The COZIEST CORNER in Our Superadobe Dome Home - Come See!

[Music] welcome back friends today is all about installing our cubic mini wood stove inside this adorable little Dome home it's a 9t circular super Adobe Earth bag structure that adeli has claimed as her own and it will be a guest room for visitors too we've spent the last couple of months building the Dome and racing against winter temperatures to get the outside covered and protected and while the outside plaster and stucco are finally complete this area where the wood stove will go is wide open to massive water leakage right now so let's get this Dome dried [Music] in the and we're looking at the [Music] stars we are back in the dome today we need to finish the Earth and plaster in the fireplace so that I can install the floor which I have cool idea for and then we can install the little fireplace and close up the outside where the flu goes adeli has been doing it but she is at work today so it's up to me wish me [Music] Lu turns out it's incredibly hard to uh video doing this because it's just a lot a butt shot so let me show you where we're at so far all right so we've got about halfway up so that's the floor we still have that to do so we're getting there I think I am going to get our torch out and burn this bag off because nothing wants to stick upside down to a bag so I think I'm going to burn that off and then we can plaster that but but I'm going to keep going up here and try to get all of that finished up just really wish adeli was here because she's really good at this I might grab AA and see if she wants to take a crack at it and see if we can get that top part done we're close still have a ways to [Music] go his idea was this yours nope mine yep okay well we were really struggling getting the Earth and plaster in here and getting it to look nice cuz I can't it's such a tight curve with a TR it's hard cuz then you leave the edge marks with your Tri so this is Magic like get it wet a little bit bit and you can like do a whole lot of smoothing with this like look how good that looksy we got to remember this for the house because you know there's going to be some tight spaces maybe this might be nice to use around bottles might be so we got to remember this that's why we're recording it so we remember to use a brush at some sometimes but yeah this whole this whole area has been quite the pain like just trying to reach up in there and get the material to stick and then like it's been a whole thing so once I get this done and plastered I got to get this done before we do the floor I'll clean up the floor once this dries really well clean it really good like we don't want any dirt on there then instead of laying tile we're laying something else and I'm not going to tell you yet you'll just have to see it's going to be cool though slight change of plans if you know me um we didn't want to try to move a bunch of propane tanks from other things that we have it hooked up to so we're going to try cutting cutting the bag off and just burning the [Applause] [Music] edges [Music] It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year because I am going to start laying Pennies on the floor where our wood stove is going to go I'm so excited about this it's is cheaper than tile to use money who would have thought so we just have this little tiny area I have special pennies with special dates that mean something to our family that are going to be on the front row and then random pennies the rest of the time so let's get [Music] started we are back in the dome pennies have been glued onto the floor where the wood fireplace is going to go it's time to grout them in place is this the color I want absolutely not have I done this before absolutely not it's a grout how hard could it be this is definitely not the color I want but we're going to make the color I want so I'm going to make sure I have more than I need to cover this area now I one thing I do have is concrete tin that's the color I want a dark charcoal so I'm going to pour a little bit on this is this the way to do it probably not but this is what we're doing this is not a how-to this is a this is what I'm doing we're going to mix it in make sure it mixes really well and see if we need to add more cuz I really want this almost like a black color I'm pretty convinced that you watch enough YouTube videos can figure almost anything out although I haven't seen this on a YouTube video maybe this is the first it still looks the same but it's not I promise I'll get a better picture here in a minute the light coming through the window just makes it look really bright oh yeah that's what I'm talking about black gr there it is it's a lot darker Tada all right time to get it we got to sweep that out there's a lot of debris in there add the [Music] GR [Music] we have to wait 4 hours for the grout around the pennies to dry before we can mess with it anymore so we have a few places that we need to button up like the bottles Above This front door we need to add a little more stuckle around them to make it completely closed in and there was a couple spots here that we needed to fix but I already did it I forgot to show you it's fine so last step fix the bottles going to take like 2 [Music] minutes one of adeli's requests for the Dome was to be able to climb up to the top of it and you might remember we built hyper Adobe steps around the edge of the building to get up halfway and then we installed rebar as we were building a dome to be able to climb up to the top what we're doing here is just adding some stucco based hand holds so that that rebar isn't sticking out [Music] now that the inside of this Mini Dome is complete plastered and the penny floor is installed it's time to put in the wood stove now can we just talk about this wood stove for a minute it's adorable it is adorable we spent so much time planning with Hayden and talking about how we would Heat this Stone we looked at like fullon electric we looked at uh buddy heaters we looked at propane furnaces but I think as soon as we found the mini wood stove you and Adel were like this is it this is the Cub model from cubic mini wood stove and it's perfectly sized for this Dome this little stove can heat up to 200 sare ft but this Dome is only 68 Square fet now because of that because of the circular footprint because we're putting a bed in here we really had to take into account making sure that we didn't put a wood fireplace too close to the bed which is going to be like this