Building $1,000 MICRO GLASS HOUSE 90 sq ft - (COMPLETE BUILD)

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remnant of a fire hall garage doors look at these things look at those those are those are crazy 35 and a half inches wide by about 12 feet long and that's going to be the predominant structure of the a-frame so it's going to be very futuristic i got a fair sized log chalked up on the mill it's a spruce log we actually salvaged from a tree job that happened in the city so my buddy my arborist friend joe over at jls tree service he was the one that said hey he wants logs what we're going to do with this guy is we're going to make it into floorboards for our a-frame i think i'll probably be able to get the entire floor and if not some other sort of boards from this guy it is a substantial lock and anytime i'm dealing with a substantial log like this well it's a lot of work anytime you have a manual mill because there's a lot of you got to use the cant to roll it and stuff so it's heavy is what it is you gotta gotta get it done it's better than buying them so don what do you think of this plan uh it's a good plan is it a good plan as always yeah i believe it is anyways all right we'll soon find out [Music] [Applause] [Applause] well it looks like we got the area pretty much cleared up we got that dead tree cut down we got that somewhat live cedar tree that we're gonna cut down we're gonna actually use for post support our structure got a question for you dawn is it easier moving brush or is it easier running the saw it's hard to say really because sometimes you have to move brush to use the saw right that's insightful oh yeah how far are you down good three four inches might be deep all right so we got almost our holes almost all dug you don't know this but don's part groundhog got the majority of his four holes dug i i'm i'm behind i had to move a hole it's it's really it's really hard to move a hole it's like they get a new hole it's worse than digging a new hole nah you got to kind of get it started [Applause] all right now that we have our posts in place we're just uh backfilling them with the stuff that we took out of the hall so the clay and the rocks and whatnot and we're ensuring that our posts are plumb up and down and in line with the other ones and uh we made sure before we be we set our height on our post that the far posts are sitting up out of the ground because we want the far post to be above grade in case there's splashback from rain and whatnot running you know off the roof we don't want to come up and under hit our under structure of the building we get a lot of flack sometimes for not using a tractor to dig our holes and if i had an auger i'd probably use an auger ideally i want a really tight hole because when i put my post in the hole i want it to be tight because when i backfill it i gotta pound all the dirt in there to make it so she's tight in there and if you see this little post here she's not wiggling at all she's tight well she's wigging a little bit but that'll dry up and the clay will just i don't know it'll secure itself to the post post won't wiggle there's eight posts you're not toppling this thing over that's a good looking post [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] how's that for progress we've got all our wood down here and all we're going to do now is straighten it up because it came right off the sawmill it was a virgin spruce tree the ends are a little jagged so we're just going to straighten them up with the old makita skill saw i got don he's just marking the ends on each one so we'll straighten them and then determine how long our max length is and that's going to be the size of the cabin you know i have a plan it's up here it'll work out in the end i think it's roughly about nine feet across and uh however wide the garage door panels are so when i'm framing a floor i like to lay out both ringers together and then i use my speed square i mark out 16 inch on center on both of them at the same time and then what i can do is i can take these split them apart and it allows me to place my joists without even thinking about it because both plates are going to be exactly the same well how's that for a dance floor we've got all our joists in place now all we have to do is somewhat square it up we're having a little bit of difficulty with squaring it because it's such a big thing and everything's heavy and yeah there's lots of lots of problems with squaring up so my plan is to take a sheet of plywood yes plywood plywood and osb have somewhat met in the middle and they're the same price now or pretty darn close it makes no sense to use osb i've switched to plywood it's like one of those aha moments where you got the sun right behind you and you figured something out at the end of the day and everything works out perfect this is exciting are you guys excited i'm excited this is pretty cool there we go one more are you excited that thing's square he's like i just gotta burn things you gotta get a nice fire going good fire all right bring you guys quickly up to speed so we've added a couple sheets of plywood already just to keep it square and then we squared it on its foundation pad and uh our foundation posts and uh we seemed to be okay we didn't uh i think i just figured out why this corner wasn't moving down i screwed it in it's uh yeah we pulled we pulled a uh six inch screw out the side of it there it is right there that's that's why that wasn't moving very well oh well i guess it's moving now in position now all we got to do is secure it to the base and uh it'll stay there forever i hope i don't think i'm gonna put blocking in i might be blocking him i don't know i'm still on the fence whether or not i should be blocking it i understand the reason behind blocking it prevents it from twisting the joists maybe i'll put blocking in i won't bore you with those details i will put blocking in and then i will sheet it and uh we get our we get our start getting our a frame up and running we we've been clearing the area of all the deadfall i think like a little tornado in here through here many years ago and everything kind of blew this way and so what we're doing is we're slowly kind of cleaning up as we've got a lull in the activity we just kind of grab some wood and we throw it on the fire i happen to find a nest of hornets and uh got stung about eight times in the leg so i stopped doing that that's when you know you should probably stop cutting in the bushes when the hornets tell you to stop cutting wood i've created a jig and i've laid it out on the platform itself and i've given myself some blocks that are going to hold my live edge timbers in place because i want to be able to recreate this thing well eight times i need eight different cuts to make four different a structures or trusses in order to hold my a-frame in place and then the last thing i want to do is i'm twisting because i'm going to be using a chainsaw so i'm going to cut tops bottoms get my angle right i've figured out exactly how long my panels are that should work okay it's something bigger is always better got the old makita plug-in doesn't even doesn't even it seems like it starts up quicker than you know plugging it into your wall well kids doesn't look like you're going to college i bought some structural screws these are grk screws i believe and they're expensive like i think this was like five dollars for this for the one screw and i'm using it to attach my a-frame structural components together they seem to be working they're doing the job they've got like a hex screw head on the thing nice doesn't strip out i can