>> GABRIEL: It's my house, it's not in a mortgage
to a bank that
if I lose my job I have to give it back.
It's paid.
So that's one of the things I like most.
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I've lived in my tiny house for about a year
and a half
I decided to live in a tiny house really to
prove a point that it was doable.
In Quebec.
In northern climates.
One of the winters I lived in it was the 2014/2015
It was one of the coldest winters we had since
like 100 years or so.
It was really cold.
And it only cost me $100 bucks to heat up
the whole place all winter.
My temperatures were between 17 and 25 degrees
Celsius all the time.
Really it was my solar heating that was giving
me a lot of free energy
and I only had to heat up at night with a
small electric heater.
So it was pretty much like $20 bucks per month
of heating.
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The first thing we have here is the dining
area.
We have a lot of storage underneath it.
We also have the table right here.
So we just put it there with the naval foot.
It transforms into a table
and a bed.
Up here we have a bed in the mezzanine.
We have another mezzanine at the other side
which is more for storage.
Here we have my desk, my computer, my monitor.
You have some storage under here.
We're already in the kitchen, it's not a big
house.
Here the more interesting thing that you can
see is the fridge
which runs on solar.
Completely off-grid.
For the water it runs with a solar pump.
A 12-Volt pump.
You have also...this here gives a little more
space for chopping the vegetables
or that kind of thing.
Here we took in the wall to do some storage.
These are shelves not steps.
So it's really in the wall.
And lastly we have the toilet and shower.
It's a compost toilet.
And a small shower.
And all the interior is in pine and cedar.
And it was covered in oil.
It's a mix of natural oil.
I park it in my family's backyard.
It's really quiet.
We have the river nearby and good neighbours.
So yeah, pretty much there since the beginning.
We constructed it here.
I had some fears: Could I live in such a small
space?
Will I have enough heat for the winter?
Will everything work out?
Will the house crash on the road?
Yeah, a lot of doubts.
But overall it did really well.
I can live in a small space.
I'm never too cramped.
There's a lot of space.
I don't know if you'll be able to see it on
video but
in real life it's really...it's spacious.
We have to manage resources better.
Like energy, water, it's really that sort
of thing that is challenging.
My monthly income is low but the things I
have to pay are low also.
So I don't have to work that much.
Well, I work a lot
I work too much
but I wouldn't have to, like if I had a normal
job.
I would have to work like 10-15 hours to pay
my bills.
So my bills are really low.
So yeah, it's a really great lifestyle for
people who want to live better lives,
work a little less.
It's really great.
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This here is a vertical garden system.
It's made of pouches from recycled plastic
and it's really great, you just put in
your soil,
your plants,
and when you water it, it really contains...there's
no leakage.
So it's a really good solution for small space.
And for the air quality in the house it's
really great.
This here is a box containing all the electrical
systems for the solar.
I have about 750 Watts of power on the roof.
And it powers my fridge, my lights (it's all
on LED),
USB powered things,
my solar heating (the fan inside of it),
and we also have an inverter that transforms
the 12-Volt into 120-Volts.
My water pump also.
My main heating solution is called e-Solar.
It's a wall heating solar panel
that you can see on the side of my house.
Most of my heat comes from that.
So it's really just, it's attached to the
second mezzanine and you just take it out
and there you go.
Some stairs are like, really inclinated, like
this and
I don't feel safe on those.
This one is really great.
It was made with fence posts.
Cedar and fence posts.
So it's light, durable.
My company is called MicroEvolution.
We do mostly assistance to the auto-constructor [DIY]
so I do workshops, I do construction plans,
I sell a specialized trailer.
So really I am there to help people build
their small houses
for mostly cheap, not a lot of money.
50% of a house total [cost] is labour
so when I help people auto-construct their
house
it's mostly cheaper.
A lot cheaper.
And I like it.
Really, it's cool to assist and meet super
nice people
that want to live that kind of life.
It's a really great sentiment.
It's really positive.
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