Author Topic: Hows this for the ultimate home? (Read 693 times)

Chairboy · « **Reply #15 on:** March 19, 2005, 09:43:03 AM »

Definately, will do.

We were thinking the way to make it work psychologically would be to have a bunch of full spectrum lights throughout the home. That, and piping in sunlight to the central open area, would do a lot to make it nice.

I like sunlight too, but a wood house atop the ground feels awful vulnerable. Whether it's an uninvited knocking down a door or a hole in the wall or if it's something else, like atomics, the idea of being able to have my back to a wall that I know nobody will come through is nice.

lazs2 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 19, 2005, 10:04:39 AM »

You can buy the aluminum containers for about the same price as the steel ones.

I would like to get 4 or five of em and bury em end to end for an underground shooting range.

lazs

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #17 on:** March 19, 2005, 04:00:30 PM »

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/050310_suntubefrm.htm

Nash · « **Reply #18 on:** March 19, 2005, 04:31:30 PM »

Last year they busted a grow-op in BC that was housed in several connected shipping containers that were buried underground.

SunTracker · « **Reply #19 on:** March 19, 2005, 08:59:56 PM »

Hey chairboy, my brother is planning on building a concrete house this summer. You buy the forms and pour the concrete. Pretty cheap to build.

Lizking · « **Reply #20 on:** March 19, 2005, 09:12:29 PM »

Dirt is a crappy insulator, why exactly do you want to be underground?

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 20, 2005, 03:17:39 AM »

Isn't there a little town in the USA where u can only get with a plane . Everybody has a hangar instead of a garage.

Chairboy · « **Reply #22 on:** March 20, 2005, 09:37:22 AM »

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Originally posted by Lizking
Dirt is a crappy insulator, why exactly do you want to be underground?

How do you figure? Down a few feet, and it's essentially a constant temperature, year 'round.

Also, it's not just about insulation, it's also about security.

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #23 on:** March 20, 2005, 10:06:54 AM »

I would like one of those silo homes, just for the coolness factor.

Lizking · « **Reply #24 on:** March 20, 2005, 10:07:33 AM »

I can give you 3' worth of dirt insulation in one inch, and you won't have to worry about rot, water overload and mold. If you just want to live underground, that is fine, but don't do it for the insulation factor. That said, there is a thermal mass to dirt, which I assume is what you are talking about.