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My House
- carltheperson 5y agoThis is an article showing how I made my allotment hut my home.
- rkk3 5y agonicely done!
- KaiserPro 5y agoCongratulations! I have a garden shed, thats not quite as impressive as yours. Its more of a workshop. However the look and feel of your new house is wonderful
- codeafin 5y agoThank you for sharing with photos. Where do you go for winters? Is it the same place your official registered address is?
- jmkni 5y agoLooks lovely, well done :)
- thehappypm 5y agoVinyl click flooring is amazing, isn't it? I just put some in my house and it's just an incredible material.
- simonklitj 5y agoYes!! We put it in our motorhome that we renovated. It is so great!
- ahupp 5y agoReally nice work! I'm curious why you used two layers of drywall - I've only ever used one layer.
- mattlondon 5y agoOften this is for sound-proofing. Extra mass helps.
- zoren 5y agoAlso helps if you want to hang something on the wall.
- eclat 5y agoSite is down
- nikolaipaul 5y agoNot bad for a 17 year old!
- carltheperson 5y agoThanks! I'm 19 now. The construction took about a year to complete.
- francis-io 5y agoWhat about sanitation? How did you get electricity from the grid? Do you just tap into an existing property? What about gray water?
- carltheperson 5y agoThere is a water source at the end of the garden. I have not hooked it up to the house yet, so I just use a big jug with a tap on my kitchen table. The sync drain feeds into another big jug which I have to empty. For the toilet I use this https://www.greenkarma.dk/vare/kekkila-50-l-muldtoilet/ https://www.greenkarma.dk/vare/kekkila-50-l-muldtoilet/ It's a compost toilet. I have to empty it as well. I hired an electrician to hook me up to the grid.
- twelvechairs 5y agoShower/bath?
- carltheperson 5y agoThere is a fitness center pretty close which I use to shower
- coda_ 5y agoThanks for the toilet link... That looks really interesting. What do you think of it? Other than that website,I cannot find anything about that toilet anywhere. I'm confused about where the waste goes and how it can have no smell... Is it only for peeing?
- swiley 5y agoA lot of cruising boats use those. Bad reviews seem rare.
- _whiteCaps_ 5y agoI don't know about this specific one, but composting toilets are starting to become more popular for liveaboard boats. Marine heads are IMO the worst part of boating. https://www.boatingmag.com/choosing-composting-marine-toilet/ https://www.boatingmag.com/choosing-composting-marine-toilet...
- OJFord 5y agoPretty huge shed for an allotment! More like a small unfinihshed (at the start of the article) studio-bungalow that happens to be surrounded by allotments... Did it already have electricity hook up? Water makes sense for an allotment, but you can legally just pipe it in unmetered to your new house? And what about waste water & sewage?
- blacktulip 5y agoHe mentioned the electrical wiring in the post. > The first thing I started on was the electrical wiring. To actually supply the house with power I had to dig a 0.5 meter deep trench from the start of the garden to the house. I did it by hand with a shovel.
- OJFord 5y agoYes but I was specifically asking about the hook-up, whether there was already a connection to the grid ready to be wired in to the shed/house and appliances. (And actually, same confusion about metering applies as for the water.) Interesting project, I'm just hungry for more detail!
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI was also wondering if Denmark requires permitting and a licensed electrician and plumber for the work that was done in the post.
- codazoda 5y agoIn a comment here they mentioned that they use a composting toilet, a jug for gray water, and drinking water in a jug with a spout. They have to manually empty the gray water and composting toilet.
- OJFord 5y agoThanks - just not at the time I commented, I did read all three or four others first. :)
- quickthrower2 5y agoVery cool! Nice solution to the high house prices. You get a residence for a years rent for a lot of people. I guess it would have running water, but what about sewage. Does it have a toilet? Did you use a septic tank. Or are you directly fertilising your patch.
- quickthrower2 5y agoQ2: and what about internet speeds? Guess it’s mobile 4 or 5G?
