But that changes depending on where exactly you've looked. If you've looked off the road system, generally, you can get building materials to a place approximately once a year. On the road system, once you leave Fairbanks or Southcentral, it is kind of a pain in the ass. "More remote towns." I'm afraid you're going to have to be more specific, as that answer changes depending on where you're looking at. How difficult is it to get building materials in these more remote towns? Is that realistic? This is assuming our land purchase and any building is done in cash. How much income does one need to sustain a lifestyle like this? We would still like to be able to travel for a couple months in the winter which (after we subtract our travel budget) we would end up with about $30k/year in income.
How difficult is it to find land that is on(or pretty close to) a decent waterway and a decent distance from anyone else? What kind of a budget do I want to plan for land purchase? How difficult is it to get building materials in these more remote towns? How much more expensive is something like a sheet of plywood? (a 2x4x8 is about $2.50 here for reference). We would like to find a place to build a cabin on a river that we could use to get to a small town (and fly out to a larger town when we want to travel). We were considering cashing out in about 6 or 7 years and spending 3 or 4 years in Alaska making sure we really like it up there and are prepared to live up there. We both work in the medical industry and I own a preservation company so we both have more than enough construction skills to build a nice cabin. This would be part of a 10 year plan for us. My wife and I are in our early 30's and have started to consider the possibility of coming up to southern Alaska and building an isolated cabin. To finish, they stained the exterior and filled the interior with unique little pieces of handmade furniture.Ok I know this has probably been done to death already, but I figured this is different enough from the standard "I'm 22 and drowning in debt I want to run away" post to warrant a post. To roof the cabin they build two gable walls and then built a frame to lay their roof onto. They used post foundations to raise their log cabin off the floor, and started to lay their logs using a saddle-notch. Their planning stage involved a late night sat up together searching for land, and when they came across a piece of land that was not only in their dream place in Alaska, it was also affordable – they snatched it up. They followed five basic steps in their build planning, foundations, logs, roof and exterior finish.
#Living off grid in alaska how to#
They had next to no building experience and at the time that they built, there wasn’t much information online as to how to build so they just figured things out for themselves as they went along. Have you ever thought about building your own off-grid log cabin? Often it seems so out of reach to people who work full-time jobs with busy lives but today we want to show that it’s entirely possible to do your own build, even if you have no building experience.Ī couple in Alaska, built their log cabin during weekends, and the exterior was complete in just 5 months.
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