screw them in relatively easy the only problem is they're expensive really really expensive structural strength test take one oh it's pretty strong those five dollar screws are really holding up is that brandt lost my glass that's strong enough i was able to figure out the height of the frame based on the height of the panels and then i lined it up on the floor here and i drew it my line so it tells me where my peak is and it also shows you my angle and then i line it up the back or the front of the cabin and then that allows me to actually cut it off straight so when it stands up it's sitting flat on the floor i'm pretty proud of my jig sad to take it down actually so anyways that's the way if you want to recreate rafters and have them bang on with a normally shaped wood because this is actually a squared off or flattened tree as you guys can see flattened tree it's got the one side flat it's got the other side flat and then there's a live edge on both sides so if you want to make something with live edge stuff you got to make yourself a jig take two like a monkey we've got our a-frame all set up we've got our posts in the ground which is our foundation and we've got our main beam and then we've got our ringer and our floor joists we've got our plywood on top as you can see we've got our a-frame up as you can see it's pretty substantial you walk right down the middle of it that's pretty cool okay so what we're going to clad with this guy is uh is we're going to cloud it with garage doors and they're all made of glass they're from a fire hall that decided to upgrade its its garage door so the glass there's five garage doors in total that's enough to do the entire outside skin of this building so they got a kind of a blue tint to them the original plan with them was to actually make a greenhouse but then i realized that hey it's probably got a uv tint on it and none of the none of the uv which plants crave will get into the greenhouse so instead i've decided to make myself an a-frame cabin with these things now i guess the only problem is is that the sheer height the sheer weight of them they're extremely heavy uh not to mention their their glass so they're somewhat fragile so i'll have to hoist them up onto the a-frame but i think it's gonna be the coolest looking thing ever like that's cool i don't know if you guys if i can portray how cool this thing is going to be it's going to be a you know a futuristic looking a-frame in the forest the plan with the garage door panel is to sit them on the outside structure and then having there's a stiffener rod that goes on the garage door panels that makes it so it doesn't flex and that's going to sit down here kind of like on its ledge and then the panels get stacked up like you would a garage door all the way to the peak and then there'll be a ridge cap of some kind that i haven't even quite designed yet maybe my welder guy will fabricate me something kind of like a little little hat for the top to prevent leaking down the ridge i have a couple spares but i don't want to start replacing glass we we managed to get them down here the long trek into the forest without breaking them so i think they're relatively durable they were a door they did go up and down for probably you know 10 years or whatever how many don't even know how old they are so this is where the knee wall would go it would go right here knee wall belt to stand right at the edge still hunched like this no knee wall the closest i could stand standing up is near the middle of the building right about here because ultimately the plan for this guy is to have the the front door entrance here and then you know have sort of a sleeping area over here it's going to be like a home office type thing there's going to be no kitchen per se in here so there'll be a sleeping area kind of like a wood stove i got a plan for wood stove over here to to heat it and then it's going out the back wall not up through the roof because again it's glass and then kind of like a sitting area so what i've decided to do is do a 39 inch knee wall actually 39 and a half and that will allow me to incorporate the bottom part of this guy to give me a little bit more structural integrity on the wall so 39 inches above that and then this is about eight and a half so that'll give me 48 inch tall knee wall from the bottom of this thing all the way to the top just like that we got a knee wall so this stuff i ended up saving old scrap skid wood so it's two by four skid wood you can see kind of got the groove cut in and that was uh i think they were transporting like pole logs or like utility poles and they put the strap between that thing to hold it on so that's what those are so they're not exactly the perfect 2x4 but for the price you just can't beat it so i find the easiest way to frame a wall is to take your top and bottom plate measure and cut them to size and then take your tape measure run along the top and bottom plate measure your 16 inches on center mark those out with your speed square and then cut all your studs the exact same length and insert them into the wall either screw them together or nail them together and then all you have to do is stand your wall up and you have yourself a wall and just like that we've got a knee wall we just got to put a little bit more wood on top we're going to do a double top plate in order to lock in the corners because otherwise they might pull apart right now there's only um it's only locked in just right at the very end so we're going to do is we're going to lap them over and then that'll lock the corners and then when we do our plywood we're going to lap them over again further increasing our strength and our walls because the last thing we want to do is go blink normally when you'd be building an a-frame cabin you would either use steel roofing or shingle materials and and that would be your roofing structure but since i have all these panels i kind of had to design the cabin around them so i made sure it was the same length and the same height as the panels that i had because i don't have any extras and they have to be pretty precise because it is a glass and aluminum frame there's no real wiggle room when you're dealing with that sort of thing using these glass panels possibly saved me thousands of dollars in material because i don't have to worry about the actual cladding on the roof so i don't have to spend any money on shingles i don't have to spend my money on steel roof so it's a great solution and it keeps stuff out of the landfill after all so as you can see we're up about 40 inches which is slightly above countertop height if you're if you're talking about kitchens wise and i think once once we got that once we got up to this height we put our a-frame above us it'll give us a lot more usable space i think i'll be able to be about here before my head touches the ceiling i think dawn you're looking forward to lifting those things up absolutely tomorrow yeah tomorrow you wanna do it tonight come on we just throw them up no problem just you know this camera's heavy that was a lot of work but i think it's i think it it's it's it's gonna be more functional and we've got some big plans for the front of it and uh well the sides and stuff like that we're gonna make this thing look look like a million bucks it's actually made of plywood so it actually is not far off of a million dollars i think you got some there we go okay actually you know what that's good plan b on the a-frame is the uh sticks we're going to use to push up the top because i realize that we're going to run on a ladder before we run out of a-frame well that's tall i