Building MICRO HOUSE 64 sq ft. on Stilts (COMPLETE BUILD)

who didn't think of doing this he's like where are we gonna build this thing i never start with a plan well i do i kind of gave him a plan it's gonna look like one of those old-fashioned tvs with the crooked legs it's gonna go right here see where don is a forest cube if you will it's going to be a box suspended in midair in the forest very majestic futuristic neat did i say neat it's going to be neat little structure i've always kind of wanted to build one of these and it's going to solve a couple of problems that we have and primarily is when you have guests over especially ones that snore when they're in the small cabin they tend to keep everybody awake so the idea is to build another little structure very small the right size we're going to build the right size and it's going to be a little retreat a meditation cube if you will a nice right-sized box in the forest so we gotta we gotta move some stuff there's no trees we have to remove it's all just kind of dead no problem only solutions now comes the fun part of doing layout we've got a nice clean area mapped out for this thing this is the rough dimensions of this fourth cube this thing is going to be about eight feet it's gonna be an eight foot cube this cube is going to have splayed out legs and in order to do that you gotta use a lot of math or we make our cube eight feet right now and we use this as a template guide of where we dig our posts let's do that right now [Applause] you drive the back okay straight right there so we're gonna square it up with our kitty corner measurements in order to make sure it's square because you want a square cube i can already see how how spacious this cube's gonna be we gotta dig holes i love digging holes that's why dawn's here because we're digging the walls now that we have our post holes dug we can find our legs our posts we're gonna find some cedar posts in order to make legs out of them i've got just the ticket forest where trees have been growing for hundreds of years there's nothing to get to the forest floor so what we're gonna do is we're gonna harvest a couple of those to do some selective thinning they call it when i first bought this property i had the forest management technician out to look at it and he advised that i cut out three of the four trees that are standing here so there's there's of the cedars if there's a thicket of four trees he wants to cut three out of the four trees now i i'm a little reluctant to do that i'm just gonna cut as i need trees but i understand the practice it's to to increase light to the forest floor basically encourage new growth it's very dark in here there is no there's nothing there's nothing there's nothing anything can eat down down below as predicted it's hung up in the trees it's because they're too close together well that was a successful trip to the lumber store we've got ourselves four posts or legs look at those legs hopefully they didn't skip leg day don't you want to drag these over there you betcha turn this way those are fancy legs so there is an ancient technique of burning charring the posts before putting them in the ground i don't know if that's a regional thing but around here where they build pole barns and such they use cedar posts and i've been advised that the best way to preserve them is to peel the bark that's it peel the bark set them to the hole there's barns around here in my area that are 100 plus years old that are basically cedar posts that have barks have been peeled and it's been set in the ground nothing else cedar is naturally a preservative wood it's like a pressure-treated wood it's it likes it in the ground so we're just going to peel the bark off the post set them in the hole and 100 years from now we're going to check to see if this thing is still standing let's do let's check these in 20 years 20 years all right youtube remind me 20 years check these posts cedar rope mmm delicious that's actually pretty good so satisfying there are lots of right ways to do this one of them would be like a draw knife which is they got the handles on the sides and you pull it down the log and you pull all the bark off um i don't have one of those i'm going to use a dull chisel how's your doll chisel working look at that using what we have look at this stuff look at that we could tie it all together you know what the uh was that guy the wooded beardsman guy he ate this stuff right the cambian layer of the tree i don't think it's the right season to eat tree so satisfying it's the latest fashion for fall cheater bark scarf cedar bark scarf is it good i wonder there's a clean spot ah it's not terrible down around oh look at that perfect i can't even hold on to the thing i know we should try climbing them get ready lift this up and then slide your post over and then we're going to lift we're going to carry it back this way your toes okay talk about progress for one day that's being optimistic we notch the uh top posts in order for them to sit in the little saddle so they've got at least an inch and a half sitting over here and that'll support the weight but there if you look at the posts themselves they're splayed out on a on some sort of an angle leaning in so they're actually they're not straight they're not supposed to be straight they're supposed to lean in at all four corners see picture an old-fashioned tv set otherwise you would need diagonal bracing in order for us to not pancake hopefully we build this thing and we don't pancake but look at the view look at the view isn't it this thing's gonna be awesome i'm excited for this i like it and if you can see back here is the pond that's gonna be a great view it's hard to illustrate how splayed out they are so that's that's acting like a like a tripod but it's four is that a four pod it's actually like a four pod a four pod in the forest acceptable level for cube in the forest flush mouth box bead with a bolt all the posts to the the ringer this is this is a ringer it's not really a ringer it's a ringer but it's going to be a box beam so we're going to bolt that guy together and that's going to give us some sort of lateral support so we don't pancake on this bad boy [Applause] sometimes you just need more power or in this case electrical power so i want to grab the generator i've got myself my makita this is my this is my mixer usually i mix drywall mud with that bad boy so that guy like a third of a horsepower or something like that it's gonna make short work of these holes we're gonna run that guy to power the drill to make all my holes because uh battery power just ain't cutting [Applause] [Music] i like how the only spot in this whole bush that it's bright is right here it's like being on the surface of the sun you got like it's like whoa look at this it's gonna be a nice view once uh once we've got the cabin building to be standing up there you'll be sitting in the in the bunkie and it's gonna be uh it's gonna be very picturesque overlooking the pond so kevin why are you using such big bolts for well i went to the hardware store to get the right size one meaning the right length ones and uh barely stuff's gone up in price uh they wanted nearly six dollars a piece for them and if you're doing math that's a lot of money so i had these laying around these are bolts that uh a piece of industrial equipment came in on like the six by six were bolted together with some two by something or others anyways and i saved them all and i was like i'm never gonna use a bolt this size and it's true i'm probably never gonna use a bolt this size unless i was building this thing but so this hardware is really expensive once you start you know getting a lot of them six dollars is not bad when you gotta buy eight of them i mean i got eight so anyways that's why i'm using large bolts like this and i find the best way to get them in the hole is to swing with a reckless abandon one more eight oversized bolts in place all i can do is put the nuts and the washers on uh now that we've got all the fiddly stuff done meaning the setting the posts and the beams and lags and carriage bolts and anchor bolts and all those other things we're to do our blocking and what the blocking is is basically boards that go every 16 inches from 2x8 to a 2x8 and that's going to give us a little bit of rigidity it's going to basically consolidate our our 2x8 box beam build the proper foundation for this cube because falling eight feet out of the air is not gonna be fun yeah we got the generator fired up we got the compressor fired up we're gonna get our nail gun fired up because uh putting these guys in by hand is gonna take a long time so we got the we got some power got some power we got some proper framing with proper tools let's uh let's bang these guys up so we're deciding how big the opening to this cube because there's going to be a floor hatch here so you're going to come up a ladder you're going to open a hatch in the hatch originally was thinking about four feet in order to get panel goods up and i was thinking to myself we've got a giant window at the front so we'll bring our panel goods through the front like the drywall if we got flooring or if we need sheet goods or whatever like a table the furniture itself in this cube because it's such a tight space it's about 64 square feet that's the outside dimension the inside is going to be slightly probably 60 square feet everything's going to be custom built we're going to have wall hung murphy beds um basically fold down on hinges so you can just stow those away when you're not using them little desk will build probably out of some live edge wood a chair a chair will comfortably fit through this hole i'll comfortably fit through that hole and if you can't fit through that hole you ain't going in give me a give me a bunch of them and then i'll nail it in maybe a door jamb that's going to sit that's going to prevent the hatch from falling down that's going to be squared up a little bit more than this one that's not so square this is rough framing it doesn't have to be well it should be perfect but it doesn't have to be perfect because the trim carpenter comes in and trims this thing out square than it already is these are joist hangers they're like garters for joists they hold up the joist they're structural use uh nails they're 18 penny nails they go in every single hole don't use screws screws do not have structural shear strength you got to use nails in every little hole that stuff's osp you guys don't like me when i use osb oriented strand board you can use plywood or you can use this stuff it's much cheaper and for the amount of time it's actually going to be in the rain it's perfectly good stuff we're starting the osb plywood argument this osb in canada anyways it's coated with like a wax coating and it's