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Michael,
Seeing as you are from Texas, May I offer that you look into raising a couple of Longhorn. They are a good strong breed of cattle that managed to survive in west Texas with not much more...

The ICF post if a good place to take a look. I posted a link to some photos of our ICF house there. We have around 5,000 sq ft and our high monthly electric bill to date was around $400, and that...

I pass the Monolithic Dome Institute every couple of days on the way down to the ranch. They are very interesting. I was told that a 1500 foot (don't know if you can call a round sphere shaped...

We built our house out of Eco-block. The insulation values are unreal. Topped it off with a metal roof. If you care to take a look there are photos posted on my web shots page...

We installed two 50 gallon water heaters. Our whole house is heated with hot water in the winter time, no furnace at all. During the summer and warm fall and spring months I simply shut one water...

Sorry, but that is a question I don't know. It was a little less expensive than doing real stone installed. To do real stone, the major cost is the labor, the stone is reletivly cheap. Doing the...

Have you given any thought as to the use of man made stone? It is easy to put up, many different styles, shades, shapes, color and limited only by your imagination. This is the product we used on...

One of the nicest parts of an ICF house is, 5,000 square feet, Texas hot sun and summers and yet the highest electric bill last year was $238. Not bad!
Our old house was 5,000 square feet,...

We are located just south of Dallas, TX.
The house does have a whole house ventilation system installed. It can be either run by a timer which is mounted on the fan housing or turned on via wall...

OK, what is ERV and HRV?
The a/c unit was custom made. It is a combination of a design where the cooling unit is in a separate tower. When the a/c comes on, water is pumped to the top of the...

Registered Texas Longhorn.......pretty to look at, easy to breed and maintain, pretty much maintenance free, the healthiest beef you will ever find to eat. Very docile.

I am sorry, it has been quite a while since I have visited this board, if there are any questions I may help you with please either post them here or Email me at jonrjen@aol.com

Thank you,

The roof is your basic plywood sheeting covered with a layer of composite underlayment (thick tar paper, vapor barrier) then covered with a no exposed screw UL listed metal roof. The...

I am not sure if the crawl space/basement question is being directed to me. However let me address the question as though it is. Here in Texas a basement is not a common house addition. Due in...

There is a book called "The Big Little House" while it does not have any house plans in the book, it does give great ideas as to how to build, design a smaller square footage house with more living...

Thought I would post a link of how our ICF construction housee turned out. I was to have been around 3300 sq. ft. but it grew to almost 5,000 sq. ft.
Anyone with questions feel free to ask. I...

I was also doing Corriente for a while, then we did the Longhorn /Corriente mix, by mixing the breeds you could get a little quicker growth for ropping cattle as well as quicker/broader horn growth....

We used Eco-Block. The Styrofoam blocks are assembled on site, this makes shipping cost very reasonable. Once assembled they are then stacked with rebar being placed both horizontal and vertically...

In an earlier post someone stated, gone are the days of the Texas Longhorn. Not entirely true. Longhorn cattle are becoming very popular once again. They are one of the easiest cattle to raise. ...