might have over underestimated the height of this thing overestimated the height i don't know it's tall that's tall look how tall that is chapel's almost done three more to go that was a heavy one so we should be right on par with the uh the light light one should be that should be a cake walked on light one should be just a cakewalk that's cool it's crazy tall how hard can it be it's three more times recorder done oh you now okay come back come on three up one to go but this one has a unique problem is that we've got nothing to stand it up on so we're going to do it completely different than the other three my plan is to stand up the one leg completely where it's going to go and then we will both lift the other leg up and i think i think it'll work what do you think don think so you think that's a good plan it's as good as any we have right now so that's right just get her done get her up there we got all sorts of different problems once we got everything up because this thing is really tall maybe taller than i thought it was going to be so let's get this up and move on to the next problem only solutions here only solutions i acquired these garage door panels from a buddy of mine he is a garage door installer and he had a job where he was replacing five garage doors on an old fire hall that i guess was upgrading their glass and my original plan for these glass panels were to actually make a greenhouse for with them but instead i i determined well they have the uv tint on them which protect like keeps out all the uv so i can't i couldn't good faith use them for a greenhouse because it wouldn't allow my plants to grow so instead what i've done is i've i thought of a plan to use them for my a-frame normally these with these these glass panels would be stacked on top of each other like a garage door so they they're kind of like a tongue and groove system which one panel sits on top of the other panel and they create a watertight seal now that we have the first panel up i'm going to secure it to the actual frame of the the building with these these are simpsons strong tie structural screws they got a little hex head on them and there happens to be a hole directly to the panel already i'm not sure what that was for but i'm going to use it to secure right through the panel and then i'll put some silicone on the screw to prevent it from leaking in the future you the inspector and the inspector coming yeah batman you got my batman caller i figure it's already here i might as well use it there's a stiffener on the door and i drilled four holes in it and i added lag screws to the bottoms to support my first panel these glass panels are extremely heavy they got to weigh about 150 pounds a piece in order to get them up what we did was we brought them to the base of the ladder and then slowly shimmy them up one side at a time dawn on one side me on the other until we got them into place and then we lock them in together with structural screws and silicone at the joint my figuring on this joint is if i hold them apart and inject silicone it's polyurethane caulking inside the crack and then i squish both panels together that impregnates the uh polyurethane caulking inside the crack preventing it from leaking forever it's the same stuff they put eve trough together or they should use to put eve trough together and that usually lasts well i think it's 25 year 50 year cocking so that's that's the plan there uh and i'm not certain these windows aren't going to leak but if they do i'm going to go around each and every pane with the exact same stuff to seal it up nice and tight working off the existing panel we were able to actually add the additional panel on top and then we drilled two screws in the middle braces in order to attach more screws then we screw directly through the panel on either end with structural screws in order to hold them in place and then once we get underneath once we get up to the top we're going to add a big old ridge cap i think dawn i think this is going to go smoothly let's hope so far so good so far so good let's hope the next two goes i find if you if you if you treat it like like sort of like a turtle race right yeah kind of slow and steady i think if you kind of rush it you run into problems really fast but if you go slow and think it out you kind of foresee the problems before you got a panel kind of half up in the sky and you don't know what to do because it's going to break or something like that so so i just noticed we've got a little bit of the lag bolt ends coming out of the top and i don't want them to get in the road of the panel so what we're going to do is we've got angle grinder we're just going to zip those things off there's a couple little bits off of two of them so grind those guys off so they're not in the road now we can carry on with the last panel is the last panel lighter dawn no [Music] coming this way a bit [Applause] oh you're just a little bit less than a ladder careful because you should go backwards right well i'm sitting at the top of the a-frame this is possibly the most uncomfortable spot to sit there is bottom to the top of this thing is roughly 13 foot four inches right at the top and that's from the floor all over the top and then we're a couple feet up a little point and what it does it sits on the cap just like that so it's a perfect it's a perfect fit and then what i'm going to do is actually take this to my fabricator and tell them this is exactly what i want there's there's no real guesswork involved it shows exactly the angle the exact distance exact everything and then you can just duplicate it because what i'm going to do is make a hat to sit on top of the ridge we're going to try to fill in the inside so the front wall the back wall do our front cladding and all that sort of good stuff we i i've been kind of hemming and hauling on exactly what to do i haven't quite yet decided i'm just gonna start building i think that's the only way to start get this thing maybe it'll come to me as i build i've got uh i got don here he's uh he's just stripping some of these windows we got some more windows that we took out of a job and probably about a year ago now and they've been sitting and sitting out back and they're uh their crank out windows and they're they're held together in the middle with little cleats so you can break them apart and that gives you two windows so we'll have four windows to work with we also have this really really long guy i feel like i should inform you that the sun has come out it feels like it's the first time the sun has come out in four or five days it's been obscenely dreary around here hurry it's gonna be spectacular when the sun actually does come out as you can see we're moving right along on our walls it's uh kind of a pain to stick frame a giant triangle uh we've got our wood in place mostly we've just got to fill in a couple of top parts and then we're going to have a windows frame we've got uh we've decided to do uprights on our windows so we don't have to uh you not doing an angle or anything like that and we're gonna try to incorporate or keep some of the structural framing in the final of the build and then we've got our fireplace which is going to go right in the middle of those both windows and give us a nice little focal point i'm gonna be cool all right we got the back done as you can see we got our plywood up we got our windows in we're moving right along we got quite a bit done today we haven't quite decided what we're gonna do for finishing on this plywood it might just get like a solid stain or something like that just for now just to keep the weather off of