House Build
After a hectic year bringing in utilities and developing our site, we're ready for a break. This year we've set our sights a little further afield!
We've been excitedly waiting for the time when our electrical service would be installed and we'd finally have power - this was the week.
Kicking off our series on installing electrical service, we walk through service sizing, transformer location and primary transmission line placement.
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We've been researching tractors lately and in the past few weeks, we've been out shopping to try to find the perfect tractor for our land!
Land
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We were so nervous about drilling a well. Would we hit water? How deep would we have to go? How much would it cost? There's only one way to find out....
We've well and truly broken ground now, hitting some major milestones but also breaking some things along the way.
Tools & Equipment
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We visited the Rockler store in Salem, NH to pick up some exciting new tools - a Sawstop Jobsite Table Saw and Dewalt DW735X planer.
We review why we chose the Aquatank 2 for hauling water to our RV, which size we opted for, and our first impressions about its construction.
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As we're building our dream home in Vermont, there's one big question we have to answer: should we connect to power or go off-grid?
Before we can drink from our well, we need to test the water to make sure it's safe. After a nervous wait, here's what we discovered.
How do you run a well pump manually using power from a generator? We create a temporary setup to do just that and fill our RV tank.
After six months in one spot, it was finally time to hookup the RV again, but this time our journey was a little shorter than usual!
After renting our shipping container for 12 months, it was time to make a decision - should we buy it or keep on renting?
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