Inexpensive Retreats

[Irving]

I've seen some really cool stuff that my grandpa showed me, but I don't remember the website. I think it was something like spaceship earth, but when you google that, you just get Disney stuff. These homes were built out of tires filled with dirt, don't have any space wasting domes, and are just like a normal house inside. I'll look around and see if I can find them because they are very cool.

Also, people have moved on from packed earth tire homes (dirt packed into tires) to just using bails made out of shredded tires and bailed together with wire.

EDIT: Here is the one that I remember: http://www.touchtheearthranch.com/picstory1.htm click through the pages.
And here is the even better, more normal looking house: http://216.120.254.141/testimonials/...ire-house-tour

[Beprepared]

I've seen some really cool stuff that my grandpa showed me, but I don't remember the website. I think it was something like spaceship earth, but when you google that, you just get Disney stuff. These homes were built out of tires filled with dirt, don't have any space wasting domes, and are just like a normal house inside. I'll look around and see if I can find them because they are very cool.

Also, people have moved on from packed earth tire homes (dirt packed into tires) to just using bails made out of shredded tires and bailed together with wire.

EDIT: Here is the one that I remember: http://www.touchtheearthranch.com/picstory1.htm click through the pages.
And here is the even better, more normal looking house: http://216.120.254.141/testimonials/...ire-house-tour

Earthships- A few here in CO. The big community is out of Prescott, AZ (I think). Yep a bunch in Taos too.

[Beprepared]

Cool sandbag info, got my wheels turning. Wondered for a while now about Hesco Bastions Concerntainers that our military uses. They are also used a lot back in Louisiana for levees, erosion and such. I think you could make a damn fine and dandy house with those. Bullet resistant, bomb resistant, radiation resistant, you name it. Throw some stucco, adobe, shotcrete, whatever...that could be down right homey.

http://www.hesco.com/