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Building Off the Grid

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  • 2014–
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Building Off the Grid (2014)
Documentary

Adventurers and their teams battle Mother Nature to build unique homes in remote areas. From Montana to the North Pole, from yurts to log cabins to Earthships, will they build in time to bea... Read allAdventurers and their teams battle Mother Nature to build unique homes in remote areas. From Montana to the North Pole, from yurts to log cabins to Earthships, will they build in time to beat their deadlines?Adventurers and their teams battle Mother Nature to build unique homes in remote areas. From Montana to the North Pole, from yurts to log cabins to Earthships, will they build in time to beat their deadlines?

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    • Jake Rademacher
    • Ross Huguet
    • April Phelan
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      • Jake Rademacher
      • Ross Huguet
      • April Phelan
    • 15User reviews
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    • Self
    • 2019–2024
    Aaron J. Humphrey
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    • 2015
    Steven Andrew Novy
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    Don Lee
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    Mick Foley
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    • 2017
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    Gregg Smith
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    Samantha Inman
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    Sonia Havill
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    3kas-95974

    Safety

    Forget the intended drama for this type of show. After having worked on an industrial site where safety was driven into our very beings...go home in the same condition as you did when you arrived for work...I am disgusted at the MASSIVE amount of safety violations these people commit. Proper use of gloves, shoes (one man did a show barefoot), safety glasses, tying off/harnessing, lack of respect for nature, improper use of tools because of lack of knowledge...the list is endless. The show should be ashamed to air something with such disregard of personal safety. I've known people to lose limbs due to their shortcuts; people have died because they didn't pay attention to a live electrical boards; and costly mistakes are common when a communication process isn't in place. You have an opportunity to showcase the necessary and appropriate way to do things, and yet, this far, you have failed.
    6denise-88152

    ...just came back from the beauty salon...

    Oh my! First, I'm amazed with folk who attempt building off the grid and truly don't think through the details of the process. Second, why do the wives all have their full face make up on, hair swinging down voluptuously....; no dirt...? I guess their concern is more the camera and TV than the build! Silly females!! So i guess the show is more fake than it'll admit to!!
    3kaptgb

    Amazing Hollywood action

    So I watched one or two episodes. The first was about Northern America in the glaciers... Respectable. The second was in an area of great Bushland.... Hollywood drama to the max. The cut scenes made out like there was some fantastic hardships. And perhaps there were, but the exaggerated drama lost me when the people filmed made it obviously appear worse for the camera than it likely was.....

    Not true to the experience that was portrayed from what was filmed. Over drama for the sake of film.
    7netjaymz64

    I really like this show.... but

    A couple of things I would like addressed. 1) the safety issue brought up here before 2) slow the dram and 3) and most important I want more information on the "off grid" part. If they living there full time, is it a vacation home? What about septic? Plumbing? Or bathroom issues in general none of that is every discussed and is a major point of living off the grid. What we can't talk about composting toilets? I would like more details on the solar systems, how many watts? What kind of batteries? Where is their battery storage? I would also like to see follow up. What's it like to live off the grid? What changes did they have to make, what didn't work? What did they have to add/take away/fix.
    8cabledad-51050

    creative

    Definitely, some creative ideas with homes.

    BTW svader, I feel the same way when I see British TV in the US. I mean really, driving on the Left side of the road, people can get killed doing that.

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      • January 26, 2014 (United States)
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      • 野地造屋
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      • Dorsey Pictures
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      • Warm Springs Productions
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