[Lab] Wikihouse Project

[Paul & Andrea Mumby]

So you start with a tent! :) put the CNC in the tent and use it to build the
shop around it ;)

- Paul

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:48 AM, John Nicol <john_nicol at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Such a cool concept.  It takes 11 sheets of ¾” plywood to construct a 600mm
> section from what I am seeing on the site, that would add up to ~$250 per
> section.  I was thinking it would be cool to build a workshop from this... a
> 20 x 10 building (I am only guestimating that it is a 10’ interior floor
> width from the pictures on the site) would be ~$2,500 in plywood for the
> trusses plus maybe another 10 sheets for the end walls and miscellaneous.
> Then maybe another $3,500 (?) for the finishing, roofing etc.  A 20 x 10
> workshop for ~$6,000 is pretty good.  I built an 8’ x 8’ shed using recycled
> shipping crates and it still cost me ~$500 to finish.****
>
> ** **
>
> Now to buy a 4’ x 8’ CNC machine.... just need a 20 x 10 workshop to put it
> in......****
>
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