Uber driver saves money to build hand-cranked Expandable Home
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Ten years ago, Kamal Kadhar began dreaming about a home that could be easily transported around the world and could unfold upon delivery in just an hour with fridge, beds, sinks included, ready for overnights.
Using 8 years worth of earnings as an Uber driver, Kamal built a container-sized home (7.5 feet by 24 feet) that can be pulled the back of a 4x4 and comes with 5-foot leg jacks so no forklift or crane is needed.
He began building his first prototype outside in a field outside the southern Indian city of Tiruchirappalli. Not wanting to add complications for those wishing to deploy their home in remote locations, Kadhar relied on mechanical winches for unfolding the home (though electric gearboxes can be added) and avoided any type of hydraulics or machinery that can't be easily fixed by an amateur.
In fact, Kadhar says his entire home can be built from the frame (that he can provide) by amateur building enthusiasts just as he was a decade ago. He grew up tinkering with metal in his father's scrap metal shop, but had little experience until he began watching TH-cam videos and apprenticing with local builders in London where he lives and drives his Uber vehicle 12 hour days.
He says he's gotten encouragement for his expandable home, which he calls Octopouse (inspired by his love of octopi), from his passengers. He's driven 35,000 passengers from 135 countries and even gotten advice from architects along the way.
The Octopouse is furnished with a full kitchen, that pivots into position within seconds, and comes fully plumbed and electrified. There's also a Murphy bed in one wall, plus a toilet and shower (the bathroom doesn't unfold). Kadhar hopes to offer frames for sale for around $50,000 with the price to drop with economies of scale.
Instagram: / octopouse_ltd
Email info@octopouse.com
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You can tell that he is joyful in his work!
I hope Kamal will be successful with his venture. I wish him all the best. What a touching end.
What a neat design! Yes, surely his Father would be proud if he could see it. ☮️❤️🐾
I can easily imagine this to be a great solution for disaster organisations to prop up a mobile office/hospital. Incredible project Kamal Kadhar!
What? Lmao. They couldn't even build tent hospitals in Canada for COVID 19. You are a radical liberal dreamer
Yeah, or even for housing people displaced by disaster. My first thought was "so much better than a FEMA trailer"
what a guy, believing in himself, hardworking dreamer who finally made his dreama reality , bravo
That is an ingenious design. Thinking “within the box” ! 👏👏 A wonderful achievement for his team.
What an amazing project Kamal Kadhar! I hope it gets picked up and wish you every success! 🙏
Thank you for sharing, great to see projects from other parts of the world. 👌
Wow, hat tip to Mr. Kamal. This looks like a durable thing ready made for tiny house communities.
FABULOUS. This is such a very, very good "moving" house. I wish him a great success!
Love the look, design, & low maintenance of it! Exterior is obviously far stronger than wood or vinyl siding. Its really amazing how compact this is when it arrives, including all of the solar panels installed. I would imagine this would be perfect for military use, medical use (especially after a disaster). Or as a food truck/trailer, or small laundry mat. So MANY uses for this!😍Best Wishes!
Great big blessings on you, brother Kamal! Your father would indeed be so very proud of you. May every success be yours! ❤
I’ve dreamed of stuff like this. He did a magnificent job having the kitchen swing outward!
Wow! I'm only a minute into this video and I'm already loving it!
Thank you so much to Kirsten and the team for bringing us such awesome videos about alternative living choices!
So inspiring! I hope to one day make some place worthy of being in a video of yours. Even if it never gets a video, at least if it's worthy, then I know I'm going to love living in it.
Definitely let me know when you make your space. Best of luck.
Iam from india
It's a fantastic work
Creative work
❤🎉❤
Such a sweet man. His father would be proud.
What a neat design! Yes, his Father would surely be very proud of his son if he could see it. ☮️❤️🐾
Maybe he can 👻
This gentleman is priceless! I love the creativity, and his designs are amazing. Could not be more excited for him, hope he makes a tremendous profit😂❤!! Love the whole concept, and it is beautiful🎉.
Looks amazing and I hope sales and production go great for him!!!
What an awesome guy....and what a wonderful idea for people in areas with hurricanes, wildfires etc, lifechanging.
i really like this idea of a house that can be folded like a deck chair.
