How To Build A Super Cheap Traditional Farm House In The Philippines

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]We're just about to go back to the farm now. It's been two videos that our builders have been making the videos for us. Thank you so much, guys.

[00:00:09]>> Yeah. And today we're going there in the farm again.

[00:00:12]>> This morning our neighbor came by and uh had been up on the tree and got all these mangoes. What about 12? Did you just say >> I didn't count.

[00:00:21]>> Anyway, uh 60 pesos. Not bad, eh?

[00:00:24]>> 70.

[00:00:25]>> 70. All right. Would you like to come with us?

[00:00:27]>> Let's go. Oh my gosh.

[00:00:30]>> Chill.

[00:00:31]>> You nearly went right out the front, darling.

[00:00:33]>> It's so hard to get it.

[00:00:36]>> Well, here we are at the farmhouse. And apparently there was heavy rain last night, was there?

[00:00:41]>> Mhm. I think uh it's ready to plow our uh land there.

[00:00:46]>> That's fantastic.

[00:00:46]>> I need to talk to um Natang about that.

[00:00:50]>> Yeah. Cool. And Natang is working um with us today.

[00:00:54]>> Um I don't know.

[00:00:56]>> Yeah, he is. And as you can see everyone, they're getting the bamboo across the roof now. That looks good, doesn't it, darling?

[00:01:04]>> Yeah.

[00:01:06]>> Mhm.

[00:01:07]>> Yeah. Exciting time. So, it's time to finalize the design further because we're going to have a canopy going down to the next terrace where we'll have our little splash pool next to the tilapia pond.

[00:01:21]Okay. So, Oh, yeah. Um, yeah, I would like it to go further.

[00:01:29]And then one pillar just before that big rock kind of thing so it can cover that whole terrace.

[00:01:38]>> Ah, which big rock?

[00:01:41]>> That big rock down there.

[00:01:43]>> I think that >> just No, too far.

[00:01:47]>> Yeah.

[00:01:50]It's not really strong if you're going to put like that when there's a uh pyon that's also going to Okay.

[00:02:01]>> I think you want to follow this one.

[00:02:03]>> Okay.

[00:02:08]Good morning, Papa.

[00:02:09]>> Good morning.

[00:02:11]>> What are you doing?

[00:02:15]>> Wow.

[00:02:16]Let's watch how you do it.

[00:02:20]And planting corn.

[00:02:23]>> Okay. Two or three in each hole.

[00:02:26]>> Oh, two.

[00:02:27]>> Two to three to three.

[00:02:31]>> Travel with your foot.

[00:02:34]Good morning, Chucko.

[00:02:40]>> Ah, so Chuck's making the holes and Papa follows.

[00:02:46]Nice system.

[00:02:46]>> Hello.

[00:02:50]I would say they're about 40, no 50 cm apart.

[00:02:58]How What's the distance, Papa?

[00:03:00]>> Oh, >> yep.

[00:03:02]>> Oh, >> half a meter.

[00:03:04]>> Or 2T.

[00:03:09]>> 4T.

[00:03:10]>> 4T.

[00:03:11]>> Oh, >> how many corn plants? 200 100.

[00:03:28]Mhm. I think he said he's just going to plant all the seeds he has.

[00:03:34]>> He's not too worried about how many it is.

[00:03:38]>> How's your ankle today, Papa? H >> How's your ankle today?

[00:03:43]Oh.

[00:03:53]It's okay.

[00:03:54]>> Okay, man. Okay.

[00:03:55]>> Okay.

[00:03:57]>> Hilbert said last night heavy rain.

[00:04:00]>> Oh, >> in the farm.

[00:04:02]>> Oh, >> maybe we can plow plow.

[00:04:08]>> It might be all soggy enough, wet enough to plow now.

[00:04:22]Okay. He's getting land from over there.

[00:04:25]>> The farmhouse is about 300 m that way.

[00:04:29]And to get signal, you have to walk up the hill here, usually past these rocks.

[00:04:34]And then usually you get one bar of signal right about now.

[00:05:10]What the hell?

[00:05:24]What do you call these pieces? Uh name >> truss. No pronouncing trusses. Trusses.

[00:05:31]>> Trusses.

[00:05:32]>> Okay.

