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Some of the reading I’ve done points to this book as being the “bible” of buying rural land. The last printing is from 2000, so I suspect that it may be pretty out of date. I’m going to see if I can’t check it out from the library soon and take a closer look. I’ll update this post once I do. I’m betting there are more up-to-date references out there.
This is a book I checked out on a whim from the library, and I just bought a physical copy, even though I’m only halfway through it so far. Basically, it deals with a method of building that I find very compelling and interesting: using cordwood laid end-out as building material. When you think of a log house, you think of big, long (expensive!) logs laid laterally to form the walls. Cordwood building uses 12″ – 24″ logs of any size, split or whole laid pointing into the structure, so that the ends are exposed. They are bedded in mortar, with an interior insulation pocket of sawdust, and are solid and load-bearing. The insulation qualities and durability are incredible, and sound vastly superior to cob or haybale construction techniques. The wood is literally firewood that you buy by the cord, and the cheaper stuff like pine is actually preferable, since it does not expand and has better insulating qualities than hardwoods. I am intrigued, and will definitely be building a small structure like a bathroom or storage shed right away to test the concepts. If it works out, this would be a cheap and relatively easy way to raise a larger structure, even for one person. The author has been building and living in these for something like 35 years, and has the methodology down cold.
I think this was one of the first books I skimmed in a bookstore a few years back when I was getting seriously interested in the whole tiny house concept; a lot of the text is familiar as I read it now. The book is definitely geared to the classic DIY tiny-house-on-a-trailer type of building, but is full of great advice and in-depth noodling about what it means to gear your life towards actually living in a tiny space. Definitely a solid source of thought-provoking information – especially for the early part of the process as you are trying to get your head around the concept and move towards getting “serious” about it. I’ll definitely grab a copy of this if I ever see it used in a bookstore, and it’s certainly worth checking out from your local library (which is what I did). As I am digging into the whole tiny house (and related) areas of reading, I intend to post pocket reviews of what I run across, both for later reference, and to identify which books I end up with physical copies of to make lending them out later a bit easier. Watch this space (Reference category, tagged as “books”). The “DIY Library” category will be used to hold books that one of us has a physical copy of. This should make it easy for someone to quickly check the list and find a book they’d like to borrow. Oh no they didn’t. http://www.gizmag.com/mushroom-tiny-house/28248/ Just added Teresa to the users here so she can post links and generally follow along. She and her husband Jim are serious homesteaders, and are generously advising us on a lot of fronts. this is a good one to look at : http://tinyhouseblog.com/ and, sparingly updated: http://livinginatinyhouse.blogspot.com/ It sounds like the need for tiny houses to be on wheels may be about to go away… The digest:
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