Check out this mansion...

[DR STRANGELOVE]

COPIED AND PASTED



They started building this thing in Central New Jersey and just stopped building it after it was half-completed. Nobody knows why construction suddenly halted as it was half-way done being built, but according to the rumors, an owner of a chain pizza shop bought the house and went bankrupt as construction was occurring. Another rumor is that a construction company built this mansion, but then thought nobody would buy it, so they suddenly halted it's construction (I have a hard time believing that, though. I'm sure they could have found an owner). Anyways, I am hoping to check out this mansion in person in a few weeks. I have friends who live within ~10 minutes of this town, so I am going to meet up with them and go looking for it. This is the most gorgeous mansion I've ever seen.


P.S. Supposedly it's been sitting like this for several years. Incredible.

 

[DR STRANGELOVE]

 

[DR STRANGELOVE]

ATTN RAZ

The house you are looking at is around 6,000 square feet. It appears larger from the rear elevation because of the grading and the garages underneath. The garage doors are fuggin cheap, not even cedar.

That home seems to have cheap common brick, no stonework at all, dryvit on the rear elevation to save money, etc...

Cheap ass 3 tab shingles, didn't even use slate or wood shakes.

The windows look cheap also.

I can't believe they don't even use conduit for the electrical.

Are those duplex boxes Plastic?

Don't they follow NEC in New Jersey.

Front door is a cheap ass prefab unit. Not even custom with Baldwin hardware.

In that 2nd pic, notice the stairs. They are Carpenter built, not Custom that are made offsite.

Cheap ass Insulation, not blown in.

Look how they capped of the Chimneys in the bottom pic, cheapest way possible.

Look at the landing in pic 3, it appears to be OSB.

All that house has going is SIZE, nothing more.

It looks like some wanna be builder was building that house for Tony Soprano.



:shrug:

 

[freelancc]

maybe headquarters for Madjack's enterprises..

 

[Gamers Inc.]

What town is the house in?

 

[DR STRANGELOVE]

The house is in Colts Neck, NJ

IMHO this is a mansion

the son of the owner is a member of a car forum that I'm a part of. It seems that dad was the first retailer to sell a motorola cellular phone when everyone else thought that the idea of a cellular phone was stupid

:thefinger

 

[DR STRANGELOVE]

the son of the owner is a member of a car forum that I'm a part of. It seems that dad was the first retailer to sell a motorola cellular phone when everyone else thought that the idea of a cellular phone was stupid

 

[Captain Crunch]

Doc, along with doing mostlly concrete work in our business, my parents developed some property about 15 years ago and we got into a little home building by accident to get the sub-divisioin moving along. Thought I would address some of your concerns with that house shown.

First, without knowing the restrictions of the subdivision, it is hard to comment on the type of materials they might have been required to use for the exterior or what the homeowner (if there was one) wanted to use to either satisfy their tastes or save money. By the looks of the way the house was left, there had to have been some financial issues involved as no builder would quit on a house after they had started sheetrocking it. Hell, they are on the downhill slide now.

-conduit is not required for the interior of the house and plastic boxes are acceptable to use
-the front door is still probably the "construction" door that the lumber company that supplies the trim uses until just before the house is completed so a high dollar permanent one won't be damaged during the course of construction
-it would be virtually impossible to make a stairway for that area of the house offsite. Our capenters make everyone of our staircases in place.
-the only insulation that we have blown in is for the attic after the sheetrock is in. There are methods that blow it in behind the sheetrock in walls, but it contains moisture and fuhks the sheetrock up after a while when it starts to absorb the moisture from the insulation. The method that they are using is the way all of the houses around here are built.
-not sure how they do things in Jersey, but nobody uses cedar garage doors around here. Some are wood and some are metal and some are insulated and some aren't. I'm sure cedar is more readily available in Canada and maybe that is what you are used to seeing. I guess people around here could get a cedar one, but it would be very expensive IMO. MY sister has a cedar and stone exterior home and they took cedar lap siding and applied it to a regular wood garage door to match the rest of the house

I'm not stating this to be disrespectful as it is apparent that the construction methods used on this house are not the same as where you live. To many unknowns just by looking at the pictures. I'm sure somebodies hands are tied beings this house has been sitting for over two years. Another unknown.

Good Luck