- Gravityloss 5y agoSince it's not used during winters, did you consider making it off-grid with solar power and batteries? I guess cooking would be a problem then though.
- carltheperson 5y agoThere is actually electricity all year round but only water for 6 months. It's also illegal for me to live here all year.
- prawn 5y agoIs there much of a van dwelling community in Denmark? You could live in a van when you're not in the shed, if you wanted to be especially frugal. Or do a couple more years of off-seasons with parents to save money towards something else.
- throwaway_dane 5y agoThis winter had a full month below -10C/14F with temperatures down to -15C/4F to -20C/-4F - it was unusually cold though. I would not want to live in a van here. Also, cars are stupidly expensive in Denmark - a nice van will cost you (a lot!) more than OPs allotment. Many people just live there quietly through the winter even though it's illegal. At least that's the situation in Århus where I live :)
- erikstarck 5y agoIf you're in to "young people building their own home" then check out Erik Grankvist building a small cabin in the middle of the forest using only primitive tools. Here's a 2 hour video that's very relaxing to have on in the background (only the sound of hard work, no speech): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBX5qh09OIE&t=7s&ab_channel=ErikGrankvist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBX5qh09OIE&t=7s&ab_channel=... And, yes, he begins by literally chopping down trees.
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- tibbydudeza 5y agoI really could live with this but then I have a wife with borderline hoarding tendencies and 2 teens , it amazing how much crap they all collect and "need".
- hellbannedguy 5y agoI'm assuming England? In the states, we don't have anything like this, but should. It seems like in the states government goes out of it's way to discourage cheap housing. Gov. Neusome did a great job on ADU's, but you need a house to put the unit in, or around. What happened is wealth people realized they could remodel their home while putting in a small apartment. When begging for a variance for their bigger home, and guaranteed ADU thanks to Neusome, they promise to rent the ADU out to low income tenants. They get their variance, build a ADU, and turn the ADU into another room for themselfs. The wealthy are foxey. (I'm looking at you San Anselmo. I see you are now granting Variances, but they appear to be given out to favorite homeowners? I hope this is not what it appears. For years, my little town gladly took in a $1000 fee for a variance, but never ok'ed one.) adu=accessory dwelling unit variance=a piece of paper indicating you are breaking some zoning rule. wealthy people=foxey
- carltheperson 5y agoI live in Denmark
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- Brakenshire 5y agoAllotments in England are different, more like an open field broken up into 50ft x 50ft squares specifically for hobbyist gardeners, and often you’re not allowed to have any buildings on them at all.
- alistairSH 5y agoOP lives in Denmark. I wish the US had something similar. Not so much for tiny-house living, but common community gardens. My town (Reston, VA) has a few and they're popular. But, depending on where your house is located, they could be a few miles away. I'm on the waitlist for the closest garden and it's about 1.5 miles and an easy bike ride. No sheds or buildings allowed, but the community provides water and compost. I tried veggies in my front and rear yards this season, but they just don't get enough light (tall house and a few mature trees). Herbs do well, but tomatoes and peppers need more sun - the fruit eventually, but quite late in the season.
- kozak 5y agoThis is exactly what in post-Soviet countries is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha
- smcl 5y agoOr a "chata" in Czech Republic and Slovakia
- gambiting 5y agoSame word in Polish ;-)
- ob-nix 5y agoI’m quite certain this is not the correct translation. “Chata” typically means a house in the nature, outside a town or village. The word we seek is probably something with “záhradka” … within the borders of a town, that can be rented for long periods, intended for growing vegetables.
