Mark Makes

Dirt work, Foundation prep, & building footing forms

More building prep and spring cleaning

Did a bunch of clearing, burning, dirt work, and created the template/shotcrete form

Continuing dirt work and reveal of the proposed building

Trying to stay busy in the last months of winter and getting ready for Spring work.

Continuing clearing the land for the house and finding a few antiques along the way. Music credited to BenSound at BenSound.com

Back to working on the "house". Roughing in the last of the driveway and starting to clear at the future house location.

Building a custom heavy duty firewood pallet I designed and other life stuff. Music credited to BenSound at BenSound.com

In-depth review and personal assessment of our wood fired boiler.

Doing some indoor project due to the cold weather, winter outdoor scenery, and some moose cruised through...

Building interior storage, work areas, getting things organized, etc. Some winter outdoor scenery and wildlife visitors Music credited to BenSound at BenSound.com

Interior lights, outlets, building the loft area.

Utility power to the building, putting a porch over the steps, and adding a safe and dry bathroom place for the dogs.

Power, steps, heat, roadwork, etc.

Exterior walls milled and installed.

Timber framing (sort of) and roof installation

More projects in preparation for winter and some surprise visitors at the end of the video.

Roadwork finally done until next spring and building a custom gate with lumber sawn from our trees

Building the temporary sawmill base and setting up the sawmill

Finally getting some some progress on building materials

More logs, firewood, stumps, and slash clean up. Also working on finish grade for the driveway.

More forestry work and dealing with bureaucrats.

More work on the off grid solar system, road and forestry work

Continuing our build and the reasons we sold our home and moved here to take on this project in retirement.

Continuing our temporary RV setup we'll live in while we build. Working in seemingly never ending rain.