it because uh winter's coming and we want to get it done but we're going to focus on the front and the sides because that's our primary objective after much debate whether or not i should just build a door or if i have something laying around or if i could you know reuse something i ended up finding myself a old patio door so a sliding glass door uh one of them was fogged and the other one was just laying around so i figured i would hinge it so i'm going to hinge it here i've got the door frame built out and so i did built that on the floor and then stood it up and then what i'm going to do is actually take the door and insert it in here because i wanted to preserve the front structure of the cabin in order to kind of showcase it because you can see you can see the timber frame construction so i wanted to be able to see that when everything is said and done so that's why it kind of builds in towards the cabin all right guys now that we have all our our sheeting up on the outside i want to cut some holes in it now it is predominantly made of glass but i think i should add some more glass so my door is going to be glass i tried to make some of my windows that i had fit in these side places over here and over here they don't quite fit it turns out you don't have that much room in a triangle so what i'm going to do is above the door i was going to add a little detail and it's this guy right here this is the very dirty you got to wash it they're all you know they store them in the back it's just really cool as you talk into it and really amplifies the sound it's kind of cool because it's a big it's kind of a dome anyway so this is going to go above the door at some point i think i got a i got to center it above the door cut it out and then that gives me pretty much all the openings that i need in this place it'll add a little uh je ne sais quoi you know a little bit of detail because it's all about making it look good i think because i like circles [Music] once i got the circle all cut out all i had to do was cut a bunch of blocks two by four blocks just the thickness of my wall and i actually skirted all the way around the circle in order to give myself structure from when i'm finishing on the inside something to nail to it's not like the first time i've done the circle but everyone's unique details details it's all in the details just bringing you guys up to speed on this little detail this is the little window ledge here it's not not a window ledge it looks like a window ledge but it's not it's kind of like a it's a ledge where my cladding is going to sit on top and what i do when i put these guys on is i always make sure they're a little bit slanted so the water runs off so the water comes in in this direction it's here runs down here and then drips off here without causing any damage to stuff below that i got both sides all done now i've got to do is wait for my little cookies because we're going to do the modified cord wood front and that's the next that's the next step holy hannah outdoors my original plan was to have some sort of fascia made up bent up for the front but uh that didn't quite pan out the way i wanted it to we had some material issues so instead what i did was actually had some of the old garage door panels what i ended up doing was taking this chunk off a panel that was unused and what i was able to do is actually cut an angle peak edge there and put some mending plates on the front of it and then attach it and i think it looks pretty darn good kind of looks like a stealth bomber now you ever trust the weatherman on something and he's dead wrong well he's dead wrong today it was supposed to be a rain delay that's why i telling don might as well just you know lay low and i'll just do some inside stuff as it turns out it's not raining i ended up gluing a little strip in there in order to accommodate the space for the hinges otherwise there's like a little groove there's a little groove at the top the top of the door is okay but the the side of the door i'm gonna put my hinges i don't want a groove there so i put a piece of wood in there i put some pl premium in there to hold her in i'm not exactly certain that the door is going to hold up over time it's not designed to be hung from hinges i'm going to put three hinges on to give a little bit more extra support and uh if all else fails in the future if it does fail i will uh just build another door so i've got three of these guys and they're gonna be all three of them on the door [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh and then because my hinge is square i use an x-acto knife to trim my edges because my router bit is round [Music] well it doesn't always work that easy but this one worked really really well it seems to fit in there really good my opening is nice and square well how's that for a really fancy window so i had my buddy dennis weld up a a frame for that thing and gave it to me in a rough state and i grinded it out and ended up painting it and i'm gluing my silicone in my glass eyeball window to the front of it i think that looks crazy cool alex that looks really neat what do you think don isn't it cool looking that looks great it's actually it's neat because it actually reflects the sun it reflects the the horizon you can kind of see it in the window it's that's really cool well guys that took an absurd amount of time i think real time was like three hours it kind of hurts it looks cool it looks really cool doesn't that look neat that looks that looks really cool what do you think dawn look at that i like it does it look like a pretty big game of plinko maybe we should drop some uh some what do they drop down the clinco game is it a ball or a marble or something or something it's a maybe a ball bearing we should just drop it from the top and see where it lands all right so here's the plan we're gonna take this cookie i'm gonna toss it up in the air like a t-ball i'm gonna don is gonna cork a couple of them you think dry aim that way okay ready oh we got one oh foul ball all right so the plan now is to take our milled siding we're going to do board and batten siding and this is going to go in the front we're going to do it up and down and do it vertically and then before we're going to do that we're going to actually attach some tar paper to further waterproof the front and my plan at some point is to actually make the wood turn gray so it matches everything else we started off with the board and batten at the front of the building we started right in the middle of the door and we attached our boards and we went all the way across ensuring they were level cut around the door and then cut the piece to size near the end of the uh building and then what we did was we added the battens and we sure to level those or plumb them in order to make it appear straight then after that was done we just nailed them off extra well and uh we're done our next step is to do the ridge cap i have my buddy dennis bend up some metal we're gonna install it on the ridge my original plan was to get a seamless piece one front to back we couldn't find that stuff so we ended up actually taking the bottom sections of the garage door an aluminum panel on and we took that we bent it in half to make ridge caps we've got four of them we're going to lay them like shingles along the ridge but first there's a limited opportunity a limited window of opportunity to actually get this stuff cocked so it's kind of a pain but i think i'm gonna have to do every single one of these windows there was supposed to be i guess a speck on them was supposed to be some sort of glazing in between like a waterproof