designed to keep the water off of it while you're building would you spend more money in your house to buy would you do with plywood i'd probably go with plywood in my house for a situation like this where it's two sheets literally two sheets of of osb you know what i would go with this when you frame you've got a couple of options the easiest option is to put everything together on the ground put your put your insulation in even if you can put your plywood on and then once you've done that you just stand it up you make sure everything is square obviously and then when you stand it up you basically plumb the plum the walls and you're good for your finished material right not coming at you is it [Music] i realized that uh either i'm not young enough or i'm not strong enough or i don't know maybe it's because it's up in the air it's hard to build a wall on a little tiny platform and stand it up by yourself so i'm not going to do that anymore i've learned my lesson on this this wall that was we just did it's questioning questioning all sorts of things and i was doing that it's up it's secured it's not going to go anywhere but what i'm going to do on this back wall here looks like a giant picture window i'm going to stick frame it and what stick framing means is that i'm going to basically put individual stud up level it off and nail it off and then i'm going to sheet that outside afterwards and that you can do by yourself it just takes a little bit more time a little more effort but can be done you can't do it alone it's easier with your buddy yeah i got it we are coming right along on this build as you can see i've put some i see the framed door this is the door and this is the window so the door is very narrow i have a special it's actually going to be a reclaimed garage door with windows in it so i'm going to cut it down and that's going to be my door to the outside and there's going to be another this is going to be a functional window it's going to open and then where you can see is there's a giant window going here so yeah just move right along i might have prematurely put pants on it's uh it's not warm but the heck it's humid it's uh feels very tropical around here so i'm gonna go put my shorts back i'm gonna get back to shooting cheating my unorthodox use of a chainsaw i think spawned from an early age i think about probably eight six seven eight years old i uh was growing up and i remember the house next door was being built in the framer i remember his name his name was cliff and cliff used a chainsaw every opportunity he had he was doing fascia chainsaw he was framing rafters chainsaw he was cutting out windows chainsaw every single time he had the opportunity to use a chainsaw he used it and i thought that's got to be the most efficient way to cut something it does a pretty good job as long as your chain's sharp see we got our doors got our doors got our front window we're just gonna there's no there's no ceiling yet so we're gonna we're gonna we just fired up the compressor fired up the generator now we're going to uh frame up the ceiling the ceiling the roof's gonna be flat now i can hear them already why are you doing a flat roof well i got some special product that i'm gonna try we don't have a ladder how do i get out of here swinging the window i'm not seeing anything you should always wear a mask when you do insulation or any construction really because you should use safety glasses too because we're going for the four season warm cube today is the um i guess buttoning up the underside we ended up picking up a bag of insulation some uh some roxul i like roxul some roxul insulation we're gonna un insulate the underside of the cube in order to keep us nice and toasty we went with the r14 vat and we're gonna leave it lower to the side then we're going to the air space underneath the subfloor and that uh should provide us with adequate uh adequate amount of insulation this type of situation so you can see underside we could fill it with like you know our 22 i think this is our 22 which is the six inch stuff but instead we're going to use the r14 which is a uh anything did you know about insulation there's a depreciating rate of return and anything above r12 uh it just the the graph starts to go down should look it up it's interesting i've done a lot of r value a lot of r value looking but again insulation is is is a funny thing you know you should always go with as much insulation as you can afford i feel like i want to talk a little bit more about insulation insulation is only good as your weakest link meaning if you insulate with an r14 bat but you leave little gaps around stud spaces and it's not evenly fit your insulation value drops significantly and so it's it's really important to make sure it's a tight fit tight but snug snug fit not compressed you want it loosely in there in order to keep the cold and the hot out air sealing is also important and that's where we're gonna do the kerdi that schluter kerdi system is gonna air seal this guy pretty much uh pretty much airtight for the exterior door on this guy so i got a hole up there i gotta fill so that's the that's gonna be the door to the ultimate wraparound deck at some point so to make it kind of like a little boutique hotel i am going to employ a old garage door panel so i've just got to cut it down to size in order to do so because this is aluminum it doesn't like to be cut it's not about the saw it's what the blade so if you take the blade on a traditional circular saw and you turn the blade backwards that gives you the ability to cut anything well maybe not anything but it does cut aluminum quite well when you turn the blade backwards wear eye protection and ear protection because it's uh it's loud take a look at that that's uh that's a fine door i i wouldn't even want to know how much door like this would cost if you had to buy that's amazing it's got thermal paints those will clean up nice and uh that's going to be on the back add some light keep some keep some heat in some cold out i like it just gotta hang the door now oh laughs [Applause] feel that airflow this is a door to the porch and this hatch area here is going to be the regular access to the cube i'm just about to install my window but first i want to waterproof the opening because it's flush there's no overhang there's nothing to keep the water out what i've done is actually use the product called flu skin i happen to have a roll of it kicking around on the back 40. it's been seen better days it's actually soaking wet but what this stuff is is it's almost like a self-healing membrane if you poke holes in it it kind of self heals itself you try to cut it and it glues itself back together it's going to waterproof the opening i've got it all the way around about all the way around the opening and then i got my piece of glass this piece of glass was a thermal paint it had two pieces of glass with you know the inert gas inside argon or whatever it was fog what i did was actually took my knife and i i split the glass i've got a single pane of glass it's extra thick i think it'll uh it'll do it'll do it'll do its job this stuff's great blue skin it's pricey but it does the job you can see there where the the window is you don't have any sharp edges are metal digging into the class hopefully that'll prevent it from exploding get the flashing i'm gonna [ __ ] it from the outside and then purge up the uh purge up the rest of it that's a big window it's a four foot window the good thing is i have a spare i have a spare if that thing breaks now that we've got all the plywood up i'm going to waterproof it using something a little unorthodox i'm using kerdi membrane this is a schluter product designed to waterproof showers i've got a little bit of it left over a lot of it left over this is a a membrane and it's basically like wallpaper really thick wallpaper and you apply it with thinset with a notched trowel and you basically embed it into the plywood and it provides a waterproof membrane on the outside of this thing now so this cube ultimately is going to be parts with concrete so it's going to look like a big concrete block like if i do like a custom shower and somebody's home i'm using this curvy stuff this great stuff i've never had a call back i've never had a leaky shower you know he has it on the floors the walls are going curbless showers if you're going you know a tub with a tile surround this is a great you know for tile backer and stuff like that this is this is the stuff to use this is the uh the kerdi membrane and uh yeah we're gonna install it on our forced cube and see how it works i don't want to leak a cube it should be overlapped i believe three inches overlap so what we're doing is we're cutting this a little bit long our cube is eight feet by eight feet so what we're doing is cutting it eight foot six and we're gonna put it on the roof and then uh it's gonna overlap the roof a little bit so we're basically making a shingle or a flashing the manufacturer's recommendations is two inch overlap on seams we're gonna go four because it's on my roof and uh they don't really spec force cubes on the on the on the instruction guide i guess in this situation we're just gonna think outside the box a little what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna trowel it out with the flat side of the trowel that's the flat side and it's important to have all your notches go the same way meaning you're not going like this and changing directions and the reason being is because when you lay your material in you want to be able to crush that little notch so everything crushes the same way but if you got one going this way and that way it doesn't crush evenly especially when you're laying time [Applause] i'm going to roll this membrane out and then we use our grout float in the directions they say use a drywall trout i guess i could have used the drywall though but you're basically pushing the kerdi membrane into the mud all the way around basically working the air bubbles rinse and repeat do that for the entire building well they don't recommend well i don't know not that they don't recommend using it on buildings i just don't think they i don't think they've they don't think they've thought of that i've got little corner corner blocks for it and then once we fold that over and stick it to the wall there's no way water can get in there very waterproof system i love this system especially for showers maybe not maybe not forest cubes but uh definitely this stuff is the the go-to for showers if you're gonna do showers this is the stuff to use at this stage of the game you might be thinking if you're doing a project yourself you're like at the grind and you're like oh why did i start this thing it's been a haul like it it's taking a long time we're gonna get through