i'm going to build a house entirely out
of cardboard and list it on airbnb but
here's the thing if i'm going to
successfully get a cardboard house to be
accepted on airbnb
it's gotta be legit
now i don't really have the resources to 00:11
hire an architect or a construction team
so i got to make do with what i got and
with that being said here's what i got a
ton of cardboard that i spent the last
three weeks gathering from various
friends houses and dumpsters because
cardboard is really expensive and i also
have a ton of duct tape to hold it all
together now i had a spot to build the
house but it needed a foundation and i
have all these wooden pallets that
should work just fine i gathered up all
the pallets and started laying them out
until i had a decent shape down for the
foundation and then i realized if i
wanted to make this house a decent size
i was going to need more pallets alexa
add pallets to my shopping list 00:44
stock so i started working on the walls 5
by using adhesive spray duct tape and
some basic brain power i was starting to
get somewhere okay so the first corner
of the house is done
kinda the next day i brought my wall out
to work on it just to find out rained
pretty bad last night and the humidity
is making the cardboard super flimsy my
tape is coming off of the cardboard it's
just a total mess right now i spent the
first hour of my day just patching up
the damage and trying to reinforce the
walls but then i got a pretty good idea
by cutting a bunch of small cardboard
strips and folding them into little beam
type things i could use them as supports
on the inside of the walls so i folded
up a bunch and tried straightening out
one of the walls once i had the whole
wall done i stood it back up to test it 01:25
out and well it's definitely better and 01:27
since it worked so well i decided to 01:28
make a bunch of those beam things but 01:30
every time i pick these walls up they 01:32
bend over me they're super flimsy 01:34
they're not gonna hold but i think i 01:35
figured out a way to fix this i'm gonna 01:36
take more of these support beams and lay 01:38
them across between these beams giving 01:40
me more support this way not just this 01:43
way after putting all the horizontal 01:45
support in the wall it was time to glue 01:47
down some sheets for the interior walls 01:49
after all if i want airbnb to take me 01:51
seriously i'm gonna have to make these 01:52
walls super thick and sturdy okay this 01:55
first wall is done i think let's stand 01:59
this thing up yo this is super sturdy 02:01
what 02:03
now that's a wall i just gotta do that 02:05
three more times and build a roof now 02:07
i'm sure you're wondering how i'm able 02:08
to build such beautiful creations well 02:11
i've been building houses since i was 02:12
like six years old up on ladders and 02:14
scaffolds down in the trenches inside 02:17
houses outside houses on top of houses i 02:20
was always working and i loved it i mean 02:23
look at me this looks straight out of a 02:24
history book under child labor laws okay 02:27
so now that i had a folding technique 02:29
nailed down and a basic blueprint for 02:31
these walls i had some serious gas i 02:33
mean i was cooking with it the gas i was 02:35
cooking with gas now i was moving pretty 02:37
fast for a while and the progress was 02:39
looking beautiful one side of the front 02:41
wall is done and the best part is i can 02:44
carry it by myself but i started to get 02:46
kind of tired at this point i feel like 02:48
it's easier to build like an actual 02:50
house my hands are very swollen so i did 02:53
my best for as long as i could but i 02:55
slowed all the way down 02:57
the next day i came in with one last 02:59
wall to make i had a can of adhesive 03:01
spray in my trusty roll of duct tape i 03:04
wasn't messing around with a little 03:06
sweat few tears and minimal messing 03:08
around i completed the last wall all 03:11
right so all four walls are done and 03:13
it's time to set it up i don't really 03:15
want to set it up outside because we 03:17
might get some rain today what else is 03:19
new so i'm gonna try to set it up in 03:21
here but there is one problem i'm 03:23
completely by myself and i can't lift 03:25
these things alone so to set these walls 03:27
up i was gonna need an extra body so in 03:28
the meantime i decided to build some 03:30
trusses trusses are those big wooden 03:32
triangle things that hold the roof up 03:33
but since i can't use wood i had to 03:35
build literally hundreds of cardboard 03:37
two by fours tape them all together so 03:39
they'd be long enough to make these 03:40
trusses so it'll look something like 03:42
this now this might not seem like a lot 03:44
but it took me two days of working late 03:46
into the night just to make enough beans 03:48
it's starting to look like a lumber yard 03:49
