Showing my Wife & Daughter the Cabin we Built Them / Ep92 / Outsider Cabin Build

it's a big day at the outsider cabin in fact i've been dreaming of it for years my dad and i have been prepping the log cabin for the arrival of my wife and daughter the interior is far from finished but we still wanted to make it as cozy as possible for them our first task of the day after insulating the gables was to clad them in cedar siding which i'm in the process of making right now [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] uh [Music] the moisture content of the lab siding was a little high at 20 percent which is why i left them by the wood stove for a while before installing them the good news is that white cedar is an incredibly stable wood which means that it doesn't usually warp or crack as it dries so either way the siding should work just fine although dryer is always better anyway after a full day of seasoning by the fire the moisture content of the boards had dropped to around 12 percent which meant that they were stable enough for installation so 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get to the higher part here the middle section so this is for the left side but if i flip it 180 degrees it actually works perfectly for the angle above two patterns for the price of one and uh so this should go quite quickly for us today [Music] so the gables have now been clotted now when my dad and i first began filling in these gables i had a lot of people ask me why we didn't just make our own windows and put those in the gables instead because of course it would have led in a lot of natural lighting to light this cabin during the day and i do agree with that and it's actually a reason why i was seriously considering putting windows in because i wanted that natural lighting but ultimately i'm glad we chose to go with the cedar siding which is filled with rockwool insulation between it has an r value of 14 and that's the main reason why we decided to go this route as opposed to putting in windows is because this is going to do a much better job at holding the heat within the cabin and although our wood stove downstairs is doing a great job at heating the space it's producing a lot of heat for us we want to help the stove out by doing what we can to retain the heat within the cabin and so that involves insulating the gables the dormers the roof even the floor we want to hold the heat in as much as possible and that's what's going to get us through those really cold canadian nights another reason why we chose not to install gable windows is because most of our time spent in the cabin will be in the evening in which case i'd rather the interior gables reflect the inner warmth of the cabin than to display the outer darkness of night plus it's hard to argue with the rustic charm of cedar lap siding with the completion of the gables i packed up my tools and began staging the cabin for my family's arrival [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so so eventually the sleeping area will be in the loft but tonight will be next to the stove the time had finally come to bring my wife and daughter to the cabin let's go get em [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh my goodness that was beautiful oh it's burning wow [Music] it's cozy and over here it looks like a party [Music] here they are the two loves of my life tucked away with me in a warm and cozy pocket of this snowbound woodland [Music] [Music] for the majority of our time together at the cabin i ended up putting the camera away not that there wasn't anything to film but because i wanted to be present with my family to see them not through a lens but to really see them with my own two eyes i wanted to soak it all in so these little snapshots will have to do [Music] we cooked laughed and cuddled we had snowball fights enjoyed the fire's warmth and drank lots of hot chocolate we listened to chickadees chased each other around the cabin and explored the surrounding forest together we talked about my plans for the cabin interior and about the future in general there are just some moments that can't be captured on camera only lived and that's exactly what we did [Music] until next time my friends stay safe be well and god bless

Channel: The Outsider

Views: 1,238,038

Keywords: log cabin, The Outsider, cabin, sawmill, log cabin build, off grid, cabin build, off grid couple, self reliance, woodworking, alone in the wilderness, bug out

Id: 0nTSIJXeIF8

Length: 16min 37sec (997 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 23 2022