Start to Finish | Helping Friends Build A Remote Cabin Miles From Any Road 

Blessings to you and your family on the birth of your daughter. I'll continue to watch your progress.

Congrats on hitting 100k! 🎉

1x2 Furring strips with 3/16” ply glued down and tacked to the strips, then add insulation. That’s what we do, I’m sure there is easier faster methods such as what you guys since it was a small footprint. Still faster and just as efficient as the way I do it, but I’ll remember how yall did it when I have a small project!

i just bought some land up in fairbanks to do this same thing, you have been an inspiration man keep it up

Hi Matt, so glad that you were able to give Steve and Tess a hand with their cabin. I really like those two. The question about whether they are offgrid or not. I was born in Alaska 76 years ago and back before this offgrid term was developed by modern day homesteaders, it was you either lived remote or you lived on the road system. That was that. If they don't put a driveway in they will remain remote. Myself, Steve and Tess have something in Common, I worked as a Winter caretaker for remote fishing lodges for 30 some years and I am anxious to hear their stories and watch their videos. By the way, Dick Proenneke was a friend of mine when I lived and worked out on Lake Clark.

Most people insulating the floor aren't in Alaska, so they don't mind putting in narrow boards on the inside/bottom of the floor joists, and setting plywood strips on those. It takes longer, but it keeps you off your back... But up there, you gotta insulate as best you can, so crawling underneath the thing is necessary at some point. It's cool that you did it now, when you can still lift the floor up. That way there are no gaps or cuts in the plywood. It's also worth remarking that some people prefer to use RockWool (or equivalent) in floors, especially in off-grid locations, first because sometimes water spills on the floor and soaks down into it, and second because the mice don't like it. But it costs a little more. Something to consider, depending on your goals.

Norman just wants to run to the job site...🐾🐾

Excellent!!!😊🎉❤

Great video Matt and so nice of you returning the favor and helping them Love to see Norman he's so cute Thanks for sharing and love the music as well. Good luck on the new build and I would have to agree that's definitely off grid lol Love from Ohio

I’m 70 year old princess and love watching your videos !!!! Never been to Alaska and maybe I’ll get the chance !! You 3 worked together great !!! I’m a dog lover and love Norm but why didn’t he get a burger ?

Moving on up 100k,CONGRATULATIONS

That’s what shows your a real friend. Keep living the dream

Love Norman

Something that small, I probably would have flipped the sub floor. But what you guys did worked fine, just a little awkward attaching underneath.

This is a true American enginuety !

LOVE IT!!! KEEP IT COMING!!!!!

Nice work ya'll!

Only in Alaska would you call someone a neighbor when they're half an hours drive away from you. Great videos!

Congrats on 100k! Speaking of off grid definitions, I saw someone comment somewhere recently that if you have internet access you're not really off grid. For some reason that made me irrationally irritated.

I wish that my neighbors lived that far away!!! Great music!

porcupines will chew through that plywood if they want to. should get some metal mesh for the underside of the cabin to keep them from coming up through the floor

1/4" grid hardware cloth against the bottom of the subfloor stops mice and voles1" or 1/2" bellow that to deter the skunks and Porqupines.

Your Flurry 🐶 Friend is certainly a great companion. The pic sitting up in the truck is great 👍

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Off the grid to me is just away from the grind, cities and excessive amounts of people. I have 40 acres in Wyoming I just bought and I'm about to build my forever off the grid cabin, 16x24 with a loft. Love all these videos and the peaceful calm music in the background

Hello! I absolutely loved this video ... just stumbled across your channel ... had to subscribe ... thanks!

Looks like it's gonna be a nice homestead! Why did Steve decide on 2x4's for the walls? Around here we use 2x6 for more insulation.

Norm is the hardest working boy

Great video! Love how you are helping your neighbors....I will definitely check out their site because I want to see the finished cabin LOL!

