The Cost of Staying Warm in an Off-Grid Cabin #29
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2024
- What does it cost to heat up a cabin without electricity?
How many heat sources do we need?
What works - and what doesn't?
After spending the winter in our Swedish Off-Grid cabin, we can share the best ways to stay warm here.
There's an unexpected weather forecast, cosy projects and all about heating.
We look forward to connecting with you in the comments!
Love,
Annie & Julian
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I just found your channel and subscribed for I like your way of thinking. I live in Sacramento and have not used HVAC at all this year, just my woodstove. The fire dies out in the evening and it’s approximately 58° when I wake up. And I too have blanketed off all entryways and just heat the living room, sleeping on a fouton bed Is how I’m living this winter. I’m learning preindustrial skills, I’ve learned to bake pizza and potatoes in the woodstove and biscuits. I’m trying, just like you and I’m alone and 67-year-old woman! Be safe and God bless you, I will learn from you too!
Very impressive! I want too learn to cook like you too 👌 Thank you for reaching out ❤️
Love, Annie
I randomly found one of your videos, and then had to go back and start watching your videos from the beginning!! I love your candor and genuine style of filming and narration. 💕
My wife and I are in the blue ridge mountains in the U.S. and just started our journey in a cabin, in nature at the end of 2020!! Sending much love to you both. Stay safe and warm… and looking forward to continuing to watch!!
Hey! 😃 How nice of you to write 💕
Thank you so much, it really means a lot.
We look forward to having you along on the journey - while you two are on your own journey ☺️
Sending love,
Annie & Julian
Your little cottage is getting cozier every time you upload!
What a great solution with the fireplace. I love a vedspis! They’re so beautiful and cozy too.
I hope all went well with the storm in Denmark and the Faeröer islands where your family and friends live too.
Much love from the Netherlands! 💚🌿🌷
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Marcelle ❤️
Hello from the West Coast of Canada. 👋 I just recently found your channel and I absolutely love your videos. They are relaxing and peaceful and the perfect thing to watch after a day of work.
Thank you for being you.
Have a fantastic day.🙂
Thank you so much! We’re so happy you enjoy our videos ☺️ Such positive energy.
Have an amazing day!
I can see you're happy couple stay happy stay together!
Aww. Thank you 🥰 You too!
I just came upon your channel, saying hi from Wa.State, I like it.
Amazing! Welcome 😍
Love, Annie & Julian
Your channel is by far my new favourite thing to watch. Thank you both for sharing
That is truly satisfying to hear 😅 We put a lot of work in to it, so to know you enjoy it makes it all worth it ❤️ (and we enjoy making it)
Thank you, Alison
@@AnnieJulian you can truly see all the love and passion you have for your Art. I'm a counsellor and Psychotherapist so my work can be quite demanding. I wouldn't change a thing. That said it's so nice to turn of my brain and watch love and positive blessings. I tell my two children all the time. We must Condition our minds. What we allow enter them. Your chanel is so full of warmth. Im truly greatful for the art that you share ❤
Yes, isolation is key! And I absolutely LOVE wooden stoves! They're so damn cozy, and what I use as well! 🥰
Yes! 😍 So cosy 🧡 What kind do you have?
Love, Annie
woodfire ist the most cosy heat you can have. we are heating our 168m3 brickhouse from 1926 with a woodstove and we need between 10 an 12m3 of firewood a year. since wo have our own forest ther is only the work to be done.
Nice! 😀 Thank you for sharing, good to know.
Love, Annie
I liked this video the most because of the cozy feeling inside the cabin. Love the timbers inside. They make I so cuzy and all you'r furnitures. Lovely video ❤️🏡🙏
Aww, thank you, Mia 😍 And we’re far from finished 😄 Thank you so much for watching 🥰
Love, Annie
Greetings Good to see you are still moving on with the cabin looks very nice. We have tornados and Blizzards here in Wisconsin No Hurricanes Thank God Blessings to you
Stay safe, sending lots of love ❤️
Annie
we love this channel! in 1 week we will be in sweden exactly around the corner from your house. greetings from the Netherlands❤
Wow 😍 How cool! And thank you so much!
