Cave Dwelling
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there are several places i know where you could become a troggailite, several of them were used for that single purpose untill the 1960s, the up side is the ground is always 6 degrees winters or summer the down side is that the ground is always 6 degrees summer ot winter the damp is easiy drained away else where, alot of people are seeing how easy it is to build them for timber and earth as well now
forgot to say try google for alice springs in the aussy out back most of the whole township is under grown to avoid the desert heat,
if you ever wanted an extenstion all you would need is a shovel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you ever wanted an extenstion all you would need is a shovel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry mate, I reckon you mean Cooper Pedy, opal mining city....about 700 km south of Alice...
Alice Spring is a nice desert town, jumping point to see Uluru (Ayer's Rock) and more. Cooper Pedy is nice for opals, got thrown out of the pub with the locals there ;-)
Grtz Johan
There was an underground house built on the programme where they follow people building their dream houses. Hosted by that architect / journalist / tv presenter fellow.
I saw another one on tv once with an underground swimming pool with bridges over it and it looked almost like a natural pothole / cave pool that had been added to. It made me want to get an underground house built too. Oh for a lottery win!! I've always wanted to have an underground house since a kid. I am strange though or ahead of my time. I mean imagine the insulation!! It is possibly greener than building above ground.
The one on that home design and build programme was in Cumbria, near Penrith on a hillside IIRC.
There are many cases of cave dwelling lasting up to modern times. Turkey, France, UK (The Millican Dalton guy - professor of the outdoors), etc. They are good solutions to local problems in some cases like the Cooper Pedy ones.
I saw another one on tv once with an underground swimming pool with bridges over it and it looked almost like a natural pothole / cave pool that had been added to. It made me want to get an underground house built too. Oh for a lottery win!! I've always wanted to have an underground house since a kid. I am strange though or ahead of my time. I mean imagine the insulation!! It is possibly greener than building above ground.
The one on that home design and build programme was in Cumbria, near Penrith on a hillside IIRC.
There are many cases of cave dwelling lasting up to modern times. Turkey, France, UK (The Millican Dalton guy - professor of the outdoors), etc. They are good solutions to local problems in some cases like the Cooper Pedy ones.
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Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
thats not a cave. I know caves and they are normally either knee to waiste deep in cold water or full of thick claggy clay mud often with a hint of putrifying sheep or rabbit.
EdS
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
not in the Dales.
Well there are caves full of water but certainly not dry. And they still have mud.
Well there are caves full of water but certainly not dry. And they still have mud.
A friend of mine Dai Jenkins, a dry-stone waller in the Lakes (it wouldn't surprise me if a few of you knew him) was apparently evicted from Millican Daltons cave in Keswick by the National Trust.