[00:05:35]>> So there is bamboo.

[00:05:37]>> Installing the bamboo trusses.

[00:05:39]>> Bamboo trusses.

[00:05:47]>> Hawakilongo.

[00:05:49]Hawak.

[00:05:50]So, you use a nail and tie wire.

[00:05:55]>> The boss has just confirmed that we're going to have our pool here, but we're just going to build another separate little canopy for that because if we extend it out too far, it'll be too weak in the winds of a typhoon.

[00:06:07]>> Yeah. Do you like my idea?

[00:06:09]>> Yeah, that's very smart. Sometimes I'm I'm very feel very blessed to have such a smart woman in my life >> since I bring earlier a sheang and we don't have a uh vegetables bring here in the farm. So I think we just need to get a tango >> water spinach.

[00:06:30]>> Mhm.

[00:06:30]>> Is there anything else we can get around here?

[00:06:32]>> We can cook a u aan aan. Yeah. Over there.

[00:06:36]>> Pineapple.

[00:06:37]>> Huh? Aan aan. They call that aan aan.

[00:06:40]What's that?

[00:06:42]>> Like the ingredient. The ingredients and spinach and then you put the chicken.

[00:06:48]>> Put some soy sauce like that.

[00:06:50]>> Why don't you put some pineapple in too?

[00:06:52]That'll be >> I don't have pineapple here.

[00:06:54]>> But I saw papa was cutting the weeds.

[00:06:56]>> It's not ready yet.

[00:06:58]>> Ah, >> that's a baby pineapple. That's itchy.

[00:07:01]>> Ah, okay. We don't want that.

[00:07:04]>> What? Itchy to touch or itchy in your mouth?

[00:07:07]>> In your mouth?

[00:07:07]>> Your tongue. If you eat a a pineapple that's not ready. Oh my gosh.

[00:07:12]>> You want to try?

[00:07:13]>> Glad I learned that today.

[00:07:15]>> I might have done that if I was starving out here one day. And then >> I will just finish my rice.

[00:07:21]>> Oh, yep.

[00:07:22]>> Because I hope >> Oh, look at the fire in there.

[00:07:26]>> Coming from a western country, we would never have a fire in a house like this.

[00:07:31]>> Really?

[00:07:32]>> Yeah. That's a big no no.

[00:07:34]>> You see the wood?

[00:07:36]>> Yeah. Using anything cuz it it look there's wood all around you. It it was so easy to catch fire.

[00:07:44]>> Yeah, but we're just used to it.

[00:07:47]>> Yeah.

[00:07:48]Very ingenious.

[00:07:50]>> Can save gas. You can save money.

[00:07:53]>> Yeah. That's just bamboo. You're cooking with >> old bamboo. That's free.

[00:08:00]Nong Tandoi, people are commenting who was talking in the video.

[00:08:06]He did a good job. He should have his own channel.

[00:08:18]>> Do you do you do any do you do any videos on Facebook or anything?

[00:08:23]Facebook.

[00:08:26]Oh, you have a talent.

[00:08:30]YouTube hidden talents.

[00:08:35]You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

[00:08:48]The mother-in-law, they just put also there to next to the bamboo yesterday.

[00:08:52]And when they saw their jets filming and uh speak English, they just laughing.

[00:09:00]>> That's all right. Not many people speak English around here.

[00:09:04]>> Tandoi is uh there's only Bon Bon and Tolandoi is the only men that live around me that I can talk to.

[00:09:12]Um that's it, isn't it?

[00:09:15]>> Yeah.

[00:09:15]>> Per not really a little bit, >> but they can just >> pen pen. Pen pen. I don't know if he understands me. When I talk to him, he just goes, "Yeah, yeah."

[00:09:25]I don't know.

[00:09:26]>> Yeah.

[00:09:28]Tell us the story about your beautiful binan.

[00:09:34]>> That's the bin of your father.

[00:09:37]>> Ah Rammon >> 15 years old.

[00:09:40]>> 15 years old.

[00:09:41]>> Wow.

[00:09:43]>> Legendary.

[00:09:46]Legendary bolo. Did it used to be a lot th bigger and you you have to keep sharpening and you lose the metal? Uh before bigger, >> right?

