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Sunny lives in an exclusive area!! Mansion right next door!!!!
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Larry (IL)
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Houses incoporating airplane canopies left over from the Comox Airbase as windows and skylights. Sod houses with goats trimming the grass on the roof. One house was made completely of salvaged driftwood from the beach and the roof was made of shingles cut out of old tires, the hippy who lived there figured his roof was good for 50 years or 50,000 miles whichever came first.
There's a guy selling houses in Panama that are made out of recycled reefer containers (cold storage not ganja), two containers stacked at right angles to each other make a pretty cool house and it's already insulated and air-conditioned.
Where human ingenuity comes into the picture you never know what your going to get.
Cheers,
BDA
Did I ever mention that I'm a 3rd generation builder, so this stuff I always find interesting.
There's a guy selling houses in Panama that are made out of recycled reefer containers (cold storage not ganja), two containers stacked at right angles to each other make a pretty cool house and it's already insulated and air-conditioned.Where human ingenuity comes into the picture you never know what your going to get.
Cheers,
BDA
Did I ever mention that I'm a 3rd generation builder, so this stuff I always find interesting.
Larry (IL)
Well-known member
But the one in the middle is a houseboat if the great flood comes again. Heck, they even have a fish pond in the front yard. Fishing hole? Swimming pool?
[quote Royal]many years ago and I have no idea where that was built of stacked cord wood. Well it was short logs as the wood was not split. It was a good sized house too. They must have chinked it with mortar or mud. It was a dumpy looking place as I remember it[/quote]
That's a cordwood house, Royal. A very old design, right up there with the sod house. It makes a mean little shelter but it will get you through a couple of winters until you can build a real log house. I have seen 2 cordwood houses that were really well done but the big problem is with the wood shrinking over time and they get drafty unless you constantly rechink them. On the plus side, if you can stack wood and sling clay you can make one of these houses.
Cheers,
BDA
That's a cordwood house, Royal. A very old design, right up there with the sod house. It makes a mean little shelter but it will get you through a couple of winters until you can build a real log house. I have seen 2 cordwood houses that were really well done but the big problem is with the wood shrinking over time and they get drafty unless you constantly rechink them. On the plus side, if you can stack wood and sling clay you can make one of these houses.
Cheers,
BDA
