The Cabin that Craigslist Built

I'm building a cabin on some land I aquired in March of 2008.

It is a small lot in a community in South Texas near Houston. At the moment, there is nothing on the lot except for some tall pine trees.

I only paid about $2,500 for the lot, which I have paid off. My goal with this project is to build a decent sized cabin, with nice amenities for under $12,500, that includes the price of the land. I am going to utilize Craigslist, Amazon, Ebay, outlet stores and clearance items to reduce the cost of materials as best I can.

I have started off this project, by cleaning out my office, which had 10 years of computer junk stored up in it. I sold this stuff off, and have bought the following tools.


Dewalt D51321 Heavy Duty Roofing Nailer
Got this for a phenomenal $141 with Shipping off of Amazon
It is a highly rated Nailer, it Runs around $220 + Tax at the local Lowes.














Next I purchased this Flooring Nailer off of Amazon, based on it's 5 Star rating. It was $219 with shipping which is far less than what most good Flooring nailers go for. This is a Hardcore Tools pneumatic nailer.














I'm all in favor of good power tools, so I traded an a computer I wasn't using for this Hitachi NR90AE Framing nailer and a nice Hitachi air compressor. I also bought a $80 box Hitachi framing nails, 7200 3 1/4 inch nails for $5! Can't beat that clearance price.


















I already had a Porter Cable compressor, that I found was full of water, I didn't realize these allow water to condensate in them. Now that I know that, I bought a filter on clearance at Lowes for $11, that will remove the water from the line, so it will keep the tools from rusting hopefully, plus I now know I need to drain these things!

Here is my Porter Cable Finish, Brad and Crown Stapler.. The Porter Cable compressor didn't have enough power to keep up with the Hitachi Framing Nailer.



















Here is the Kolbalt inline Water remover I picked up from Lowes






















Next up I swapped a guy a bunch a SCSI cables, sold a bunch of junk on ebay and picked up this generator for onsite power. I got this generator from Amazon as well and it came highly recommended, it is a Chinese brand, but uses a clone of the Honda OHV engine, it should handle all the power tools I throw at it. Amazon shipped it to me for free, and no tax! It came surprisingly quickly about four days after I ordered it. I'm glad I didn't hold off on getting this, it was up $40 in price, when I went and grabbed the stock photo of it from Amazon.










I have plenty of hand tools and various drills, saws, that I already own. The only thing I am on the look out now will be a Duraspin Screwdriver, to help with the flooring and Drywall installation.