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How to build your home from scratch for $35,000
CNN Tech ^
| August 1, 2013
| Arion McNicoll, for CNN
Posted on 08/02/2013 11:34:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I've been reading up on straw bale construction. Anyone know anything about that? Much more appropriate for dry climates, challenging to make work in wet or even humid ones. Not impossible, but challenging.
To: lewislynn
I haven't read the article, but questions such as your’s comes to mind.
It seems to me that the exterior of the house ( the wall's building materials) would be a rather minimal cost. The real cost comes from all the stuff that goes underneath, on top, and ( especially) **inside**.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rots from any moisture. Read three little pigs again.
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posted on
08/03/2013 3:11:48 AM PDT
by
amihow
To: 2ndDivisionVet
A few people doing it in the Southwest where rainfall is low. Straw bales are stacked and covered in a cement coating like stucco. Excellent insulation and low price but I wonder how it would work in the Midwest rains.
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posted on
08/03/2013 3:21:08 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
To: RegulatorCountry
Righto.
Far and away the biggest challenge with straw bale construction is controlling moisture intrusion: rain, sub-surface and surface water, humidity. Even have to give some consideration to the possibility of springing a plumbing leak.
Basically, if the bales get really wet, your house is toast. Block or frame construction homes can be dried, if caught and reacted to quickly enough.
To: Don W
Thanx for the link.Very impressive structure.Tom
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posted on
08/03/2013 3:57:30 AM PDT
by
Thombo2
To: Sherman Logan
Don’t forget to pesticide the straw.
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posted on
08/03/2013 4:16:58 AM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
In Maryland it requires a building permit.
Rot’s O’ Ruck getting that.
Inspectors come around, building codes get in the way.
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posted on
08/03/2013 4:34:59 AM PDT
by
Venturer
( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
How to build your home from scratch for $35,000 Versatile stuff that scratch. I hear you can make biscuits from it too.
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posted on
08/03/2013 4:44:54 AM PDT
by
tbpiper
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
08/03/2013 5:18:32 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: scripter
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posted on
08/03/2013 5:20:45 AM PDT
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mother Earth News comes to the Internet
Hand crafted adobe walls with adequate thickness outlast hay bales. If the house is dug into the side of a south facing hill and provided with a coated insulated glass south facing wall, it will be warmed (and cooled) by the ground and the sun.
Mother Earth News circa 1972
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posted on
08/03/2013 5:25:27 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
To: KGeorge
I wonder if he is a first cousin to the Pioneer Woman.
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posted on
08/03/2013 5:34:24 AM PDT
by
Rannug
("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Don’t let the hay get wet.
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posted on
08/03/2013 5:36:38 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
To: beaversmom
I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house in!
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posted on
08/03/2013 5:40:43 AM PDT
by
rabidralph
(Gray State Movie)
To: GeronL
There you go...container house. Huge industry for that now. And, gracious plenty containers in the USA right now just languishing unused
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posted on
08/03/2013 5:42:19 AM PDT
by
moovova
(Sell everything, folks. Be poised to run.)
To: GeronL
You’d need one heck of an A/C down here in Texas for that. If not it would be like living in an oven.
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posted on
08/03/2013 5:56:23 AM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
(I have a copy of the Constitution! And I'm not afraid to use it!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
08/03/2013 6:03:01 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: GeronL
That's what I live in right now. But then again I am in Afghanistan. Would not recommend it on a permanent basis.
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posted on
08/03/2013 6:03:14 AM PDT
by
D Rider
To: D Rider
Cast concrete or some other material, igloo style.
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posted on
08/03/2013 6:07:02 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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