WE MADE a MISTAKE // Installing our ERV System

building a house requires endless amounts of work but when our kids have a day off from school we have to make a decision what we're going to do on these days is this a family day or is it a building day when we get back to the build we are filled with confidence as we start our Erv system and I'm so confident I think I can do this all by myself but that confidence is quickly shattered we gotta fix that and we learned that we're not the Erv Pros that we thought we might be if you think it is it's not follow along as we work on the installation of our Erv ducting system and if you haven't already be sure to hit the Subscribe button and ring the bell so you don't miss a moment of the build [Music] all right guys we are starting a new week here on the build and it's Monday it's a fresh start but our kids are home from school today so Ryan and I always try to decide what we're going to do on these days is this a family day or is it a building day so today we're going to make it a family day we have a few things that we need to unload from the car we picked up all of the ducting that we need to do our Erv system so we're going to get that out of our car into the house so it is ready for tomorrow and then we are going on a short hike so we can spend some time with our kids it's always hard to make this call because we really want to live in our house but you only get limited amount of time with your kids to living with you at home so might as well take advantage when the moment happens right okay we'll take you guys along for the ride [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] what's up you ready to take the generator out yeah I've got all the Erv stuff all unloaded so guys all right like Ryan was saying we we inherited a bigger generator which is great but we need to get it out of our car because it's hanging out in there Ryan's dad is doing some downsizing so we got a little gift but we're gonna get that out and then go on our hike I'm not muscles McGee I'm muscles thank you [Music] foreign a lot of people ask us what we do when the power goes out like with our pellet stove and the generator is the answer but this generator is actually big enough it's going to live down in our Pump House eventually and run our well if the power goes out what not I'm wrong never mind so she's partially right the this is a 3000 watt generator and our it's going to live down on our pump house and it's gonna we're gonna put a generator interlock kit in there so not only will it run the pump but it'll feed power all the way up to the house albeit probably can't run all of our Breakers but it'll be enough to run the refrigerators run the well you know pretty much run all of our essential devices when the power goes out so we'll be able to use one generator and basically run run everything on the house it's got like a remote start feature so I'm gonna try to figure out a way that we could maybe have a relay set up so that if we needed to if we're without power for a couple days and we're wanting to run it like two or three hours at a time that we could just start it up from up at the house the generator down there hit the little button figure out a little relay system so if anybody has any ideas on how to make that system work let me know in the comments yeah if you're going to have some fun tinkering away on this yeah otherwise we'll just have to run down and you know start it manually each time but all right now all we have to do is stay loaded up on fuel yeah well and you've got to make sure it's running but that shouldn't be a big deal generator all right let's go on a hike all right let's do it thank you foreign [Music] [Music] you should get some videos of you walking yeah [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign so you see behind us here we have our Panasonic Erv and we're getting ready to start in on running the ducting work so we have both our supply and our return air here so this is going to be the stale air and this is going to be the fresh air the first one we're going to run is our supply and we're going to run that above the the header here in the laundry room and then continue it out into the first bedroom where we're going to Tee It Off to make our other connections yep and then we have for our return we're going to uh run that up through this rafter and it's going to kind of make a journey through the the joists and go up and then connect to the bathroom yep bathroom and kitchen and we've got those all figured out and we just did a quick walk around and I'm so confident I think I can do this all by myself I just said so I had a big debate whether we should use the galvanized ducting or the flex ducting and at first I was pretty sure we were going to use the galvanized because a lot of research I said said that it's smoother inside you'll get better airflow but then weighing that on the convenience of using Flex ducting and reading some other articles that were saying that if it's installed correctly Flex ducting is you know there's a very very insignificant amount of performance degradation that you get by using Flex ducting versus galvanized so is what we decided to you do was do a hybrid approach so for our for our big long runs that we have we're going to use galvanized and then we're going to for the the last connection runs we're going to use flex ducting to take advantage of the convenience uh there so I think it's the best of both worlds [Music] it's like already like I don't know okay there we go all right foreign path I think that looks fun [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] I can't tell it's very light air all right well we gotta figure out how we're gonna fix it there okay well at least we turned it on First and figured it out before we like did the whole system we connected our supply line to the return line so