Link to costing video - • $60k modern home build... Join us on our journey of retirement in the Philippines. @buildingthephilippines #anniversary #philippines #construction
Some great information as to location and the power issues and solar power!! Yes definitely would like the cost breakdown! Congratulations 🎊 looking forward to retirement!
Love your channel - thank you for sharing all you've learned ! We have bought land in Padre Burgos in Southern Leyte this year, and will be building before we retire in ~5/6 years - excited to get started !!
Happy first anniversary guys. Wish you the best for the coming years. You deserve a double thumb up for all the good work you did to get this beautiful home. love and respect to you Greg and Wilma! Thanks a lot for all your good advices and wise opinions.
Great update! Your place is gorgeous... You've done an excellent job with the whole process... The location is perfect, and the landscaping plus pool are icing on the cake! Congrats, and I'm looking forward to more! 🙏🙏🙏 👍😎👍
The new format went really well, and so happy that the first year went very well. Looking forward to the new projects that will be going on. Wilma wants a clean dirty kitchen😊. I have always said you have a million dollar view just looking out the front window. Be well and enjoy. Always here to see what you guys are up to, before making my way there in 2025.
WOW hard to believe it has been ONE year. GREAT VIDEO. Your home is beautiful and agree with all the new item projects. The weather here in the Hudson Valley has been very unusual. A section of Orange County was hit hard the other day with rain, winds and electrical loss. You both look great and enjoy watching -- I think I have been watching from the beginning of your channel. Take care and be safe. P.S.--Prince is a beauty.
Love the new video edit, great job guys! It's very useful to hear this recap, and I'm very interested in prices of materials and services today, as Angie and I will be building soon! Watching from Savannah, Georgia. Hope to be back soon ♥️👍🏻
Thank for a intresting video and coming video about the cost today,And I also looking forward to see a video of Prince...I think I am not alone...thank you in advance..John.
Plac looks great! Congrats on your 1st year anniversary! We’re planning on early retirement to PI in October. We’ll rent for the first year searching for our Happy Place. We’re planning to search in Mindoro and within a couple of hours of Manila where my wife’s family is. Definitely looking for ocean views with an elevation for sure! 👍 Happy Memorial Day from America 🇺🇸. ✌🏻
congrats on the 1 year anniversary guys .have been watching since the first shovelful . you should trademark the design and blueprints of your place and make a few bucks from the "franchise" houses that may pop up around the area ..would be easier for many to have a model home like yours to look at and less time with engineering and architect work ... sure i would have done some things different but it is not my house . it all turned out great and you 2 are happier than ever .
Love your house. Been watching your videos for about a year. My wife is from Dumaguete so I have been visiting there for over 24 years. When I first went there it was a small sleepy town with almost no expats.
@Milos.L yes, people definitely build that way here. Especially, OFWs. The only concern is keeping an eye on where your money is going. Might be hard to be sure where your money is going over such a long build time.
Been with you since you moved in. Wow, that flew by! Starting our pool build next month with our Building the Philippines inspired pool! Follow if you’d like to see it unfold!
Cograts on your build, 6 months into my build here in Ormoc you mentioned tiling outside deck, i suggest nonslip tiles, pay a little more but worth it in the end, especially rear end!! GL✌️
Congratz on 1 year! Yes, have been second guessing whether I want to build a home just because of the stress and requirements to be on site. Liked the transition to the drone view at the beginning. On the dirty kitchen, don't you want to have the breeze coming through to make it cooler? Don't forget about adding the extra water tank. Does your original $60k US cost for the build include the solar? Know you said the solar cost about $10k US. Its hard to tell but it looks like the main room may have baseboards, maybe consider doing all the rooms too. Love your home though, it's great, especially the pool, love it. Thanks for the video, Wilma and Greg...Jim
Yes, there is stress building here. Dirty kitchen is too dirty with the open side. Will need to vent for smoke. Solar was an add on. $7k to take build to $67k. Yes, did do baseboards in main room and master bedroom. Will do baseboards in the 2 other bedrooms as well.
we will be moving to the PI in the next two to three months. We will be going back and watching all your videos about looking for the land and the entire build process to help us get where we want yo be within a couple of years.
Already a year what a roller coaster! Well I have been in the garden. The spring weather has been crazy! Ann is finally getting back on her regular schedule for Doctors appointments. She is still on a liquid diet. Hope you guys get some rain. I would love to see some rain without the hail and Tornadoes ..
