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Chipboard
I was looking at the chipboard in our outhouse and it has faces in it. A dragon, a snarling pitbull, a pissy lady in a fancy hat, a fishy thing with fins on the sides of it's head and sharp teeth, and a nose with a mouth above it and one below. Plus tons of human faces that looked like they were screaming. It was cool!
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5/20/2008, 3:14 am
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That sounds pretty odd, maybe even frightening. 
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5/20/2008, 7:42 am
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Ha! I opened this thread expecting some discussion about micro-electronics 
Chipbooard, ha! I don't even know what that means outside of Electrical Engineering. Does it have CMOS or MOSFET? Any transistors? Capacitors?
Though, in a bathroom I can't imagine a need, unless you took apart the bathroom scale
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I'm almost certain that Trying is refering to OSB. Chipboard used to be slang for Particle board but has now become synonomous with all of the engineered wood products made from small particles. OSB is a plywood shaped piece of lumber made from chips of wood, glued and pressed together. It's baby brother is particle board, which is made from a sawdust like mixture. In all forms it allows wood that would normally not be suitable for dimensional lumbar or plywood to be used for another purpose. In addition it doesn't have the knots and voids of plywood. Due to the orientation of the chips in OSB it is particularly strong perpendicular to it's long axis's, the downside being that it is not as weather resistant as traditional plywood and not suitable for exterior applications where it will be in contact with the elements.
Yeah, I did alot of work in the building trades paying for things like those pesky college courses.
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OSB is a plywood shaped piece of lumber made from chips of wood, glued and pressed together.
Yes, that's chipboard. It's nice to learn what you call it in the US -- you never know when things like that will come in handy for background detail!
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I'd never heard the name chipboard either -- I had the same expectations that Loud G had for this thread. Thanks for the info, Baneblade!
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Yep, what BaneBlade said. Here I thought I'd cause less confusion by calling it by its real name. I normally call it plywood, even though I know that's wrong.
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Trying, so now that you realize that you're supposed to carve your way into history, what is YOUR carving going to be of?
Eh? Seeing faces in chipboard means I'm suppose to carve my way into history? I can carve clay, wasn't good with carving wood though.
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...wait, you have an outhouse? 
Hah! I missed that. I used to have an outhouse as well but it burnt down. Insert you're own joke here:
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Yep. We don't have any 'real' plumbing in the house, so we have an outhouse and have to heat water on the stove (woodstove in the winter).
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Hah! I missed that. I used to have an outhouse as well but it burnt down. Insert you're own joke here:
I hope you weren't in it!
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It isn't too bad when you're use to it, but I have to admit in the summer when it's already hot and humid a boiling pot of water does not help matters. And bees in the outhouse, I can not, will not, refuse to get use to that. Stupid things!
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We have indoor plumbing...now...sort of.
That is to say, we have it now, but haven't always, and I'm changing all the LP appliances to electric, so the water heater doesn't work. Well it hasn't worked for about 2 years anyway. I'm taking my time I guess.
Since we heat the house with the woodstove in the winter, we also heat our water that way. It isn't too bad in the winter since I usually keep a small pot on top of the stove to keep the air from getting too dry. (Those of you who don't have a wood stove would be shocked at how it dries out the air, causing unpleasant things like chapped lips, or waking up with your eyes all crusty from tears. A simple pot of water on top really makes a difference.)
The summer is a different story. The last thing I want to do when it's 110f outside is to light a fire in the stove, and then humidify my house. That gets it hot enough in the house that all the candles melt on their own. I've taken to heating the water up outside on the BBQ grill, though that can't be done when it's raining. Soon I'll finish wiring the kitchen for 220 and the new electric stove will solve this problem. It really makes you appreciate how many pots of water go into a bathtub. - Sheesh!
Yes, the outhouse burnt down, along with the chicken coup and a storage shed. I'm happy to report that there were no people in the outhouse or chickens in the coup. (Firle will be along shortly to ask if this is related to the root cellar blowing up. I am filled with chagrin to relate that they were seperate incidents. I feel the need to point out that I was not responsible for either.)
Losing the outhouse was not a big blow, as it had been relegated to back-up status once the bathroom and indoor plumbing were added. (It's a late 1800s era farm house) We really only used it when we ran out of water. All of our water is pumped out of a well by a windmill and into a storage tank which then feeds into the house. We used to get a few weeks in July or August where the wind wouldn't blow and we'd run out of water. I've gotten better at rationing it and we don't run out anymore. Well, we did run out for a day or two last summer because I had to pull the 200' of sucker rod out of the well and replace the worn leathers at the bottom.
There were never any bees in our outhouse...maybe the odd yellow jacket nest. Trying, the thing I disliked the most as a kid about using an outhouse, that I bet you can relate to, was having to use it at night in the winter. (For those of you who have never had one: Outhouses are usually placed well away from the house to...Uhm...avoid bad smells, of course. This means that if you wake up in the middle of the night needing to use the bathroom, you have to take a walk. Early settlers kept a pot under the bed for this reason. We never did, which means we had to grab a flashlight or oil lantern and take a walk, half asleep, through the dark and cold to freeze...erm...to freeze our buns off. *grins*)
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(Those of you who don't have a wood stove would be shocked at how it dries out the air, causing unpleasant things like chapped lips, or waking up with your eyes all crusty from tears. A simple pot of water on top really makes a difference.)
We usually have water on the stove all winter so I've never noticed that. The diffrence in the heat might shock em too.
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Soon I'll finish wiring the kitchen for 220 and the new electric stove will solve this problem.
You still get the humidity though.
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Yes, the outhouse burnt down, along with the chicken coup and a storage shed. I'm happy to report that there were no people in the outhouse or chickens in the coup. (Firle will be along shortly to ask if this is related to the root cellar blowing up. I am filled with chagrin to relate that they were seperate incidents. I feel the need to point out that I was not responsible for either.)
Sounds like a couple of interesting stories.
There's a guy who keeps bees near us and we think that's where they come from. They are very annoying! Yeah, it wasn't fun wandering around at night in the cold so I trained myself not to go at night. Never used a chamberpot and don't think I'd want to, knowing my luck I'd trip while carrying it.
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