it this is the this is the stage where you're kind of like uh we're gonna do some uh parging uh we're gonna pardon this this guy here we're gonna parge it with uh parging parging mix i don't know if anybody's ever done that to kerdi membrane before we're gonna give it a whirl i've got some i got some pre-mixed parting mix i'm gonna add a little bit of binder to it and we're gonna parge it on the wall but first safety safety safety eventually they uh well not they one guy maybe one guy was it two guys i don't know mask even though if i stand down wind you always want you know your mask to protect you from fine concrete particles this is a p100 mask this will uh this will pretty much catch any of those little fine particulates that may want to inhale should probably wear safety glasses gloves safety shoes there's lots of things i should do you should do them too don't do what i do the good part about that is i only have to do that four times and every time i bought a scaffold i think to myself these are kind of like monkey bars feel like i have a banana today build my monkey bars in the forest and butter my cube so so i've developed an interesting technique and i'm not sure if this is the uh did i reinvent the wheel so i'm using the whole hawk as the trowel and it's working really well i just want to just want to show you this is kind of cool because this stuff is really goopy i've uh basically used it on the hawk and then if i place the hawk on the ceiling and kind of use it as a trowel it kind of it all stays on and then i reposition the blob and then repeat you don't lose any that's impressive i see a lot of parts ceilings and garages and i'm always curious how they did it i imagine they did it like this big hawk trowel smooth it out this stuff's not overly sticky it's just it's parging right it doesn't really want to be upside down a couple more details let that dry for a bit the underside is done are you being what do you think hey hi buddy oh buddy yeah you let it set up a little bit and then you you knock it down with either a piece of uh i use a piece of styrofoam they say you can use a paintbrush a wet and p wetted a wetted paint brush to knock it down i prefer the swirl method with a piece of styrofoam so you got to let it set up because it is very mushy well hello so this is the entrance to the cube it's going to be from below so this is going to be on hinges at some point but uh yeah this is the ultimate access the back door on the cube is uh designed to get on the side ports that's not quite built yet well guys we're obviously not finished on this one so you got to stay tuned for the next time when we finish the inside i think i'm going to do some really interesting stuff in here kind of like a boutique hotel sort of vibe it's got drywall tray ceiling that's going to glow it's going to be a little windy stove it's on its way a little bed a little city area a little little prep area gonna be really really fancy for in the bush it's gonna have all the amenities of home hi who are you i'm kevin i wanna stay up here you're gonna live in the tree house now okay we're gonna start finishing the bunkie or the fourth cube or whatever you want to call it i don't know meditation cube force cube off-grid cabin bunkie this is our guest's house we're gonna do some uh fancy stuff we even got a little uh was it a cubic mini stove we're going to be installing to heat the whole thing up let's get started let's get started let's do some installation i love doing insulation welcome into the cube as you can see our interior exterior framing is all done we've got some of our electrical done the electrical fairies came in and did that so we're all ready for uh insulation and drywall now a lot of people are gonna say why are you drywalling in the forest and i say because i want to why can't you have the modern amenities in the forest as you would anywhere else insulation it's my favorite part when doing your installation you always want to make sure it's a fairly snug fit your installation is only as good as your loosest piece because it's all about averages if average of the wall has r14 in it and there's little spaces and holes and stuff like that your r value drops with roxul the best tool to use is a bread knife and that usually cuts it pretty good with the pink insulation the uh fiberglass stuff usually you compress it a little bit and use an exacto knife you just score it along the edge but with this particular insulation this roxul or walk wool insulation i think they call it now bread knife easiest way to go i like to use roxul because it's fireproof and um it's water resistant and it's uh it usually stays where you put it it's not uh and it's sound deadening it's very uh it's quiet stuff that's why i like it i like the quiet it's vapor barrier time done just like that but we gotta do the inside the head capped walls so mark what you doing there bud i'm just trimming the uh vapor barrier bit here get a good seal with the duct tape why why is it important to get a good seal mark ah the time and energy invested in sealing up now uh pays for itself in the long run a little bit of tape goes a long way i once worked with a guy who said the amount of the amount of money you spend on insulation now pays for itself in the long term tenfold so i should probably introduce mark mark is a good friend he's been around a long time he's my uh he's my hvac technician and uh he has a day off and he decided to come out to the bush to uh to give me a hand so what we're doing is we're sealing this cube up the best we can even if you're building a new home and you're not building it yourself maybe you have a contractor in there if you can sneak in in there on the weekend and tape up all your all like just attention to detail it's buttoning up the envelope seal all the little nooks and cracks when you can see light or if there's like holes in the vapor barrier or or whatever if you can get in there and seal it all up it's worth it it's worth the time and effort in order to take it so uh say hello mark hello that's that's the the official introduction to youtube very good hello youtube yeah so mark mark's actually he didn't really have to help me with the vapor i could have done it myself it is it's it's always easier to do with two people but ultimately what i got him here first we're gonna drive all the ceiling and that's harder to do than well yeah all right let's uh i'll make a good drywall stand yes that's right he's my drywall lifter today he'll just hold it up and and yeah yeah holding the whole place up we only got two sheets so it should be okay all right let's get some drywall hung whenever you're doing drywall it's important to do the sealing first almost like put the lid on and uh then the walls hold up the lid so the lid doesn't fall down well it's because it's harder to do the ceiling so do the ceiling first it makes doing everything else way easier because you get it out of the way i don't know if it's easier i don't know watch this make it real easy [Music] okay guys today is the day we start mutting my favorite part i'm sure there's more comprehensive videos that show you how to tape i'm going to show you how i shape so whenever i'm taping i like to do my flats first so whenever there's two factory edges lined up together i do those first so what i do is i coat the joint with mud like this and then i take my paper tape and there's a natural bend on the tape there like it wants to bend a specific way and what you want to do is you want to take that bend and you want to actually push it into the crack all those guys those fancy bazooka tapers old-fashioned hand tape got the little bend i don't think i had to bend it push it into the crack and that's it let it dry and then come back and do a second coat so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go around do all my flats and then do all my corners and let them dry who wants a square room anyways i do well i kind of want i want i want something with fanciness in it i want a place to put glow accent lighting i want a place to actually put proper lighting but i don't want to go up inside the vapor barrier so i want to keep it down out of the vapor barrier in the living space i don't have holes in my attic you can do this in your house you can do this in your bathroom in your living room in your hallway this is this is a neat thing and it doesn't cost a lot of money to do this it's drywall it's like the cheapest building material you can imagine and then you make it fancy so i'm going to show you how to do that and then i punch it into my little calculator every math teacher everywhere you're never going to have a calculator in your pocket you're not going to carry one of those around with you everywhere are you turns out i am and it's gonna have a flashlight and a phone and the entire content of all human knowledge imagine that math teacher got everything right here in the phone anyways found the middle of it we marked the middle of it double check and then what i did is i screwed a chain to the ceiling now this thing doesn't stretch so it makes me a perfect perfect circle all the way around so what we want to do make sure my pencil shirt is not sharp enough ah where's the knife there's my knife self sharpening pencil pencil sharp okay so we take our little guy and we actually stick it through this little hole here and that allows us to make a nice circle so i'm gonna make uh how big of a circle do i want to do so make sure your chain is tight and you draw around [Music] around the room perfect circle you can't see that but it's a glorious circle all right now we're going to take this out and just be in the way and then you want to take a laser and make sure you take that center point that you got on the ceiling you want to transfer it to the floor and that's going to become useful once we get the board up then we use this stuff this is one by two wall angle it is a very thin piece of steel and it's used frequently by dry wallers that do fancy things so this is going to have a series of cuts in it snip snip snip all the way around in order for us to make this radius now we have the sharpest noodle we can possibly imagine we screw this to the ceiling holy that's a big circle that's 20 feet in circle once i've got to this stage i actually go around and i screw off every little tab with one drywall screw or two and usually splay them out and that allows the drywall to somewhat hold the up um and you're going to hit a bunch of studs in the process so you don't gotta be too worried should stay up so now that i've got my circle up i need to get some nailing edges around the side so what i'm using is a two by two steel stub i got left over i've already got the marked four inches down from the ceiling so now what we do is we actually cut little strips of