Wow, very surprised it has been one year since you completed your house. Everything looks great, especially the pool! About the dirty kitchen, perhaps you should consider a sliding patio door to close off the open end and install ventilation fan(s) above if needed to keep the dirty kitchen cooler.
Would have liked to see the video take up the whole screen though. Once my parents pass away, we will most likely move back to the Philippines. We have 11 1/2 acres in my wife's village. I have plans for solar, battery backup and all the nice things.
Hey Guys. Congratulations on your one year anniversary of your beautiful home completion. In regard to your motorized gate. Ensure you get enough remotes included for all your vehicles and a key pad for your house. Our keypad is about 20 yards from our motor and it is roughly 70% effective. You guys have a long distance from inside your home and your gate. I would recommend you ensure you get a key pad that can control the motor from inside your home. Thanks for the your time. Be safe.
Sir you did a great job. Congrats very impressed: please don’t do crown molding it will take away from modern look and start to make your home look mismatch
Another Philippines vlogger (It’s Me) recently did a cost update from when he built his house a couple of years ago. He lives about an hour or 2 outside of Duma. I think that the cost of nearly everything (materials, labor, appliances, etc…) went up 20-25%. His location might have a little to do with the extra cost of things as well. You should do one too. You know things went up, it’s just a matter of how much. It will give your viewers of how much things cost now.
A beautiful home, no matter what country you are in. When a home is build the way you want to, to your own needd and taste, nothing can beat that, no matter the money....oh, and the video is good too :) Cost are going up like crazy everywhere...but also the people are starting to ask for crazy $$$$$ too, so definately not as affordable as it was when you guys locked' in the price.
You very well may start a consulting company if you were looking to get some additional income. My house in Dallas, TX had a pool with a connecting hot tub. The hot tub and 1/3 of the pool had a very nice carport type structure that was connected to the house which also created a nice patio area. Lighting and a couple outdoor ceiling fans created a 24/7, 365 days that this pool/hot tub/patio area could be used (except for lighting, thunder storms, and tornadoes). Even the patio deck was cooler to walk on. Congratulations on getting this done and not pulling your hair out. A real showcase for the $60k cost.
Im in 80k Payed off but its Everything From small truck to equipment to build, Love your place, In USA building Tiny for Spring Summer stays, about complete 25k, Pretty Crazy costs, Great move. ♥️🇵🇭the philippines, Looking at a farm now there, Good lord, Be Safe, God Bless
Greg and Wilma, provide your pool with a sun shade, there are different options: best may be uv rated tight screen /net type material , stretched in frame on a few columns Greetings Ted and Hannah
My experience with uPVC ceilings, is that if you get the wrong material, it warps. And over time, the ceilings will be wavy in appearance. Also need proper ventilation
I'm actually in the middle of stretching a different design for the master bedroom. Trying to challenge the contractor to try something different. Stay tuned.
@@buildingthephilippines~ Did you say you will be doing this to keep the room warmer? I'm near Manila and I can't imagine needing to keep a room warmer. It sounds like you get almost Tagaytay cool there.
@@buildingthephilippines Its amazing what you build with so little money. I'm Asian American and someday wish to return back to Vietnam... and build something like this.. I can't even fathom something like this can be build for $60K.. even at $100K I think will be kinda hard
You guys have beautiful house & property to dream ❤ but while watching it something is missing. Perhaps a palm tree 🌴 next to bahay kubo or line up to your side fence it will look more tropical 😁 sorry for my 1 cent opinion.
I think you are confused about what the term "Brown out" actually means. The correct term is "Black out" since the power goes out. A brown out refers to a temporary degradation/drop in voltage level (i.e., dimming lights or flickering).
Lol, the entire country calls a power failure a brown out. Black out, brown out or power failure it's all the same. If you have solar you won't experience either of the three.
