A guy did that with a water tower. There is a show on the Home and Garden channel that is all about interesting places people have built homes, and they had a segment on it. It sounded like it had turned out very nice.
My husband has a dream of buying a missile silo and living in it. I keep asking him who is going to clean all that space. he knows how big they are, I just remember that it is multiple thousands of square footage. all underground. Jennifer ----- Original Message ----- From: Max Robinson To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] going underground In my youth I had this fantasy of buying an old water tower and building a dwelling in the tank at the top of the tower. Nice place for ham radio, broadcast radio and TV reception. This was long before anyone had thought of cable TV. Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "robert moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 10:12 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] going underground >I did see on TV one time a story of a lady that got ahold of a fuselage >from > a commercial airliner such as a 747 or the like and she built a home > inside > of that. I think that would be a cool home. > My wife and I have always dreamed of buying a farm with an old barn that > is > still in good condition and turning the loft into a home and using the > bottom of the barn as a shop/garage/storage. > If I had the money I think I would actually go for it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Lee A. Stone > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 11:34 PM > To: Blind Handyman > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] going underground > > > spiro, either one or more of you on this list must have an idea or > dream which you never followed up on a blind handman project. well many > years ago when I still had sight . I remember these precast very very > big concrete pipes like that run under major highways. and as you can > figure out there is a local cement place which estimates that they have > about 100 years of limestone left , and limestone is the major product > of cement. I have always though since I saw an underground home of > having enough money to either tunnel underground and have several > sections of this pipe which I think is either 30 or 40 feet llong and > plenty tall enough for a grown man to stand inside and reach up and not > be able to touch the top of this pipe . Now imagine . wood framing a > home inside that pipe. squaring it off , yet saving plenty of room for > air flow or room to run water , gas and or electric in those places > which the wood does not touch. I know, I am a dreamer but many famous > inventors were dreamers too. Many years ago I was inside such an > underground home whereas two of these big pipes were laid on a side > hill on an angle , braced up and then burried in gravel and dirt/ > topsoil. imagine again if you would , mowing your roof or just growing > some sort of crown vetch on the roof. . so, no more dreaming tonight > but there are a few facts which I had when thinking of tunneling out > the back of my house. and it would be an awesome blind handyman-womans > project. 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