95% Pure Salvage building ideas, from houses to our Future
Channel: Brad Kittel
Date: 06/05/2020

What you use to create a home with does make a difference in many ways.  How long it will last before the bugs devour it, sun or rain rots it, or maintenance gets ignored?  Using great wood to start with may add decades to the life of a house if it is put in a compromising situation as to where modern building designs use a minimal construction material possible design.  This depends upon the architects and engineers who create then use, speed grown wood pulp formed into joists, beams, siding, flooring, decking, from compositions of wood, glues and things that outgas in the night.
So the Old-growth lumber is hard to find unless you salvage houses, buildings, barns, or more.   Not a problem with salvaged cured strong beams, 2x stock, siding, and other treasure laying all about.  If you did that, and the locals let you build with it, then create jobs, Master Suites style Organic locally sourced, labor created cottages that would be energy efficient, healthy for the owners, last the rest of their life, and even possibly be movable one day on a special trailer just for that when needed.
Imagine or just watched and see how to do such things and thus support your family, community, and the future of a self-sustainable society where life skills and knowledge are appreciated.   For now, instead such ideas and building methods are penalized for not following global import-based corporate big-box dictated code that forced buying imports to build homes with that will kill you with toxins once you move in.
Consider another path?

Tiny Texas Houses was to teach others how to get the materials and create the houses. Ft. Salvage Texas is about how to use that and the other knowledge of the elders from our past to build a better future than the one we ran head on into this year.  Import-free means so many things and a healthy home might now be more important than in the past decade or three.
What future do you see?

Darby Lettick
Ghostwriter and Caretaker 
for 
Tiny Texas Houses and 
Brad Kittel