Has anyone here built their own place? I've been reading about people building 'tiny houses' for less than $40,000 and it seems pretty admirable considering the housing market in my area is horrific. There's no way in hell I want to wage away for the rest of my life just so I can pay off my $3,000 a month mortgage.
this thread again. thx, OP
is there some archived thread that people are supposed to be referring to when they have questions like this? What are they supposed to do? this forum is a frickin POS lmao even reddit is better
Maybe you should go to Reddit then
yea i have.. there are literally a shit ton of valuable resources on reddit about homebuilding. This place has nothing lmao the only good thing about PrepHole is that like 1/100 posts are gold and it's not as stupidly liberal as reddit can be but otherwise this place blows
majority of these guys are like PrepHole in the regard they dont actually go outside the same way PrepHole doesnt actually cook neither
people get frustrated by the common recurrence of certain threads/topics. It's one thing with the generals threads, but "how do i build house?" is a perennial topic that never goes anywhere useful or meaningful in the thread.
Maybe a small wiki would be a solution, as in PrepHole or PrepHole.
>a small wiki
yeah, a small wiki would be great for homebuilding. Like the one I built in my living room when I was five using the box our washing machine came in.
you kids crack me up. a "small" wiki on homebuilding. I guess that could work if it consisted of 1. how to google and 2. see step 1.
Tomorrow is my turn to make this thread.
You went last week.
OP: see duplicate thread
Get an older trailer or rv for a couple of grand, and live out of that until you get your sea legs.
I don't know if you're European but this is a great walkthrough of what's involved with building a house yourself.
If it was me, I would start with building some garden sheds small enough to be transported by truck and sell them. Than way you can also save up money for materials, and you'll have an idea of how to approach and less of a chance to ruin the whole thing.
A tiny house shouldn’t be over $30k, but the size limits often make it more expensive. A 300-400sqft ‘real’ house that uses water, sewage and electricity would probably be cheaper, easier to build and a lot more comfortable.
Anyway building a small cheap house is very much like building a shed and should be a tricky but doable challenge for an able bodied man
This seems like an appropriate thread.
WHY THE FRICK ARE THESE DOORS SO EXPENSIVE?!?
Also, how to tell if exterior door frame is load barring? I intend on doing a 96" door and that will require increasing the height of the doorway. Interior doors are easy enough, however, exterior seems a little more involved
>Also, how to tell if exterior door frame is load barring?
it doesn't matter. you have to install new jack studs and a header anyways.
Its likely easy if you just build it as traditional house which is just a structure with walls and a roof and forget about utilities like running water and electricity.
The problem of expensive housing is that people want them next to roads and power and water lines.
Solution: Build a septic tank, get a power generator and collect rainwater or drill a water well.
I have considered this for a workshop, never for a house i'd like to live in
I built 2 houses on the cheap. First one was on a serviced lot, cost me about 70k CAD for 2500 sq ft.
Second was in the bush, 850 sq ft. Milled the lumber myself, cost me 10k CAD
It can be done,.but if you buy everything new. Free furniture, used appliances and minimal finishes.
Dummy phoneposter I am. Meant to say "if you DONT buy everything brand new"
the cost of building material has dramatically increased. you won't be able to build much of anything.
What about reinforced concrete?
If you wanted to build a simple 25 square meters space, made of a slab, 4 walls and a roof with a door, how much would that cost, made of reinforced concrete?
Its about 100 square meters of surface area and 15 cubic meters of materials, of which 4% would be rebar (by volume) and 96% concrete
Then theres the cost of wooden forms, earth moving, labor, etc.
Estimate?
Dont care about utilities, this is just meant to be a cave
Maybe back in 2020, 2x6 is under $1 per linear foot.
I was able to build myself a 16x32 society-delete kit.
I obtained material through hand disassembling a building that was going to be demolishes to the extent I could before the excavators came.
It can be a lot to carry in addition to being "presentable" enough for normies. But I've never felt like Im not gonna make it, just that I have to be ok with the fact that its harder sometimes to do it this way.
Why not rehabilitate an old mobile trailer? This will give you good practice, they’re cheap, and you can live in it for a while when planning your house. When you’re done with it, someone can buy it from you and it gets taken off your property.