Closing That Chapter After Today 🤞| Simple Life Reclaimed | Episode 61 | 9.08.22

What's up everybody? How are you guys doing today? Welcome back to Real Talk with SLR. We've already ran an errand into town, got back and now we're gonna be hitting it. Yeah, we're recording this quite a bit later than we normally do. Usually we're doing it in the morning right as we're starting to get it but like Gary said because we had to go into town and run some errands etc we're getting at it a little bit late. Yes. Needless to say it's super bright outside. Yes. We're facing the basement with the the white dry lock walls and burning our eyes so that's why we have the shades on today. Yes, it is definitely reflecting that sun and bouncing it straight back at us. Yeah, I can't wait to like paint it another color. Yeah. But that's gonna come later. It is definitely warm today though. Oh yeah. It's warm and humid like no tomorrow. Very, very sticky and moist. Mm-hmm and inside that basement has been super humid. Yeah. It's been nice temperature wise but just the humidity level is just like so hopefully I will be able to fix that today. Yeah, Gary picked up a little something. We got a dehumidifier. Yes. Yeah. I just bought a regular one that way we can get that thing running ASAP and I don't have to worry about all the duct work or anything right now. I can just plug it in see what it does and see where the best spot is gonna be for it to be running basically all the time just for right now until we can actually get it permanently ducted in and everything else. I hope it runs really good for us. I'm hoping. I mean it's rated for 4,500 square feet. That's not 4,500 square feet. No, we're barely over a thousand. Yeah. Closer to about 1,100. It is closer but still it's I'm hoping that it will drop that humidity level down like no tomorrow. We're talking about 70% humidity inside the basement. Yeah. It's pretty high. If we can get it to be in the 20s or so, I'll take it. If we can get it down to the 20s, I'd be happier than happy. Yeah, we're probably gonna get it down to the 40s. Mm-hmm. That's ideal. Ideal is about 40% so if we can get down to 40, I'll be happy. If we can get it lower than that, I'd be extremely happy. I'm gonna have it piped in right now. Yeah. To where it's just straight draining into our drain. Yeah, but when we finish the bathroom and stuff like that, where are we gonna pipe it out at? Well, we're gonna we're gonna have more drains around. You'll see. Okay. There's ways about it. Gary's got a plan for it. Yeah. We've got the... I'm just not aware of the plan yet. Well, I mean there's so we've got the washing machine drain right there. Plus, we're gonna have that utility sink in there as well. So, if I need to build like a little shelf for it to put it over there for right now, we can do that until we get the actual all of everything ducted in and everything. Because ideally, I would like to have the AC system, the ERV system, as well as the dehumidifier. If I can have all three of those things, I will be a happy man and our air quality inside of the build of the basement as well as the cabin will be phenomenal. So, I'm trying to get it to where it's best as possible about being a professional. And yeah, I think I might be overthinking some things. It is what it is. Sort of like, oh, we overthink certain things and we don't think about certain things either. I mean, it just it goes with the territory of building and especially building for the very first time. And yeah, sort of like that door. I mean, you had talked about it. I don't really care either way because it's not gonna be like a storage area per se. It's more so we're gonna go in there and hide out underneath the stairs. So, hopefully there won't be anything in there. You know, so that's why I was like not really caring about the way that the door went in. But you guys did bring up a perfect point. You don't really want to be swinging it into the area or closet door. Clarification is, he's speaking about the door that goes underneath our stairwell, our future stairwell to get up into the cabin. That's the door that he's speaking about. Yeah, so we have another door that we can put that in and I can just hold on to that door and we can install it up stairs in the other cabin or in the cabin portion. For now, there's no need to. There is no need. We're just gonna leave it how it is for now. If later on it bugs us and we want to change it, then we'll change it when we build the cabin upstairs. Correct. Once we put the stairs in, that's when it's gonna be really more of a crucial thing. Yeah. But yeah. For right now, there's no need. We didn't really think about it. No. Thanks for pointing it out though. Yeah. Because it definitely, I was like, yeah, I didn't really think about that one. I mean, we thought about it, but we didn't really think about it, think about it. Yeah. Like, you guys bring up some really good points and we do take your guys' advice to the best of heart. You guys saw in our last video that we posted yesterday on main channel Simple Life Reclaimed, we did take your advice on doing like what they call a belly band with the drywall and we put the little sliver in the middle so that way it'll make less mudding. There is, you know, pros and cons of doing that because now we're gonna have to really thicken up the mudding. And it's gonna be harder to float it through and everything else, which I had a feeling because of the tapered edges and everything else. But there's literally just that that one wall that we did that to. Let's say that there, we've probably in our basement, we have probably done every single way except for making the bottom piece. Yeah. Just the skinny piece. And the only reason why we haven't done the bottom piece like that yet is one, you're having to hold up an eight-foot sheet all the way up to the ceiling with that half-inch gap so that way you can put the ceiling drywall in and then try to hold it there and make sure that you're still