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post 1704841481 08-10-2024, 03:43 PM
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If you had some land how would you build a cheap house?

Trailer, container home, rv, barndominium? What is the best cheap home?
post 1704842001 08-10-2024, 03:54 PM
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post 1704842181 08-10-2024, 03:57 PM
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Insulated concrete formwork. You assemble it yourself, just like lego, and then pour concrete in to it.



Screw nature; my body will do what I DAMN WELL tell it to do!

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post 1704842231 08-10-2024, 03:58 PM
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I wouldnt. i would build a normal house that will be better than some barn or tool shed.
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post 1704842241 08-10-2024, 03:58 PM
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probably just get one of those huge RVs

building a house takes forever. then plumbing, septic.

an already ready modular home is another option i guess
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Originally Posted By MiscMathematician⏩
probably just get one of those huge RVs

building a house takes forever. then plumbing, septic.

an already ready modular home is another option i guess
You pay a premium for those. The ticket is to build whatever you can mostly by yourself or with free/cheap labor
post 1704843031 08-10-2024, 04:16 PM
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New construction a tiny house
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post 1704843081 08-10-2024, 04:17 PM
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I'd dig a hole into the ground like a spider and just live in it, to avoid any possible expenses.
post 1704843131 08-10-2024, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted By Channel83⏩
I'd dig a hole into the ground like a spider and just live in it, to avoid any possible expenses.
Spiders make webs dude
post 1704843331 08-10-2024, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
Spiders make webs dude
Fawk. Need to rethink this.
post 1704844171 08-10-2024, 04:44 PM
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Nothing as expensive as a cheap house (or an out-of-warranty BMW)
post 1704845741 08-10-2024, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted By DuracellBunny⏩
Insulated concrete formwork. You assemble it yourself, just like lego, and then pour concrete in to it.



Fuark myron do you hire somebody to do the foundation,plumbing,electric,roof?
post 1704845851 08-10-2024, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted By Channel83⏩
Fawk. Need to rethink this.
You're thinking of a burrow owl. Everybody knows the burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground. If you look at the soil around any large US city, there's a big undeground homosexual population. Des Moines, Iowa,for an example. Look at the soil around Des Moines. You can't build on it; you can't grow anything in it. The government says it's due to poor farming. But I know what's really going on. I know it's the queers. They're in it with the aliens.They're building landing strips for gay Martians.
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live in a shack, & poop in an outhouse
post 1704846271 08-10-2024, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted By Basedbaby⏩
Fuark myron do you hire somebody to do the foundation,plumbing,electric,roof?
You have two main costs, materials and labour. Anything you can do yourself, do yourself, otherwise hire people.

ICF saves you money, because materials are cheap and labour is free, but you want electrical, plumbing etc done right (or they cost you more in the long run), so if you don't know how to do them, you have to spend the money.
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post 1704846391 08-10-2024, 05:31 PM
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Slab and stick built, easy and cheap.
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post 1704846591 08-10-2024, 05:38 PM
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Iv built before, never again... its a never ending nightmare. You always end up spending way more than you budgeted

Just buy something cheap and settle on it.
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I'm not sure you are butt there are kit homes, like IKEA everything is flat pack and you build it yourself.

If you're a mountain man you can build a home just like our forefathers did, by using the materials around you. If you're in a forested area building a house from timber, if you have lots of rocks in your area building the house from stone. If you have clay soil, rammed earth etc..
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Originally Posted By 24HrParking⏩
Iv built before, never again... its a never ending nightmare. You always end up spending way more than you budgeted

Just buy something cheap and settle on it.
That's because you live in Australia where the building industry is full of people wanting to make a quick buck.
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Easy. I'd buy the land cash. The land I would buy would be in a state with low property taxes and not too far from the amish or mennonites.

Then I would use the local amish to build me a sturdy house. Then get someone else to do the electrical and plumbing.
post 1704847281 08-10-2024, 05:58 PM
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I've been meaning to design a modular small guest house of sorts that can be built quickly and easily. I may make a thread for design ideas.
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post 1704847921 08-10-2024, 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted By alain⏩
That's because you live in Australia where the building industry is full of people wanting to make a quick buck.
My issue was my build didn't come with landscaping, fencing, pathways etc. (I don't think many do), so for me, it was doing it myself as i didn't want to pay millions (this is where your comment is right, tradies here are fked and charge a lot). I got someone in for fencing (and split cost with neighbour), but i did all the landscaping, excavating of excess hilly dirt left over, clothes line, pathways/concreting myself. Just back breaking BS i didn't want to do... next time, buying an established dwelling 110%
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Originally Posted By DuracellBunny⏩
Insulated concrete formwork. You assemble it yourself, just like lego, and then pour concrete in to it.



This
It's actually very strong and super well insulated, just have to check if city permits it
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Originally Posted By Paul
This
It's actually very strong and super well insulated, just have to check if city permits it
Insurance companies don't like ICF.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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