This may not be for everyone but it sure seemed good to me. A friend
and I are building a shop on his property from used materials. We
found a house that was going to be torn down and bought it for $500
(approx. 2000ft2). The inside was shot. But structurally, it was sound.
We moved it piece by piece to his property - trusses, roof, walls -
everything. We are putting it together now. We salvaged a steel roof
from another location. We won't need much to complete the framing
and roof. We'll have to pour a slab and wire/plumb the building but
the cost will be minimal. Given the humidity here in Houston, our
biggest expense will be to insulate and buy some nice sealable garage
doors. Plus we got a bunch of oak harwood floors, windows, sinks,
tubs, doors, plywood, siding, conduit, etc.
I liked using the used materials route myself. I hate to see good
materials wasted. It's recycling. I also use used materials for all my
lizard enclosures ;)~
There's plenty of good materials out there if you look and they can be
had for a fraction of the price of new and good old fashioned labor.
Eric
PS - hope this isn't socio/political diatribe :)
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