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    I was looking at something you could import that was sustainable and efficient i found this company looks pretty good but no price references i imagine they must cost a lot any ideas?

    Any of you know any company's that setup bungalow or other kind of building in this same manner?

    Im very curious about reading your thoughts on this kind of investment.


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    My brother in law put in a prefab from a "great builder", now 15 years later he wishes he had stick built. Not saying you can't get a great prefab house, but I have heard to many stories where people were stuck with a product that didn't meet their expectations, but a local builder would have made things right if there was a problem. Like the picture in the link, only one window on that one side of the house.

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    In my part of the world, pre-made houses are called double-wide trailers!
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    We call them 14'ers.

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    double widers here in Europe must be hard to find...

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    We don't have too many people here from Europe, I don't think. Do you want to buy a prefab in the US and ship it over in pieces in a container?

    I've been looking at prefab, but mostly in the log cabin kit type (and finding I can't afford the good ones). That's not gonna help you in Portugal though.

    Tipacanoe, what went wrong with your bro's modular?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LowKey View Post
    We don't have too many people here from Europe, I don't think. Do you want to buy a prefab in the US and ship it over in pieces in a container?
    ye i can see Americans have a higher promptness for self sufficiency not only in this forum but several others i visited...

    I was hoping to get it from europe, and if possible from a sustainable producer that uses a more traditional standart but this option seems pricey like hell...

    there is a type of traditional construction with this material, and it looks like this bellow i guess one could buy land cheap with one of those and restore it i just dont think i would be able to do it to be honest...

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    You could prefab your own wall panels to speed construction.

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    BF, I found this list of companies that supply pre-made houses in Portugal.

    http://www.europages.co.uk/business-...ed-houses.html
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    That looks awesome, and would be easy to restore. Well, "restore" is a bad word, it means make it as it was originally. That probably wouldn't be easy.

    What would be easy would be to reinforce the walls.

    Get some surface bonding concrete with fiberglass reinforcement.

    http://www.quikrete.com/PDFs/Project...sonryWalls.pdf
    http://www.thenaturalhome.com/surfacebond/quikrete.htm
    http://www.packagepavement.com/restoring_walls.html

    You just trowel it on, it ends up looking like stucco, and it makes the wall as strong as if it was poured steel reinforced concrete, water resistant too. Then you can seal or paint it or whatever, or, for a look of character, reapply a stone veneer, brick veneer, or even a tile.

    Then you'd just need new windows, and probably a new roof I'm guessing.

    On the interior you could add new wood framing with insulation butted up against the stone walls where needed.


    Quote Originally Posted by Blasfemo View Post
    ye i can see Americans have a higher promptness for self sufficiency not only in this forum but several others i visited...

    I was hoping to get it from europe, and if possible from a sustainable producer that uses a more traditional standart but this option seems pricey like hell...

    there is a type of traditional construction with this material, and it looks like this bellow i guess one could buy land cheap with one of those and restore it i just dont think i would be able to do it to be honest...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winnie View Post
    BF, I found this list of companies that supply pre-made houses in Portugal.

    http://www.europages.co.uk/business-...ed-houses.html
    Thanks, i had found and called but only Rusticasa seems legit, lots of european funding in making fake company's that either give lousy service or even not exist in real life!


    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    That looks awesome, and would be easy to restore. Well, "restore" is a bad word, it means make it as it was originally. That probably wouldn't be easy.

    What would be easy would be to reinforce the walls.

    Get some surface bonding concrete with fiberglass reinforcement.

    http://www.quikrete.com/PDFs/Project...sonryWalls.pdf
    http://www.thenaturalhome.com/surfacebond/quikrete.htm
    http://www.packagepavement.com/restoring_walls.html

    You just trowel it on, it ends up looking like stucco, and it makes the wall as strong as if it was poured steel reinforced concrete, water resistant too. Then you can seal or paint it or whatever, or, for a look of character, reapply a stone veneer, brick veneer, or even a tile.

    Then you'd just need new windows, and probably a new roof I'm guessing.

    On the interior you could add new wood framing with insulation butted up against the stone walls where needed.
    I have made tourism in this rural houses and some use that kinf of stuff or similar might cut on costs because its kind of DIY, roof is probably in large flat stones for the sake of efficiency a new roof is imperative.

    Thanks for your responses guys.

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