2019-07-23 at 7:24 PM UTC
Where I am camped at I have the perfect hidy-hole. It's wooded and peaceful, I don't get fucked with, yet the city is right outside the wood line.
I am planning to build a house out of skids/pallets since I seen some people who've done it before. I'm also considering other ideas. I may dig down and possibly make a sandbag house with a "basement" type thing, with a loft or something. Either way I'm planning on a loft style thingie either for storage or to have my bed (just a small loft space, with a slanted pallet ladder to climb up it- nothing huge).
Over time I could insulate it too, and add drywall, or some other wall material.
Once built, I am DEFINITELY going to dig a ditch, use a 55gal plastic barrel, and drill holes in the bottom, get rocks and such to create a leech bed, and connect it to a toilet. All I'd need then is water to flush, which I could get from collecting rain water. I've seen, and helped do this exact thing before, and it's pretty easy. I have a few people who can help me dig the trench for the barrel. It's also situated on a steep hill, so it'll run off perfectly.
I also am getting some solar panels and batteries. I just want to be able to charge my phone/laptop, use some LED lights, and run a small fan/maybe in the winter a small space heater, although heat could be generated through other means, if it won't support that.
Anyone done something similar? Any ideas I could add to or modify? Any thoughts? I'd love some input to this project.
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2019-07-23 at 10:12 PM UTC
Speedy Parker
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Clean up, get a job, and live in a real house. How's that for a project ?
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2019-07-23 at 10:21 PM UTC
I guess you missed where I've posted about being disabled. I worked all my life up until I got hurt badly with my leg, and now have issues walking, especially with any speed. I have no stamina. I also have other health issues that would have been enough for SSID prior to my leg injury/chronic osteomyelitis. It takes time, especially when the nursing home did jackshit in filing what they were supposed to file before I was discharged and I didn't find out until I got discharged.
I'm doing the best I can until then. Most of this project is only possible because I have someone with a pickup truck who is willing to help me, along with a few other able bodied people who are versed in handyman sort of work, who are capable and willing to help me.
It's going to take me time to get into a "real" house. For now, this is the best I got going for me.
2019-07-24 at 12:03 AM UTC
You can look on YouTube for design help
Good luck girly
2019-07-24 at 12:24 AM UTC
steal a school bus now you have a house and a giant car
2019-07-24 at 7:08 AM UTC
dont you have disused subway tunnels you can occupy ?
2019-07-24 at 7:10 AM UTC
aldra
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2019-07-24 at 7:16 AM UTC
This is a topical forum, and you guys pushing getting a job, etc, should fuck off back to facebook with your fellow boomers.
Op a pallet house sounds awesome. You can probably find some second hand car or truck batteries to store power and run a little 12 volt power grid. Keeping the unit charged may be a hassle, especially in winter or if you are in the shade, solar is getting cheaper though.
If you can get a hold of some straw bales they are supposed to be great insulation.
Remember to have a pest control strategy no matter what you do.
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2019-07-24 at 7:31 AM UTC
just bear in mind that industrial pallets are toxic as fuck as they're treated with industrial abc-cides to prevent all sorts of pests from feeding and nesting in them.
2019-07-24 at 7:49 AM UTC
You could probably cobble together a pretty good structure with enough pallets, a crowbar and some nails + a hammer.
I would actually recommend that if you have a shovel, you build a type of hobbit hole with the pallets. Earth is really good at keeping your home insulated.
If you can find some longer lumber or other type of bar to use as foundation struts, you can make a pretty sturdy base. Spear your supports around the perimeter at least 5 feet deep, then dig a short channel at least 1 ft deep between them. This is where your walls will be. Secure your pallets to the supports and tamp them into the channels you just dug. Put some dirt over all of the base, tamp it down.
Put longer beams across the top, then palettes over those to form a roof. You don't need a support beam because you're probably making a pretty small and light shack that will be supported by the walls.
During this process, leave some space in the roof for little venting pipes. You can easily make these water resistant by extending the pipe above the ground and adding a little inverse funnel shaped closed lid over top.
Secure it all, then put tarps and plastic over top that you can find laying around in junkyards and shit. This is to waterproof your home. Once that's done. Pile in the earth and support the walls from the outside with earth. If the structure is well constructed, all the stresses will be well balanced and distributed out to the supports and earthen exterior walls via the pallets.
This will make your home safe and well insulated.
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2019-07-24 at 7:49 AM UTC
Make an outhouse btw, don't connect your pooper ew
2019-07-24 at 1:55 PM UTC
Everything sounds good except the toilet part
I understand not wanting to shit on the ground or rely on public restrooms but there is no way that will be sanitary.
You will contaminate the area and ground water which is not only wrong but illegal too
2019-07-24 at 3:07 PM UTC
Originally posted by hydromorphone
Where I am camped at I have the perfect hidy-hole. It's wooded and peaceful, I don't get fucked with, yet the city is right outside the wood line.
I am planning to build a house out of skids/pallets since I seen some people who've done it before. I'm also considering other ideas. I may dig down and possibly make a sandbag house with a "basement" type thing, with a loft or something. Either way I'm planning on a loft style thingie either for storage or to have my bed (just a small loft space, with a slanted pallet ladder to climb up it- nothing huge).
Over time I could insulate it too, and add drywall, or some other wall material.
Once built, I am DEFINITELY going to dig a ditch, use a 55gal plastic barrel, and drill holes in the bottom, get rocks and such to create a leech bed, and connect it to a toilet. All I'd need then is water to flush, which I could get from collecting rain water. I've seen, and helped do this exact thing before, and it's pretty easy. I have a few people who can help me dig the trench for the barrel. It's also situated on a steep hill, so it'll run off perfectly.
I also am getting some solar panels and batteries. I just want to be able to charge my phone/laptop, use some LED lights, and run a small fan/maybe in the winter a small space heater, although heat could be generated through other means, if it won't support that.
Anyone done something similar? Any ideas I could add to or modify? Any thoughts? I'd love some input to this project.
Where I'm at under the bridge we got a double pallet in the rafters. Works as a bed and is fairly unnoticeable as well. Good luck yo....
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2019-07-24 at 4:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by Ghost
You will contaminate the area and ground water which is not only wrong but illegal too
soils are essentially 47% shits, 42% dead bodies and 11% minerals.
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