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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Seems like good insulation.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Caves

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    either they ran out of money to build the rest of the house or there was a house fire and they didn't bother rebuilding fully, in either case holy shit I hope they have that fricker sealed

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is this some sort of tornado cope?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      this looks absolutely moronic, what is the point

      they are the oldest kind of human housing.
      >absolutely moronic
      no, YOUR house looks moronic

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    "bermed home" is a good starting point

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    this looks absolutely moronic, what is the point

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Property speculator detected

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Coding anomaly? In the matrix.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Although these were obviously ran-out-of-money specials. Foundation's in. But only enough dough left to put in a roof. If they get more and want to stay, jack up the roof and build a floor under it.
    Why would you do this? Ownership. I guarantee there's no israelite bank holding a deed on these.
    First kinds of homes American settlers built, actually. Dig a hole. Dig some stairs. Lay logs over the top. Quick and easy to build before winter sets in. As time and materials and wealth were built, families would build real houses. Same idea here.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Saw once of these a few years ago in Roswell, Georgia. They were building a huge house and ran into some kind of financial problem so they put on a roof instead of finishing the upper levels. Due to the slope of the lot, one of the sides wasn't covered and had doors and windows. Inside they didn't bother with interior walls except for the bathroom but otherwise had more or less standard builder grade finishes. It had a kitchen, so it was basically a downtown loft layout dropped into the ground in the suburbs.
    If I had the cash at the time, I would have considered buying it as most of the difficult stuff with getting utilities, a driveway (it was a heavily forested lot), and a residency permit had already been finished. It was a completely livable space but obviously no bank was going to be willing to finance it. They offered the architectural plans they had intended to use for the house but I'd never need that much space so if I ever needed to expand, I'd thrown up a single story on top.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugout_(shelter)

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >
    in my part of the country we'd call that a radon cancer trap

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I live by this house wtf

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What's the story?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        forgot the foundation a few years ago

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          can't believe I took this seriously for a few moments

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Called a berm house. They are built to be very energy effecient and quiet. This one is small inside.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Called a berm house. They are built to be very energy effecient and quiet.
          >american quality strikes and water flows inside unhindered
          >big american truck drives on the road whole house vibrates

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Rent free

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This thread proves what a bunch of followers American's rural chuds are. They wouldn't dream of building a house in unorthodox ways or billy boomer at the elks lodge might think he was somekind of homosexuel.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Having your entire out filled with water to the ceiling is a strange way to assert your masculinity.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Any man worth his salt wood install a sump pump or at least know how to survey a site that isn't prone to flooding.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >sump pump
          Where can I buy this magical sump pump that never breaks and is powerful enough to handle 5-8 feet of water? Oh, and given that it's flooding we should also assume the pump will work without power.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >and given that its flooding
            oops i built it in an area that doesnt flood

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Seems pretty stupid. What benefit does this offer? Doesn't seem like anything that would outweigh the potential problems that could occur with your house being below ground level.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They're going to have the same troubles as any basement in the area in which they are located. Lots of people have fully finished basements that are functional living spaces but if you live somewhere like New Orleans, it's going to be a mess. The benefits are as someone else mentioned, noise isolation and thermal insulation. Just don't build one in a city near a transit line because those vibrations will travel through the ground into your lair.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    stable temp at 52 degrees

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You face the sad sad truth,
    the dirty lowdown

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My grandparents used to live down the road from like 2 of these houses.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What part of the country is that?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Noree going by the plants

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Alaska. There used to be a lot more of them.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >unfinished

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