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    • Parrothead
      By Parrothead
      The "proposed" house that is show on the images in THIS THREAD, is something I have been working on for a while. Trouble is, I keep changing the actual roof style AND size of the home I want to construct. I would like to share the current one I am working on. I am trying to create a plan that is fairly easy to expand later. 
       
      The first plan shown is the smaller of the two, thus a better choice to build, financially. 
       
      Anyway, no matter which "plan" we end up going with, the first issue is money. We will have to build it in stages. We have recently completed stage one, adding fill dirt to increase the height of the land where the home is to be built. 
       
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      No expansions will be added to this side of the home, due to its close proximity to the property line. 

       
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      In this image, you can see 3 - 20,000 liter (~5,283 US gallons) water storage tanks. I've calculated that this would add a significant buffer for water usage during the dry season. However, we would start off with one tank, later adding the others as time and money permitted. (Yes, I know locating a horizontal LPG tank would probably not happen here. Most likely, I will go with several vertical 45kg LPG tanks, probably in a small vented shed. That was the closest image I could find, to add to the drawing.)

       
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      Here is an alternative plan, originally created by a friend of mine from my Cebu Forum. I have made some alterations to the plan, though. This was the first plan I started with.

       
      My changes to the plan, above.

       
      Doll house view of the plan. This is a two bedroom, one bath plan. But, I chose to use the second bedroom as an office area.

       
      Plan with a hip roof. The best roof to go with, if I were going to go with solar panels on the roof and face the home the same direction as other structures on the property.

       
      Same plan with a gable roof. 

       
      To be perfectly honest, I don't know what I will end up doing, regarding what we will build. Just taking it one step at a time here. I will probably come up with a few other options, regarding size, roof style, etc. Main thing is to get a roof over our heads out there. I may just start with a bedroom and bath, with the rest of the house unfinished. 
       
       
    • Parrothead
      By Parrothead
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      2 cubic meters of gravel, at $12.50 USD / cubic meter --- $25.00 USD
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      1 finishing trowel ------------------------------------------------------------ $ .63¢
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      Of course, photos will be added later.
       
      Here is my original thread, where I brought up strength of various foundation formulas.
       
       
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