Our Off Grid Micro Cabin Arrived! (It Was Epic)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- 🍁 Off-Grid in 30 Days - Building an off-grid home for less than $25k
🏕️ Episode 1: Canvas Tent, Clearing Brush, & Ordering the Cabin Shell
💧 Episode 2: Solar Panel, Water Pumps, IBC Water Totes, Composting Toilet, Methane Digester
🪴 Episode 3: Green House, Raised Beds, Seed Cells, Cabin Arrival
🏡 Episode 4: The 200 square ft Micro Cabin shell tour - inside and out!
Welcome to our 30 day off-grid build for October of 2023! We’re assembling sustainable, affordable, off-grid systems to provide for the 5 basic physiological needs for 2-4 humans: Creative shelter, fresh water, green sanitation, clean energy, and local food are things that make the world truly better and more enjoyable. Beyond having fun building all of this and sharing it with you, one big goal for this project is to clearly illustrate how creative & sustainable solutions can solve our housing affordability crisis and free young people to avoid working paycheck to paycheck to survive in our modern economy. We need a fresh vision for living well! Many people are seeking a closer connection to nature, a slower pace of life, an affordable lifestyle, a sustainable lifestyle, and freedom from being indentured to our modern economic system. Mostly though, we just love building off-grid systems!
In episode 4 the micro cabin (shed shell) is delivered, we're touring the micro cabin shell, moving the IBC rain tanks, adding a small deck, and reviewing the future system plans.
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We want to reclaim our time, our health, and finances, and a sense of peace. We want to help you and millions of others do the same. This takes designing our lives to be more local, more sustainable, more affordable and generally more off-grid. We want to swim out of the mainstream, we want to opt-out, slow down, to live more simply and locally. We want to educate as many people as we can about this affordable and sustainable lifestyle of living well with decentralized, off-grid systems.
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Can’t wait to see the end result, maybe after all the episodes are finished you could make a super long form video of all of the episodes with bloopers and stuff.
We will!
Playlist even
Had the idea of an outdoor plexiglass hallway, lined with with flowers, leading to an outhouse. It was meant for a composting setup, with the added plus of stargazing, especially in the desert.
LET'S GOOOOO! Epic episode gentlemen - Kevin
Thanks Kevin!! It was a fun one to make!
Thanks for sponsoring and promoting Acorn Labs Kevin. This content will prove highly valuable for soooo many viewers !
Really enjoying this series. Not gonna lie, it's answering many of the questions I've had about how to go off grid.
But please, for all that is holy, don't freehand on a tablesaw ❤
Agreed, that’s how my dad cut his thumb in half, right down the middle to the bone. Wear gloves 🧤
@@Kass686😮
Another excellent episode. You guys have really got me looking into this for myself. I love the idea of being off the grid and self sufficient.
I’m loving this series so far, I’ve recommended you guys to everyone in my circle.
Keep it up!
Thank you so much!!
You guys are really inspiring me. I really see this as goal in life after I get back from overseas. Thank y’all for what y’all teach.
Nice episode! Just a little reminder, in case it is not placed already, put a security valve on the gas line so it doesn't blow up! Great work!
Gas valve is already there now! Methane digesters are super low pressure. Huge thanks for keeping an eye out! :)
I IMMEDIATELY purchased your course. Thank you so much for the code! I'm starting a similar project with my two childhood best friends in a few years, and your knowledge is going to be a great help! I look forwards to your uploads on the series!! With love from Canada!
Love the direction this project is going.
You guys bring me so much hope and inspiration. Thank you
Love you guys!
keep it up
This is amazing. Love the off-grid living.
Excited to see what you guys do moving forward!
Excellent video. Have you folks considered livestreaming some parts of the build? It would give you another source of revenue via in-stream donations and the viewers would get more content, ultimately enabling further spread and subsidization of the course for as many people as possible. It's a win-win-win. :)
That’s a great idea!
Please keep it coming, I am in love with you guys. It is my dream to have this kind of life.
We’re finding out this way of living is more affordable than regular city or suburban living long term. We want everyone to understand this might be a good way for many of us to live in the future 🌞
@@LandLabs definitely, not just for our pockets, but for environment, health and it's just awesome to be close to nature. And do fun things on your own.
a cheaper alternative to a raiser or murphy bed would be to use a bed mat like they do in Japan, during the day you roll it up and tuck it away and for bedtime just roll it back out again. believe marketers like calling it a Japanese futon. of course, you can always go with things like a cot that folds up but cots aren't as comfortable for a lot of people and are often built for camping grade and thus don't have as long of a constant use life to them (though still something you might want for a guest). Another sleeping option is to hang up a hammock, this can also be stashed away easily during the day and is an interesting option not many have tried but some people really enjoy. The Batchlers couch sleep method can be done as well if you plan to fit in a couch.
