Underground House Problems
Discussions focus on challenges with underground or earth-bermed homes, including leaks, floods, mold, pests, poor waterproofing, and high maintenance, often debating if issues stem from bad construction or inherent design flaws.
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Looks pretty, but how about fire, excessive snowfall or wind, rodents and pests, flood/water leaks etc?
Maybe your house shouldn't be a sealed plastic bubble.
>Most (if not all) problems are related with bad construction (leaks, floods during heavy rains, constant mold, pests, cracks during earthquakes), bad "fencing" and detail project (limited landscaping, people invade our privacy, difficult and expensive repairs), not with the kind of house itself. Was the house well built and this article wouldn't exist or the conclusion could be more favorable.The bad construction is the typical half-assery that homeowners expect to be able
Seems like you wouldn't bother building well if you had to redo it every year
How the hell does the article "not make sense"? The title specifically says "Our Underground House", and at the end they explicitly say they would consider choosing such a house again, under certain condition.And pretty much all problems are related to the kind of house itself. That it's not mainstream means not just that you need the right buyer to sell it, but also that you need the right contractor to build it, since most won't have any experienc
There's a lot of maintenance needed on _any_ house.
It appears this house was built during the 80s. Have newer designs mitigated some of those challenges? e.g. better materials and lessons-learned about waterproofing, etc.
More of a material fault than anything else, hiuses in the us are disposeable
Building shitty housing is never a good idea.
Happened to my parents. Installer went under because the windows weren't as reliable as they expected.