Congrats on reaching 100,000 subscribers! 🎉

that makita saw is smooth

Hey, what a coincidence! I’m a subscriber to your channel and also started watching theirs a few weeks ago. This is cool because he didn’t really show this part of the build in his vlogs. They’re a neat couple.

Great content! You are giving me major inspiration to get “off grid” ;)

I love that channel.😀 They are so funny 😊 hi from Colorado Springs 😀

Congratulations on 100k! 🎉

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great video

Congrats on hitting 100K subs!

Amazing video❤❤😊❤

Wondering why the second cabin? The first was so nice…perhaps an addition might have made sense?

I like Norman ❤.!!

Hi there💙, great CONGRATS on 100K 🎉.... from sub no. 36 on your ch! 😂 Best wishes to the whole family from Europe! 🙏

Good vid and music Matt. Teamwork sure helps one heck of a lot. Like you I would really appreciate a few more hands at times. Tough being a one man shoe. The cabin looks great. True plumb and square. The walls bowing out won't hurt. Diagonal center braces would help that. The bottom floor joist cover for the insulation. Not a bad job on it. Fast and it's sealed up as good as any other method. Seen it done a lot of ways some much more labor and costly. This build will be good experience for them later on. One thing they will have an efficient home come winter. I'll check out their channel. We met them before. Next time

Friends helping Friends good old Alaska I like it. Ginger L USA Alabama😊 keep you friends Close, doing a amazing job I love seeing friends helping🎉 Food sounds great Norman is Hungry love watching friends Helping Friends Ginger L USA Alabama❤

good that you put boots on norm 🥾

My wife and I live in a very mountainous area of north central Washington state, 5 miles from a small town and 30 miles from a small city. We’ll be going to north west MT the end of May to look at property to buy and build a log house so that after my wife retires our house will be finished. We’ll sell our mountain home here in WA for our retirement home. I figure between eating fish, elk, deer and other wildlife we’ll be ok for our meat. We will have to grow our vegetables because the area we’re interested in, the closest Costco is 100 miles away. We will have to drill a well and install a septic system, but we have 12 years to do it all.

Could have stood the subfloor up on edge, attached the plywood and laid it back down...

Nieghbours helping Nieghbours this is the Alakan way

Porcupines love the glue in Plywood.

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Whats up from wasilla

Do you have a full video of you building your cabin you live in?

Is this a new cabin he built or is this the same one different video because I thought he showed a start to finish on a secondary cabin?

Are they guides at a fishing lodge?

somewhere between 2:54 and 3:04 Norman lost a shoe :(

I love your music for video. I’m gonna buy it but I wonder if I could be allowed to use it for my channel? Let me know. Thanks Pat

a floor is as warm as your room is if there s no heat...its going to be a cold floor..

Hold the hammer from the bottom, when using, so much better

Hey Matt, I am trying to figure out what size door gasket is used on the Drolet El Dorado woodstove which I believe is the same one you have, do you have any idea which size it is? I think it might be 5/8 inch but I can’t find proof anywhere.

Jack ryan?!

Those T-bone steaks looked more like strip steaks 🤔

Out of curiosity do they not have “legal” access to drive to the property, or it is too rough, too much snow, or just no official driveway? Always tough moving everything there by hand

That's not a cabin. That's a shed. 😉 Congrats on a hundred thousand subscribers! 🎉

I like the idea of having plywood on the underside of the floor and have seen it done a few different ways. The way you've done this looks great! I opted for a more unique way. It helped to have lots of friends around. ru-vid.com/show-UCzoJFNfNAl4nrohkaw7nCMg

How come all the dogs in Alaska have the same look? like their owners/ caretakers are f..king crazy

Matthew 28:18 King James Version 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.Gods blessings over you .

RU-vid is butchering good videos with commercials. I don’t watch much regular TV and watch it on mute.

Christ.. this is hard af to watch

I would love to move to AK. One problem. I will not drive through the union of socialist republic of Canada.