How Do You Build A Floating Home?
Building a floating home can be challenging, but building a wave-going house can be very rewarding. The ideal house on the water is efficient, independent and can weather as well as a land-based house. Using common materials, a floating house can be built by the average person in about one month. Connect the four “pontoon” style boats together, two abreast and two long to form a rectangle. Remove the engines and steering hardware from the front two boats before placement. Weld the connecting platforms, then weld in support braces from measured lengths of steel frame bars across the pontoon frames. Do not weld the pontoons themselves because they are sealed and should not be ruptured. Be sure the boats sit within one inch of each other at the platforms and are level once connected. Link the steering hardware from the rear two boats to a single location. Both engines can be left in place (normally outboard type motors are on pontoon boats), or one can be centered in the rear of the conne
