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- From: Will Carey <cure@rtinet.com>
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- Subject: [permaculture] Re: Hobbitate for Humanity....
- Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:26:52 -0800
on 11/8/04 9:00 AM, permaculture-request@lists.ibiblio.org at
permaculture-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:14:18 -0500
> From: Jay Woods <woodsjay@cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 22, Issue 9
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> There is far too much overengineering here. Remember that 10 foot diameter
> corrugated steel pipe (http://www.ncspa.org/ for the trade association and
> http://www.acipco.com/ for an example company) is used to give farmers
> access
> to their fields underneath freeways and to provide drainage for streams. The
> key thought here is that arched structures (like hobbit holes) carry far
> more
> load for the cross section than do load bearing flat ceilings.
Fellow Hobbits...
I agree ...arched structures are best. I've researched some East Indian
sites on prefab ferro-cement technology with precast barreled vaults. But
they aren't easily buried and might tend to accumulate moisture between the
vault ends.
But in US....there's a firm in Texas with the most cost-effective method of
concrete dome construction I've found. They start with a big inflatable
balloon....
They also give "hands on training" every year for self-builders... Two or
three classes a year, I think.
They claim to have great success with underground structures....
<http://www.monolithic.com/plan_design/belowgrade/>
Will
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[permaculture] Re: Hobbitate for Humanity....,
Will Carey, 11/08/2004
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