This is an amazing dwelling. You couldn't replace it for love or money. It truly was built by a person who wants the best for his family and to show his love for them.
just amazing Clegg! you just inspired me to build my own dome home. I am not as skilled as you are that is for sure :). it might take me 10 years to build one but after seeing your gorgeous dome it is worth it..
WoW, I am a fan of G Domes too and Rocket mass heaters and the fire build you talked about is a U.S. forest service way to bank a fire. That is one of the nicest dome Homes I have ever seen, your choices on materials is to me what makes your place stand tall above the rest I have seen, Thank you for showing us.
Dude?!?! You're like a magician!!! And to re-purpose the bricks from town is just brilliant!!!! Those streets had character. ... remember when they'd get washboarded? Throw you off your bicycle!!!!
You are a real craftsman sir! The house is something I dreamed of building for 50 years, wife was not as enthused. It's beautiful, The mandolins are amazing. I can't play dead so an instrument is totally out of the question. I'm sure you love the place. Thanks for sharing with us, my wife is excited about the two of us going to the river and doing some hunting, even if we don't find anything, we will have that time together having fun!
you did an awesome job scott. i know the amount of work it took to build that. i’ve been building high end custom houses for about 16 years now. people don’t realize how long it takes to complete a project like that. turned out really nice man
Semo Artifact Adventures Thanks guy, I don’t think I could ever do it again but it is definitely worth it now. And I know what you mean, I’m a self employed handyman and most people just don’t what projects take. Thanks for watching 👍
You are an amazing dude Scott! Wow, you built that yourself! I’m an architectural designer, and I know how difficult that was to build. It’s beautiful!
What an amazing guy and amazing life you have! You built that incredible house yourself! A huge accomplishment. And thank you for showing us your beautiful home! So talented.
Scott I’m simply blown away , speechless !! Thanks for bringing us into your home . I’m a guitar player so I really enjoyed your mandolins and the fact that you made them blows me away . Thanks for an awesome video !!
Gorgeous home and location. Love me some Bluegrass as well, Doc and Dawg is one of my all time favorites. Nice work on the Mandolin's! Thanks for taking me along👍👍
Man, this is such an amazing build. You are a true craftsman and creative. My family and I are buying a Geodesic dome and watching your video is so inspirational. Thank you from Indiana and keep up the great work.
Interesting and quite cool..you spared no expense! A psychology professor of mine up in Marquette, Michigan built an Octonganol shaped beach house he held some classes at. A long high narrow entrance tunnel with slit windows and so many hanging down spider plants made you clear a path thru with your hands to the central 8 sided many sunken level room with a huge carved metal wood heater at the bottom..like a theater effect..it was pretty cool too! We got to stay out there one summer..putting in hand made curly maple kitchen cabinets..
Nice house. I built one as well. Funny Im a geologist, luthier (CBG's) and flintknapper so cool to see this video. My house burned down in a wildfire and had to build something without anyones help or machinery so the only answer was a geo dome. I built mine from 2x6's and then screwed 6" rigid PU foam panels and worked my way down till I finally got it weathered in. 14,000 stainless steel screws later I dont think Id do it again either. Ill definitely have someone else build the foundatiion at least. I dug mine with shovel only. I tied all steel and the only help I had for the whole project was concrete day. I had to have help spreading it and finishing it. Mine is 4 frequency hubless 40" diameter on a 6 foot riser wall. All miter cut. Heated with pot belly stove and entirely cooled with one window unit for less than $25 a month electric bill. Thats with 110 degree summer. I love the way you did the interior panels of pine. Thats What I want to do eventually. My foam is on the outside so I dont need anything between the wood frame (no thermal bridges). Shingles ARRRRGGGH!!! I wouldnt even think of that. I used acrylic coatings and recycled rubber. Anyway Congrats on a beautiful house! Cool artifacts and antiques as well!
