You’ve outlined that pretty well! The influence of people who don’t stand to make something . . .
Live and learn is right.
If you’re going through a civil body to get to this land and permission to build your way (which might – oh horrors! – change things for the better and eliminate or lessen the profits of somebody influential) it might work to go public or aggressive or on the offense LOUDLY and repeatedly.
Just a thought. One reason we’re still fighting to do better is that vested interests hold us back. That’s in every imaginable aspect of our society!
They must find it difficult . . . those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. –Gerald Massey
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Re: ultra thick walls, superinsulation, window treatments
Posted by: "slurryguy" slurryguy@yahoo.com slurryguy
Date: Sat
Hi Jan,
Hey! It's kinda fun when a thread from over 7 months ago springs back to life. hehehe. Reading the old archived messages is a great way to learn a lot about papercrete.
The superinsulated structure IDEA is alive and well and constantly being improved (thanks in no small part to the many excellent discussions on this group). Unfortuneatly life has intervened and slowed my timeline drastically. I also started spending a huge amount of time helping with an online project that I didn't plan for.
(I wonder what that project could be?) I'm not complaining. It was my choice, and it's all been worth it.
I haven't acquired my LAND yet. (Details, they'll get you every
time!) Sadly the plot I was considering purchasing is looking more and more like it won't happen. The county's bean counters are balking at my plans. I can't understand why. One of them is a local real estate agent, (she won't make any commission on the sale of this particular property), another owns a lumber yard (he seems horrified that someone might start a trend of building things without much lumber), and lastly the local furnace/ac guy (he sees the superinsulation and solar and knows he won't play much of a role in the project.) Oh nieve little ol' me. I've learned a lot in the process though. I'm not out any significant money. My next proposal, wherever I make it, will factor in the motives of those making the decisions. That doesn't mean I'm changing the nature of the structure I want to build, just the way I present it to the authorities.
Venturi pipes are a neat idea that certainly have their place, but I don't know if I'll go that direction. Those kinds of details seem to be best decided once the building site is determined. At this point I don't think of having a full house design plan, just a design philosophy. I want to be free to adapt and incorporate what makes sense for whatever site I land on.
Live and learn.
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