glazing but what i was finding when it was raining was the actual water was pooling down only at the size of the mullion so what i'm doing is i'll both sides of these guys let it dry and then the tops and the bottoms the next day but uh that should keep us the water out of it and uh you just kind of wait for it to rain and then you go check it again and see if you need to put more caulking in because hey it is what it is right it's a glass building i think it's a pretty cool hat this is the chimney cap it's custom bent to the proper size of the ridge cap and that's going to uh let me take this off my head i feel like don quixote or something like that lord of la mancha so that's that's it there i can uh it looks like armor somebody would wear that to battle in the middle ages it's made out of aluminum it's all bent it's got the uh it's nice slope on the top to shed water and that is going to go on my ridge cap in order to allow my chimney to go through it you can see i've already got the thing marked out so i'll just go on the top so the plan is to blow off all the existing water that's there give it the afternoon to dry out and then i can come around and the other sides of them come hell or high water i'm gonna make this thing stop leaking [Applause] so like i was saying before what i've done is i've actually cocked all three sides so this side the bottom side and the upside on the other side i haven't caught this top corner yet because i figured everything would just kind of sheet down and then just keep carrying on out but what's occurring is it's actually going this way and then that way and then back around and it's coming out the side well some of it's coming out the side but some of it's going down this channel and at the like through the bolts that are attaching the panel together so i think if i do the top side i will be able to get the leaking under control so this is what i've got rtv silicone it's uh like bulletproof sort of stuff it's uh industrial industrial and construction what does that mean so what i did was i took a bunch of um cedar trees that were laying around here the shorties and the not so thick ones and i just made a flat edge on them and that's going to be my joists on the front part of the cabin and yeah that should work out good 113 three quarters there are many different ways to build a deck and this deck in particular what i did was i started by cutting my ledger board the width of the cabin then i fastened it on to the front and then i proceeded to add joists on each side and then i used a small stick in order to level them and then i added the front board traditionally when you would be building a deck you'd be using pressure treated lumber what that is is it's a it's a it's a spruce that they inject all sorts of crazy chemicals in it and it lasts for uh many many years 20 30 years i'm opting instead for more natural product which is cedar cedar has natural oils in it that lasts a really long time anytime you build a you know cedar fence or a cedar deck it uh weathers and it uh it's bug resistant rod resistant water resistant moisture resistant resistant to pretty much everything it's got that nice gray patina when it's done when it's weathered that's what i like about it so this is what i have this is what i'm going to use and i think it's going to turn out great now normally what you would do is you set your posts below the frost line and here in canada you want to go down at least four feet but in this case because my deck isn't that far off the ground what i opted for instead was to put a couple of patio pavers down kind of like little feet when it's attached to the actual cabin it'll kind of it'll stay on the cabin and then float at the front i don't imagine it's going to heave that much in the forest the frost level doesn't go that deep in the forest so i didn't feel necessary to actually dig holes this time we'll see it which ones last longer whether or not the posts in the ground or the posts on patio papers i nailed my post temporarily on both corners and then notched out the middle post in order to give it a little bit more support at a later date i'm going to add lag bolts through the structure in order to attach it to the uh to the post themselves ideally when you're framing a deck you're using galvanized nails in order for them to prevent them from rusting and once my posts are set what i do is i actually use my chainsaw and cut them off level to the underside of the deck [Music] once the basic structure of the deck was completed i used my tape measure in order to ensure it was square so if you measure from one corner to the other and then from the one corner to the other you can determine if it's square if those numbers match up that means you're square and you could adjust it incrementally until it is well guys i think we're on to something here we've used what otherwise would be scrap wood and we've flattened the one side and we've used them for joists and as you can see they're like five or six times the width of joists and they're a piece of wood that traditionally would be discarded or mulched up and did i mentioned their cedar so these guys these joists in my opinion will probably last forever because they're up high and dry and and they're going to be covered and protected obviously this is not something you can do at your house due to building codes perhaps for like a cabin in the forest or something like that it's a viable solution you know not having joists or even spending the time to to mill up there's a lot of waste whenever you use a sawmill but with this one there's like there's like no waste there's you know you've got one scab and then you got a you know a joist this way you could do it even longer if you wanted to i think it looks pretty good what do you think i think it's great the only thing we need is a step and i got don he's going to the upper side where there is uh rocks same place where i got the rock for the uh sauna there's some big rocks there we needed like a 12 inch thick rock by about three feet wide i don't know if we'll be able to carry that but we're going to give it a whirl he's just on the hunt right now i'm just going to mention that we got our ecoflow delta out here and we uh running our compressor for our nail gun and we started off at 99 battery and we're at 88 percent so that actually worked pretty darn good um if you had to lug a you know gas powered generator over here and have that thing run and making noise and whatnot it would have just been a drag we've selected a couple of rocks dawn's just going to grab him he's going to bring him by they may or may not work we're going to try them out one's got a flat surface and then a round bottom so we're thinking maybe digging it in a little bit the brown part and then seeing if we can make it flat on the top but we can't find a rock that's big enough to do it just with one single rock so we're going to probably use two rocks that will give us the front hopefully that we need otherwise i've put i put some feelers out to some some buddies that are nearby to see maybe they got a nice flat rock we'll see you can always change it out have them ornamental rocks if they just don't work and go from there you got to use what you got right well guys i found the deal of the century i was at the local hardware store and uh turns out end of season sales are on now nobody buys uh adirondack chairs or muskoka chairs in the fall i guess they're just waiting for winter but uh lucky for me they're on sale for a really good deal there's even a cup holder look at that they had they had bigger ones for 350 pound ones so ultimately