If it was my house I would consult a contractor about the idea I have on what I would do for a divider for the "dirty kitchen". Before the "nay sayers" jump in and comment that wouldn't be a very strong divider and what would happen to it during high winds or a vacation away from home while said bad weather may happen. The answer is the same for both complaints, just retract the divider against the wall and then clean the dust or leaves, after those periods which shouldn't happen very often. Now to what I would do, I would do a divider with panels hinged together that run on tracks both on top and bottom, it would be really a clean look if both ceiling and floor tracks were imbedded. The bottom one it would be a must. The tracks would run across the floor and ceiling leading to a curve that would guide the panels to the track running against the wall. The closer the 2 sets of wheels on the panels, two on top and two on the bottom, the smaller the radius of the curve. If like on the closet doors in the USA they would be mirror panels, once the divider was closed they would reflect the ocean complementing and enhancing the look of the whole house facing the ocean, and when open they would make the space seem far bigger. A panel could be a door on either side or more in the middle and another a window. When the dirty kitchen would be in use the open panels would allow for breezier and cooler space with the added bonus of enjoying the ocean view not being permanently barred by a permanent divider. It's just any idea, constructive criticism highly appreciated.
Well thought our comment. I will consider a retractable wall. Would need to be ordered and shipped in from another country though. This area, construction is pretty vanilla.
@@buildingthephilippines Mahalo, thank you in Hawaiian. Your house is stunning, awesome job and congratulations to both of you. It seems to me that the only parts you could possibly need would be the rollers, the tracks could possibly made out of would, a router should do the trick, the panels could just 1/4 plywood on both sides of a wooden frame to make a hollow panel to which the mirrors would be attached to. Channel iron would be my choice, it has three solid sides and a "the fourth has a "notch" down the center perfect for the rollers mounting shaft and narrow enough to keep the rollers in place. Plus it would be fairly simple to make the curves needed, the iron just needs to get hot enough to be bent around something round with the radius needed, if one couldn't be found around concrete "stump" with a pin attached to it to hold the iron in place as it bends. So it's just a matter of finding rollers that will fit the channel iron and voila you have your retractable divider. the cost should be fairly cheap and quick and easy to do. If a window is installed I would place a mirror on the wall where the window would be when the divider was retracted so to have a continuous mirror wall even if somewhat affected by the window. I apologize for intruding in your dream house plans, I really don't like to do intrude in other people's dreams, but sometimes I just can't seem not to, for that I'm sorry. Best wishes and health to both of you. Much Aloha
Great video. Amazing your home has no cracks even with the hot dry climate and ground shifting. Quality materials is a must. About how much did you pay for the concrete and type? Looking at building concrete bamboo house. Did you ever have issues with workers chaning materials or problem with labor in general? Sorry for all the questions. We already have land. She purchased land long before we met. Cool climate rarely gets hot and lots of rain.
@@buildingthephilippines great to hear from you. I’m an American. I told my Filipina wife that your house was the type of house I want to build. We plan to move to Palawan in 5 years
For those of us out of the loop, would be nice to know the basics: 60k. home only ? or home and land ? if land too, whats the size of the land and where located (roughly, doesnt need to be exact). home specs. # bedrooms, bathrooms, etc.
Love your videos only been sub for a few months. Fellow 10% + 1 4yld. Going to build in Dipolog. Could you tell me what your sqm or sqft of the house is. Couldn't find it in your vids. Trying to make my own budget. Thanks for the great job you do providing info. Your vids have helped me understand a lot of things.
I am starting to build a home that looks a lot like yours on the exterior. Especially the roof line. With a parapet on 3 sides with it draining on the backside. I thinking that it will be a 9ft 10inch to a 9 foot slope. What is the slope on yours and does it drain out the back? Any suggestions ? You will be able to see the whole roof from the backside of the house. Thanks for the video it helps a lot.
Our shed type roof is pitched 5 degrees. The water sheds over our 10 foot back wall. We built the wall one meter on our property and built a concrete drain. All rain water from the roof goes off the property.
@buildingthephilippines watched the video great system. Been doing lots research myself. FYI, 6000 cycle or 8 years on that battery should mean 20% degradation after 6000 full cycles.. so you will still have 80% capacity after that. So the battery will take you well past the 8 yr mark
At your elevation, how much air con do you have to use? Do you keep it on there in the main room during the day? It’s a beautiful home and area. I’d love to find similar lot over here on the west side of Negros island - nearer to family in Bacolod and Guimaras island.
At 640 meters you don't need any aircon at all. We are using it during the day due to the construction dust next store. Once construction is over and screens are back in, there is no need for aircon.
Yes, as much as you can. No landslides, earthquakes usually on the east coast of the country, and the volcano dormant for 600 years. Typhoons usually miss this Island. All of that probably means nothing anyway.
Our water flows really good here. The issue is not lack of water, in my opinion, it's all the leaks from the black piping that's along side the road. So many leaks, we see it everyday.
