This lady is so freaking cool and unassumingly practicing all her ideas to the max. I loooove exposed materials and things looking exactly like how they are without any fake stuff. The building is as frank and practical as her. Lovely!
She talked waaaay too much. And after all of her talking the Company she got the panels and framing from .. Was left out. That's alot to wade through to end up with an empty cup at the end. F for interview skills on this ... They just let her ramble .....and she did.
I think Gustav Stickley would be proud, given that all his ideas are epitomized in this one build - 100 years post date. Boiler room conversion: It's beautiful if you ask me, for those who love simplicity and economy. And no one can match her passion, but again its the simplicity that turned my head. This is what I've been looking for always believing in this kind of design. It's everything I want .
This is a very bauhaus like house philosophy. Also letting the secret out that you can use industrial use construction materials as a fantastic alternative to conventional residential construction materials.
The challenge I find with the “secret” here is time. You can use some of these more industrial/commercial materials but it takes a huge amount of time to sort out the details and all the coordination that goes into planning. For the everyday homeowner looking to add an ADU, it’s unlikely they’d have the time to make this a viable option at a bargain price.
@@nameberry220 I am sure this aspect could be greatly improved. So that doesn't invalidate the general approach. Points off for not thinking 1 or 2 steps deeper.
@@stcredzero yes, and they’re not available to the vast majority when they’ve upped the price about 10x’s that of the materials. People have looked into prefabricated tiny homes, most cheapest ones start at $50,000 and go up from there.
This is dynamite! If This technique were combined with compatible modules that incorporated the plumbing, kitchen, wiring, and bathroom, this would enable super economic pre-fab factory home building. This would result in houses which involved less than 1 week of on-site labor. The fact that there is already an industrial infrastructure that could support this at scale blows many of the pre-fab home startups out of the water! EDIT: I came up with a name for this style: "Micro-Brutalist."
Thanks for another original project. I love the guerrilla tactics of her construction and the totally out-of-the-box solutions for furniture, bathroom, etc... Great ideas!
More of this kind of living quarters needs to be put through out cities and even rural areas. It would solve a lot of housing issues. Giving answers to homeless problems. Example: Gutting old structures leaving the facade and making this structure inside. No worries of code for the older structure, plumbing or other issues. Just a thought.
homeless people are homeless by choice for 99% of them due to drugs, you are not going to solve homeless anything until you can fix why people are homeless to begin with, hint it's not due to lack of housing.
It's a nice thought, but the availability of small affordably built homes isn't why there's a housing crisis. It's the greed of national property management corporations and private landlords causing the problem. And the government offers no protection because they're paid not to. This isn't a fear mongering conspiracy, it's just the sad state of things in the US.
Simple, great material, everyone has different taste..... not totally my cup o tea, but ya got to love her passion and her point of view.... cool stuff! 🕊️
I knew I recognized her. Her boiler room tiny house video that was uploaded in 2015?! I watched that. The thought of that tiny home being stuck in my head since then is crazy. She looks great!
This is a very smart way to build a home. It's cost effective, don't need to worry about rodents, termites and all the other issues that goes with stick build homes. 👍👍
@@susankeith326 If sewer drains and pipes from the outside are not properly installed of course they will get in and burrow into the walls. However, there is no wall cavities for them to burrow into and hide. I watch a lot of Twin Home Experts and learned a lot about how rats gets into homes. Of course, the other alternative is if she leaves the door open and the rats walk in 🤔
This woman is awsome. The whole package… personality for days, in shape,full of life, self sufficient…so impressed w her ability to build, so smart. She could turn this into a business like the tiny house business. She could design different models of her metal houses and put them up on the website or in a catalog. or not.?? I just enjoyed watching her enjoy showing off the fruits of her labor.
I recall that boiler tiny house and really liked the aesthetic and design philosophy. This is in the same spirit - kudos! I think having something beneath the mattress for ventilation is a good idea, though.
So glad to see Christi again! I loved her and her work from the boiler room video. It was great to see her build knowledge evolution with this project. Love that her design-build ethic is ground in real-world practically while still achieving an honest, human-scaled aesthetic.
This fabulous woman could be my daughter, yet I would gladly and with much appreciation sit at her knee. As someone said in the comments below, this is a box entirely outside of the box. Bravo, Ms. Azevedo and the Dirksen team. You rock!