in here and i'm probably down to like 03:51
three brain cells since i've been 03:52
breathing in adhesive rail week so me 03:54
and my last few brain cells were doing 03:56
our very best to build these trusses 03:58
which was going quick and smooth until 04:00
the worst thing ever happened 04:04
i'm out of tape okay that might have 04:05
been a bit dramatic but at this point i 04:08
had gone through over 27 rolls of duct 04:11
tape and 14 cans of adhesive spray which 04:13
put me about 04:14
439 dollars in the hole and that hole 04:17
was about to get a lot deeper as this 04:19
project went on but i wasn't stopping 04:21
until i built the most luxurious 04:22
cardboard house and rented it to someone 04:24
on airbnb so after yet another hard 04:27
day's work and many more rolls of duct 04:29
tape i had all the trusses i needed for 04:31
the roof and at this point i did my best 04:33
to put the walls together just to see if 04:35
this was structurally sound and i almost 04:37
broke my camera in the process oh 04:40
i just saved your life this is huge i 04:42
got my front door back wall here and 04:44
then other big wall this is huge these 04:48
ceilings are mega high they're seven 04:51
feet tall which raised the question how 04:53
was i a five foot seven real-life mario 04:56
going to set these trusses on top of the 04:58
walls i wasn't having any luck at all so 05:00
there's no way to set these trusses one 05:02
by one on top of the wall so i'm gonna 05:04
build the roof on the floor connecting 05:06
the trusses to the beams one every 18 05:08
inches now this part was pretty 05:09
challenging because i had to keep each 05:11
truss straight in parallel with each 05:13
other as i taped them together but with 05:14
a little hard work patience and a ton of 05:17
stubbornness i successfully built the 05:19
world's first up to code cardboard roof 05:24
it kind of works how do you plan on 05:26
getting this thing out the garage oh my 05:28
god what did i do like an idiot i made 05:32
the roof too big to fit out the garage 05:34
doors how could i have been so foolish 05:36
but i wasn't about to let this be my 05:38
demise so i quickly disassembled part of 05:40
the trusses and with the help of my 05:42
friends and neighbors i was able to 05:43
maneuver them out the door once we got 05:45
the roof to the foundation it was time 05:47
to finish this once and for all first 05:50
was the porch roof spray tape spray tape 05:53
complete then it was the main roof spray 05:55
tape spray tape complete so there's only 05:58
one last thing to do 06:00
put it all together assembling this 06:01
house was not a task for the faint of 06:03
heart me and my team of cardboard 06:05
athletes put our all into the 06:06
preparation of this build knowing that 06:08
this roof was way too big for us to lift 06:10
alone it was time to bring out the big 06:12
guns the tractor now this was a risky 06:14
move because one small mistake with this 06:16
tractor in over a month of progress 06:19
would be destroyed so we had to be 06:21
nimble and on our toes at all times and 06:23
with careful planning execution and a 06:25
few finishing touches the airbnb was 06:28
done 06:29
it's looking pretty good in here but you 06:31
know what this place needs a couch that 06:33
is also made of only cardboard beautiful 06:35
countertops with everything you need to 06:37
cook an awesome meal equipped with all 06:39
the best appliances a refrigerator to 06:42
keep your cold seltzers a nice table and 06:44
chair to eat your meals you can't forget 06:46
the bed what's an airbnb without the 06:48
beat and if you're cold you can warm up 06:50
by the fireplace now i know what you're 06:52
thinking cardboard house fired probably 06:55
not a good idea but i'm a risk taker so 06:57
here we are and to top it all off we've 06:59
got some cardboard art made by yours 07:01
truly so this place is looking pretty 07:03
good it's standing pretty dang solid i 07:05
don't think it's going anywhere unless 07:07
of course it rains but i've got my 07:09
pictures 07:10
it's time to put this thing on airbnb so 07:12
i made the most legendary cardboard 07:14
house and airbnb accepted it yes and 07:18
after only two days last night somebody 07:20
booked the airbnb and they are checking 07:22
in today which means i need to get this 07:24
place ready to go i couldn't believe it 07:27
687 in and i built the world's first 07:30
cardboard airbnb 07:34
dude this wall is totally blown out the 07:37
beam is being crushed right now there's 07:40
holes in my ceiling i can't have 07:42
somebody stay in this thing and on top 07:43
of that there was no way this was going 07:45
to survive the thunderstorm heading my 07:47
way so i decided it was time to have 07:49
some fun 07:49
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not to mention i saw a spider in there
07:58 so why
07:59 that's all i got