I'm enjoying your cabin project and hope to continue with it until your completion. Your interesting and self deprecating which is a trait I enjoy and can relate to.
What's fun is to install a large windowed weatherproof boat hatch in the roof that allows you to climb out from the loft. Lots of uses beyond egress. You need some really high performance insulation in those unusual walls and ceilings, and a two-part closed cell foam spray in would give you 7 R-value per inch, vapor barrier, and an airtight enclosure. There are some really good DYI kits with what looks like a pair of propane tanks. If you have running water in a creek nearby, a microhydro system would assist the solar. Microhydro systems can produce a lot of power, even when it's dark or raining. Keep pouring rock on that steep hill part of the road, eventually you'll be able to drive a Lexus up there.
I can actually fit out the loft window, it just isn't large enough to meet code. I am going to be spraying the underside of the cabin with one of those kits this spring hopefully. I'll also be adding 1.5 inches of rigid foam to the back of the cabin. The back is an easy install since there are no windows to flash around and only 1 door. The steep part of the road needs some work right now. I need more ditching to keep it dry. Then I will grade it and put some base stone down.
50 Acres & a Cabin the boat hatch installed as a skylight would be in addition. i put just that in the off grid i built and it was very useful to get on the roof so easy and safe. plus lettin light and having a big vent that you can open in summer. rigid foam is good too, but not vapor tight unless you housewrap and tape.
Hey Mike, I never did go back and watch all the early videos so doing that now so I can see the origins of the journey. Really enjoy watching your work and progress. Thanks!
Very nice job, especially with the roof timbers. I used let-in ledgers on my 2 lofts also. Seems much stronger to me and as you mentioned, the loft joists hold the walls from spreading outwards. One of the reasons I picked my town is that there are no building codes; I can do all the work myself. Beautiful location you have. - Dave
Yea I think it's a pretty good way to build a cabin, and you can always add in fire blocking if you are worried about it. It's nice to have the flexibility to build things how you want.
New sub here! Good to see you’re building your (dream) cabin at your own pace and loving the journey along the way. We opted for a yurt for our off-grid property because I’m a mechanic and by no means a carpenter haha. Looking forward to all your upcoming improvements!
Hi Brandon, that's awesome, yurts are great. I think you feel closer to the outdoors inside them. You can hear the sounds of nature through the canvass walls. One thing I don't like about the cabin is when the windows are closed its hard to hear much outside. Once the walls are insulated we probably won't be able to hear anything at all.
Этого не было на сайте. Я начал снимать примерно через год после того, как начал работать над салоном. Я живу около 2 часов езды, поэтому я делаю медленный прогресс.
Blue staining usually shows up in Eastern white pine, so I'd say it probably came from the east coast. Ponderosa pine is the other type of pine commonly used to make 1x material. It typically has red staining.
You really did a lot of homework. My home is framed very similar with advanced framing -- but it looks like mine is an earlier version. I like the header hanger idea to eliminate jack studs. Really nice work! Are you planning on expanding and living there at some point?
Thank you! I don't think we will live there in the foreseeable future. We are pretty tied to our city for income needs. I'm a landlord and my wife has a 9-5.
50 acre cabin...I have seen 4 or 5 if your videos and I have enjoyed them all. Plus, you seem like a nice guy. Which is why I don't understand your sarcastic reply to Ricard Clarkes comment on balloon framing & especially fire stops. I have always welcomed advise from professionals maybe rethink the firestops. Good traditional framing contractors can stack joist to studs to rafters (trusts) without missing a beat from basement to roof. And this is far stronger method.
No worries, We all have a bad day when others opinions test of our good nature. Much resect to you and Hannah. I worked for a cabin builder in Appalachia during college summers for extra money and I will say you skills are very good.
Sonny Crockett I think he was my first comment from a stranger ever and I was like oh boy here we go is this what RUclips is like. Since then people have been super nice and kind when they are constructive. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the videos.
My wall studs are 10 feet high, with the loft joists starting at 7.5 feet up. I'm planning to add 2x6's for fire stops about 5 feet up on all my walls. It's a pain in the butt trimming the 2x6's to fit between the mostly 16"on center studs!
