My wife and I have considered both moveable herp houses as well as SIP built herp houses. For reasons that will be described more below, we never considered combining the two.

We considered a moveable herp house, specifically a trailer or RV based system for three main reasons. In order of least to most important:

1) A lot of forest fires in my area and we live on a heavily wooded lot. Having the ability to simply hook up a trailer full of valuable reptiles to a vehicle and drive away in case of emergency appealed to us.

2) Not having to hide the collection in case of visitors, potential buyers in case of listing the home, etc.

3) In many neighborhoods in my area you can often store a huge RV or trailer but you can't build a shed or outbuilding as large.

The SIP built herp house was more of a means of putting some equity into our property. Sort of a cabin in the woods retreat for me to do some paperwork and get away from the house. My reptiles would have been in there but it would have been multi-purpose in fuction.

I did look into DIY SIPs but don't remember much. I think at the time a vacuum bag was considered a must and a pretty potent one at that. I was only considering lamintating OSB to extruded polystyrene, not injecting self expanding foam into an OSB structure, which is how some people have done it.

I've already lost this reply once so I'll post what I have for now and see if I can write some more later.

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