Building an off-grid bush shack. https://youtube.com/shorts/ihyorqhsRSQ?si=FmcUWf8EPIQJWufR A bit of inspiration.
Very cool. 222 Thousand subscribers, lets run the numbers "The average earnings range for YouTube channels with 1,000 subscribers is $50-$100 monthly. However, it can vary widely depending on several factors, including: Niche: Some niches are more profitable than others" Taking the lower value that's $11,000 per month. More than you'd get just working for wages building houses probably. I wonder if he has a deal going where he builds these for people on their own properties, charging them of course. It would be logical. Well done Lesnoy.
My father built the house that became our family home in the mid 1950's. He had no carpentry, building or architectural drafting training, yet with a few manuals he taught himself all he needed to; to design, draw architectural plans (which he submitted to and which were approved by the local shire council, and built. He did all of the construction by himself without help from anyone else * but an electrician and a plumber to do what was mandated by the council for certification. Footings, flooring, window and door hanging, frame working, roofing and roof tiling he did himself. Over the 3 decades that my parents and children lived there....it was never completed., though the local council did sign off on it being habitable. Over the years he added a garage at the side of the house, which my mother used as her craft studio / teaching space, a couple of outbuildings, and an additional bedroom as well as an 'outhouse' that must have been the bane of the council sanitary carters, until piped sewerage was connected to the property. (The 'outhouse' was probably 20 30 feet below street grade down a long slope without a paved footpath. My parents sold the house in the mid 80's to a developer who built three town houses on it. I'm not sure how much profit the developer made, as the cost of demolishing my dad's house would have been prohibitive, given that he used hardwood throughout the structure, and he always seem to use 8 or 10 nails and screws at closer intervals where one nail or screw at further intervals would have been sufficient. * He did have help raising the framework, which as herculean he seemed to us kids at the time, he couldn't physically do by himself.
I do almost everything myself at my off-grid retreat. Carpentry, plumbing, some of the electrical wiring, flooring, tiling, gyprocking, bricklaying, painting etc. I google how to do it then have a go. It’s turned out pretty well.
Did you see it demolished? I have watched a few old hardwood homes demolished in the past decade, typically they use a large excavator or all things. If it has a ceramic tile roof that is removed as it's valuable but the excavator just crushes everything else, glass timber, bricks the lot. After it's removed there is still lots of glass etc in the ground, they just level it off and put a skim of topsoil on. As a kid I remember digging in the yard, you wouldn't want to do that in these yards. Sounds like your dad was quite the do it yourselfer, must have taught you a lot .
My dad's homesite was an old 2 story farmhouse on a hundred acres farm. The house had been added to over that 100 yr time frame. I do not know when the additions were added ,, the folks that could tell me that have long passed . But I did some blow in insulation into the attic back around '88 , as I was living there at the time. My Dad was there at the time ,, while I was climbing thru the attic ,, In a few places I could see down into the walls ,, in one area , I looked and seen something in the wall ,, I reached down into the wall and pulled out a Tobacco Sales Calender from 1933 ,, this gave the dates to take your tobacco harvest to the buyers auction . I still have that calender . I also found some old metal tins that they used to put the old " Snuff " in ,, my Dad said his grandmother used to do that old powdered snuff ,, and evidently,, was hiding her habit in the attic , because her husband didn't like her using it . I also found an old inner tube repair kit tube ,, with fishing hooks ,, line and some small rolled up sheet lead , that was used for fishing weights . That old house was built over about a 200 yr span ,, it was added on to over them years , as that property dated back into the 1700s . I enjoy seeing the work our fore fathers did from years gone by ,, and seeing the changes made over the years .
