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Shelter: A Quest for Non-Toxic Housing
Crocuta writes "Many of the geeks on /. voluntarily confine themselves to their homes for vast
stretches of time, but what happens when your home becomes your prison? Eric Hunting
suffers from Environmental Illness which perpetually confines him to his home, which even
as carefully furnished as it is, is still slowly killing him. His website, Shelter, is both a plea for help and a guide
documenting one man's quest for non-toxic housing."
The article poses the question: What Is Environmental Illness? It then goes off about Northern Exposure, which was a very funny television show, but is not a well established authority on immunological disorders.
It's a psychosomatic condition. Get a subscription for paxil and go the fuck outside.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
And the fact is, it's going to be expensive. Hideously so.
Wood comes from trees, timber yards make trees into planks of wood, in case you didn't know that. Go to a timber yard. Ask them to sell you some untreated wood.
Stone comes out of the ground. In places called "quarries" they take it out of the ground and cut it into pieces suitable for building houses. Go there, buy some stone.
There you have the basic ingredients for your house. If you search very carefully, you might just be able to find a builder that is used to making constructions from wood and stone. I've heard they exist.