Loft bed with a normal ceiling

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Xist

Only if the tipis predated the regulations. Most things get grandfathered, but I don't know if any would last that long, and you often need to meet new standards when you remodel.

As a Brazilian, and being used to see a lot of businesses doing thing that could be considered on the borderline between legal and illegal, I guess there might be some way to circumvent that regulation. Eventually renting it as a camping ground with a tent.

[Xist]

I don't know if you can rent out rooms without a bathroom.
Could they call a group of tipis a hostel?

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Xist

I don't know if you can rent out rooms without a bathroom.

IIRC single-room occupancy still happens in some American cities.

Could they call a group of tipis a hostel?

Not sure about it. That's why I suppose the closest to fully-legal way to do so is renting it as a camping ground with a tent already mounted on.

[Xist]

Renting out rooms is different. I often didn't have my own bathroom.

I always think that my loft bed needs more diagonal bracing to make it stable, but since the legs are bowing I have planned on screwing boards at 90°. I had not thought that would provide much stability, just strength, but there must be at least some flex where I extended each corner, especially since, despite my best efforts, there is a gap. I wanted to put 2x6es or even 2x8s, but that seemed like it would get on the way on the closest corner to the door.

Then I thought about those 5" extensions again. A 2x4 might be adequate, but it would be on the wrong side of the overhang. A 2x6 would bridge the gap, but I don't know how much good half an inch or less would do.

If I put in 2x8s there would be 2.5" of overhang, which should be plenty.

However, those extensions aren't in the front right, closest to the door, they are in the front left, next to the bookcase, and the back right, against the wall.

If I screwed a 2x4 into the front corner I could screw a 2x6 in front of it and to the side of the existing leg.

That should provide far more strength than I would ever need.

2x8s should reduce flex further because, instead of each leg being just 2x4s screwed into the ends, I would have 2x8s screwed into the front and back, and those should flex far less.

Finally, bigger feet should also provide more stability.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Xist

Renting out rooms is different. I often didn't have my own bathroom.

I remember spending some days at a hotel in Pelotas, and the rooms didn't have their own bathrooms even though there was a sink on each room. Those rooms were big enough to also have a toilet and a shower instead of having to resort to shared bathrooms. Surprisingly, at the time it was opened in the early 50s, that hotel was considered the most luxurious of the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Doesn't sound like something that will heal easily. Ouchy!

I'd pictured you living in a light-filled dome, instead of a bunker.

It started out okay. An open floor-plan, white stucco interior, seventeen-foot dome, guest house, with four sources for natural side lighting, plus a large glazed cupola over top.
My library kept growing, requiring more and more shelf space, so I built a framed room inside the room, with, now, two sleeping lofts. Which brings me within close proximity to the ferro-cement, domed ceiling.
If it weren't for vivid dreams I'd be okay.
We have a mountain lion roaming the creek bottom, so destroyed digits are still preferable to light construction.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by Xist

Professor! It seems like we haven't heard from you in a long time! Aside from this injury, how are you doing?

I'm fine. My life-style is so primitive and simple, I haven't been impacted by COVID as much as others. I do want to liquidate some possessions, so an eventual lift of Covid restrictions will be welcomed.
A lot of mild weather. We have 40-acres of parkland here, and some areas have been inaccessible, so I've busied myself blazing new walking / hiking / cycling trails, and mitigating an invasive privit -hedge which is attempting to take over. And I've taken to eating acorns, for which we've had bumper yields recently.
Other projects are on hold, or creeping ahead inch by inch as I save for a pre-owned BEV.
EcoModder's kept me on my toes. Plenty of challenges. And that's okay, as it's a very good time for folks to understand aerodynamics.

[Piotrsko]

What preprocessing are you doing to the acorns? I understand they are bitter in some species.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

What preprocessing are you doing to the acorns? I understand they are bitter in some species.

On 'Duel Survivor,' Cody Lundin had demonstrated a single water soaking to remove tannins. Going by water discoloration, I found two trips into water mitigated all 'tea.'
Raw, or lightly roasted, I enjoy 'em. And they didn't travel 3,000-miles to get here.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

I didn't know acorns were actually suitable for human consumption, even though it's usual to feed pigs of a specific breed with it in Spain and Portugal.