Quonset Hut Home

This silient video slide show, was done for friends and family, but I think it fits well with self sufficiency. The quonset hut is a house project we are just completing now. Its a 30x50 structure with a 20x30 basement. The center of the arch is 17 foot high. We poured 120 yards of concrete and built the structure in a few weeks. The loft is held up with ponderosa pines from the property and logs cut with a chainsaw mill horizontally for the 20 foot beams which the floor joists sit on. This house is off grid and uses 24v DC for all its lighting. The roof will be a green roof in the end. There will more videos to come, on the off grid aspects of the house. I hope this inspires you all on your projects.

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[artizun]

what are the diameters of the log supports and how are they mounted to the floor? I see you notched the vertical timbers and then layed a horizontal log on the notch. How are the logs attached to each toher. Thanks

[EndOfTheRoadFamily]

@artizun Hello Artizun. The log posts are around 16 inch diameter on average. Some bigger some a little smaller. They are mounted on the concrete pad with a "knife plate". It's a 1/4 inch steel plate in the shape of inverted T. Where the top of the T is bolted to the concrete with 5/8 all thread epoxy'd into the holes drilled in the concrete. Then 3/4 allthread goes through the logs and through the bracket and nuts are put on each side. The top logs are lag bolted onto the posts 1/2 dia

[EndOfTheRoadFamily]

@EndOfTheRoadFamily There are four lag bolts for each post to beam connection. There are two through bolts to the T plate ( knife plate ) at 3/4 each. Hope that helps.

[SacredFireLodge]

How do you find financing for a project like this? We are putting up a Q Hut home as well... Thank you..

[EndOfTheRoadFamily]

@SacredFireLodge We financed it ourselves as we went along. I'm not sure how a bank would handle this sort of project during this downturn. The quonset hut itself was only $10k. Its the concrete in this project that costs alot.

[EndOfTheRoadFamily]

@zjs5006 Hello Z. Good question. For now we used normal fiberglass batting and covered with tarp and heavy weight landscaping material. Long term we will spray the outside with closed cell two part foam insulation then paint the foam with elastomeric paint. That job is about $7,500 though so we gotta save up. For now the batting works fine, it just wont last long that way.

[zjs5006]

@EndOfTheRoadFamily how did you insulate the exterior?

[sgtpepper1138]

AMAZING job, I plan on building one for my family and I in the coming years.

[dbmrhi]

Man watching this was better then sex! Great job!