Hi Robb! You have codes to take into consideration and they make you jump through hoops. The last house we built we had to have a letter from codes stating we could move into the house when it was finished. Government has to get their cut and control over everything nowadays. That was the fifth house we had built and we knew how the plumbing and electrical should be installed, but codes say it has to be a licensed contractor to install. Even after the contractor installs the plumbing and electrical it still has to be inspected and passed. The specs the inspectors go by is called southern building codes. This was 21 years ago, I’m sure it’s changed over the years and the cost has increased dramatically. Thanks for sharing and have a blessed day!
High willows I agree the building codes make it very difficult for do-it-yourself home builders and you don't always get competent results with licensed contractors. I recently hired someone to remove the tiles on my balcony who had 25 years of experience working with tile but the person he had working with him was a relative with very little experience and may have been mentally challenged so those years of experience I paid for didn't do me any good.
Hey thanks a lot I'm happy you are enjoying the series many of these ideas and books will be difficult to use because of building codes but it's still it's a good idea to get people thinking about finding a way to build a home that doesn't cost a lot so they don't have to spend the rest of their life on hamster wheel paying mortgages and rent
I have always liked a stone home with a metal roof What a lost art Amazing Thank you for sharing very interesting l'm in a camper now This is a good idea
Elizabeth thanks for watching the video and taking the time to leave a nice comment much appreciated. In the future I'm going to be doing some reviews of books on living and traveling in campers and cars .
I love old books! Newer books have the largest portion of each page covered with pictures and older books had much more writing with need-to-know details and smaller diagrams.
I live in a brick house. There is a 12 hour delay of the heat or cold coming thru the walls. When I was 4 or 5 years old, my dad bought and installed an oil fired boiler to heat the house. The first 250 gallons of oil cost $42.00. I remember my mom saying "THAT'S ALMOST AS MUCH AS THE MORTGAGE PAYMENT!"
That’s a slick idea! Building small sections at a time is brilliant . I want that last book. I want them all. The plywood furniture plans out of a single sheet of plywood are really excellent. I just got that one .Thanks for that . On a different subject, Robb, have you ever heard of Mose Allison? I had completely forgotten about this sixties jazz pianist and cool cat vocalist. The algorithm must have me figured. He turned up in my suggestions. Two songs. Your Mind is on Vacation and I Don’t Worry About a Thing. Ever hear them? How about digging a semi spherical hole, inflating a weather balloon in it, and coating the portion above ground with rebar reenforced concrete Then stones and gravel, then more muck of some sort? Just snag the next Chinese balloon that floats over and your half way home. How about a polymer balloon that when inflated with the right reactive gas, solidifies into a hard weatherproof material? You could actually live in your own bubble!
Hey chops the name is familiar I will check it out. Kevin Kern in one of his books dealt with home building using fabric over wooden frames coated with a slurry of concrete. They look like corrugated quonset huts or I should say exaggerated corrugated quonset huts speakers the quonset huts were already corrugated. This was large hoops with the cloth over it and when the concrete was added the cloth wood depress in between they wouldn't hoops but the curvature gave strength to the structure I also have a book that is free by an English architect that moved to India and worked with mud that I think you will like
@@RobbsHomemadeLife Something needs to be done about the outdated building codes. We have a housing crisis with whole cities worth of people homeless. This is unhealthy for society as a whole and literally unhealthy People don’t need a $250,000 box to get out of the weather and have an address. Politicians don’t seem to have a clue about what goes on in the trenches.
@@RobbsHomemadeLife A friend I went to grade school with had his “I don’t worry about a thing” album in the sixties. I had totally forgotten about him. I really liked him. When Mose turned up in my suggestions , I shared the video with my old friend. He emailed me back a photo ,that he just took, of that very album we used to listen to, with Mose’s autograph on it. He saw him before Mose passed. Mose was flabbergasted when he saw the original 1962 album. He said “It’s nice to see proof that I was young once”.
Mother Earth News online also has a republished article on building the house by the author. I was curious if the house was still standing and being lived in but could not find any information.
Hi Robb! You have codes to take into consideration and they make you jump through hoops. The last house we built we had to have a letter from codes stating we could move into the house when it was finished. Government has to get their cut and control over everything nowadays.
That was the fifth house we had built and we knew how the plumbing and electrical should be installed, but codes say it has to be a licensed contractor to install. Even after the contractor installs the plumbing and electrical it still has to be inspected and passed. The specs the inspectors go by is called southern building codes. This was 21 years ago, I’m sure it’s changed over the years and the cost has increased dramatically.
Thanks for sharing and have a blessed day!
