Re: [papercreters] patty/jack's $100 sg ft house

Greetings,
Which is why frugal people buy in areas where there are no building
inspections or permits.

Bright Blessings,
Garth & Kim Travis
www.TheRoseColoredForest.com
Bedias, Texas


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> Only problem for the clever frugal people with little money is they will
> not be able to build with PC if they can't afford an architecht or
> engineer to be able to get their modest structure approved by the
> building code people.
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> "There isn't much to
> be learned from this article, only another "green"
> couple spending way too much money per sq. ft. and using
> information on PC that has been written about for many years
> and implying that it is all new "
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> Donald Miller..I agree.....The only advantage is
> that awareness is spread about this material for people
> to consider seriously.
> I agree the cost is prohibitive..I ran into so many
> people in the straw bale building world from 1999-2006 who
> built $400K SB houses..all of them wanting to be green, and
> "showing" others how to live..an oxymoronic goal
> as far as I could see..most people didnt have that money to
> spend on a 3500 sq ft SB monsterhouse full of art pieces
> ..but the magazines didn't make money showing little
> huts of SB either..who would advertise their fancy green
> products to known frugal types??
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> same thing here, no one will be buying drywall,
> or $400 sink taps I think for t heir PC home, ..but the
> GOOD is that it opens people's awareness and as Ben
> Franklin said" it takes 12 times of exposure about a
> product or service for people to say" oh..this might be
> for me, I better look in to it" (paraphrased)
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> the clever frugal types will catch on and learn
> more on their own.
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> --
> Charmaine
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> Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
> PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
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> www.papercrete.com
> Robert
> Heinlein (1907-1988)
> "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay
> for what he does not want merely because you think it would
> be good for him." (Obamacare)
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