She nailed it when she said, right at the end, "it's kind of half furniture/half building." That she has applied her furniture skills to make such a cool, functional building is awesome!
Everything about this is ingenious & beautiful. She underestimates her skill level: she is so talented & has the ability to visualize the final project. This is the answer to my fears of living in NoCal with its fire challenges.
Fresh, versatile, modern, efficient! A creative design that is very affordable. Christi could fix the housing crisis in this country. We need more creative problem solvers l her.
I've been thinking about building with insulated metal panels for years, glad to see someone doing it. These are generally used for walk-in refrigerators - one issues is moisture buildup, but it's no worse that a really tight house, you need an ERV.
Christi’s website is listed under the “more” section of this video, I believe the website also lists her email address and or there may be contact info there. Many are wanting to know the name of the company that she bought the panels from. Perhaps she can consult and give this and other specific advice and information about this build. It would be nice if she did a podcast to help answer some of these questions. Kirsten may be able to help get answers if Christi’s website doesn’t. Kirsten is probably pretty busy and doesn’t have time but it would be nice if she would do podcast with some of the builders that she profiles on her channel, that would greatly increase the knowledge for people who are interested in duplicating the innovative, interesting, and clever designs profiled on her channel.
Great content! I really like the simplicity and low cost construction and materials. Can you please provide the manufacture of the assembled and insulated walls, roof, and frame? I want to build one. Thanks again for the great content.
Amazing individual, wise approach in every way. Love listening to Christi! Many great ideas to consider for building my tiny home. Thank you Kirsten and Christi!
Impressive. A pleasant downstairs with a kitchen, dining area and a small living room. The upstairs with the bedroom and the bath. Quite innovative! How to use materials that are pretty inexpensive to such a pleasant result! Thanks, Kirsten and Christi Azevedo!
Kirsten, I love everything you do, your family is fantastic. The first video I saw years ago was the Portland, Oregon twin houses clad with pizza cans on the outside. I watched it again and I see many people are just too structured to be able to see the creativity and hung up on the lady. I found her to be friendly and easy going....and their son living there is no big deal- what if he's in college. (plus its not nice to judge) Keep doing what you guys do- your hardcore fans love you!!! ❤
Absolutely LOVE this... very nice! For the first half of the video was thinking to myself, Christi looks so familiar. Glad she's still at it since the 2015 boiler room project! 😊
the context shown via aerial shots give an idea of the sorrounding community and infrastructures. looking at the story at various scales provides adds layers of visual interest.
So good. Love it when industrial efficiency is used to make personal, human sized spaces. This is such a great inspiration. Sounds like the metal framing was a local steel beam fabricator spitting out a limited run of parts for Christi, but any idea what manufacturer supplied the insulated panels?
I like the way she uses the structure to serve as storage. Except for the windows the bedroom and bath reminds me of a cabin on a Navy or cargo ship. The inside superstructure on these ocean vessels are often exposed or only partially covered with insulation.
That's really pretty awesome & so is the lady that designed, made, & owns it!! She really thinks out-of-the-box when coming up with ideas! I mean who would've thought of it right!😊❤
Sandwich panels used extensively in cool stores and industrial applications. Just have to ensure your junctions i e. External corners and roof to wall panel junctions maintain thermal continuity. The thicker panel you go the greater R value and spans are achieved. Great product.
come to civano in tucson, az....... our house was built with SIPS panels. New urban, ecofriendly,multi aged community built in 1998 ish, mixed results !!! but a cool neighborhood that did groundbreaking things for the time it was built, or at least tried to!
Nice switch-up on the materials. I built with ICF and SIP. Steel (rebar) in the ICF makes my basement like a faraday cage. This must be a faraday Fort Knox.
I’m obsessed with Grass Valley it’s an adorable town and the fire concerns are no joke. This is such a great product it would be fantastic if they made a full modern box house out of this material.
omg, when the video started, I thought, "I know this person somehow" and then the later cut to her earlier ADU blew me away because that was the video that got me hooked on this channel. Amazing
A building of near extreme function over form. I like it and I want to see this building process mass produced in the residential area. The best part is that a 2 story building can be delivered on a flatbed (or more) and built by low experience builders (A great DIY platform).
