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    1. ian hines‏ @imhinesmi May 5
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      flash forward six years, and my parents reveal their grand plan for our land plot they are going to build their dream house, and have been sketching it out for most of their marriage its going to be underground and completely off the grid they are ready to build

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    2. ian hines‏ @imhinesmi May 5
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      now, dad has a chemical engineering degree, and spent some time in the us army engineering corps, so he knows what hes doing on the construction and design side of things he becomes the general contractor, and also half of the other contractors

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      we break ground in the summer of '11 the goal is to have the outer shell of the house ready by winter, so that we can continue construction without being hindered by snow a giant hole is dug rebar tying becomes a family bonding exercise

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    4. ian hines‏ @imhinesmi May 5
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      we manage to make the outside of the house and cover it back up by snowfall we move in in august '12 now, this was a pretty weird house, if you hadnt already figured that out for starters: it was round, to better hold all the dirt on top

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    5. ian hines‏ @imhinesmi May 5
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      one of the cool (heh) things about being underground is that the earth changes temperature real slowly so: no need for central heating or ac, because the earth will do it for us we also had a bunch of south-facing windows, so we barely needed to use electric lighting

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    6. ian hines‏ @imhinesmi May 5
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      there was a pavilion out back, with a bunch of solar panels on it, and a tunnel leading out back which a battery rack to store the power, and a well for water the house itself was actually super nice: roomy, comfy, with character it was The place to have parties

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      okay, so weve moved in now, so its all going to be peachy and wonderful and it turns out that wet ground changes temperature faster than dry ground so we spent our first winter at a toasty 60 F (and dropping) we had to get a propane space heater to not freeze in our sleep

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    8. ian hines‏ @imhinesmi May 5
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      also, michigan winters and solar panels dont mix well the panels were angled to maximize average sunlight exposure, which meant that snow would pile up on top of them they were 10-20 feet off the ground, we had to get an extendable broom to clean them off

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    9. ian hines‏ @imhinesmi May 5
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      also also the batteries we were using kind of sucked we had a bank of 40 batteries but one of them exploded (giving dad a nice chemical burn) and several other were faulty, refusing to hold charge and causing the circuit to have critically low voltage all the time

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    10. ian hines‏ @imhinesmi May 5
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      we managed to smooth things out afterwards, but man that first winter was rough my sibling and i moved out for college 2 and 4 years later, my parents got a new job across the country 5 years later, and now some of my cousins are living there

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      chad donkey from shrek 2‏ @choosy_mom May 5
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      would love to hear more about your parents what influenced them to build the house (prepping/homesteading/rugged self reliance/something else)? did they plan on living there forever? do they intend for you/your sibling to live there?

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        2. ian hines‏ @imhinesmi May 5
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          some interest in sustainability, plus my dad just likes building things my dads whole family is super into gardening+self reliance too i think the plan for the house is to be a retirement house/generational family home

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        3. chad donkey from shrek 2‏ @choosy_mom May 5
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          do you view it as an overwhelmingly net positive experience? do your parents? also, in a world where you weren’t prob going to inherit a sustainability hobbit hole, do you think you might do something similar?

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