[HN Gopher] My House
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My House
Author : carltheperson
Score : 37 points
Date : 2021-08-31 17:51 UTC (16 hours ago)
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| carltheperson wrote:
| This is an article showing how I made my allotment hut my home.
| erikstarck wrote:
| If you're in to "young people building their own home" then check
| out Erik Grankvist building a small cabin in the middle of the
| forest using only primitive tools.
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| Here's a 2 hour video that's very relaxing to have on in the
| background (only the sound of hard work, no speech):
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBX5qh09OIE&t=7s&ab_channel=...
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| And, yes, he begins by literally chopping down trees.
| tmikaeld wrote:
| Have followed his work from the start, really inspiring and he
| really does live off-grid by using solar panels, a battery and
| then do the editing/posting from his laptop.
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| tibbydudeza wrote:
| I really could live with this but then I have a wife with
| borderline hoarding tendencies and 2 teens , it amazing how much
| crap they all collect and "need".
| hellbannedguy wrote:
| I'm assuming England?
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| In the states, we don't have anything like this, but should.
|
| It seems like in the states government goes out of it's way to
| discourage cheap housing.
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| Gov. Neusome did a great job on ADU's, but you need a house to
| put the unit in, or around. What happened is wealth people
| realized they could remodel their home while putting in a small
| apartment.
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| When begging for a variance for their bigger home, and guaranteed
| ADU thanks to Neusome, they promise to rent the ADU out to low
| income tenants.
|
| They get their variance, build a ADU, and turn the ADU into
| another room for themselfs.
|
| The wealthy are foxey.
|
| (I'm looking at you San Anselmo. I see you are now granting
| Variances, but they appear to be given out to favorite
| homeowners? I hope this is not what it appears. For years, my
| little town gladly took in a $1000 fee for a variance, but never
| ok'ed one.)
| nikolaipaul wrote:
| Not bad for a 17 year old!
| francis-io wrote:
| What about sanitation?
|
| How did you get electricity from the grid? Do you just tap into
| an existing property?
|
| What about gray water?
| OJFord wrote:
| Pretty huge shed for an allotment! More like a small unfinihshed
| (at the start of the article) studio-bungalow that happens to be
| surrounded by allotments...
|
| Did it already have electricity hook up? Water makes sense for an
| allotment, but you can legally just pipe it in unmetered to your
| new house? And what about waste water & sewage?
| blacktulip wrote:
| He mentioned the electrical wiring in the post.
|
| > The first thing I started on was the electrical wiring. To
| actually supply the house with power I had to dig a 0.5 meter
| deep trench from the start of the garden to the house. I did it
| by hand with a shovel.
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| Very cool! Nice solution to the high house prices. You get a
| residence for a years rent for a lot of people.
|
| I guess it would have running water, but what about sewage. Does
| it have a toilet? Did you use a septic tank. Or are you directly
| fertilising your patch.
| Gravityloss wrote:
| Since it's not used during winters, did you consider making it
| off-grid with solar power and batteries? I guess cooking would be
| a problem then though.
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