Net Zero Party Barn

the build shows on the road today I'm on the coast of New England and I'm about to show you the prettiest barn that I have ever seen today's build show from New England let's get going all right guys I've got an amazing tour for you today we're gonna be checking out this gorgeous barn behind me now the architect on this project is Steve basically one of my old friends and I've also got the main builder carpenter here as well Brian from how custom builders Brian good to see unifor project Steve always a pleasure buddy dang man so what are we looking at Steve what is this so this is a storage barn not your average storage barn here but it's a wooden moment frame structure you can see it's made up of five bats here the the reason it's a moment frame is is it gives us all of that free area as we don't have any lateral ties across here so the lateral tie of the system is actually happening in the slab so what we have here is we have these beds here but what happens is is they want to rotate out on this hinge point so to stabilize that we have grade beams that run across at the bottom of these columns that tie it together so that resists any overturning so then you're just left with basically this rigid moment frame structure that stands up normally when you're saying moment frame we're talking steel construction rights these yeah most most of the time you see it and we wanted to go for the wood just because of the location and the homeowners wanted that New England vibe of having the wood inside so this was all custom cut up in Canada it was preassembled there and checked and then disassembled and reassembled down here by Brian and his crew alright Brian so I'm seeing from your Ridge and coming down to these giant rafters I guess is the best thing you can come on then down to these columns and seeing a bunch of holes up there let's go with that well Matt to make this a rigid moment frame normally would has usually nuts or bolts and it kind of a wiggly wiggly joint inside of that big glulam there is a half-inch thick piece of plate steel on this lower elbow that's almost eight feet across and there are holes drilled in that and there are holes drilled through the big blue lambs with a CNC machine and there are three quarter inch by ten inch steel pins that are all hand-done through there we have 1290 drift pins that are driven through to make this a rigid connection so there's steel in that's hidden inside of all these joints to keep them rigid and then we also dropped in our prefabricated infill walls roughs on spruce boards and native eastern white pine two-by-sixes okay so these walls are not holding up an instructor that's the infill like a typical stick friend correct platform frame house and what is this rough sawn longer than I've seen that's that's spruce that's Eastern spruce okay and roughs on Eastern spruce you don't find that in the lumber yard you know with fewer lumber Atkinson New Hampshire supplied all of our rough sawn stock and they do a really nice job and and then behind that you've got I don't know what is that someone buy material what are we looking at yeah that's a 1 by 10 eastern white pine these are why find Russell as well ruff son as well so it kind of gives the look of an old barn really where's that your shear wall that is not outside of that is the red zip panel blocking and then tell me about your foundation here what do we the foundation had a step in it for the there's foam EPS running on the cross there and up the wall okay and that's we used some of our nail base or cover board W goes outside the red zip that's our insulation for the house mark which is what what type of insulation it's number nine EPS with a half-inch always be outside it outside of that typically you might use that on a flat roof like a metal roof screw it down and put down edie p.m. membrane yeah we use this in a vertical application to give us a continuous insulation layer on the outside yeah I used some of that on the inside here and give you a little PVC trim on the bottom in case they wanted to epoxy the floor or something it gives us a water so it insulates the bottom there you can see a last dimetric caulking here because there was foam all the way around the bottom here and that's down just a little bit so the slab is thermally isolated from the foundation all the way around got it so you basically have a perfect wall project here right where you've got full continuous insulation on the outside Steve and tell me about the roof line then so the roof line is a sips panel that we had custom cut and the center lines of the bats that we have 16-foot panels and we obviously built in the overhangs there and then we came up with a nice detail to finish out all of the eave work and rake work on the outside of that but we have a nice what is a 8 inch panel I believe on the outside of that insulating this so why don't one of the things to also keep in mind about this project is that you know it is fully insulated it is continuous under slab etc like I always like to build these are slightly lower measurements for the insulation and our values here but understand a little later in the video we're gonna go outside and show you where the heating plant comes from and it's all for free how about so cool so what's underneath our feet then is there is there anything interesting underneath the concrete here in this log well it's a full radiant heated slap it's thermally broken at each of the doors okay you know we have the the little mini set of doors here these are only 12 footers so the idea is that we can bring in the these doors are sized to bring in the larger boats yep and so we can bring them in disconnect the trailer and then drive the pickup truck outside through the little doors or bring in little stuff there so we have that second set of door so it's basically a drive through garage and all the aphorism radiant so it's called the floors radiant it's it's beautiful you can see we have four mini splits on the wall then the homeowners one once we started building this bar and it came to the realization that this is slightly more than just your