>>2246044He advocates building on a slope, thereby having gravity help running the water of.
On flatland you would need to be over the water table. Else you end up with a pool instead of a house.
And everything else from above (rain/snow) gets run of by the sloped roof and can disperse in the earth by patios that are dug out at the same level as the floor in the house.
For the digging by hand here is a section from his book:
> Digging time on the $50 house wasthree weeks for one man digging 6 to 8 hours
per day. It was a little more than twice that
for the $500 job.
A guy should not try to dig that long in one
day. On days when there were eight hours of
digging done at the place it was divided up
between two or three men.
Pic shows a flatland design with a patio.
