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We are going to build an extension, about 30 square meters, to the house. Big familiy, need space.. ;-) (5 kids and number 6 on it's way! :O )

Thank's! Fun to be back! And finally my life will start over again, for real! Yup, hard work but like you said wyoDreamer, a lot of satisfaction! Joel_BC: Hm.. no, I'm sorry. But it is only 80 km to Växjö.

Hej allihopa! Long time since I was in here. :-) It's been a journey for us, but now in just some few weeks, we finally moving to our torp (cottage/small house). No electricity, no running water. (2 problems I have to fix. Solar power for elctricity for lights, computer a small power station...

Maybe you can even collect natural gas from the cow?

Here am I with two of my kids. Sitting on the doorstep to our paradise!

Hey friends! :-) Me and a friend of mine are going to start a tourism company here in Sweden.. Wilderness, bushcraft, canoeing... Have some courses in "basic skills", survival, guidning... Now I wonder: If you were a tourist and came here to us: What would you want to do? We're also thinking...

I think it looks good and a lot more easier than this forum. ;)

Found this on the internet. "Feeling chilly and don't want to turn up the heat? Here's a cheap and easy alternative to heating a small room - tealights and flowerpots. By positioning two flowerpots over four tealight candles in a bread baking dish, you can heat a small room or office. The gap...

We have only one well at about 10 feet (3 meters) and in the summer, you have to ration. I'm saving rainwater for irrigation, and it has to work out to wash in it? Then ang. Well, I do not know how you've et in the U.S. but here at home, I have a very shallow well located only 10m away from the...

And that's my point! Glad you understood it! :) We are all the same, think the same and do almost the same stuff: Worldwide! The only problem is, as you say, to the common man, you and me - it is not we who appears in the media and reflected to the world. ninny: how old are your kids?

We lived in the cottage for a couple of years ago, so we know the value of good insulation! (It was cold in the winter, when it was the coldest we had about 4 degrees (Celsius) when we got up in the morning!) I do not use any "unnatural" in the house, so there will be no treated beams, I'd...

You can always ask the Europeans themselves! (Me, for example!) :) But there is at least one thing, that ordinary european people think about the United States. And it is that your government will always interfere with what other countries are doing AND they always make sure to get what they...

I was thinking the same, but if i sneak a sister beam alongside, I have to make a new "hole" in the "ground beam" to phasing it in. Maybe it's possible to splice it if i sets up several stanchions to suport the beam? (Is that right? Stanchions?)

Hello again! :) Well, the beam must be replaced, do you think I can splice it in half? Half of the beam is namely in good condition to be used, and I also avoid lifting up one side of the house! /Markus

Thank you all! And yes, it's very peaceful there, it's my total free zone in the world - which we can escape to when everything else feels heavy, or if you just want to get away from the outside world a little. There is no electricity (Off-Grid, we are going to install a solar system a little...

Yes, it's a big project. But there is nothing that gives so much back as when you are done with just a big project. Imagine then, when it smells freshly baked bread from the nice white kitchen, decorated in a little French country style! * longing * Britesea: We have an apartment, but we are...

I have now stripped out all the flooring in the kitchen right down to the ground. The old floor has been in since the beginning of 1900, and sometime in the 60s put them on chipboard = NOT GOOD, moisture damaged and decayed. So yes, if anyone is wondering, you know after all what we're up to...

Edit: The pump needs to sit in the hot tub with gray water. The hose from the washing machine breaks down in the bottom and the water is purified on the way "up" in the barrel.

Okay, I'm not an animator, so be patient! But something like this, the washer pumps out the water down the barrel with sand filter - the water is purified and go on to the barrel to clean gray water, and from there the water goes into the washing machine. I need to have a pump between the tub...

The system may not need to be completely sealed. If you change the water after X number of washes then it should be easier. I'm thinking of a simple sand filter, it is enough do you think? It is enough that it is cleansed from dirt particles.