Daily Routine: What it's Like to Work and Live in Our Off Grid Tiny Narrowboat Home
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Come inside our house boat to see what a typical day is like for us in our off grid floating home. Our mornings always start with a mindful routine - we light the fire, make some coffee, and set out our intentions for the day. We are juggling quite a bit at the moment with work and building our solar-powered narrowboat home and so we split our days to help us manage our time. In today’s build, we’re getting the boat ready for the return of Phil the electrician - which means building more stud walls!
CHAPTERS
00:00 - intro
00:28 - mindful morning routine
03:03 - signs of spring
05:27 - working hour
06:23 - build update
07:47 - the race is on
08:44 - chasing sunset
11:16 - evening boat jobs
12:17 - fin
We're Jack and Gabby. Join us as we build our own, off-grid, fully solar-powered, narrowboat home. We're not new to tiny home living on the water but we aren't hugely experienced with DIY. Come aboard as we learn what works and what doesn't throughout the build. If you enjoy this video, we'd love for you to see our other vlogs. We have a playlist of each episode in order here: • Building our narrowboa...
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We hope you enjoy this week's vlog! Jack + Gabby xx
Thank you for checking out this week's video! It's our first in a couple of week's as life has been quite hectic! We thought we'd share what an average day looks like for us. We try to keep our mornings quite slow and mindful to ease into the day...and whatever boat build hurdles come our way! Are mornings a special time for you? ✨
What a wonderful mindset you two have. To work so hard in achieving your dreams is inspiring,even to an old duck living on the far side of the world 🌍 🌎. I too am an early riser and treasure that alone time in the morning with just me and the 🕊️🐔. Love your vlogs.
How cool is the finger snap clean up magic! Never gets old 😊
All the things you like doing now to have a meaningful life I experienced in my childhood before an easier life was invented for most of us. Now I am in my dotage I just love my central heating, warm water on tap, light at the touch of a switch, amusement from all over the world available from a little flat thing sitting on my lap. I admire you greatly for building your home daily through your effort, hands and capabilities. You are both so watchable and putting a new light on the toil of former years. I wouldn’t swap but then I now have a beautiful place to live that we modernised ourselves, I hope the same happens to you both…..you will have earned whatever form of luxury you look forward to. It will happen.
Wonderful 💖!!!
Many Thanks 👍!!!!
Yes!!! Have product! Must include a Captain Tilly T-shirt….😀.(I am a long - time Schnauzer Mom, covering about 50 years of Schnauzers of various colors and Sizes…….believe me you will have more!). And Jack, you could have aprons printed up to in some way represent your love of cooking, but on a narrow boat of course! Possibilities are endless…….❤️. LOVE YOUR vids.
Great work guys 👍two words ...Head Torch can’t live or work on a boat without one 👍
Oh great tip! I've had my eye on a rechargeable one
Merch is a great idea Guys, ya gotta do it.
Thanks John - we'll see what we can do! 🙌
These narrow boats are cool. Fetching. But improbable here stateside. Luv yer new tube!
Thank you for finding us! ✨
My wife and I love watching your vlogs. Our 2 yorkies love watching Tilly.
Aw thank you Paul! Tilly says hi! 🐶
Walls are finally progressing. Well done! I love the idea of an early morning walk every day …. though it’s less appealing in the rain!!
Thank you, we were so relieved to have a couple completed 😅 We've just popped some cladding on them (will be in the next week's ep) and it's amazing how much difference they make to making the boat feel more homey! Thanks for watching 🙏
Got to love that morning coffee on the water
We're limiting ourselves to one french press a day at the moment, and it's honestly a highlight of the morning each day!
That bread looks great yum yum 👍👍👍 lighter nights are coming so you can work longer & chill more
We are suckers for good bread, can't beat it! Cannot wait for the lighter evenings to come back. It always feels like a long slog up to the clocks changing. Not long now!
Good to see some progress on you're new boat! Can't wait for the next video! 😄
Poor Tilly lol. That part of the video just reminded me and hubby of our late dog Twizzle. Believe me when I say that she was the queen of wearing fox poo. She would roll herself into it and have a lovely long stripe down the side of her neck most times we took her out 😂. It used to drive us mad that she would need a bath after each walk! It was so frustrating but a least she was happy ❤😆
They have a knack for finding it out don't they.... We're quite lucky with Tilly that it's not too frequent a thing! She also hates bath time, maybe that slightly puts her off 😅
@@thistinylifeThey certainly do! Your boat is coming a long nicely by the way. Looking forward to seeing more videos of yous working on it.
Lovely video 😊thank you 😊
Thank you for watching 🙏😊
Not sure if this will work for your stove, but we put a large log in and then bank the fire all the way down before we go to bed. In the morning, almost always, we have enough embers left to just add some kindling, another log, open the air and ten minutes later the fire is burning.
It's hit and miss with our little stove for if this works, and how late we stay up! With our esse in the new boat though we're hopeful we'll be able to do this - it's definitely big enough for a large back log 🔥
You may need to purchase Fox Poo Shampoo from pet supplier as I find smell doesn't come out with everyday doggie shampoos - love Tilly tho, she thought it a fun thing to do 🐕
good tip! washing her usually means i then have to have a shower too... she hates a bath and gets water everywhere! dogs eh!
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👍👍 thanks for watching
Ignore the naysayers. Your doing great. It’s going to be special.
aw thank you! she's getting there little by little :)
I stumbled across your first vid earlier and really enjoyed the whole backlog of your videos. Im really thinking of buying a boat. How much was your new boat if you dont mind me asking? And also did the foam insulation come with it or was it an extra? Massive thumbs up on your journey and all the best for the future. New subscriber 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks so much! The new one was around the 40k mark - its a 54ft and yep includes the insulation (but not the motor because we're going electric). They've gone up quite a bit in the last few years though. The price depends on windows and length - but hopefully that helps as a rough idea! 😊
Do you think the bathtub will be a little too much? I mean, it takes up a lot o valuable space and uses a lot of water.
Nahh... We won't use it all the time, but lovely to have it onboard for that treat when we're next to water points!
@@thistinylife That is very true.
How big will your water tank be? I ask due to that massive bath you are installing.
Bath is mainly there for when we can moor near a water point. Our winter mooring is 3 boats away from water. We're also looking into a water filtration system from the canal 👍
Barge?
I heard that spiders are rife on narrowboats? eek
You do get a few! In fairness they tend to keep themselves to themselves... You get used to them haha
You know I've always hankered after a narrowboat but all these f* dogs and their crap all over really put me off
good to know 👍
Barge are you having a laugh that is something a no nothing says the word is narrowboat
ok 👍
@@thistinylife🤗