Framing a house by myself, 7 days and under $6300 (Ep.2)

This is so awesome. Love it. We should all try to avoid getting a mortgage and build our own houses.

This is absolutely awesome in my opinion. Now if they taught everyone in schools how to build homes we’d all be able to do it and live our lives without massive mortgages. This video is very inspiring, too bad I don’t have the know how….

I'm an Architect and a Journeyman Carpenter, and I keep telling people BUILD IT YOURSELF. Materials is about 20% of the cost of a house, the rest is labor. YouTube is your virtually loaded with DIY tutorials done by contractors and skill craftsmen if you do a little searching, just like cooking.

This is by far the most efficient building process I have ever seen. This craftsman is second to none.. thanks for sharing your work with us:

Very nice, I'm 60 years old and if I hold out, I'm going to attempt this next year. and the Lord willing

It looks like all your boards are crowned correctly. It's an important step worth mentioning. Awesome build.

Imagine going on holiday for a month and come back to a house fully built and you've got new neighbors

Wow, so nice to see detailed videos for Swedish building standard. Much appreciated, since most of the content on youtube is from US and not so applicable in Europe. Looking forward to it!

The way you moved those last 6-7 trusses along was pretty awesome.

thanks for sharing your work, can't put a price on content like this. It's cool to see the way other countries do things.

Very inspirational to see it done so well and with impeccable craftsmanship. “No cutting corners…”

definitely diving into your videos. Thank you so much for taking the ti to teach us that are green in the field. Have a great day

I flip houses and primary work by myself. I like not being disappointed if someone doesn’t show up or shows up but doesn’t work hard. I also enjoy figuring out how to get things done alone. With that said you did an amazing job👍

Man I'm a carpenter with 35 years on the tools well done. I couldn't build that for myself here in Australia with the price of the materials. I work alone 90% of the time, your build methods make sound practical & logical sense to me I can work around most problems alone the only drawback is I find myself traveling around the job site twice as much to accomplice the same thing as compared to having a labour to help that's ok. But after a long day I hate packing up the tools by myself it seems to take forever. Its horses for courses.

Fantastic! I build solo quite often. It requires some imagination from time to time in order to accomplish some things that would normally take two or even three people. I honestly enjoy it most of the time.

Since I posted this video, the most common question has been why I didn't build the floor before erecting the walls and why we don't stabilize the frame with sheet material., which is completely understandable. There are several reasons, 1: I build by myself and it goes slower than a whole team, if I lay the floor before there is a big chance that the weather will change, the floor, and especially the insulation will be ruined by rain. 2: with a floor, I cannot raise the trusses with the technique I show. 3: climate... in Sweden, the weather changes all the time, if I lay a floor at this stage, there is a big risk that it will start to rain. I'm not so worried about the floor board but the insulation below which is thick and almost impossible to dry out in cold climates. I can cover in between but it's too complicated. The carpenters who have taught me baled on the joists all the time, and that's how I got my technique. Many also wonder why we don't stabilize the frame with sheet material. We do that afterwards. When the walls are erected, they are temporarily stabilized with tie rods. We will later replace them with another wall that is cross-insulated and where all electricity and water are installed. don't worry, the walls are closer to 30cm or 12 inches when finished, don't think many houses have walls as thick as us up north. I sometimes mention that I want the house to be able to breathe, this is not entirely true, but I mix two methods where the house is tight on the inside but open diffused on the outside. According to new research, a house should be airtight. I agree to a certain extent. I have chosen to mix methods by sealing the house from the inside with joint foam and a vapor barrier that is close to 100% tight, but everything outside of that I want to be able to breathe, so to speak. The idea is that the house will not become leaky, but if moisture penetrates, I want it to find its way out. I believe in mixing the methods as completely tight houses do not work here, I have seen it myself with my own eyes. This is a tough debate where both sides have a point. This is my opinion so make your own decision or pick a side

Great job brother...have done construction for a long time, can’t say I could or would frame a house alone. Props!

I have many times regretted that I didn't learn a trade when I was younger. Watching this video at the same time as I'm "framing" my own house in Sketchup Free has been a huge learning experience for me. Thanks for taking the effort to share your experience as a craftsman as well as tricks of the trade! It's really invaluable information for people who are interested in learning a trade. You are building almost identical to how it's done in Norway. I haven't seen the hammer band used before, but it makes sense from an engineering standpoint. I believe a double top sill plate is the standard in Norway, but then again I'm not an expert.

A person with this much foresight could accomplish other astonishing things with just a little more help. Imagine 3 people working together using this style. Wow. Very impressive solo work.

You are amazing!!! Watching this process was so inspiring!!!! Great Job