He retired into a off-grid Tiny House on his own land

hey there welcome to my channel where I take you  on tours of tiny and unique homes have you ever   dreamed of retiring to an off-grid tiny home  in the woods well in this week's episode we're   going to meet Patrick who is doing exactly that  Patrick's self-built tiny home comes with ample   outdoor space a beautiful vegetable garden a  custom bathtub and so much more and while he's   giving a tour he'll explain how he was able  to build this beautiful Oasis on his own land   but before we get started if you like  videos like this one where we showcase   stories of people living alternatively  make sure that you subscribe and hit   that notification Bell so that you know  every single time we publish a new video hi I'm Patrick this is barley  and welcome to my tiny house all right ten years ago I started looking at tiny houses  and bought the plant set from Tumbleweed it was   very therapeutic for me just to after  work go out and work on the tiny house   so I've been doing minor construction my entire  life my dad introduced me to various aspects of   construction but when it came to the tiny house I  watched a lot of YouTube videos so I learned about   framing I learned about insulation and drywall  and I just took my time and it worked out well so 10 years to build the tiny house I was running  a business at the same time and so there were   weeks if not months where I didn't touch it while  I was working on the business and now it's time   to retire I moved the house from California and  then I moved on to the property here last March   as far as cost I didn't keep accurate records  but overall I'm guessing that it came in under   thirty thousand because I did so much  reclaimed wood and all the labor myself   the big picture here on the property  is I am going to build a 24 by 40 foot   shop two-story and then eventually  a 800 square foot at home foreign house it is a model made by Tumbleweed it's 18  feet long eight feet wide and about 13 and a   half feet tall at the time there weren't companies  building trailers for tiny houses it was this was   uh 2014. so I used a trailer which was called a  car carrier and that's what it's built on it had   the capacity of seven thousand pounds but after  I got done I got it weighed and it was just below   ten thousand pounds so I had to put new axles on  and leaf springs to bring it up to 12 000 pounds   so it's in good shape now the property is fairly  unique on one side there's a salmon stream every   winter coho salmon spawn in it it's awesome so  go down and watch them the property's five acres   it's about a mile away from electrical utilities  so it's off grid in order for me to build on this   property I have to put in a septic system and a  well because I'm off grid I needed a structure to   house the inverter and batteries for that system  so this shed was built first before I had the   tiny house here over here we have a propane  these are 40 pound propane tanks during the   winter when the sun doesn't shine I have to use a  generator to create electricity and so this is a   dual fuel it uses either gas or liquid propane  and I chose liquid propane it's a lot cleaner   the deck is made from Cedar I use cedar  siding also but we use a technique called   shoshugibon where I take a weed torch and Flame  the wood that increases its resistance to pests   and disease and then I oil it after so I did  this both on the shed and on the tiny house   this is my dog barley she's a Husky and it's  pretty warm today and she's got a lot of fur   don't you so we hang out here I eat out  here she sleeps out here at night and   it's nice to have a covered roof when  you go between the house and the shed so I have the ecoflow Delta Pro with its  extra battery the Eco flow it's the heart   of my electrical system it only puts out 120  volts and my well pump requires 220 volts   and so what I found was a Step up Transformer  which will take the 120 and go to 240 and it's   working great I have a compact washer I'm able  to dry my clothes during the summer and the sun   it takes literally an hour and in the winter  I have a small little rack I put next to my   wood stove and it again it doesn't take long  for it to dry so this has worked great in my   shop here I've got a lot of tools and a very  small space so I found the this French cleat   system where you have a 45 degree angle and the  opposing 45 degree on the wall which allows me   to create these holders for my tools and  gives me Mobility to move things around for the past year I've switched my diet to pretty  much plant-based and a garden was an essential   especially with food prices going up so luckily  I have great sun and good soil I've got beets   carrots chard lettuce all kinds of spices beans  Tomatoes I got cucumbers and maybe even some corn   coming later so for water I have a 360 foot deep  well but it's low capacity that means there's not   a whole lot of water at a particular time so it  gets pumped