We actually thought about the Japanese futon!! I love this idea, we might go this route in the end 💯
THIS IS SOOOO COOL! You guys are future we need.
Great video. I didn't realise that I'd subscribed but I'm glad that i have
It's such a inspiring work and great videos, keep continue the amazing work 💚
love the work you guys do!
Great video. Thank you.
She’d to house can also be a helpful channel!
I built a tiny house on a trailer, best thing I did. Currently converting a 14X40 barn now. I also put it on RUclips to help others. Didn't monetize my channel, I did it to help other people. Good luck on your project.
That’s awesome! Building a tiny home on a trailer is great for getting around zoning.
@@acornlandlabs it's 13 feet tall and weighs 8,700 lbs. It wasn't built for zooming, just to get to our property.
@@DocZoidberg549 zoning as in the laws that dictate what you can and cannot build! Having a tiny house on a trailer makes it fall under similar zoning to an RV in many areas.
@@acornlandlabs That was the idea and it worked out great. Our County hates tiny houses on wheels, they can't tax them.
I am loving these videos! I do have one suggestion on the video titles though... Could you include the day #? I am having trouble remembering which the current is (can't see the thumbnail while the video is going.
Great stuff though!
You gents are creating Walden pond as if he could’ve stayed there for forever.
That’s a pretty good way to put it! We want this to be the Walden anyone can create :) The goal is an affordable, sustainable systems for off-grid shelter, energy, water, food and sanitation.
Amen.
Love the vids! Please consider lowering the background music as it is sometimes difficult to hear you talking
Way to go pre-fabs! Just curious with the cinder block supports, do you think there's any risk of the ground heaving or sinking over time?
Will you be insulating the indoors? Will you have a video of that process?
Yes & yes. That video is coming up soon. We'll be using wool as a non-toxic insulation rather than fiberglass or spray foam. It's more expensive, but we feel much better about it as an insulation material.
I'm to your channel and am so very impressed. Is this a demonstration project? Or are you actually moving in and going to live in it full time?
I heard that when cooking with a methane digester the odor can get quite strong. While it doesn’t “add” flavor to the food, it does still put out somewhat of a stench when cooking. Can you guys confirm this?
I see you used a Derksen shed, curious what sold you on their brand? I may do something similar in the next few months and I keep eyeing the sheds at Home Depot but I don't know what I'm looking for, as far as quality of construction.
I'm also in Georgia!
Im confused on cabin position. If the front double doors are facing south how are the water tanks on the north side in full sunlight? Wouldnt you want minimum light to avoid algea and other organic growth?
We’ll install covers for the IBC tanks. The cabin is facing south, but it’s aimed at the lake too which is a bit south east - it’s not dead south. The small profile of the cabin allows a lot of sunlight around it
@LandLabs makes sense. Very excited to see this project all the way through the end. My wife and mine's current goal is to be semiretired by 55 doing something similar in Montana. Bit of a different climate of course but they have laws and low pop density that we like lol.
What happened to your video about feudalism? I really liked that one, were you getting backlash?
We’ll post it to Patreon! It was getting pretty bad backlash. We’re genuinely trying to educate people about modern issues, and using offgrid/sustainable tech as solutions. For that feudalism video commenters said we were fearmongering. Not at all our goal, but we took that back to the drawing board. Glad you liked it!
Wondering why your videos are so short, I am sure there's much more to show.
Was there any permitting or anything needed for all this?
Its good but you could have simply built a cob cabin at the half of the cost + further modifications and extensions is fluid when it comes to cob home. More over when you are on a self sustainable journey purchasing a cabin made by someone else make no sense.
Hey! Good questions.
So cob cabins are not portable. We wanted ours to be.
Buying a prefab cabin is far more doable and seemingly possible for most individuals. This series is meant to show the steps someone can take to live a more affordable lifestyle. Naturally there’s always a few things that could be done even more affordably, but then you start making it harder which turns many people away.
Financing a shed to convert into a micro cabin is a great first step. Down the road with more experience people can get more comfortable with making more creative shelters by hand.
Your point is correct! We are just all about making the first steps to living this way as approachable as possible for newcomers.
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