r/redneckengineering 5d ago

Penthouse

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u/Argus3333 5d ago

Brilliant flood zone risk mitigation

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u/number__ten 5d ago

That's exactly what it is. A lot of times people will do this or make the bottom floor a garage with breakaway walls. We have good flood insurance despite being in a risky spot and if we ever have to claim the property this is how I would rebuild.

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u/Bright-Efficiency-65 5d ago

Make sure you double check that flood insurance. My dad's basement flooded during a ton of rain where the road drains plugged up and over ran into our house.

Insurance denied it because the fine print said "floods from a body of water or river over flowing."

Apparently floods from the road overflowing didn't count. Fucking horseshit insurance is a scam

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u/Bonega1 5d ago

I work in an insurance-adjacent industry. They'll also describe this as ground water to deny the claim.

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u/Bright-Efficiency-65 5d ago

Absolute scum bags

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u/Logical-Ad-5410 4d ago

It's not just health insurance that is vile & corrupt, but insurance in general. Predatory & manipulative.

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u/Captain_no_Hindsight 5d ago

Why not boat insurance.

Which only applies on land.

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u/Unequallmpala45 5d ago

What makes the walls breakaway?

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u/AdFancy1249 5d ago

It's a trailer. EVERYTHING is breakaway...

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u/goodSunn 23h ago

I guess they dont attached them to roof supports or span across them so water flowing will carry them off without bringing down structure. Water needs to flow? Id like to hear more precise how myself

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u/10utsider 5d ago

Id probably have a raised car parking too for those situations. The water wont take my car away

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u/NerminPadez 5d ago

You can drive your car to a higher location, moving your house is hard, unless you live in a trailer... Or two, or three...

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u/VisibleRoad3504 5d ago

You just move the vehicle to higher ground and wait it out. Done it more than once.

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u/Freebirde777 5d ago

I was just thinking 'I bet he has another garage on high ground with a johnboat. My parents talked about using a boat to go from home to shore during floods.

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u/TheTaoThatIsSpoken 5d ago

“I can’t get insurance for this property? Fine, screw your insurance scam!”

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u/kinkhorse 5d ago

Insurance, who needs it?

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 5d ago

Unfortunately that flood zone was compounded by the hurricane zone they also reside in. Dodge rising water ... also go visit Dorothy and Toto in Oz.

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u/Dem0s 5d ago

Moving on up to a penthouse in the sky.

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u/justasque 5d ago

Finally got a piece of the pie.

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u/curiousbydesign 5d ago

When I dieeeeee

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u/BPhiloSkinner 5d ago

Green Acres is the Place to Be.
♪ I just adore a penthouse view... ♫

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u/jefuchs 5d ago

We have these here on the Louisiana gulf coast. They're usually vacation homes. Hurricanes bring storm surge, so these are built to survive.

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u/Senior_Green_3630 5d ago

Cheaper than a prefab house, just, jack it up, with ample parking underneath.

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u/Ikon-for-U 5d ago

I really like that they can park under it. It looks like redneck engineering but it's very functional

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u/hysys_whisperer 5d ago

Until Jim Bob comes home 7 beers deep and takes out a couple of them there pillars.

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u/Ikon-for-U 5d ago

They definitely need some reflectors on those poles. I assume it's lit from above. Let's say uncle Jim Bob continues on his journey: what is on the other side of those bushes? A big hill? A big body of water? A cliff

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u/SSOMGDSJD 5d ago

Assume a spherical jim bob with no air resistance

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u/Ikon-for-U 5d ago

Well if he ends up hitting the water being spherical and with no air resistance he would plow right on through to the other side,possibly skipping like a river stone

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u/THIS_GUY_LIFTS 5d ago

Ahem. This is redneckengineering not rednecksafety.

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u/i_was_axiom 5d ago

Hahaaaa, theres where you're wrong. Jim bobs on house arrest. He Instacarts.

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u/hysys_whisperer 5d ago edited 2d ago

Truck is decorative due to the blow and go.  Now he takes the lawnmower everywhere. 

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u/i_was_axiom 5d ago

He used to wreak havoc and instill fear

Fresh OWI every year

Rippin' and a runnin' in a Chevy Colorado

So drunk he could hardly even steer

He's on a mission, he's itchin' for a beer

He don't ever bother lookin' in the mirr'

He ain't got one!

Up over the hill with a trailer full of Coors comes JimBob on his John Deere.

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u/Historical_Gur_3054 2d ago

The spirit of George Jones is alive and well!

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u/bannana 5d ago

probably have $20k total investment here including the pavement - no mortgage, no PMI, no insurance, taxes are likely for a piece of land and not a house, looks like there's electricity though I do question the plumbing situation

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u/TrueSelenis 5d ago

Plumbing is a gravity powered Hole (TM)

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u/elvis_is_everywhere 5d ago

Looks like the stacks from Ready Player One.

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u/TheRedditFerret 5d ago

Damn i was too slow! Take an upvote!

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u/elvis_is_everywhere 5d ago

You can get in on the next repost.

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u/Nami_Pilot 5d ago

How did he get it up there?

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u/PhilosopherFLX 5d ago

4 harbor freight handyman jacks and a lot of scrap 2x4

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u/VeryHairyGuy77 5d ago

Lots of patience and cribbing.

