I agree smart move but what does it say about the building ordinance. If you told to do one thing but you did this and this is better then why the f*** should we listen to anybody.. Freedom means doing what you choose to do not what somebody tells you to do. It's time as Americans we start that Tradition again
@@Good_ol_Butch It doesn't make sense to me but that's what he said at 2:00 so I'm still trying to figure out why he'd do that or if I just misunderstood.
@@DarqJestor attached= joined, attached, or connected to something . Detached= separate or disconnected.... So, is this two separate buildings not connected, or are these two separate buildings connected to make one building?
@@Good_ol_Butch It didn't sound like it but that's what baffles me. Guess I'll have to do a bit of research. Or maybe I'll just have a few beers instead. 😵💫
@francismarion6400 It's weird when people come into the comments & expose their ignorance. The reason FEMA has standards is because the house was & still is in a hurricane/tropical storm/flood zone & it will be subjected to more storms like these in the future. These people also have to follow these standards to be able to get or renew HOME OWNERS INSURANCE. 🤦♀️🤷🙄
@JesgateOnDown NO. The reason FEMA is there is because county leaders agreed to use FEMA guidelines in order to get a 25% discount on Federal flood insurance. That's a tiny amount which is not worth citizens being denied permits to fix a house they could be living in cheaply at a time when housing is so out of reach. The leaders could agree to kick FEMA guidelines to the curb and they totally should. The citizens could still get flood insurance.
They raised a lot of two story houses here by me. Then they tried to claim a three story house requires a fire sprinkler system. It was a long battle, but I think they won an exemption.
I'm sure some of them are steel but alot of the ones I've seen in use it's aluminum they use on the outside. That or I had the worlds sharpest hole saws when we installed electrical.
We've been raising houses in Connecticut since 2012 Hurricane Sandy. Some local towns even require it now if you are putting in a certain amount of money to update a home and it is close to the ocean.
or you could shut down all insurance companys and save enough money a month to buy a second house. insurance is a scam to make poor people have to pay for rich peoples houses.
If you are facing a wall of fire or your boat is sicking don't call the government. Do you have a TV? Who do you think fights wildfires, and rescues people? Would you jump in to arctic waters in a storm to save people. Government workers, the Coast Guard does this in Alaska.
@@Allen-w9d As long as FEMA is covering flood insurance policies, they can stop rebuilding the same flooded homes year after year. If you want to cover these homes for flood damage, feel free, no one is stopping you for offering policies...
Wait a moment…..I see he’s got support columns attached to the concrete pad and the perimeter footings; however, doesn’t he need to sink some pilings, or support columns several feet down, into the ground?
Now that is Awesome! Maybe this needs to be the future for all coastal homes. Wink way to go reporting this epic idea! Praying we never see another Ian like hurricane for decades to come. We are Florida Strong 💪 🙌
If he checks around a little bit and talks to the right people, someone can tell him how to build an elevator so he doesn’t have to walk up the steps but if it floods, the elevator will be higher than the bottom floor. These kinds of construction are all over the east coast along the beach , my son has a townhouse in Ocean City Maryland and parking is under the entire building.
MSM Misinformation. SIPs(Structural Insulated Panels) have been around since the 80's. Fire Resist and 10x stronger than 2x4 construction. Insulation factor is amazing.These folks make them with steel. Nice touch!
I built an ice plant out of these panels in the 80's. The outside of the panels looked just like any metal building. We had to foam between the panels after they were installed.
Those steel clad panels have been around for decades. I used them in the 90’s in a cold storage warehouse. In my case, the filling material was polyurethane, not polyethylene (foam).
That steel is relative thin, no more than steel siding, the strength comes from the bond between the panels and the foam and the structure as a complete system, There's a been a wood version of it for decades, OSB shell, once complete it's essentially a monolithic structure that's stronger than traditional framing
4G used to go right through my tin roof. Since they jammed 5g down everyone's throat, I have to use wifi. I will NEVER buy a Carrier branded phone again. Samsung allows you to disable 5G, Verizon has an OS overlay that prevents you from disabling it. F Verizon.
