Sat Feb 10, 2018 9:10 am
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There are constant news items about the need to build more houses, especially affordable houses which got me wondering why houses are so expensive.
They’ve been adding an extension to a house down the road, and progress has been (a) slow, due mainly to the weather and (b) quite labour intensive putting bricks and breeze blocks on top of each other and making sure it’s level etc.
Why does it have to be this way? Why can house building not be modular like budget hotels or cruise ship cabins? They come on the back of a lorry, ready made and are just placed on top of each other.
Why would this not work for houses? There was a prog on TV a while back where someone had made a home out of shipping containers joined together... that’s almost the same thing.
Right, that’s sorted.... we just need to find some land to build these houses on..... but there’s plenty of brownfield land in most urban areas... some rotund here has been derelict for years.
They’ve been adding an extension to a house down the road, and progress has been (a) slow, due mainly to the weather and (b) quite labour intensive putting bricks and breeze blocks on top of each other and making sure it’s level etc.
Why does it have to be this way? Why can house building not be modular like budget hotels or cruise ship cabins? They come on the back of a lorry, ready made and are just placed on top of each other.
Why would this not work for houses? There was a prog on TV a while back where someone had made a home out of shipping containers joined together... that’s almost the same thing.
Right, that’s sorted.... we just need to find some land to build these houses on..... but there’s plenty of brownfield land in most urban areas... some rotund here has been derelict for years.
Paul
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The forum seems to have stopped logging me out at random intervals. Perhaps they like me after all? (Thanks for fixing it) Our pleasure!