Congratulations 😊 you’ve done a great job! I’m 66 and building my own small ‘shed’ to live in, also with a very very small budget. But with your build I’m wondering how comfortable it is to live in , in terms of the transfer of heat and cold through the steel framing?. I’m in Australia - and part of a local community initiative which grew out of the Black Summer fires here in NSW 2019/2020 - we forms groups of 4 x people whose properties were impacted by fire and who need a ‘shed’ for whatever reason. We then help each other to build a shed to lock-up, over a 4 x day period. We have an agreed size (7.2 x 3.6 meters) - a basic design and a construction system that is relatively easy to replicate. We all learn as we go - and the learning for me has been amazing! I’m not only gaining ‘how to’ skills and knowledge but the confidence to do things myself without having to pay a tradesperson - and when you don’t have the income for that - this completely raises my capacity for independence, resilience and security in the knowledge that I can fix / build / maintain my little home studio for as long as I’m physically able. I am also able to contribute in more ways to my community. So ….. I just take so much heart in seeing woman doing it for themselves - sidestepping the expensive and unsustainable norms of accommodation social systems and building affordable homes! Thank you ☺️ IT IS AWESOME 👏 🤩
If she painted the exterior and roof a light color, it would be cool in summer. Even if the interior remains cool, I'd want the area around the house to not be heated up by a darker exterior. She explains that the exterior panels are 3 inches thick rated R24, that's great. Roof is R42 and 5 inches thick. I know a few people who would love this aesthetic, too.
Been saying the biggest contributor to high home prices is the design acceptability peer-pressure. Thankfully younger generations won’t have the same mental block.
@@BobsterAction I don’t have a local source. I searched out insulated metal panels and light gauge steel buildings and found a bunch of sources that will ship stuff.
Is the foam inside the panels a vapour barrier in and of itself or does this system rely on the inner skin of the panels for its vapour barrier? If the latter, you'd have to be careful to seal the inner to maintain the barrier every time you screwed into it for an electrical outlet or similar fixing.
This is such a cool idea, and it's fire-rated, which is a huge plus if you're in a fire zone, but even if you aren't the insulation values alone justify the method. And it's amazing that metal panels, which are usually only sold commercially can beat the socks off standard construction and even pre-fab... The interior could easily be finished and it would probably still end up cheaper than any other option... I see this as a real winner!
Thank you. I’m so happy for her. I just wish we could all build like this and be able to live without all the extras “they” say we need. The size they say we need.. In Canada they have such tight regulations you never see full time trailers etc. unless it’s for the summer months in summer trailer parks. 👏👏👏.
Creativeness Award🎉 Wow this is phenomenal ❤ Very admirable! In what a beautiful individual, she reminds me of myself😊 I thought I was the only one like this😂 but she is ingenious ❤ and inspiring 🎉 What are the coolest builds I've seen!
I would live in this house in a heartbeat! The only time I owned a place, it was in a custom designed live/work loft in Colorado. It was zoned commercial on the first floor and residential on the two above... but open all the way through up a triangular staircase. We wanted all the steel beams left unpainted and people thought we were nuts! I loved the one that had a faint boot print from where a worker stepped in damp concrete... and one had all the math for whatever scribbled on it. Plus they were that lovely reddish color. I don't miss being a homeowner but I missed all the cool things we had in that place. The owners after us drywalled everything over and enclosed the downstairs space, killing all that open space that let all the light in. So sad.
This lady is so freaking cool and unassumingly practicing all her ideas to the max. I loooove exposed materials and things looking exactly like how they are without any fake stuff. The building is as frank and practical as her. Lovely!
She talked waaaay too much. And after all of her talking the Company she got the panels and framing from .. Was left out. That's alot to wade through to end up with an empty cup at the end. F for interview skills on this ... They just let her ramble .....and she did.
I think Gustav Stickley would be proud, given that all his ideas are epitomized in this one build - 100 years post date. Boiler room conversion: It's beautiful if you ask me, for those who love simplicity and economy. And no one can match her passion, but again its the simplicity that turned my head. This is what I've been looking for always believing in this kind of design. It's everything I want .
This is a very bauhaus like house philosophy. Also letting the secret out that you can use industrial use construction materials as a fantastic alternative to conventional residential construction materials.
