How To Build A House Yourself - Excavation For Foundation (MUST WATCH THIS FIRST)

How to build your own house. How to build a house yourself is what you will learn. Starting a house involves excavation for the foundation and footers is first.

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Disclaimer: This video is all based on my personal opinion and is for entertainment purposes ONLY. I am not a financial advisor, CPA, attorney, tax advisor, electrician, plumber, housing contractor, designer, or any type of profession to give advice. I am just a consumer sharing my experiences and research. If you do need knowledge for those types of things, I will advise you to seek help for those professionals.

[TheKayPitt]

I’m just starting in real estate and I have no background in construction or anything, but most of the homes we sell are new builds. Your channel is helping me SO much with understanding the process of constructing a home and the terminology! Thank you!

[JulesWinfield]

Love the concept of you building a house mostly solo. Very inspirational. A few quick questions:

Did you use a soil penetrometer or some other tool to inform you how deep to excavate? If not, how do you know?
Did you have to consult with a structural engineer? If so, how expensive was that?
Is there a resource you use to find if you are compliant with code?

Thanks in advance!

[adrianamartinez]

hello do you analyze the land to build? I been watching many videos here in USA . just Digging without saying anything about the land condition....

[juicer]

Great job man! It has been a while!!! Keep em coming!!!

[ILearnHockey]

How do you determine how deep to dig? Planning to start my own dog soon and need to figure out how far down to dig for the house, garage, driveway.

[ride-it-outtimandtoni]

Getting started is the fun part! Have the rules changed? Used to need two out of five years to avoid capital gains.

[smplyblessed]

Raising Ivy from TikTok coming to subscribe!

[lombardozarateiii]

I want to build my own house from the ground up do you have a series of videos from beginning to end. And does everyone need to take the top soil off like you In this video. Can you just add dirt over the grass?

[lindsaygoins]

i like your video i am learning a lot thank you

[njcamocutie]

What kind of foundation you putting in?

[johnmccraw]

thanks for the YouTube where can I drawer up some plans

[bodanlunny]

Good job how do you get into construction?

[Sultanoftheblind]

How do I find out how much compact need to be done with 5 foot of fill 2.5 Inch rocks 🪨

[smplyblessed]

How much does it add to the overall price to set it on a basement instead of the crawl space?

[onlyfactsme]

Why do home foundations have footings in places where there are no walls?

[andreblake]

How much would it cost for you to build a 2, 000 square foot home foundation?

[vLife]

I have a small, wooded, level lot in very sandy central Florida. If you did it's endless sand. I'd like to partially clear it, compact it and drop in a bunch of #57 in the form of a driveway to a clearing patch in the middle. But not just compact enough to drive over, but also a base for an eventual foundation for small/lightweight metal frame single story offgrid house. Is this possible and are their specific requirements I need to meet in Florida?

[SolidSiren]

Title: "How to build a house yourself"
Guy: proceeds to explain the 5 different contractors he's waiting for. Meaning he isn't BUILDING any of it. That's not building yourself.

[GenXican]

BUT!!..THE ENVAHHYYRRRAAHHNNMMEHHNTT!!