Life Could you build a house out of Legos?

**Rain Man** · 08-17-2012, 04:21 PM

We're talking a full-size house that you live in. The wiring and plumbing could be the standard stuff, but I'm wondering if the rest could be built out of Lego. How long would it last? What would be the maintenance costs?

Brock · 08-17-2012, 04:22 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...use-wants.html

**Rain Man** · 08-17-2012, 04:24 PM

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...use-wants.html

You killed my thread, but that's a nice find.

**Donger** · 08-17-2012, 04:25 PM

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You killed my thread, but that's a nice find.

As I tell my kids, just because you can doesn't necessarily mean you should.

**morphius** · 08-17-2012, 05:18 PM

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...use-wants.html

My son just watched that last week, lol

Brock · 08-17-2012, 04:26 PM

Sorry, man. I just read that story the other day.

**Rain Man** · 08-17-2012, 04:29 PM

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Sorry, man. I just read that story the other day.

I wonder how long it would last. It seems like if you glued the pieces together it could last a long time. You'd likely need to have something heavy on the bottom, though, to keep it from blowing over in a stiff wind.

**mlyonsd** · 08-17-2012, 06:02 PM

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You'd likely need to have something heavy on the bottom, though, to keep it from blowing over in a stiff wind.

Not if you used a tiny tiny trowel to fill each lego with concrete when laying them.

KC Jones · 08-17-2012, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I wonder how long it would last. It seems like if you glued the pieces together it could last a long time. You'd likely need to have something heavy on the bottom, though, to keep it from blowing over in a stiff wind.

I don't think it would last that long. UV would start breaking down the plastic and water seeping in and going through freeze thaw cycles would wreak havoc.

threebag · 08-17-2012, 04:33 PM

It would be a high dollar pad

Deberg_1990 · 08-17-2012, 04:59 PM

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It would be a high dollar pad

No kidding. Probably be more expensive than traditional wood and sheet rock. Legos are expensive.
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08-17-2012, 06:11 PM

You would need some traditional headers and rafters but as long as it's one story on slab, everything else could work out well.

TLO · 08-17-2012, 06:40 PM

I think that would be a fun project.

**Canofbier** · 08-17-2012, 08:12 PM

I believe that a house made of Legos would stand strong for some time (assuming kids didn't come to steal pieces from it), but I imagine that it would lack the appropriate qualities that are basically assumed to be standard by modern-day construction (insulation, for example).

**Canofbier** · 08-17-2012, 08:12 PM

Then again, there would be a lot of air stuck in the walls in between the Legos, so maybe it would insulate well after all.

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