drywall and this is the flexible variety so it actually gives you a little bit of a bend and what i'm going to do is actually drop the drywall down from the ceiling and that gives us our shape does that look neat okay so let's tape this so what i do is i take the paper tape and i cut little pieces off of it no little pieces into it and so it allows it to bend around the corner and then i tape it the reason why i'm taping this beforehand is because there's another layer that goes up above here it allows it gives you a little tray to put some accessory lighting above to make the whole thing glow as we're waiting for the mud to dry i think this is the perfect opportunity to install this guy this is a tiny wood stove it's from a company called cubic mini stoves and they make little wood stoves i reached out to these guys and i uh i said you know what i'm building this this little tree fort basically and it's this such size and they said you know what the cub this is the cub cubic mini stove it is a tiny little wood stove it's the cutest little thing a tiny little fire brick in there look at that tiny little fire brick tiny little tiny little door gasket tiny little layer damper look at that cool thing about it is they send you everything that you could possibly need to install it they got everything on their website that you just kind of like oh i got this that and the other thing and they go okay i like wood stoves especially this is the coolest wood stove yet this install is surprisingly easy uh so i've got the i've got the stove all mounted it's very secure it's not uh it's like it's like hanging an expensive tv you want to make sure you get the stud make sure she's not moving anywhere so i opted to get the fresh air intake option with this with this stove and what that allows you to do is actually bolt this little guy on the bottom of it and it's got a little hole in it and what you do is you pipe this guy to the outside the idea behind this cube is it's gonna be somewhat r2000 style which is a really well insulated home all air sealed gapped like everything like that so this has a fresh air intake so you don't have to leave a window open for fresh air so you don't suffocate because it does burn oxygen so you want to have a fresh air oxygen intake so this is what this guy does so this guy bolts bolts to the bottom and then you pipe it outside with a little with a little tube now comes the tricky part this is the part that most people are like worried about doing and that's cutting a hole through a perfectly good roof that's what you do in the morning you have a lot of patience and you're like dedicated focused focused focused you don't want to cut too big of a hole you want to make sure it's the right size so they uh manufacturer's recommendations on this is a minimum hole size of seven inches and that's because there is a pipe that goes where is it this pipe goes through and it's uh i believe it's five inches so they want they want clearance on all sides and it's insulated and the other pipe actually slides up through this pipe in order to give you that uh basically thermal break so it basically heat shield after heat shield for heat shield in order to prevent your building from burning down or camper or marine it could be a boat that's gotta go up through through my through my perfectly good roof it'll be fine they come with flashing that's kinda whole measure twice actually measure three times and then cut once okay so this is the heat shield this is the uh the thing that basically follows the pipe all the way up i'm going to put that in temporarily because i haven't dry welded the ceiling yet so you get different sections you get one foot two foot whatever you need and then you basically put it up through the hole as you can see here's our insulated uh double wall pipe coming through the roof it's a little short and sometimes sometimes that happens it should come up at least a foot it's not going to prevent us from actually installing any of the other stuff so when that shows up i'll just i could slide that guy on now he's still calling this bad boy so i'm gonna peel it up i'm gonna use a generous amount of silicone that's the roof gasket and uh yeah a little chimney for our mini cubic stove this is how you hurt your back dry walling i want to document this [Music] that wasn't so bad [Music] now kevin why wouldn't you do that cut with a drywall saw there's a couple of reasons and the first reason it's gross when you cut above your head with the drywall so i usually get to eat drywall dust i don't like eating drywall dust i'll cut it with an exacto knife the second reason i don't use the drywall saw is because it actually puts dust up top [Music] pop on the shelf so this is the little shelf where the lighting gonna be but if you put drywall or you put drywall dust up there you have to clean it off because otherwise nothing will stick because i wanna put well i'm gonna put another little ledge up here so there's very there's minimal amount of dust nice clean cut drywall saw very dusty olfa knife nice and clean this is the lipstick this is the lipstick and the mascara of drywall this stuff here is a product called trim text and what it is it's a flexible corner bead so it allows you to go around around around around corners so what you do is you spray it with glue it comes with the glue you spray both sides let it set up a little bit and then you stick it on so the idea behind this guy is i'm going to trim or put corner bead around there around and that gives me a nice finished edge to mine too oh that smells good come use the well ventilated area after putting my kirby corner bead on i usually go around and anytime there's like a little tab sticking it i use my tack stapler and i uh i kind of add a staple to kind of push them in and it allows the little tabs if they're sticking out to stay stuck down until you get the mud on i think trimtex recommends the using divergent staples i've never seen a divergent staple this just seems to work okay now comes the part where we mud it and it's always easier to mud a room when there's nothing in the room that includes you guys i'm going to mud it and then we'll check back with you uh when it's done because uh you guys don't want to watch me mud this and you guys you guys are just getting in the way all right i'll check back with you when it's done being mudded okay guys just like that the drywall is done you didn't even get to see the sanding oh my that's not my favorite part yeah i'd just rather somebody else do that so everything's sanded everything's kind of cleaned up i did a little wet mop because you try to get rid of all the dust but again you can see it turned out pretty good we got got some uh some paint to go painting and uh flooring and some trim and some decor a bad table we got it all painted up now we're ready for the finishes so this is a just a regular i believe incandescent rope light they come in varying lengths you can add more lengths you just kind of tack them on at the end and this makes stuff glow so what i'm going to do is i'm going to tuck it up above the tray ceiling just like this gives it a nice little shelf i don't have the battery pack today so i'm not gonna i'm not gonna turn it on but you guys get to see that at the end we're gonna do some flooring now so we got uh some hardwood floor bang it all down went to my favorite flooring store big a little flooring and uh they had some of this stuff left over now it's about i need about 60 square feet or so so this is uh engineered hardwood floor it is three quarters thick by six and a half inches wide it's some nice stuff so this stuff should be more accepting of the temperature changes and the humidity changes and whatnot but again we're you know we're roughing it out here cool tool time is an engineered flooring stapler it is uh made by a company called bostitch it drives narrow crown staples through the tongue of the hardwood floor now a lot of people will go out when they do a floor job in their own home and they don't have the special tools they'll go rent one now i'm not a really big fan of renting and primarily because you always feel like you got to go fast because you're renting it it costs so much a day or so much an hour and you rush through the job my opinion is go buy a tool finish your job at your leisure and at the end of it take the tool if you don't need it anymore and sell it there's lots of used markets you could sell it for like you could just even if you wanted to deduct the cost of what it would cost you to rent it every every day and and sell it for there you recoup all your money you didn't rush you had the tool you know it's brand new it hasn't been abused buy the tool sell it at the end of the job well if you like the tool hang on to it cubic mini stove sent me these little coffee mugs aren't they cute they're stainless steel and they fit right on top of the stove so you can actually heat up your coffee on hey guys welcome to the cube so i'm gonna give you a tour of my crib but first let's turn the power on you guys don't actually know that this thing is powered by a uh 1100 watt lithium pack by energy if we turn the power on this guy can be charged by solar or you can plug it into your house and charge it up and bring it along with you that gives us house power so we've got 110 line voltage here's our switches because the door actually comes in through the floor we're not going to open that up right now but so we can click the switch as you come up and you can see that we've got a little bit of accent lighting in the ceiling we'll turn that we'll turn the lights off and then we can actually showcase this the glow so at night time when you're laying in bed you're thinking man this is cool you can have you're nicely glow anyways turn lights back on so lights back on this tray ceiling is the cheapest way to add extreme value to any room in your house it's literally two sheets of drywall what 20 bucks turn your your 8x8 room into a million dollar well maybe not that much you can add tens of thousands of dollars by adding drywall to an existing broom this is just a rope light you can get these anywhere but you can get you know what's really cool is for halloween or christmas is you can change them to changing uh color changing leds but you can it's it just plugs in as you can see there's a door out to the outside and this is this is designed to be a wraparound deck as you can see it is not quite done yet it's quite the drop actually it's about eight feet off the ground so that thing we're going to keep closed for now built a couple of features with this guy we've got our nice little coat hook a little rack nice uh piece of cherry some little little uh maple pegs for the coat hook then we can see our fold down murphy bed this is a repurposed ikea frame