average storage barn so it's slowly migrated into there's potential to have some pretty cool parties here and summer have some cool activities so we have the cooling system in there it's an all-electric bar from from the heating or cooling perspective and then again all our electricity is free here all right guys we're up on the hill above the barn and we've got a great view of the roof now Steve give us a little bit of a tour of what's going on on the roof and the exterior here yeah so you can see that our heating electrical plant here is actually divided into two groups on the right we have solar PV panels okay we have 40 panels there there 325 watts each against it's a 13-point 0 KW PV system I think it generates like 16,000 kilowatt hours a year or something this has to be a net zero it's a net zero project and actually we're gonna pipe some of the electricity up the hill to we're doing a pool house and a house up there so when this isn't using the electricity we'll be able to use it up there on the other structures on the site and but the 13 kW pretty much maxed out all the incentives for PV so then we moved on to a solar hot water system so here you can see the heating plant for all of our radiant floor system domestic hot water inside potable water all of that gets heated here on these nine panels first a percentage of the heat do you think will you get for this building just from this in this a winter time Steve I mean I think it's even even you know in the wintertime that this is a self-sustaining building that we're not buying any supplemental heat energy where we're actually exporting energy from the roof of this barn to the pool house or to the residence in the future beautiful so in effects the we've got a you've got a Net Zero party barn storage barn boat workshop with free heat and cooling and free electricity for all the other services all right I call it a broad spectrum program for this building meaning that it's everything from us large facility to a real working barn we have a walk-in cooler we have an industrial sink there to wash vegetables and stuff from the barn it has the storage capacity but you can evacuate all the stuff inside here and throw a one hell of a barn party too and kids us so now what's up with the wall panels I'm seeing in here Steve so the wall panels here you know future videos are gonna tell the whole story but we have about 320 linear feet of 2 by 8 24 inch on center framed wall panels they're sheath in a half inch Advantech knee and then covered with sita's 500 self adhered my vest weather barrier these are all the wall panels that Brian is pre manufactured for the house that we're gonna be building here in the upcoming months just up the road here got it man that's cool hey Brian will you give me a little bit of a tour of the back services area here the coolbot walk-in cooler it comes comes as a kit at all you give them the dimensions they give you the stuff and all twist locks together gasketed materials if the room air conditioner that had a list like just as standard as you can buy that at your local big box store it's good for about 800 square feet of living area now LS this a refrigerator though when you've got a standard air conditioner those really gonna get you down to what 65 degrees 60 degrees air conditioner thinks it's 60 this is a heating element supplied by the cool bottom take it here here so the air-conditioner thinks it needs to be 60 but it's not because the air condition is being fooled by this coolbot actual temperature here right now the door is open is 43 degrees how it works really well that is cool man I'm never seen anything like that so just a standard and you stainless steel pour into the foam food great gasketed and came in a big kick in a big truck and that is pretty cool it is really cool that's really cool and then what's the other pod that over here so to speak is this kitchen over here or what set for the caterers we have a party in here that's for sure no no I'm wondering what's up on the loft O'Brien can we walk up there and something the law and this looks like a pretty sweet little spot to see what's going on with the boat care down there we can also see what's beyond us you've got a beautiful field and a little retaining wall right here pretty nice little staging area too for this build I bet oh my gosh look how pretty your mechanicals are Brian yeah our plumbers are M&R plumbing out of Wakefield mess what is going on here these are the that supplies and returns for the under floor slab that's the exchanger that runs off the hot water system and that's on the roof this is one of the huge dangers here that supplies the heat for the floor the circulator for those okay so you've got basically glycol running in here probably correct we've got a big old panel of solar collectors in the roof it's coming down here and these are probably just storage tanks right there's no feeding going here my call is not in this this tank the glycol runs almost a hot water here in Reverse and this is actually domestic potable waters this water comes from the well system comes through here is heated and then goes into the domestic hot water town a supplemental hot water there is an element of electric element there in case we like 240 gallons here collecting and just hanging out and then it can send it over here to this what 40 gallon tank all HTP products by the way these guys make a nice unit all stainless tanks I understand an HTP man this is incredible let's walk back downstairs guys so as you can see the entry point to this barn is these pair of doors they measure 8 foot wide 16 foot tall they're fully insulated and weather stripped the the idea behind them was obviously to get very large items large boats and stuff in here for storage you know I crafted the idea of some windows inside here to match the rest of it but the real brains behind the operation of these doors is Brian I mean it to be able to work with somebody of his caliber of understanding as a carpenter I mean I understand that it's a beautiful barn but the beauty here is the team effort that's involved right brought Brian lost sleep