you know we gotta fix that just popped right off he's really on there really secure I was too like oh man we're finally finding our groove on this okay let's go we got that attached to the correct piece so everything's good luckily it wasn't something where we had to take down the whole system it was just a quick piece a little bit of waste of products um but we got it [Applause] kind of another hole [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign so Ryan had to go help the kids with something so I am having this to connect down below and then this will be the part that goes to me and Ryan's bedroom and be the supply for that so I'm just cutting that and I was just making it more even uh and we had a second pair of kitchen shears that we never use after we cleaned out our old house we're using those to cut them and it works a ton better [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] we got done with our supply line as far as we could go we are still waiting on the actual vents that will attach and will then be in our ceiling or in the walls depending on where they're going in each room but that is this line that's going here that you can see and if you're wondering like oh it's hanging pretty low we're going to build out soffits for those so think about when you're in a house and you see those little spots where the wall or the ceiling has a little little part that juts out it'll be that so don't worry if you're having a moment going um that's not a good spot but anyway we are on to our return line and we fixed where everything is on the Erv system so we're gonna start mapping that out and getting it ran and hopefully we can get all that done today and this Erv project will almost be behind us once those vent Pieces come for the walls in the ceiling it's like one of those uh or snakes in the can I know whenever you pull I think it's kind of fun are you into the the black part of it too yeah yeah it's world's easier isn't it yeah we were dummies doing it a different way that's why we called on YouTube for help yeah oh man that works way better than 10 Snips right also learning from YouTube don't use your tin snips to cut black stocks all right let's go look at it all right before you guys all go jump in the comments you probably just watched us as we were collect connecting our flex duct in and we made the mistake of using some duct tape for some of those connections um we realized our mistake and we have replaced all of our connections now with the correct foil tape so we learned our lesson we're going to uh proceed with the correct materials from now on and so now we're going to finish up the day with what we originally started which is running our return line so we're going to get that connected and hopefully we'll be able to get it completed before the end of the day [Music] so I had the realization yesterday that duct tape was for ducting and I was like oh that makes so much sense now but it's not so if you think it is it's not well we'll be a pro with that profession with a silver tape [Music] I don't feel like oh yeah you're right I think you'll be good now okay and then stop right before it's too tight adjustments [Music] foreign to continue yeah it doesn't make any sense to keep going any further without it we're stopping on the supply and return line because we don't have the vents we need we don't know how much space they're going to take up and we don't want to keep working and realize that we've haven't given ourselves room so yeah it really comes down to we're trying to fit a four inch flex duct into our 10 inch Rafters and have a event that then connects and continues on so we'll need a t and a ceiling vent and we're just not sure if both of those things will fit into a 10 inch rafter yeah so we're going to wait we get those in like five days those Vents and part of it is a weekend where we don't usually even build so it'll get here fast enough but we gotta kind of figure out what we're doing with the rest of our time right now I think we might work on the part of the Erb system that runs out of our house and grabs the outside air and just get that Loosely started all right all right it's not always an easy day on the build it's mostly not an easy day on the build okay and then we'll have the other one from there that guy and it'll be underneath our house it goes all the way to the outside of the house okay maybe we can just make this speed you know cut it off where we want it yeah we can still make a turn coming into where we want it okay [Applause] ouch [Music] foreign [Music] on our front door forever we just had a little that stuff that works too all right we got those two holes drilled so we will be ready to get back to the build next week and be putting in those two ducting pieces so we can continue this Erv project and hopefully finish it but if we're not ready to finish it we'll be taking you guys along for some other Adventure in the build that's where we're going to leave you for this episode if you liked this episode be sure to support our Channel by hitting the like button and hitting the Subscribe button if you haven't already we'll see you on the next one 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Channel: One Foot Off the Grid

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Keywords: one foot off the grid, build, couple builds own home, couple builds house, cabin build, building a cabin, log cabin kit home, building a log cabin kit home, wild wonderful off grid, construction, a frame cabin, trent and allie, self built home, building with no experience, ambition strikes, building our own home, cabin kit home, this old house, diy, panasonic erv, diy erv installation, installing an erv system, erv, erv ductwork, energy recovery ventilator, erv ducting

Id: F49xLc4poD8

Length: 19min 52sec (1192 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 12 2023