Love, Annie & Julian
Love the video nyc to see u guys
Lovely! Thank you 😍
Love, Annie & Julian
Just to let you know...there are some huge collectors of old Wheel Horse mowers. I somehow lucked into my Uncle's that happened to be the very first model of riding mower they made. Still in excellent shape, though the paint isn't as good as yours has. Somehow people learned of it and I have been offered over $9,000 sight unseen. Just by what someone had told them. So keep that old girl in good shape and you may have a real collectors item worth a good amount of $$. Most just get tossed away (at least here in the US) when a new model is bought because it has more cup holders (seriously). Love your journey. Have lived nearly off grid my whole life, other than when in the Army. It is so much healthier. Especially mentally. If you can find a way to live there full time I think you would never want to go to a city again. Over here the best schools are usually in the rural areas. And if you can get even a half-decent cell signal then perhaps you two could work from home full time.
Hey! Thanks 😃 This is some great advice, thank you for taking the time to reach out to us.
We will take good care of her ☺️
Sending lots of love,
Annie & Julian
Loved this video
Thank you! Wonderful 🙏
I wish you showed even more off the cake part !!!!!❤🧡💛💚
could you give a recipe ? its so pretty and delicious looking !!
Haha! Thank you 😄🙏
You bet! It was a glutenfree shake-and-bake chocolate mix 🤣 I added roasted hazelnuts, cranberries and gojiberries. And plant based cream on top with raspberry jam 🍫🍓
Love, Annie
The kitchen is looking great!
Thank you so much! :D
Glad you got a new stove for the kitchen and warms the entire house!
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I loved the style of video that you made, nice mixture of both 👍
Thank you so much! ❤️ I was afraid it was going to be a mess 😂
Love, Annie
When you have a wood fire in a fireplace or stove the exhaust going outside will cause cold air to be drawn into the house to feed the fire. Think of providing an inlet in a know spot near the stove. If you have enough land then you could put some culverts under ground to pull air through to pick up some of the earth's heat in the winter. Also could be used in the summer to cool the house.
Yeah, we know 😊 That’s why we close it in winter, and are looking for a inlet that fits our funny shaped fireplace.
I’m not sure if we could pull hear from under ground without power, being off-grid.
Thank you for your advice and taking the time to write 😃
Annie
Still another great video. When you have a free moment (HAHAHA) how about a recipe or two on the things that cook/bake. It all looks so good. Jim in California
Thanks! You are not the first one to ask 😄 This recipe was an organic shake and bake chocolate cake 😜 But I will keep it in mind. Thank you!
Annie I didn't know you got hurricanes there. You teach me something new every time I watch. We also get hurricanes in my home country Belize. There was one last year and can you guess what the name was? lol yes. It was 'Lisa'! Anyway glad to see you keeping warm and that cake does look delicious! Share the recipe or make a cookbook please! Sending hugs from the big apple!
Oh no! So everybody we’re talking badly about “Lisa”? 😅 Or was it cool to be the topic of the year? 🌟😎
Luckily this one was really, really mild on the cabin. But it was a hurricane that made this house so worn down in the first place. A tree fell on the roof many years ago, and it has just gotten more and more rotten - until we fixed it up ☺️
Big hugs! 😍
Oh, and the cake! Lol, you’ll love this 🤣 Never has it taken that long to bake... a shake-and-bake mix 😂 I added a few things, but definitely not enough to be making a cook book 😘
@@AnnieJulian Annie thankfully It wasn’t such a bad storm but yes that’s the most I ever heard my name being called. 😂
It was lovely to watch thankyou
Thank you for watching and commenting 🥰
Love, Annie & Julian
Wonderful
Thank you!
Takk for fine vide bilder,,,,,,ha ein fin dag
Takk so mycket! ❤️
Lovely cabin and stoves. But, please make a different means of escape from your attic bedroom because if there’s a fire down below you have nowhere to go!
Great point! We are gonna make a fire escape ladder down by the window.
Love, Annie
Starting fire without starter is easiest if you use a feather stick. One of the small pieces that you use, and you cut small slivers without cutting them completely off. Your stick is ready to use when it looks vaguely like a feather.
Aha! Thanks 😊
Love, Annie
❤ Lovely video! ❤
Thank you! ❤️
You could put a fireplace insert into the fireplace.
I talk about that in the video 😊 We are looking for one that fits.
Love, Annie
I love your life style! Very nice cabin and location. For your fire place you could get a high efficiency fire place insert. That would be a much more efficient at heating your cabin. You would get better burn time with a larger fire box than your cook stove!