[00:10:01]>> This is good exercise for your wrist.

[00:10:03]Cut like that. Yeah.

[00:10:06]>> Yeah. Oh my gosh. Look at the forearm.

[00:10:09]Oh, damn. Papey. Do you know Papey?

[00:10:12]>> Papey.

[00:10:13]>> Papey the Sailor Man.

[00:10:14]>> Brad. Is that Brad?

[00:10:16]>> No. Papey. He's a cartoon character from 100 years ago and he had really strong arms.

[00:10:24]when we when we uh talk about papay >> right >> uh that's the saying of the like kids >> they want to they wants to eat red papai >> papay right papai the sailor man yeah he was a he was a real person and then a cartoon creator modeled a character after him and he always smoked a pipe >> tobacco with a pipe you know pipe >> is that ai like AI >> no it's 100 years ago it's real and he had a Tastes like this.

[00:10:57]Yeah.

[00:11:02]>> Yeah. Comedy.

[00:11:03]>> Yeah. Yeah. It was one of the original original comedy cartoons.

[00:11:19]Like Mr. Ben, he did. Oh, it's like a hundred years ago. It's like old black and white.

[00:11:26]>> Ah, okay. Okay.

[00:11:29]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:11:29]>> Little black and white.

[00:11:31]>> Original cartoon.

[00:11:36]>> Another truss.

[00:11:44]Young Jennifer putting on the tie wire for this truss.

[00:11:54]So this is a traditional pay. This is how everyone builds them.

[00:11:59]>> Yeah.

[00:12:00]>> Yeah. Similar. But maybe this is a little bit stronger because there's three carpenters building this one. Huh.

[00:12:07]Sometimes it's just the farmer building it. Is that right? And his friends.

[00:12:17]Yes.

[00:12:19]What?

[00:12:26]I remember before when papa is the one we build our house here in the farm and me and Reza and papa only in the house and mama just go there in the town.

[00:12:38]We just confusing of why papa is quiet there up there.

[00:12:42]>> Yeah, >> but this bowl is just hit in the in the wood. That's why his eyes like this.

[00:12:51]>> Me and Vita were just nervous that time, >> right?

[00:12:54]>> Yeah. Papa's almost lost his breath.

[00:12:56]>> Oh my gosh. So, Papa actually built this?

[00:12:59]>> Yeah, by himself only.

[00:13:01]>> Did Toy Cho Daka or somebody help him?

[00:13:03]>> No, just Sergy and him.

[00:13:05]>> Wow. And it's quite strong and there's no concrete.

[00:13:09]>> Yeah, even the Typhoon Tino before just >> Typhoon Tino did not take this away.

[00:13:15]Oh, he's got four posts on each side.

[00:13:18]That's more than us.

[00:13:20]>> Let's have a little look at Papa's Payug.

[00:13:26]So, recycled timbers. Is this co Oh, this is this got termites from before, but doesn't matter, huh?

[00:13:35]>> Yeah. Still so strong because you use the mahogany.

[00:13:38]>> Sorry.

[00:13:39]>> Because you just used the mahogany.

[00:13:41]>> Mahogany, right? Is this all mahogany?

[00:13:44]Yeah.

[00:13:44]>> And ours is not. Huh.

[00:13:46]>> Um, there's also mahogany, >> right?

[00:13:50]>> Different wood.

[00:13:51]>> Okay. So yeah, it's just a mish mash of bamboo, mahogany, cocoa, lumber, plywood, neer, >> and recycled flashing sin, you know, and there's lots of gaps, but um it doesn't matter because you want air flow in the Philippines.

[00:14:18]>> And this is not just a wrist house. This is the This is the carton for the washing machine that I bought at the end of my first time here 2 years ago. I bought this washing machine and this carton has been here ever since papa brought it down and used it for this dividing wall >> and um it's still strong.

[00:14:39]And this is his bed here and that's where he stores things, whatever. For example, right now it's fertilizer.

[00:14:48]>> Yeah.

[00:14:50]nitrogen 21% with sulfur.

[00:14:56]>> I saw outside our neighbor's house they had bags of ura.

[00:15:01]>> Yeah, that's also fertilizer.

[00:15:03]>> And did we have ura as well and we mixed the two?

