Build a Prepper House in 2023 for Bug Out Location 

I really appreciated the chance to collab with you. It was fun. :)

Real work gets a lot less views than fear porn lol

@@MosaicHomestead ...fortunately neither Nate nor myself are into making that stuff. ;) I honestly think that the biggest schism between people who enjoy watching my channel and myself is that I'm an uber CP fan.

@@PraxisPrepper I'm not lol

Really good stuff. Just subscribed. Found your channel thanks to your episode with CP.

Thanks for the kind word PX!

I think you might be the first to have noticed what I was doing there. Thx for letting me know you caught it! :)

Ever since I became a dad, it's really changed the way I think about prepping too. Every thing I build or do, I'm building it more for my boy than for me now.

Hours for sure! I hope you find the series enjoyable enough. I recently re-watched it in order to fix the titles on the episodes and was "retraumatized" from all the bad luck that project seemed to catch all the time! :)

Good to have you George. I hope my channel is useful to you (or at least fun).

Thanks! Nice screen name by the way!

I feel that same way about knowledge. We always have so much more ability to leverage ideas like this when we're younger. I know that the way my body felt after building my first house is a LOT different than it felt after building my second full sized house over a decade later! ;)

I loved the way that Wes Anderson opener skit came out! I'm glad you enjoyed it too. :)

I hope you find my stuff useful. If you like sci-fi, I have a whole series about a mock alien invasion that teaches prepping lessons. If you like comedy, I do a lot of that here too. My channel shorts are all my comedy skits that I use to open my full videos.

I'll wear the mantle of genius with honor GPNJ. ;)

The book I bought that gave me the idea was The Passive Solar House by a guy named Kachadorian. I didn't read the entire book, but dove into a few sections and looked at the diagrams. Nice book. Here's a link to it on amazon if you want to check it out: amzn.to/3P64Trr I just checked and it looks like there are used copies of the old 1997 edition (which I used) for just a few dollars.

I hope you find the videos I've made useful and fun. I have some comedy stuff, and a whole sci-fi alien series that was about teaching prepping lessons.

None of us have to be alone. It's a great community here on RU-vid for people interested in this stuff!

Thx Josephine! :)

I agree 100%. I have a tour of that shelter in another video where I outline everything inside and for entertainment I have films, video games, board games, books, paper, pens, pencils, crayons, and other things along those lines. But perhaps the most entertaining thing of all will be to see people try to awkwardly use the bucket toilet and giant bag shower stall I built! ;)

While you watch, you might notice Waldo hiding in some videos waiting to be found.

Thx PP. Your channel is one of those that more people would benefit from watching too. Recipes and building houses just doesn't seem to get most people very excited I guess. I'm presuming I'll see a bump in interest followed by (most) people realizing that my videos are mostly practical and then a gradual bleeding away of 95% of the new attention.

Thx Maracestina! :)

Thanks Doc. You're wlecome. I hope you find my channel useful.

Thanks for coming by. I hope you find my videos helpful! :)

Thanks Mud Goblin. It's been a LONG journey hasn't it. Still so much to do! Chicken coop work today!

@Praxis Homesteading and Survival Skills It has been a LONG journey. I'm here for it. I'm excited to see the finished product of your over built chicken coop project. Stay cool out there, it's going to be a warm one today.

@@MudGoblin It was a great build day today. I got all the posts up, marked them up with level lines, and then took them all down to cut to size... and then put them all back up again. Dig a hole, fill it in... but now it's filled in for the last time! ;)

Good luck to you on your project. If you ever have any questions about your build, always feel free to reach out and ask. My email is praxisprepper@gmail.com. As much as I'm able I'm always happy to help other people trying to make a go at a project like this. :)

@@PraxisPrepper Thank you for offering to help and I will definitely reach out when the time come.🙏

@@zurijames9232 It's my pleasure. It's a noble goal you have so I'm happy to help with any advice I can.

LOL! :)

Thanks Susan. It was a lot of work, but I'm proud of how it's coming out.

Thanks for letting me know you enjoyed it Russell!