Thank you! Yes, you’re absolutely right. We’re still looking. As we say in the video, it’s hard to find one that fits, since it goes inward. Unless it’s really tiny. Or I guess we can have one made, but that would probably be expensive. We’ll see 😊
Love, Annie & Julian
We put an insert into a fireplace when we lived in the country. It came out of the opening enough to boil water on the top. It had a 45 degree angle inside before going up the chimney at 90 degree angle. We never had to clean the chimney. It burned so clean, no creosote. And yes it held the heat all night for us
Yes! Thats what i wanted to ask about. I noticed you guys didnt do anything with the chimney, when you made this house a home.
And a good chimney is precious ,when this is only heat source...
Im a new sub, hi from Norway! (So yes, i know how winters can be like...)
Hello in Norway 🙋♀️🙋♂️
No, we didn’t do much about the chimney. The chimney sweeper cleaned it before we started building, and in the bedroom episode we fix it up upstairs. Do you have other suggestions? 😊
Oh, and were gonna make a “hat” for it soon ☔️
Love, Annie
We mounted a box fan above our wood stove to aid in pushing the hot air around the area.
as far as starting the fire: We put in a small ball of paper, then wood shavings on top of that, then kindling sticks. Light the paper then shut the door. Make sure air intake below the grating (where you collect ash) is OPEN. This will draw in external oxygen through the bottom then push it up your stack of kindling and get a good fire going very quickly as the natural draw will pull in oxygen to feed the fire.
Always make sure that you empty any ash into a METAL bucket (our neighbor's house burned down).
When you check on the fire, especially in the morning, open the door very slowly. Give it a 4mm gap, then wait a few seconds, then open it fully. The environment inside the fire box can be very oxygen poor sitting all night depending on how you have your vents set. When given oxygen from the outside environment it can leap out at you and hurt you.
Speaking of vents, when you go to sleep for the night you can close your air intake vents to a minimum. This keeps the fire's reaction rate low and keeps the fire burning longer at a lower temperature which is better for sleeping - low and steady heat.
Cutting your own firewood can be done safely.
If you're going to heat your own house I would recommend a chainsaw and a wood splitter.
8 m3 is about 2.2 US "cord" of wood or just over 4 pick-up truck loads.
Very, very doable. We get deadfall trees from our neighborhood these days, don't even have to cut any trees down (which can be dangerous). We get the wood and they get rid of the tree so there is no cost, but it doesn't look like you have many neighbors. All of our wood for the last 20+ years has come from a 10 mile radius area (62.8 square miles or ~160 square km)
And by woodsplitter, we have a small gasoline operated unit that drives a hydraulic piston and splits the wood.
The size of the unit depends on your species. For example, American Oak can get quite stringy and may bind a smaller unit. Birch, Larch, Poplar should split relatively easy with their straight grain.
However, the less dense your species of wood the faster it will burn in your oven.
American Oak, for example, will burn significantly longer than something light like willow. Keep those heavier, denser woods for overnight or when you will be away awhile.
I'm sure you are aware, but the larger the piece the longer it will burn however your firebox looks fairly small.
Thank you for all this advice! I will save it 😊 We do have a metal bucket for the ash, and also a wood splitter. Here we primarily use birch. And we also got green lights on picking up fallen trees in the area - as you say, it’s a win-win ☺️
So nice to hear how you do it.
Love, Annie
@@AnnieJulian I am very glad to hear you have solved most problems of having a wood-burning household. Your plan sounds great!
Your cabin could be the twin of our cabin in Ontario!
Really?? 😍 How funny! Any way we could see a picture?
you2.. and thnxx.. warm greetings too
Lots of love 🥰
Annie & Julian
GREAT VIDEO....I'VE OFTEN WONDERED WHY NOT USE MORE THAN ONE FAN ON YOUR WOOD STOVE? WOULD'NT IT MOVE HEAT MORE QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY? THANKS FOR SHARING!!
Thanks! 🤩 I haven’t thought about that... The oven and the room is so small, I figured one should do it. I’ll ask Julian, what he thinks 😊
Thanks again!
Annie
I live in the USA on the East coast where our country typically has hurricanes. I had no idea that Sweden got hurricanes too.
