How To Build an Off Grid Cabin For Free

How to build an off grid cabin for free. Yes, it’s possible, and you can do it! This article will explain how to build your off grid cabin for free with no cost in materials. It starts with the land. It’s all about how to choose the perfect off grid land. This article also assumes you already have the land, the tools and the equipment ready to go. These things cost money but they are not counted in the materials cost of the log cabin itself because you will be using the materials and resources available on your land.  Off Grid Land Comes With All The Resources You Need To Build Your Off Grid Cabin For example, trees, rock, clay, sand, gravel, dirt, are all building materials. You have to look at the land you purchase as not just a parcel of land, but it’s a resource for all the materials you’re going to need to build your log cabin. Now, some people will say I’m splitting hairs here and playing semantics, and that you can’t build a cabin for free because you can’t exclude the cost of tools, equipment, gas and time and labor and all the “expenses” that you have going to and from your off grid property to build your cabin. In truth, that is correct, practically speaking.  However, that’s not what we’re talking about here. We’re talking about how to build an off grid cabin free with the materials available on your land. If you’re not paying for the materials to build your cabin and you have to purchase the land anyway, then the cabin building materials are just a bonus, right? Is It Really A Free Off Grid Cabin? I can hear some people saying, “Well, it’s not ‘free’ if you’re paying money for the land.”. You purchased the land. I look at it this way. When I purchase a parcel of off grid land, I’m purchasing an area of earth predetermined by some arbitrary lines someone drew on a map.  That is my place to take care of the land and be the caretaker of my little piece of earth while I am on this planet. If it just happens to have trees and rocks and clay and sand and gravel and water and all the other materials I’m going to need to build my cabin, then in the long run that saves me a lot of money on materials later. If I were to try to purchase all the precut lumber and milled logs from the lumber mill and even if I did all the labor myself, it still would cost me tens of thousands of dollars in materials cost. It’s All About The Materials Available on Your Off Grid Land So technically speaking we’re simply talking about saving money on materials and labor, because the land has the materials and you are doing all the labor.  Most modern homes today cost over $100/square foot. ($110/sqft in the US to be exact; as