and you can kind of see it here so it's got slots and then a repurposed piece of foam duvet and what's cool about this is when you're done if you want more space maybe for dancing you can actually you can flip it out fold it up pull it up fold it down gives you a little bit more space if you got more guests maybe you're having a dinner party functional window so when it gets a little too hot in here you got double hung up and down that's getting a little toasty in here this brings us on to over here we got a little bit of storage a little coffee table dual purpose coffee table access storage bin got some wood carving tools in there for right now the balsam tree we saved when we were building the cube i figured you know what another life in the cube there for now probably find another spot for him permanently because he's not going to live very long in the cube we've got some made some wall hung shelving out of some old hemlock we had sitting here got some native american corn some pretty neat stuff some old seashells from my childhood i think my grandma collected them we got some maple syrup here where we got uh we harvested this actually from the bush around here and i got some adobo spices mmm adobo spices some tea lights for some ambiance we got a little balsam here that brings me to the the actual thing that heats this thing which is the mini cubic stove uh this is the guy here so this is this is the cub and you can see it burning here so this is our little this is our little wood stove this thing is this thing's amazing actually it it it's just it makes the space it it's truly well designed it's well put together the structure it's it's well built it's canadian made too did you know that anyways cubic mini stove it's a real wood burning stove takes five inch wood there's a little damper on it you got a little damper with a little back thing you can you can actually cook on here if you want to or you want to warm up your cup of coffee sits on top there you can warm it up and you know what's really neat is actually you can purchase little tiny tiny little tools so when you wanna move your wood inside you can move your wood you got your ash scoop and your pulper all right guys i think i'm gonna build myself a wrap around deck come to the realization that the uh the cube is indeed very cool we just need a little bit more outdoor space so what the plan is today is to build a wraparound deck so we shut the two shut the hatch open the door out the deck so this was the plan all along so we got down there there's a very big drop let's show you what uh let's give you a little tour you want a little tour let's go take a look we're going down the hatch down the hatch we go we started digging the post we got eight holes dug we've got some of our pressure treated wood it looks like a little archaeological dig we got our we got our string we got stringer set out we got our posts all dug we've got some old deck wood that we salvaged from a deck tear out dawn's here dawn's here and we we dug the posts are you excited for that though we dug the post without dawn being here actually no digging just filling today that's right we're gonna fill in the holes we got uh we've got it all set so yeah it's a nice day nice sun's shining birds are chirping kinda and people were asking about the relation from the cube to the to the outhouse so there is there is facilities here so we're going to take a walk to the facility isn't it about 200 yards away a root cellar food preservation storage main cabin outhouse still smells delicious okay we're gonna build a deck so all right so we're gonna get started so we're making an omelet or in this case a deck sometimes you gotta break some eggs does that make any sense this is a tree that's in the way this is not a really big tree oh it's a tall tree this is uh this is ash and uh it's being been infected by the emerald ash borer it's going all over north america and it's uh basically killing every single ash tree in sight there is no real cure for it it was a bug imported from china and it's infected all our north american ash trees so this one is in the way and it it's very tall so we've got to remove it it's actually bought up against this nice elm tree which has its own issues but we currently healthy we're just going to take this one down and guess where it's going to land it's going to land right in the pond we're going to make a little bit of a splash because we got to get rid of it all right let's cut this thing down [Music] generally it's advisable to use pressure treated wood whenever you're building anything outdoors in this case i happen to have a bunch of two by eight pressure treated wood that i was actually able to use for the deck start with my ledger board and i use lag bolts in order to attach them to the building that i'm screwing them into in this case it is a wood building so i can just use regular wood lags but if you were using if you were attaching a concrete you would use concrete legs it's another successful trip to the lumber store these are cedar trees that were damaged either the tops broke off and they were dangling either the ice storm or wind so it's good to get these out of the way manage the force because otherwise you get forest fires and forest fires are bad so pull the dead standing out hey you can either pile it you can burn it you can use it it's good to keep your forest managed so these are the posts that are going to be used for the deck it's like carbon sequestering or use the wood as opposed to burn the wood it's all about using using what you have to build what you want what you doing there dawn trying to peel the uh the bark off the cedar with a draw knife is it a sharp drawing it is pretty good actually like compliments to the sharpener why we peeling the post i guess so the bark doesn't rot off and uh caused problems with the rotting of the actual post we're moving right along here we've got our posts more or less set we're just starting the rough framing of the deck which is the two by eight structure this is uh an old deck that we had uh removed and we thought this is actually going back a couple years we saved this stuff not knowing that the price of lumber during these times would go like skyrocket i just i did some googling and i checked out uh the price of six by six uh pressure treated posts and they were 61 canadian which is insane and then they wanted two by the two by eight 16 footers they're 45 bucks i was just i was like ah that's insane it's good to save stuff maybe i should just sell it it's not the easiest thing in the world to do framing with round posts that are different sizes but we're making it work we've got a pretty square we started off with a really square cube so and level so you can see kind of you can see how it's it's coming along framing out this bad boy our material is only 12 feet long so we're gonna we're gonna make do i don't know it looks pretty substantial to me i love being in the bush in the fall once your deck is all framed up it's a good idea to actually go around and add blocking wherever you think it's necessary sometimes on your drawings it'll actually dictate where your blocking should go slight design change i've decided i want to be able to kind of be welcomed into underneath the cube so i'm going to move the center actually i'm not going to move it well i am going to move i'm going to add two posts it allows me to go in and there's gonna be a little bump out here for a fire pit on the second floor hey guys next day we've got quite the progress on that deck but we need some deckboard i you'd like to start at the mill we got some old spruce logs here actually this is from uh cast off from uh city job of an arborist that i know he drops these guys off because they're basically somebody's waste so i'm gonna take this log and i'm gonna turn it into deck boards so i got my norwood lumber pro hd36 this thing will cut up to a 36 inch log it'll do a 28 inch board it is uh powered by 23 horsepower vanguard engine you know what for the cost of the cost of lumber these days this is uh this is more of more or less essential to have some sort of access to a sawmill once you got past the initial purchase price it's money in the bank you could mill lumber for other people and pay for the thing pretty darn quick norwood lumber pro hd36 it's a great tool to have [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm curious does anybody else save their fast food cups like i i tend to save anytime i get a fast food cup i put like nuts and bolts and screws and stuff and and they're great for like when you need to mix something maybe that you don't want to use afterwards like you know varnish or or like you're mixing epoxy or even if you're starting a campfire with diesel fuel you just fill it up a little bit dump it on the fire away you go after milling all the boards we ended up just rough placing them on top of the deck we're going to run a chalk line from end to end and then cut them off flush with the front of the deck this is a spruce or it's a pine i can't really tell it's uh it's not weather treated but what i'm going to do is allow it like a year or so to weather and then i might put a solid stain on it to preserve it because uh it won't really take the stain right now because it's a little too fresh the spacing is uh i'm even with finger width it is going to shrink a little bit and the idea is to let it breathe i don't want to collect the forest floor on top of it i want the air to actually flow through anything that can dry out generally doesn't rot flee these these little spaces will allow it for a little bit of air movement [Music] so now that we've got all the deck boards on roughly where they should be we've chalk lined all the way around and we're going to cut it out with the chainsaw because well because my batters are getting low and i've got lots of gas safety first [Laughter] oh how's the pond is it cold there's you well guys i think fall has finally set in it's uh hit the chilly one today it's a little more difficult working when it's cold your fingers are frozen we're making some pretty good progress i've got uh i got some big plans for today hopefully we can get some progress done it's getting going it's getting moving it's getting all uh get everything thought out the uh the plan i love the plan so you can see our deck is coming along but uh we need a little place for a fire cooking area out here so what uh what i'm gonna build is a uh there's a romeo and juliet balcony so like a little bump out over here we'll make it curved ideally we would we would extended the deck this way and then have a post and a beam we're not gonna do that we're gonna we're gonna laminate some plywood together and uh then extend some uh some structure out maybe some tie back with some threaded rod it's gotta