@@ndoghouse6853 Much Appreciated! Yeah, it took three years to build. It was a learning experience for sure. I used screws as well, I lost count at around 5 buckets. I used the spray foam, takes very little to heat and cool.
Yikes!!! What a Beautiful home!! You are a Talented fellow and a fellow model railroader to it looks like. I have been modeling in On30 for about 35 years and have several youtube vids on my California Gold Mining railroad. Thanks for sharing your awesome home!!
I am so impressed by what you're able to accomplish with your vision and your hands! You are able to create the reality in which you live. I do hope you're thrilled with what you can do, because most of us will never come within a mile of your skills. I feel simultaneously inspired and inadequate.
I just found your channel, You have built a wonderful homestead, thank you for sharing! Love that masonry stove, wow! The history you are uncovering, on the river, is fantastic! There is a woman who does 'mudlarking' on the Thames river in London, equally fascinating finds from a more urban human past. Keep up the great work and thanks again for making these videos!
Fantastic! My kid (11) and I enjoyed this, but we were laughing- he and i live here with our guitars and workshop and train sets and all our dug/found stuff on display lol Beauitiful home! The videos are really great.. we watch them over breakfast and look forward to new content. Thanks , from northeast PA!
Lol you're like the West Virginia version of me in Ohio lol. I'm just doing finishing touches on my post frame house after two years. Done everything myself radiant concrete floor and spray foam and of course wood stove. Build one Mandolin . Got about 15 instruments Love my Bluegrass. Awesome seeing your house Awesome Job 👌
Man Scott ...that was AWESOME bud!! Wish I had a tenth of ur creative ability!! Ur home n Everything in n around it is beautiful!!Thanks for the show...
Brian* Buckley Woods Man Thanks Brian, hard to make treasure hunting videos on days like today. We’ll get out there as soon as we can. And thanks for watching 👍
Fantastic work! You are multitalented! I just discovered your channel tonight and watched several videos. I subscribed and look forward to seeing more. My mother in law is a niece of Ralph Stanley. From what I understand he was a fine, friendly man.
Just watched this video. Thanks for the tour of your home. Your talents are quite impressive! Glad to see you have the energy and determination to do what interests you. It rolls around in my head but doesn't always get a lot of action. I do play bluegrass! Been playing upright bass for 15 years now. The music found me. Wish my dad could see me now. Thanks for sharing all your adventures with us!
Nice almost heaven.those marbles in the wooden rack cool story, maybe you can get a shot of em, for the still photos in the wrap up.cool upload big talent an artist I'd say,..I whittled a point on a stick once.it came out dull.
What a nice setup you have . Looks very tranquil. Awesome how you repurposed so many things . Thanks for sharing . Enjoyed watching . Hope you are able to get out rock hunting soon . Goodluck out there.
Thanks for showing your dome. Thought about that hard when I built my two story pretty much all wood house. We have the lady bugs and stink bugs each year too. My Makita stick vac takes care of the stinkers pretty well…hate when they dive bomb you. You have as many hobbies as I do!
👍 I re-watched this video. That's some killer looking instruments you made there dude. I would love to do that. I paint murals and portraits but my love is hands on with some wood. Love me some Stanley Brothers!
@@cleggsadventures In the 80's I cared for a quadriplegic friend who had a pre-fab dual geodesic dome house constructed, large and smaller. The acoustics are a trip, I used to catch myself quickly looking over my shoulder as if someone was right behind me speaking but hey would be on the complete other side of the dome. Very nice job, hope you didn't "lose too many marbles" in the arduous process.
Wow, simply an amazing house you've built with great displays of history throughout. I realize this video is a year old but just found your channel last night and subscribed today, so now I'm watching more. When I ets'd from the Army I utilized the GI bill and went to grad school studying stratigraphy at Southern Illinois University where Buckminster Fuller taught for a few years. There's a geodesic dome he designed in Carbondale you can tour. Amazing table display with the artifacts as well!
