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Anybody watching? They even have a clapped out old bus. Kinda like the house they are building though.
how long till she's preggers?
So, will she be pregnant by the end of this episode..?!
(My wife developed this theory, besides the cagnascenti on this forum!)
Has he got a harem of women? Seem to be loads of different women about.
They're a little tapped in the head!
i'm quite liking this one too...
There was certainly some flirting going on when discussing niches in the wall...
He just said "we're pretty much watertight now".
Ye, with no front on the house
I watched "garbage warrior" a couple of nights ago. You should check it out.
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Just noticed she's got very hairy arm pits. LOL
Hairy armpitted women too.
Wonder if her legs are hairy too.
Hairy pits = [i]Really[/i] hairy minge. Never good.
I have a friend that is really into hairy women.
Round bed?
I have a friend that is really into hairy women.
Of course you do, curtis... 😉
Looks like 'Uncle' Kevin is losing his touch - no extras appearing half way through this week...
Liked the house though.
No honestly I prefer the well groomed look 😀
hairy women make me feel weird. But I am smooth as an eel, apart from where it matters.
Really hairy is ok when the lights are out.
Hippees eh!
The house looks shxt btw!
I think that might be my new favourite GD house.
Looked cold inside, everyone had hats and jackets on.
Reckon they'll need a good summer to get any benefit over winter (walls still drying out!!)
And a compost WC.........nae chance 🙁
Did like the house though and the concept. Great spot too. Wish I had bought a site in southern france in the 90's 😛
An "EARTH SHIP" !!!!! WTF?? WTF??
I HATE hippees!
They did start calling them that quite some time before the dead started dying
"dirt bitches" and liqidized chick peas??
I HATE hippees!
Spongebob, without 'hippies' you wouldn't be posting on this forum. So go stand in the corner and think about that for a while.
why spend all that money on glazing and not have a proper bog!
Quite like it otherwise, (too many bad memories of early mtb events with portable bogs)
**Standing in the corner thinking**
Yeah, dry toilets really smell!
So Dot, why is it that you think hippees are the reason that i post on this site?
The other girl helping them would have definately had it.
Dry toilets are still common in France, more appealing than the ski jump variety. They were common in towns in 60s Sweeden too.
I thought the hippies were brilliant. The first GD in ages where I wasnt nauseated by w*nky bankers turning up on the job with spotless reflective vests and shiny hard hats to assess progress on the build, and smugness of going £300k over budget
There is something very special about the process of building something by yourself for yourself. The more you do something that way the less likely you are to destroy whats left for everyone else. Living and working that way in France is an instant passport into their community. Good on them.
Oh and hairy pits are a must in France, its the Law.
more appealing than the ski jump variety
PLEASE EXPLAIN; if for no other reason than to stop me imagining sitting at the top of a miniature ski jump, making a poo and watching it rolling down and flying off into the distance as it launches itself off the ramp under it's own momentum...and what's it supposed to fly into anyway?
What mcmoonter said about building something yourself, maybe not the bit about pits though...
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I think he means this, you stand on the stripy bit feeling a bit like a ski jumper.
[i]PLEASE EXPLAIN; if for no other reason than to stop me imagining sitting at the top of a miniature ski jump, making a poo and watching it rolling down and flying off into the distance as it launches itself off the ramp under it's own momentum...and what's it supposed to fly into anyway? [/i]
I was imagining a full size communal ski jump where each morning all the village folk climbed to the top of slope, strapped on their ski's, dropped theire pants, raced down the slope, then curled one out mid flight over the village dung heap.
The problem with those squat and poo jobbies is that they're not very conducive to having a decent mag read.
It does make a pleasent change to see people actually building their own house.
I do like how the "Hippie" was so dismissive about going 65k over his budget, where the hell does someone secure that kind of money on a house made from old tyres and dirt.
I'm thinking they may be hippy/eco warrior kinda people with a nice nest egg laid down by wealthy relatives who made all their money out of heavy industry, hence the "we must live an ecologicaly friendly lifestyle" to make up for what our loaded parents/grandparents did.