🤗 THANKS KIRSTEN…VERY CLEVER IDEA 💡 AND I AM VERY SURE HIS FATHER WOULD BE PROUD 👍💚💚💚
So inspiring,so impressive, thank you, Kirsten. Mr. Kamal has the dream, energy and perserverance, to pursue this for such a long time. And the result is a real, spacious portable home, with all modern conveniences. I wonder how heavy it is, with everything on board.
Thank you always for interesting and creative projects from all around the world. Best wishes 🙏
Somebody jump on it... it's the way of future accommodations. Take my manufactured home away and I'll strap one down on my little 0.48 acre plot in Florida, make it my own, disturb the nature as lightly as possible, and when the hurricanes come I simply fold her up and flee. How water proof are they when folded up? Btw, loved the video 👍
What a wonderful story. Thanks so much for sharing the incredible initiative and passion of this wonderful person!
Now this is the kind of Tiny House I wish I could live in!
I LIKE IT! Starting around $50,000? I like that, too! Made of STEEL, NOT trash (a.k.a. recycled materials). I only thing I would change is the winch (from manual to electric).
I could be wrong, but I think he said $15K not $50K 🤔
@@joecutro7318 It's 50K, check the description box.
Living in England, building in India, price in dollars$ lol , definitely going international. US $50k just for the frame?
Had to watch a couple of times. This is amazing. The shipping container looks like it is 20 feet. The fact that it can be lifted up to 5 feet is also a good feature. Especially in flood-prone areas or very irregular ground. At $50k US, this appears to be affordable. The interior looks very modern.
Sometimes a person has an idea and sometimes an idea has a person. I think the octopouse has Kamal. I really enjoyed this video good luck to Kamal
Well folks you've found another delightful innovator, Many thanks.
This is the only one ive ever seen i would buy
Respect... full on hustler and a real one. Something any person can look up to, if you work hard to help people with solutions..
Brilliant!! I would actually like to get one of these, or set up a building location in the USA, though I am not capable of that just yet. It's exciting to see this creative project and the way it was developed---I am very glad you have documented his creative work and his prototype/intellectual property, etc !
I wonder how we can get this item or the plans to build it as he mentioned.
His design is an incredible structure. Mobile and ingenious home that has an application in many areas of the world. Good for him and I hope he has financial investors to promote his ideas into a full-fledged business.
I admire people who follow their dreams and passions despite the views of others and the pitfalls of life. I sincerely hope you excel at this venture and succeed beyond your wildest dreams as an architect, builder, and entrepreneur.
Best,
You're design is wonderful!!!
wonderful idea, and use of materials. Wishing the best of luck to him and his family.
I love it. Very nice, and the spaciousness of it is amazing.
A very viable project indeed 👍 Well done! Praying for the success of your dreams, sir.
This is one of the most ingenious houses I have seen on your channel! Kudos to him for working so hard to create this.
Good for you sticking it out my friend. Great story and great project now enjoy it!
This is mankind at it's greatest, bravo!
the future!! pocket homes!!
Wow, this is a very high quality dwelling, low environmental impact or indluence, Does he need investors, or idoes he have any already made for sale? Very good Engineering, and super hard work.... beautiful! 🕊️
Thank you for taking the time to watch my story. and your support for Octopouse,sorry for late response. yes please we need investors .please check descriptions . For my contact information thank you
Kind regards
Kamal
Being able to raise your house 5 feet up could be very useful during a flood!
Kudos to this men!
Always intriguing. Good basic design. Water catchment?
Cool story!
Looks more appealing than boxable
Right, this is like what Boxabl wishes it could be.
Wonderful design and concept. Love it.
❤Congratulations and very well done.❤
What an amazing design. Love it.
Thank you for showing us designs made further afield.
Wow what an amazing idea and great achievement 🎉🎉🎉 way to go for your success
Good on him for the enormous effort, it's cleverly designed.
Think perhaps a composting toilet would be best. I'm assuming there's water collection/storage and filters?
absolutely beautiful message, especially the ending shot. This is truly inspirational.
Ingenious and practical concept. You are an original thinker Sir.
Very nice, in trades , hats off to the Uber driver....And his dream & desighn.
