underground house ideas

[Drains]

Did you see the one on Grand Designs built out of old tyres filled with muck. It wasnt totally underground but most of it was. In France I think.
Maybe you can get it on the iPlayer or something

They call them earthships (hippies, bless 'em). A very cheap but labour intensive way of building. Great if you can get tyre places to pay you to take their tyres away . Lots of images on google.

 

[TechnicAl]

earthships eh........never heard that one before

This one was a bit hippyish but if I remember correctly it cost quite a lot of money. I think they were chefs and they had all the neighbours round digging and filling the tyres whilst they cooked a meal for all of them.

Sounded like a good deal to me

If you built an underground house in Rotherham there would be coal miners knocking on the doors.....

 

[mike os]

let me see:- you cannot bury tyres in landfill because they are "contaminated waste", but you can "build" a "green house" out of them?

 

[tigler]

The dwelling is a finite development though, not an ongoing process.

 

[Shox Dr]

Did you see the one on Grand Designs built out of old tyres filled with muck. It wasnt totally underground but most of it was. In France I think.
Maybe you can get it on the iPlayer or something

I did, and I watched the follow up as well. I may have got the wrong impression but it sounded like it wasn't as cheap to run as they initially thought. And the build cost was stupidly high considering most of the labour was paid in bed and food.

 

[madkayaker]

the one in cumbria was built onto a quarry clif if memory serves

 

[Baloo]

your just wanting an excuse to play with your diggers! there a big fibre glass tank in a yard along side the A1 near leming Bar has been there for 10 years must have been a big low loader that got it there!

madkayaker
l have been looking for this on google earth but cant find it, cant even find the tractor place with the railway carriages,
l can find the airfield at leeming bar, do l need to go north or south from there ?
l think l have a trip up to stirling to take a couple of photo's coming up soon,
l might ask if its for sale if l can find it

Andy

 

[brightspark]

madkayaker
l have been looking for this on google earth but cant find it, cant even find the tractor place with the railway carriages,
l can find the airfield at leeming bar, do l need to go north or south from there ?
l think l have a trip up to stirling to take a couple of photo's coming up soon,
l might ask if its for sale if l can find it

Andy

i think its just off the main line railway between northallerton and leeming near the track

 

[madkayaker]

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Lee...ton,+North+Yorkshire,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=19

 

[madkayaker]

thats the tank!

 

[madkayaker]

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Lee...ton,+North+Yorkshire,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=18

the train carrages were here but might have moved

 

[madkayaker]

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Lee...ton,+North+Yorkshire,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=18

these might be them there seams to be a few parked up in a sideing

 

[Baloo]

shoot thats a biggun



















she said


from above it looks a simalar length to those artic's but including the cab as well, so somewhere between 50 and 60 feet ?
and the diameter ? 12' ??

 

[Baloo]

looks like a largish transport company but l see no sign outside, shame really as l could have just rung them up

 

[Baloo]

intresting house for sale complete with a nuclear bunker
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ound-bunker-able-withstand-NUCLEAR-blast.html
reading it the thing that jumps out and hits me is "planning permission is not required as its underground" l really cant belive that, any planning officers on here ??
if thats true l am biulding me a nuclear fallout bunker
cant be true the council control everything dont they

 

[Baloo]

one for tigler as he wants to live in a missile silo lol

http://www.missilebases.com/adironback

 

[brightspark]

intresting house for sale complete with a nuclear bunker
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ound-bunker-able-withstand-NUCLEAR-blast.html
reading it the thing that jumps out and hits me is "planning permission is not required as its underground" l really cant belive that, any planning officers on here ??
if thats true l am biulding me a nuclear fallout bunker
cant be true the council control everything dont they

its a fact i know sumone thats built one underground his missus got pi /.,/.,/.ed off and left him because of it

 

[SC_BK]

looks like a largish transport company but l see no sign outside, shame really as l could have just rung them up

Try 01845 567080

 

[madkayaker]

i said it was a bigun! never seen a sign and it looks a bit of a pikey set up but someone might know who it is

 

[madkayaker]

Try 01845 567080

how do you know that?