Nice house in the end though, can you even imagine how much a bespoke oak kitchen of that size would cost, let alone how much they spent on the interior!!
Round bed = hippie sh@g fest/love in/orgy times en france 😆
IIRC his total build cost was £135K, some people think thats about right for a car and a kitchen.
I can't stand all that niche/ candle stuff, but I thought they built a slightly quirky, pretty well thought house - and earth shelters have been around for a couple of decades, I just wasn't entirely convinced by things like the roof falls and some of the roof/ guttering details. Even the bottle wall looked pretty good - although like all these things until you go and actually experience the space all you get is an impression of what it is.
the most brilliant thing about that couple was that they not only got the main build labour for free, but that they also convinced these people to pay them for the pleasure of working on the house.
experience the space? hippy!
Was it just me or did anyone else get the impression that the two wives were 'very' friendly?! Maybe the hairy armpits was a sign of which one was the giver and the fit one was the taker.
A couple of things that confused me though:
The bloke kept going on about how he was recycling the tyres....... but surely all he did was bury them (landfill!)? What advantage did the tyres give that an earth wall held back by wood/rock didn't give ❓
How could he have been 'recycling' the 6 big wooden beams when they were 'new' wood from another job that he paid for - isn't that the same as going to a timber merchants and buying the wood ❓
Made me laugh when KM went on about some wonderful craftsmanship in the building, pointing out the roof and stone wall - both of which were done by outside contractors 🙂
All in all I did like the whole thing though, mainly becuase I'm not sure KM liked it much, potential lesi action and an utter lack of rich idiots spending too much money on a building.
Oh yeah......... 'Earth Ship'....... right 😕
I agree with aP - some iffy detailing on roofs/falls/major cold bridges/massive over gain of solar in summer/heatstore that would not work/damp an issue etc.
I do 'get' earth buried houses (And would do one myself, if the site was appropriate), but not 'taken' with the tyres etc - in a 100 years they still need recycling/something doing with them, but at least you got 100 years more out of them than if you hadn't used them there. I also have a major concern with damp in the walls - and I sell 'breathing' natural walls for a living!
I also agree with the whole hippy thing / holes in walls etc being a distraction. It seems that to be 'green' you either have to have dreads or hairy pits, or be some smug upper classer with £'000's to buy your way out of a crap lifestyle. Its about time mr & mrs average did it, without being wacky.
I do think KM's last point was a good one - maybe the way they were 'doing life' was actually a way a lot of us could do life.....to the benefit of us and society.
and I sell 'breathing' natural walls for a living!
What would you go for Matt? I'm quite taken with the idea of a wood frame house with straw bale walls.
Rats missed that one, is it going to be repeated?
What would you go for Matt? I'm quite taken with the idea of a wood frame house with straw bale walls.
Why have two structural walls? Unless you mean the straw 'cassette' walls such as used on the S-House.
Totally depends on site, design, budget and then some more faffy bits.
Straw bale = great for self build, if done right (and maintain the waterproof render...), cheap, simple, long lasting. Almost impossible to sell on, NEVER going to be mass market, damp in bales = dead building.
Timber frame = soooo many options. May I suggest the best on the market? PassiveHaus or AECB sir? ohhh, suits you.
http://www.natural-building.co.uk/passiv_haus.html
I'm thinking they may be hippy/eco warrior kinda people with a nice nest egg laid down by wealthy relatives who made all their money out of heavy industry, hence the "we must live an ecologicaly friendly lifestyle" to make up for what our loaded parents/grandparents did.
Maybe they worked, bought a house then sold it to cash in the equity?
Matt, can you build us a house in say 6 months time?
Maybe they worked, bought a house then sold it to cash in the equity?
That's what I assumed. They were selling a reasonable big house in Brighton that they seem to have bought when prices were low and sold when they were high and spent the profits on a relatively cheap house somewhere that prices were much lower.
If we'd sold our house at the top of the market we'd have had £80k cash and that's just a 3-bed semi in the cheap part of a North East town.