You may want to fumigate the Chinese shipping crates before using to get rid of possible pests...
Also, check out "papercrete" and "padobe", "rammed earth" and "cob". Lots of interesting ways to build a house, depending on where you want to live, and some are very cheap but labor intensive. Check out: http://www.northcoast.com/~tms/cheap.html http://www.livinginpaper.com/index.htm http://axwoodfarm.com/house/index.php?inc=5 How about this? (from the first link above) Travel-Trailer Homesteading Under $5,000 by Brian Kelling. UPDATED and reprinted 8/1999. Tired of paying rent? Need privacy away from nosy neighbors? This book will show how a modest financial investment can enable you to place a travel-trailer or other RV on a suitable piece of land and make the necessary improvements for a comfortable home in which to live! This book covers the cost break-down, tools needed, how to select the land and travel-trailer or rv, and how to install a septic system, as well as water, power (including solar panels), heat and refrigeration systems. 1995, 5x8, 80 pages, illustrated, indexed, soft cover. #8006... $10.00... ORDER HERE Dan Subject: CSOde? Anyone? Ecologically sustainable housing?? From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 10:32:21 EST To: [email protected] Ode did I hear that you built your own house? Are you in the US? My husband and I are thinking of moving at the first of the year and rather than buying an existing house we are throwing around the idea of building one out of used/retired Chinese shipping crates. We need a pool because of his paralysis and I want to use ozone water rather than chlorine. The people on this list are Oh! so wise! any ideas and words of wisdom for solar panels vs. wind generators, water purifiers, well water and cisterns etc? We also toyed with the idea of buying a retired ATT underground facility or NIKE site but they are hard to find and are often prone to flooding and government use restrictions. We may end up inheriting one. In this case we will build a shipping crate house on top. Any input on house buildin is appreciated. Harper -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0/167 - Release Date: 11/11/2005 -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