What was the permit situations and things of that nature what kind of a process did you have to go through to build your cabin or being that you have 50 acres and are so far up is the city even bothering with you? I would like to know because me and my wife are thinking of moving off-grid as well
Hi, we did not have any permits when I searched for land I made sure I bought someplace without any. In fact we are not even in a town the only government is the county and state.
New to your channel, I just found your videos and started following your build. A question I have is, Do you think the AC/DC charging distribution being in the same room as a shower cause any problems with condensation to form on the distribution block?
Yea, I do think it could be an issue. I'm actually going to frame up a partial wall and a false wall to isolate those electronics from the shower area. I'm thinking something along the lines of hidden passage way bookcase type thing so if anyone breaks in they may not realize there is expensive solar stuff in that corner of the house.
I just discovered your channel and I am LOVING your home so much!! I found my dream house (Yours, Lol)!! I have watched a lot of your videos and and I don't know if you mentioned it and I most probably missed it. But how tall are your walls? How tall is your loft? I want a tall loft like yours, I'm only 5'1" but would like it tall. I think you mentioned your home it's 9 ft wide. How long is the home? 300 sq ft total, right? I am LOVING everything you are doing! I am learning A LOT from you! Sending you & your lovely wife lots of Love and blessings!!!
Hi Lillie, thanks so much. My walls are either 9 or 10 feet tall I can’t quite remember! I think 10. I love high ceilings they make small spaces feel roomy. The cabin is 444 sq ft.
For sure, I'm in Michigan, just like to see how the land differs in different states. Watching through your other vids now. property is very cool. look forward to seeing how things progress. take care
I enjoy your videos very much. I noticed the roof decking is not t&g. . Do you get large gaps between as it expands an contracts? Is t& g even worth the extra cost?
Yea I spaced them out with framing nails when I laid the boards, then I put roofing felt on top so that when the boards move you just see black strips. I think it looks cool.
You an Boss of the Swamp have been a great encouragement. Started my dreams of an off grid cabin in the woods a couple of years ago. Its slow going but its mortgage free. Thanks for all the great video you do. IG coreygillum12
Just found your channel and am catching up. Can tell I'm going to like it here. So, are you in TN? Here in Ohio, Building codes are enforced or not enforced on a county-by-county basis, which makes rural land in unenforced counties more expensive. I live in the Dayton area, but am saving for some land in the more rural part of the state. Cheers!
Oh, a fellow Daytonian, very cool! Go Flyers! Perhaps we should get in touch. I have some areas of knowledge, and certainly some gaps in knowledge as well. Maybe we could bounce ideas around. I'll shoot you an email, if you don't mind.
I just found your site. We also have a place we are developing, in KY. It's 42 acres. Thanks for sharing. I love your cabin, good Job. As for Mr. Clarke, why don't you go spread your misery someplace else. If you have real, constructive criticism, fine, but dogging a man's site just because you are not happy, isn't helpful. People go where there are no building codes and government intrusion to get away from ppl like you.
thanks, was looking for another place too roost. looks just perfect. but way out of my income projection. I had bought a nice ten acres in Madison WV. about fifteen years ago, and build a little 40x40 cabin with the old growth logs off the land. the land was fifteen hundred, and the cost in building was about ten grand total. now that I'm in my sixties, was looking too do the bucket list and grow old and kick back and die happy. but there just an't any place in the mountains that are available with in my income. but if you hear of any land, even a few odd acres, but ten would be great. for around that price line. I hate the idea, of having too move to Texas, where there are lots of land for 20 bucks an acre. and 110 in the shade sweat box's. not my thing, if you get my drift. I almost had a place with 25 acres for nineteen grand once ,but doing an inquiry I found that the land was never owned by the seller, and that the sheriff department would force any one off the land as it was state land, taken as part of the emit domain scam, by the local county officials. they did the same thing in WV, back around the time I had finished my cabin. just never deal with blue grass land, their crooks.so never buy unless there are land, mineral, and royalty rights to the land. other wise these scumbags can claim your land. hell there is always someone trying too get over. so watch your back, there is always someone that will try too take what you got.