Never been inside, but seen a house in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn that had a similar idea after Sandy. It's open pillars, with about an 8 by 8 or so central enclosed area that I heard is an elevator, and the second and third floors are enclosed. It is like building a house on top of a parking structure. There is also a staircase up to the second floor. This is a waterfront community on an inlet, several houses have boats in the back. Lot of converted bungalows.
You really don't understand science do you? The salt content is in the air genius 😂 moisture carries the salt with it.. if air can get in then its salty moist air @@Dharmarenee
We are require to build homes up on pillars in RI. All the walls between the concrete pillars are designed to break away allowing the storm surge to flow under the house.
Finally someone in the US made a house that's made to withstand the nature in the local area..... welcome back to the world of common sense. I hope more people does as he does and stops building plywood foldable house's.
Actually, sequential civilizations in Europe and Asia have been building on top of old structures and communities for thousands of years, using different technologies. Egypt, Israel, Greece and Rome are the tip of the iceberg.
We could do with this system here in the UK. Our building companies love building on floodplains as our council's like selling them land there. Been sayrfor years if placetlike the Philippines can build stilt houses, wished we could do that here. Carport underneath, house above. Our regs are probably prohibiting this tho.
Nothing has changed. I lived thru Hugo in 1989. FEMA didn't help us at all. Just after Hugo, SanFran had an earth quake and fema helped them. Fast forward to today and NC is not getting help, but FEMA will give 6months expenses to people in Los Angeles.
@jonathanjones3126 Right, the government offering flood insurance after that bad Mississippi flood is what CAUSED so many people to start building in low lying areas.
He got to have some money to do all that his lot must be on deep water and his boat must be there to it's not cheap to do all that he basically built a new house
Exactly all these people complain about their houses flooding if you don't elevate it then tear it down you know it floods. Don't build your house in a river basin and think omg and cry when it gets flooded
That will blow over, just look at the quality of workmanship 2:39. Look like a construction trailer on top of duct work, can't wait for the next one to see if it last.
@@ArchetypeHomes I remember working on a home addition in the 90's and a trim guy saying something along the lines of "Caulk will make what a carpenter aint!" as he made fun of the gaps in his work. They're gonna need a lot of caulk on this one.
Who knew... building isn't what id be thinkin about... who the hell is fema to tell you to tear anything down or what you can do with your property... screw them... they don't make you house payments!!
fema says tair it down an rebuild, so instead of doing that i tore it down and rebuit. guy sticks it to fema by doing exactly what his overlords said tonight at nine.
Those 'steel' walls with insulation is a gimmick in my eyes. If they were strong, the steel would have to be much thicker and there is no way he could hold it up with one hand.
They use closed cell foam in those panels. It has great insulation properties, will not allow moisture to move through it, and is strong enough that you can jump up and down on the foam by itself and barely put a dent in it. Those panels are stronger than you believe. Once they are locked together and the frame is put up on the inside the house would have blow away as a single unit rather than in pieces.
@@georges3799 "He raised the entire house and replaced the exterior with those prefab panels and reframed the interior. Seems like a total rebuild to me." "He raised the entire house..." In other words, he did not demolish the house, he raised the un-demolished house up. If he demolished the house there would be no house to raise up. "...replaced the exterior with those prefab panels and reframed the interior." Meaning he took the un-demolished house he raised up and repaired and remodeled it while he was at it.
@@georges3799 "@Allen-w9d Raising it above the flood level was one of the conditions. And if you compared the old to the new I doubt you'd find many similarities." Remodeling tends to do that and that is one reason people remodel. But if the house was demolished there would be no house to remodel. Funny how that works.
Well, gotta get creative to keep FEMA from hogging out your booty. They love to do that. Did they give him the $750 that they gave the people in Tennessee?
