taal
Senior Member
I love the brick colour ! Nicer then all black (which is so popular now a days).
yawn
How the firebreak & soundproofing between units? The whole thing is made of 2 x4s with a bit of drywall on them?
I understand there's code and all, but realistically speaking a 2x4 structure would be all engulfed, no?
A friend of mine lives in the other Popper lofthaus just west on Colgate. It was constructed in the same fashion and sound has never been an issue.
I can only imagine what the soundproofing is like between the units.
OK! Another take, here:
http://www.greaterfool.ca/2013/01/07/numbies/
I’m at the end of my wits and hope you can offer a solution.
I bought a new condo (12 unit building) last August and put the for sale sign up three weeks later. The condo was advertised with concrete floors and party wall adjoining the bedroom. I cannot sleep in either of the 2 bedrooms due to footstep noise, snoring, bed creaking. Each footstep reverberates—the force depending upon who is walking. I cannot tolerate this and want to sell – but the builder slashed the remaining 3 units price to $269,000 and I paid $312,000.
So it's not awful; but, it does look rather like a late 70s' dentist office.
Its pretty bad. I've poked around many under construction condo sites. It's terrible.Nice to see red brick but overall I find the lines to be rather severe and spartan. Could have done with a bit more ornamentation somehow - perhaps some variegation in the brick colouring.
Whenever I see the bones of these things going up, I shudder to think of how long they'll last before problems start showing up. Everything looks so cheap and insubstantial. Building codes seem to be a bit of a joke - at least compared to a century ago. Just doesn't look anywhere near as robust. Throw it up quick, wrap it in a half-decent skin and walk away - and people still pay good coin for it.
I can only imagine what the soundproofing is like between the units.