60k to build a home

epz_2

linkage

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/nov/16/eddieshah

no photos but there are a fair few wooden council built ones from the 60s still kicking about in the west of scotland.


60k is only for the construction costs but still, a few compulsory planning permission quotas for the local councils(1) and the cost of land would drop fast and housing problem solved.


(1) anyone about to b!tch about green belt can move to a bedsit and provide space for the rest of us first.

Doozergirl

I can't see why they are cheap The value of the land is lower if you can't get full residential planning permission on it. He's hardly making any less on it.

And who exactly is living in a house where you can't get a residential mortgage? I bet they're just BTLs. He's not giving anything back at all!

Timber frame is supposed to be the way of the future though. It's very strong and flexible. Not sure about weatherboarding like an American house though - that won't last very long. I'd live in one if it outlived me though!

BrandNewDay

I don't understand the problem with timber framed houses. They're common in all sorts of climates in America...

Strapped

Wouldn't help much when it's at least £200k for a building plot though.

plane_boy2000

Easy to build a simple house for 60K, and Timber frame is more common than you might think. A few of teh big national builders have built some developments with timber frames. When you say timber frames people assume that the whole thing will be made of wood. Think Wilson Connoly used to build them with a timber frame and then build in brick around so teh houses look the same from the outside.

Canucklehead

BrandNewDay wrote: »

I don't understand the problem with timber framed houses. They're common in all sorts of climates in America...

Good evening: Timber frame is king in Canada... the design copes well with extremes of climate. Meanwhile here in the UK... remember 'Two Jags' £60k house competition? http://www.designformanufacture.info/home.htm

Canucklhead

epz_2

Strapped wrote: »

Wouldn't help much when it's at least £200k for a building plot though.

as i said, if you force councils to permit a certain amount of flats, terriced, semi's etc and withhold funding if they dont much like they do for recyling. if the number of available building plots increases then the cost will drop substantially.

personally i would love to build a house provided i could get it done to my specifications, there are plenty of viable plots round here but there is no way in hell i would deal with local council burocracy.

vansboy

This is what a timber framed house looks like after I've had it for a month!!
www.theupsidedownhouse.9f.com
We start putting it back together next week - we hope!!

VB

Doozergirl

That's the sofa I'm going to buy! God, you guys have good taste, LOL!

jonewer

The problem with timber framed houses is that they dont last very long at all. Look at this new build! Its falling down already!

jhspjhsp

Nice one

That said, there's a big difference between using large oak timbers morticed together, and using crappy bits of fir stuck together with plasterboard and a nailgun. The fact remains that you can kick a hole in both the interior and exterior walls of most modern US houses. Aluminium cladding anyone?