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I’m not talking tiles as much as sections that are thick enough to be self-supporting.

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You can get large pre-cast slabs of terrazzo. Like 30″ x 30″ or 36″ x 36″. Could you put down a soundproof cork underlayment and just lay the things on top of it, using a thin layer of semiflexible epoxy at the meeting edges?

Cement terazzo is strong enough for use in stair risers, so cracking should not be an issue.

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Grout. Sealant.

This is why ground floor units rock, BTW. No whiney turds on the HOA board telling you what to put on the floor.

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Frankly, I’d go porcelain tile if I had the choice. Relatively inexpensive, easy to clean, hypoallergenic, and looks good. If I needed soundproofing, I’d put the substrate over an acoustic underlayment.

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Parking in San Diego is a cakewalk as compared to most similarly-sized US cities. OMG, you might have to walk a block after finding a spot!

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Get whatever you like that satisfies the minimal letter of the law. If the neighbors choose to live in attached housing, they can’t be prissy-poos and expect perfect silence 24/7.

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I’ve never stayed in a hotel that had that (last two I stayed in had a bathroom in the hallway). Maybe I’m not staying in the right places 🙂

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OK, but right now, the plants don’t exist. Also, the plants take energy to run. Unless it’s coming from clean sources (renewable/nuclear/hydro), the water coming from them is environmentally expensive. Note that California is too ‘fraidy-cat to build more, modern nuclear power plants.

Funny you should mention salt water showers — quite a few old hotels at the Jersey Shore had salt water taps in their tubs, since bathing in sea water was considered healthy.

But practically, not everyone wants salt drying on their skin, and I suspect that seawater would also be hell on valves and copper pipes.

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Exactly. The HOA can choose what to retain or what to delete, and presumably, footage gets auto-overwritten after a certain looping time.

Whereas if it were uploaded to a clown (‘scuse me, cloud) surveillance service, the HOA wouldn’t have that choice.

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Personally, I’m for the right to guzzle. Get rid of CAFE rules, water saver rules, etc. But also tax the living heck out of limited resources so there are other economic incentives to conserve.

This is the minimally bureaucratic and intrusive way to enforce conservation.

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I’d use the caveat (for your own protection) that you’d want to record video either locally or to your own server. Meaning if there’s something incriminating or uncomfortable for you (say evidence of code issues), you can pull a Hillary.

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Where did cameras come into this discussion?

If you want outdoor cameras, fine. If you want cameras on indoor light fixtures in your rentals, screw you. What you’re proposing is likely illegal, with good reason. If you install something like that, you deserve to be slapped with a large lawsuit, if not jailed.

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Problem is that if it takes more flushes, or it takes longer to wash the shampoo from your hair, it doesn’t save anything.

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Do they mean 2.56 gallons per flush, since you need to flush twice for them to work?

Solution: get the cheapest low-flush terlit possible, then replace it with the real thing afterwards 🙂 Maybe there could be money in a toilet rental service. $100 flat fee for delivery, temp installation, and replacement of low-flush bogs.

BTW, what’s up with the 1.28 number? Was some legislator a coder in a past life?

Edit: it looks like the inspection requirement is already in effect since 2014.

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^^^

One can game vote-trading sites, too. Get on there, lie, then vote however you like.

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