Uh, no thanks.
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Uh, no thanks.
Cool pictures!
BFL
The local Menards by me still does, as does the Big R.
The house built between 2 boulders is amazing.
We have a 40 ft sailboat that I stay on for weeks at a time. I have to show non boaters how to use the head. Ours is a manual hand pump. Don’t flush the tp since we only have a 25 gallon tank and it’ll fill up pretty fast. It’s a small space so if you have to do #2 please walk up to the facilities. I took the shower out so we use the ones in the facility. Don’t drink the water that comes out of the faucet. I use sweetener but it stays in the tank too long. It’s probably ok but I keep bottled water on board and there’s a faucet right outside that I fill a gallon jug up with for coffee and to cook with. The cooktop and oven are electric and we’re hooked up so no problem there.
I could live on our boat even with that. You just get used to it. Lol
When we were anchored out we’d use the marine bbq to cook with and a solar shower in the cockpit. You just figure easy ways around stuff.
The floating house I rented was off to itself in a cove some distance away from any marina, anchored more or less permanently in place with an attached floating dock for the boat you use to get back and forth. The marina has a specialized boat with a crew that comes out, pumps the gray and black tanks, fills the freshwater tank, fills the propane tank, checks the anchors and adjusts them if the water level has fluctuated (and it does, sometimes majorly, in Tennessee Valley Authority lakes). Some of the floating houses had rainwater catchment systems or water filtration and purification systems using lake water. They all had solar panels. It’d get old having to be in the weather for a half hour every time you wanted to go anywhere or just to go get groceries, I’d think. But, for a week it was very pleasant.
>>What’s driving it, or at least what’s driving it on the east coast, is the TVA threatening to ban floating houses on TVA lakes,
I’ve seen some of the squidbilly ca-ca that’s at the root of the threats, and they should be banning many of them.
So THIS is what it is like between the rock and the hard place!
Stick built homes, modular homes, manufactured homes, Park (rv) homes all have different building codes.
There are some contraptions at the lower end marinas, true. But, there are some very nice floating houses too, usually away from marinas.
Our friends have a lake house up on Blue Ridge Lake in the North Georgia mountains. Lake houses up there are in general pretty serious. Here is one of the more serious ones I took a picture of when we did a Fall pontoon party barge excursion:
Coexisting with the lake homeowners are the real-life Squidbillies, who have these floating houseboat / barge / dock structure things:
These guys moor in coves / areas that abut to parkland, where there aren't houses. There is a certain amount of friction between the homeowners on the lake, who get taxed pretty heavily, and the Squidbillies, who are living on the lake (at least in Summer), but pay no property taxes. They leave these contraptions there year round. The lake gets lowered to unusability for boating in Winter for water / watershed management, and the Squidbillie shacks just rest on the ground until the lake comes back up.
I'd really like to ask the Squidbillies creators if they somewhat based the show on this phenomenon. I think it quite likely, they are from around here. This lake is <2hrs from my house.
At the risk of sounding contrary those less than scenic ad hoc houseboats predate the influx of fancy lake houses by many decades. Who is responsible for a lack of due diligence regarding potential preexisting nuisances on the lake? Reminds me of northerners and city people building houses next to cow pastures then complaining about the smell and trying to shut the farmer down, frankly.
Can you really imagine someone seeing two gigantic boulders and saying, “There! That’s where I want to build a house!” How did someone ever come up with that idea?
I’ve seen those!!!
I don’t know you, but I’m so damn’ jealous right now ....
I don’t blame you. I hate to go home every single time I have to. If it was up to me we’d be living on a big azz boat. I just can’t talk hubby into it. So I spend about half my time there. Usually alone. It’s quite a different lifestyle. We have dock parties and you usually hear the neighbors talking about toilets (they just put a better one in) or what kind of varnish they use that keeps their rails so pretty. I just finished retiling all the countertops in the galley and salon and everyone wanted to come see. Lol. I think I keep thinking of projects to do just so I can spend more time there. Lol
It’s very unusual that’s for sure. Certainly would be a sturdy set-up!
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