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The $50 and Up Underground House Book |
The $50 & Up Underground House Book teaches you how to build the lowest cost, most sunshine-filled, best ventilated and driest underground houses of all. It teaches how to incorporate greenhouses, root cellars and fallout shelters into an underground home. It covers both hillside and flat land design, and explains how to solve drainage problems with dependable gravity rather then expensive, failure-prone building materials. It also details ways to pass or otherwise deal with the building codes.
The $50 & Up Underground House Book is the only book to explain in detail author Mike Oehler’s revolutionary Post/Shoring/Polyethylene building method, which cuts building materials to the absolute minimum.
The $50 & Up Underground House Book does much more than just cut your building material costs by up to 90%. It is widely recognized as the book which offers the reader the greatest possibilities for light, air and views in an underground home. Where most owner-designers and even professional architects are stuck on the disastrous "First Thought" concept, a design which greatly limits view, sunshine and air flow, and which usually causes staggering drainage problems, Oehler offers the "Basic Design" with the "Up Hill Patio" which solves these problems and more. He explains the weaknesses of the other three design concepts favored by conventional architects: skylights, vertical window wells and atriums. For example, though skylights admit a rewarding amount of light, they are hard to use for ventilation and fire escape, get dirty quicker, often leak, admit too much of the summer sun, too little of the winter rays, and offer no view whatsoever. They may have special applications, Oehler argues, but there are better design concepts for normal use.
Now in its seventh edition, this book has sold more than 90,000 copies and has received enthusiastic reviews from Mother Earth News, National Public Radio and many others. Many consider it the classic in its field.
This big, 112-page, 8 1/2" x 11" book contains:
- 4 pages of engineering tables and diagrams
- 8 floor plans
- 54 photos
- 100+ illustrations
Here’s what Natural Life Magazine said:
"The ideas and methods are quite often unorthodox ? but stronger for it. The design theory is well based in experience and appears to work well. Straightforward diagrams and black-and-white photos illustrate many construction and design points ? a very useful and pleasant book for anyone wanting to build an inexpensive but solid underground structure."
Author: Mike Oehler, Illustrated by Chris Royer.
1978, revised edition 1992.
115 pages.
Mike Oehler has a new six hour DVD set containing an incredible wealth of information on underground building. See our item #VE13894.
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