$1000 to build a bugout house

[FbodTrek]

Chainsaw, Axe, Drill, Rebar, pitch, sheetmetal, timber nails, hammer, chisels, beer.
Log cabin done.
Or you could camp CL for some foundation blocks (cinder blocks) and build a block house, those are easy and affordable if you can find the materials for the right price (lot sof times folks give them away)

Gotta be a tin roof though, last forever, throw in a couple sheets of celotex exterior underneath the tin for insulation.

 

[Byte Stryke]

Insulated Concrete
do the work yourself

 

[FbodTrek]

^^^
Also a cost effective idea, assuming your location is accessible by a mixer truck (mixing concrete yourself is more money, which never made sense to me).
Remesh, rebar, earth, cheap plywood or corrugated steel. A really neat fix would be to use corregated steel culverts used to making land bridges. Figure a 20X12' diameter piece would give you a VERY strong core to build around, bury in a trench, back fill with concrete. Cap either end with corrugated steel or plate. Tubes are stronger than square boxes (shipping containers) and i'd wager more affordable (though to be honest, I've never priced the culvert tubes)

 

[clp]

Underground Storage Tanks,
Gas, Desiel Tanks could work?

^^^
Also a cost effective idea, assuming your location is accessible by a mixer truck (mixing concrete yourself is more money, which never made sense to me).
Remesh, rebar, earth, cheap plywood or corrugated steel. A really neat fix would be to use corregated steel culverts used to making land bridges. Figure a 20X12' diameter piece would give you a VERY strong core to build around, bury in a trench, back fill with concrete. Cap either end with corrugated steel or plate. Tubes are stronger than square boxes (shipping containers) and i'd wager more affordable (though to be honest, I've never priced the culvert tubes)

 

[Tacticalcountryboy]

How much $ are the old de-commissioned school buses going for now days?

Just bought one, Diesel, only 80,000 miles $2000.00

 

[FbodTrek]

Underground Storage Tanks,
Gas, Desiel Tanks could work?

Or a big poly septic tank, those things are tough as nails and last forever, designed to be buried, airtight, etc. They make them quuite big, I lived down the road from a company that made(?) them or supplied them, some were massive, bigger than my master bedroom. bet they'd be pricey new though.

 

[IMaDad]

1000 dollar budget? I would definitely go earthbag construction. hell you can buy pond liner with that budget for the roof, a piece of polycarbonate for a sunlight roof. maybe even a solar panel!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPz61MWn8xw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91PjTrGYbRk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6XtdyrKE_M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo5qOnwgAM4 -MUTE the hippy music

or go even more hippy with a cob house
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjb709Tx7MA
that would be AWESOME.
then you can hand make a rocket stove that is a bed. its pretty common with those types of homes. hmmmm warm bed.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cob...7oHIAw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1680&bih=949&dpr=1

 

[IMaDad]

http://ilovecob.com/gallery/main.php

when i think long term shtf. I think something like a cob home with a rocket stove/oven would be much nicer over time than a metal shipping container.

I could make that work ^


heres an interior example. Clearly a woman lives here, so replace the dress with your AR/AK
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