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My little brother is doing this right now! He lives in an RV on some land he owns out in the middle of the desert, ~5 miles from the nearest village. The ultimate plan is to build a sandbag house into the side of a hill behind the RV, and have a well and a better solar panel setup. So far we've dug out enough space for the living room and parts of a couple bedrooms. He's getting a job now so he can pay for the permitting, tools, and materials he needs to go much further, but it's been extremely nice not having a $700 sword of Damocles over his head every month. For extremely practical reasons I can't build a house of my own on the next lot over, but I do want to build a studio from adobe at some point, so I can someday own a loom. I'm not sure where on Earth I'll be in five years tho, so I'm just soaking up knowledge along the way. (I'll try to get pictures next time I'm out there!)
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Nov 19, 2022 20:03
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what's the permitting like for building a dwelling out of sand bags
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Nov 22, 2022 23:04
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I think it's similar to the permitting process for rammed earth and adobe. I don't know the exact details, but adobe is very popular in my area, so it shouldn't be unheard-of.
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Nov 23, 2022 06:03
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https://youtu.be/sOtzdWzhVLI https://youtu.be/kV7_ZjNP_FM https://youtu.be/v8FVVpRvWi4 I constantly waffle between ‘Hey my dads got a bunch of those tools I could borrow and there’s some cheap mountain land available out in the sticks’ and ‘I would definitely be crushed by a log/eaten by a bear/given up by now.’ The guys who use tractors are cheating, only power tools charged by a solar panel should be allowed. There’s also a bunch of channels that are people building prefab wooden hot tub kits 
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