over putting these barn doors together and getting some them to operate and understand that each one of these doors measures about 800 pounds in weight and any one of us can open them with fingers right and and I'll let Brian talk about the details because I certainly don't want to take the wind out of his sails because this these are his babies but man he did a beautiful job on these Brian impressive craftsmanship my friend no I I opened these earlier with just a just a finger basically and that's an 800-pound door know when I first walked up I thought Oh are these rolling on some rollers on the bottom because you see there's kind of a track system here but no in fact Brian will give us the story this pipe is not actually on a track system Steve would you grab that sample real quick of the of that bottom piece and Brian tell me how you fabricated these doors see the core of the doors are LSL studs you know an engineered stud that is a kind of a ship lap joint connection with my nine inch head locks that I put together and I wanted to have a four and a quarter inch thick door product so these steel uprights from the Stanley national hardware people they make all sorts of barn door hardware they made my tracks my rollers so this is a steel outside support structure that allows for a lot of lateral rigidity for this door because you didn't want this thing bouncing around like a trampoline yeah so I had specific distances I wanted to have so I took my LS cells which are inch and a half and added a quarter inch of plywood lots of tight bond three glue about three gallons for these doors stapled that and they gave me an inch and 3/4 layer then I used a couple of inch in a 3/4 inch layer of poly I so on the inside layer it was a layer of half-inch ABX marine plywood on the outside was another layer of half-inch ABX marine plywood covered the whole thing in blue skin and on the inside was lifespan v joint pine life spans a 20-year warranty treated pine and up above is Alaskan yellow cedar that we ship left ourselves hardware lock them shut so they match the rest of the windows in there the tracks are the high-strength steel tracks with this one has a triple trolley assembly who makes that steel track ran the same people to make this stuff to stanley national stanley hardware okay gotcha and and tell me about the bottom that I mentioned earlier because I think that's a boy the biggest issue with barn doors is to keep the bottom together for people moving side to side so what I use is a 2 by be a 2 by 4 and use a really big router with my half-inch production router and routed a two-inch groove and this is an inch and a half piece of galvanized pipe that has an inch and 7/8 OD and allows me to have a completely anchored guide rail all the way across so when it gets a little windy here on the Atlantic Ocean these doors don't flop around in the breeze all of these doors Brian what a testament to your craftsmanship brother let's uh let's take a tour the outside guys shall we yeah so Steve tell me about the siding and I'm seeing this looks like a beautiful New England cedar so what is this it isn't this is Borel this is one of their Cove channels here or Dutch lap let's not ground the side cos look right here you know one of one of the go-to places that I use for Borel is there's duration millwork you can find them certainly on the web but they'll cut Borel and manufacture Borel into any size shape that I can think of and I've not used Borel tell me about it what is this product so Borel is it's a like seven Tisha's type board that just it takes paint exceptionally well it cuts exceptionally well it's made with fly ash so there's some recycled content in there certainly and it just as you can see it takes paint exceptional does not absorb water uh-huh and it has an almost zero thermal coefficient of expansion so like some of your plastic products that expand and contract a lot especially a darker colors if this was a PVC product we have real problems with this this has almost no thermal expansion will not absorb water so it doesn't have some of the cement fiber product issues where you have to have chairs and all that kind of stuff going on and it holds paint like old asbestos siding some people think some people in other parts of the country don't have the old housing stock like we have and closer to Boston where houses are built in a turn-of-the-century last century ago where they have sty rated asbestos siding which good today it holds paint will never ever peel this stuff just is bomb-proof when it comes to the next thing all right I'm sure the marketing guys at morale probably wouldn't appreciate the asbestos siding reference so they're not a sponsor piggyback my idea on this whole team work you know there's a handful of people at how a custom building group that are responsible for the success of this to that work effortlessly you know behind the scenes pulling it all together it starts with Steve Howell the owner of the company who's just has an exceptional mindset and kind of sets the stage for you know a job well done and his whole team and we're also working with the the color selection on the barn was done by Christina Creston with the client and she just won the HGTV interior designer of the Year award so I you know we got the a team out here we're we're doing some good stuff but we all Tech knowing you got a builder an exam everybody's asking the right questions and providing the right answer so it's and you can see the result for sure now guys we're walking on the back tell me about the roof we've got a metal roof on there is that like the steel rubes that I'm using down in Texas actually an aluminum standing seam roof just because of our proximity to the ocean I think if we step back here we might be yeah we got some cloud cover you can see it now get some get a shot of it beautiful little roof there obviously the standing seam also benefits us for our attachment of PV and the solar panels on the other side that you'll see no that's an aluminum roof again because of our proximity I mean saltwater is literally hundreds of yards away from us here yeah so we get