Comment on This 28-year-old pays $62 a month to live in a dumpster he built for $5,000—take a look inside

atfergs@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Mamertine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where can you build a house for $5,000?

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  • atfergs@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just poking fun at the headline. He didn’t build a dumpster. He built a house out of a dumpster.

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  • PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you were in the building industry/trades already I bet you could scavenge enough materials and borrow the equipment to do it.

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    • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He’s deliberately built it in a skip because that’s the loop-hole. Houses come with all kinds of regs/costs involved - these costs are magnified in London.

      There’s literally no way you could legally build a house on the land for anything remotely close to that - maybe even at all.

      Conversely, you’re allowed to put whatever you want in a skip, as long as it fits. And you can put a skip pretty much anywhere on your own property.

      The obvious downside is that his house doesn’t technically exist. However, the upside is that his house doesn’t technically exist also.

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