manor house
Feb. 10th, 2013 07:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljgeoffI've been thinking about building a manor. Who knows if I'll ever build it, but I've got these ideas and I thought I'd post them and then people can comment, make suggestions, poke holes -- whatever!
There is a piece of property up north that I can actually afford. It's a 40 acre parcel, about a mile from a small river with high lands and low lands. The soil is rich. It isn't near any industrial or mining sites. It has access via a well made dirt road. It's selling for $30k, with a land contract deal of 10% down. There are three 40s all togther. Here's the listing of one of the 40s.
If I don't get this one, I'll get something similar within the next couple of years.
I've been thinking about tire bales.
"Tire Bales are a solid compressed block of scrap waste tires. Each tire bale is made up of 89-110 passenger and light truck tires. One tire bale weighs 2,000 lbs., or one ton. The dimensions of the tire bales are: 60" long, 50" wide, and 30" tall. There are five 9-gauge steel wires that hold the tire bale together. Each tire bale can sustain 375,000 lbs of pressure before any failure will occur." Front Rang Tire Recycling
Here are some images of someone's tire bale house:
The main cost of tire bales is the movement and placement of them. At one ton each, we'd need to rent some pretty heavy equipment. We want to build an underbasement and an upper basement. We'd build at the base of a hill, dig out the basement and make a retaining wall between the hill and the first floor with the tire bales. We'd use the dirt from the basement to back fill between the house and the hill, so that the second floor will be ground level in back.
One set of wings will come off the ground floor, and one set will be staggered back, set up into the hill, coming off the second floor. I can visulize it, but I don't know if I'm describing it well.
I'm thinking that we'll build the hexagon or pentagon or with 24' sides, and the wings will be about 24'X48'. The above ground structure will be post and beam with stackwood, like this:
And shaped something like this:
Ok -- I'm going to build a mock-up.
Here you go. I just did the wings on one side; they'd be mirrored on the other side. What do you think?
There is a piece of property up north that I can actually afford. It's a 40 acre parcel, about a mile from a small river with high lands and low lands. The soil is rich. It isn't near any industrial or mining sites. It has access via a well made dirt road. It's selling for $30k, with a land contract deal of 10% down. There are three 40s all togther. Here's the listing of one of the 40s.
If I don't get this one, I'll get something similar within the next couple of years.
I've been thinking about tire bales.
"Tire Bales are a solid compressed block of scrap waste tires. Each tire bale is made up of 89-110 passenger and light truck tires. One tire bale weighs 2,000 lbs., or one ton. The dimensions of the tire bales are: 60" long, 50" wide, and 30" tall. There are five 9-gauge steel wires that hold the tire bale together. Each tire bale can sustain 375,000 lbs of pressure before any failure will occur." Front Rang Tire Recycling
Here are some images of someone's tire bale house:
The main cost of tire bales is the movement and placement of them. At one ton each, we'd need to rent some pretty heavy equipment. We want to build an underbasement and an upper basement. We'd build at the base of a hill, dig out the basement and make a retaining wall between the hill and the first floor with the tire bales. We'd use the dirt from the basement to back fill between the house and the hill, so that the second floor will be ground level in back.
One set of wings will come off the ground floor, and one set will be staggered back, set up into the hill, coming off the second floor. I can visulize it, but I don't know if I'm describing it well.
I'm thinking that we'll build the hexagon or pentagon or with 24' sides, and the wings will be about 24'X48'. The above ground structure will be post and beam with stackwood, like this:
And shaped something like this:
Ok -- I'm going to build a mock-up.
Here you go. I just did the wings on one side; they'd be mirrored on the other side. What do you think?