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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
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🍁 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 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!
🐓 Episode 5: Building a Chicken Coop for $50!
🏕️ Episode 6: Finishing the inside of the canvas bell tent
🐑 Episode 7: Insulating the cabin with Havelock Sheep's Wool
📐 Episode 8: Installing LVP flooring inside the cabin
🌧 Episode 9: Rainwater Catchment System + FirstFlush Diverter & Water Tank
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Was a huge upgrade at my homestead! Fantastic storytelling guys - Kevin
Good job explaining this guys! I’ve been using rainwater and IBC storage as my sole source of drinking water for more than 18 months. It’s awesome!
How Do you filter it to drinking quality and how Do you get it to your kitchen sink and maybe the bathroom?
@@gregormarquardt4192 how I do it is by pumping the catch (from the roof) water to a holding tank higher up on my landscape (even 50 feet is enough for decent water pressure - like for a shower). And run a hose from the tank (you can get “food safe” ones at RV shops - they’re usually white). The water then goes into my house pipes. Only drinking water (anything you will be consuming without heating first) needs further filtering. I use a 2-bucket system with food grade 5 gallon buckets to filter my water from the tap. In the top bucket is gravel then sand then wood chips then charcoal - all of which have been washed thoroughly and dried in the sun. There are holes in bucket 1 to allow water to percolate from bucket 1 to bucket 2, which then stores the water. Bucket 2 has a spigot near the bottom. Make sense?
Maybe do another follow up video on how all this worked out? Great videos you guys are putting out. Thank you.
I did a rainwater system without first flush diverter. This math @5:41 and diagram make sense and I just might install these...love it!
I’m assuming this isn’t for drinking water. That filter isn’t going to stop mosquitoes. There is still light protruding through the top of the tank which will allow algae to grow.
Gutter clips are supper annoying to deal with later on for maintenance and are the old style. Use a clip with a hem so all you have to do is clip the gutter in. It will allow the metal to expand and contract freely, making it last longer, and if you ever need to change a section, snap it off and snap a new one on
Nice video but I would still not recommend to use that for drinking. You could hook it up to an RO filtration unit under your sink with a holding tank and a demand pump and then drink it
Thank you for adding the cm and the m measurements! 🤘
I love your videos, the animations elevated the quality. Keep it up
I wouldn't drink water that came through PVC. Doesn't PVC contain BPAs and other pthalates?
I think there is food grade pipe available? but yes, I would be concerned with using regular PVC
Food grade PVC is available at LOWES and many greenhouse and agriculture suppliers. We are required to use food grade PVC to maintain our organic/ natural growers certification for irrigation. If we are using rainwater, well or city water we can't use just any PVC pipes and hoses.
Yes, we use food grade piping along with a food grade IBC tote. The one we got was once used to hold ginger ale syrup!
Depends if it's regular or food grade😊
Loved how y’all explained everything thoroughly 💜💜
Another great video! Keep them coming! ❤
You'd have a million views if it was branded as a gutter-install video. ❤
Appreciate the metric system usage!!! US really needs to drop Imperial
Why not put the downspout in the middle? It would eliminate the joiner and have the whole roof drain to center instead of piling up at the end. Great video as always:D
I would probably invest into a impact driver for the future :)
Great job guys!
That last filter on the overflow pipe can still let a lot of insects go through, doesn't it? You'll need a net as well.
You all are awesome!! We have rainy season here…. Soooo….. I got work to do!!
Anyone who creates this thing is genius.
Nice video, have y'all considered stocking the pond with fish or other marine life? I've always wondered if it was possible to do in a self-replenishing and sustainable way
Would love an update to this!
Looking good guys! Thank you for explaining it all. I was worried you guys would leave me with questions. BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NUMBERS? I was watching the videos when they came out and I knew it would be a good video when you guys had the number for the day that it was in the 30 day challenge… don’t tell me you guys gave up on that.
We didn’t! Our thumbnails were showing the day count before, but we will start mentioning the day number in the video.
Adding it to our thumbnail/titles were turning new viewers off who thought they would be lost if they clicked a new video part of a series.
This was day #9!
Once the series is complete we will add the numbers back into the thumbnails!
That's amazing however care to explain on acid rain issues faced nowadays?
Im going to be review an off grid setup book for an author on my channel. I wonder how.close or different my builds will look?😊
Awesome video, really hope you read my comment on the accompanying short!
For life!* (*as long as climate change doesn't takes your rain away)
Rainfall will increase as a result of global warming.
Less water stored as ice means more water circulating at any time.
@martinhawes5647 what happens when ice mellts 🤡
@@martinhawes5647 global warming also makes desertification 🏜️, so no, it doesn't magically makes everywhere a rainforest.
Just a warning here, you mention "legal way" in your title but some states west of the Mississippi river dont allow water catchment and storage even on your own property. Check your local laws to see if they have this crazy one on the books.
Another BS Law lol.
They can't leave the people alone.
Instead of the cover, could you just paint the outside?
Bro Active carbon?
En climas húmedos y si no es para consumo humano...
It's illegal in my home state
You glossed over the "ring-to-ball assembly" 🙄😑
Ez pz
You explained how to find a stud on my house, but you glossed over the "ring-to-ball assembly" 🙄😑
I'm sure that's food grade Epoxy right? 😉
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You're relying on 10 litres to clean the debris... Nope, if you're going to the effort of making a first flush, do it right. I constructed 8 columns of pipe which divert the first 100 litres. That is how you perform a first flush