custom built-in bed so you may have seen that we built this little hyper Adobe mini doome off to the side and it's inset back from the main structure and that's why we did that so we could put the stove in it and keep it safe so it didn't get too close to anything it's like a little side Dome it's like a little Dorito it's like a little cocoon for the wood Stone I feel like cocoon is a good word another big bonus is that wood stubes are really good at removing humidity from your space yes now if you know anything about Earth back building it's that when you put the dirt in the bags you do add moisture and so you Tamp it and then it actually takes a really long time for that like a whole year yeah like a whole year for all the moisture to sort of evaporate out of these bags so this will be a really great fit not only will it warm the space it will also help regulate the humidity in here too win win win while the cubic mini wood stove is actually really simple to install um not so much when you're not doing a traditional build yeah so what you didn't see in part of this planning was that this wood stove is a certain size and we knew we were putting it out off of the main building we're going to build a structure to house it and that the flu needed to go straight up out of that thing that we were making there's a lot of measuring and planning and when we poured that little concrete pad and then when we built that Dome up uh all of that where whether it was left to right front to back like it and even the height of the Dome it was all very meticulously designed to make sure we had the proper clearances on either side and up top because the flu has to be a certain height for the the air flow to work the whole thing yep but we did [Music] it probably the trickiest part of this for us was the roof exit kit being installed on an irregular Dome shape on not a roof nope uh yeah so we ran into a few issues here besides the weird shape this whole Dome was built sort of with a different material than we had ever done this was the first time we' use stabilized AB mix in the bags instead of native soil and plus the mixture that we put on the outside was uh very heavy like concrete sand and Portland and then fiberglass stuck on top of that and usually we can just like screw into our bags couldn't screw into this nope this is basically masonary masonry masonary masonary it's masonary what am I calling it masonry okay guys this is masonry yeah I mean that's what we realized because all of our screws were just dulling they wouldn't go all the way in break off if we tried to drill into it the drill bits would just stop Drilling and it would and it wouldn't make a hole it would just start breaking everything apart lots of research later we found the right drill bits the right screws and the right actual drill we had to buy a new drill yeah we've never done anything with masonry before so yes masonry we had to get a hammer drill we had to get Hammer bits we had to get actual concrete screws and after we figured that out the process was much [Music] smoother so even though we did get it screwed in all the way around we start to put a bunch of caul underneath that seal and then build up the stule because there it wasn't perfectly flat you know it was all handmade and we do plan on coming back in the next video when we do the elast americ and we're going to paint all around that and get it all nice and sealed in but we were a little worried about this it was it turned out a lot better than I thought go today is the day we're going to light our stove for the first time it's all set up so let's go over to the Dome are you ready to light the fire sure okay now that we have this fireplace installed on a finished floor it's time to light it to light the the mini cubic wood stove we are going to first crumple in some paper and then some little kindling now that we have our paper and our kindling in it's time to adjust the vents first you want to make sure your primary vent is open which is on the front slide that to the right so that it's open and make sure your secondary vent on the bottom is closed now it's time to just take your lighter or matches and go ahead and light the paper [Music] once your paper and kindling are burning it is time to leave that door open for 3 to 5 minutes leave it completely open if you need to keep adding some sticks go ahead and do that we want this fire to be [Music] hot after it's been about 3 to 5 minutes you'll notice Noti that the flame is like pulling up the chimney so that flu has to get hot before it like creates that draft I'm learning all of this for the first time now that our fire is actually going and it's pulling through the chimney or the flu I'm not sure if there's a difference we're going to start adding bigger pieces of wood but we're going to leave some space in between them we're going to kind of stack them like link and logs after it's been about 5 to 7 minutes you're going to go ahead and stack some bigger size wood in there and close the door [Music] after you close that door you can hear it start lesson learned close the door just a remind reminder this is the primary vent and this is the secondary vent during the first 20 minutes you want to keep this primary vent open and the secondary vent closed after the first 20 minutes you can open the secondary vent and adjust the primary vent to whatever you need it to be we've got a good amount of our little tiny logs in the fireplace so we're going to let this go for about 20 minutes and come back and open this secondary [Music] vent now that the mini wood stove has been installed it is time to move to the next step which will be sealing the outside of this Dome with a laser and once the outside is sealed that means all our attention moves to the inside which means we're on the downward slope that is the official the Teeter Totter point where things get faster and we get really excited huh now listen uh if you think this cubic mini wood stove is as cool as we think it is we have an affiliate link we're going to throw it in the description you should go check them out out we really like it can't wait to put more of these in other buildings like the Airstream new buildings not old buildings put it in the Airstream and the solar shed do you know how nice that would be in the Solar shed at night be great hey can we can I tell you something there's some names scrolling on the screen right now oh yeah do you see these 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