i've been waiting for the rain to come today was supposed to rain it looks very it's it's overcast and i don't want to finish the inside without knowing it's watertight so i'm hoping i'm hoping for rain it's last time usually i'm hoping for no rain finally crafted all right so we started by adding some blocking to the wall and what what we're going to do now is we're going to actually put in our vertical board and back siding and so don just cutting up some of these uh these board and bats and once those guys are up we're gonna we're gonna put it on we're gonna do it kind of in stages you're probably wondering where is the insulation kevin well the insulation is outside i bought it and i was gonna install it and then i thought to myself this really no use to put insulation and if this thing gets wet and if there's condensation forming it gets into the walls and it gets into the insulation it's going to retain moisture what i'd rather it to do is if it gets wet it has the ability to dry out and if any time you put insulation and it gets wet it has a really hard time drying out so that's why i'm not putting insulation in this thing and really if i were to put insulation in i would get r14 in the very little wall i have this is majority glass which has an r value of uh nothing or one it's the middle between zero and one i'm gonna be working more so on air sealing than anything else in this build so like if you've ever seen those guys that are putting up brick they uh they put themselves almost like a tarp bubble and then they can heat it because it's air sealed so that's the plan with this thing is to get air sealed which allow me to retain my heat from my wood stove to give it a nice comfortable space but the insulation is not going to provide very much value and it can only hinder this progress when i was thinking of the interior cladding on the a-frame i thought that i want to use something thin enough that it's easier to work with i was using large panels like plywood or something and then trying to go around windows and stove pipes and whatnot it would have been difficult so what i actually chose to do was go thin pieces of board and batten in order to install it so what i did with this particular install is i actually started from the middle and worked my way out to the edge the reason i did that is because once i get to the edge i can actually use the board beside it as a measuring point because otherwise you're kind of starting in the middle of nowhere and trying to figure out your angle once you've figured out the first angle generally you can use that piece for the following piece and use it as a template in order to cut your other piece so you slowly kind of methodically work your way up to the to the peak and get your pieces installed and it's also easier to do breaks so if you don't have to do a full length floor to ceiling piece it's always easier so you do a horizontal break in the middle of it it kind of gives it a little bit more of a detailed finish and it's also easier to install so that's kind of what i did here and it seemed to work out really well all right guys i'm going to introduce you to the cubic mini stove this is the cubic mini stove but it's a grizzly version of it which is the slightly larger version of the cubic mini so the last couple of videos i uh on my builds on the cube and in the glamper we've installed the cub which is a smaller version of the skin this is the biggest they make but it's still very mini which is really cool now that we have our back wall finished we're going to put our stove mount in this is the cubic mini stove grizzly wall mount kit it's a stainless steel piece that's bent up really nice so the idea behind the stainless steel is that it provides you sort of a heat shield against any combustible surfaces and that's how you can mount your stove right on the wall a lot of larger stoves require tremendous amount of clearance so that's why these stoves are ideal for tiny spaces such as such as this there you go wall bracket so when my stove is ready we just set it in place it's got little grooves here we set her down in here and we're all ready to go i've got my heat shield up along i got two sections of it up you're done snowing so would you call for this snow it is november so it's no one on the qb it's not even it's just kind of evaporating sublimation it goes from a solid to nothing [Music] [Music] so the the plan with this stuff is to uh we'll first start with your first row and then you face nail it because you can't get the nailing gun close enough to the to the wall in order to hit it with the proper so you face nail that guy and then you toe toe nail it and uh yeah you carry on and then you just work your way across the floor just like that easy as that you guys are probably wondering why i'm putting cherry hardwood floors in here well we did a job a couple years ago and uh the whole main floor of the house was installed with this beautiful cherry floor and it was scheduled to actually be removed uh and the primary reason why was because the tongues and the grooves aren't on the end so that's why we ended up getting it and like i said it was destined for the landfill instead uh i ended up de-nailing it and storing it i had a whole pile of it so i ended up using it in the outdoor workshop and uh i probably have enough to do this cabin which is really cool i'm not so particular with the uh not having the ends having the tongue in the groove and those are those are designed so they don't they don't pop up but uh in a cabin you're not so concerned in your house when you're trying to do the old tom cruise slide with your sock feet on the floor not so good cabin not so bad the star of this show is the the eco-flow delta because that uh we started off with 100 battery on this floor and we're down to 90 ran the compressor and the compressor ran the nail gun and uh we were able to nail this entire floor off 10 of that battery which is exceptional because as you guys know the compressor does draw a lot of juice it's like 1200 watts when it's running and it peaks so that was really cool there's nothing like doing a little bit of hardwood floors to remind you how old you are we ended up using the s'more of the board and batons at the top of the cathedral and uh all we're gonna do is put the battens but we uh got that installed actually i think it looks i think it looks crazy it looks amazing look at that we just gotta put some battens in but first we got to put our trim on so we got our trim around our doors now we got our baseboard so what we've done is we've repurposed the uh the hardwood floor and we've ripped it into uh some strips so this is going to be our baseboard we ended up uh when i ended up going shopping for some lights last night and as it turns out it's more difficult to find what's inside my head at the store than uh than you'd believe so my plan was to originally get some kind of like a two-like fixture um kind of a wall sconce that shines up and shines down i couldn't find those originally i saw them at costco at one point and uh anything you see at costco if you don't buy it right away you'll never find it again so this is our trim this is old mahogany it's been painted white and uh we're gonna reuse it because it's it's still good stuff it's very it's got a few knots and it's ideal trim when it was brand new but this does probably about 40 or 50 years old it's got a little smell to it what does it smell like on it smells like perfume it smells like little like old lady like yeah like a like an old lady perfume yeah it's weird like your grandmother or aunt yeah perhaps wow it's definitely