- smcl 5y agoHmm I've been to chaty like you described - in the countryside or a village out in south moravia, south bohemia and vysočina. But I've also been to garden plots near to a city with a little building that has a kitchen and room to chill/sleep in (these little guys: https://en.mapy.cz/zakladni?x=16.6371848&y=49.2350039&z=20&m3d=1&height=90&yaw=-65&pitch=-29 https://en.mapy.cz/zakladni?x=16.6371848&y=49.2350039&z=20&m... - maybe hard to see, street view didn't go here :) ) which were also described as a "chata" to me. There are definitely little bare sheds in some of these plots, but in the context we were discussing I feel like "chata" fits well and is analogous to "dacha" from the comment I replied to. Though I've heard of some grander "dacha", better equipped with more amenities that might be referred to as "chalupa" here.
- mywittyname 5y agoWhat do they call the small, hastily assembled, urban garages in places like Moscow?
- arexxbifs 5y agoRegarding questions in the comments: Assuming allotments in .dk works roughly as in .se, they are designed not to be actual homes. You're not allowed to use them as your listed place of residence; authorities require you to have a "real" residence as well. This can of course be circumvented by claiming you live with a friend and listing yourself at their address, but it's illegal and measures will be taken accordingly if you're found out - you'll surely lose your allotment, if nothing else. Allotments are concentrated to specific areas, typically on municipal or county land rented by a co-op consisting of the inhabitants. Nowadays, most co-ops have installed municipal utilities (water, electricity) but not plumbing for human waste, which means most of them still have outhouses. Outhouse waste management is of course also heavily regulated. Often these utilities, at least water, are turned off during winter. The permanence of allotments is fleeting; many of them are continually moved or chopped off in order to make room for actual residential buildings. They are however very popular among apartment dwellers who move out to their cosy little allotment houses at the first sign of spring. Regarding the OP, nice work! Looks great.
- carltheperson 5y agoIt's legal in Denmark to live here in the summer months. I can set it as my legal address if I want to. Someone is already doing that where I live but I have not gotten around to it.
- birktj 5y agoIn .no you can have a "no permanent residence" status which is sometimes used by people who live in boats. This is often not optimal though as on paper it looks like you are homeless. An alternative which also is widely used by students is to be registered at your parents address even though you no longer live there. My understanding is that this is perfectly legal.
- m_eiman 5y agoI think in Sweden it's illegal to not have a listed address. If you're homeless you'll get your local city hall's address as your listed address, IIRC.
- pvitz 5y agoI am wondering if 50cm depth for the electrical cables is enough. Due to frost, I would have put them at somewhere around 80cm deep under ground.
- lostlogin 5y agoIt would seem a fair idea to go deeper in an area where people might dig too. An allotment would be one of these areas, though turning the soil to 50cm would seem excessive.
- matthewfelgate 5y agoThanks for sharing. I wonder if it's legal to live in an allotment in the UK (I doubt it)
- blacktulip 5y agoSomebody has done this in London https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/aug/25/gardens1 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/aug/25/gardens...
- hwers 5y agoThis is the kinds of people I want to track the project output of in the decades to come.
- Brakenshire 5y agoI’m not sure allotment is the right word, at least in England allotments are much more intended for hobbyist gardening, they’re small, often you’re not even allowed a shed, staying there would be unlikely practically or legally. Isn’t this closer to the Summer Cabin concept in Scandinavia?
- Ma8ee 5y agoI think allotment is the right word. They are intended for hobbyists gardeners, or at their inception during WW1, for families in the city to be able to grow mostly potatoes. The size of sheds allowed varies a lot. Originally they were just meant to store garden tools (and potatoes). Many allow nothing more than 6 square meters.
- KaiserPro 5y agoI think allotment is about right. In the UK the rules on sheds and structures are controlled by the local council. Often they set a maximum size, but I suspect they aren't measured unless you piss off someone enough to complain. There was a movement in the late 1890s-1930s where building societies would buy strips of land to allow the working man to take out a loan to buy and build on a plot of land, with enough space to grow and keep livestock. I wish I knew what they were called. Basically they were allotments with houses. In the netherlands Tuinhuisen are a thing, and they put a lot of effort into making them look nice and be livable.
