What you can do w/ vintage wood, architectural artifacts, hand-blown glass windows, doors, & trim? Create special Anythings!
Imagination combined w human energy in Action creates amazing things like great Art Houses or just the things you need for spouses to be happy with a hOMe that calls from Nature to live on.
What makes vintage wood better than new wood? What does a portable house look like? Why would anyone choose inferior lumber to build with when such excellent wood exists nearly for free, in fact, mere human energy if you can volunteer to take it out?
See how the trailer is not wasted sitting under a house for life? It could deliver 60-70 as this trailer was built from Home Depot lumber racks they dispensed with 15 years ago and gave to salvage for free in return for hauling the steel away. The corporation decided leasing the racking was better for them tax-wise I guess.
What is a standard of 95% Pure Salvage proven for? So that others will at least attempt 75% knowing what is possible rather than build with all new materials.
Furthermore, many imported resources all cost the environment in the forms of trees cut, ore mined, smelted, formed, and at what cost in fuel?
Why not start with a nearly 0 carbon footprint, no pollution to create a house, no energy to make glass or hardware, roof, or door hardware, window hardware, and more?
I can save more energy and resources by building tiny houses with salvage than anyone can build with new materials.
I start with the energy saved and banked, whereas others start having spent more energy to create the materials than my houses will use in a lifetime to heat and cool them.
Such are the questions of a Tiny Texas Houses pioneer as I wonder at the masses that do not care. There are many other benefits, though I often try to share, I recommend the Substack newsletter to learn the many facts indeed. Dangers to be watching for, Loopholology for sure. It is the source for all you need to know if you want to be a Pure Salvage Builder, or hunter, to build neat houses for a career, or villages one day.
Brad w. Kittel
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