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Off Grid | Major League System Install

Planning on living off grid? If so, check out this major league system, install. Need help with designing your off grid options? https://practicalpreppers.com/consult…

This beautiful property in Alabama is on over 100 acres and features a new construction home, a large garage building, and a tiny house that we are taking fully off-grid. We’ve been communicating with this customer for some time planning their home’s off-grid infrastructure and are finally able to get to the exciting part of putting it all together. If you need help with your off-grid project, you can start a consultation with us using the link below Get a Consultation https://practicalpreppers.com/consult…

00:00 Intro
01:00 Site Walkthrough
02:00 Mech Room Walkthrough
04:21 Tiny House Sub Feed
06:04 System Specs
11:42 Hotspot Energy ACDC12C
12:26 Is solar possible to DIY?
15:02 Solar Panels Required for HVAC
16:22 Finishing up the Tiny House

Rustic Retreat | Arkansas Ozarks | SOLD

 

This authentic log cabin sits on 19+ private acres in the Arkansas Ozarks and is currently for sale (NOW SOLD) and offers a unique opportunity. Newly reconstructed from antique hand-hewn oak logs, this cozy, rustic retreat has many period and modern features. Arkansas Ozarks Cabins, Ozarks Bed and Breakfast, Bed and Breakfast Village, Arkansas Mountain Retreat, Ozarks Mountain Retreat Close to the Buffalo National River and Gene Rush Wildlife Management Area, with close hiking trails, scenic areas and excellent hunting and fishing, the hilltop property has underground utilities (rural water, electric, telephone, internet ready).Arkansas Ozarks Cabins, Ozarks Bed and Breakfast, Bed and Breakfast Village, Arkansas Mountain Retreat, Ozarks Mountain Retreat

Carefully crafted with exposed logs walls, antique wide-plank flooring and barn-wood siding and trim by Antique Logs Unlimited and local builders, the 800 square foot cabin’s centerpiece is an antique brick Rumford fireplace and fully-restored Glenwood wood cook-stove and oven. A cedar outdoor shower and washroom are connected by a rear porch that can be closed in. The front porch overlooks a clearing with plenty of room for a large garden and the potential for panoramic and mountain views. Energy efficient, the cabin features premium Marvin windows, solid wood doors, closed-cell spray foam insulation, top-of-line ceiling fans and a Galvalume roof.

The cabin is complimented throughout with high-quality handmade and antique furniture and accessories and the sellers are willing to negotiate the sale of contents.Arkansas Ozarks Cabins, Ozarks Bed and Breakfast, Bed and Breakfast Village, Arkansas Mountain Retreat, Ozarks Mountain Retreat Arkansas Ozarks Cabins, Ozarks Bed and Breakfast, Bed and Breakfast Village, Arkansas Mountain Retreat, Ozarks Mountain Retreat Arkansas Ozarks Cabins, Ozarks Bed and Breakfast, Bed and Breakfast Village, Arkansas Mountain Retreat, Ozarks Mountain Retreat

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The price of this property is $150,000.00. The seller is willing to owner finance with half down. The private property is located in rural Arkansas Ozarks and could easily be turned into a bed and breakfast village by adding additional tiny or small homes on the property. Texas Tiny Homes is available to help facilitate that scenario by designing a site plan for the property, and providing the construction plans for any excavation of new roads or other improvements, and possibly building some additional rustic cabins that could be either built on site, or built in Texas and shipped up to the property. Lots of possible options with this property for those looking for a great place to live and earn retirement rental income. If this property would be of interest to you and you have the necessary funds in place, please click on the “contact” tab in the menu bar and send us an email stating your interest. Serious inquiries only!!

3 Creek Lots | Granbury, Texas (SOLD)

Make sure your youtube settings are at 1080 before watching. Texas Tiny Homes has 8 lots in Granbury that back up to an active creek. This video features the back of 3 of those lots. The sound of water flowing by, as well as going over a small waterfall was so soothing on this cool fall Saturday while filming this video. Lots of creative design and engineering possibilities were also flowing as I was back there checking out the lots and determining what type of homes will need to be designed and built.

