&feature=endscreen&NR=1 

Mostramos el procedimiento de construcción de una esfera de papel a partir de 30 piezas iguales distribuidas en cinco niveles de 5, 5, 10, 5 y 5 piezas. Más detalles sobre la construcción en el siguiente enlace:

= We show the construction method of a sphere of paper from 30 equal pieces spread over five levels of 5, 5, 10, 5 and 5 pieces. More details on the construction on the

http://www.aulataller.es/ejercicios/proyecto-tecnologia-eso-esfera/proyecto-tecnologia-ESO-esfera-01.html

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Education

Tags:

• Tecnologia
• ESO
• lampara
• esfera
• papel
• cartulina
• aulataller 

 http://www.iqlight.com/

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How to put the lamp inside:  (puzzle_lamp@yahoo.com.hk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOlxIrLtbPo&context=C3614e4eADOEgsToPDskIJ9TaQk-lJKcM0fF1ACGvI

  

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 Another interesting design, that might work on a low ceiling "flush mount"

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=210263878997364&set=a.170742289616190.38394.170731456283940&type=3&theater

Source: IQ Designer Lamp Shades on Facebook, under "Profile Pictures"

https://www.facebook.com/pages/IQ-Designer-Lamp-Shades/170731456283940

Home Decor · Phagwara, email bhui42@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.258047674218984.70157.170731456283940&type=1
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From Craftster:  http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=231484.0

DIY IQ lights, posted by julibooli NOLA maker « on: March 03, 2008 06:55:55 PM » So, has everyone seen the IQ lightwww.iqlight.com? It's pretty awesome. BUT no self respecting craftster would pay $30 for 30 pieces of plastic, right? So I decided to make my own. I got a template from Readymade Magazine, but I modified it for two pieces on a page. You see, I just printed out the template on cardstock and cut out the shape! Here's the template: In order to cut out the little hooks, I used a hole punch so I didn't have to get into those tiny curves with my scissors. Made the work much easier! My first lamp used 28 pieces: And I'm not sure how many pieces are in my second lamp. I also am not sure how I made this! I'm using 60w bulbs, and since the paper is not very close to the bulb I'm not really worried about fires. I'm using extension cords and added switches so that I can easily turn the lights on and off (my sockets are incredibly inconvenient). This is a really neat project. It's amazing to see what you can make with just one shape. This would be fun to do with kids old enough to handle sharp scissors. Girl scouts maybe?

THIS ROCKS   Logged www.MADEBYJULIANNE. com www.madebyjulianne. etsy.com