Creating A Cabin Home - Log By Log
(Our
Vision To Build The Ultimate Off-Grid Log Cabin)
Way back in time, in high school we used to go
out on field trips in a dilapidated Bus our school owned that we
nicknamed ‘The Battle Bus!’ It still had the Army notices stencilled
inside for example, ‘No loaded guns to be stored in this
compartment.’ It did the job but what somewhat an embarrassment to
the school and the unfortunate children who were travelling in it.
At the time our school had no finances for a new bus, however, what
we did have was a new head teacher who had great visions and ideas.
After much pondering on our predicament he
came up with a fantastic idea to get the school a brand new
bus….’Buy a bit of bus’
‘Buy a bit of bus’ was simple, an exploded
diagram of a new bus was drawn up and each piece allotted an
approximate cost. The drawing was distributed to the public and
local businesses that could then purchase, via a donation, a part of
the bus on the schools behalf. It could be a small part, large part
or a whole chunk of parts…. End result? We got the new bus and our
dream was realised.
As some of my readers may well know, this year
is going to be a very exciting one for ‘HomeBrewPower’. We are, God
willing, moving to pastures new and starting a new life and building
our very own, low impact, self-sufficient, Off-Grid, Home. The only
bottleneck I can see right now is financing such a move.
How to
go about the new Off-Grid Log Cabin?
Well I am going to try and achieve the impossible; I am reaching out
to all the individuals and companies who would like to be part of
this adventure to help us. We want to create a fine example of
Sustainable Living for others to learn from.
What
will be in it for the Individuals and Companies who donate?
As the build goes on each and every donation will be listed on the
Home Page under the relevant section with either a thanks for
personal donations or a Website Link for Business donations. These
links will show on each and every page of ‘HomeBrewPower’ and will
be there for good. So free advertising for the life of our website
that means a minimum of 300 permanent backlinks from our site to
yours! (Links have to be related to the cause, no adult or off topic
links accepted)
Equipment we require through donations. – Email us
HERE with your proposals
2,000W Solar Panels 12V (Photovoltaic – Mono or Poly types)
2,500W MPPT (Maximum point power tracker)
Solar panel charge controller.
3,000 AH of 12VDC
Deep cycle batteries.
6,000W (12,000W Peak)
Pure sine wave 12V –
230V inverter.
Evacuated tube solar hot water 3 x 20 tube
(47MM Diameter tubes) panels
Solar hot water
circulation pump
300+ Liter
thermal store (Vented) Quad layer
insulated – multiple coils
1KW 12V Wind turbine &
Tower Kit
18 - 22KW Cast iron
wood stove with secondary
burn air wash and back boiler
8 x 1KW / 3,700BTU rated
radiators
200M
15MM Copper pipe
60M
22MM Copper pipe
20M
28MM Copper pipe
200M
Under floor heating flexible pipe 15MM
15MM 22MM 28MM
Yorkshire Fittings for copper
pipework (Elbows, Tee’s & Joints)
600M x 40MM Tongue & groove shiplap
800M x 22MM T&G
shiplap
500M x
2” x 4”
Treated timber
300M x 8” x 2” Treated timber Joists
Insulation (Wool, Eco, Recycled) – Will
consider ‘Kingspan’ type insulation
Shingles for roof 80M square
10 Tons of
20MM Gravel
50M square of
weed control barrier membrane
We hope we can make this happen for HomeBrewPower, for our readers and hopefully look forward to providing our future sponsors a great opportunity to become a part of Off-Grid and sustainable history!