Building Off The Grid – Season 3 Episodes

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The casting director for the DIY Network TV show, “Building Off Grid” reached out to Texas Tiny Homes today to see if we, or any of our plan customers would be interested in being featured in a Season 3 Episode.

“We’re looking throughout the United States for folks who will soon be building an off-grid dwelling (i.e. starting within in the next few months). We cannot consider homes that are already underway.”

“All types of structures can be considered i.e. straw bale, earthship, tiny homes, yurts, container homes, earth-sheltered, log, stick-built, or whatever else your imagination comes up with! If you’re chosen for this project there is generous pay involved.

If you’re interested, please click on our contact tab and send an email expressing your interest and goal and I will forward your information to the casting director. We can provide you with the construction plans if you do not already have them.

**Please note, in order to be considered for the show, the home must be built on the land where it will ultimately exist (as opposed to being built in a warehouse and then transported to the land)**

Composite Wall R-Values

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Part of the allure with tiny and small homes is finding ways to live as economically as possible, as well as providing a zero, tiny or small carbon footprint. As a luxury home builder since 1977, my other company, Bryan Smith Homes helped pioneer energy efficient construction by trying out new products as they were introduced to the home building industry. Over the decades, I tried out a lot new energy saving products, but energy efficiency wasn’t a top priority of mine back then compared with the finish out details and the quality of construction I focused on the most Thermal break wall construction, Netzero construction, energy efficient wall construction, ZIP Panels, off grid new homes, Courtesy of Ecological Building Systems

As I began designing my first Netzero type of home for myself that will also serve as a model for a community in Granbury, Texas that we have purchased multiple lots in, I realized I needed to get up to speed with the latest products and construction methods now available. In my research, I discovered there so many more energy saving products available today than when I first start building homes, as well as new construction methods that provide some amazing results, including dual (double studs) wall systems like this example below.  Thermal break wall construction, Netzero construction, energy efficient wall construction, ZIP Panels, off grid new homes, Courtesy of Fine Home Building

Double wall construction has been around for a while in the colder climate zones, but it’s not been something home builders typically offer in the south. I now realize that not only does the dual wall approach provide more space for multiple insulation options that provide a much higher R value, that approach also provides a thermal break. I had heard “thermal break” mention over the years, mainly with windows, but didn’t fully understand what that meant until I began researching Netzero construction methods. I now understand and am implementing thermal break technology with some plans I’m currently designing and planning to build in Granbury. This article provides an excellent explanation for what “thermal break” means, and this article describes what “thermal bridging” is, why it’s important to avoid thermal bridging when building a Netzero type of home.

The first image above provides a “R value” break down with items typically used to construction new single family homes. I’m surprised “stone” doesn’t provide much R value, and is considerably less than brick. One of the exterior sheathing products I found that provides really high R value, as well as creates a thermal break, and it eliminates the need for a house wrap is called ZIP Panels.

Thermal break wall construction, Netzero construction, energy efficient wall construction, ZIP Panels, off grid new homes, This amazing product is available in different 4 thicknesses and R values. I’m planning to use the R 12 Zip Panels on my personal home, and the exterior walls of the home will be framed with 2″ X 6″ wall studs, and insulated with R23 Rock Wool wall batts. Between the Zip Panels and the Rock Wool batts, and the 5 1/2″ inch thick stone on the lower portion of the home, and the 1/2 thick siding on 2nd story, the exterior walls of my home will have an R value of a little over R35, which is almost three times the required amount for Granbury’s climate zone. Thermal break wall construction, Netzero construction, energy efficient wall construction, ZIP Panels, off grid new homes,

Traditionally, windows and exterior doors have been the weakest energy efficiency link in a building envelope, providing very little R value, but there are some companies now offering R10 and R12 windows, which is quite a bit higher than most Energy Star rated windows.

If you would be interested in Texas Tiny Homes designing you a super energy efficient home this link provides information on that and what is included in a set of plans.