The challenge I find with the “secret” here is time. You can use some of these more industrial/commercial materials but it takes a huge amount of time to sort out the details and all the coordination that goes into planning. For the everyday homeowner looking to add an ADU, it’s unlikely they’d have the time to make this a viable option at a bargain price.
i had never considered that there was a distinction between the two materials.
@@christophersteves But a startup company putting together housing kits would have the time!
@@nameberry220 I am sure this aspect could be greatly improved. So that doesn't invalidate the general approach. Points off for not thinking 1 or 2 steps deeper.
@@stcredzero yes, and they’re not available to the vast majority when they’ve upped the price about 10x’s that of the materials. People have looked into prefabricated tiny homes, most cheapest ones start at $50,000 and go up from there.
😲I love her passion! This could be the solution to many seeking to own home.
I really, REALLY like this structure in so many ways. I'm not surprised she's a woodworker - I love her work. And she's quite amazing.
A favorite builder. Still go back to see the boiler room video from time to time for the inspiration. Sensible, economical, and interesting. Love it.
Her energy is infectious. Projects with limitations always lead to the most interesting solutions.
This is dynamite! If This technique were combined with compatible modules that incorporated the plumbing, kitchen, wiring, and bathroom, this would enable super economic pre-fab factory home building. This would result in houses which involved less than 1 week of on-site labor. The fact that there is already an industrial infrastructure that could support this at scale blows many of the pre-fab home startups out of the water! EDIT: I came up with a name for this style: "Micro-Brutalist."
Love the name ! It works ❤
This would solve the affordable housing problem.
I think the affordable housing problem is intentional 😢
You would have to keep big companies looking to rip people off out of it.
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I just love this woman. She is so thoughtful and cool and has built such innovative spaces. Love seeing videos like this. Thanks.
Thanks for another original project. I love the guerrilla tactics of her construction and the totally out-of-the-box solutions for furniture, bathroom, etc... Great ideas!
More of this kind of living quarters needs to be put through out cities and even rural areas. It would solve a lot of housing issues. Giving answers to homeless problems. Example: Gutting old structures leaving the facade and making this structure inside. No worries of code for the older structure, plumbing or other issues. Just a thought.
A very well thought out thought! Write up your proposal and send it to Washington. Im not being funny , i think you on to something. ❤
homeless people are homeless by choice for 99% of them due to drugs, you are not going to solve homeless anything until you can fix why people are homeless to begin with, hint it's not due to lack of housing.
this is wery high standard living compared to the rest of the world
It's a nice thought, but the availability of small affordably built homes isn't why there's a housing crisis. It's the greed of national property management corporations and private landlords causing the problem. And the government offers no protection because they're paid not to.
This isn't a fear mongering conspiracy, it's just the sad state of things in the US.
@@drewcipher896: there are all sorts of solutions to housing, but the Ponzi scheme that benefits the already wealthy cannot be allowed to collapse.
Simple, great material, everyone has different taste..... not totally my cup o tea, but ya got to love her passion and her point of view.... cool stuff! 🕊️
This woman is a genius. Probably the most innovative build I’ve ever seen.
I knew I recognized her. Her boiler room tiny house video that was uploaded in 2015?! I watched that. The thought of that tiny home being stuck in my head since then is crazy. She looks great!
I recall that video. It's a phenomenal use of space, beautifully designed! She's so creative & talented.
This is a very smart way to build a home. It's cost effective, don't need to worry about rodents, termites and all the other issues that goes with stick build homes. 👍👍
Rodents can get into homes built of any material.
Love it.
@@susankeith326 If sewer drains and pipes from the outside are not properly installed of course they will get in and burrow into the walls. However, there is no wall cavities for them to burrow into and hide. I watch a lot of Twin Home Experts and learned a lot about how rats gets into homes. Of course, the other alternative is if she leaves the door open and the rats walk in 🤔
She seemed perfect for your channel. Enthusiastic, knowledgeable and able to explain her process in an understandable way.
Boom boom. Unpretentious, practical, ingenious building philosophy. This woman is amazing.
She is like the Amy Sedaris of home design! She's as neat as her structure!
Inspired. I think I like this more than the idea of a tiny house on wheels. Simple, sturdy design. Love ❤
If you want to see those two ideas combined, check out the channel for Incredible Tiny Homes: THOW made with metal panels.
