The "have a look at this!" thread II

carefullycautious

Cripes is that candles I spy under the gas boiler in picture 7.


http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-32000685.html?premiumA=true

booksurr

anyone for a bit of sea air?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29127057

RichardD1970

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29127057


Just a concept, but would you?

RichardD1970

booksurr wrote: »

anyone for a bit of sea air?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29127057

SNAP :rotfl:

Igamogam

booksurr wrote: »

anyone for a bit of sea air?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29127057

Cantilever beams drilled into the rock could support the building just as crampons support a climber.

Think I would want more than crampons thankyou;)

carefullycautious

There is a bit of a difference between a barnacle hanging on and the weight of that.


I think I will pass for now

bouicca21

Surely if the cliff falls into the sea the cantilever beams (and house) fall with it?

Love to see someone sail up (or would it be rock up) to Halifax (or whatever the Oz equivalent is) and ask for a mortgage ...

LisbonLaura

booksurr wrote: »

those that can afford to buy them prefer to spend their time on their yachts in the Med so never actually use them, or like LisbonLaura, on their island paradise somewhere sunny?

LL does it oceanside for under £200/month, with vertical stilts, & plucks her breakfast off the trees.
Think I'll skip the cliff hanger, but thanks anyway guys

toozie_2

booksurr wrote: »

anyone for a bit of sea air?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29127057

The cafe on top of Snowden has angled windows like that for the ultimate view (when it's not shrouded in cloud!)
First time I went up there after the new cafe was built-my head was spinning, and was on the cusp of vertigo until I moved away from the windows, and that's a building on solid ground!!

I would far rather live in the worst dooer-upper we've had on here than that!

booksurr

toozie wrote: »

The cafe on top of Snowden has angled windows like that for the ultimate view (when it's not shrouded in cloud!)
First time I went up there after the new cafe was built-my head was spinning, and was on the cusp of vertigo until I moved away from the windows, and that's a building on solid ground!!

I would far rather live in the worst dooer-upper we've had on here than that!

I rather think that the sea cliff house has missed an opportunity. It says the lowest level is an "an open-air spa and barbecue area" but it would have been much more fun to make that a glass floored open air experience like the Skywalk in the Grand Canyon or as the person's countenance whilst trying it rather reveals (and at the risk of again promoting the DM ) this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060023/Chinas-newest-tourist-attraction--glass-bottomed-walkway-cliff-face.html