How we Shower, use the Bathroom and Wash Our Clothes with No Running Water 

Hallo Kalle, I use a camping washing machine. You can fill the water in with buckets. There is a short washing program of about half an hour, and a separat for draining. It works very well for me. Even my Garden Clothes are clean, and the draining ist really good. I need 2 buckets of water to wash and another to buckets to clear. Maybe this could help you. Good Luck

If Christine gets her way, you'll have horses for her to ride to her parent's summer house for showers and laundry!

Just thought; if you hang the clothes you are going to change into by the fire before the shower, you will have heated/warmed clothes when you come back in. Food for thought anyways

I can get you running water to the house...... look at how the moonshiners use it do it grab a garden house make a small damn and the water will build pressure up and put it to the house or Hydraulic Ram Pump you can build or by these either or will work you can also youtube them as well this would be the simplest all you would need is someway to heat it like a propane on-demand hot water heater and some way to store it... just remember an old northern wood tick showed you how ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H4e6-tu0g24.html or ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kHLxjPOYbRY.html

Hi, first video i have watched of yours, I do appreciate the wisdom and encouragement.

Excellent ideas! 😊

The styrofoam is a huge difference! I lived a short time in Alaska & we had an outhouse with Styrofoam. My friends have lived for many years this way. About 2 to 3 nights a week we heated a huge container of water on the propane stove (very spoiled) and several took it out to the steam bath. A separate little building with a wood stove, benches, containers of cold water to drink. With little kids, you put a wire fence barrier in front of the stove, just in case. We usually had our steam bath with my partner, his brother & sister-in-law (some times a few friends). The kids were old enough to stay in the cabin for abt 1/2 hour (without killing each other) so the adults had time to relax & talk before we called the kids out. They loved making "snow angels" and sometimes watching the Northern lights before going into the cabin. I just started watching these videos (1/2024). Reminded me of some wonderful times in my life. Have a wonderful new year!!

Awesome! That's my dream some day.

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Yes ... and look like a cannibal's dinner in the process of taking a bath! LOL

@@SherryAnnOfTheWest Hehe - but really, it would be practical - you can boil your sheets clean in it, and any linen and cotton clothes, if not too color-sensitive, and you can splash water around if placed in the sauna or outdoors. Of course it must stand a little downstream and down hill from the place where you fetch drinking water, but not so many steps. BTW, if you live in such a clean environment as Kalle does, you don't get very dirty at all, which is a great plus. The cities make us dirty. 🙂

That is perfect to do laundry in to!

@DNA350ppm that is nonsense; of course, you get very dirty out in the country

@@randybobandy9828 Yes, it happens, if you work directly with the soil or with animals that are dirty. Of course if you get sweaty from other work, too, but you shouldn't, when it is so cold that there's snow and all. You then should just work in an even pace. When you make fire or something, there shoudn't be soot, it is a sign of ineffective combustion. The snow in the countryside of the type where Kalle lives, is clean, as long as there are not sources of pollution nearby.

Yes! And the benefits of fasting, cold showers etc are starting to be better understood!

Joh! But I hate cold water. We have very mild winter in South Africa

We are indeed perfectly set up for the seasons. Our eyes are brighter in colour for improved night vision. Our skin is pale so we get more vitamin D from the sun. And when we take cold baths, our body builds up brown fat, that keeps us warm. And when we get too cold, we shiver, because vitamin D is stored in the white fat and we shiver because the body goes into the white fat. And then there's more I'd forgotten.

He could build a Swedish hot tub. I'd love one

And when we lived very basically our life expectancy was much much less... Just saying.

Oh woe nice

we have only one bathroom, wich my husband soaks his bad back for hours, ugg so i have a camper potty that i use indoors when its cold, it has a seat ,by the back door, i just open the back door if needed and i use that, way better than having an accadent lol

@@sandrajohnson5624 We also have only one bathroom. We have an understanding that if he is in the tub area and the toilet is not occupied, then he will close the shower curtain while I use the toilet. This only happens in "emergencies"; and in order to keep such emergencies to a minimum, he will ask me if I need to use the toilet before he takes a shower. And I will offer him the same opportunity. We have a potty chair in another room in the rare event we both need to answer nature's call at the same time. We also have a mobile home on our property that we use for storage, but the toilet in the mobile home is sometimes too far away to reach when "the pain hits". Then again, there's always adult diapers, a 5-gallon bucket, a bed pan, gender-specific urinals, or simply a trash can. Like you mentioned, it's way better than having an accident.

Yes! Those are great suggestions.