Loved her simple get it done approach and her sound effects are awesome . A kindred spirit for sure 🙌 such a great result
This woman is awsome. The whole package… personality for days, in shape,full of life, self sufficient…so impressed w her ability to build, so smart. She could turn this into a business like the tiny house business. She could design different models of her metal houses and put them up on the website or in a catalog. or not.?? I just enjoyed watching her enjoy showing off the fruits of her labor.
Inspirational! I've been trying to add a second story/ADU to my ranch house with a very low budget! It could work for me!!
I recall that boiler tiny house and really liked the aesthetic and design philosophy. This is in the same spirit - kudos!
I think having something beneath the mattress for ventilation is a good idea, though.
So glad to see Christi again! I loved her and her work from the boiler room video. It was great to see her build knowledge evolution with this project. Love that her design-build ethic is ground in real-world practically while still achieving an honest, human-scaled aesthetic.
This fabulous woman could be my daughter, yet I would gladly and with much appreciation sit at her knee. As someone said in the comments below, this is a box entirely outside of the box. Bravo, Ms. Azevedo and the Dirksen team. You rock!
It's nice to see an innovative person passionate about their project. The result is incredible. 😀
She nailed it when she said, right at the end, "it's kind of half furniture/half building." That she has applied her furniture skills to make such a cool, functional building is awesome!
Everything about this is ingenious & beautiful. She underestimates her skill level: she is so talented & has the ability to visualize the final project. This is the answer to my fears of living in NoCal with its fire challenges.
Brilliant concept and execution. Someone should be stealing (buying) this idea for kit ADUs
Fresh, versatile, modern, efficient! A creative design that is very affordable. Christi could fix the housing crisis in this country. We need more creative problem solvers l her.
I am thinking about an adu and 2 story like that would be a plus. Thanks for a quality video.
This is exactly the building material I've been searching for. I'm planning on building out west in the near future. Thanks I love all your videos!
Look up the channel incredible tiny homes. They make tiny homes out of this material... Right now they have a 25k tiny home for sell
I've been thinking about building with insulated metal panels for years, glad to see someone doing it. These are generally used for walk-in refrigerators - one issues is moisture buildup, but it's no worse that a really tight house, you need an ERV.
loooove the Broiler room, happy to see Christi yearsss on...both Christi and Kristen - thank you
..u r awesome!
Christi’s website is listed under the “more” section of this video, I believe the website also lists her email address and or there may be contact info there. Many are wanting to know the name of the company that she bought the panels from. Perhaps she can consult and give this and other specific advice and information about this build. It would be nice if she did a podcast to help answer some of these questions. Kirsten may be able to help get answers if Christi’s website doesn’t. Kirsten is probably pretty busy and doesn’t have time but it would be nice if she would do podcast with some of the builders that she profiles on her channel, that would greatly increase the knowledge for people who are interested in duplicating the innovative, interesting, and clever designs profiled on her channel.
I remember her from a previous episode. I was a fan of her build then and this one is just as good. Very much her aesthetic.
Love the elegance of no finish work, no fussing around with miter saws and trimming. No Fluff! Ahh!
This whole scenario should be put to use if you live anywhere near high burn areas ! ❤
I would still use it in non high burn areas.
Christi Azevedo is a treasure !
I’m so impressed, efficient use of materials, used as art, while living well! ❤
i love her work so much!
Love the way this lady's brain works! Cool space. I remember that boiler room!
This is the best property show around. I'm not even sure what's number 2 in the list? This is so far ahead of everything ❤
I love the house, the enthusiasm and her. Beautiful solution!
Great content! I really like the simplicity and low cost construction and materials. Can you please provide the manufacture of the assembled and insulated walls, roof, and frame? I want to build one. Thanks again for the great content.
Amazing individual, wise approach in every way. Love listening to Christi! Many great ideas to consider for building my tiny home. Thank you Kirsten and Christi!
Terrific house, great explanations, perfect pacing and questions. Wonderful pragmatism. One of the best tiny house videos ever.
Impressive. A pleasant downstairs with a kitchen, dining area and a small living room. The upstairs with the bedroom and the bath. Quite innovative! How to use materials that are pretty inexpensive to such a pleasant result! Thanks, Kirsten and Christi Azevedo!
6:50 Big air gap on porch overhang should have a seal.
