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process is repeated until the wall reaches its full height of 

 nearly eight feet. 



"Then the foundation is laid a circle of bricks flat on the 

 ground right under the circular wall. The house is now low- 

 ered so that the wall rests on the bricks, and the mast is then 

 removed. A water- and bug-tight sectional steel floor is bolted 

 to the lower rim of the wall, and all that remains is to install 

 the sections of finished flooring, the lining, interior equip- 

 ment, appliances and fixtures. The entire operation, from 

 placing the mast to unloading your furniture from the moving 

 van, takes only a few hours." 



The steel sections of this house are enormously strong but 

 very light. The entire house weighs little more than two tons 

 less than twice as much as your automobile. The house is 

 round and there are two of these sections right against each 

 other, a large and a small one. But Fuller says you'd get used 

 to this. When you are in the spacious living room, he explains, 

 you are hardly aware that it is round. A regular studio bed 

 fits snugly against the wall. This is because the house is twenty 

 feet in diameter, and a curve so large seems hardly to curve 

 at all when you get close to it. 



Buy Your Home Rent Your Land 



One of the developments certain to materialize with wide- 

 spread use of prefabricated houses is the practice of renting 

 land and moving the home from site to site according to the 

 needs of the family. When the children are of school age the 

 family would live in a district near a good school, paying a 

 somewhat higher rent for their land in order to obtain the best 

 school privileges. Later, when the children go off to college, 

 the house could be moved to an area where the rent was 

 lower. Renting land has been the custom for many years in 

 some cities. 



