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That is cool you can build small! Many areas have minimum house size, which I think is ridiculous.
I am building small and my town has a minimum limit of a footprint 20x20. I am building 820 sq.ft.,which is small but not the "tiny houses" that seem to interest a lot of people, given that there is almost no place where you can put one even if you want one.
I saw a new subdivision with a minimum of 2500 fq.ft. outside of Montrose. That is absurd and I think it failed. If you want a smallER house, you either buy quite old or build new (and the banks look askance at the price per square feet and point out that there are no comps).
When I built my current house here in the East, I'd looked for a small house and looked in lake areas where there are often camps or former camps. I bought a somewhat-rebuilt 3-room cottage which fell apart completely and I had to tear it down and built my current house, which is about 1250 sq.ft.
A small house is an expensive way to go. Fixed costs are not smaller and there are not economies of scale up to a certain point.
Remember that at altitude in the west, it is quite easy to become dehydrated without realizing it. I live at 7000+ feet during ski season. Locals always advise visitors to guzzle a bottle of water 1st thing in the morning when you wake up. Guzzle another at the first sign of a headache. Drink lots of water all the time. Give your dogs lots of water as well.
Our first home was 932 sq feet, IIRC, nearly 40 years ago now. It was built as a 3 BR Ranch but a previous owner removed one of the bedrooms to enlarge the living room and provide a small walk-in closet for the Master BR, a mod that greatly benefitted the home! Cozy kitchen, small dining room, Utility Room(!) living room, two BR's, and a garage. Enough for the two of us. We sold it and moved to a larger home (~1760 sq ft) after starting a family
My wife still pines for our first home................
Remember that at altitude in the west, it is quite easy to become dehydrated without realizing it. I live at 7000+ feet during ski season. Locals always advise visitors to guzzle a bottle of water 1st thing in the morning when you wake up. Guzzle another at the first sign of a headache. Drink lots of water all the time. Give your dogs lots of water as well.
Yes, thank you. I have visited this town many times. I am telling potential visitors that they will have to spend the first few days just lounging around. Altitude is nothing to mess with.
These are just above the area where BDL is moving, from the trail west of her. These were at an altitude somewhere between 12,000 and 13,000 feet.
(By the way, one of the jeep drivers discovered carburetors don't work there!)
Carburetors will work at high altitude - with an adjustment. I owned a Honda CT90 Trail Bike as a teenager. There was a knob attached to slide valve in the carb that you were to pull when operating at higher altitudes. Probably admitted more air to the mixture. I never used the bike at high altitude but the bike ran like crap at low altitude with the knob pulled!
You can see the knob in the photo at the very bottom of the carb. Honda used two different carbs on this bike, one type had a 90-degree turn valve rather than pull out.
Good point- it re-jets the carb, but that is not as easy in a jeep! We ended up towing the jeep over the 13000 foot mark, and they coasted down to where the vehicle started.
By the way, that bike has a lot of history in my life, and resulted in a lot of great memories...thanks for the photo!
I remember many years ago, I went from 7,000 feet where I was living in NM and up to about 11,000. Didn't feel anything but tried to scramble some eggs, and they just bubbled on and on.
I remember many years ago, I went from 7,000 feet where I was living in NM and up to about 11,000. Didn't feel anything but tried to scramble some eggs, and they just bubbled on and on.
Oh and I'm sure you know this but add extra flour if you're baking there. Took me a month to figure that out.
I didn't know that, but I don't bake, because I'll pig out on it.
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