The speed and practicality of this woman’s thought process was really cool to listen to!
I love this lady. It's a great space with a distinctive and completely honest look and feel.
Kirsten, I love everything you do, your family is fantastic. The first video I saw years ago was the Portland, Oregon twin houses clad with pizza cans on the outside. I watched it again and I see many people are just too structured to be able to see the creativity and hung up on the lady. I found her to be friendly and easy going....and their son living there is no big deal- what if he's in college. (plus its not nice to judge) Keep doing what you guys do- your hardcore fans love you!!! ❤
Absolutely LOVE this... very nice! For the first half of the video was thinking to myself, Christi looks so familiar. Glad she's still at it since the 2015 boiler room project! 😊
"No Fluff" - great! I absolutely adore what this woman has done here!
This is the best and most relatable video you have ever done. I could do this! Amazing.
the context shown via aerial shots give an idea of the sorrounding community and infrastructures. looking at the story at various scales provides adds layers of visual interest.
omg i loved the boiler room unit so seeing this new video with her is awesome!
So good. Love it when industrial efficiency is used to make personal, human sized spaces. This is such a great inspiration. Sounds like the metal framing was a local steel beam fabricator spitting out a limited run of parts for Christi, but any idea what manufacturer supplied the insulated panels?
I like the way she uses the structure to serve as storage. Except for the windows the bedroom and bath reminds me of a cabin on a Navy or cargo ship. The inside superstructure on these ocean vessels are often exposed or only partially covered with insulation.
That's really pretty awesome & so is the lady that designed, made, & owns it!! She really thinks out-of-the-box when coming up with ideas! I mean who would've thought of it right!😊❤
God, she speaks so quickly, especially to an Aussie ear! Hugely entertaining. Love her passion. Clever woman. Thanks for the fun journey!
looks great, well insulated and cheap to make. Holy hell, I'd love to have a house like this in my backyard!
I love these spaces. The designs and use of materials are stellar. This woman rocks.
Amazing. Need more people like her who can creatively problem solve.
Wow !!!!! This is freaking awesome. She dove into my brain and builds my dream style.
Wow! GOOSEBUMPS when a woman goes her own way and builds her own space!
In love with how real the decor and cleanliness level... and the Les
Sandwich panels used extensively in cool stores and industrial applications. Just have to ensure your junctions i e. External corners and roof to wall panel junctions maintain thermal continuity. The thicker panel you go the greater R value and spans are achieved. Great product.
come to civano in tucson, az....... our house was built with SIPS panels. New urban, ecofriendly,multi aged community built in 1998 ish, mixed results !!! but a cool neighborhood that did groundbreaking things for the time it was built, or at least tried to!
Nice switch-up on the materials. I built with ICF and SIP. Steel (rebar) in the ICF makes my basement like a faraday cage. This must be a faraday Fort Knox.
I’m obsessed with Grass Valley it’s an adorable town and the fire concerns are no joke. This is such a great product it would be fantastic if they made a full modern box house out of this material.
WHAT IS THE NAME 9F THE METAL BUILDING PRODUCT? Everything about this building method is exciting!
Clever ADU. I would like to see this same design but 4 foot larger in both directions.
Great home, I love that it's introducing more metal material for residential home here. It's so versatile.
Christi is so fun! I love the space she has created. I would love to buy her a beer and hear more of how she sees the world.
Another great video!
Thank you to everyone!
omg, when the video started, I thought, "I know this person somehow" and then the later cut to her earlier ADU blew me away because that was the video that got me hooked on this channel.
Amazing
Amazing lady, beautiful spacious house. She's full of great ideas, sending a good 'can do' vibe on top of it all. TY for sharing!
“He doesn’t have any training in construction. He just put the sucker up there and put some screws in” lol
Westmen have a bio-spirit to create.
This is how Western civilization was built
Sadly, Westmen have been under attack for over a century
Made me laugh too. 😂
Ohh i love the living area, feels so homey and cosy, a space of ur own!
A building of near extreme function over form. I like it and I want to see this building process mass produced in the residential area.
The best part is that a 2 story building can be delivered on a flatbed (or more) and built by low experience builders (A great DIY platform).