[00:15:06]>> Yeah, mama give us a because he have a uh >> um what color this?

[00:15:12]>> He have left her in the house, right? He give us one but natong is just misunderstanding and he just put to ura in our sugar cane.

[00:15:21]>> Oh >> so it's supposed to be the one ura it's here.

[00:15:25]>> Ah >> oh. So papa doesn't have any ura here.

[00:15:29]>> Uraura can make the the sugar cane tall.

[00:15:33]>> Ah >> so we need to get another one for papa.

[00:15:38]>> Yeah probably.

[00:15:39]>> Mhm.

[00:15:48]So we are going to get a uh Hangong here and I just tell to Roy that before me and Louisa we just plant her a um carrot cabbage and radish but it's also grow but since there is a plaid so it's just wash out.

[00:16:04]>> Oh looks like somebody uh had a chainsaw here.

[00:16:09]>> Yes.

[00:16:12]That's so nice.

[00:16:14]>> Oh my god, look at this stone. It's gold.

[00:16:17]>> Gold stone.

[00:16:19]>> It's a prank. Oh, >> I've been advised by my Filipina advisor not to follow her down this.

[00:16:41]>> Oh, it's right there.

[00:16:44]>> Wow.

[00:16:50]Wow, >> that's lucky.

[00:16:54]>> We'll bring some, >> right?

[00:17:04]>> Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're going to need to do that soon.

[00:17:09]These off cuts from the chainsaw cutting would make great shelves in our new farmhouse. So, I'm going to carry them back.

[00:17:18]I'll get probably laughed at, but maybe not. How's it going down there, darling?

[00:17:23]>> Yeah, I already got that.

[00:17:26]>> And the ble is fresh from the farm.

[00:17:28]>> Fresh from the farm. That's how we liked it.

[00:17:34]>> Be careful.

[00:17:35]>> My slippery.

[00:17:37]>> I know I'm your night in shining armor, but if you fall right now, there's nothing I can do.

[00:17:43]As you can see, just from that little drop down, there's um three large hoses that um are supplying three different farms.

[00:17:54]And uh there's plenty of water getting missed, too. There's plenty of opportunity for other other hoses.

[00:18:01]They're big hoses, aren't they?

[00:18:02]Expensive, aren't they, darling?

[00:18:04]>> Yeah. I don't know how much, but I think it's >> Yeah, we spent 91 m was 3,000 on the small hose. So, they must have spent 10 or 20k easy.

[00:18:19]>> Depends how long.

[00:18:20]>> How long? Huh? That's like a 2 in or 3 in pipe, huh?

[00:18:26]I'm already getting laughed at. I just put them down here so that the other guys don't see it because Rya didn't think it was worth the effort to get dirty. Oh no.

[00:18:38]I'll clean it, baby. I'll clean it. So, the guys are making kacha, which is uh it goes on top of the trusses across the roof there. And uh we can't remember the English for the uh for that kachow. So, if you know which part of the roof it goes on top of the trusses and then you know the roofing goes on top, please comment below.

[00:19:04]So, Rya is preparing the kangong.

[00:19:10]She's getting it out of the plastic bag and then what are you doing to it, darling?

[00:19:15]>> Just break it into smaller pieces. That's it.

[00:19:20]>> Yeah.

[00:19:26]So soft.

[00:19:28]>> Rya just came back with a banana leaf.

[00:19:30]What are you going to do with that, darling?

[00:19:32]>> Put inside here and put the rice.

[00:19:37]>> Oh, okay.

[00:19:50]Let's put rice inside.

[00:20:08]Legendary.

[00:20:09]>> Legendary.

[00:20:11]>> 19. Forgotten spoon.

[00:20:18]>> Smells so good. M.

[00:20:21]>> Huh?

[00:20:22]>> Yeah.

[00:20:22]>> You smell of the rice you're going to cook in the wood.

[00:20:25]>> Is that rice that papa grew?

[00:20:28]>> No, we we just have bought this before.

[00:20:30]>> You ran out of papa's rice.

[00:20:32]>> Ran out.

[00:20:34]>> So all that rice field, it's not enough for the family.

[00:20:37]>> It's just like um maybe 3 months something.