If he went that far with tearing down the old house why not build to code with concrete post and house on top the money he spent should have covered it
This guy basically made it an above ground basement. Genius
we had a log cabin with an above ground basement, ground was too hard to excavate i think, or it would have cost too much, dont remember the reason
I work for a company that makes the steel studs and joists that he and his neighbor are using. Very smart move
I agree smart move but what does it say about the building ordinance. If you told to do one thing but you did this and this is better then why the f*** should we listen to anybody.. Freedom means doing what you choose to do not what somebody tells you to do. It's time as Americans we start that Tradition again
Good Man, more than one way to Build a House.
Very smart. And glad to learn about SIP. Always good to learn alternatives.
Indeed! Flood zones A & B should utilize this idea.
A SIP is called a Structural Insulated Panel.
@@Allen-w9d thank you. I was confused for a second there
The panels are like walk in cooler panels, good job 👏 😎
I wonder if they are Turn-Key.
"who knew you could build a house on top of a house?" I guess she's never seen a two story house 😉
Apparently the new house is unattached to the old house. If that's the case it's not the same.
@DarqJestor I guess I must have missed the part where the new house is hovering over the old house and not touching it 🤦
@@Good_ol_Butch It doesn't make sense to me but that's what he said at 2:00 so I'm still trying to figure out why he'd do that or if I just misunderstood.
@@DarqJestor attached= joined, attached, or connected to something .
Detached= separate or disconnected.... So, is this two separate buildings not connected, or are these two separate buildings connected to make one building?
@@Good_ol_Butch It didn't sound like it but that's what baffles me. Guess I'll have to do a bit of research. Or maybe I'll just have a few beers instead. 😵💫
You don't need FEMA's approval and you should fire any county commissioner who disagrees with that!
You need femur approval, even if you don’t have a permit
@floridaroadways Sounds like you need government to hold your hand. Karen
@@francismarion6400u need coochie to hold yo hand. You the Karen. Guys can’t be Karen’s stupid.
@francismarion6400
It's weird when people come into the comments & expose their ignorance. The reason FEMA has standards is because the house was & still is in a hurricane/tropical storm/flood zone & it will be subjected to more storms like these in the future. These people also have to follow these standards to be able to get or renew HOME OWNERS INSURANCE. 🤦♀️🤷🙄
@JesgateOnDown NO. The reason FEMA is there is because county leaders agreed to use FEMA guidelines in order to get a 25% discount on Federal flood insurance. That's a tiny amount which is not worth citizens being denied permits to fix a house they could be living in cheaply at a time when housing is so out of reach. The leaders could agree to kick FEMA guidelines to the curb and they totally should. The citizens could still get flood insurance.
He is rebuilding...
Exactly. He was told to move or build something new so he built something new
@@rorymcil - Yup, and this is not a new concept.
They raised a lot of two story houses here by me. Then they tried to claim a three story house requires a fire sprinkler system. It was a long battle, but I think they won an exemption.
SIP stands for structural insulated panels , not steel.
SIPs are called Structural Insulated Panels, not steel insulated panels. The fact that these used steel rather than wood is irrelevant.
I'm sure some of them are steel but alot of the ones I've seen in use it's aluminum they use on the outside. That or I had the worlds sharpest hole saws when we installed electrical.
We've been raising houses in Connecticut since 2012 Hurricane Sandy. Some local towns even require it now if you are putting in a certain amount of money to update a home and it is close to the ocean.
That's FEMA requirement.
Good on him. Some of these agencies get too big of a head, and forget they are there to serve us. Not the other way around.
Insurance should stop covering areas that keep getting destroyed by flooding or hurricanes or other predictable disasters
or you could shut down all insurance companys and save enough money a month to buy a second house. insurance is a scam to make poor people have to pay for rich peoples houses.
I'm from the government and l am here to help.
If you are facing a wall of fire or your boat is sicking don't call the government. Do you have a TV? Who do you think fights wildfires, and rescues people? Would you jump in to arctic waters in a storm to save people. Government workers, the Coast Guard does this in Alaska.
@@MDJ-f7kThis isn't any of those scenarios. Here, it is government intrusion into people's private property that is unconstitutional.