Thank you very much! Took me 3 years to build, did everything except pouring the concrete. I didn’t take the GI bill, I didn’t want that extra $100 coming out of my check for a year. Was hard when I was only getting $750 a month. I didn’t plan on going to school though.
@@cleggsadventures I definitely remember contemplating the decision to lose $100 a month, especially on E-1 pay, but glad I took the chance. Don't know if we ever crossed paths, I was in from 2004-2009 as an 11B. Was planning on retiring from the army when I went in but after 27 months in Iraq in 5 years I was ready to do something else. I love to artifact hunt and really appreciate channels like yours that provide tips on how to find them.
@@jeremybreeden77 I referred a guy when I went in, so I was able to go in as E2. 1990 E1 pay was $669 E2 was $714. I was 29E radio repair. I didn’t want infantry. Did 4 years and then went back for 3 years 2010-2013 as a Blackhawk electrician 15F
@@cleggsadventures That's interesting the 100 a month didn't go up in 14 years. I wanted to do something else too, but long story short my recruiter wasn't really on the up and up and I was young and dumb lol. Good luck on your next adventure, you have a great channel. If you ever pass through southern Illinois I'd be more than happy to take a fellow vet/history out.
What I like is the design. I work for Nasa and coming to the end of my career with 39 years in and the design is very similar to orthogrid and isogrid panel designs I did back in the early 90's. Very efficient design. Love your heating system. I designed a heating system that basically runs 1.5 inch carbon pipe through my wood inserts. What's nice is in the winter time we do not use a water heater. Have more then enough hot water. I imagine that design holds up well to wind due to the fact that the roof is broken up into different panels and different angles. I didn't notice but do you have big ceiling fans up high to circulate the heat in the winter time. Heat rises and I can only imagine your upstairs stays warmer then the lower floor unless you are near your fireplace heating system. I still can't believe you built that all by yourself. I built a 1400 Sq foot log cabin on our property that we hunt (1700 acres of family property) and I had to have help setting the logs and the roof rafters. Had a neighbor near our property that had a small areal crane that set the bigger logs. Problem with my situation is it is off the main road about 2 miles and there was no way to get equipment in. Living deep in the woods is a positive but it does have disadvantages. In my situation, our place is so far off the road....if you have a heart attack emergency personnel aint getting back in there. Our green fields aren't big enough to land a helicopter either. I get tickled when the game wardens want to stop by. They either walk in or they call me and I go and pick them up with a atv. The road getting in there is so bad I don't have to worry about traffic! I get tickled when the game wardens come up. They always get water out of our well and most of the time will stay to eat dinner with us. They ain't there to check anything....they love our place and love seeing what additions I have done. Plus I went to highschool with one of their fathers. I love your channel and now that I know you are much more then just a artifact hunter I like your channel even more. By the way....I have two cliff shelters on our property and one Indian burial mound. Found many big ceremonial spear points in and around the cliff sheltors but the burial ground is off limits. It is a very spiritual place and I respect it and don't go near it. I will say this....I did find two skulls that had been uncovered by heavy rains and I respectfully covered both back up. As far as I can tell these were woodland. On one end of our property we do have palio because my wife has found two clovis and I have found one. Also have found several grooved axes and dozens of spear points. The clovis points are a find of a lifetime. Take care and God bless.
@@alexrawleigh3167 Hey, thanks for that comment. Much appreciated. It took me three years to build the house. The only thing I didn’t do was lay the concrete it sits on a concrete pad which is good because it holds temperature really well. I did all the math and the angle work with a diagram and an iPhone app. I’m far from working at NASA, lol! Heck, I barely made it through high school. But I have a knack for figuring stuff like this out. I can take something apart figure out how it works and fix it. Maybe because that’s all I did as the kid. Taking toys and electronics apart, just to get the components and motors out of them. I live about 8 miles from where the largest earthworks in the United States was. It’s all been destroyed, but there are some ruins left on the hillltops around. I did a couple of videos on them if you want to check them out, called Adena ruins, found. I’ve been looking for an overhang, and I know where there are a couple, but I have to figure out who owns the land and get permission. Oh, and no, I did not put a ceiling fan in the dome. I should have, because, like you said it gets hot in the upstairs. But, the upstairs is great. In the winter time I spray foamed the whole dome it’s just like a big cooler. I cool it with one window air conditioner 25,000 BTU. And I heat it with one small gas space heater. The only time we use the masonry stove is usually when company comes just for looks.
