I know there are a lot of people out there looking to build their own tiny houses. Having built a tiny house myself, I have a few lessons learned I thought I’d share. I’m Craig, and if you’re new to my channel I live in a tiny house in Washington state. I make videos about…
4 Things That Should Be Included in Every Tiny House Design
In this video I talk about 4 design considerations I would have implemented when building my tiny house. Spoiler alert. After the mold scare we had, all of them deal with moisture control.
The HVAC System Used in My Tiny House
With the heat waves rolling through, I thought I’d show how we’ve been keeping the tiny house at a nice and comfortable temperature all year round, despite the temperature. I’ve had the HVAC unit since 2017 and it’s been good! It produces both heat and air conditioning. I purchased this dehumidifier and it has drastically…
Melting Scrap Wire from the Farm into Ingots and Trinkets
A fire on our farm burned up the wiring to our well, leaving me with over 100ft of unusable copper… which means now I get to melt it down in my homemade foundry! I stripped the wire and cut it into pieces that would fit inside my crucible. I was testing out if I could…
Turning Malachite Rock into Copper
We were hiking through an outcropping of mountains that jutted out of the Arizona desert when we came across a vein of interesting rock beneath our feet. This was not my first adventure in this landscape with my friends and we had brought tools for situations just like this. I removed a small rock hammer…
My Backyard Foundry Setup For Melting Scrap Metal
If you’ve ever thought melting down your own scrap metal would be fun, in this video I breakdown the foundry I use for my backyard metal melting projects. The metal foundry was made from an old popcorn tin, concrete, and a single burner from a propane forge that I also use for blacksmithing. The burner…
Tiny House Composting Bin Follow-Up
When I built the tiny house I wanted to integrate an easy to use compost system that would be less work than a traditional pile. In this video I talk about how our tiny house compost bin has been working for the past 5 months. Overall it works decent as a collection point and oversized…
New Video: My Best Chicken Coop Design Yet
I combined and modified many techniques from the Internet into a coop design that makes taking care of chickens a bit easier based on my own experience. Let me point out a few key features of the coop. Here in Washington it rains all the time, so I wanted to turn this into an asset…
The DIY Composting Toilet for My Tiny House
This is the compost toilet we designed and built for my tiny house. It uses a modified 5 gallon bucket along with a 3D printed urine diverter. We used it for a bit, but I gotta admit, I’m not a big fan. As with most of my videos, you can learn from my mistakes.
We want to build an Earthship for our homestead, so we rented one
I’ve always wanted to build an Earthship on our property. The time has come to collect some additional information to put that plan into motion, so I set up a recon trip to Taos, NM where they were originally constructed. Earthships utilize the ambient temperature of the Earth and are designed to take advantage of…
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