#31 It's time to start the main house / Restoring a 100 year old Stone House
We had a really closed call with a forest fire this week, we tell you what happened and how it affected our area. We also start our house renovating by demolishing the roof.
#30 First few days back at our abandoned farm
We are back living in our beautiful tiny home in the countryside located in our abandoned farm purchased last year. We do some rearrangements, visit some beautiful spots and show you what will be doing next.
#29 How We are Renovating this Ancient Stone Farm House
See what we do to inside of the house! On this video, we will tell you our plans and future projects. We discuss what we are going to do this year, what it's the most important job to do as soon as possible and the future projects in the years to come. We also mention the side projects and what was the point (long term) of out container tiny home!
#28 When Are We Renovating the Abandoned House? Q&A
Our first Q&A answering all your questions about our abandoned farm house, future projects, costs, land, buying property in Portugal and more! We have finished the roof on our tiny house! We are super excited to show the beautiful roof on our beautiful tiny home in Portugal! We are now dry in, waterproof and weather proof! So happy with the result!
#27 Finally finishing our tiny house roof
We have finished the roof on our tiny house! We are super excited to show the beautiful roof on our beautiful tiny home in Portugal! We are now dry in, waterproof and weather proof! So happy with the result!
#26 Finishing the rafters of our tiny home roof
We finally raise the roof (Rafters) on our tiny home in Portugal! We will soon have an amazing Off Grid Portuguese Farm! Our tiny home is looking more like a house than a container! We are doing this project and making a solid homebase while we renovate our 100-year old Portuguese abandoned farm and become a fully off-grid home eventually!
#25 Harvesting our land olives for the first time (Copy)
We need to start learning new skills when it comes to farm life and one of them is to successfully harvest olives, prune trees and turn them into olive oil or other produce. Unfortunately, we didn't have much luck this time as our trees are very neglected!
#24 Building the rafters and getting roof tiles ready
We have come to the time to do the rafters on our container tiny home situated on our beautiful land on Portugal! It has been a rocky start! Doing rafters with unseasoned wood has been quite a challenge but luckily with three heads together, we are probably going to figure it out! I show you also some things about the house and why things are being done this way.
#22 Finishing the framing on our tiny home roof
It has been pouring with rain therefore, it was the perfect opportunity to build indoors. We made our first worktable with some scrapped wood and an extra set of planks for the top. It costed us less than 60 Euros to build.
#23 Starting the roof framing of our tiny house
This week we completed another major job for this roof build and we also have some amazing help! We are getting closer to finishing this roof which will be our home for the time we will be restoring the main farm house.
#21 Building a worktable with scrapped wood and pine planks
It has been pouring with rain therefore, it was the perfect opportunity to build indoors. We made our first worktable with some scrapped wood and an extra set of planks for the top. It costed us less than 60 Euros to build.
#20 Installing the last posts, visiting beautiful waterfall
We place the rest of the timber wood posts including the shou sugi ban. We encounter some hiccups along the way. We also visit some friends living off the grid and have a great picnic by a waterfall.
#19 Continuing with the roof frame and foraging mushrooms
We continue with the roof frame post installation. We also witness one amazing sunset at our place and find out with have edible wild mushroom growing in our land.
#18 Starting to place the timber frame for the roof
We start to cutting and placing the wooden frame for the future roof on our cabin. Cut and place the bigger charred wooden posts and show you the local market.
#17 Preserving wood posts with ancient Japanese method
This week, on our off grid roof cabin build, we apply the Japanese ancient method of charring wood: Shou Sugi Ban, to preserve our 15x15cm posts which will be holding the roof of our container
#16 Getting the wood ready for our cabin
We are doing the final prep of our materials before building the roof up! We also do our second trial with the Shou Sugi Ban Japanese wood burning method by changing some of our tools. We also show you a bit more of our land.
#15 Building foundations for our Outdoor kitchen
In this episode, we are building foundations for our outdoor kitchen. We use concrete forming tubes this time to make it easier to pour and prepare the foundation.
#14 Back to our cabin. Clearing the land, making jam and chutney
We come back home from the UK after a fantastic drive through Southern France and Spain. We settle in to our tasks, clearing the land and a broken tree. We also make some jam and chutney from our neighbours' gifts.
#13 Moving to Portugal. Driving across Europe on our car
We finally left the UK, moving to our new home before the summer ended. We take the long way around and drive through France and stay at some of the best campsites in South of France. Our experience moving to Portugal this this time was super easy. An enjoyable European road trip off-grid!
#12 Checking off tasks before flying to the UK
Have you thought about traveling abroad at the moment? Flying during a Pandemic was not fun but our plan to travel to the UK had to be done sooner than expected as times are way too uncertain at the moment. So we are here now, and this is how much we finished in the land and how we got here.