Often there will be no land use taxes if you build a house on your land. Don't let a lack of money keep you from building? Do it with strawclay! Many of us own homes on very clay like soil. This can be amended so that you can garden, but clay has a fabulous use. Building your rural, country home! I wrote the expert about this.
DEAR TIV: The Clay soil in my yard is hard as
cement after El nino rains. Knives bounce off it. Shovel can't pierce a
dune. Woe is me for moving here. But you're telling me I can mix straw
with it, pour it into FORMS and
let it dry into building bricks? What an idea?
Clay/straw houses are just SOIL poured into plywood forms?
"ANSWER: There are a large number of building techniques that use earth.
Some are traditional, like strawclay; some new, like earth-ships made from
tires packed with dirt; some are updated versions of traditional methods,
like adobe with added stabilizers so it will work in wet climates.
Strawclay is mostly straw packed into forms. There are also techniques
that are mostly dirt either packed while only damp to poured almost like
concrete. Wattle and daub is an other traditional infil for post and beam.
It uses a woven layer of sticks (willow is traditional) and is covered
in mud. VISIT http://www.solarliving.org/
They have classes, sessions, 2 day or 5 day. 9 mos a year. But their
site doesn't show you everything. Or even very much. I liked the page of
BOOKS http://store.solarlivingstore.com/nabubo.html
As often you can buy these books for 4$ or even a buck at ABEBOOKS.com
Take almost any soil and amend it with cement, lime or sometimes even
an oil like linseed oil and it becomes a
stable building material. Cover the outside with a stucco of either
cement or lime and it is weatherproof enough for
any climate in the world.
The whole house does not have to be straw and wattle At a list, T Canava
says : I'm the cheapest person I know.
Instead of buying a house I put an ad in the paper saying FREE
HOUSE DEMOLITION... I got my pick of
houses. I took the house that had best wood features apart and
hauled it to my land and rebuilt it. (We assume he means doors, door frames,
lumber, beams, bricks, features that give a country home BEAUTY.) Instead
of paying thousands on a mortgage I pay $221.00 a month for the land."
Now, a dessert for
your eyes, an amazingly beautiful,
spiritual Medeival home in Wales. This
would be easy to build. Cost this fellow 3thousand pounds, is that like
5k? HUGE, well fitted, and very pleasant on the eyes. Ya have a feeling
if local codes would allow this? See more pics at: http://www.simondale.net/house/
http://www.simondale.net/house/build.htm
GREAT SITE ON BUILDING FOUNDATIONS INEXPENSIVELY
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