support a fireplace it's not it's not really intended for people to be walking on it's just more like a just like a decorative feature on the front of this thing give us a little bit more space so we're not sitting on top of the fireplace fireplace isn't sitting on top of us i collected some uh posts so these posts are they're cedar posts they're in there they're basically collected from all around the property from other other trees that we cut down we just figured you know why waste them we can just reuse we've got some uh some more deck boards and uh we're gonna build let's start building okay so i got my julia balcony built i didn't use pressure treated plywood i didn't have any i didn't use pressure treated wood i used regular 3 8 plywood i quadrupled layered and what i'm going to do is put a blue skinned roof on it and that'll prevent the water from getting down into the cracks and then i can deck it like i normally would deck it that should keep the water out of the end of the plywood in order to make my railing i ended up taking a i guess it's a it's about a five or six inch diameter seven inch eight inch diameter cedar and then i notched a little thing with my chainsaw and what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna temporarily tack them on the front of the fascia board i guess that's not the fascia board that's the ringer reader of the deck and then i'm going to plumb them and then lag them in i'm installing all the dual posts temporarily with five inch screws and then what i can do afterwards because they're all cut posts i'm going to take them put the railing on top of everything and then level it as i go because we're working with natural material nothing is the same size so you kind of want to snip snip and chop chop afterwards and you can get everything perfect once i've got everything temporarily attached i'm going to use lag bolts in order to secure the posts to the ringer board [Applause] [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] we want to be able to cook on this deck but it's made of wood and if we cook on the deck made of wood it's going to make our entire cube into hibachi and we don't want to do that we don't light it on fire so what i've done is i've taken 100 pound propane tank we're going to cut it up we're going to fashion ourselves a wood burning barbecue i've got an old grill made of stainless steel we're going to fashion the tank basically into a makeshift barbecue we're going to suspend it from chains from post to post and that gives us a nice little cooking area out front of our cube in order for us to basically stay in the cube knock it on the ground self-contained everything will work out great dawn just informed me that this may not be a hundred pound tank it may be a 50 or 60 or an 80. i don't know anyway it's going to work perfectly for our purpose the plan is to cut along this edge here all the way around and gives us a nice little area for our cooking grill to be and then we can slide it from side to side in order to move our coals if we want more heat one side we can move our grill one side or we can move it together or we can move our coals it's multi-purpose and then we're gonna suspend it from chains let's get cutting or is it grinding it's grinding let's grind [Applause] [Music] there was bees in there this is the uh this is the grill and this is going to go like this i might need to make it a little bit bigger or like this depending on how you want your thing and then your all your wood goes in here suspended by chains doesn't light the whole thing on fire i'm pretty sure it's going to work curious where i got this chain from there's a garage door guy that should give a shout out to my garage door guy dominic he gave me this chain because they they guess they send a bunch of spare parts every time he does a garage door install same with the garage door that we used for the door on the cube these are spare parts for garage door install that he just has laying around that he usually scraps for scrap metal and he's like well if you want them have them so we're going to repurpose them to hold our barbecue up the safest way i can think of doing this is suspending it in the air so the plan is we're going to take some chains and we're going to suspend them from this post and then we're going to attach it to this post and this post in this post and what i'm going to do is i'm going to give it the a little bit of length so i can actually lower the fire pit down low if i want it low if i'm sitting around it and i want a campfire style or if i want to cook it cook on it i can raise it up to cooking level [Music] sounds cool too [Music] okay let's get screwing [Music] perfect just need the back side a little higher meaning the screws could go a little lower dinner time [Music] space drums [Music] the haunting sounds of the forest was played on a hundred pound propane tank or sixty or fifty i don't know what [Music] so now that we've got the tank hung it appears as though it's going to work just fine check this out we've got our tank suspended in midair with chains it looks like it's a little wiggly you know what i think it's shock absorbing when it's windy you don't lose your burger off the edge it's kind of like the main thing is that we've got this thing up off the ground it's not going to light our deck on fire it's not going to light our well it might light our posts on fire but that's okay we've got lots of posts i think it's far enough away that it might make the post steam a little bit that uh yeah i think this this will this will adequately suit our cooking needs look at that is that you know what i like the best about it it matches look it's the same color as the deck and the leaves it's got the the rusted patina i like it now we're one step closer to living in this cube we've got our cooking area we've got our fresh water over here probably needs a filter maybe a brita we're well on our way for life in the cube we've got a little bit more finishing up to do we've got the top rails to do we've got the safety lower rails to do that's going to require a little bit of effort some time it started to rain typical for fall it starts to rain i don't every year i think it's not going to rain and then it does it just rains from laziness no we we cut this at a butt joint to conserve material when you cut on a 45 you need your material to be extra long and you waste this is a cube so we're making all our joints square butt joints what i say is safety eventually our plan here is to take this piece of ash fine piece of ash and we're going to install it about two feet off the ground this is going to prevent the little people from falling through the edge is to notch out of this posts a little bit of material in order for this not to stick out too far and bang your knee off of it [Applause] we are attaching one more change so we're gonna have four points of contact as opposed to three points of contact to match the mac the fact that we've got four posts on the cube we're gonna put four posts attachment points on our hot dog here hopefully it doesn't go like this perfect you got your cooking area here and you got your cooling off area over here how convenient is that you just i think this is going to work it's like a dj booth a dance party on the pond when it freezes a winter dance party we're making furniture now i'm gonna take a piece of countertop that's left over and i'm gonna add some legs to it and uh essentially we got ourselves a little coffee table for the outside of the deck we're all done building the deck let's let's take a tour let's do a show and tell of the wrap-around deck on the cube here's our mother-in-law door as the one guy in the comment mentioned yeah it's not it's not a mother-in-law door anymore it's it's more of a it's got the deck on it okay guys let's go for a tour of the deck this is all we're all done look at the view you get to see the wildlife you're amongst the trees this is like ultimate tree fort this this is my happy place this is what i enjoy i enjoy being in the trees being in the forest back of the deck you can see all the way around we've got our our causeways to get to the front so you come out the back door you come over to the front area here we've got our cook station our wood fire cook station with our repurposed propane tank we're gonna cook some uh we're gonna give that a test the test run we've got our some pumpkins we've harvested from the garden out front got our little tiny our tiny firewood actually our mini firewood for our mini cubic stove that's there we got our muskoka chair over here we've got some nice foliage silver is a japanese red maple so we've got a nice little area here you can actually probably fit two muskoka chairs up here comfortably got uh if you look out front you've got the pond you guys got to stay tuned for winter time because this is uh this is going to be the ultimate hockey rink ice skating rink hockey rink i think we're gonna do some skating in the winter once that thing freezes over we're gonna make some boards some nets game of pickup hockey my brother the wooded beardsman and he's okay at hockey we'll see if uh see if he wants to come out and play and holden holden's good at hockey i'm just gonna give the wood burner a test run just to make sure everything works okay with that today as promised we are going up and when i mean up i mean a rooftop terrace we're gonna build a rooftop sitting area on top of the cube original plan was to build a covered rooftop area my brain kicked in it's too heavy don't do this kevin it's bad idea common sense prevailed and i said no we're gonna make a sitting area and some grass a nice little lounging area maybe some maybe some twinkling lights patio lanterns bird's nest bird's nest in the bush on top of the cube i think the best place to get started is right close to home this is a poplar tree it was dangerously close to the cabin it was dead really dead it was standing there and it actually was taunting the cube it kept it kept actually puking branches onto it it it direct hit it once with a fairly large size diameter branch maybe it just wanted to be included it was just like i'm i'm right here why can't i be a part of the cube whenever i want to make something straight like a handrail i like to start with a straight log this guy's pretty straight it has a little hook at the bottom when you put it on the sawmill any time when you actually saw mill the thing it's going to want to make it straight so if you have a crooked log it basically takes that and makes it into junk so the straighter the log the better your board's going to be the more yield you get out of the log itself so i'm going to straighten this guy out i'm going to cut it roughly the length and then i can trim off each side to make it fit this is the original