$7,000 Dollar Cabin Gets A Bathroom and Off-Grid Electric - Major Update!

We have enjoyed our cabin as is for the last 2 years but recently decided it was time to do some major upgrades. In this video I will show you what we have been up to including the installation of an indoor bathroom with a grey water drainage system and the installation of low voltage battery powered LED lighting and a water pump system. I'm currently using a 100ah Battle Born LifePO4 lithium iron phosphate battery to run the cabin and am charging it at home, but will adding solar capability in the future.

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[adiasimon]

Out of all the cabins I've seen built I always wondered about the bathroom no one ever had a bathroom, this is great!!!

[deadly]

You should get 1 or 2 of those 1000L totes and collect rain water from your rain gutters and you would never have to worry about lugging water again! Awesome video and great work

[jame]

Oh man, out of all the off-grid cabin videos I've seen, this looks to be the most featured and practical. Instant whole house hot water from the tank. I looked up that hot water heater and it seems like an awesome price. I'm subscribed to learn more from your other videos, I hope to see how you did this all! Take care.

[coreywillis]

This is the first video I've watched of yours. You are awesome. No rich daddy, no venture for fame and fortune. Just a really cool guy doing what he loves. There are too many folks who have zero clue about this stuff doing it way outside of their own means. Good to see someone who knows what's up

[jennyofalltrades]

I just want to thank you. I had never heard about hepvo valves before and my off-grid kitchen doesn't have room for a proper trap and I've been trying like crazy to find a solution. from what I've seen so far this looks perfect.

[khadijahannisa]

Hello, I told my husband to view your video because it's very impressive. Simply, it's an easy off grid built that can still be done on a low budget.
You've given us the absolute solution for our built.
Thank you for sharing .

[AmericanSurvival]

I used a 7.5 gal stainless beer keg for my gravity fed shower tank. Works great for a 15 min shower.. Great job on the cabin! Be safe..

[Farmword]

It would be hard to imagine doing a better job than you did. I really love this.

[openyoureyes]

REALLY NICE BUILD!! While traveling through Maine, we were invited to breakfast at an off-grid house. They used wood chips in a 5-gallon bucket, in their bathroom. At this off grid house were 5 teenage boys. Needless to say, I had to do the doo, and thought for sure that if that bathroom already didn't smell like poop, it was about to. Those wood chips did the trick, I couldn't believe it.

[johncarmichael]

Your experience with installing both a shower, water heater, and a propane heater are the projects I had in mind for my addition up at our camp in northern Ontario. Freezing of pipes is an annual concern come winter and you covered that topic nicely.

[HoustonRryda]

solar panels will be awesome and the rainwater catchment is a winner I did a 55-gallon poly drum off one gutter downspout it's never been empty....yall looking good man

[Blackpanther_risen]

Nice updates to the cabin, u are "jack of all trades". Saves a lot of $ when u know how to do it urself.

[gunsandrotors]

Awesome set up. A murphy bed where your bed is at would open up alot of space. Just an idea. With your skills you could easily build the frame yourself.

[williamklein]

I found I had winter freezing issues in my faucets. A very small amount of water stayed inside the valve and would blow out when it froze. For two winters I had to rebuild two sink faucets and a shower faucet. After that I removed them in the fall and replaced in the spring. I'm confident there is a better solution but tis worked for me.

[petercollins]

A very nice off-grid cabin with some clever features. Well done.

[j.l.emerson]

For your gravity fed shower head you could use the same type of manual valve used in Navy shower heads. Open the valve, get wet, close the valve, scrub up, open the valve again & rinse off. No wasted water. (important if you're hand carrying the water)

[woodspirit]

Totally love the whole thing, down to the details. I have to add on though. Dealing with an existing cabin. But I've gotten some great bits of info on how I'm going to add on a 5x8 shower, toilet and storage space. I'll run a roof 18 ft wide across the back of cabin and end up with two covered storage areas on either side of the addition. Roof line will match the short side of the saltbox style

[NMIBUBBLE]

Nice little off grid home, you could always make some outside shutters too! :) And either make a shelf above the shower/kitchen to hold some 50 gallon barrels for extra water and put some on the outside to catch rain water filter that to the inside barrels for kitchen/shower too. :)

[maryfrederickson]

Thanks for the ideas about lighting! I am going to use some of them on my cabin. I heat my water in the summer in a black, 55 gallon, plastic trash can. It works wonderfully. I have put a hose connector at the bottom of the trash can to connect to a shower head.

[massperformance]

I honestly like your off grid cabin more than any of the others on YouTube !