House Build

We built a DIY monitoring system using Wyze cameras, cellular modem, Raspberry Pi and Home Assistant to keep an eye on our RV this winter.

Did you miss us? It's been a little while, and a lot has happened. Not least we're now thousands of miles away from Vermont in Europe! Let's catch you up.

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.

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?