canopy i planned for above the cube as you can see it is well it was 12 feet and the cube's only eight see how the engineering nightmare that would have been and the safety issues i scrapped that idea but this thing isn't going to be wasted it's a pretty darn good roof it's 12 feet by 12 feet so i'll save this for another project we're gonna go to the lumber store we're gonna pick up some more wood this is basically the remnants of the uh the feet on the cube so we're gonna use the tops of these trees these are the old cedar trees we left the foliage for the wild animals to eat bunnies really like cedar in the in the winter so this is going to get piled here the bunnies are going to eat it we're going to harvest some posts there's an airplane flying above me everything's going to work out can you say hi don oh hello yes yes get this camera out of my face all right you look angelic with all that wood there dawn i feel it you feel feel angelic today those are our railing posts and they're going to act to hold the handrail around the rooftop terrace to make sure we're safe when we don't uh fall off the cube we wouldn't want to do that would we we're going to start building our we're going to build lateral to go up then we can be on top so [Applause] now that we've knocked the sides of the stringer we've inset our step into the stringer to give us a little bit more support the step is actually sitting on the stringer as opposed to just sitting on top of the stringer and then we've added a couple of nails per and a screw for added measure just to hold it down we actually added the screw to hold it there and then we nailed it in place that's the best of both worlds so let's uh let's see if it fits all right works pretty good the problem is is the actual stringer's sitting on top of the deck but it's not quite flush on the bottom of the deck so what i'm going to do use a t-square or a little or my speed square which is another handy tool on its own this is a handy tool speed square this guy's made of aluminum it's uh one of the most useful tools for framing now i'm using it to describe the angle of the stringer in order to sit flat on the deck and it's less likely to kick out when you're on it we're also going to secure it with a chain so we can tuck it up against the wall when we're not using it we want to walk around unobstructed and again another added safety so it doesn't just kick out we're on top of the cube a rooftop terrace is well on its way we've got uh a special product for the roof it is fake grass we got a an interesting it's an interesting product let's uh let's throw it up here and uh get it rolled out we're gonna get fit to size wall to wall no there's no walls we're gonna grass it wall-to-wall grass but it's there's no walls edge to edge edge to edge grass on the second floor of the cube you don't you're gonna carry that stuff up oh parkway then it's all up to you oh there let me let me grab it all right okay you got you did it all by yourself pretty much oh i don't have a knife look at that stuff like wallpaper for the floor popping the cap off and then we're going to go right on top of that we've got a chimney extension they sent me we wanted to get above the the grass line i originally installed it it was a little short so now we've got our extra pipe we can we can add it on gives us enough clearance and hopefully it's uh it's up far enough above our grass that it doesn't uh light our grass on fire which i don't think it will i'm pretty confident so that guy's double wall and then this guy's got insulation inside of it which uh further insulates the pipe because you want your chimney pipe should be insulated and basically you want it as warm as it possibly can before it makes its way out otherwise you have creosote builds up that's how you have chimney fires it's a company called rymar makes this stuff and it's uh ever blade 50 i believe this stuff so it's uh you can replace your grass in your front yard with this stuff you never have to mow it it's uh i bet you there's a comb for it and it stands up it's it was just flattened down but like this stuff's perfect for this situation because we don't really have to do anything am i just trying to get a lawn mower up here it's light lightweight i didn't want to put too much weight on top of here so this is our terrace this is pretty cool all right let's uh let's get our post in in order to trim it you you basically use an x-acto knife and you just it's actually quite easy because you got little guidelines on the back of it and you can just run your knife and it's just like that it's kind of like it's like installing carpet cut it to size just like that and you've got your easy to cut easy to install rimar the link is going to be in the description below if you guys want to check this stuff out it's reimar everglade 50. who didn't think of doing this i was told by the flooring supplier over bigelow that i have to drive some balls off this cube i've got my wood let's see what i can hit got my teeth all right fall off the cube all right don't fall off the cube oh jesus [Laughter] you see that i was like perfect drive that was awesome oh i duffed it too many trees in the way oh nailed it oh dumped it to make this a whole lot easier we're going to start on the ground we're going to start by cutting the hand rails on a 45 degree angle so we can put them up and then basically go up on top of the roof and put it together so we've got our posts our handrails our cross members everything we've got it pre-cut we just got to put it together easy right actually that's better way better now that we've got our basic structure in we're just going to in fill all the middle posts in order to uh complete the structure of the deck so far so good you can see you can see our turf our that stuff's awesome look at that stuff look how shiny shiny and green this is gonna be like all year round remember the water this stuff you don't have to mow it you could probably just sweep it and comb it grab your comb out here and you can comb your grass so yeah we just gotta get our more get our more posts get our more posts in here is your pond look at that nice ball pond i know my brother he's the wooded beards when he'll be up here probably taking shots at things maybe have to put a put a lock on the put a lock on the ladder so he can't get up anyways we're just gonna finish up the post i think for today we're losing light it's getting days are getting shorter it's getting colder you can see my winter jacket's gone don don's got his winter jacket on right oh no no he's got 19 layers of clothes on he's got how many t-shirts you got on there you got two two t-shirts a sweater a hoodie and my jacket oh geez i know a fun fact fun fact if you have an open porch on your front at your front door and it doesn't have a railing generally people stay back from the edge because they don't want to fall off that edge but if you add a railing and you think it may feel like you're closing in your space you're actually giving people more space because they'll get right to the edge because they're not worried about falling off so railings sometimes add space as opposed to giving you the idea of taking it away we're gonna get some more stuff done get this thing we've got some cross members some horizontal cross members to put in and we can maybe make a coffee table all right we got our rooftop terrace our bird's nest if you will and we got to water it it's grass on the roof spills the furniture some chairs need some pallet furniture oh see we got laying around oh i got a pretty cool coffee table i want to build all right let's uh we're going to build some furniture now that we're finished the rooftop terrace it's time to furnish it with some furnishings some furniture i've got a plan so my plan is take some old pallet wood i've looked on pinterest and i thought yeah that's the way to do it let's build some furniture out of some pallet wood we've got it why not use it but i've got a quick tip for anybody that's trying to do pallet wood furniture keep your pallets outside let them get wet that is the easiest way to take them apart they come apart real easy without breaking i know a lot of people out there have taken pallets apart and they get frustrated because they're not wet so let the wood get wet water them with a garden hose if you have to build a lounge chair believe a coffee table all right let's get building what you doing there don i'm uh nailing these slots that we've already taken apart are they uh relatively easy to take apart actually they are really easy to take apart of course both pieces are soft wood so that makes a little easier but uh and getting rid of the nails so we don't step on them that's the important part not stepping on nails so this is the lounging area is this table is this table gonna support me so what we need to do is we need to place lounge that's a good spot you get your feet daggered off the edge then you need to have a back support so if we make something that fits this cushion we should be good shape to make legs we're going to notch out this piece of the of the post in order for it to sit flush against there and then it gives you more surface area and in theory more structural support so the legs don't fall off because you wouldn't want your legs falled off couldn't resist using a little bit of our deck decking material for the cube we got this just laying around so this is one inch by i don't know what is it one inch by one by ten so use that as a back [Applause] how solid is there oh that's nice oh it is nice it's actually quite comfortable who knew so what we did was you added another eight inches up to the end of it to make sure your feet are nice and supported oh that's nice yeah all we need now is a table we've taken an ash log that we've had laying around and we've cut ourselves a cookie what uh i guess that's the term is it the term of the industry cookie what do you call a small slice of wood this is an ash tree big one and we've got our legs these are the uh these are ash legs as well and that's what we're gonna do we're gonna make it like a tripod these don't blow away in the wind now we take it and we trim off the legs a little bit [Music] 23 23ish that's pretty solid too if it wasn't on a tippy table okay only we had a fridge up here that's our uh that's our firewood for our mini cubic stove i guess you guys if you guys haven't seen the build of the inside of this cube this is the actual interior of the cube we just built the terrace on top figured i'd give you guys a little sneak peek of on the inside so we've got our we've got the inside we've got our little cubic mini stove here and that's what we were splitting a wood for that uh that's a lot of wood for that little tiny stove that little tiny stove takes uh five inch long wood it's