I love the idea of an off-grid house but it always comes with too much DIY.
I wish there were sellers with fixed affordable off-grid packages.
You get House A on Plot A for $50,000
You own the house and the plot. It is fully off-grid (except WiFi) and we made smart decisions and installed reliable systems.
You pay your money and you maintain the house.
Unfortunately it’s never like that. It’s all DIY:
Come camp with us for 4 weeks without a hot shower while we teach you how to mix AirCrete and sell you a pump. Get 4 friends and spend 4 months slathering cob incorrectly together. Never cut down a tree before? Buy a chainsaw and start stacking 1-ton logs- you’ll be perfectly safe: nobody has blogged yet about having crushed themselves.
I realize this is contrary to the spirit.
I just want a convention-over-configuration small off-grid house that I can see in models, read specs for, and purchase outright, including the land it’s sitting on.
I wish there were sellers with fixed affordable off-grid packages.
You get House A on Plot A for $50,000
You own the house and the plot. It is fully off-grid (except WiFi) and we made smart decisions and installed reliable systems.
You pay your money and you maintain the house.
Unfortunately it’s never like that. It’s all DIY:
Come camp with us for 4 weeks without a hot shower while we teach you how to mix AirCrete and sell you a pump. Get 4 friends and spend 4 months slathering cob incorrectly together. Never cut down a tree before? Buy a chainsaw and start stacking 1-ton logs- you’ll be perfectly safe: nobody has blogged yet about having crushed themselves.
I realize this is contrary to the spirit.
I just want a convention-over-configuration small off-grid house that I can see in models, read specs for, and purchase outright, including the land it’s sitting on.