Want to build "drop out" cabin. Advice? - Page 10

 

How often do you post and answer yourself? Maybe join the medication advice
before you kill somebody else with yours again.

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Makes perfect sense. Start with the land, work from there. Pay attention
to the taxes on the land & structures (one expense former renters often
forget about, which feels a lot like "rent" despite owning the place).
You'll need enough cash income to cover that, and taxes hardly ever go
down, but often go up. Don't know in MO, but around here now is a
perfect time to look at land, as it's about as bad as it will look all
year - mud season, growth not started, if the roads will be bad in mud
season, you'll see that, etc...

Reducing consumption without loss of basic comfort re-inforces solar
water (& space, if you can bear it) heating as being a good thing. You
might also want to consider planting "edible landscape", and otherwise
whatever level of "modern homesteading - self-sufficiency" suits you.
ie, if you don't want to deal with livestock, don't - but if maintaining
a few apple trees, berry bushes, etc. won't ruin your day, plant them
ASAP - even before the house gets going, if there's any delay on that.

Some of the "permaculture" stuff has good ideas, though the "brand-name
philosophy" of that name has gone a bit far off the rails from the
initially appealing and/or sensible precepts it appeared to start from,
IMHO. You can pick the good ideas and leave the crackpot stuff, decide
it's all crackpot, or decide that all the stuff I think is crackpot
makes perfect sense to you and join the movement.

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Yes...this is what Im gonna do

 

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:06:51 GMT, Ecnerwal



Indeed, that was/is a regret of mine years back....

Someone once said..... "The best time to plant a tree is twenty years
ago.  The second best time is *now*!

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A cement block house for thermal mass...????......and insulate
the outside....?????

Might have to be fairly high for loft....

Do not know what cost of block house is....but learning to lay
blocks is fairly easy....even for someone one not very handy....
get a retired mason to show you how....????....labor is a large
part of building a building....laying block goes quick....and
when you are done you might be in better shape then you have
ever been in your life....<grin>.....

thank you for listening to my thoughts....have fun.....sno

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