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RE: Lava Rock House - kani-lehua - 05-13-2008
quote:
Originally posted by gtill
Would be a good niche market for some lot owners! I bet outer islands would pay well for it!
clarification as requested.
malia paha o lohe aku
perhaps they will hear
RE: Lava Rock House - kani-lehua - 05-13-2008
quote:
Originally posted by kani-lehua
quote:
Originally posted by gtill
Would be a good niche market for some lot owners! I bet outer islands would pay well for it!
clarification as requested. please keep your lava on your island.
malia paha o lohe aku
perhaps they will hear
malia paha o lohe aku
perhaps they will hear
RE: Lava Rock House - gtill - 05-30-2008
Kani Lehua, consider all the cinder red and black on Oahu is from BI, it's been shipped since 72, along with some clinker etc.
No disrespect, but the taking rocks off isle is for tourists or anyone who would take from the volcano park. Or sand from beaches etc!
But if you could sell a big patch of thin lava in a reasemblable pile, more power to you. Better than food stamps.
RE: Lava Rock House - kani-lehua - 05-31-2008
sorry, but i don't agree gt. when i was a youngster growing up in 'ewa beach, o'ahu, my neighbors took lava rock from the biggest island and experienced bad luck. coincidental? i dunno? anywho, their business went belly up; their dog died; their house was broken into and then it was set on fire. well, i guess they could have been called, "tourists" as they didn't actually reside on your island. they eventually moved and returned the rocks.
i'm pretty sure that both my houses in kapolei and kailua, o'ahu do not have any type of cinder or lava rock. i dunno? what are the quarrys (spelling) producing here on o'ahu? and the rocks for walls? where do those rocks come from? please, do tell.
never heard of the sand superstition?
food stamps? me? nope. if i could qualify, maybe i'd apply with the prices these days. i'd rather join the gardeners' co-op that a lot of you are going to be a part of. [
]just call me superstitious. i'm the biggest fraidy cat![:I]
malia paha o lohe aku
perhaps they will hear
RE: Lava Rock House - kani-lehua - 06-01-2008
"There are rock walls everywhere, and I cannot see any difference between rock walls around a house and rock veneer or a rock fireplace -- all built with lava rock!"
please explain why you emphasize, "all built with lava!"?
the superstition has to do with the removal of lava rock (s) from the island and transporting/exporting it/them to another place other than that particular island.
malia paha o lohe aku
perhaps they will hear
RE: Lava Rock House - Guest - 06-01-2008
"For taking care of returning your lava rock, a voluntary donation of $15.00 (or whatever you can afford, no matter how small) would be appreciated, to cover our cost for transportation, gas, ti leaf, and orchid, to return your lava rocks. If you can't afford to make a donation, don't worry about it...you may still send us your lava rocks. We will still be happy to take care of returning them for you!"
$15.00 bucks to throw away a piece of Lava rock.... sign me up has head "hurler". [
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Lower your expectations and be ready for anything.
RE: Lava Rock House - leilaniloo - 06-02-2008
I took black sand off the island, a cup full, on my birthday. i was going to make a glaze for potter
y out of it as I heard that the sand makes a cool effect. One year almost to the day I was in a serious accident. I never did use the sand and will return it next time I am on the island.
Jane
RE: Lava Rock House - topograph - 06-04-2008
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There is very little new const of buildings with lava rock, although the material is readily available in Puna, the labor is $$$$ and there are problems with uniformity of the material & construction for earthquakes for code work. Many of the total failures in structures in the Oct. '06 earthquake were older lava rock constructions. Many of those structures are still awaiting repairs.
I would assume that the older structures were build "pre-code"; When you say "very little", does that mean there is some, but just in high end houses? And since I know there are some unpermitted structures out there, do you know of any that were built of stone?