Could flat-packed houses be the answer to Australia's housing crisis?

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Could flat-packed houses be the answer to Australia's housing crisis?

7 yrs ago

Big World Homes offer modular, mobile, 'off the grid' housing systems made from 39 thermal, waterproof integrated panels for just $65,000. And the best part is, you can build it yourself, saving you up to 80 per cent on an equivalent sized house. You can order the houses online and, using a hammer, wrench and drill, you'll only a friend to help you build it.

The home includes all white goods and everything the house needs to run. "It has all its water tanks; we have two potable water tanks, we've got one grey water tank, so all the waste water effectively comes to the grey water tank, you add an additive to it and then effectively that's safe to go on your garden,” says Architect Alex Symes, the founder of Big World Homes. "We've got the gas cylinders for cooking and also for hot water heating, [and] we've got batteries at the back – they're linked to the solar PV and that's effectively what runs all your lights."

Features of the Big World Home include:

modular, portable, flat-packed housing system
39 digitally manufactured flat-pack panels
structural-thermal-waterproof integrated design
off-grid energy & water
low environmental impact materials
Can be built by two people over a couple of days with online support.

Why not watch how a flat-packed home is built?

Would you live in a flat-packed home? Do you think that, someday, we'll see entire communities of this type of housing? How do you feel about that?

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I think the shipping containers are certainly ideal for people living on acerage. I know there is business down south of Perth where they are set up as accommodation for holiday makers.

Here is a link where you can purchase or hire.

http://www.shippingcontainers.com.au/?gclid=COTk1tHKts8CFZBvvAod1OgD5A

KSS

7 yrs ago

This is a variation on the 'Tiny House' that is really quite popular in the USA at the moment. SOme are 'fixed' but others can be built on various sizetrailers and can be moved. There is a program on channel 94 called Tiny Houses. Check it put. Some are really interesting.

catsahoy

7 yrs ago

have watched these programs, and while they are small, they could be a boon to elderly people who find a big house to much to care for, i know as i have got older i have some housework a real chore, trying to pull furniture out to vacuum, and trying to get to hard to reach places to clean,, can be hard, i now make it so i do one room thourolly each day, and skim over the rest, also for young ones trying to buy there first home, could have one of these while they saved, i agree not good for kids, but i can see them being built for migrants and refugees, we are going to run out of places to put them very quickly, the rate they are coming here, i dont know where they are putting them now, we have no housing for the people now, where do they go, ?

I put up a post on here somewhere KSS only a few days ago re the Tiny Houses...not for me.

"Talking of small houses; has anyone ever watched that show called Tiny Houses on Channel 94.?

No way could I live in a house that small yet so many in America are embracing this latest "fad","gimmick"...wonder how long it will last. I suppose if you have no other option at least it is a roof over your head but how on earth a family with 2 growing children live in them I have no idea."

http://www.countryliving.com/home-design/g1887/tiny-house/?

Not a "gimmick". yeah very popular in the US, hitch them up to wheels and a great holiday place.My son is building one

Image result for tiny houses in colorado

Some are living permanently in them...holiday ok...permanent not for me at all!

HOLA

7 yrs ago

Hiker - I love those tiny houses, just imagine hooking up to your car and moving every couple of weeks. Looks just the thing for retirees. I believe in Christchurch where they had that devastating earthquake, the shopkeepers have set up an entire street with those metal cargo containers. My friend said they all look fantastic.

the answer to the "housing crisis" is painfully obvious to the intelligent members of australia, however, the sheeple are too freaking blind to see it!

the obvious solution is to REMOVE THE CAUSE of housing shortages. this is simply done by putting a moratorium on immigration for 5 years till we "clean up the mess caused by immigration" as suggested by pauline hanson.

unfortunately you sheeple outnumber us intelligent people by a substantial margin, so common sense gets drowned out by screams of BAAAAAAHHHHHH! RACISM!

congratulations to you sheeple for winning the war against common sense and logic. after all, who really needs a low crime rate, full employment, prosperity for those who are willing to work for it, safe streets to walk in, shop signs in english etc............?

Got the results of that recent IQ test you did handy?

i agree bilby. we import hundreds of thousands of immigrants. combined with our high birthrate, we need a new city the size of canberra every three years.

i would like to see our high immigration rate halved at least. and our high birthrate reduced via free family planning clinics including free vasectomies for men who choose this.

australia needs less people.

by the way, don't confuse immigrants with refugees. the latter are a very small number and i am happy to welcome them here. and to welcome of much smaller number of immigrants too.

I believe the "bilby" is an endangered species???

catsahoy

7 yrs ago

i think BILBY is only saying what a lot of people are thinking, me included, as i put on here some time ago,

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