that salty water air around here and and brian has an awesome little trick I'll let him you know tell you about how he installed it all right are you doing we we had issues with when we install the sips panels on the roof they were all done with head lock screws lots and lots of them but they were proud of the os be in the sips panels and would create a real problem with dimpling on the aluminum if we try to install directly on the OSB and rather than trying to strap the roof or rishis of an entire another layer we decided to use strips of neoprene rubber in two and a half inches wide by 3/16 an inch thick and we use those right underneath the clips as they nail down the clips for the duct steam on the on the from the standing seam roof and really that's just the spacer and so spacing it keeps the aluminum off the roof it keeps it above the head of the head lock screw okay which is about 1/8 inch thick now you told me a secret well this about the lack of stai rations on here well about that it's a long it's a long fairly store long piece and to help keep the roof of oil canning we try to introduce a little bit of a camber into each panel and with just some three-quarter inch foam backer rod and just a little bit of duct tape my roofing guy had a long table here he'd flip the panel over we had a big long spool he'd roll it out pick up a piece of duct tape on the back side and duct tape a piece of aluminum backer rod right down the middle of each panel and install that and it gives just a little bit of a camber there to keep it help keep it from oil canning and Rubinius I love it and as you look at the roof I know it's a little hard to tell guys because the the Sun we've got going here but you can't tell it looks really looks pretty flat paneled and not like it's it's got anything now you can't see on this flat panel though there it's not oil canning per se but it's not dead flat and that's what we need to know what you're getting on a roof like this that there's gonna be a little bit of that all right so now we're on the back side of the building and now we can see our two mitsubishi hyper heat units these are the city Maltese which means that he's got more than one free on line going to these this is the back side of that walk-in cooler that's pretty awesome I love how economical that is just using a standard unit and if I remember correctly these hyper heats can get down to pretty low like minus five and still be at full eating capacity and still at like seven you're 80% capacity noona - 15 that's pretty awesome look at the copper awning he's got her cup or flashing over that roof and then some beautiful copper lights on the outside man this is incredible guys what a job yeah I'll lace in some photos of that but let's let's close out the video on this point hey tell me just briefly about the house you got going on because you and I popped over there real quick yeah so just up the road here we've been blasting for I don't know about six weeks now and we probably have another week or two of blasting to go they're hauling all the big rocks down this is a you know 80 plus acre site that we're building three buildings on we have a pool house and a large residence up there near the water that we're gonna be embarking on construction here within the month as soon as we get all the blasting done we're staging all of the waste blasted stone down here that will bring a rock crusher in and turn big rocks into Little Rock's and truck all that stone back up and use it as drainage stone around the foundation and all of that stuff so we're recycling everything here on site nothing's getting hauled off and tell me about the blasting that you got going on there - because I'm not familiar with that you're actually blasting some of this limestone out right yeah so we're blasting that site up there it's literally a mound of New England granite and one of the problems that we have from a building perspective here is we had a limit on the height of the floor so we could only go so high so to achieve what we wanted to do with the building meant that we had to embed it partly into the hill yeah so we had to blast it out well when the minute you start blasting there's all kinds of restrictions one it's hard to England granite yeah you're not you're not chipping at this there did be guys over excavators with a whole ramp for a couple years up there this is you know billion year old stone that's been sitting there under pressure it's literally rock hard and even even the blasters they drilled hundreds of holes and we have to drill a minimum of four feet down because we have to use the weight of the stone to keep it from becoming missile launches to the nearby they're drilling for four feet down putting the blunt that caps in or the caps dynamite bit put that large rubber man we saw that on top up there when we saw that to keep the thing just kind of saw it bounces and then the excavator is pulling the rock that's been popping in and truck and haul it down to the staging area and will like I said will make all little stones out of the big stones how you could recycle it and yeah we'll have a rock crusher come in for a short time and go to work down Steve the architecture the planning beautiful in this job if you guys don't know Steve fallin on Instagram he's got a great feed he's an amazing building science teacher obviously an amazing designer as well and I'll put a link to his website if you're interning hiring him and how custom building group the builders here man amazing job by Brian the lead carpenter and also puts Scott who we didn't get to meet his feet on there too he's got a bunch of pictures from this job under construction if you're if you're looking for it guys follow me on Twitter Instagram if you're not currently a subscriber hit that subscribe button below all the walls we'll see you next time on the build show [Music]

Channel: Matt Risinger

Views: 605,215

Rating: 4.8674822 out of 5

Keywords: net zero house, moment frame, framing, howell custom bulid, steve baczek

Id: BHiGVkiIVJ0

Length: 27min 11sec (1631 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 29 2019