Also you can just place planks top of the stone posts and let water drain from the bottom with 10mm gaps between the boards (for ventilation that takes moisture away and lets it dry even when completely wet. Also reason why old buildings last longest since it can dry even if say roof leaks).. just dont drop you phone or such under it cause that will suck to retrieve. Other option is concrete floor with drain in the lowest spot that runs under ground into hole other side of the hill compared to pond, so anything flushed wont end up into stream or pond and there end of a pipe you just put in lots of rocks under ground, maybe little earth separation fabric to keep stuff filling between rocks. Water flows there and eventually seeps into the ground, though look your local regulations regarding this since you might not get to build this no longer as new construction depending on the local code. Once it gets cold you need to drain the stove boiler, unless you build the sauna into the house it self to keep that area above freezing point, but for moisture control its better to have it separate building bit further from the house it self so incase of fire it wont spread to house it self.

@@Hellsong89 Placing the sauna in a separate building far from the house is a great suggestion. And, depending on the underground temperature in the area, a tunnel could connect the two structures. Boards or some other material could be used as flooring/walkway to avoid contacting the earth on the bottom of the tunnel.

Wash tub. Growing up in Wyoming temporary can get to 20+ below. There is way better ways

I agree. Did washtubs growing up for many years

Yeah i agree. He also have power in the House. So the solutions are endless.

He could wear a pair of flip-flops instead of going barefoot.

@spottedlizard23 Thank you! Your comment is, for me, a slice of common sense I missed here, despite the drama of someone pouring water on themselves.

@tammylong5945 How do you collect the water from the floor?

That's one of the best things about this place 🥰

@@KalleFlodin Yes, I cannot image how good it feels! Since I tried drinking spring water at my parents place, cannot go back to the city water. I hope to one day have my own place with water spring like that ☺

Reckon it will be fantastic compared to the awful piped stuff sent through towns and cities... Our town only tests for 30 toxins yet we know there are thousands

Rinse your soap in the eiver/ stream?? Hell no

@@susanlea7759 there’s non-toxic soap that has all natural ingredients like dr Bronners soap. It’s vegan organic and cruelty-free

@@LezgoBrandon as a backpacker i am well aware of Dr Bronners etc. How many average folk use it?? Few. Very few. People are stupid. Work retail for just a few days and you'll be amazed at the stupidity. Then go out on a 3 night hike and see their stupidity as they destroy nature.

@@susanlea7759 yes, no surprises here. I’ve lived and worked in Yosemite for 2 years and I’ve seen it all. One time someone drove to wash his jeep in the lake, while people were swimming nearby.

Yes a hot tub would double as a bath and a wash tub to boil the clothes.

Same here..

@annesmith7548 Very practical, smart, and well planned.

Thank you! Couldn't agree more 😊

Lololololololololololololololol @ where the monsters waited. I hated that outhouse setup. I was like 2 seconds in and out. So grimey and in no way interesting.

That's why I don't read the comments 😉 I'll just do my own thing instead 🙂

Standing water (and the tank) doesn’t necessarily stay clean enough to drink especially in the summer when the water would get warmer in the tank. It’d probably need to be boiled before it can be used. A Berkey wouldnt be enough at that point. Water in the stream never stops running so bacteria doesn’t grow.

Of course you don't drink the water directly from the water tank that's obvious 😂 The whole idea is about stocking in a way that you don't need to go in and out of the cabin everytime just to pick a few liters, that's a huge waste of time and effort The wole idea is to get a pipe through the wall so he can have a stock a water without having to go out everytime But of course everybody knows that the water from that pipe, you then put it in a filter, like the one he have in his video (that's why I recommand it) The kind of filter he have with natural pressure, it's doing all the work so all he need is a stock of water So after your process in your cabin should be : Put water from the river to the water tank > take the water from the tank to the filter > take water from filter to any use In that way you save hundreds of hours through the years and you don't need to go outside for water in winter (For a person having visited hundreds of cabins in the Alps or in different mountains I know pretty much what I'm talking about and it's pretty common) For example in the beginning of that video, you can see exactly what I'm talking about : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JdfnRoVMnjw.html

