|
"Get the Flash Player"
"to see this gallery."
|
This is a website about us and the house we made out of tires and newspapers.
We are two women, both over 50, and we built this house ourselves using recycled materials and a healthy dose of blood, sweat and tears!
We began with a leaky old mobile home we got for free, and we doubled its size by building a 6' addition on both sides. For the additions, we made a foundation of old tires packed with clay and laid like concrete blocks. On top of the tire foundation we built forms with used and seconds lumber. And on top of the mobile home and additions, we installed metal roofing purchased from a local scrap-yard
We paid $6,000 for 6 acres of land in central West Virginia. We found a free 1973 mobile home and the cost of delivery and set up was $900.00.
We paid $4,000 to have a well drilled and $400,00 for electric hook-up. We used old tires (free) for the foundation and poured 12' thick papercrete walls made from newspaper (also free) mixed with clay from our land and a small amount of Portland cement (we bought torn 80 lb bags and paid 50% less).
Please feel free to peruse this website and enjoy the many photo-galleries and slideshows that depict the progress of our project.
If you have any questions or want to do a project send an email to:
