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RE: Modern living for tornado's - 2/5/2007 8:04:20 PM

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Not only are nails cheaper than screws but the nails from Korea I can bend with the fingers of one hand. Yes we are talking 16d green sinkers not box nails. Total junque.
thompson

I have remodelled two houses, and frankly I cannot understand what idiocy drives people to use nails anymore.

Drywall screws, baby. That sucker will NEVER move.

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RE: Modern living for tornado's - 2/10/2007 10:37:59 AM

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Were facing nukes, tsunami's, hurricanes and tornado's, earth quakes and starvation, power outs and fuel crisis.-Ice age.-
Not to mention the human factor.

I feel like making a fortress now that I look toward the uncertain world of tommorow...

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RE: Modern living for tornado's - 2/10/2007 11:27:05 AM

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Concrete.

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RE: Modern living for tornado's - 2/11/2007 7:12:55 AM

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OK probably some very dumb questions but here goes,
1) why do so many people in the US live in Trailer Parks - one of the recent tornado events described the trailers being chained to the ground and these failed.
2) is there a big seasonal migration of people in the US - I've come across a lot of people who seem to own multiple "houses" and spend different parts of the year in different states or US RVs, but that do not have what I would consider seasonal location jobs?
3) are "straight line winds" as destructive as tornado's?

Ta very much ya, all.

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RE: Modern living for tornado's - 2/11/2007 7:45:18 AM

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2) is there a big seasonal migration of people in the US - I've come across a lot of people who seem to own multiple "houses" and spend different parts of the year in different states or US RVs, but that do not have what I would consider seasonal location jobs?

It's a pretty common investment decision. Property is a great place to keep your retirement money or the ____'s college fund. The RV thing is more a retiree lifestyle, or those who choose nearly unbridled liberty over stabilty.

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RE: Modern living for tornado's - 2/11/2007 9:39:07 AM

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wulfchyld:
Not only are nails cheaper than screws but the nails from Korea I can bend with the fingers of one hand. Yes we are talking 16d green sinkers not box nails. Total junque.
thompson

I have remodelled two houses, and frankly I cannot understand what idiocy drives people to use nails anymore.

Drywall screws, baby. That sucker will NEVER move.

Just me, etc.

Sinergy

Sinergy:
Yes it is better to use screws. No it is not better to use drywall screws. If you look at the difference in the way that they are designed you will notice that on a drywall screw the thread is a constant diameter with a "bugle head" on it to retain the drywall to the stud. If you look at a wood screw it is tapered with the leading end threaded and followed by the unthreaded "blank" portion. Wood screws are tapered so as to pull tighter as it goes deepeer. The blank or unthreaded part of the screw is what is in the attached product thus pulling and tensioning the attached product to the base or stud. Even greater strength is atained by applying glue between the studs and the sheer pannel. It is not only the added cost of the screws as opposed to nails which can be colated and fired from pneumatic guns but also the necessity of predrilling the holes with a counterbore-countersink before installing the screw. A nailgun firing a 4/6 pattern on a shear pannel can fire 60 nails a minute, screws applied properly with power tools about 2 per minute.
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