Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Replicating the Pallet Homeless Shelter System to pre-emptively bypass permit codes?

 

 These 8 x 8 Prefabricated Shelters can double as providing the main requirements for a permanent residence dwelling with IRS International Building Code features:

1) Year-round insulated shelter (each of them would be insulated)

2) Bathroom facility (composting toilet privy and Shower space as one structure)

3) Kitchen facility (portable stove with refrigerator/freezer off grid as 2nd structure)

4) Sleeping space (3rd structure).

Since all these structures - 3 of them - are LESS than 120 square feet each so then no permits are necessary.

Why three small structures? Because you can haul the materials way easier - they fit into the SUV.

Since there is no discharge then no permit is needed for composting toilet (as per the "micro-unit" sanctuary law in Minnesota and MPCA information).

These Pellet homeless structures are built with foam insulation and FRP board aka FRP Sandwich panels.

https://www.frparch.com/doors

Here are the pre-fab doors also! Those doors are $300 minimum.

So it would be easier to use metal panels and stick framing and rockwool insulation. This would be fire proof. 

The foundation will be a BioDome of Willow Trees in a 10 foot diameter. That's actually 78 square feet per structure - with the willow trees providing the stick frame! Only the rockwool and metal panels would then be necessary. We can attach a foundation to the willow trees - that will anchor the foundation down.

making a metal panel door vid

yeah looks pretty complicated.

 Harvesting is ideally completed during the dormant season after leaf-fall (Figure 1) and before bud-swell.

https://www.esf.edu/willow/documents/9Harvesting.pdf

 Willow can be harvested with leaf-on, but the
moisture and ash content of the chips may increase, and nutrients in
the leaf will be removed from the site instead of being recycled into the
soil. Stem regrowth after harvest that does not harden off before leaf-
fall will likely die over winter. This expends some of the plant’s stored
energy and nutrient reserves, and hinders the plant’s ability to
compete with weeds the following spring.

 At my post frame training, we were taught that installing a concrete pad at the bottom of each post hole, filling around each post with dirt, compacting it as it goes, was better than using concrete.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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