And Just Like That... We Have A Floor! // Building Our Off Grid Home

In a wonderful change of pace, we have a basement floor poured... which means next week we get to start building with our own two hands and hopefully this off grid home project moving along a bit faster!
This week we worked on waterproofing the basement walls, putting on the sill plates that will tie our home to our foundation, and then we were pleasantly surprised that our floor was able to be poured. It feels like everything is FINALLY coming together for this home build!
---------------------Welcome to Our Maine Homestead!
We moved onto 200 + acres of raw land in northern Maine in September of 2018. We’re building our off-grid homestead, literally, from the ground up with our own four hands.
Our goals are to share our simple, self-sufficient, and sustainable lifestyle using traditional, old fashioned on purpose, and natural methods the same way our grandparents, great grandparents, and those who came before them did.
Along the way we hope to pass on the best parts of this lifestyle to our daughters and to all of you. We want to share the experience of how we live and the challenges we face as we build our dream homestead, raising animals, growing our own food, and working on the many projects required to live this lifestyle.
We’ll show you, not necessarily how to do things, but how we do things. We’ll also share video series that go deeper into specific aspects of our lives and what it’s like to live the way we do in the 21st century.
There’s a saying, “There’s a first time for everything.” Here, there’s a first time for EVERYTHING, because almost everything we’re doing here, we’re doing for the first time.
While our life is simple, it’s not always easier. It’s a lot of hard work, but we were raised knowing that nothing worthwhile comes easy and as you’ll see there are way more positives than negatives.
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[@KristleLauren]

So cool to see them pouring and smoothing out the floor! Big progress this past week - so happy for y’all! Also, Olivia is hilarious hahah. And I love how she was checking in on Emery while she was running around lol.

[@OurMaineHomestead]

She's a pretty good dog 😊

[@berniebeck5925]

Can you say "Silly Sill Seal Sill Plates" 5 times fast? 🤣

[@Teetles_807]

Was there rebar in the floor?

[@OurMaineHomestead]

No. There is rebar in the footer.

[@berniebeck5925]

Great teamwork! Em is doing a fantastic job keeping everyone in line and on schedule. Her union rep asked me to make sure that she is getting time-and-a-half for Saturdays and double-time on Sundays, if applicable. 😂 I'll see you next week! ❤

[@OurMaineHomestead]

Can't wait to see you roomie! Time and a half and double time has been approved! That's what being the best in the biz gets ya!

[@buddhabee1678]

Congratulations! So happy for you all!

[@OurMaineHomestead]

Thank you!!!

[@mainerdiy8399]

Would have been cool to do a colab with @mike day concrete. Looks like good progress.

[@OurMaineHomestead]

That would have been a great idea!