Get Wood Info and Check Out A Neighborhood
A Site You ‘Wood’ Want To Visit: Wood has long been the material of choice for residential construction and now the Wood Products Council has an initiative underway to support architects, engineers and contractors who want to use wood in non-residential buildings. The program is currently available in California, Georgia and the Carolinas and will be available this spring in Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin. There will be free educational events, support hotlines and expert field staff all to supply tech support on such diverse topics as building code issues and cost efficiency.
But for those of you in other places you should know that this council has a very handy website too with a lot of information and links about building with wood. You can get CAD drawings, see impressive wood designs, and use span tables, calculators and design software. There are a number of publications available for download too. If you work with, and like working with wood, this site will capture your interest for at least awhile.
What ‘Would’ You Think If You Were Listed Here: If you are considering moving into a neighborhood and want to find out something about your potential neighbors, well, little brother is watching. You can search the address in a nationwide database called RottenNeighbor and find out ahead of time if the guy next door has barking dogs or offensive habits. There are also posts on some great neighbors too, but generally this site reads like a who’s who of all the neighbors you wouldn’t want to have. I checked out a few and it seems that some of the people who report others may have similar traits.
- One poster wrote: The people who live here is lazy and stupid.
- Various Comments in One Neighborhood: Evil boy; Wow; Loud and Abusive;TV Light;Great Neighbors; Nosey Neighbors.
- In Another Neighborhood: 3 Barking Dogs; OK; Neighborhood gossip.
You can put specific addresses in a search form, or you can browse by city on a satellite map that has little red and yellow houses on it. It’s all interesting for a little while but you have to wonder just how valuable it is. Once all the feuding neighbors turn each other in for all the real, imagined and made-up offensiveness, who’s going to want to move there? I guess they’ll all end up just stuck with themselves.
