Remote Off Grid Cabin.....staining & tongue & groove

foreign [Music] well here we are about the 10th of May it's been five months and some change since I was here at the cabin bad weather and snow back in November ran me off this project I've been thinking about it all winter now that I can finally get back into this property it's time to get started and get some stuff done there's enough snow left for the cooler but other than that it's pretty much all gone now my intention with this trip is to stain the outside of this cabin I'd like to finish up the tongue and groove and then I would like to get all the tongue and grooves sealed but if you've ever built anything you know that you never get as much done as you hope so we'll see how far we make it I will say this look in the place over it looks exactly the way I left it I don't see anything out of place nothing's damaged from any weather one little corner of my siding has been chewed up by a porcupine but other than that it's pretty much perfect now I'm gonna mask off anything I don't want to stain I'm gonna try not to make it too big of a mess and then we're going to get to work staying in this place one of the questions I get asked all the time about this cabin is what did it cost what was the complete cost to the cabin and I think by the time it's done it's going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of about five thousand dollars if you were to build it today you might be able to get it for a bit cheaper than that because lumber prices as of May 2023 they're quite a ways down two years ago this would have been ridiculously expensive that we're using to stain the outside of the cabin is for exterior wooden floors I bought it because it was on half off sale I like the color of it and if it's good enough for exterior wood floors it's definitely good enough for siding and it was cheap I also bought a small pump sprayer so I could spray it on the wall and then even it out with a brush I'm not sure how that's going to work we're going to find out here this is the point process where I pour the stain into a container or into that pump sprayer right on my brand new deck because I do stuff like that all the time what I'm actually going to do but take a second I'll put it all in the ground and do it that way try not to make a mess that's the name of the game I don't really have high hopes for that pump sprayer because it's pretty cheesy and this stain is thicker than what I thought this is also the time of the job when I just dive into this without even thinking again and I don't put some rubber gloves on and then tonight tomorrow the next day and a day after that I got brown stained hands threw in a package of rubber gloves when I packed to come up here but when I got here I found out there was only about three gloves in the package so I'm just gonna have to try to keep reusing these ones I did a test patch on some scrap and I think it's going to look really good so we'll load up the pump sprayer and give it a shot now I've used a pump sprayer before to put on log home oil but that's a Chapin pump sprayer and there's steel and you can pump those things up like an air compressor this thing's pretty corny I tried and tried but I couldn't get to do anything more than just squirt out Stream So that idea went away and the thing that I found out right off the bat about this stain and about this t11 siding is you have to paint an area about a thousand times to get it to cover because the surface is so rough and there's so many nooks and crannies that takes such an effort just to fill in all the little spots that don't get painted when you put it on initially I spent more time repainting an area and working stain into little valleys and holes and anything else and if you think it's boring to watch a guy paint the side of a cabin you should be the guy painting the side of the cabin it took me about two hours and 20 minutes to paint the front of this cabin and it's going to be spoiler alert it's going to be about the same for each one of the walls what I do have to say I really do like the color of the stain it's kind of a cherry mahogany type of thing and it looks just as good as I hoped it would after taking those gloves off and putting them back on a few times man it's almost impossible they you roll them up when you take them off and then they want to stick together you know I mentioned that shape and pump sprayer earlier that sprayer you can buy them at concrete supply stores you can put motor oil or maple syrup into a Chapin pump sprayer and it will spray it out as a fine Mist because they're steel you can really pump them up with a ton of pressure and they use them for spraying oil onto concrete forms or spraying a curing sealant on freshly finished concrete the only problem is they're about 125 bucks most people aren't going to be able to justify that but if you had a big log house to do or you had a lot of this kind of work to do you know it'd be worth picking one up you know the problem with this stuff is this wall is so porous and so rough you got to paint an area like 10 000 times to make sure all the little holes and nooks and crannies are filled in man you have no idea how long I've been at this this seems to work pretty good circular action for filling all those holes in on the other hand I think my shoulders broke man I tell you what when I started this job I hope that my stain would last through the whole project once I got started on it I was just hoping it'd run out soon so I could get on something else never been more glad to be done with a painting job in my life and I still have one wall to go but thankfully I'm out I don't have any more stain to get this brush rinsed off and some mineral spirits here at this point what would Bob Ross do that's what he'd do well now the staining's done that pump sprayer was an absolute bust it was just too weeny of a product to handle that kind of work I spent the rest of the day just lollygagging around checking out the property when I'm up here by myself I like to just wander around and look at stuff in the woods I do a lot of wandering and after a day of painting man there's nothing better than just doing nothing now the following day I'm back at it and I'd like to get some tongue and groove done today I've got the rest of the ceiling to do and that shouldn't be too difficult it's all just straight boards and then I have the two gable ends to do the Gable ends are all going to be Cuts every single board is going to need at least one cut and most of them are going to need two cuts and a lot of them are going to need two angled Cuts so I'm not really looking forward to the Gable lens one question I get asked quite often is where I get my tongue and groove from I buy my tongue and groove from Menards I don't know how many Menards there are in the country but here in the Midwest there's quite a few Menards and they're basically like a Lowe's or a Home Depot but the quality of their tongue and groove is superior anything Lowe's has Lowe's generally has a poor selection and a lot of their stuff has been up there for a long time it's super dry a lot of it's warped been picked through I don't think it's a priority for them but Menards generally has really good quality material they generally have a lot of it it's just the place to get it there are some Amish folks around here that buy it by the semi-load and they sell it at a really fair price but they're kind of out of the way for this particular project so out of convenience I'm using Menards the air compressor I'm using I picked up at a yard sale for twenty dollars the hose is from Harbor Freight it's the smaller diameter flexible hose the brad nailer I bought that at Menards too and it's I bought the cheapest one that they sell it's like the store brand tool shop I believe I think that tool cost twenty dollars originally you don't need anything fancy when it comes to air tools air tools generally are robust and they're really cheap and even the inexpensive ones are going to do just fine especially for somebody like myself or a lot of you folks that you know do a job like this once in a great while if you're doing trim carpentry every day you might as well just buy the best there is because it's going to be something you're going to really rely on but for me I've had this brad nailer for probably 10 years and it's never failed one time and it was cost next to nothing well one thing is true on every construction project especially remote you always forget something and I forgot my bail of insulation for the Gable ends and without the insulation I can't put up the rest of the tongue and groove so for right now this is where we're gonna have to leave it thank you guys so much for watching my name is Dave Whipple you've been watching Bush radical be radically see you soon

Channel: Bushradical

Views: 280,269

Keywords: Off grid cabin, cabin, remote cabin, cabin in the woods

Id: HfRYIycq9QY

Length: 9min 4sec (544 seconds)

Published: Wed May 17 2023