Morton type building as REALLY cheap house?

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What abt using a Morton type building and making a
really cheap house out of it?

Basically build a " box"...... a machine shed type
building.

Position the "box" so that one of the longest sides
faces south. have no windows at all on the north or
east and west sides.....have all windows on the south
facing side.

Since these machine sheds are of steel construction....
they don't need any load bearing internal walls right?
That way you can have one big open space for living
space, no?

Advice on this idea? Thoughts and opinions? Anyone
done it?

 

[Fred B. McGalliard]

What abt using a Morton type building and making a
really cheap house out of it?

Basically build a " box"...... a machine shed type
building.

Noisy in a hail storm. Hotter than heck in bright sun. You need sound and
thermal insulation, and quite a bit of it. This design is a very large solar
oven. You will need shade and night time insulation for the window, and you
will probably want it double paned at the very least. You do need something
to help hold the inside temperature stable. Folks use stacks of bricks,
water bottles, even stone floors. Since heat rises, you will need some
circulation drivers, a fan or two, as well. Then you need to have a solid
foundation and anchor, so your house does not fly away in the wind. Pretty
soon this doesn't look so cheap, and you wonder if you shouldn't just do it
right the first time if you are going to all the bother?

 

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Not to mention you can't sell it as a house because no bank will finance it.

Neighbor has that problem right now.

mikell

Understood

But my "logic" was that I wont try and seel it as a
house anyway.

Instead if I did want to seel the land and building....
I would pull out the appliances and sell it as "land
with a good garage or machine shed" on it.

In other words....Id angle my sale of it so that it was
a great site to build a conventional home on cause it
already has a good outside building or garage on it.

Make any sense?

 

[Sparky]

Very occasionally in the UK you'll come across an old railway-carriage which
was once converted into a home. That was many years ago though, and
people's rising aspirations and expectations of their housing have led to
the almost universal lapsing of these carriages into dilapidation/garden
allotment sheds/farm chemicals and feed sheds.
They are still suprisingly easy on the eye, though, and I've often wondered
how the pleasant effect could be preserved/used in a new project. I suppose
one day it'll be old airliners! Anyone for an old Dakota?!!
Sparky.

 

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Several years ago I ran across a website promoting the use of

old jetliners as homes. In some installations, they were
installed on a pivoting pier, so they'd swivel like a weathervane.
I just checked, and the site was down. Oh, well...

haha

yeah that would be cool..... but way too "exotic" for
me. lol