"100% of people who do not save money do not have any!"--Dave Ramsey

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Specifically, duckduckgo.com/?q=groucho+join+club

Do what I've done, accept your fate. Else find a girl woman who wants to live in an aircrete house with a big garage. I'm sure they're out there.

I already have one. If only I could get an aircrete house before she leaves me for not owning one.

[Xist]

Quick! Everybody build an aircrete home! Hopefully I come in fourth!

[freebeard]

I had an uncle who's wife wanted a bigger house in the same spot. so he built the new house around the old one and then tore it out.

Don't do that.

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by Xist

Quick! Everybody build an aircrete home! Hopefully I come in fourth!

Any house would be better than no house.

I'm still on the fence with the half-of-my-income tiny apartment here or a $100,000 home where property taxes are $5,000 a year and I have no job experience.

[Xist]

What was wrong with that?

I saw a house built around the trailer.

The trailer was still inside!

If I could only buy a trailer I often wonder about adding onto it, with presumably two stories.

I guess that when I could afford to add onto the addition I replace the original home.

If the property is big enough you could build a house on another part, but then you might end up with a house on a weird location on your property.

Move the mobile home out of the way, connect it there, and built a site-built home in the original spot?

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by Xist

What was wrong with that?

I saw a house built around the trailer.

The trailer was still inside!

If I could only buy a trailer I often wonder about adding onto it, with presumably two stories.

I guess that when I could afford to add onto the addition I replace the original home.

If the property is big enough you could build a house on another part, but then you might end up with a house on a weird location on your property.

Move the mobile home out of the way, connect it there, and built a site-built home in the original spot?

I don't think you could build another story above a trailer unless it was a house on stilts. Even adding drywall on a trailer's ceiling can wreak havoc on the frame due to that extra weight.

[freebeard]

I have a trailer, but there is an 80ft fir tree engulfing the hitch.

My best bet for two stories would be to make a treehouse. It's 21" caliper. I could pinwheel five or six joists around it.

But i'm really slow on stairs as it is.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

But i'm really slow on stairs as it is.

Counterweighted lift with a small motor assist.

When my buddy and I were spending every night in a hammock 60ft up a tree, climbing it became a chore, so we found a pulley, attached it to a sturdy limb, used a couple other limbs as load sharing/backup, and gathered approximately our individual weight of boulders into a couple burlap sacks as counterweights.

We had a hook at the base of the tree to attach the lift to, suspending the burlap sack of boulders in the air until the next time one of us needed to go up.

Easily could have killed us, but was a ton of fun.

[freebeard]

I have cousins who live in the hills above Willamina. Loggers. I suggested they could run a cable from the side hill to a tree, halfway up; and rig a bicycle cable carriage.

[Xist]

Idahobos building a second story on stilts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG5P6QC765o

A basement being installed under a mobile home for some reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRkKqHRH43I

I have commented before that we have mobile homes around here with real roofs on stilts. In that first video they just used trusses that were open in the middle for usable space.

I have written before that if you are putting 4x4s around your mobile home you might as well put insulation in between and then siding on it--or put in 2x4s, 16 inches, on center, and then rip out the original wall [winks with both eyes]. This isn't the video that I wanted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0hEeuCjYNk

I would rather built a second story (or basement!) instead of a conventional addition because i work hard on the yard and don't want to take away from it, but then I would want a wheelchair ramp, and that would require 360 square feet of ramps!

Building a carport in front of the garage sounds better and better. Maybe I wouldn't add a room up there, just an open attic, which could be converted into a room, but we need storage space before we can create additional living space.

By the way, I didn't refer to adding a second story to the mobile home itself, instead an addition with two stories, since most mobile homes are 2' off the ground. You could do one story with a 10' ceiling or just an 8' front wall with a bit of a cathedral ceiling to the front of the mobile home.