@@MDJ-f7k
FEMA is a bureaucracy, not trained first responders. FEMA is there to regulate, not save or build. Learn the difference.
@@Allen-w9d FEMA can't only do what they are funded to do by congress. We see conservatives in congress can't government.
@@Allen-w9d As long as FEMA is covering flood insurance policies, they can stop rebuilding the same flooded homes year after year. If you want to cover these homes for flood damage, feel free, no one is stopping you for offering policies...
So...he rebuilt it.
Nope. He made something new from something old. It’s genius.
yup
Wait a moment…..I see he’s got support columns attached to the concrete pad and the perimeter footings; however, doesn’t he need to sink some pilings, or support columns several feet down, into the ground?
No way! dude made a 2nd story...absolute genius!
GOOD LORD THOSE ARE STRANGELY DRESSED NEWS ANCHORS
Moved the living space above the flood zone..smart.
Now that is Awesome! Maybe this needs to be the future for all coastal homes. Wink way to go reporting this epic idea! Praying we never see another Ian like hurricane for decades to come. We are Florida Strong 💪 🙌
If he checks around a little bit and talks to the right people, someone can tell him how to build an elevator so he doesn’t have to walk up the steps but if it floods, the elevator will be higher than the bottom floor. These kinds of construction are all over the east coast along the beach , my son has a townhouse in Ocean City Maryland and parking is under the entire building.
MSM Misinformation.
SIPs(Structural Insulated Panels) have been around since the 80's. Fire Resist and 10x stronger than 2x4 construction. Insulation factor is amazing.These folks make them with steel. Nice touch!
I built an ice plant out of these panels in the 80's. The outside of the panels looked just like any metal building. We had to foam between the panels after they were installed.
Can mold grow in the panels if flooded ? Keep in mind that flood waters carry many nasty ingredients.
Those steel clad panels have been around for decades. I used them in the 90’s in a cold storage warehouse. In my case, the filling material was polyurethane, not polyethylene (foam).
Smart man! Way to go! 👏
We call them IMP, insulated metal panel. Basically a commercial refrigerator panel.
He keeps saying STEEL like it's a magic invocation but all I'm seeing is fancy sheet metal, not I-Beams. Even the posts.
That steel is relative thin, no more than steel siding, the strength comes from the bond between the panels and the foam and the structure as a complete system, There's a been a wood version of it for decades, OSB shell, once complete it's essentially a monolithic structure that's stronger than traditional framing
Individually they are not much. But once they are tied together with plywood or OSB paneling they will be every bit as strong as dimensional lumber.
He better get himself a Wi-Fi booster for inside the house!!! Because he's never getting a cell phone signal in there again. 😅
Now is a good time to plan for it.
4G used to go right through my tin roof. Since they jammed 5g down everyone's throat, I have to use wifi. I will NEVER buy a Carrier branded phone again.
Samsung allows you to disable 5G, Verizon has an OS overlay that prevents you from disabling it. F Verizon.
Never been inside, but seen a house in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn that had a similar idea after Sandy. It's open pillars, with about an 8 by 8 or so central enclosed area that I heard is an elevator, and the second and third floors are enclosed. It is like building a house on top of a parking structure. There is also a staircase up to the second floor. This is a waterfront community on an inlet, several houses have boats in the back. Lot of converted bungalows.
Steel near salt water?
I guess you missed the insulated part.
Done all over the world for 100 years now. You must be from Botswana?
You really don't understand science do you? The salt content is in the air genius 😂 moisture carries the salt with it.. if air can get in then its salty moist air @@Dharmarenee
Cars are made from steal and we seem to be ok with those here.
yup rip
He's lucky to be able to afford that.
The only drawback is that those stairs become more difficult as you age.
Build them like they do in the keys. The walls below wash away and the home is up and safe. Cars and such under the home.
Go Roger!! 👏👏👏
Shit, I'd rather park an airstream there and drive off a week before the hurricane hits.
We are require to build homes up on pillars in RI. All the walls between the concrete pillars are designed to break away allowing the storm surge to flow under the house.