- dagw 5y agoallotments are much more intended for hobbyist gardening That is the intention in Scandinavia as well, and how most people use them. Although it has generally always been acceptable to have a bed and spend the night there. However some people have upgraded their 'shed' to (ab)use them as more permanent living spaces, even if it is generally frowned upon.
- tragomaskhalos 5y agoMy wife has an allotment (we are in the UK), and the rule - which I think is part of the Ts and Cs of rental rather than a anything statutory - is that you are not allowed to stay overnight. Furthermore, there is no electricity or gas, so making a permanent home there would be difficult anyway. That said, people do have pretty snazzy sheds that they've elaborated into little houses, with propane-powered generators etc
- mattowen_uk 5y agoOK, UK clarification... He says: ' The house is what in English apparently is called an allotment.' In the UK, allotments are about 250 square metres, and can only have a small shed on them that does not having running water or electricity. They are specifically considered 'temporary' structures, and you are not allowed to live in them. The 'house' he shows, is massive compared to a 2.5m x 2m shed you typically see on British allotments. That said, kudos on converting it into a liveable home. If only this option was more available to zero-income or homeless people....
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoI assumed he was in the US as he quoted a price in dollars. Sadly I'm not even allowed a shed on my allotment.
- aaaaarghZombies 5y agoIt cost $11,000, lots of housed working people don't have access to that much capital. Even if they're not 17.
- viraptor 5y agoBut if you have a not-terrible job, you'd be able to get that much in a loan to repay over a few years. At that point, as long as it's below rent level, you're winning.
- brutus1213 5y agoCheck out prices in Toronto, Canada. Need a few more zeros[1]. Housing prices are out of control. [1] https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2021/08/new-toronto-condo-benchmark-price-surpassed-1-million/ https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2021/08/new-toron...
- dataminer 5y agoThe blog post is about allotment so not a fair comparison. However, its supply and demand, extremely high demand and influx of people who want to live in Toronto. There are places outside of Toronto, Canada which are affordable and have better price to comfort ratio. London Ontario, Gatineau Quebec, Regina Sask, Calgary Alberta are quite affordable and have all the modern life style options available.
- aruncis 5y agoThat cooker is dangerously close to the fridge. It's a fire hazard.
- yoz-y 5y agoIs it? Genuine question, in my apartment the fridge is also right next to the stove and there is nothing that can be done to move it (it was that way when I rented it).
- numbsafari 5y agoI’m not sure if it’s a hazard or not, per se, but it will definitely impact the performance of the fridge and reduce its usable lifespan. I’ve had this same situation in multiple homes I rented over the years. Sometimes it is unavoidable, but you would do well to move the fridge to a different location and put another cabinet next to the stove for safety. I had neighbors growing up who had a son get doused in boiling water as a result of an exposed stove side—even if you don’t have kids, it’s just a good precaution. Edit: by the by, Google “kitchen triangle design” for an effective strategy for laying out a kitchen. Move the fridge to the adjacent wall (right side in the photo) and put another cabinet piece in its place and you are good to go.
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- labawi 5y agoAssuming the fridge is made of metal, isn't is safer than a cabinet? Efficiency may be noticably worse, especially if poorly insulated, but I don't understand the safety aspect.
- aruncis 5y agoIt's about the fridge insulation. Some may have fire retardant, some may not. It's risky.
- dbg31415 5y agoI do think it would be interesting to see how a neighborhood of these tiny homes fared on the market. With showers, and bathrooms -- of course. I question the viability once you get a partner, man... anything smaller than 2,500 square feet... I think that's about 250 square meters... starts to feel small for me with another person living there. BUT... I've grown accustomed to a home office, home gym, guest room... Anyway, it's a cool spot! I'd need a shower, room for at least a queen size bed... king if it's 2 people. I wonder where my need for space came from... if it's something people are born with. Growing up my parents had a bigger house than I have now, so maybe that's it. Ha, I couldn't swing this, but impressive you've found a way to avoid mortgage payments. Good on ya!