when it's full up to a tank storage   tank and then when I use it it just comes from  the storage tank so it's been working really well   waste water I have both black and gray water  that's going into my septic system right now so it   enters into a pipe and then goes down the hill to  where the septic is the water system is from the   tank down and then I have a hose that's insulated  for winter freeze and that goes to the tiny house   the windows are Mill guard I use the awning style  window because of the rain here I can open up the   window and the water doesn't come in it hits  it and goes down you can also see the redwood   siding that I use the shishugibon technique  on and that this was all recycled a barn on   on my the property of my old shop we tore down  and we found these beautiful Redwood beams in   the floor and a good friend of mine Christopher  Shepard has a cabinet company and a band saw and   I was able to cut the the siding out of these  big beams and using a shaper we put a shiplap   joint on each on each side and that's how we  we put it together and it came out really nice   for my solar panels I went with renegie 320 watt  panels that works well to give me the power I need so this is my utility closet my fresh water  enters here I've got a filter set up there   and then this is the Rinnai on-demand  hot water system again I've got a 40   pound propane tank I have to fill this  probably once every five months so it's   not it's not a whole lot of protein  and it heats up pretty nicely foreign I had my friend Chris Shepard do this  door for me which came out really nice   and doors are a big issue if they're  not built right they warp and expand   and contract over time and he did a great  job where the expansion and contraction is   hidden inside the framing here so anyhow  it's been beautiful and I used a company   in San Diego to do the the stained  glass and that worked out really well so the square footage comes in at about 190 pretty  darn small but it's very well planned out and for   the past almost year it's been a great space for  me inside the framing is a closed sale insulation   I got prices for companies to do this and it  was pretty expensive I ended up buying a kit   and did it myself and probably saved about fifteen  hundred dollars all of the fur again came from the   barn that we tore down and it's old growth it's  beautiful I used a three and a half inch tongue   and groove inside paneling in Pine and then I  decided to use white wash instead of just paint   and white washing is taking pain and diluting it  down with water because that allows some of the   Grain and irregularities to come through which I  felt worked with the Recycled trim a lot better   over here there's a couch area a slash guest bed  I built this with storage in mind this slides out   I have a panel that comes in on  top of it and I take this cushion   and go on top of that and it becomes a pretty darn  good bed for a guest up here is a secondary Loft   that I use for storage I've got a beanbag and my  wireless printer up there right now I have more   storage under this section so this just flips  up and quite a bit of storage under there I've   saw on the internet different ways of doing  fold up tables and came up with this one here   this just slides up and I've got a pipe here with  a threaded coupler and that produces a very sturdy   tabletop and I'm able to sit here and do my work  I'm semi-retired from Bohemian Stoneworks they're   in Northern California and we do precast concrete  countertops fireplaces tubs things like that   and so I'm still helping them out but in the  process of retiring from the company this also   can be my dining table I've had three three people  around here pull a stool up and it works well for heating I only went with the wood stove I  knew that my property had a lot of wood this is   a stove made by the company on fire it's called  the Kimberly Heats really well I can also cook   on it so a lot of times I'm making a bean dish  and like put the beans on here and they do great   with a wood stove you need a hearth and this  is a concrete that I made and it's about three   quarters of an inch thick and it does its job we  use recycled tongue and groove fur for the floor   you can see the imperfections in it but I really  like it so in order to get to The Loft the typical   way is with a ladder that you have to move and  store I saw a video from a Dutch I think it was   Dutch or somewhere in the Netherlands a micro  apartment that had a pull out stair and so I   did the plans on that and made this  this stair which works out pretty good   so in the Loft I've got a queen size mattress  it's only four inches thick but it's fine for me I   originally thought I'd be spending more time up in  the Loft but I don't I just come up here and sleep   and it's a great place to sleep all these windows  I've got in here allows the cross Breeze to come   across me at night I wanted to put a ceiling fan  in the house and but what I found