Dometastic

Money, Money, Money! Unfortunately everything always comes down to money. Financing is one of the hot topics when it comes to building an unconventional home. If you look around online there are many people interested in dome houses but one of the common threads is financing. Where do I get it? Can I get it? Is it different than getting financing to build a conventional home? The short answer is.... it depends. Not a very helpful and kinda disheartening answer. There are many different ways to approach it and each person may only have one way that will work for them. I wrote a detailed post about it right after we managed to finally find a bank to work with us. Read about it HERE. We had given up and something I read online made me research again. That's when I found our solution. It has been almost a year since I wrote the other post about financing. We didn't get as much as we would have liked because it is a home equity loan against the land we own not based on how much...

We took a week vacation and spent it stripping an amazing amount of top soil off the build area and digging our foundation. We rented another large mini excavator and we thought everything was good until it was too late and the machine needed to go back. It's hard to tell how tall the dirt piles are but the very tall ones in the back are the top soil. Mr. Dometastic got sick so the first half of the rental week was kinda a bust. He needed to sleep not dig. It was super bad timing and it cost us an additional $400 and an extra vacation day because we had to rush at the end of the week. Rushing means we missed the part on the plans that says our footer is 4 feet wide in some areas, 3 feet wide in others and then the rest is 2 feet wide. We thought the whole thing was 2 feet wide. We didn't dig as much as we needed in some areas and in others we were just a little off because the painted lines kept getting blurred by the machine. We accurately set the pins in the center...