FEMA says sell & move or rebuild. Clever Roger offers a different option, rebuild ...wowsers
You can do THIS or THAT...I think I'll do THAT. Great have a nice day.
Finally someone in the US made a house that's made to withstand the nature in the local area..... welcome back to the world of common sense.
I hope more people does as he does and stops building plywood foldable house's.
Good for you! FF
FEMA telling him to move, or tear it down. That reminds me of when Reagan told us about the 9 scariest words in the English language.
😂 our freedoms are making the news. ❤ this is great!
SIP is quick and easy to install too... as long as the authorities stays out of your way. Less regulation. Less government overreach.
SIP is structural insulated panel. Most are OSB and foam, his are steel and foam.
Now he needs some puncture resistant siding/cladding to make it fully hurricane proof.
Great if you have the money.
They could put a small exterior elevator in
@kenneth9874 Great, if you have the money.
@@frednone I've seen them on fishing camps so they can't be that expensive
Actually, sequential civilizations in Europe and Asia have been building on top of old structures and communities for thousands of years, using different technologies. Egypt, Israel, Greece and Rome are the tip of the iceberg.
We could do with this system here in the UK.
Our building companies love building on floodplains as our council's like selling them land there.
Been sayrfor years if placetlike the Philippines can build stilt houses, wished we could do that here.
Carport underneath, house above.
Our regs are probably prohibiting this tho.
Sip construction is the way of the future….
lmao
Yes it is.
"Moving in just in time for the next hurricane season" @3:18
Sounds great!! 🙄
He technically did demolish his house but load bearing walls then rebuilt on what was the 2nd floor.
Add an ADA ramp. 1/12 pitch. You’ll need a landing.
All buildings in hurricane prone areas should be built to withstand a hurricane.
That is exact same material they build giant freezers inside of warehouses with.
How long will they last in the salt air?
This doesn't seem much different than rebuilding. More power to him though.
Makes sense good job
lololol some of these comments....
thank god for the ppl who actually have experience
I expected more talk about the anchors here.
Just like that I wanna watch the news every evening.
Those are walk-in freezer panels
FEMA should have no authority over insurance, or private dwellings. FEMA should be the first victim of DOGE.
Nothing has changed. I lived thru Hugo in 1989. FEMA didn't help us at all. Just after Hugo, SanFran had an earth quake and fema helped them. Fast forward to today and NC is not getting help, but FEMA will give 6months expenses to people in Los Angeles.
OK, that’s awesome
Their acting like this is a feasiable option to everyone when most people affected cant afford all that...
We need to get rid of FEMA!
fema needs to go away permanently, and the insurance mafia needs to be shut down
Yeah. Yeah and the sun. The sun is evil. Someone should take a look at that.
This is all about control, fema has no legal standing to order him to elevate. Why has no one figured this out?
Then how about YOU offer him insurance to replace the federal flood insurance he can't get unless the house is raised?
It would be a costly legal battle and the government knows this.
Insurance causes many good and bad changes. No one besides the government will offer flood insurance in risky areas.
@jonathanjones3126 Right, the government offering flood insurance after that bad Mississippi flood is what CAUSED so many people to start building in low lying areas.
So he really partially tore it down and rebuilt to FEMA specifications
What's with the skintight leather?
Welcome again, men of distinction.
That must have cost him a lot.
This isn’t new. Go look at any flood prone area and you’ll see houses that are raised in this same way.
He got to have some money to do all that his lot must be on deep water and his boat must be there to it's not cheap to do all that he basically built a new house
Nice but water can destroy anything
Not so.
@ come to western North Carolina, I’ll be glad to show you
Exactly all these people complain about their houses flooding if you don't elevate it then tear it down you know it floods. Don't build your house in a river basin and think omg and cry when it gets flooded
People don't seem to have common sense anymore.
It's called freedom.
About time American homes stop the 2x4 stick construction
That will blow over, just look at the quality of workmanship 2:39. Look like a construction trailer on top of duct work, can't wait for the next one to see if it last.
Agreed. Look at the bow in that beam. Shoddy construction.