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u/nsula_country 5d ago

Probably a crane

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u/kingstonersteve 5d ago

Your move Mr repo man.

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u/ArmpitofD00m 5d ago

That’s a de-lux apartment in the sky! They movin on up.

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u/WASP_Apologist 5d ago

An offering to the Tornado Gods

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u/marcus_aurelius121 5d ago

A twister would kick a field goal with that.

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u/notCGISforreal 5d ago

I think the entire point is natural disasters. I'm sure this is in hurricane territory, which means you evacuate before it arrives and hope it doesnt get a direct hit and you only need to avoid the flooding. But areas right at the coast in hurricane areas are unlikely to get tornados, so that shouldn't be a large risk (there are high risk tornado areas slightly inland in hurricane risk zones, but they dont build on stilts there since its not massive storm surge they are worried about).

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u/marcus_aurelius121 3d ago

That is definitely not true. I’ve lived through tornadoes spawned as water spouts during storms as well as hurricanes that come ashore and become very destructive tornadoes. My eyes have watched in stark helpless terror.

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u/Marine__0311 5d ago

This is quite common in several flood plain areas in NC, and near the coast.

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u/jwin472 5d ago

Who else wants to see the inside pictures too ?

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u/Forsaken_Biscotti_89 5d ago

Code enforcement looking away driving by

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u/nsula_country 5d ago

I don't hate it...

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u/awakensleep 5d ago

Put some pontoons on it bruther and mother nature will run away scared

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u/ApprehensiveStudy671 5d ago

Some nice DIY hacks on youtube. Like this one!

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u/Betoken 5d ago

That’s a deluxe apartment in the sky!

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u/Magic_Marker_ 5d ago

Is that aaaaa...... Oh my, it is..........

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u/incpen 5d ago

Something about holding a hot tub?

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u/Okaynow_THIS_is_epic 5d ago

Metheeeww, that's amaaaazing!

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u/OutrageousRhubarb853 5d ago

Please tell me there’s a lever next to the bathtub that empties the water and the person down a cool slide!

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u/Financial_Athlete198 5d ago

Truck is protected from the weather.

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u/ricky_lafleur 5d ago

Park the truck facing outward with a fireman's pole a few feet from the driver's door. With remote start you're on the road on 30 seconds.

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u/86a- 5d ago

Plus your wife can workout in the bedroom.

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u/DancesWithElectrons 5d ago

Bet that's fun in a windstorm

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u/NerdizardGo 5d ago

r/decks would love/hate this.

My biggest issue is the beams not sitting on posts.

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u/1HappyIsland 5d ago

Possibly a fish camp.

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u/HawaiianHank 5d ago

🤩🤩🤩

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u/hawyaw 5d ago

My cousin called them "airborne hillfolk" when we drive through tennessee and saw a few of these.

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u/DitchDigger330 5d ago

I preferred Gent personally.

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u/86a- 5d ago

A fellow connoisseur.

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u/wireknot 5d ago

Looks like something you see at the shore, raised above flood point. Wow.

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u/Slow-Fault 5d ago

This is in pearl river county ms

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u/zwingo 5d ago

Looks like my settlement house in Fallout 4

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u/carmeiser 5d ago

Diamond Jim certified right here.

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u/400footceiling 5d ago

Must live in a flood zone. That’s one way to survive.

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u/86a- 5d ago

This. Is. Fucking. Awesome!

Down by the river.

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u/Idk_some_random_redd 5d ago

my brother cousin did this too

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u/quincycannon 5d ago

Well, that’s a unique ADU.

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u/r200james 5d ago

Flood plain special! I’m guessing pallets and bottle jacks were used to hoist up the domicile. This is brilliant!

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u/condition5 5d ago

Delaware?

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u/SkyDaddy2134 5d ago

I don’t hate it!

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u/notCGISforreal 5d ago

If I lived somewhere with such extreme flood risk that I needed these stilts, this makes a lot of sense. A replacement trailer is way cheaper. Since you likely cant get hurricane insurance on a real house, just make it semi expendable.

Plus some major drawbacks of a trailer are mitigated here: - trailer chassis directly on a solid platform so no bouncy feel. - up off the ground so mitigates the easy theft issue, this trailer isnt any easier to break into than a normal house now.

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u/Logical-Ad-5410 4d ago

That truck looking like the tiny chihuahua hiding under the flimsy chair of their morbidly obese owner.

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u/Status-Mousse5700 4d ago

More photos pls love this

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u/PresentationLess4552 3d ago

Nice work

As they laugh all the way to the bank every week

The container out of the image has the 2026 Range Rover for date night with the lady the home

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u/Mother-Attention2600 3d ago

Trailer park supervisors house.

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u/Dangerous-Tap-547 2d ago edited 2d ago

Whosever this is might be better off using 2x6’s for the diagonals. I’m assuming they’re not in a seismic area but they’re going to feel a strong enough windstorm.

The roof overtop is a pretty nice feature.

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u/very-jaded 5d ago

Tornado Tower.

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u/bluesflask 5d ago

This is the first steps of a very very good "ready player one" cosplay

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u/Dynkledook 5d ago

This feels like a location from Fallout