Ralph, you should check out land on both sides of the Ohio river in KY, OH and WV. There was 12 acres down the street from me, with a little pond and road frontage for $22K a couple years ago. Keep your eyes open and you will come across something.
sounds good, worth looking at. but WV, never again. been there done that one before. they do not honor their deeds, then harass you until you sell out to them, as most of blue ridge land is there their thieves in my book. and the county clerks work with them ,sell ya land then bust your ass with building fees and permits, or fines. went there lost everything, I put into that land, only to have the state step in and claim it as public lands. that's why I'm looking for all rights to the land.other wise the state can reclaim it under their ED scam, only to sell it too some other jackass, who will pay them more. the last time I dealt with Madison WV. there was no building restrictions at the sale ,then three months later they came in with building code violations, then no permit fines, illegal development of the land, the list goes on and on. the money lost was not worth the crap they dealt out. but I did sue them and lost, hell they ruled before the court was convened. hell the judges words were clear, at the hearing, just before he opened the hearing. his words ring clear, you have the right too appeal after I make my ruling. twenty minutes later I was out of court ruling against me, the judge favored the blue ridge land development company. I found out later that they had been doing that for years to other people. I found nine people that got screwed over, with their scam. I even went too the state AG, he told me that I had no legal rights to state owned land. even if I had a quick claim deed. even with the county clerk, seal on it. as it was no owned by the country. but there was nothing that could be done, other then sue them individually, which I did, and still lost out. it took me three years of BS crap, more then fifty grand in costs to fight these scabs. the word it too say, full lease of deed, not deed of land, or any rights to or for said property. I don't know what your deed says but I'd check it out fast. and have every thing in writing ,with state notary seal on every document, or said right to land. even the building zone codes. my friend bought a ready built cabin, and set foundation and delivery date, paid for every thing, the day after they delivered the house, the country inspector showed up, claiming that the house was not allowed ,he had ten days to remove it or be finds three hundred a day. he was still fined fifteen hundred for not have the proper permits, and allowances by state land manager. if you ask that BLM. they took the land twenty years earlier from a hillbilly family that lived there over a hundred years, with the BLM emit domain ruling. as the stated owner had died, and his family had lost their claim too the land. I had another friend in Ohio that went through the same shit, the city sold him the property only to claim it back four years later due to ED claim from state BLM. they sold that land and house for ten times what Clive bought it for and had in it. only to do it all over the state to others. it is a democratic scammers that runs these thieves. they got their little mob running most if not all the states land offices. hell they got their own police officers even. hell their all over the place. they step in every time to claim land that the state sold to others under their ED scam.anyway thanks for the 411 on that land, I'll check out the area.
I liked the idea of minimizing thermal breaks. Since I knew I wouldn’t have enough power for air conditioning I wanted to make the building as energy efficient as possible
Those gussets will fail in a fire. People don’t realize if your home is engineered framing the fire department will not make entry to save your life! Also ballon framing was stopped because of fire spread issues. The fire travels freely along the entire length of the studs through all levels and enters the attic. I hope you added fire stops in your walls or a small fire will take your entire house. I too live in an unincorporated township where we have no bylaws or building inspector but no one would dare build a ballon frame due to the dangers of it.
Richard Clarke, Rest assured Richard, as my flaming cabin comes crashing down around me my last thoughts will be “Ohh whoa is me, if only I had listened to Richard Clarke!”
50 Acres & a Cabin sadly you wont think that! You will be trying to find air to breath that won’t sear your throat and make you gag and vomit. You will be clawing at the wall and begging God to save you, I have seen it as I am a firefighter and fire investigator. Nor do I want to be right because that would mean you died in a fire. Stay safe.
The building laws exist where you live that you must follow but your area just doesn’t have inspectors. You sacrificed your safety for what reason? No egress window to save your life? Why? What reason? It would be too late if there was a fire at night to change your mind and put the egress window in! It’s not a pretty site pulling dead burnt people out of their homes. Imagine the terror they went through not being able to get out.