It's the one that has a title about CP going to go off-grid. I thought they did a nice job of putting it together with some clips I provided him. It gave my channel a subs boost, but still didn't seem enough to jump-start the algorithm or anything. I've had a few videos since Nate's video that had as high as 40%+ click-through rates that still hit abrupt (presumably) artificial glass ceilings and got killed in their tracks. I noticed your recent community post only had my comment and your replies to it. Feels like your channel and mine both might both be suffering from some special love and care from RU-vid. I mean with all your subs, NO ONE other than me saw your post and wanted to comment? I presume if some of your people had seen it, at least some would have left a a comment.

Thanks Ryan. I've been meaning to check in with you over the past few weeks actually. I hope things are okay for you. I recall that you were dealing with some challenges last time we talked. Shoot me an email if you get a second. I was presuming some trolls would crawl in when a Canadian Prepper collab video I did released. I haven't seen the comments you're referencing yet. But I'm guessing that when I do, they will neither rock my world nor shake to my core. ;) Frustrated angry people are par for the course for prepping channels... probably for ALL channels actually.

@@PraxisPrepper Thanks buddy. I'm doing ok. Same old. Still dealing with my health and trying to get a full diagnostic picture but we just can't figure it out. I know I have Lupus and Fibro but I have a series of other fairly severe symptoms that can't be explained by either of those. Some seizure like activity and a lot of sever pain and symptoms that seem neurological.. but I was just cleared. Next up a bunch of cancer screenings... I don't know. I've been sick a long time, nice to know we're finally getting somewhere but I could use a break!

@@PrescottCaliberClub I'm sorry you have to deal with all that crap. I hope there's an end to all of that soon for you. Health issues are so consuming of one's energy. I'm amazed that you're able to keep up with as much as you do while you're dealing with all that!

@@PraxisPrepper It also brings up a good prepper discussion. Someone like me who is chronically ill.. how do I prep? I mean there's medication that I can't get outside of pharmaceutical companies. I'll survive without it, just a shortened life span, a ton of pain and sickness. But I've sought out all the possible alternatives I possibly can. Even Kratom as a serious pain killer. Certain plants for their medicinal uses. Certain herbs for the same things. Started working on extracting plant oils for medicinal purposes too. Really interesting stuff. Wouldn't have thought too much about it if I hadn't ended up so sick.

@@PrescottCaliberClub Health issues is such a hard one, but I think you're doing exactly the right thing searching for off-grid alternative approaches. I have some family on various meds and it's a hard problem to try to disconnect smoothly from a system with that requirement.

Thx WV Mom. That's for West Virginia? I was only in WV once on business but I recall it was very rural and peaceful there.

Thanks Sherry. It has been (and continues to be) a lot of work. But I love how it's come out. That chicken coop in this video just got its vertical posts and ceiling joists yesterday. I wish it could have been more ready at the time of this video recording to share here.

Thx!

Welcome. I hope you enjoy my channel videos. :)

If I ever build another house (which I'd like to do), it'll be one built in a warm and humid environment. Those are challenges that we only face for part of the year here, and I'd love to try a house that focuses on those specifically.

Missouri is good for that. Off grid with doug n stacy is also a good one

He have pretty much zero earthquakes here in New England, but I've thought about that exact question on more than one occasion. I think I'd want to put shudders or something over the shelves to prevent things from falling off.

I used a floorless chicken run all last year to protect our small flock of 6 birds. We recently started letting them just free range around the property on their own. It does raise the risk of a predator getting one of them now and then, but I feel it's a better quality of life for them. After a few hours, the mobile coop would definitely need to be moved because they would exhaust the greens in their 8x8 foot area. I feel they're happier being just let out - but of course. they're not as safe. I guess it's the same balance as it is for people, more freedom or more safety.

For this channel, I keep my location a bit vague. I'm in New England though, so not too far from you. PE is a nice state, but I can understand a motivation to move. My ex wife always vows every winter that she's lived her last snowy winter here in New England and she's moving somewhere tropical. I can definitely feel that desire too. Shoveling snow loses its charm rather quickly.

@@PraxisPrepper Thank you for the reply. It is absolutely understandable about location. To many wackadoos out there. I grew up here in PA but have lived other places. Although my family and myself are avid winter sports enthusiasts I would give that up for a longer growing season.