is with this 12   12 pitch roof there wasn't enough space for a  typical ceiling fan or I would have to drop it   down so low that it'd be a hazard for tall people  so I found this beautiful one it's shaped like the   prop in a boat it's really cool the key part of  the stairs is that there's storage all around them   and these are drawers I have kitchen supplies  and clothes so I use this as a closet I've got a   a hanger bar across in the back there just  reach in and that works out pretty good   so my ceiling between here it's six foot  eight to the floor kind of tight but again   I'm not a tall person so it works out well  for storage I buy a lot in bulk and then   fill my jars I built this shelf system  which allows me to hold multiple jars   over here is a pantry I decided not to put a  door on it just because of the space and it's   worked out great I have my dishes I sacrificed  some countertop Space by putting this extra door   in but I just felt it was necessary and it gives  me the option of doing an outdoor kitchen on the   deck out here which I might do in the future it  really allows me also when I'm cooking to open   the door and if I'm creating a lot of steam  it allows it to go outside so for countertops   again I use the concrete it's what what I've done  for the last 20 years and it worked out well I've   got an under mount stainless steel round sink and  it's worked well here for cooktop I didn't want   to commit to a integral cooktop in my countertop  so I went with this Cuisinart induction double   it's 110 volts which is great it really does a  good job it does require quite a bit of power   so I usually do my larger cooking projects during  the day when the Sun's shining so I don't drain my   batteries at night during the winter I can also  use the wood stove to simmer and cook things the   fridge is an under counter it's a small one it's  like a dorm room fridge I guess you would call   it and it's worked well I do have to defrost  the freezer portion which a little bit of a   hassle but if I stay on top of it once every four  months it's fine because space in these small tiny   houses is so important I had a wall here which I  utilized in putting these little Cubbies there's   a stud underneath the siding in each one of  these it allows me to put in some spices and   vitamins and things like that off to the right  is the bathroom I did a a door that models a   Japanese tradition soji screen I used rice paper  it's a film that 3M creates so on the back it's   waterproof and on the front it has the rice paper  which is really cool and this is a pocket door   sort of slides in there like so I decided to do  a pocket door because there was really no room to   swing a regular door and I got so enthralled  in making my pocket door that I thought why   not take that same concept and create sconces  with it so I just found the light fixture that   is hidden underneath and created Created these  um rice paper sconces so I always like a good   challenge and I saw this challenge of creating  a bathroom vanity for a very small space so I   came up with this one here this is concrete again  it's all integrated and it allows the plumbing to   be hidden underneath so I'm sure toilets are on  everyone's mind who builds a tiny house because   I'm here in the future going to build a real home  with the septic system I just went with an RV   toilet and it's really worked out well it allows  a very small footprint so I kept the whole theme   of the concrete going I did the shower wall panels  our company has developed a very strong concrete   mix that allows us to pour real thin this is just  3 8 of an inch thick which is pretty much unheard   of with concrete so I have the shower panels on  three sides and then I did a concrete soaking   tub to validate that this would work as a tub I  actually built a wood mock-up first which allowed   me need to get inside and to see how how it would  work and I can get water up to almost the bottom   of my neck while I'm in the tub here so moisture  can be a problem in tiny house especially during   the winter because when warm moist air finds a  way to get out as soon as it hits the cold air   outside condensation happens and if that's inside  your wall it could lead to a dry rot and mold so I   found these fans that automatically turn on when  the relative humidity gets above I think it's 60   percent so I just leave it on during the shower  it automatically turns on and pumps all that   moist air out and then I've got another one at  the other side of the house to do the same thing I've been quite surprised of how easy  it is to live in a tiny house my motto   in building this was I think I can do  it and it's just a matter of watching   some YouTube videos and doing your  homework and you can do it it was fun   thanks for watching this week's episode  I hope you guys enjoyed it 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Length: 18min 41sec (1121 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 13 2023