always good to have wood ready before you need it sits there and dries out a little bit more too we got a couple more things to do i figured i'd give you guys a little show inside just buttoning up some loose ends this is the doorknob that's going in now and i wasn't sure quite how to do it because this is not a standard door it's a garage door so what i've done is i've actually taken the uh a standard doorknob i had kick it around and i've actually mortised it in like a like you would normally put a door in but then i had to chip away the actual side of the door in order to get it flat as you can see it seems to work okay nice and tight nice and secure raccoons won't sneak in and wouldn't want the raccoons in my bed have i talked about my knob enough let's move on to the next project actually i'm going to show you i want to show you something this is something that you could actually use in your own in your own house this little latch here has a adjustment here if your door doesn't close tightly most of the latches the catch plates have this little tab here and you could use your flathead screwdriver and adjust it if you pry it out more it means the door closes more tightly tool time again i don't think i've done one of these a little while so i figured i would do it now now these this guy is an impact driver it's made by makita it's been around the bend i've had it for many years now it's a dtd152 nikita impact driver it's got the removable batteries a little battery indicator on the side so if you're doing heavy duty stuff you got your 3 amp hour i think they go up to 5 amp hour the the amount of battery power that's in the battery so if you're doing a lot of drilling driving really long screws the bigger amp hour will give you more power and then if you're doing light stuff you can always switch to this slimline battery which actually makes your tool significantly lighter the reason why i picked makita is because it's the lightest tool i believe it's the lightest tool on the market generally what i'm doing work it's a lot of detailed work it's a lot of overhead work um and this drill it just feels good it's well balanced it's well made i like it it's got a little light on it see the light you thought it was a gimmick when it first came out you're like why do i need a light on my drill it's very useful while i'm at it i might as well talk about this guy this is a drill it's got a standard chuck you can add drill bits to it it's got a hammer option so you can hammer drill if you're going into concrete or whatnot again the same battery system so you got your on and off i have i have a charger here i can i can plug it in and then i uh i plug it into my my jackery power pack and i can top the batteries up that way and then that in turn is charged by solar and then it gets back into my drill so it all works out okay grand scheme of things these batteries generally last all day so they usually i'm usually tired before the battery is you ever get that list of stuff you never really get done that's today's project figure i'm gonna do some paint touch-ups as well i never really got around the door jam on this guy so uh is there any other better time to paint than right now i think winter's coming so if i don't get this done before winter it's not gonna get done it's always good i always like to touch up my trim once i've got the door set everything's set everything's mortised in chipping any of the wood i can fill it and paint it sometimes your suggestions help out this was suggested in the comments to put a basically a deck access from the outside that you don't have to go through the cube so i've uh basically built a ladder threw it up threw it up and now you have access to the back deck so you can actually scurry on up the the ladder to get up to the deck and then you can actually scurry on up the other ladder to get up to the terrace and and the reason why i offset that is because you don't want to go up a ladder and then up another ladder right away you want to be able to just kind of relax in the middle and then carry on on your journey just keep buttoning these things off the list okay so i think we're going to go uh we're going to build uh like a bar stool like sitting by the edge of the deck maybe enjoying your coffee maybe we'll use some uh some more pallet wood make a little bar stool why build with pallet wood they're free the companies that use pallets are almost begging you to take them away you can find them generally in most industrial area they have them laying out by the side of the road sometimes they'll have a sign that says free or it's implied that it's free a lot of the times on marketplace on facebook or on kijiji or craigslist they'll have they'll have listings where you can you know maybe have them tucked away out back and then some some of them you just find just driving by so if you have a truck and you're willing to do a little bit of labor you can get a lot of this building material for free the other thing is is that actually you can actually find the fasteners as well so you can remove the nails you can straighten the nails reuse them and some of the really really big skits have lag bolts and and nuts and washers and stuff like that so you can you save a lot of money on on hardware that way by by collecting the stuff that you otherwise people are just throwing out so we're taking the pallet wood and we're going to make a high top bar stool in order to sit by our railing to overlook the pond all right we got our bar stool or is it a terrace stool nice and comfy spot got overlooking the pond got your spot for your drink it's all about buttoning up loose ends so i've got the lid for my grill handle purpose repurposed handle got some old hinges repurposed again and uh keep the water out when you're ready to grill open her up it also doubles as a protection for the handrail button up those loose ends decoration time i got some uh led lights because it's never too early for christmas interesting fact the led lights there's two strings of them 37 feet long total of seven watts seven watts total on those lights that's uh that's pretty good you can't really it's not like the old school lights where they bright be real bright during the day i think it has to be night time for for us to get the full effect of the uh maybe i'll wait till it gets dark and come back and you guys can see that but in the meantime i think i might relax a little bit i got my coffee up here the bird's squawking in the background you got your the heavy pallet stool so you can come we can sit down over here you can i don't know if you can it's it's hard to portray just how just how nice it is i might have mentioned earlier in the video but i'm going to mention them again this is rymar everblade 50 i guess it's grass it's fake fake grass it's pretty darn real to me it's astro turfer i don't think that's probably a brand name anyways it's reimar is the company and it's called everblade50 the link will be in the description below if you want to check it out it's uh it's great stuff it's been through a couple of rains so far it's got little drainage holes on the bottom of it the brown thatch that's weaved inside the grass that gives you an authentic look best of all you don't have to cut it it doesn't it doesn't grow perfect solution for our rooftop terrace it covers it's a beautiful product i love it it's uh it's great stuff anyways the link will be in the description below if you want to uh if you want to check it out again rymar everblade50. [Applause] hey guys welcome to the first overnight at the cabin and the cube story on this little bad boy here this is my go-kart from my childhood this is i saved up all my money one summer and i bought this guy in the fall this is a a dingo and it's made by a company called manco and i probably bought it nearly 20 years ago i just replaced the engine it had a briggs and stratton on there i got a honda gx 160 on there and it's good for booting around the bush it doesn't have much ground clearance as long as you don't hit a stump you're pretty good yeah maintain your stuff change your oil things last a long time cozy isn't it cozy look at look at the did you see the ceiling that's pretty neat oh yeah yeah it's glowy so we're going to light up the uh maybe we'll light that up a little bit later we don't really need the heat right now but uh so let me give you the ambience for one they all be almost in the cube see little mugs they sent me a little cubic mini stove mugs oh yeah they're neat keep your coffee warm that's right you can put it right on top of a little stove while we wait for that fire to go that's what our fifth fire today yeah six six technically six that's our sixth fire we've lit we've got the uh we got the pizza oven going we got smoker oven going we've got the cube going we've got the outdoor fire pit going and now we're gonna light the mini cubic stove inside to keep her warm that's the jackery power pack and that is what's going to power this little guy the jackery explorer 1000 allows us to power this cube so we turn the lights on look at that 1000 watt lithium pack it can be charged by either solar or you can plug it into the wall you can plug it into a cigarette light adapter on your car so you can charge it that way there's many ways to charge it and it's lightweight and it's quiet it doesn't uh it has a little fan for the inverter that turns on and off when it needs to otherwise you're pretty much self-sufficient you get this thing you plug it in and away you go portable power this is working better than i ever imagined it ever would we've got our burgers cooking we've got our bacon cooking i'm going to grant's going to take care of that because he's better cooking anybody's better cooking than me i'm going to warm up the cube because uh as you guys all know this is the first night at thecube so let's uh let's fire up the mini the mini cubic stove what's great about this stove is that it's small it doesn't take it takes tiny little wood where's my torch look at that looks delicious or bacon i did i eat it still [Music] you know what it's great about this cube can you hear anything nothing it's so quiet so yeah i'm just getting ready for bed see you guys in the morning all right have a good night egg sandwich time let's see if we can put one together on the mini cubic stove and a tiny little frying pan to get our day started that was interesting it was uh talking on camera right in the morning that's something the results the cube was very quiet it's still very quiet that's a mini cubic stove provide provided a lot of warmth it was nice and toasty in here nice and quiet just the way i like it

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Id: 1CMtWOtLVyE

Length: 105min 2sec (6302 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 18 2021