@@alexrawleigh3167 if you’d like to see the dome building process, I’m on Facebook. Scott Clegg. I took pictures of the whole process, you just have to look through all the pictures from about 10 years ago to find them, but they should all be together.
I love a geodesic dome, but I’m curious why there seem to be so few windows? It seems very dark. Kudos to you for all your hard work. You should be really proud.
You are one talented individual sir.. Very cool.. Are you in West Virginia? Very pretty area.. I live in Southern Indiana and it's just hilly enough.. I love TN and West Virginia.. Would love to retire to a mountain with a cabin. Just now retiring. You did great on the mandolins too! I play guitar and have for 45 years, but I play electrics and have made a couple myself.. Very cool lutherie sir! Best regards and God speed to you and yours. Tim (From the heartland. South Central In . USA)
@@cleggsadventures I have never played the mandolin, but I probably could.. I play by ear.. I loved the inlays you put in that one.. The middle one on the tour of your house which is also cool.. Very cool.. BTW. I live about a mile from the Whiteriver which spills into the Ohio.. Some of my frineds I work with part time at a diner as a waiter find points all the time hunting them in creeks here.. Indians were all around here.. There were even battles between indians and settlers here.. I'm like you and a huge history buff.. This is the town of the first train robbery in history and there is still like 50k of gold missing in 1867 dollars.. It would be millions probably now or close to it.. Thanks again, and I"ll check out more of your vids when I get off work this afternoon.. Love the channel.. You're really good at what you do sir.. Tim
Hi Clegg, just happened upon your video on your dome build. Were really enjoyed seeing your work. My husband and I recently bought a dome and it needs a new roof. Wondering if we could pick your brain? What did you use to fill the joints between the sheets of plywood at the top of the dome? When you decided on a method to shingle the dome, where did you find the method? Natural Dome Homes has one, but was wondering if there are others. Its really hard to find information on Dome roofs on the internet.
I just used the regular felt paper on the plywood. For the shingles, I did one level of triangles at a time. I originally just started going around the dome with the shingles. That worked until I got about 8’ high, then they wouldn’t lay right. So I started doing the triangles pointing “up” first, overlapping the seems about 12”. Then do the triangles pointing “down “ and overlap those over the “up” ones about 12”. This gives a 24” overlap, so u don’t have leaks.
@@cleggsadventures crazy how that little gas heater heats up your whole house. So the whole house is like a bubble of warm air during the winter, what about your bedroom & bathroom?
Lol you're like the West Virginia version of me in Ohio lol. I'm just doing finishing touches on my post frame house after two years. Done everything myself radiant concrete floor and spray foam and of course wood stove. Build one Mandolin . Got about 15 instruments Love my Bluegrass. Awesome seeing your house Awesome Job 👌
Lol you're like the West Virginia version of me in Ohio lol. I'm just doing finishing touches on my post frame house after two years. Done everything myself radiant concrete floor and spray foam and of course wood stove. Build one Mandolin . Got about 15 instruments Love my Bluegrass. Awesome seeing your house Awesome Job 👌
Absolutely the spray foam is unbelievable. You ever get a chance again definitely do in concrete radiant floor . Mine runs of one instant water heater keeps the 1680 square feet with 10 foot ceilings tropical lol.
@@Derekmartin20 I won’t be building another. I did it all myself, took 3 years to build. I dug the septic and the footer by hand with a matic and shovel. We don’t even burn the masonry stove, we heat the whole house with a little gas heater.
