On Jun 22, 8:57 am, Jack wrote:
On Jun 22, 6:43 am, wrote:





Have you ever noticed how houses are built? They use small nails and
screws to hold the wood pieces together. It's no wonder houses are so
easily destroyed in tornados and hurricanes. Think about this once.
We have a large house, filled with heavy furniture which weighs many
tons, and it;s being held together with a these tiny nails and screws
that fit in our hands and weigh less than an ounce. How in the heck
are those small things supposed to hold together a large house? Sure,
under ideal conditions they do, and that is mostly just because the
wooden pieces are stacked in a way that that any stacked objects will
stay in a stack as long as the stack is not pushed or shoved. The
nails do not hold anything, they only retain the stack in position.
But when force is applied, the stack collapses because the nails are
weak. Consider the facts. How can a 1/8 inch (or less) thick piece
of steel hold together a megaton house? The answer is, IT CAN NOT.
That thin piece of steel can easily be broken with a simple plyers and
a few pounds of muscle power. Nails and screws are obsolete and
outdated. They should have become history many years ago, when the
settlers to this country moved out of tents and discovered how to
build a log cabin. Yet, in this modern age we still use them, and
people die constantly when storms apply some force to the houses and
other structures that we build with nails. When are we going to learn
to build properly, where all wood is welded together using glues and
adhesives, along with interlocking pieces of wood which we had used in
the earlier barn construction. If wooden pieces were both interlocked
AND glued, our homes would withstand most storms. Instead we continue
to use nails and screws, while people die and homes are destroyed
whenever the wind blows strongly. Wake Up America !!! Lets start
building houses that STAY together......

Larry

How about one built of concrete and covered as a mound? Sounds
interesting to me and probably pretty cost effective.
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Earth bermed houses can get expensive since super reinforced
waterprooof concrete has to be used as well as an extensive drainage
system. A stuctural/materials engineer has to be hired.

They are among the most energy efficient homes there are so you would
save money that way. They way they look is the best feature. They
blend in with the landscape like no other home can.

That troll is a least enregetic with such a lengthy post. Usually
their questions are just short and stupid usually without complete
sentences or punctuation.