It’s called freedom. If you choose to not put in a egress window that’s your choice. And that’s the best thing about doing it this way, you have a choice without the government telling you what you HAVE to do. I wish more places where like this. God bless
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No inspectors no zoning ..... its called freedom
larry haney it was a requirement when I was searching for land! I had too many plans that conflicted with inspections.
Please can you help guide me as to where I can look to find land in a similar situation? No inspections
Richard ------ ALASKA just not the bigger cities.
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@@larryhaney6608 Thank you
I'm enjoying your cabin project and hope to continue with it until your completion. Your interesting and self deprecating which is a trait I enjoy and can relate to.
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoy the videos.
What's fun is to install a large windowed weatherproof boat hatch in the roof that allows you to climb out from the loft. Lots of uses beyond egress.
You need some really high performance insulation in those unusual walls and ceilings, and a two-part closed cell foam spray in would give you 7 R-value per inch, vapor barrier, and an airtight enclosure. There are some really good DYI kits with what looks like a pair of propane tanks.
If you have running water in a creek nearby, a microhydro system would assist the solar. Microhydro systems can produce a lot of power, even when it's dark or raining.
Keep pouring rock on that steep hill part of the road, eventually you'll be able to drive a Lexus up there.
I can actually fit out the loft window, it just isn't large enough to meet code. I am going to be spraying the underside of the cabin with one of those kits this spring hopefully. I'll also be adding 1.5 inches of rigid foam to the back of the cabin. The back is an easy install since there are no windows to flash around and only 1 door. The steep part of the road needs some work right now. I need more ditching to keep it dry. Then I will grade it and put some base stone down.
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the boat hatch installed as a skylight would be in addition. i put just that in the off grid i built and it was very useful to get on the roof so easy and safe. plus lettin light and having a big vent that you can open in summer.
rigid foam is good too, but not vapor tight unless you housewrap and tape.
Hey Mike, I never did go back and watch all the early videos so doing that now so I can see the origins of the journey. Really enjoy watching your work and progress. Thanks!
Hey Earl, hope you enjoy them, the editing is a bit slow and awkward but they do have a lot of good info in them.
Being helpful when I can doing great brother. Lot of fun with your folks.
Looks awesome, love how peaceful it is out there!
That gray wood is Beetle Kill Pine. It looks cool. Fantastic Build.
Thanks Jack!
Well you don't have to worry about it just take your time you'll get it done you ain't no rush you don't have to build in one day
Cabin is very nice and that is a million dollar view.
Very nice job, especially with the roof timbers. I used let-in ledgers on my 2 lofts also. Seems much stronger to me and as you mentioned, the loft joists hold the walls from spreading outwards. One of the reasons I picked my town is that there are no building codes; I can do all the work myself. Beautiful location you have. - Dave
Yea I think it's a pretty good way to build a cabin, and you can always add in fire blocking if you are worried about it. It's nice to have the flexibility to build things how you want.
Nice place 🙂😍 great cabin, looking good🙏🏡
New sub here! Good to see you’re building your (dream) cabin at your own pace and loving the journey along the way. We opted for a yurt for our off-grid property because I’m a mechanic and by no means a carpenter haha. Looking forward to all your upcoming improvements!
Hi Brandon, that's awesome, yurts are great. I think you feel closer to the outdoors inside them. You can hear the sounds of nature through the canvass walls. One thing I don't like about the cabin is when the windows are closed its hard to hear much outside. Once the walls are insulated we probably won't be able to hear anything at all.
Дом уже был на участке или вы не снимали видео о начале строительства? Проделана огромная работа!!!
Этого не было на сайте. Я начал снимать примерно через год после того, как начал работать над салоном. Я живу около 2 часов езды, поэтому я делаю медленный прогресс.
Beautiful view!
Blue staining usually shows up in Eastern white pine, so I'd say it probably came from the east coast. Ponderosa pine is the other type of pine commonly used to make 1x material. It typically has red staining.
Cool!
Love it ! Thanks for sharing. ...
Thanks Brenda!
What a great place. No inspection needed, what a bonus. Looks like you are building a safe cabin without government assistance and fees. 😀
I strongly feel we should be allowed to fail or succeed on our own account as long as we are not endangering scores of strangers.