- leoedin 5y agoI bet 95% of the houses in the UK are smaller than 250 square meters. A big house might be 150 or so. Most families probably have around 100 square metres. Somehow we survive!
- dbg31415 5y agoI get it... we have big houses in the US. And I don't honestly know how to live otherwise. I'm sure if we had smaller homes I'd be used to smaller homes... but yeah anyway, not really interesting for anyone but just has me thinking about what we'd have to do to get everyone back into smaller places. My house now is a pretty typical tract home in Texas... not saying this is 100% typical, but growing up I had probably 3-4 acres of a yard, now my neighbor's house is 10 feet away from my own. Just feels claustrophobic arleady. I don't know how practical it would be to have small suburban homes, vs. just apartments, but part of me really loves this idea.
- ghaff 5y agoThe thing is that, once you assume a standalone single family house, the savings associated with going "tiny" vs., say, 1000 to 1500 sq. ft. modest just aren't that much and the compromises are significant. In general, there are certain must haves. A bathroom, some measure of kitchen, a place to park a car (and, yes, in most places where we're talking standalone houses 1-2 cars need to go somewhere), a bed, at least a desk, etc.
- masaha 5y agoThis appears to be in Denmark where these allotments are called 'kolonihaver'. Traditionally 'kolonihaver' were intended for recreational use and vegetable gardens for workers living in apartments in the larger cities. You were not allowed to live there full time and you should always have an ordinary home beside it. Unfortunately the rules are not followed, and for a very large part they get used as a small property with a tiny house for the whole year. Not really for recreational use or growing vegetables - mostly for living cheap in expensive cities. I say unfortunately, as living in them are clearly an tax evasive action. No property tax is payed, while their values rises like most ordinary properties. The Danish property tax is intended to tax the value gained by increasing property values. So when you live in one of these kolonihaver this way you are doing tax fraud. Even though it's mostly never investigated and punished. It easily gets glorified as a smart and cheap way of living, when you present it like this in a blog post shared on a global forum(HN). But unless you voluntarily pay tax on the monetary gain you'll have the day you sell it again, I despise your lack of contribution to, and participation in, our Danish society.
- Rerarom 5y agoWhat would be a smart and cheap way of living in Denmark that doesn't have this problem?
- lifeisstillgood 5y agoHang on - there is a - for want of a better term - Capital Gains Tax on property price rises? Wow. Is it working? The UK had a simialr tax in the late 40s - it enabled the building of the "new" towns like Milton Keynes and Harlow (where I was born). Simply put, if everyone knew the government was going to build a ton of new roads and schools on that field, then you would be crazy to sell the field for anything less then a fortune. But if everyone knew the government was going to simply tax the fortune straight back at 100% then you sold the field for a fair value, and the government spent the money not on buying the field but on roads etc. Since that was repealed in 50s no similar large scale house building has been affordable.
- croo 5y agoI mean this is great and all that, nice shed upgrade but definitely not something I visit hackernews for. I must be out of some kind of loop because this post should've never hit the first page... How is this has to do anything with gratifying one's intellectual curiosity?
- KaiserPro 5y agoDo you know off the top of your head how to insulate, fit out and make a homely place to live out of a "garden shed"? can you communicate that to a wide audience, in an engaging way, in a second language? no? then be a dear and stop gate keeping intellectual curiosity. Sow your oats wide, and not be trapped in a silo of "its not intellectual enough"
- croo 5y agoI think I can but that is totally off the point. I reread the article to make sure I didn't miss something but yeah, its just someone painting wood blue, insulate and putting down click type laminate to a small shed while taking pictures. While it's nice work and good sweat it's nothing out of ordinary. The post is shallow and don't talk anything about why's and how's just motivating to those who want to do the same thing. But come on, there is nothing intellectual here - just someone did what others dream and they like it. I stand by what I said, I'm absolutely baffled this hit the first page. As another person replied I should've just flagged it and move along and I'll do that now. But this is so, so out of the ordinary I couldn't do just that. Again I'm not attacking the work or the blog post, nice job. I'm attacking the decision of the community :)
- quickthrower2 5y agoThis is very interesting, and is aligned with the digital nomad/alternative living/frugal living interest a lot of HNers have. I’m definitely interested but more as a spectator. I toyed in my 20s with the idea of living in a caravan to say fuck you to rent and house prices but never had the guts to do it!
