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6 Oct ’15
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Very awesome the way things developed there in terms of going underground. There was a special/documentary a while back on the community. Self reliant group. They showed one couple that need more space for a growing family and the dug-out/mined a new bed and bath into the back of the underground home...very cool way to expand. Since it is such a dry climate water proofing is not a need there. An ideal place for simple and inexpensive underground housing.
...water and gardening are a bit tougher in that climate though...always trade offs.
Wonder how the Govt taxes a dwelling like these...maybe they don't?
27 Aug ’14
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That's a good question. It's not conditioned space and in Texas your taxes are dependent on how much air conditioned space you have...
My other question would be on plumbing. Sump pump? Water supply lines? I could see running supply lines in the ground and re-tamping the dirt ontop but DWV lines seem difficult.
6 Oct ’15
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K, there was a part in there about drain, I believe they trenched, covered, compacted. Venting I don't know.
15 Feb ’12
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taxes based on air conditioned space? what if you don't have air conditioning?
27 Aug ’14
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That's a really good question. I wouldn't expect a discount.
6 Oct ’15
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Will be interesting to see what they do to me here once we are built. My argument will be based on one thing...are they taking into account that my walls are 12 inches thick? ... kind of cuts down my true living space.
6 Feb ’13
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icanreachit said
That's a good question. It's not conditioned space and in Texas your taxes are dependent on how much air conditioned space you have...My other question would be on plumbing. Sump pump? Water supply lines? I could see running supply lines in the ground and re-tamping the dirt ontop but DWV lines seem difficult.
Run lots of conduit! lol. With the umbrella/skirting around our house its even more tricky/a nightmare to add. So i TRIED to run as many pipes as possble. ...even the earthtubes i have in a jam could run a water line/electric/or something . The short earthtube in my bathroom I am going to use to put a water line to garden area. Gravity water goes into our house then into fride through coiled up pex tubing then instead of dumping into septic and pulluting that water its going to run out of fridge to garden. Thinking it should elimate the cost of running a fridge.
6 Feb ’13
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The house icanreachit posted where the walls were slanted and covered with earth seems like the cheapest house you could make. No siding hardly at all...just windows where needed. No roofing materials. It also seems the most enviromentally friendly as your not taking any green space from the earth... TAxes woould have to be insanely low.
The best way i can come up with minimizing house costs was to not have a house lol. Now this seems like a silly staement at its core but let me explain a bit.
Have you guys rad sepp holzers books where he makes earth shelters out of logs?
Now say you have a mobile electric powered vechile that could slip into this. (make it a bgger /nicer if you want). You got a mobile house inside a buffered shelter. Gain the advatanges of being able to move around and be thermally insulated. Add some windows on the whole so you have a solar greenhouse front...take off when not needed. Taking up nothing of the earths surface area ...allowing life to absorb light instead of it degrading whatever material a home would normally be built from. TAxes ..lol. if your services are self contained what would there be to tax? What real impact have you had? (this is something that i want to explore in the future)
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