[00:20:40]>> 3 months >> since papa laid uh plant >> before. That's why >> this is my favorite part. We call this dot.

[00:20:52]>> A little bit burnt on the edges.

[00:20:54]>> Yeah.

[00:20:54]>> How do you say >> like a fried one?

[00:20:56]>> Dot.

[00:20:57]>> Dot.

[00:21:00]>> I love to eat that before when I'm was a kid. I just put a water and salt and then that's my snack.

[00:21:08]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:21:11]>> And Jennifer's got a lot of those uh pieces for the roof ready.

[00:21:29]>> Finished planting corn. Papa not finished.

[00:21:33]Oh in it. Very hot.

[00:21:55]I will just make sinigang chicken because I forgot to um to the end.

[00:22:06]>> I forgot to bring a soy sauce and vinegar.

[00:22:09]>> Supposed to be um that's right.

[00:22:16]>> Looks like no Edwin is putting the first one in. He's just marking it. Get it straight.

[00:22:26]Oh, do they cut it into the truss?

[00:22:31]Oh, yeah.

[00:22:39]Wow.

[00:22:45]Wow. Easy.

[00:22:49]>> Easy peasy for Edwin.

[00:22:52]Hello, Mr. Bamboo Man.

[00:23:38]Take that. Take them.

[00:23:59]very cool.

[00:24:03]>> This is the lunch that Rya has prepared.

[00:24:06]Got the rice with eggs, >> sineigan, >> and dried fish, noodles if we need them.

[00:24:19]>> You've done a great job, Master Chef Rya, today.

[00:24:22]>> Yeah, it's my first time cook a uh chicken and like a sineigal.

[00:24:27]>> First time.

[00:24:28]>> Good. Yeah, because I more I more on a put a pork chicken, right? Delicious, darling.

[00:24:36]Let let's learn how a Filipino eats with their hands. They got to gather the rice up >> like that.

[00:24:46]>> Oh, your hand becomes like a little bowl cuz the rice is wet.

[00:24:51]>> Yeah, >> I used to do that. You should try that, too.

[00:24:56]>> No, it'll slip right through my hands. I just I just eat my meat with my hands like this because here in the Philippines when they cut up uh chicken or pork that cut through the middle of every bone and um you can't really use a knife and fork to get all the meat off. You have to you have to get in there. And actually every every chicken bone including the drumstick long skinny one and the wishbone you throw to the dogs. Yeah.

[00:25:26]Yeah. I couldn't believe it actually when Rya told me just throw them any bone. They're all safe. In Australia, we would never throw the wishbone.

[00:25:36]Yeah. Because if um gets stuck in their throat, it's going to cost us like 10 grand at the animal hospital.

[00:25:43]But um over here, the dogs are expected to deal with it. And if they eat it wrong, then hopefully they just recover.

[00:25:54]>> We call that stop. That's my favorite dried fish.

[00:25:57]>> Sap sap.

[00:25:58]>> Mhm.

[00:25:59]>> Dried fish.

[00:26:01]>> But be careful. There's a little bit bone, but they're not really strong, >> right? So, they're not not dangerous.

[00:26:09]It's so salty. It actually is nice, though.

[00:26:12]>> Yeah.

[00:26:14]>> Do I eat the head?

[00:26:15]>> It's not stinky.

[00:26:16]>> No, not really. But when you go near the shop that has 10,000 of them, it's stinky.

[00:26:21]>> Yeah.

[00:26:22]>> Try the dirt there. This one.

[00:26:23]>> Show me how to eat it. Show me the other one.

[00:26:27]>> That's crispy.

[00:26:28]>> You just ate its nose.

[00:26:31]>> It's crispy, isn't it?

[00:26:32]>> Wow. Do you eat the whole head?

[00:26:34]>> Not really.

[00:26:35]>> Okay. You throw it to the dogs.

[00:26:37]>> Mhm.

[00:26:41]>> Okay. So, finally they are almost done here in this side putting a uh split bamboo.

[00:26:47]So, that's the uh horse when they going to put a nepa and they will just going to tie there. I think.

[00:27:00]So, we need to buy a Thai there in the uh hardware world where we've been before.

[00:27:08]Yes.

[00:27:10]So, part we need to put here a bench.

[00:27:21]Eyes.