- rendall 5y agoFrom the guidelines: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. ... and... > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- snickerer 5y agoNice little house! I did exactly the same, with the same costs, and lived there happily for several years during my studies at University. It was a great time and a good place for a single young man with a dog. I used a wood burning bath stove with a 100 liter copper tank to store heat for the night. It worked great. The 100 liter of water kept heat for many hours and the tank surface radiated it slowly into the room. This was much more convenient than a simple wood stove. I had only to add wood one time per day in autumn and two times per day in winter.
- glitchc 5y agoIt’s lovely. Looks like a great learning experience. Doing this at 17 is even more impressive.
- junek 5y agoI don't see any mention of a bathroom. Did you have to install one?
- sanj 5y agoAny idea why you’d want two layers of drywall?
- technotarek 5y agoWe’ve done it throughout many parts of our house for sound insulation. Apparently it works best when you use two slightly different pieces of thickness. Not sure if that’s why it was done in this case though. It doesn’t seem like the best choice for thermal insulation.
- cptskippy 5y agoI was wondering if perhaps drywall isn't the right word or perhaps it's a different material? In the US we have drywall and something similar called blue board that as far as I can tell is only used in the North East. They seem similar at first but they're very different.
- NegativeLatency 5y agoBlue board is designed to accept a skim coat of plaster well. Which makes it easier to get nice looking flat walls without having to texture like is common with drywall.
- cptskippy 5y agoMy understanding is that blue board is also much stronger than drywall and has better sound deadening properties. Most of the texture in drywall comes from the paint and is intentional to hide imperfections. Joint compound is used at the seams to hide and smooth out imperfections, it's of a different texture than the drywall itself and a truly flat paint job would reveal all the seams. Blue board avoids this by coating the entire surface and joints in a skim coat of plaster.
- necovek 5y agoIt is generally recommended for sound insulation and strength (ability to hang heavier things onto walls).
- OneEyedRobot 5y agoSo what happened to the main house? Empty when the shed is in use? If nothing else it looks like a pretty slick way to avoid all building codes. Just run extension cords everywhere, water through garden hoses, dump the toilet bucket into the garden, no need for fire-rated anything. sweet.
- manmal 5y agoAt least in Austria you can get a sewer junction for allotments, but expect to pay upwards of €10k for that in many cases. Water and electricity is usually available because that’s required for gardening work.
- flyingfences 5y agoI imagine he, as a teenager, doesn't have a "main house" of his own; the allotment is a way to get out of his parents' house during the warmer months.
- fredrf 5y ago...in the middle of my street
- CPLX 5y agoNice work. You should consider putting in a bed that can fit two people in it.
- 101008 5y agoWow, looks super nice. I think for a lot of people, specially in 3rd world countries, living in a place like that would be a complete upgrade (I'd do it!). Out of curiosity: what's the real reason that it is illegal to live there? What are the gov trying to avoid?
- maverwa 5y agoI am just guessing here, but I can imagine that (at least in germany) the public utility companies (or someone like that) would be required by law to supply you with water, electricity, landline and internet, access to a street, etc. Basically: if you are allowed to live in a house, you have rights that the authorities supply your basic need. I think its reasonable that therefore, the gov can decide what zone is usable for living and which is not. As I understand from other comments there is no "real" bathroom in this house. There might be certain rules of which "features" a space has to offer to be considered a valid place to live in. I think both sides here are understandable. There is the gov, which has to make some regulations in order to be able to fulfill its duties and to enforce some lower bound for whats considered a place to live in. On the other side, there is a lot of people who cannot or dont want to afford this lower bound and would be happy to be able to live in something that offers less.