​@@dominicpardo4783 That felt strange to me sometimes to wonder why Kalle Flodin is still strugglin after like one year or more in his cabin. It really looks like sometimes he makes it way more difficult that it needs to be. I'm following a lot of people from different countries that are doing the same type of projects like living Off Grid and... basically it's very easy and cheap, all you need is some skills in bricolage and that's all. You just put like 2 or 3 years maximum of hard work you're done for life. And for Kalle Flodin, his cabin was even ALREADY built... so it's just a matter of a few renovations and that's it. Come some guys like Erik Grankvist built his entire cabin himself, alone and from absolutely 0 and it just took him 1 year to build 80% of the structure. When I look at Kalle Flodin's cabin it's like... man just bring a good worker for like a week and he is going to fix and bring a lot more comfort and autonomy to the place in just a few days for a very low cost. So... it's rather like this guy is really not smart or good at bricolage (but come on he must know the basics) or he must be really really broke but... once again, he is making it more worst than it needs to be, because it's a bad circle that you can break with so cheap and smart investments. So yeah, more and more I watch this channel and more and more it really looks like the guy is looking like a city person that have absolutely no idea of what he is doing and is just playing the "I'm trying to leave my dream but it's so difficult and I'm so poor"... but it's start to be annoying at one point when you see on the other side, hundreds of people doing way better, way faster, with sometimes no budget. I even know some grandmas who are living in like cabins in 1000 meters altitude and doing all themselves so... yeah it's very strange at one point. And he is making it even worse when the guy is creating more and more videos to just complain and complain and says "look how it's difficult to live in a cabin"... no it's not, some guys lives in cabin even rougher, in deep Canada or US, and completely remote, and they have been like that for 40 years, and it's just fine when you know what you're doing. And even in this case it's not even remote.... bro you're living in Sweden wich is literaly in Europe, probably one of the most condensend continents with a city every 30 kilometers or so. I have some russian friends who are living in Sibera and they need to drive like 1 hour or more to just get to the nearest civilization. And he is always pushing the "I'm living in the middle of the woods"...yeah but it's the same as living in the middle of the fields in England, it's just not sounds as "sexy" but it's basically the same. It's not because you have just 5 minutes of driving with only woods around your house that you are "in the middle of nowhere". You're just... 5 minutes away from the main road.... that's it. And he even show in his video like "look I'm living like 20 minutes from a very good city with everything you can dream of".... yeah sooo you're basically not living in "a cabin in the middle of nowhere", you're just living like a random guy in normal swedish country side, you can take your car and go to the grocery store in just 20 minutes like.... pretty much 80% of people that are living in european country side... My parents have exactly the same configuration in the middle of France, so nothing special at all I just don't understand. Just take a look at a channel like Jonna Jinton, she is just killing it and buildt a huge business. Or even Martijn Doolaard in the Italian Alps, the guy have done 3 times more in a few months, with only basic bricolage skills, than Kalle Flodin since the beginning. So it's very strange to see a guy in a hamster wheel, infinitely complaining about "help me it's hard" when.... it's literaly like 4 or 6 months work and it's done. If I had the exact same property, man... I bring 2 or 3 friends and we take over the work. In about 1 week all electricity and water autonomy system is done. In 1 month all isolation is done and heating is solved. In 2 months all other systems around the house to make it work is done. All the storage inside the house, a little bit of prepping, 2 or 3 months of stock with basic stuff to avoid going out in cold winters. And after all the details would take just one month and everything is done. Even a terrible roof, if you're 2 or 3 persons it's like a one month work and that's all. And all that... with the roof included, would be less than 10k€ and the roof is the most expensive, because without it it's less than 5k€ 5k€ and you're self sufficient for basically your entire life. The only thing after it's starting to plant vegetables and try to reach food autonomy, that's the only part that is constant work and is not absolutely necessary.

He doesn't keep a container because it would freeze and crack in the winter. I live way south of him but it doesn't even work here during winter. So when the temperature gets closer to -30 celsius, you will wake up to a huge bang, when the frozen water cracks the container. Ice cracks concrete if you're not careful. Plumbing in cold climates is a big thing you have to think a lot about. It's not possible to just put a random water tank anywhere and just expect it to work 😆 even his spring of moving water, which he works continuously, gets frozen over with thin ice. So for him to get running water inside, he pretty much has to do some modern plumbing with buried pipes.

@@HolyPineCone I've never heard of a metal container doing that... even in the coldest temperature so there's must be something wrong with yours... except if you're buying some shitty quality plastic stuff. But a basic metal water container is never going to crack. Some guys have containers in Siberia, just do it with common sense, you're talking about obvious details that don't even need to be explained 🤣 And of course you're not going to do you're plumbing during cold temperature... you have to do it BEFORE it's cold. Now it's too late. You do you're exterior work in summer and your interior work in winter. That's the most basic of basics. Guys the whole idea don't needs 300 pages of explanation and excuses about details that don't even need to be mentioned in the first place if you have a minimum of common sense. The whole idea is just that there's a lot of different things he should do very quickly (or should have done months or years ago) that would make his life so easier but for some mysterious reasons he makes his own life harder by not doing it and he still act like he just arrived in his cabin like 3 weeks ago when he has been there for years... something is really wrong. When you get to a cabin like that, the first thing you do is you make sure your electricity, plumbery, water and all the basics are done within the first month's because if not, you're going to consistently struggle with the rest and each task is going to take 3 times more long than it should be. A friend of mine bought a cabin like that completely empty. The first room he did was the bathroom, the second was the kitchen. Surprise. And in his own words about all the other rooms "the rest is luxury"

Check out Amish videos on how they wash their clothes, some of the communities do not believe in electricity or modern appliances. They make and sell a nice but rather expensive washing machine: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ne0otNxjOTs.html

A wooden washing dolly would be perfect.

Also taking a sponge bath using a face cloth is very good for your skin because you rub your skin, it is also good to use lemon juice in your water, when you are threw with all parts of your body soak your feet, you can be inside, been for years, you are sure to be clean. He needs to take the thing he hauls wood on he can haul up more water at a time, make it much easier.

Happy to see you here Brian 😍

@@KalleFlodin happy to be here

Thank you 😊