[ross_poldark]

This reminds me of a 1945 song with the stanza, "We'll settle down near Dallas, in a little plastic palace; Oh it's not as crazy as you think."

[Professional Engineer]

PING

[blackdog]

Doug Dykman? He must be very frustrated.

[muawiyah]

Just another effort by Dallas to keep out the riff-raff.

Never worked before. Won't work now.

[blackdog]

Frank Lloyd Wright had some very cool prefabs in the early 1900's. They were comprised of concrete panels with overlapping joints, a slab floor, and a single concrete formed roof which captured the upright outer walls, holding the whole shabang tight. My parents sold the one they had in 1964 for $12,000. Today it sells for a few hundred grand. That was before Wright was rediscovered.

Construction estimates based on today's costs excluding the land it's built on, would be around $30,000 complete if reproductions were tooled up for with new forms and molds. That's with wiring, plumbing, kitchen, and garage too. The homes are hurricane proof and almost double as bomb shelters since the walls are 12" thick reinforced concrete.

Traditional housing construction in America is about to go thru a renaisance. Those old concrete homes of Wright's are going to be standing tall a thousand years from now. I think stone and brick as actual structure and not just facing is going to return. Match stick housing is a joke.

[bayourod]

There must not be any prefab manufacturing companies in Dallas. Probably all in Houston.

Won't survive an ACLU suit.

[GretchenM]

Well, snooty-snoot-snoot to them.

Where I live, the rich get ahold of a chunk of land that is so expensive the hobbledehoy couldn't afford a lot there. Then they build their mansions and don't have to worry about zoning out the, you know, filthy little commoners.