By popular demand, our house plans! Yes, the place will be ROUND. it will have 3 enormous "entrances"--gates that can be opened to create an airy open ambiance. Two bedrooms around the edge, as well as an open kitchen; and the middle area will serve as living room/dining room/hammock hang. We decided to go with rock, as the quarry is only a few miles down the road, but we are planning to complete part of the inside walls with a homemade cobb/adobe material. And hopefully with lots of helpful hands!!!
Silvio is building a bike-generated water pump, fun! and we're hoping to get a solar panel up there to heat the shower. At some point in the future we want to install a bio-digester, in which somehow the byproduct (gas) of our waste (poop) will fuel a gas stove! I think we also need a composting toilet in a discreet location out on the farm.
anyway, seeing a crew out there actually WORKING on the site is making it seem REAL! although it doesn't look like much at this point...
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Our Honduras Living group has had some discussions about solar and hot water and it was suggested that the easiest and cheapest way to have hot water is to coil a long black hose on the roof or the top of the muro if you have one. It may not work so well during a long rainy period, but overall, it's basically a free hot water system. You can probably find more by googling.
Do you have any need for rainwater harvesting? I found an excellent site about that here:
Rainwater harvesting
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