Congratulations 😊 you’ve done a great job! I’m 66 and building my own small ‘shed’ to live in, also with a very very small budget. But with your build I’m wondering how comfortable it is to live in , in terms of the transfer of heat and cold through the steel framing?. I’m in Australia - and part of a local community initiative which grew out of the Black Summer fires here in NSW 2019/2020 - we forms groups of 4 x people whose properties were impacted by fire and who need a ‘shed’ for whatever reason. We then help each other to build a shed to lock-up, over a 4 x day period. We have an agreed size (7.2 x 3.6 meters) - a basic design and a construction system that is relatively easy to replicate. We all learn as we go - and the learning for me has been amazing! I’m not only gaining ‘how to’ skills and knowledge but the confidence to do things myself without having to pay a tradesperson - and when you don’t have the income for that - this completely raises my capacity for independence, resilience and security in the knowledge that I can fix / build / maintain my little home studio for as long as I’m physically able. I am also able to contribute in more ways to my community. So ….. I just take so much heart in seeing woman doing it for themselves - sidestepping the expensive and unsustainable norms of accommodation social systems and building affordable homes! Thank you ☺️ IT IS AWESOME 👏 🤩
This is brilliant, I adore her energy!
These two totally crushed it! I love it
An excellent and economical home, and suitable for Australia too, being fire proof.
I have watched maybe 30 of your videos, and i recognized this ladt from one of your older videos. How crazy is that.
I am really happy to see this. In possible add in description that materials and it's brief
If she painted the exterior and roof a light color, it would be cool in summer. Even if the interior remains cool, I'd want the area around the house to not be heated up by a darker exterior. She explains that the exterior panels are 3 inches thick rated R24, that's great. Roof is R42 and 5 inches thick. I know a few people who would love this aesthetic, too.
Been saying the biggest contributor to high home prices is the design acceptability peer-pressure. Thankfully younger generations won’t have the same mental block.
Grass Valley!!! Go green, Cali! Big hug.
this is inspiring, she is just an awesome builder. thank you for sharing.
I've been looking at using these same panels for some time. This is cool that she pulled this off! Totally rad!
have you found a source for them? I can't find one here in Pheonix AZ.
@@BobsterAction I don’t have a local source. I searched out insulated metal panels and light gauge steel buildings and found a bunch of sources that will ship stuff.
Christi is adorable and so funny and her build is amazing ❤
Is the foam inside the panels a vapour barrier in and of itself or does this system rely on the inner skin of the panels for its vapour barrier? If the latter, you'd have to be careful to seal the inner to maintain the barrier every time you screwed into it for an electrical outlet or similar fixing.
It is closed cell polystyrene foam which adheres directly to the steel sheeting.
@@daviduribe3111do you know who makes these panels?
@@kschleic9053some company in Sacramento, California.
This is such a cool idea, and it's fire-rated, which is a huge plus if you're in a fire zone, but even if you aren't the insulation values alone justify the method. And it's amazing that metal panels, which are usually only sold commercially can beat the socks off standard construction and even pre-fab... The interior could easily be finished and it would probably still end up cheaper than any other option... I see this as a real winner!
This woman is amazing. What a cool house.
Thank you. I’m so happy for her. I just wish we could all build like this and be able to live without all the extras “they” say we need. The size they say we need.. In Canada they have such tight regulations you never see full time trailers etc. unless it’s for the summer months in summer trailer parks. 👏👏👏.
Creativeness Award🎉 Wow this is phenomenal ❤
Very admirable! In what a beautiful individual, she reminds me of myself😊
I thought I was the only one like this😂 but she is ingenious ❤ and inspiring 🎉
What are the coolest builds I've seen!
You did all that and my neighbour can’t even cut the grass at her front yard. Kudos you are amazing
I would live in this house in a heartbeat! The only time I owned a place, it was in a custom designed live/work loft in Colorado. It was zoned commercial on the first floor and residential on the two above... but open all the way through up a triangular staircase. We wanted all the steel beams left unpainted and people thought we were nuts! I loved the one that had a faint boot print from where a worker stepped in damp concrete... and one had all the math for whatever scribbled on it. Plus they were that lovely reddish color. I don't miss being a homeowner but I missed all the cool things we had in that place. The owners after us drywalled everything over and enclosed the downstairs space, killing all that open space that let all the light in. So sad.
excellent work and one of the best approaches ive seen