Thank you! And yes, we want to show how it actually is to build in the province, on a budget, so others can avoid mistakes we make/copy if we do something right. It's very different from the West, but things do (eventually) get done! 😁
they dont generally make septic tanks with leach fields and pipe here, its just a 4 walled tank with the bottom open. i made mine about 8 foot deep(4ftX5ft) and put a foot of large gravel in the bottom to prevent the mud from under it mixing up into the sewage and to give it some drainage. i stuck a 2 inch pipe coming out the concrete top with a "U" on top for air flow. its been working fine since 2015.
Almost the same here. We dumped a culvert into a hole and some hollow blocks on top. Hopefully big enough. We do have a vent on it, but nothing fancy. And a vent by the house of course (our "flag pole", ha!).
@@ABetterLifePH it should work, they work good if the soil under them absorbs water fast like sandy soil or lots of gravel. you just dont want them to fill with water/sewage to the top and not be filtering out the bottom fast enough. we have sticky clay, thats why i put the layer of gravel in the bottom to try to allow drainage and not develop a flat clay 'plug' at the bottom.
I am excited to see lots of progress. Ahhh, the noise. We lived "IN" town. Tricycles, vans, motors, lots of barking, lots of roosters, karaoke, tagay-tagay, all day and anytime at night. Best solutions I found was listening to music with my over-ear closed headphones and those yellow 3-M ear plugs. Sometimes all at the same time. On the upside, I had lots of friends and neighbors and I loved them a bunch. I don't know where you are building at but you might plan on that blue barrel filling up pretty quick when it rains hard. We lived in Lucban, Quezon Province and got 3-4 meters (10 feet plus) of rain annually. Hard to describe just how much water came in a short amount of time. Did you say that you were planning on a roll-up door where the large opening is? Did that change? Thank you for the videos.
Thank you for watching! I use Sony RZ-S500W, but I don't want to walk around with them all the time, or have people around me constantly. Sweden is about twice the size of Philippines iirc, with 1/11th of the population. I'm not used to crowds! We have pretty much constant free water from a hose, even during dry periods. Only exception is after a heavy rain, when it tends to clog up. But the water catching system should supplement that really well. Yes, we are going to have a roll-up to cover the sliding door. It was the best alternative we could come up with. The area we're in is safe, but no reason to risk it.
a 5 gal bucket with a round screen in the bottom full of clean stone makes a decent filter for your roof water collection, you need to fix it so you can open it once in a while and clean any leaf or debris off the top. if you want to get fancy you can add a layer of activated charcoal in it too!🤔
The filter system we bought needs more pressure to give more than dripping. I don't think we need much though, as we won't drink the water. Maybe a diy filter. For now, I'll probably do the same as where we're renting - no filter at all! We have no trees around the house (nor will we), so it's essentially just water that lands on the roof.
@@ABetterLifePH yeah like i said just a 5 gal bucket full of clean stones is enough for removing what little debris may blow on the roof. just insert it in the collection pipe between the roof and the tank.
@@ABetterLifePH i have 2 of those water filters like you buy in the hardware here, the blue ones with replaced filters inside, i have them side by side and the first it just a screen filter inside to catch the big stuff then second it a good fiber filter, but our water pressure is so weak it barely works most times then so strong it blows the water pipe off at times. the brngy here is working on a fix, maybe 2026 or 2027 they will get around to it. they have said they are working on it since 2020. meanwhile the 350 people living here collect drips in a plastic bucket to shower,wash plates and flush the toilets.
He hurt himself a while back. He/two buddies on a motorcycle. Drunk. Waving to people. His wife just said that it wasn't the first time... Good guy, but Red Horse is his weakness!
@@ABetterLifePH yeah we have a lot of tuba, red horse and tanduay and MP light drinkers here, its an issue here... i'm scared to drive or let my wife drive because of them.
about those little hot shower things that hang on the wall, i took the shower head off and tried to fill my bathtub with it and it blew the fuse and overheated the romex cable, i tried putting a different sprinkle head on it to get more shower since it was just a little light spray, it did the same thing, they are designed to only make enough hot water to supply the little sprinkle head they come with that has tiny holes. JUST SO YOU KNOW for the future. maybe you can find one designed to actually be an in-line heater thats capable of putting out more i dont know, mines laying on the floor in the tool room the past few years and i'm taking cold showers.🤣
I really don't like the water heaters they use here. They turn off, heat goes up and down etc... but I am NOT taking cold showers! 😆 I looked around before, and the tank style (only style used in Sweden) does exist. Pricy though. We'll buy "something", just so I can at least have a warm shower...then over time see what can be done. But only cold water = my stench will be enough of a security system!