Great question. The answer is that I DON'T use the woodstove for cooking in the summer. It actually makes cooking (using the electric range fed by the solar power system) a little more regimented. I like to cook while we still have sun on the panels and with the tilt of the house slightly to the east, we really start losing summer sun back behind the house by about 4:30 or 5 each day. So I need to be sure to start dinner by that time in the summer when I cook with the electric range and oven. In time, I'd like to make a nicer outdoor kitchen so I can do basic cooking and grilling "whenever the frick I feel like" it in the summer... can you tell this is a sensitive topic for me? ;) JK! But yeah, we have to give it some thought when we're cooking with the sun.

I don't recall offhand, but I rave about that oven in so many videos and I always ay the name in the videos. Let me see if I can find one... Found it. I mention the name of the company in this video - and maybe even their phone number if I recall correctly.

Hey David, Thanks for letting me know you enjoyed the series. I def plan to make a season 3. I would like to have had it done already, but I love having guests RU-vid preppers on the series and everyone's in high gear prepping for WW3 right now, so people don't tend to have a lot of spare time to participate. But I definitely plan to make the 3rd (and final) season to wrap up the story. As to your story question, I tried to dance around it a bit. You'll recall that there was some guy with a crossbow and a red sweatshirt (very poor choice for camouflage) stalking my character at the end of season 1. Then my character has an arrow shot at him in the last episode of the season. In the following season, it's occurring many months later and is not an immediate continuation of moment where season 1 left off. I tried to sprinkle some hints in the second season about what might have gone down in that last episode of season 1. I can share those little hints here if you like, or if you don't want for me to spoil it for you, you could see if you could find the hints yourself in the 2nd season. One place you could look to is my character's clothing he's wearing. He also references something that might shed light on that event in the first monolog he records for the first episode of season 2. let me know if you'd like more brread crumbs, or just for me to spill the beans. ;)

@PraxisPrepper Hhmm...made that's were you got the cross bow. ;) I really enjoyed the way you work some survival tip into the story line, makes it easier to understand and remember.....can't wait for season 3...

@@davidmcpherson9260 I can't wait too. The ending is going to surprise a lot of people I think.

It's nice to be found. I hope you find my videos helpful.

I bought mine at a Home Depot hardware store. Tubs in sizes around that size can be found pretty commonly. That's important too. You don't want to build shelves for an odd size and then they discontinue making that size for when you need to replace one or want more.

I think you might be the first person to have seen this new video. I haven't actually released it yet. I just popped it into this playlist and was waiting to set it to public. I have an interview that I did with Canadian Prepper last week and I figured I'd release this video after that interview goes live on his channel because there will likely be some new peeps visiting this channel after that happens and I thought this video might be a nice introduction.

You have so much to offer! Aboot time. That's really great. I'm so excited for your channel to get exposure, and quickly.

alien invasion series. It's my favorite piece of prepping content ever. The whole series is funny and fun and informative.

@Prescott Caliber Club totally love ❤️ it!

The blocks are in-filled with concrete and bonded to each other. Block walls aren't as awesome long-term as solid pours, but I've never had one fail in any way. Although, if what you described DID happen, I'm sure it could be repaired.

So far the tiny fence has been enough to redirect those animals to other areas to forage, but I'm under no illusion that there isn't a measure of luck in there. The fence you saw in this video is temporary and it's one of my summer prohects for 2025 probably to redo it much better. In fact, the fence was mostly installed just to keep my own chickens out of the garden. They were ravaging the baby plants.

That's the big question that everyone always wonders about... though most people are more concerned about plants than planets! ;) It's a good question. Most soaps probably WOULD be adding junk into that ecosystem that wouldn't be too welcome. What we use are biodegradable natural soaps. I've always used them (presuming that they were probably better for my body's health as well), so it wasn't anything for us to change up. I use Dr. Bronner soap, Sapo Hill Soap, and Amber uses Avalon Organics shampoo and conditioner. I used gray water at my old homestead (which I presently rent out to a family). They just use crap soap in the kitchen sink which drains to the greenhouse there and when I went there recently, the greenhouse at that place was a freaking DEAD ZONE. When I was there using my soaps, the greenhouse area that got watered was bursting with life. So yeah, it seems to make a difference. The only thing that I put down my current drains that I feel is questionable is that I occasionally use Mr. Clean Magic Erasers for cleaning the tub and shower. IDK if they're necessarily bad, but given that they're made of some sort of synthetic polymer and that bits wear off and go down the drain as part of the cleaning process, I have my doubts on how 100% great of a practice that is... but to be honest, the biggest reason I'm suspicious about them is that they work SO well to clean. It seems too good to be true - there's gotta be a down-side if you get my feeling there. I hope that answer helps.