Pure genius!
Wow, what an impressive achievement. I would live in one of his houses no problem.
Wow well done to all involved , what an achievement 😀
One of the best I’ve ever seen!!!!! Great work
Fantastic ❤️💚👍🇬🇧
First of its kind I’ve seen like this ! Amazing build sir !💯👍🏼🙏🏽
Hell of a design, Kamal. Well done!
That's awesome!
So very cool.
Amazing 👏👏👏
A wonderful achievement. Your father would be proud and you deserve the best after all the hard years.
Omg this man is so impressive!
Pretty inspiring design!
I'm sure the whole family is proud! I hope this is very successful.
With all that metal I'm wondering if it needs extra earthing?
Love the design prototype
This man is a genius!
Transforming house is very beautiful and impressive, it opens up a wonderful space after transforming.
Formidable.
Copyright the design now! Protect your intellectual property. Then
I want one or sell me a copy how to build it stateside. Thank you 🙏🏽.
Good point. Actually Kamal said he drove a copyright lawyer in his car once who gave him the advice that if he put up a public video about his design that was valuable for copyright so he did do that.
There are lots of companies around the world building expandable tiny homes like this. I saw some companies doing this in Australia a year ago, and they'd been operating for a few years. The concept was copied off expandable caravans, and those expandable caravans have been around for many years; it's actually pretty standard for expensive caravans to have expandable "pop out" living rooms. There's nothing new about expandable caravans and tiny homes, so I don't think he could copyright something that is so common.
Wow i love this expanding tiny house❤
Congratulations Kamal.
An ironing table! Be still my heart. I love this.
Very impressive.
Amazing! What determination!
Please DON'T give up!!
I absolutely love this!!
This guy is so wholesome! He could win anyone over! He needs to go on dragons den. Or just put him in a room with possible funders.
On the idea. When I saw it first start opening up I was immediately sceptical but if you give it time watch through and listen intently this has really been thought through/has evolved through trial and error responding to challenges. Ended up completely won over by the idea.
I can see this taking off particularly in India in villages or the edges of cites where they need to adapt and respond to the changing economy. It looks like it could bring people independence while increasing their standard of living.
Keep going! ❤
Really impressed with the imagination this took. Brilliant idea..
Pretty amazing what can be done with the right mindset and a bit of hard work.
Wow 🤩. This is ingenious , the gentleman deserves a medal for fantastic work and perseverance 🏅
Brilliant
This is really Good
That is amazing!
So where can I buy one in Australia?
Wow that is so beautiful!!!! I love tiny homes and feel like they will continue to become more normal!!! He has made an INCREDIBLE home 🏡!!!! CONGRATULATIONS !!!🎉
Outstanding
Nice
Brilliant idea and design.
Where can I buy one?
You can email info@octopouse.com
Your Dad is incredibly proud of you.
I have recently seen someone else do a similar premise home but their's started at 100k to 200k, it looked literally like a box and it did not include certain aspects of this design at all.
Please make certain you have your ideas locked in legally and make certainly you can get the permits that may be needed depending where these will be located.
How is the insulation throughout in this design?
Could this design be redefined for those who have different abilities or are handicapable?
For example, how would someone in a wheelchair crank that gear themselves and how would they get into it and around it easily?
Is a walk-in shower possible?
How is the water proofing throughout?
Think about the ways it can be tailored to your buyers including the colours of metal on the outside...what materials could be easily interchangeable on the inside.
And please, please put enough exterior electrical sockets all around the outside, for seasonal decorations and such. Please don't just put some random one outside in an awkward place. Just because it's a tiny home doesn't mean we don't want it to look like the Griswold's for the Holidays.
This is a solid concept, I wish much success sir. You seem like such a lovely human being.
I am interested in the answers of the above inquiries, please. Thank you.
Your Dad is smiling down on you and he's all around you. 🙂🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I hope this video brings him some commercial interest. Absolutely beautiful idea. I think it needs to find a market, I hope it finds a market. I can't see it being cost effective for disaster relief, but might be good fit for temporary scientific, mining, or military housing?
Best project ever for a small house.
He should seek some investment from big buildings companies
A big building company like evergrande?