News anchor was a bit cheeky saying they "move in just in time for the next hurricane season".😂... and then we'll find out.
The wiggles in the lines is due to the original block construction. Steel has no problem compensating for the imperfections in the original concrete.
New SIP builds are much more square, level & plumb than traditional block construction. This is a renovation.
@@ArchetypeHomes I remember working on a home addition in the 90's and a trim guy saying something along the lines of "Caulk will make what a carpenter aint!" as he made fun of the gaps in his work.
They're gonna need a lot of caulk on this one.
Defund the FEMA
Why should he sell it to someone else? Doesn't make sense.
He turned a single story house into a 2 story house.. i wonder if anyone will invent a 3 or 4 story house 😐
wow
The point. He rebuilt
so he has to raise his home or get out, but his neighbors and kids nearby get to stay...why him...is he the only one staying ?
Stubborn old person?
Jesus!! How much money did FEMA give this guy!!??
Very likely, zero.
$700ish
Who knew... building isn't what id be thinkin about... who the hell is fema to tell you to tear anything down or what you can do with your property... screw them... they don't make you house payments!!
The federal government is the only people offering flood insurance in many areas so you obey the flood insurance rules or lose it.
So.....he "partially" demolished and rebuilt. It's definitely cool, but its basically the same as what FEMA told him to do to begin with.
So he rebuilt a new house.
Keep building in areas that are regularly flooding...genius. Who insures now?
FEMA doesn’t have anything to do with building code, never has.😂😂
Good luck you got the money.
fema says tair it down an rebuild, so instead of doing that i tore it down and rebuit.
guy sticks it to fema by doing exactly what his overlords said tonight at nine.
So basically he demolished and rebuilt
Those 'steel' walls with insulation is a gimmick in my eyes. If they were strong, the steel would have to be much thicker and there is no way he could hold it up with one hand.
They use closed cell foam in those panels. It has great insulation properties, will not allow moisture to move through it, and is strong enough that you can jump up and down on the foam by itself and barely put a dent in it. Those panels are stronger than you believe. Once they are locked together and the frame is put up on the inside the house would have blow away as a single unit rather than in pieces.
FEMA needs disbanded.
Still, all it takes is one mindless govt drone to not care and stamp "denied".
So, he demolished the old house and is building a new one. this one of the options fema gave him.
If he demolished the house its walls would have been gone as well, so no.
@Allen-w9d
He raised the entire house and replaced the exterior with those prefab panels and reframed the interior. Seems like a total rebuild to me.
@@georges3799
"He raised the entire house and replaced the exterior with those prefab panels and reframed the interior. Seems like a total rebuild to me."
"He raised the entire house..."
In other words, he did not demolish the house, he raised the un-demolished house up. If he demolished the house there would be no house to raise up.
"...replaced the exterior with those prefab panels and reframed the interior."
Meaning he took the un-demolished house he raised up and repaired and remodeled it while he was at it.
@Allen-w9d
Raising it above the flood level was one of the conditions. And if you compared the old to the new I doubt you'd find many similarities.
@@georges3799
"@Allen-w9d
Raising it above the flood level was one of the conditions. And if you compared the old to the new I doubt you'd find many similarities."
Remodeling tends to do that and that is one reason people remodel.
But if the house was demolished there would be no house to remodel. Funny how that works.
Well, gotta get creative to keep FEMA from hogging out your booty. They love to do that. Did they give him the $750 that they gave the people in Tennessee?
God told you how to build a house.
❤
🙏
Isn’t bureaucracy lovely?
fema - just remember these are govt workers who are dei hires - and not knowledgeable experts.
Yea..he demolished and rebuilt.
fema needs to go away...the cajun navy needs to take the spot of helping people in need
If he went that far with tearing down the old house why not build to code with concrete post and house on top the money he spent should have covered it
This is permitted as a renovation vs new build. New Single Family 2 story construction with an elevated spandrel beam will be more expensive.
This house is no stronger then another house
Incorrect. It’s a continuous shear diaphragm.