@@PraxisPrepper oh yah, pretty interesting. I figured all that stuff would build up after awhile of use.

@@justinm3259 From what I could see, the switch to the synthetic soaps took down the garden plants pretty quickly once the new people were in. I presume some amount of synthetic material could be handled by a gray water garden, but "normal people" level use of the synthetic stuff seems to be unhandleable.

CP is one of my favorite prepping channels for sure. I hope you find my channel useful. I'm gonna be releasing a video in a few days about what things are here to check out that people might want to see.

I see you enjoyed the Wes Anderson opener. :)

I'm always open to chatting about possible collabs. Shoot me an email at PraxisPrepper@gmail.com and we can discuss.

Does it stick out like a sore thumb? That would depend on the area in which it's situated. Did I show the area in this video such that one could determine whether this house sticks out? I did not. Can someone in your position know that they're correct in making a statement like that based on what facts they knew? No. Could you be right by accident? Yes. Are you? Having not shared any info on the surrounding area, only I know for sure... but I'd be a pretty dumb prepper if I created the situation that you imagined and described wouldn't I?

Yeah, north=south, south=north. I've thought about that very thing and I don't know if I moved to the southern hemisphere if I'd ever get used to the idea of the warm breezes coming down from the north or a cold south wind. We develop such associations with where we grow up that the north for me is always the cool direction and the south is always the warm one.

Yea...don't your toilets flow backwards? That could get messy.

@@Countingtheday6 I saw a Simpsons episode that informed me that the government has solved that problem. ;)

@@Countingtheday6we also walk upsidedown

You're only the second person to have noticed what I was trying to do there. I think most people just think it's me being weird for weird's sake. ;)

I understand your perspective, but I'm not sure that preparedness is as narrow as you suggest. A house like this is useful for a wide variety of situations. Many of ancestors of the past (who were 100% all preppers by default) lived in wooden houses. And while it's true that a wooden house can't withstand wildfire (uncommon in my area), arson (currently uncommon, but that could change), or gun fire, a structure like this is beneficial under most circumstances. Even a structure built of concrete or steel has limitations. Both will withstand fire, but (unless you're talking about thick steel plates) only concrete will withstand gunshots. Neither can withstand a tank, nor (in all likelihood a prolonged siege by dedicated marauders). And a direct strike from a meteor or missile, also are unlikely to be survivable. So whatever structure one chooses, nothing is guaranteed; it just comes down to when one feels that they've covered enough bases. In the end, the only real 100% plan is an inner understanding that whatever provisions have been made, the need to start over from scratch might be required (paired with the knowledge to make a go at doing so). Let me know how that thinking hits you. I know it's a common idea that to be prepared for the dangers of the world, it's an all or nothing choice. I don't see it that way though.

I'll miss some of the discussions we've had. Obviously you're free to stop watching my videos, but I feel that (since we've interacted before and I have regard for your thoughts and welfare) I think it's not a good idea in general to stop listening to someone who you've found helpful in the past due to them having a connection with someone that you don't respect. It seems like you're tossing out something of value for... I'm not sure what purpose? Like I said, you should do what you think is right, but disconnecting with people based on friends or associates of that person seems like a way to make the world less-connected as opposed to more connected - and in a world where people fragment up into their hive-mind camps so much like they do, I don't think following that lead is a good idea either for one's self, or the society at large. If you do stop popping over to my videos, I'll miss your insights. I'll keep doing what I've always done... which is generally dull content about doing actual things that most people aren't interested in. ;) Best luck to you either way. But consider what I said. Our world needs more people to bridge divides vs. build walls between us.