Man builds underground house of his dreams
Rather than call him crackpot, his wife, Mickey, their parents and friends all supported the endeavor.
It took a while. From the time they started in about 1975, when their daughter Terra, was born, it would take about eight years of mostly weekend labour before they moved in it in 1983, the year his son, Joshua, was born.
Even then, the house was still "a work in progress" he says.
During those years, the only escape they hired was a plumber, a concrete block layer, and someone to smooth the concrete floors and roof tranche of the 2,500 square foot house. Everything else, from pouring concrete to installing rebar, woodworking, wiring and waterproofing the blood they did themselves.
Mortensen worked as a telephone technician for AT&T before retiring after 33 years and opening jmbamboo in sylvan Dora where he grows and sells bamboo on about 20 acres.
The house is nestled between tall bamboo groves, hardwood forests and two streams on each side of bagnio that run into the Locust Fork River about a mile from their house.
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