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Still amazing if you ask me...

hellweaver666 11y ago
Yup and when it's scaled up there would be warehouses full of parts waiting to be shipped at a moments notice.
zimpenfish 11y ago
I'm not denying that - the whole process is good stuff. But I'm suggesting that "assembled in 19 days" is more accurate than "built in 19 days".
- gambiting 11y ago
  My dad used to work on 1 day houses. Essentially the whole house would arrive from the factory and just had to be assembled. In the morning, there was nothing, in the evening, you had a complete house, with windows and doors which could be locked. Still, the foundations took a month to settle properly before the construction could start,but it didn't change the fact that the whole house was actually assembled in a day. You could leave for work in the morning, and arrive in the afternoon to see that your neighbor now has a house where 12 hours before there was just concrete.
  - protomyth 11y ago
    There is a company out of Oregon that did that with geodesic domes (suitable for homes or offices). You poured a concrete slab or basement to their specs before they showed up, and they would unload a semi and setup the dome in one day with an electrician and plumber hooking up the utilities. I know a place that bought two and was amazed at how quick it went and how well they held up to the winter / summer of the northern plains.
  - nate_meurer 11y ago
    A hundred years ago in the U.S. you could order a house from the Sears Modern Home catalog. They had dozens of different models. A kit containing everything you needed to build the house was delivered to the site on trucks, and you could assemble it yourself. The kit came with comprehensive instructions, and assembly points were marked with numbers and arrows. How far we have fallen.
    - nosuchthing 11y ago
      Ah but we've come so far though! [1] http://www.ecocapsule.sk/ http://www.ecocapsule.sk/ [2] http://www.fastcoexist.com/3021196/house-in-a-box-this-tiny-flatpacked-30000-home-can-be-assembled-with-just-a-drill http://www.fastcoexist.com/3021196/house-in-a-box-this-tiny-... [3] http://www.smallhousestyle.com/small-house-builders-prefab-kits/ http://www.smallhousestyle.com/small-house-builders-prefab-k... [4] http://tinygreencabins.com/sweet-life-tiny-houses/ http://tinygreencabins.com/sweet-life-tiny-houses/

Yup and when it's scaled up there would be warehouses full of parts waiting to be shipped at a moments notice.

I'm not denying that - the whole process is good stuff. But I'm suggesting that "assembled in 19 days" is more accurate than "built in 19 days".

gambiting 11y ago
My dad used to work on 1 day houses. Essentially the whole house would arrive from the factory and just had to be assembled. In the morning, there was nothing, in the evening, you had a complete house, with windows and doors which could be locked. Still, the foundations took a month to settle properly before the construction could start,but it didn't change the fact that the whole house was actually assembled in a day. You could leave for work in the morning, and arrive in the afternoon to see that your neighbor now has a house where 12 hours before there was just concrete.
- protomyth 11y ago
  There is a company out of Oregon that did that with geodesic domes (suitable for homes or offices). You poured a concrete slab or basement to their specs before they showed up, and they would unload a semi and setup the dome in one day with an electrician and plumber hooking up the utilities. I know a place that bought two and was amazed at how quick it went and how well they held up to the winter / summer of the northern plains.
- nate_meurer 11y ago
  A hundred years ago in the U.S. you could order a house from the Sears Modern Home catalog. They had dozens of different models. A kit containing everything you needed to build the house was delivered to the site on trucks, and you could assemble it yourself. The kit came with comprehensive instructions, and assembly points were marked with numbers and arrows. How far we have fallen.
  - nosuchthing 11y ago
    Ah but we've come so far though! [1] http://www.ecocapsule.sk/ http://www.ecocapsule.sk/ [2] http://www.fastcoexist.com/3021196/house-in-a-box-this-tiny-flatpacked-30000-home-can-be-assembled-with-just-a-drill http://www.fastcoexist.com/3021196/house-in-a-box-this-tiny-... [3] http://www.smallhousestyle.com/small-house-builders-prefab-kits/ http://www.smallhousestyle.com/small-house-builders-prefab-k... [4] http://tinygreencabins.com/sweet-life-tiny-houses/ http://tinygreencabins.com/sweet-life-tiny-houses/