High willows I agree the building codes make it very difficult for do-it-yourself home builders and you don't always get competent results with licensed contractors. I recently hired someone to remove the tiles on my balcony who had 25 years of experience working with tile but the person he had working with him was a relative with very little experience and may have been mentally challenged so those years of experience I paid for didn't do me any good.
Great video Robb! I like this series. Makes me wish I was a few decades younger.
Me too!😀
Loving this series, very interesting and excited for next week's!
Hey thanks a lot I'm happy you are enjoying the series many of these ideas and books will be difficult to use because of building codes but it's still it's a good idea to get people thinking about finding a way to build a home that doesn't cost a lot so they don't have to spend the rest of their life on hamster wheel paying mortgages and rent
Thank you Robb.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
You are so welcome
I have always liked a stone home with a metal roof What a lost art Amazing Thank you for sharing very interesting l'm in a camper now This is a good idea
Elizabeth thanks for watching the video and taking the time to leave a nice comment much appreciated. In the future I'm going to be doing some reviews of books on living and traveling in campers and cars .
I love old books! Newer books have the largest portion of each page covered with pictures and older books had much more writing with need-to-know details and smaller diagrams.
I'm impressed by some older long ago authors by their ability to gather so much knowledge before the Internet arrived.
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I couldn’t agree more.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Richard
I live in a brick house.
There is a 12 hour delay of the heat or cold coming thru the walls.
When I was 4 or 5 years old, my dad bought and installed an oil fired boiler to heat the house.
The first 250 gallons of oil cost $42.00.
I remember my mom saying
"THAT'S ALMOST AS MUCH AS THE MORTGAGE PAYMENT!"
Back in the 70s for a while I lived on a houseboat on the Miami river and the dockage was $60.00 a month electricity included
So , since he lived in a stone house, he actually could throw stones, with no repercussions😂.
He can throw stones but not glasses.
@@RobbsHomemadeLife ahhhh, I figured there was a caveat.
hello my friend, this is again a very interesting book 🙂
Hello SB always good to hear from you.
That’s a slick idea! Building small sections at a time is brilliant .
I want that last book. I want them all.
The plywood furniture plans out of a single sheet of plywood are really excellent. I just got that one .Thanks for that .
On a different subject, Robb, have you ever heard of Mose Allison? I had completely forgotten about this sixties jazz pianist and cool cat vocalist.
The algorithm must have me figured. He turned up in my suggestions.
Two songs. Your Mind is on Vacation and I Don’t Worry About a Thing.
Ever hear them?
How about digging a semi spherical hole, inflating a weather balloon in it,
and coating the portion above ground with rebar reenforced concrete
Then stones and gravel, then more muck of some sort?
Just snag the next Chinese balloon that floats over and your half way home.
How about a polymer balloon that when inflated with the right reactive gas, solidifies into
a hard weatherproof material? You could actually live in your own bubble!
Hey chops the name is familiar I will check it out. Kevin Kern in one of his books dealt with home building using fabric over wooden frames coated with a slurry of concrete. They look like corrugated quonset huts or I should say exaggerated corrugated quonset huts speakers the quonset huts were already corrugated. This was large hoops with the cloth over it and when the concrete was added the cloth wood depress in between they wouldn't hoops but the curvature gave strength to the structure I also have a book that is free by an English architect that moved to India and worked with mud that I think you will like
@@RobbsHomemadeLife
Something needs to be done about the outdated building codes.
We have a housing crisis with whole cities worth of people homeless.
This is unhealthy for society as a whole and literally unhealthy
People don’t need a $250,000 box to get out of the weather and have an address.
Politicians don’t seem to have a clue about what goes on in the trenches.
thanks chops, you did it again,I had not heard him before, he was a great songwriter and performer. ruclips.net/video/y7zgaVK3KhA/видео.html
@@RobbsHomemadeLife
A friend I went to grade school with had his “I don’t worry about a thing” album in the sixties.
I had totally forgotten about him. I really liked him.
When Mose turned up in my suggestions , I shared the video with my old friend.
He emailed me back a photo ,that he just took, of that very album we used to listen to, with Mose’s autograph on it.
He saw him before Mose passed. Mose was flabbergasted when he saw the original 1962 album.
He said “It’s nice to see proof that I was young once”.
He was a surprisingly good songwriter
Wow fantastic! I’m in a similar place right now as a 24 year old with 11 acres and 10,000$ to my name
Mother Earth News online also has a republished article on building the house by the author. I was curious if the house was still standing and being lived in but could not find any information.
I was thinking the same thing it would be good to find out how the houses I have been reviewing have turned out over the years.