holding it straight and everything else. And then put that next sheet down and then that bottom little sliver so each piece you're having to hold manually. Whereas if you just put a half a sheet or half-inch piece of drywall or whatever on the bottom of the ground and you just rest the drywall on top of it, you're not having to hold anything other than just like push it up against the wall and screw it in. Yeah, and you know that's something that was in our videos that we did do but for whatever reason you guys didn't really necessarily see it the best. I think if you guys look a little closer, you will see that there is a piece of wood on the floor. We weren't putting the drywall directly on the concrete and screwing it in. It is, it is gapped. Yes. So maybe, maybe go back and re-watch the video because we do have a piece of board on the floor that we're resting everything on top of. Correct. There were a lot of comments like, why are you putting it direct on the concrete? We didn't. I just, maybe it was the camera angles or what-have-you. It's really difficult to film inside the basement right now with no lights. And the lighting that we do have just doesn't turn out good on camera and it's just like, let's just get it done so we can film it and show you guys what we did later. We're trying the best that we can. Speaking of just hitting it and filming later after the fact, we got a lot to show you guys tomorrow for tomorrow's video. Gary and I have been straight hitting it. We've just been straight hitting it and a lot of it has not been on film because of the whole situation with the lighting and everything. Now, what we're doing today and what we hope to do today should fix that situation and it shouldn't be a problem moving forward. No. I'll give you a hint. Hey, come on. You know it. You know you said, you heard that song when I was talking about it. Yeah. People in the last night's live chat, y'all know what I'm talking about. But yeah, no, we're working on it. We're going to try. We're working really, really hard towards that goal by the end of today and hopefully in a video for you guys tomorrow, we'll be able to say, let there be light, flip it on that switch and the whole situation of the lighting with filming will be a thing of the past and we'll be able to move forward with all the mudding and all the sanding and all the other things that we got to do to finish up all the drywall. That being said, the drywall is all hung. All the drywall is hung and it's up there and it's done. So we just need to get the outlets in there, start mudding and put the outlets in there, put the light switches in there, turn on the power. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Then start. I'm just clarifying, you know, a little extra clarification. Just let her sit. Come on, Lola. Sit. Relax. She's fine. I just don't want her to lick me to death. I know. She just constantly licks and it's annoying sometimes. She doesn't, she doesn't mean no wrong. Come on, Lola. You don't mean no wrong. You're just a big derp. So we have had a really wonderful day so far. Gary and I, we did a lot in town and I had to go to the doctors this morning. I got it all taken care of and then I don't want to get the dehumidifier and we had to go and do a few finger things. So we got all that taken care of. But we have got a very, very busy day. I don't want to have this real talk be too long. I just wanted to mostly pop in, say hey, get you guys excited for what we got going on and what you guys will be seeing on our main channel tomorrow. So wish us luck. Send us all the thoughts, prayers and good luck that you could possibly send our way and hopefully we'll get the power. We've got a lot to do but it's all of the tedious work is pretty much done. Yeah. I mean putting in the outlets and the light switches, they're a little tedious, you know. But running all the wire and getting all that where it needs to be and everything else, that was the biggest, tedious part of the whole thing. That was definitely the biggest, hardest part. But it's all done. I mean really we should have to connect it all into the main breaker box. We're going to have to put in all the face plates and all of the actual outlets and then all of the light switches and cover them all with wool. We shouldn't even cover them yet, put the covers on it yet. We're going to put the covers on them just because of the kids. If we're getting into the mudding, it's a lot easier just to take off the cover than the whole thing. Yeah. So I'd rather just put the covers on, let them be there and then we don't have to worry about the kids going over there and who knows, you know, accidentally put a metal piece in That was the wind. That wasn't the dog this time. That was the wind. Sit Lola. Sorry guys. We actually got to get going though for real. We do have a lot of work to do. Hopefully we can get this power situated and we got, we have so much to do man. So I don't want to sit here and talk to you too much. Today is going to be a super duper busy and very big day for us. I am hoping that all will go well. Uh, thoughts and prayers appreciated. Yes. Yes. We're going to be, uh, we're going to hit it and we're going to get a lot done. Yeah. So I'm excited. I'm super excited. I'm ready. I am ready. No more extension cords, no more of those super hot, uh, garage lights. I will be moving on to mudding and sanding and painting and bathroom and water and be moving on up, moving on in. I'm excited guys. It's going to be nice. We will have a new video on here on Real Talk for you guys tomorrow. Um, it'll be a lot earlier like our normal time. We just had things we had to do today and um, we'll also have a new video on Simple Life Reclaimed for you guys tomorrow. So I hope to see you guys then. I hope that you guys have a wonderful evening and uh, we're gonna get it. Heck yeah. Let's do it. Until then guys, we love y'all and we hope you have a good one. We'll catch you on the next one. Bye you guys. Later, later.