Home building

The Real Estate theme you notice when traveling to Jamaica is unfinished homes and buildings. Money From overseas does not come all at once. When the funds are available bad contractors and planning obstruct progress. Not having the money has given a wealth of time to realize the greatest plan is to finish one room […]

NO HOUSE? NO PROBLEM.How We’re Starting from a Tent and Ending with a Home For most, building a home is what douses the flame of homestead dreams. Having to go into great debt to collect a couple eggs every day is a defeated purpose. Watching Alone and other survivor programming – including endless videos of people making […]

Canvas and Concrete combine to build $1000 cottage. When you live in a tropical climate you can spend more sweet and imagination and less money to create a sound space.

This is another genesis idea that was built for about $3000 usd. Perfect style for a tropical starter home. Utilizing canvas, chain-link fence pipe tubes, rebar and cement  a brilliant place to enjoy tropical life is erected.

Sand bags are no longer primarily a less expensive way to build off grid. If you are building a sandbag dome or building its for personal reasons as the cost of filling a sandbag is the same or more than a cement block. $150 per bag a load of fill puts the cost to about […]

Part 2 in this video you can see the bamboo being used to reenforce the shell structure and finishing off the exterior interior and floor wth cement mix.

Getting land to live off grid has not been the most expensive part of home ownership for some time now building materials have been keeping people sleeping on their dreams. Hurricanes and disasters creating worldwide resets has Jamaicans emptying hardware stores of cement and other essential materials. The NHT recently gave the green light to […]