@@ABetterLifePH a solar water heater is VERY easy to make, a small one maybe 2 meters X 1 meter size is enough to collect a 55 gal drum of hot water for a shower.
@@ABetterLifePH just make a square wood box 6 inches deep and lay a piece of black corrugated plastic in the bottom and a sheet of plexiglass on the top ,set it on an angle in the sun , run a incoming pipe along the top side with tiny drip holes and a pipe along the bottom to collect the drips and send them to a barrel. the water drips out the holes and runs down the hot plastic into the bottom gutter and out the pipe down into the barrel. a tiny pump like you would use for a fish aquarium is enough to run it and you can get a very small solar panel like for charging a phone to run that.
We're hoping to have painting done within a week (so about a month in TH-cam time, heh). Skim coating is done now, a lot has happened the last month (got a kitchen now!).
Yes, agree. That was pretty much the only thing I demanded from the first crew - NO leaks. Failing that sealed their fate (as far as getting more work from me). They were going to do several more things, including adding Plexibond to the roof, but we told them to stop. Had other people work on it, the roof has no detectable leaks now. We had condensation for a bit, that I had to make sure wasn't leaking, but we're all good!
I've seen some mini ovens, about the size of a large toaster. I am not entirely sure, could be a cultural things, with them being used to grilling outside. But it is different, half my cooking was using an oven.
Enjoy building mate.
We built our new home this year. An amazing experience designing and building your own home.
Cheers
Simon
I appretiate you guys showing your house build and being honest about the wholw process. You will have a wonderfull home.
Thank you!
And yes, we want to show how it actually is to build in the province, on a budget, so others can avoid mistakes we make/copy if we do something right. It's very different from the West, but things do (eventually) get done! 😁
they dont generally make septic tanks with leach fields and pipe here, its just a 4 walled tank with the bottom open. i made mine about 8 foot deep(4ftX5ft) and put a foot of large gravel in the bottom to prevent the mud from under it mixing up into the sewage and to give it some drainage. i stuck a 2 inch pipe coming out the concrete top with a "U" on top for air flow. its been working fine since 2015.
Almost the same here. We dumped a culvert into a hole and some hollow blocks on top. Hopefully big enough. We do have a vent on it, but nothing fancy. And a vent by the house of course (our "flag pole", ha!).
@@ABetterLifePH it should work, they work good if the soil under them absorbs water fast like sandy soil or lots of gravel. you just dont want them to fill with water/sewage to the top and not be filtering out the bottom fast enough. we have sticky clay, thats why i put the layer of gravel in the bottom to try to allow drainage and not develop a flat clay 'plug' at the bottom.
I am excited to see lots of progress. Ahhh, the noise. We lived "IN" town. Tricycles, vans, motors, lots of barking, lots of roosters, karaoke, tagay-tagay, all day and anytime at night. Best solutions I found was listening to music with my over-ear closed headphones and those yellow 3-M ear plugs. Sometimes all at the same time. On the upside, I had lots of friends and neighbors and I loved them a bunch.
I don't know where you are building at but you might plan on that blue barrel filling up pretty quick when it rains hard. We lived in Lucban, Quezon Province and got 3-4 meters (10 feet plus) of rain annually. Hard to describe just how much water came in a short amount of time. Did you say that you were planning on a roll-up door where the large opening is? Did that change? Thank you for the videos.
Thank you for watching!
I use Sony RZ-S500W, but I don't want to walk around with them all the time, or have people around me constantly. Sweden is about twice the size of Philippines iirc, with 1/11th of the population. I'm not used to crowds!
We have pretty much constant free water from a hose, even during dry periods. Only exception is after a heavy rain, when it tends to clog up. But the water catching system should supplement that really well.
Yes, we are going to have a roll-up to cover the sliding door. It was the best alternative we could come up with. The area we're in is safe, but no reason to risk it.
a 5 gal bucket with a round screen in the bottom full of clean stone makes a decent filter for your roof water collection, you need to fix it so you can open it once in a while and clean any leaf or debris off the top. if you want to get fancy you can add a layer of activated charcoal in it too!🤔
The filter system we bought needs more pressure to give more than dripping. I don't think we need much though, as we won't drink the water. Maybe a diy filter. For now, I'll probably do the same as where we're renting - no filter at all! We have no trees around the house (nor will we), so it's essentially just water that lands on the roof.