- thehappypm 5y agoBasically, the government doesn't want shantytowns, and large numbers of people living in sheds in yards is what that is.
- maverwa 5y agoThats a TL;DR version of what I was trying to say, yes. Thank you!
- 101008 5y agoAh makes total sense. Thank you very much for your comment.
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- protect2 5y agoIs this really what Europeans are proud of living in? I had better accommodations 40 years ago under Soviet Russian rule. I hope you all realize how oppressed and low your living standard has become. It essentially amounts of modern serfdom. Sincerely, an American.
- pharmakom 5y agoMost allotments are way smaller than this!
- jjice 5y agoVery interesting! Where did you learn all the skills you needed to get all of this work done? I'm curious if YouTube and Google was able to give you all the guidance you needed.
- belugacat 5y agoI’m also renovating a house, and before I started the closest thing I had done to that was assembling IKEA furniture. I have a few family members who know a ton about that stuff, and that’s been 90% of it for me. YouTube etc is helpful, but a lot of that knowledge is specific to your geographic region (especially when it comes to what sort of insulation/roofing/etc you want, especially if you’re renovating existing things that were done a certain way for a certain reason) so you really need local experts. I certainly wouldn’t have undertaken such a project if I didn’t have those family members I knew I could rely on.
- city41 5y agoWe recently gutted our bathroom down to the studs/subfloor and redid it ourselves. No prior experience. YouTube and Google made it all possible. We did hire a plumber for the shower plumbing, anything that's going to be encased inside a wall it's good to get a professional in on. But everything else we did ourselves and it turned out great.
- legohead 5y agoI'm redoing the bathroom/shower purely from youtube videos. It has taken a long time, but I'm glad as I continued to learn things as I went along. I've learned how to: replace toilets, set backerboard and tile, copper plumbing/soldering (was fun once, but from now I'll use PEX), drywall, level&plumb a wall & floor, deal with a subfloor, make a shower mud pan (concrete/sand mix), slope everything and how water & waterproofing works (gravity vs capillary action), and probably a few other things. And all those things come with various clever tricks, code requirements, learning new tools...
- NegativeLatency 5y agohttps://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1631868799 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1631868799 I live in the US so some code stuff may be different but have found this book to be super helpful while working on my own house.
- stuaxo 5y agoI'm confused, I thought an allotment is just a place you grow vegetables, I don't think you can live there?
- giarc 5y agoThe author says on the site that you can't live their permanently and therefore will move out during the winter.
- giarc 5y agoFor all those trying to figure out where this is, his Twitter profile says he lives in Denmark
- epa 5y agoBay area this would be $400K
- lbrito 5y agoI was going to ask if OP took a sabbatical or something, but then I read he's 17 years old. Good job, OP! I struggle for time even to nail a painting on the wall or install a shelf, yet alone something like this.
- 0wis 5y agoInteresting project and interesting…person ! At 17, that is quite a lot of done projects, congrats !
- serverlessmom 5y agoGod that trenching. The first time I dug a trench for electrical wiring I did it by hand and I swore never again. Just finished an outdoor office shed this month and I used a giant machine to dig the trench. Still took all day and left me sore in every member.
- throwaway4good 5y agoIs this a “kolonihavehus”?
- _def 5y agoI recently had exactly this thought - why not move in an allotments. Looks really well done, congrats!
- betwixthewires 5y agoand why you're not allowed to live in it year round? Who knows. Reasons, probably. Good Reasons™ would be my guess.
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- jmrm 5y ago@carltheperson The website is down :-(
- IA21 5y agoSite is down. 402: PAYMENT_REQUIRED
- barmstrong 5y agoKind of amazing - i didn't realize anyone was using this HTTP code just yet.
- WCityMike 5y ago(site appears down)