Hey there everyone. My name is Jordan from happen films, and this is a $420 tiny house let's check it out
This beautiful structure behind us is the house that we built over the course of about three months out of pretty much entirely recycled materials
So the total cost of the house is about $420 if you include the petrol money that went into it
Since the size is about two and a half by two and half meters at six point two five square
We went by dumpsters from demolition sites we looked on the website gum tree
We ended up getting pretty much everything
We needed to build the whole house just for free
- so we decided to try and build our home with just hand tools. Yeah
we tried to. We didn't manage to in the end there were a couple of things that were too difficult for us to do with the
Tools that we had and the skills that we had
So we ended up having to use a power drill and an impact driver
We had to make five purchases
I bought some cement for the foundations
some steel bracing tape because it was a bit wonky
some screws for the roof
I bought a tub of wood glue for...to make some window frames
[...] to hold the windows open
Oh we bought a sixth thing we bought some hinges
so we were using salvaged paper insulation to try and
Line the whole house and we ran out
we were just short, and we didn't have enough through the roof
But luckily we found this stuff in a dumpster
We're out a couple of months ago going through the local supermarket dumpsters looking for food
This is perfectly new tapping Brand-new condition in the cylinders packet
I guess we wanted to challenge the idea that you need like a whole lot of high-tech tools and
Skills and knowledge to be able to build a house
I mean that house is mostly built with a hand saw and a hammer
I think the main challenge we face is that neither of us never really built anything before
-I built a [...] once !
- Yeah, Rachel built a [...], I built a set of bunk beds once we had to learn everything as we went
It takes it away a from that
professional "need a whole lot of tools, need a whole lot of skills and a whole of different people you need someone to lay the
Foundation someone to build a frame someone to paint it
The conventional building methods that we use it's hard to imagine them being sustainable more than 50 or hundred years in the future
Just the amount of resources that they require and the importation of all kinds of things
We acknowledge that this kind of building can't really
Be sustained either, it's not an indefinitely sustainable technique
but using recycled materials and building much smaller spaces is something that can be sustained for a lot longer into the future
we live on a community. Which means there are communal spaces for socializing?
We have a communal bathroom shower.
For us a house is really just a place to be able to have some quiet time in
place to sleep in
place to store our personal belongings in
Living in more of a shared communal lifestyle means that we can get away with just a really small house because we don't really need
It for all these other things. It's great to have built our own houses
It's like more than just having build the house the house is cool. Yeah, don't get me wrong
It's great, but to have developed the skills and knowledge to do it again until we share that with other people
I'm just yeah chuffed about the amount that I've learned through doing that
Land ownership can be a huge barrier for people looking to live this way
and some people who see this may think that it isn't
Possible for them because they can't afford to buy their own land
The Community that Liam,
Rachel, me and four others live on, is owned by one family and they allow us to stay on the land rent-free
in exchange for developing the property
by building infrastructure
planting veggie Gardens
and taking care of the place.
I eel that most scenarios like this will start to happen where owners of unused land
Invite people to live on their property to develop a community
and to do something great with the land
The Challenge is connecting landowners with people looking to live this way
Even if you've got no skills, or knowledge, you can kind of just do that yourself as much easier
It's much more affordable as well
for people like us who don't have a great deal of money.
It's much more accessible
I could just kind of build a much smaller space, and then share your other spaces with other people