got a smell to it when installing window casing i find the easiest way to do it is actually to take your trim and cut it a little bit longer than you need it to be and then take that piece set alongside the window and mark your uh your 45s where they start you want to leave yourself a little bit of reveal because that gives you a little bit of style once you're done and then once you've cut your 45 you just do a test fit and if you've got to adjust it that way you just cut a little bit more on it one of the problems i found with the casing installation on the a-frame in particular was it was kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place the windows were butted directly up against the actual structure of the frame so you kind of had to do a little bit of a trial and error in order to get it to fit properly and the wood stove was tight against that as well so you kind of had two 45s and then one ended up you know butting up to nothing so yeah once you got your trial and error you kind of cut a little bit off you always want to cut it a little bit at a time in order to see if it's going to fit or not but otherwise it's uh just a little bit of a little bit of tediousness and you get her done nothing more satisfying than a nice miter joint true so when you put the boards up it's not super critical you make them plum and the reason why is because afterwards you could straighten them out so like it's not a bad idea to put them plum but if you don't get them perfectly plum and in this case we didn't get them perfectly plum what you would do is you take your laser and you shoot a straight line and what that allows you to do is put your battens on and it gives the illusion of all your boards being plumbed i've got a really wide piece this is my sacrificial piece i'm going to use as a template and what i'm going to do is actually cut out the bottom of the jamb because i want to be able to slide my threshold piece underneath the jamb when i picked a board for a threshold i made sure the cupping was cupping upwards so the water drains off the front because i don't want any water sitting on the sill and then i'm going to further waterproof it by actually caulking the edges of this guy so we're moving right along here we've got all our little window sills i don't even think they're sales they're just sills the seal plates all cut out those were kind of like a pain in the butt because you had to cut around these little the beams so they're nicely they're nice and sitting we've got both sides all done i figure we should celebrate that accomplishment by having coffee it's coffee time don and i are gonna we're gonna try the uh with the eco flow on a kettle because uh that's the ultimate test on on especially on a power pack is to run a kettle so i got my french press here so dawn's gonna oh we're gonna set that up oh she's ramping up 14 1500 watts we can hear the inverter kicking on this is like the ultimate test of any pack whether it can run a kettle 1400 1500 oh coffee you guys are gonna probably wonder why the heck we got a futon in the forest well there's a good story behind this thing i found it i was i was going to get furniture and i found it there was like i actually talked to the people so they didn't have bed bugs or anything it wasn't like a random futon on the side of the road they had just put it out and they're like yeah it's we just don't have any room for it and they said yeah you can have it so what's good about this is it's not leather it's vinyl and if you guys ever had a leather anything in the forest the moisture tends to make the leather turn into a moldy mold fest so you don't want to have like leather gloves anything that's kind of got that moisture in it they start to grow so you want vinyl furniture if you're going to have kind of anything anything off grid that you're not going to heat all of the time that gets a little bit of moisture in it that's the uh that's the plan so anyways cheers to that well we sat down far too long you know you kind of get it away on you it's like enjoy the day right the winter's coming it's going to get snowing really really soon so i might as well just enjoy the time when we get the nice weather we got light oh that's pretty nice so we got there's the eco flow pack power in the entire cabin now we've got uh receptacles on all the walls so that's uh the way there is we hook it up directly into there so that's a double-ended cord switches lights actually i like that i like that a lot that's pretty cool just enough light i think we don't want to light the ceiling up this is actually really cool anything on very nice isn't that cool yeah it's just enough light it's not too bright and it's it's still daylight out so it's not it's not extra extra bright well i couldn't pass those guys up i was at my uh local junk store and i guess they get some uh returns from home depot once in a while and those are patio lanterns and i think they're cool they're nice and they got the ambiance so when there's the stars aren't out and you want your inside stars on you just turn the switch you got the switch turn them on turn them off turn them on turn them off that's pretty neat it's got that nice warm glow so when you want you know you've got the crackling fire and then you look up and you see the nice twinkly looks like little edison bulbs which are the uh but those are actually uh low voltage led bulbs they're two watts a piece so i don't know he can do the math on that guy it's not too that's not terrible but it's pretty cool it's inside tour time the inside of the a-frame is done let's take you on a little bit of a tour i uh i just finished it up just in time the rain has started we've got uh we got everything buttoned up i always like to do like inside stuff when it's raining so today's like a perfect day that sort of thing so come on in the weather's nice it's actually quite it's quite appealing in here i think i like it i like it a lot this thing is made out of old garage doors and the garage doors came from an old fire hall that was upgrading their doors and they had these guys left over i said hey i want them i want to make something really cool with them that's what this whole thing is primarily made of that and some kind of homemade uh everything else some cherry hardwood floors that was reclaimed from a job so that was uh salvaged it could have been going to the landfill but it's not we've got uh this whole cabin is being powered by the ecoflow delta we've got uh dual packs so they're parallel together so it gives us twice the amount of power uh and that's what's powering the lights and the plugs and everything else in here it uh it can power it powers our little coffee station and uh if you want to have a little cooktop electric cooktop induction range or anything like that you can power these guys at the eco flow delta there can either be charged by line voltage by bringing them to your house and charging them they can either be charged by uh solar uh or you can charge them with your car there's many options let's charge these guys so that's the eco float delta that's what's charging these things this little table here this is a good story for this actually i was out on uh on halloween october 31st and uh anyways it was on the side of the road said free on it so i took it i think it's a piece of uh uh you know patio furniture i think i think it's teak actually maybe one day i will actually strip it and so because i don't like the brown but uh you know what it works really well as a table i got some chairs again that's another road find and uh got a little poof some decorations and this is what's