I lived in a camper while building a barn/house in northern New Hampshire and pulled it under a roof overhang to protect it from the weather. I didn't know about papercrete then.
The bank is requiring that the home be valued at as much as the land and that wouldn't be so hard on a small lot. I am trying to squeeze as many acres as possible into the formula for the horses and have enough left over to build the papercrete house.
I'm thinking that an older mobile home might fill the bill, if we incorporate the cost of bringing it up to codes. I don't know how the mobile homes can be considered more acceptable/valuable than papercrete. I watched a newer one burn this summer. It took less than 10 minutes to go from smolder to inferno.
Clarissa
Janoahsh <janoahsh@alaska.net> wrote:
Good points Terry,I lived in a camper for one winter inwhile building a house for someone. I insulated it better by making a box out of 1" RMAX ductaped and tarped. It was quite cozy. Vermont A layer of papercrete blocks would make it pretty impenetrable.Janosh
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Subject: [papercreters] Re: mobile homes, that has some really incredible old mobile homes, earlier than the 70's obviously, one even had a little upstairs room. They have funky little windows up high, I love going through them. None are in "move-in" condition though other than having shelter over your head. The only problem we have where I live is they won't give you a permit to put a pre-1974 mobile home on your property because of the electrical wiring, unless you rewire it to code. Quartzsite ,AZ You could get a large older motorhome cheap if it's not in running condition. I know some people who lived in one on their property while they built. And my neighbors have a small cabin they built themselves in cool country, they have a couple of cabover campers on the property for guests and family members, and one older motorhome they stayed in while they built the cabin, they also built an outhouse to use until they got their septic tank put in. I've mentioned my neighbors before, they're the Redneck MacGyvers.Terry
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