A Shipping Container Costs About $2,000. What These 15 People Did With That Is Beyond Epic. | REALfarmacy.com | Healthy News and Information

A Shipping Container Costs About $2,000. What These 15 People Did With That Is Beyond Epic. | REALfarmacy.com | Healthy News and Information

A luxury home doesn’t always necessarily mean thousands of square footage, towering great rooms and gilded toilets. Take these homes for example: to begin building one of these epic houses, all you need is $2,000. That $2,000 will buy you a shipping container. What you do with that shipping container… well, that’s completely up to you.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Insulating a Roundhouse Floor | Permaculture Magazine

Insulating a Roundhouse Floor | Permaculture Magazine



... a fairly new product called Foamglas that is made by forcing air through molten recycled glass to form a very light, pumice-like material that does not wick water and is very good insulation. It looks to me as if it will bear weight well too, so as an experiment we have put down a layer of 20cm (8in) of the stuff around our outer circle, without a membrane, and floated wooden joists onto it, then screwed planks specially cut to a taper by Adrian and his mill up the track.