I imagine, for some reason, they are bigger where you are. Thank you for sharing a bit about yourself :)
Nice and interesting video...I love your lifestyle...so calming...thanks for sharing....🤗😍 Pascale...
Thank you so much, Pascale 🥰 You have been following us for a while now 😍 I remember it was Easter when you wrote for the first time 🐣
Hugs, Annie
@@AnnieJulian wow, already one year...time passed so fast....💖 have a nice end of this week.....🤗🌸🌻🦋
Thank you, Happy weekend to you 🤗
Love, Annie & Julian
Such a cute house.
Thank you! ☺️
please make a day vlog at your cabin. i.e. your daily routine. keep up the good content!
Noted! Thank you 😊
I'd think about dismantling the chimney and fireplace to repurpose the bricks into a walkway or maybe an outdoor bbq area.
Haha, and what about the heat? 🤣
@@AnnieJulian well of course you have to fill in the wall maybe with a smaller chimney with wood stove set up going up that side of the house. The upstairs draft I'd use plywood for a sideways opening door/ plug supported by 3 hinges. Gotta be a way to quit using quilts every morning. Anyone who can put the chimney through walls to heat other rooms on the way out is the genius.
@@sammythompson3694 Interesting ideas 😊
A fireplace can heat the house if it is placed in the center of the house the bricks of the chimney hold heat I remember the brick chimney running through the attic rooms. Our fireplace had a strong draft if you lit a piece of newspaper it would go up the chimney and hit the hardware cloth cage at the top of the chimney. The cage was put there to keep the chimney sweep birds out. 73
Exactly ☺️ Thank you for sharing ❤️
Love, Annie
Hi guys. I have a log burner inside my caravan. The flue isnt very long and i often get smoke pouring inside when its first light. Did you mention something about problem solving for this in a previous video? Around the room being very cold? Love the vlogs and seeing what you have created x
Hi Louise ❤️
How cool that you have a caravan!
Yes. Here at least, we need to heat up the chimney before lighting a fire in the stove, or else the smoke will come back down 🌫 (when it’s cold!)
We do that with a little gas burner. You can see it (and how it goes wrong) 😅 in this video: ua-cam.com/video/TratIxZufwo/v-deo.html
@@AnnieJulian That makes such sense. Thankyou so much for replying. Have a wonderful day x
@@louisesusan Thank you, wonderful you! A great day to you too x Annie
My Chimney Guy gave me good idea. When the wind is bad in the stone jimney, take the hairdryer and put it to work on the lowest hole (where you usually get jimney cleaned) in hight temp for some seconds. It will start to blow the wind much better.
Would a small Morso Squirrel wood stove fit in that fireplace? If not maybe you can extend the hearth so it sits just outside the fireplace then vent it into the chimney.
They look really lovely! I think we have come across one or two that almost could fit. I remember being a bit sad that the squirrel wouldn’t be visable 😅
Thank you for the advice 😃 We will keep looking.
Love, Annie
Once again lovely to see your ideas! Working myself on the plans for fireplace attached to water pump and radiators to heat my place, as it will be the only option… So hopefully as warm as you two for next winter :) Can I ask what brand of natural insulation you use? Cheers!
So cool you’re working on your place simultaneously 🪵 Heating with water is also really interesting. I wonder which systems we will have in place years from now 🤔😍
Yes! It’s called Hunton. You can see it on all the packaging I film at one point, it’s green.
Cheers!
I use to work in a machine shop receiving parts in cardboard and wood crates. One ply cardboard is useless, but 2 ply has a R 18 rating while most houses have R12. If you can get 3 ply it's around R27. If you are good with a knife and a can of spray glue you are good to go. Some use 3" of spray foam which I opted not to use, because if it ever gets wet it will never dry out. Cardboard can wet to, but it easier to remove than wet foam. Use a smoking cigarette to check for air leaks before applying insulation. Have you got some money, then Pink Panther would be my choice
My 10x12 stays warm with a little buddy propane heater 6 month long winters....cost is 20 gallons propane per month...
Thanks! 👏
Could I ask you how much was the cabin? I'm a single woman, who owns a doggy and a horse and I'm hoping to move to Sweden to live just like the two of you. I have no idea where to start looking for cheap cabins like yours and I'm on the budget.
