Couple Builds SHIPPING CONTAINER HOME With No Experience

when we first decided to come out here and do this I remember telling my family and I just remember thank you very very nice Spencer didn't have any experience in construction or anything obviously neither did I both worked in restaurants and this is just what we want to do and we just decided to do it like not much more thought went into it than that other than we didn't want to look back the day and wonder what it would have been like if we had done it [Music] when we moved and we got here and we were unloading the moving truck I just started crying because reality set in it was just so much all at once we quit our jobs we sold our home and now we lived out in the woods in an old barn we initially to be honest we thought we were going to buy a giant tent like a three-bedroom tent and we were going to live out of that with a dog but no it up working out we we knew the Barmes here so we just like will rebuild a section of barn it live out of that that's what we did [Music] there was no real ventilation really besides like just some screen that we put up some bug screen that we put up in the center section just so we could keep the bugs out and allow any heat moisture it was a poorly planned design it'll just make the house that much more worth it [Music] [Music] yeah coming out here I just saw it as my job to try to keep things as light-hearted as possible and just try to make them fun because I knew that we didn't know what we were doing I knew Spencer was trying his best doing as much research as he could and that was all awesome and everything but it was just inevitable that things were gonna go wrong at some point and at some point I mean every day so this entire time I just try my best to stay positive and try to make things fun and that's why I'm always joking around and trying not to take things too seriously because if you do it's just pretty much a downward spiral that's why I went with non pressure treated overpressure tube plus you know maybe we just don't like being under pressure [Music] [Music] as far as building though I build a TV stand and I replaced a few doors and some trim before we moved out here so I didn't have any experience kind of a winged it and watched a lot of videos read some books and kind of went with the flow [Music] painting the containers has definitely been one of the biggest transformations that the house has had originally we didn't want to paint them but we ended up having to fix all of the rusts in the containers just because we obviously want them to last as long as possible so we ended up painting them but it was really exciting once all that was done and the windows were installed because it meant that we could finally start working on the inside of that [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and then I thought I was pregnant oh my gosh we were so excited but the reality set in that we don't have a home and we have a baby coming it was like holy crap this is real life it was just now worrying about where the houses and how to speed it up we've never built a house before so everything we do requires an extensive amount of research it's kind of hard to speed it up a build when you don't know what you're doing but we're uh we bought the cargo trailer and insulated that and put a air conditioning unit and heater I mean it works for now so we just started to prioritize what in the build is absolutely crucial for when the baby gets here and we decided that that thing was water so we began the whole process of catching your own rainwater [Music] again when we finally got water I bawled my eyes out because just going without things like that for so long and then finally having them again it's just it's incredibly overwhelming like I can't even imagine once we're actually living in this house it's gonna feel like a hotel [Music] it's just so crazy because looking back if you would have told me that this would be our house right now and that we would have built this I wouldn't have believed you honestly and I know that the whole reason we are here right now with our house being the way it is is it's all because of you Spencer absolutely amazes me how you've been able to figure all this out and you teach me as we go and it's been really cool to be a part of I just I want you to know how much I appreciate you [Music] I know the house isn't done yet it's still a ways away but it'll be done this here granted there's been mistakes along the way and I try to fix those and hide those as best as I can but not much I would change and it's been a very rewarding experience especially seeing like how everything online is gone I'm just blown away at the amount of support and love that we get from everybody oh man no you ready to get back to work yes [Music] you think anybody's listening or if it's just transmitting to empty space what if some alien somewhere watching us what if we're like I hit reality show making sure my eyebrows are perfectly lined up I have a quick question no did you use literally their donkey at me it's just compressed grass that came out of a donkey ass life uncontained it's in its infancy we'd be like a three-week year old three weeks old I'm not educated and oldest three-week years [Laughter]

Channel: Life Uncontained

Views: 28,651,230

Rating: 4.8844371 out of 5

Keywords: timelapse, build timelapse, shipping container home, off grid build, container home, funny couple, family, self reliance, rewind, start to finish, eco home, debt free, living off grid, free youtube series, before and after

Id: Arkq3lLuo0U

Length: 15min 44sec (944 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 01 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/heyitsEnricoPallazzo]

No experience my ass!

[u/coolanimalslife]

Very good work. It must have taken a long time.

[u/chris28ish]

They make it seem like it was so whimsical it’s almost comedic.