heating this place is the mini cubic wood stove this is the grizzly version of this thing it is really cool because it takes really really little wood so this is a little branch wood i've got it all cut and split it's uh dry and this thing this thing's a little powerhouse it's uh it's designed for tiny homes it can uh you know you can you can heat your your tiny home your rv your boat your schooly they got a little you know those little tiny homes on wheels that's cool because you can actually use the top to cook stuff on or to warm your coffee or whatnot it's got like uh it's got all the features of of a full-size wood stove but it's just tiny it's got the little tiny dampers at the front and it's got the little tiny dampers at the back so what that does is once you've load your wood you can actually introduce fresh air into the front of the fire or you can introduce fresh air into the back of the fire so it gives you more of an even burn or you can dampen them both down and get a really long burn it's also cool about these things is they've got little uh little tools because you've got a little fireplace a little to a little scoop towel hooks coat hooks whatever have you we have the lamp this is the famous lamp from the tarp shelter there's a video on that thing and i thought we're going to repurpose the tarp cabin so i figured i'd take the light to its final the lamp with the lampshade to its final kind of destination we've got uh an end table or a uh bedside table made out of a chunk of ash and uh what i think is a frame for a drum i don't exactly know what it is but it was cool it was round i took it and that's what it is so yeah anyways light goes on and off it's got a little switch right here so if you're getting into bed and you want to you know turn your lights off right at the last moment you can and uh yeah so we got our futon it doubles as a couch we can crank this thing up and be nice and relax on our couch if we don't ready for sleeping and then you can just you know crank it down crack it down you got the bed the old school looks like tungsten bulb those uh destroying those those are actual led bulbs they've got two watts of power per bulb so there's about 40 watts up there so it uses very little power and the idea behind putting them up there is because it's not always clear so when you can't stare at the stars the stuff i've kind of saved over the years and i thought well this is really cool stuff i can't let it go to the landfill so i want to save it so yeah i'm going to use it and then one last thing my round window i really like the way that turned out with the aluminum kind of jam that was the old panel from the garage door that i had bent up it gives this kind of build out wall cladding was uh some ash tree that we milled out into half inch thick and we did a board and batten style so you got the boards and the battens and i really like the way that turned out i really like the way the whole thing turned out it's it's it's really nice in here i don't know if i can adequately show it with the camera but it's really cool first i think i want some power i'm going to do the old eco flow delta two pack i've got the first pack it's going to be the second pack and this allows you to parallel them up together and have double the amount of power so what you do is you take your connection this is the charge cord for the line voltage power pulling power from this one it's gonna feed this one and then i plug my stuff into this one so what this is doing right now is kind of sort of balancing the pack so this is our feed pack so this is this is what everything's plugged into and this is feeding that pack so what it's doing right now is this pack's actually charging this pack so we got 700 watts going out of that pack into this pack so once this pack gets to a hundred percent this one will turn off and then slowly kind of feed its juice back into that one until this one's completely depleted and then uses this one so that's how you hook them up in parallel and not have to switch packs kind of midway through so this is kind of ideal situation if you want you know doing a long weekend sort of thing and you need double the amount of power or uh yeah you just you know want to make sure you have enough okay now that we got our heat shield up we're going to put our little uh actually cut our hole in our little hat and this is the this is going to be the roof flashing that's going to sit on our peak i had dennis make this up my i have a faithful welder dude he used the piece of the paneling the bottom section and he bent up the aluminum this stuff's proving to be very very versatile stuff you can pretty much make anything with it uh if you've got the the talent to do it so that's uh that's the roof hat i just gotta drill a pilot hole in the top and uh nothing like a nice sharp bit pile a hole and then should be able to tint it oh so that's where my roof pipe's gonna go through now that i got my hole cut on my roof it should be as easy as sliding the pipe in from the inside to have it all kind of connected and just pop it right through and then i'll put my cap back on silicone it all up and it should be good got my roof boot on just in time it started to rain a little bit i don't think it's gonna hold up but uh i can't silicone when everything's soaking wet so i'm gonna try i'm just gonna light a fire and see if uh the warmth will dry up this this aluminum in order to allow me to actually silicone this today she's a burning chimney chimney's going you see that smoking [Applause] well i've got all home grown stuff on this grill i've got um i've got potatoes that i planted myself in the spring i've got pork that i raised myself my vegetable is carrots which i also raised myself in my garden i'm really not good at cooking on an open fire but anyways i'm going to give it my the old college try hot potato looks cooked right that's that's what i asked my wife is it cooked is it cooked i was just finishing up dinner and uh the skies kind of opened up and we had a deluge of rain again it was i had to run around grab all my stuff make sure it was all inside i like building i don't know if you guys i don't know if you guys could tell yeah that i like building i like building unique things interesting things and if they're not unique i'll just put my own little spin on them so what i like to do is i can go charcoal so what you do is you put some wood in there and then you let it flame up and then once all of the wood is charred you turn it down you dampen it down and that makes your heat last the longest and you have the glow of the fire on the outside and if you guys are worried about that it's uh it's it's wet nothing nothing can possibly catch fire out there i wonder where the temperature is going to be in the morning i'm not sleeping in my underwear tonight you see that that's this that's as slow as my camera will go you can just barely make out that it's it's light out i can't show you this guy as well as as well as i can see it and if it was clear day you'd see stars it's pretty spectacular actually it's too bad it's too bad i can't show it to you well if you stay under the cover and you put your hood up on your sweater it's not terrible oh that's nice the washcloth certainly not a winter cabin because it's made of glass and it's really hard to keep warm i'm gonna enjoy my breakfast you guys uh i hope you guys enjoyed this one and uh join me on the next one

Channel: Kevin Builds (Modern Self Reliance)

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Id: 9YwBud03gBU

Length: 68min 3sec (4083 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 04 2021