Also, wow, 500$ Year to heat up your cabin! That is amazing. I'm am currently paying 300€ a month to heat up rented apartment in Dublin🤣
Oh, you should just look up cabins or houses at hemnet.se 😊 Last year it was almost empty, and everything got sold right away, but now we’re seeing houses on the market again, and the prices have gone down again.
Happy hunting, and we’re sending a lot of luck and love to you and your animals ❤️
Annie & Julian
@Annie & Julian oh thank you so much! I'll keep an eye on that website. Been watching your videos till 3am last night. Hope your channel only keeps growing!
@@soulstar5161 Of course! Oh, thank you so much 😅 We’ll make sure it keeps growing with videos ❤️
I'm surprised that your fireplace didn't have a damper on it so you could close it and if you want something for more heat get some crisco and glass jars and heat it up to melt it to liquid or soft enough to put a small candle in it and use some clay pots to put over it while burning it .
Yeah, that would have been nice. I don’t quite understand crisco candle advice?
Thanks for the input! 😊
Love, Annie
@@AnnieJulian what the crisco does is burns slowly and under clay pots it builds up heat and that let's it put off heat and it's used for emergency heat for those who lose electricity in the winter and allows you to stay warm and it will burn up to 36 days using 8 hours a day there are videos on this.
@@dwaynebeavers2088 Okay 😊 Never heard of it. Thank you!
Oil filled tube heater will work best .... 200w panel ...Battery ...and tube heater ....
Get a one pound propane tank and a torch and matches , lighter and many more propane tanks to help light the fire !!!
Haha 😄 Thanks! 😊
I need to look into the insulation you used, because I'll be insulating my roof this summer and damn you guys arent loosing much heat!
do you have any air barrier between the roof and insulation? or does it not need that :o
I'm so glad you asked :) We're working on a video about what materials, we've used, as I'm writing. Stay tuned! I will answer your question more visually.
Annie
Too bad you couldn't do a chimney insert, and take full advantage of the thermal mass of the masonry hearth and chimney. It sounds like you're still getting some benefit just from having a warm stove next to it.
An open hearth leaves you cold as soon as the fire goes out, but if you can install a chimney insert, with an air intake direct to the outside, it wouldn't create a draft. The house I'm in, now, has a GAS insert, which is far less satisfactory than a wood-burning insert would be.
But don't let me rain on your parade. The stove/oven appears to do the job just fine, plus you do your cooking on it.
Thanks for the input 😃
We would love to find an insert, that fits. Still working on that. We’re doing fine ☺️
Are you gonna get a wood stove instead of gas? Enjoy those flames? 🔥
Love, Annie
💟😇Super vielen video und gemacht auch
Danke schön!
Put an insert in the fire place.
We would love to ❤️
Annie
13:25 if that is still wrapped on plastic you cut, then millions of micro plastics in the air and lungs :(
No no, it’s open where we saw 😊
wheres the link .. so i can buy a stove/fireplace?
No link. We don’t sell them 😄
Love, Annie & Julian
The new black stove you got is that a replica or have they restored it to make it safe?.
It’s a “new” old stove ☺️ The old one is standing outside by the bonfire. We want to keep it for something. But I don’t think it can be saved ❤️
@@AnnieJulian Okay, what i meant was if it's a newly produced stove or if they have restored an old one, because where you bought it there was several other stoves aswell.
@@ESPirits87 Ohh! No, we didn't buy a newly produced one. We went to Anna's Kuriosa (as we so often do) and chose from her selection of used ovens.
what is that windmill on top of the stove called please?
Just a wood stove fan, I think 😊
Love, Annie
@@AnnieJulian thank you
Sold my homestade and vill be in Stokkholm 11.34 tomorrow to fiand my cottage 😮 🙂
Wow! Good luck! :D
Love, Annie & Julian
Mys/kos/hygge! 😊
Hygge 😍🙏
What is the name of your Wooden Stove ?
The brand name?
@@AnnieJulian does you wood stove have a name on like who made it?
Okay your sweet people and i will sub…i want this life so bad………..
Welcome 🥰 Hope you will enjoy our videos and feel inspired ❤️
Love, Annie & Julian
Ah, most the house is red outside!
Yes, most if it, haha :D
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build without chemicals.... everything is a chemical, air is a chemical, what?
Unnatural chemicals, then 😊 That can harm us.
Buy another stove
Thanks? 😜
You very likeable.
Thank you!