Simple Skirting for our CABIN IN THE WOODS || Winter Prep 

I’m also curious about it…

😂 I hope we can give you a wood update soon

Smashing it with rocks to get all the scorpions out of course

@@averagewanderers ok this is the proper use

😂😂😂😂 had to reflect my mood in the most positive way possible 😂

Its a Japanese style called Shou-sugi-ban that helps protect the wood naturally. My only regret is that I ran out of plywood and was only to get different plywood that looks much better but has a completely different wood pattern. So the cabin skirting looks patchy, but functional

Thanks Chad!

Haha yeah we realized we never really show that building, so we have a cabin tour coming in the near future!

It reminds us of the rain "creature" sounds in stardew valley

Thank you! I’m glad we also decided to take out the logs to find that it was hiding all of that!

😂 I love this comment! Cecil definitely loves helping with vacuuming, maybe a little too much! It was great to have some helping hands with this project especially with all the dog stuff going on. We are so happy to hear you love the videos, that puts a smile on our faces for sure! 🩵

Great advice! We have been looking into that, thank you for the suggestion and watching!

It really is but we know he’s a trooper and he can get through anything! Thank you for watching 🩵

Having your best friend injured has been the most exhausting thing on our journey. Thanks for the comment!

Minnesota is very beautiful so I hope your transition goes well! I’m biased to boxers and think they are the best dog so I definitely think you should get at least one! 😄

Thank you. 😊

Put a wet tea bag on his eye it will bring down the swelling

Thank you for the suggestion! I haven’t heard of the tea bag before but I will keep that in mind for future eye swelling. Thanks for watching!

@@averagewanderers it also has healing properties it’s amazing teabags work wonders, internet search it

My pony’s eye gets like this in the summer with the dust i use cold tea to bath her eye works wonders just soak a tea bag in a mug or cup let it cool then good to go

That is a great tip, thank you!

He is finally now 8 weeks later haha

It really gets wild in videos to come. Thanks for the comment, it does end up helping :)

That is great advice, thank you so much and Kain thanks you so much for your caring thoughts!

@averagewanderers You are very welcome. I got the idea from an incident that happened about 15 years ago. I was in a medical office with a friend and when I came out to the waiting room, she was standing. I asked why she was not sitting & she said she had been but everywhere the chair fabric had touched the skin on her arms were huge angry red welts. She said the fabric was something called "kapok" (kay-pok) to which she is highly allergic. I later found out that the allergic reactions to this is rare but does happen. Annnnnnyway, when you cleaned that new rug and it came out that dirty, it made me wonder how clean it was when Menards sold it to you. Looking at Kain's sad face was just heartbreaking. I have an affinity for boxers that brings me good memories. I normally don't ever yap this much but wanted you to have any info that could help you. 😊🙏🌻🐾🐾🇱🇷

Thats a really good point. I do plan to use reflectix insulation under the entire cabin to help insulate. So knowing that it is now finished, my plan was to seal the top with caulking to prevent water from getting down there, along with sealing all the wood. Any other advice would be great!

​. This is for a a summer project. Remove your skirting, and lay down concrete slab all the way around the cabin. Build it so it a little higher off the ground. Then replace your skirting. I don't know how you water pipe are running under your cabin. But you could enclose your water pipes and the pipe that comes up from the ground. by making a frame and putting insulation in the frame. Plus you can enclose a area under the cabin, to make storage. Again you would need to insulate it. You can build a door in the floor to get too it. Living by Lake Superior, there's a lot of wind . Being older, and wiser has taught us a lot.

Concrete in a crawl space is total hell to put in and wont solve any issues.

@@BS.-.-he means as a footer for his skirting not the whole crawl space

We had brought the van back to our hometown to store by this point, but that would have been a good idea!

In the next video you’ll see we do but I agree I can’t believe for being brand new carpet it was that dirty! We now are weary of any carpet/rug we buy in the future. A hard lesson learned. Thanks for watching!

We finally did remove it but we hadn't confirmed it was the carpet at this time. Seems obvious in retrospect and would have saved us a TON of money.