50 Acres & a Cabin Totally agree.
Most people don't need government baby setters or government thieves to be safe !
Thanks for sharing !
Beautiful!
We don't have the Emerald Ash beetle, yet. Hoping it stays away.
You really did a lot of homework. My home is framed very similar with advanced framing -- but it looks like mine is an earlier version. I like the header hanger idea to eliminate jack studs. Really nice work! Are you planning on expanding and living there at some point?
Thank you! I don't think we will live there in the foreseeable future. We are pretty tied to our city for income needs. I'm a landlord and my wife has a 9-5.
50 acre cabin...I have seen 4 or 5 if your videos and I have enjoyed them all. Plus, you seem like a nice guy. Which is why I don't understand your sarcastic reply to Ricard Clarkes comment on balloon framing & especially fire stops. I have always welcomed advise from professionals maybe rethink the firestops. Good traditional framing contractors can stack joist to studs to rafters (trusts) without missing a beat from basement to roof. And this is far stronger method.
Sonny Crockett I should not have replied that way.
No worries, We all have a bad day when others opinions test of our good nature. Much resect to you and Hannah. I worked for a cabin builder in Appalachia during college summers for extra money and I will say you skills are very good.
Sonny Crockett I think he was my first comment from a stranger ever and I was like oh boy here we go is this what RUclips is like. Since then people have been super nice and kind when they are constructive. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the videos.
My wall studs are 10 feet high, with the loft joists starting at 7.5 feet up. I'm planning to add 2x6's for fire stops about 5 feet up on all my walls. It's a pain in the butt trimming the 2x6's to fit between the mostly 16"on center studs!
I'm not 100% sure but I think you want the stops where it transitions from one floor to the next. May want to look into that.
Well I think you are doing an awesome job, looks really good. do you plan to use the bubble wrap type insulation?
Way Of the Word WOW! Thanks! Planning to just use plain old R-19 batts.
@@50Acres Ok just wondering, looking forward to seeing the completed job as I am sure you are. Yahweh bless!
What was the permit situations and things of that nature what kind of a process did you have to go through to build your cabin or being that you have 50 acres and are so far up is the city even bothering with you? I would like to know because me and my wife are thinking of moving off-grid as well
Hi, we did not have any permits when I searched for land I made sure I bought someplace without any. In fact we are not even in a town the only government is the county and state.
@@50Acres what state and county is that maybe i could look in that area for property if you don't mind thanks
Great cabin tour. Do you have the plans online to gleam ideas from?
Hey Phillip, I do they are all in a video called "the story and plans behind this off grid cabin"
50 Acres & a Cabin I’ll check that out in the morning
New to your channel, I just found your videos and started following your build.
A question I have is, Do you think the AC/DC charging distribution being in the same room as a shower cause any problems with condensation to form on the distribution block?
Yea, I do think it could be an issue. I'm actually going to frame up a partial wall and a false wall to isolate those electronics from the shower area. I'm thinking something along the lines of hidden passage way bookcase type thing so if anyone breaks in they may not realize there is expensive solar stuff in that corner of the house.
Nice plate cover.
I just discovered your channel and I am LOVING your home so much!! I found my dream house (Yours, Lol)!! I have watched a lot of your videos and and I don't know if you mentioned it and I most probably missed it. But how tall are your walls? How tall is your loft? I want a tall loft like yours, I'm only 5'1" but would like it tall. I think you mentioned your home it's 9 ft wide. How long is the home? 300 sq ft total, right? I am LOVING everything you are doing! I am learning A LOT from you! Sending you & your lovely wife lots of Love and blessings!!!
Hi Lillie, thanks so much. My walls are either 9 or 10 feet tall I can’t quite remember! I think 10. I love high ceilings they make small spaces feel roomy. The cabin is 444 sq ft.
@@50Acres I think looking at your videos; the pitch of the roof it's like 7ft from the loft. Love it! Thanks!!
first video I have watched/found of yours. cool stuff, what state or area are you in???
im in the KY, OH area, thanks for watching!
