Foundation of our Shipping Container House - Site marking, levelling, excavation, footings - Ep. 001

This is the first episode towards our goal of building, by ourselves, a Tiny Shipping Container House without any previously experience and producing a Youtube Series about it called Living Tiny Project.

This episode is all about the site preparation for receiving our 40-foot dry container so we can actually start building our dreamed Tiny House.

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This video contains:

Step 1: Site Marking (location of the TINY SHIPPING CONTAINER HOUSE) by locating a nylon string attached to wooden sticks to represent the sides of the shipping container, and using the rectangle triangle method to achieve perfect perpendicular and parallel lines (footing layout). We used the method of leveling a site with a whose.
Step 2: Site Excavation (preparing the site for the cast in site concrete footings)
Step 3: Mesh Rebar and Regular Rebar preparation.
Step 4: Preparation of the Foam Work.
Step 5: Concrete Making. (concrete recipe – construction)
Step 6: Concrete Pouring.
Step 7: Disassembling of the foam work.
Step 8: Locating the Pre-Cast Concrete Footings over the cast in site concrete footings (concrete footing).
Step 9: Layout of the Tiny Shipping Container House

Friends helping in this episode:
André Rothermel, Fábio Karasiak, Luciano Petinati e Maycon Macedo.

Fábio Karasiak informations:

Home Page

https://www.youtube.com/treinocorreto

Created and produced by Eduardo Cassol and Roberta Becker Montibeller

Drone images: André Rothermel

For up to date information about the building process follow us on:
www.oddlifecrafting.com

Opening Song: Take Me Higher by Noahs
http://smarturl.it/CedarAndFireEP

Songs on this episode:
All my Shuffling – Silent Partner
Duet Musette – Kevin Macleod
Fig Leaf Rag Distressed – Kevin Macleod
If I had a Chicken – Kevin Macleod
Klonkey Donkey – Nicolai Heidlas
Straight Weather – Silent Partner
For Mimi – Twin Musicom
Stomping Grounds – Silent Partner
Censured sound effect – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIpOn…

Episode recorded in Florianópolis/Brasil in between 01 to 22 of July 2017.