@@ABetterLifePH yeah like i said just a 5 gal bucket full of clean stones is enough for removing what little debris may blow on the roof. just insert it in the collection pipe between the roof and the tank.
@@ABetterLifePH i have 2 of those water filters like you buy in the hardware here, the blue ones with replaced filters inside, i have them side by side and the first it just a screen filter inside to catch the big stuff then second it a good fiber filter, but our water pressure is so weak it barely works most times then so strong it blows the water pipe off at times.
the brngy here is working on a fix, maybe 2026 or 2027 they will get around to it. they have said they are working on it since 2020. meanwhile the 350 people living here collect drips in a plastic bucket to shower,wash plates and flush the toilets.
Yes, leaks not good as the rebar will rust and not last long. I look forward to your videos. You and I think alike.
Thank you!
I have never experienced roofs leaking before (due to Sweden's weather, it's not really an option there), but way too common here.
You go girl
Filipinas are hard working! 💪
"as long as he's not drunk.." 🤣🤣🤣
i hear ya...LOL
He hurt himself a while back. He/two buddies on a motorcycle. Drunk. Waving to people. His wife just said that it wasn't the first time...
Good guy, but Red Horse is his weakness!
@@ABetterLifePH yeah we have a lot of tuba, red horse and tanduay and MP light drinkers here, its an issue here...
i'm scared to drive or let my wife drive because of them.
about those little hot shower things that hang on the wall, i took the shower head off and tried to fill my bathtub with it and it blew the fuse and overheated the romex cable, i tried putting a different sprinkle head on it to get more shower since it was just a little light spray, it did the same thing, they are designed to only make enough hot water to supply the little sprinkle head they come with that has tiny holes. JUST SO YOU KNOW for the future.
maybe you can find one designed to actually be an in-line heater thats capable of putting out more i dont know, mines laying on the floor in the tool room the past few years and i'm taking cold showers.🤣
I really don't like the water heaters they use here. They turn off, heat goes up and down etc... but I am NOT taking cold showers! 😆
I looked around before, and the tank style (only style used in Sweden) does exist. Pricy though.
We'll buy "something", just so I can at least have a warm shower...then over time see what can be done. But only cold water = my stench will be enough of a security system!
@@ABetterLifePH a solar water heater is VERY easy to make, a small one maybe 2 meters X 1 meter size is enough to collect a 55 gal drum of hot water for a shower.
@@ABetterLifePH just make a square wood box 6 inches deep and lay a piece of black corrugated plastic in the bottom and a sheet of plexiglass on the top ,set it on an angle in the sun , run a incoming pipe along the top side with tiny drip holes and a pipe along the bottom to collect the drips and send them to a barrel. the water drips out the holes and runs down the hot plastic into the bottom gutter and out the pipe down into the barrel. a tiny pump like you would use for a fish aquarium is enough to run it and you can get a very small solar panel like for charging a phone to run that.
@justaguy-69 We have a couple of metal drums, it's an option. It's not always strong sun up here in the mountains though.
@@ABetterLifePH it will still come out warm enough to not give you a 'shocking' cold shower.🤣
Looking good guys. When will they finish coat the walls?
We're hoping to have painting done within a week (so about a month in TH-cam time, heh). Skim coating is done now, a lot has happened the last month (got a kitchen now!).
Hello, where are you guys at. We're close to Pagadian. 😂
We're in Bukidnon, just a couple of hours north of Davao.
Just a comment, you should waterproof your roof as soon as possible, if not y’all will have problems in the future mold cement braking down etc
Yes, agree. That was pretty much the only thing I demanded from the first crew - NO leaks. Failing that sealed their fate (as far as getting more work from me). They were going to do several more things, including adding Plexibond to the roof, but we told them to stop.
Had other people work on it, the roof has no detectable leaks now. We had condensation for a bit, that I had to make sure wasn't leaking, but we're all good!
Not sure if you have seen aussie farming in the phillipines he had a nice hot shower that just connects to a gas bottle
Interesting, assuming not as expensive as it sounds. Thank you!
I haven’t seen anyone with an oven yet there in the Philippines. Is it because of the heat? They must not make home made breads or pies:)
I've seen some mini ovens, about the size of a large toaster. I am not entirely sure, could be a cultural things, with them being used to grilling outside. But it is different, half my cooking was using an oven.