Thank you John, I absolutely loved the long format! Foraging, rocks, boulders, plumbing, test results on water storage, hoping for a mouse for Mattie, turkey rustling, birds singing, carpentry, you’ve got it all!!!
Hey John a pro tip if you will. You need to put a termite shield on top of your block before your seal foam. Use 10inch alum flashing let it hang over each side of your blocks. This will prevent termites from coming up the inside of the blocks and getting into the structure.
Why the lintel? If the joist span wall to wall than dubble joist, or header is all that is needed over the door opening. Deleting the lintel and the sill plate would give you more head room! Give it a think.
Great video! Hard work but you always find a way. Just talking to Daphne wondering how you all were doing. Autumn looks sooo much like Meg! Looking forward to next video.
Good Job John! It's great to see the developments. Maddie is hilarious! Carmen must be taking this one off. Animals are natural comedians! Cool educational about ramps. Thanks a lot.👍
This video is making the chore of doing my taxes a lot less painful!!!! It is helping fuel my eagerness to get back north to our project and keep grinding forward with it!!! The goal for this season is insulation, windows, and the fourth solar array up and wired in on the shop building! then... it's "all down hill" from there and it'll only have been 11 years on the build! LOL I absolutely love how you maximize the resources that you have on site and the Borax/hot water treatment will come in extremely useful since I have a lot of untreated 2x12's that I used for form boards that I am now repurposing for air gap window opening frames and other projects. Keep up the good work!
Drove on Saturday from our home in Florida to our summer cabin in n.e. Tennessee. Saw you had released a new video, so both my wife and i watched it Sunday night. Great video. Love your plant knowledge and how you explain all you do. You have much knowledge and done your research. Was shocked how watching this video made time fly by. This was more interesting than anything else available that night. Thanks!
Wife and I are inspired as well as entertained with every video! Do you have a PO Box we can send something special? Would be honored to add to your tool collection ; )
So good to see you again. Autumn has grown so much! Love to see the progress. Just wish I could have seen a couple of minutes of the other steps you took. That is easy for me to say...I'm not working and taping. Ha.Love the layout. Bet Meg is excited for the work space.
So after watching all of your episodes I had to wait a bit for this one! I started to get the shakes because I hadn’t seen one for a bit! 😂 John I was holding my breath when you put the first rock step in I I thought for sure with it swinging you were going to hit your wall and damage! Tell Meg and the girls hello from Minnesota! Keep on keepin on! 😊
I hope your series goes on and on until the house is finished. Then you/we can go back to earlier stuff like this and really take in all you have accomplished. And such a thing to show your grandkids!
I have a friend here in Montana that told me he cut the beams that went into the Huntley Lodge part of Big Sky when they built it. Getting the right size is important. Lookin good to me, and I'm picky.
Great to see another episode and your progress. SO much content in this one. I often wonder if you have enough time to go to the Gym and keep fit 🙂 LOVE to see how you make use of your tools and resources that are available to you. Hope you are all well and had a good Easter. Looking forward to the next one already. Dont forget, all Work and no play etc. However I would LOVE to play with some of your stuff. Keep on keeping on and stay safe.
thanks for another great video, love your approach to building, the shed, the lumber kiln, now the root/office..So watching you drop the rocks down for filler for the concrete around, have the kids make notes in a bottle to put in the wall ,Ps commented halfway through before the rim joist. maybe on the house build with the bottles.
I’ve missed watching your videos you should just do those ones like everybody else does a couple minutes and send it in and then more people will catch on you but I like all your videos. I’ve been watching it for years.
The root cellar can remain exposed to ground moisture for high humidity levels for food storage, maybe need insulation for temperature control. The issue of moisture weeping in and rising up into the study and guest room could be mitigated by installing a thick layer of polyethylene sheeting on the underside of the floor joists. Install your insulation next then your plywood or milled wood subfloor. Bonding the plastic sheet with the sill plate gasket is the final step.
I was raised up in western N.C. in gramer school a few guy's would eat ramps raw the smell was very strong an teacher's would have them sit out in the hall to do their school work 😅
See you treated that header with water after you cut it and the water expanded it so it was tighter than it wa supposed to be 😅😅. Dang it you made me comment 😂.
Did anyone ever tell you to twist the end of the pipe you're putting in a quarter turn after you have it glued to help the pipes bond better? & old plumber I worked with told me to always do that.😮
You shouldn't backfill until you load the walls. The floor system helps support the block walls. I've seen block walls collaspe when backfilled too early.
The only water we have to worry about is terrential rain. We are at the top of the mountain where water encroachment doesn't exist. The floor drain will be all we need.
John, It concerns me that in all other root cellar projects I've watched, there was a requirement to waterproof the outside of the blockwork, you don't appear to have this angle covered in your back filling. Perhaps, the building codes are different in each state, but I would have thought, some kind of waterproofing compound would have had this angle covered. Regards Robin.
Having grown up in trout country for 74 years, I think you have an annual temperature that is too high for this fish to exist. Other species can easily survive in your temperature.
Hi John, not sure what your plans are with the floor there. You may want to put down some plastic, vapor barrier, the moisture is going to come up through the soil. Especially if you plan to have electronics. Love your episodes. Keep up the hard work….