For sure, I'm in Michigan, just like to see how the land differs in different states. Watching through your other vids now. property is very cool. look forward to seeing how things progress. take care
Thanks, I hope to have some more videos made in mid April.
I enjoy your videos very much. I noticed the roof decking is not t&g. . Do you get large gaps between as it expands an contracts? Is t& g even worth the extra cost?
Yea I spaced them out with framing nails when I laid the boards, then I put roofing felt on top so that when the boards move you just see black strips. I think it looks cool.
I don’t think T&G is worth it unless you specifically want that look. T&G does look a bit cleaner if that’s what you’re going for.
You an Boss of the Swamp have been a great encouragement. Started my dreams of an off grid cabin in the woods a couple of years ago. Its slow going but its mortgage free. Thanks for all the great video you do. IG coreygillum12
No problem glad you’re getting to live the dream
Mike it looks AMAZING man! Shame on me for always skipping out on your invites.
Is this Chris? You need to get out there with me soon man!
Yes sir.
Just found your channel and am catching up. Can tell I'm going to like it here. So, are you in TN? Here in Ohio, Building codes are enforced or not enforced on a county-by-county basis, which makes rural land in unenforced counties more expensive. I live in the Dayton area, but am saving for some land in the more rural part of the state. Cheers!
Hey thanks for watching! I commute to my land from Dayton, its on the OH KY border area,
Oh, a fellow Daytonian, very cool! Go Flyers! Perhaps we should get in touch. I have some areas of knowledge, and certainly some gaps in knowledge as well. Maybe we could bounce ideas around. I'll shoot you an email, if you don't mind.
sounds good
I just found your site. We also have a place we are developing, in KY. It's 42 acres. Thanks for sharing. I love your cabin, good Job. As for Mr. Clarke, why don't you go spread your misery someplace else. If you have real, constructive criticism, fine, but dogging a man's site just because you are not happy, isn't helpful. People go where there are no building codes and government intrusion to get away from ppl like you.
rsinfelt1 Welcome to the channel! Thanks!
thanks 👍👍👍 :-)
Where in TN are you located?
Awesome !
I think your my first ever comment!!!! Thanks Raymond!
dude I have some questions, where is the land at, what did it costs ya, how much was the cabin to build out. what is new in the build.
Hey Ralph its near the OH KY border, the land was $60K in 2013, I have about 10K into the cabin so far, IIRC.
thanks, was looking for another place too roost. looks just perfect. but way out of my income projection. I had bought a nice ten acres in Madison WV. about fifteen years ago, and build a little 40x40 cabin with the old growth logs off the land. the land was fifteen hundred, and the cost in building was about ten grand total. now that I'm in my sixties, was looking too do the bucket list and grow old and kick back and die happy. but there just an't any place in the mountains that are available with in my income. but if you hear of any land, even a few odd acres, but ten would be great. for around that price line. I hate the idea, of having too move to Texas, where there are lots of land for 20 bucks an acre. and 110 in the shade sweat box's. not my thing, if you get my drift. I almost had a place with 25 acres for nineteen grand once ,but doing an inquiry I found that the land was never owned by the seller, and that the sheriff department would force any one off the land as it was state land, taken as part of the emit domain scam, by the local county officials. they did the same thing in WV, back around the time I had finished my cabin. just never deal with blue grass land, their crooks.so never buy unless there are land, mineral, and royalty rights to the land. other wise these scumbags can claim your land. hell there is always someone trying too get over. so watch your back, there is always someone that will try too take what you got.
Ralph, you should check out land on both sides of the Ohio river in KY, OH and WV. There was 12 acres down the street from me, with a little pond and road frontage for $22K a couple years ago. Keep your eyes open and you will come across something.
