"L. E. Modesitt - A House By Any Other Name" - читать интересную книгу автора (Modesitt L E)

"But the trade costs? I had to, call a plumber once, when my sister visited me with a baby and diapers,
and he charged me a smalls fortune."

"That's the beauty of it. Each room is cast with all the electrical! gizmos, heating and plumbing in stalled."

"How do you accomplish that?"

"We lay the pipes and electrical cables on prongs inside the molds. Then we pour in the epoxy and let it
set two hours before unmolding."

"What's the reason for the bubble?" George knew it was a stupid question.

"Besides the manufacturing process, you mean? Each room has to cure inside the warm bubble for about
twenty four hours. While it's curing, we use the time to plug in the heating cooling strips and test the
circuitry. Then we cart it off to be bolted together."

This time it was George who grinned.

"And how many houses can each one of these turn out a day?"

"About ten."

"I'm impressed." George swallowed. "But I'd like to ask a few more questions..."

"Go ahead."

"How did you get around building regulations? You're using methods and materials that aren't even
mentioned in the codes."

"My legal beagle found a loophole in the Colorado state statutes. If you can get eighty five percent of the
property owners in an area to form a planning district, they can supersede county regulations. On my first
project, two years ago, I bought up a bunch of contiguous lower ethno property in Mid Metro District
County, put the title in fifty names, mostly friends and relatives, and set up my own planning district.

"No one even noticed. I made about three percent on the deal, selling the houses back to the original
inhabitants, but the glue stuck , and everybody was happy. That was the lever that got me into the
suburbs."

"Weren't people outside the Core a little dubious about plastic houses?"
Tod Houseman snorted. "Right now the cheapest house my competition can build costs forty five
thousand dollars for a two bedroom, eight hundred square foot crackerbox. Hell, I can build a three
bedroom, sixteen hundred square footer with a two car garage for less than twenty thousand dollars."

"Twice the house for half the money."

"It works well enough."

"Financing?" prompted George.

Houseman nodded. "A problem at first. I started my own bank on the second project."