sounds good, worth looking at. but WV, never again. been there done that one before. they do not honor their deeds, then harass you until you sell out to them, as most of blue ridge land is there their thieves in my book. and the county clerks work with them ,sell ya land then bust your ass with building fees and permits, or fines. went there lost everything, I put into that land, only to have the state step in and claim it as public lands. that's why I'm looking for all rights to the land.other wise the state can reclaim it under their ED scam, only to sell it too some other jackass, who will pay them more. the last time I dealt with Madison WV. there was no building restrictions at the sale ,then three months later they came in with building code violations, then no permit fines, illegal development of the land, the list goes on and on. the money lost was not worth the crap they dealt out. but I did sue them and lost, hell they ruled before the court was convened. hell the judges words were clear, at the hearing, just before he opened the hearing. his words ring clear, you have the right too appeal after I make my ruling. twenty minutes later I was out of court ruling against me, the judge favored the blue ridge land development company. I found out later that they had been doing that for years to other people. I found nine people that got screwed over, with their scam. I even went too the state AG, he told me that I had no legal rights to state owned land. even if I had a quick claim deed. even with the county clerk, seal on it. as it was no owned by the country. but there was nothing that could be done, other then sue them individually, which I did, and still lost out. it took me three years of BS crap, more then fifty grand in costs to fight these scabs. the word it too say, full lease of deed, not deed of land, or any rights to or for said property. I don't know what your deed says but I'd check it out fast. and have every thing in writing ,with state notary seal on every document, or said right to land. even the building zone codes. my friend bought a ready built cabin, and set foundation and delivery date, paid for every thing, the day after they delivered the house, the country inspector showed up, claiming that the house was not allowed ,he had ten days to remove it or be finds three hundred a day. he was still fined fifteen hundred for not have the proper permits, and allowances by state land manager. if you ask that BLM. they took the land twenty years earlier from a hillbilly family that lived there over a hundred years, with the BLM emit domain ruling. as the stated owner had died, and his family had lost their claim too the land. I had another friend in Ohio that went through the same shit, the city sold him the property only to claim it back four years later due to ED claim from state BLM. they sold that land and house for ten times what Clive bought it for and had in it. only to do it all over the state to others. it is a democratic scammers that runs these thieves. they got their little mob running most if not all the states land offices. hell they got their own police officers even. hell their all over the place. they step in every time to claim land that the state sold to others under their ED scam.anyway thanks for the 411 on that land, I'll check out the area.
Why did you use expensive header hangers? Jack studs are super cheap and the strongest form of support
I liked the idea of minimizing thermal breaks. Since I knew I wouldn’t have enough power for air conditioning I wanted to make the building as energy efficient as possible
50 acres & a cabin What State are you in?
I don't saw which state but it is along the Ohio River Valley.
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Those gussets will fail in a fire. People don’t realize if your home is engineered framing the fire department will not make entry to save your life! Also ballon framing was stopped because of fire spread issues. The fire travels freely along the entire length of the studs through all levels and enters the attic. I hope you added fire stops in your walls or a small fire will take your entire house. I too live in an unincorporated township where we have no bylaws or building inspector but no one would dare build a ballon frame due to the dangers of it.
Richard Clarke, Rest assured Richard, as my flaming cabin comes crashing down around me my last thoughts will be “Ohh whoa is me, if only I had listened to Richard Clarke!”
50 Acres & a Cabin sadly you wont think that! You will be trying to find air to breath that won’t sear your throat and make you gag and vomit. You will be clawing at the wall and begging God to save you, I have seen it as I am a firefighter and fire investigator. Nor do I want to be right because that would mean you died in a fire. Stay safe.
Richard clarke Can you tards not just watch a video on the Internet without giving your expert advice?
@@lindanwfirefighter4973 He'll have to have a couple fire alarms -- no fire dept to save him in any case.
It’s a rustic cabin bro, chill, your pioneering relatives say you are a pussy..
Good thing you don't have to worry about inspection. Real sketchy work.
Sorry to disappoint you!
The building laws exist where you live that you must follow but your area just doesn’t have inspectors. You sacrificed your safety for what reason? No egress window to save your life? Why? What reason? It would be too late if there was a fire at night to change your mind and put the egress window in! It’s not a pretty site pulling dead burnt people out of their homes. Imagine the terror they went through not being able to get out.
If I burn to death in a fire in my 400 square foot cabin I’ll be sure to let you know you were right about the egress window.
It’s called freedom. If you choose to not put in a egress window that’s your choice. And that’s the best thing about doing it this way, you have a choice without the government telling you what you HAVE to do. I wish more places where like this. God bless