BRACING Forms & ANSWERING Your Questions!

[Music] oh slow living can be lifegiving although we might disagree if most our lives are lived in black and white it makes the grave so Hello friends we're back at The Roundhouse course 11 oh my goodness we are starting to lay the bags and lock in all those new window forms that we put in last time all these clees with the nails sticking up so we're just going to be laying in between everything and we'll come back to the straight walls are kind of going out of order but we'll we'll make it work don't [Applause] [Music] worry hey about now I'm tell me [Music] we're rapidly approaching that height aren't we it's about time to get the staing out and have one extra person just a little [Music] high we got love that we'll never need to hide love will always rise above whatever comes you will be just fine if I am yours and you are mine take my hand and let's fly away to another galaxy hold me close I want to feel your love together we are free just be with me just be with me just be with me now we're one with the sun over our heads and at night will be the Stars we can go any place that we want to I don't care if that's too far take my hand and let's fly away to another we are back out at The hypoy Roundhouse and we are on day two of course number 11 we're going kind of slow honestly um adel's out for the weekend so you know we're just doing what we can little bags here in there we are avoiding the places where our exterior water outlets need to go because we haven't quite made all those boxes yet but there's still plenty to do we'll get to the water shortly chances are we're going to be very slow since we're down one person and one person is in with the dogs so you know just do what you can a little bit every day you'll get there eventually I keep telling myself that cuz I really hope that we get here eventually to a finished house one dayri open road like the Wilderness where we are born singing wo there's an oce in your eyes a million stars that paint the sky so we'll drift down with the tide singing wo you and me let's fly away somewhere past the Milky Way maybe we'll return someday Don't wake me up don't wake me [Music] up waiting for the sun to rise rainy days and careless nights say you will don't say goodbye say it's all right throw your caution to to the wind the shelter of my single bed you can call it Wonder land we could stay the night you and me let's fly away somewhere past the Milky Way maybe we'll return someday Don't wake me up don't wake me up riding on how much easier is it not doing one huge bag it's nice it's a lot of starting and stopping in making sure that the bags are right but it is less bag and so that's I kind of feel like we're going faster right like usually it takes us like a full day I mean to do this I think if we had everybody here we'd be going like way more fast but um yeah I think it will be faster [Music] he [Music] I feel like that's not very safe prac huh practicing for what well one day I might have grand and I build and I could hold a baby and yeah I mean like I'm out what time is it almost 4 not bad for two days I know especially on the longest run yeah yeah should we have added more windows no a little worri little worried about the structural Integrity of this wall ah it'll be fine everything's fine [Music] a good morning guys it is that time of the year where the mornings are colder the days are so much shorter and the mood can be a little grumpy at least that's the way it is for me but by being in therapy I've been able to address when all that negativity starts coming into my body and what to do with it thank you to better help for continuing to sponsor our Channel this year I'm determined to make the cold season a little less grumpy here's hoping I've been on my therapy Journey for 4 months now and the only thing I wish I could change is that I had done it sooner not only does better help make it super easy to find a professional therapist but they also make it really easy talking to 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exciting also we have started to have some issues with our door forms very small issue it's just the slightest bit um bowing because when you Tamp those bags against the side of the form it's just pushing a little bit Yeah so we're only about a/4 inch bow right now so we're going to prevent it from going any further right all right so uh we just spent a few minutes sort of fabricating this idea so we've kind of started in the vertical Center of this door form we just added in a little shelf a 2x4 shelf and then we cut a piece of 2x4 that's like a little bit longer so we really had to like hammer it down in so it would push just a little bit out and then just one screw down in hold because we may need to move this up as we go potentially um we'll just have to keep an eye on what the bags are doing to the wall yeah or the I guess the form technically um so we need to do something like this not only for all the door forms but also for all the window forms 22 window forms uh yeah because we don't want we don't want to go back like however long from now when we're putting in Windows and Doors and not have enough room because the cleats are in the wrong spot like we might have to shim some things and that's fine but we want to make sure it doesn't come in too much so that we have issues with the the sizes of Windows and Doors hey long story short putting braces in the window forms and door forms [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] slight change of design instead of screwing these pieces in from this side we're screwing them in here so that as we build up if we need to move these braces we can just slide them up really easy otherwise we were screwing them this in this way the bag would cover up that screw and we couldn't be able to move it so we're saving wood yay [Music] it's looking like we may not have enough wood to do every single window and door frame so since we're higher up on the door fors let's go ahead and do all the doors first and then if we need to to come if we need to go get more wood we can do that and then come back and do the windows cuz we're only a little bit up on the Windows Doors are more important can you go cut all these measurements for me sure thank you have we ever said how nice it is to have kids that can do stuff with power tools it's awesome [Music] [Music] hey bab yeah do you think people ever get tired of watching a screw in pieces of wood I would couldn't tell you I don't watch our videos I'm just kidding wait what we watch it so many times I I can say that we've had a lot of people come over they can't do it it's hard it's hard to get it started you got to kind of like hold it so you get the bite then it'll go but otherwise you just end up you know doing that I don't know if it's that hard I mean it's just a drill and Scripts [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] do you think we're going to get to laying any bag today I don't know I mean I want to but there's are we doing windows or not nope just door forms right now well then maybe okay small possibility all right [Music] [Applause] [Music] have all the 13in pieces for all the window forms and doors don't have enough to put the horizontal piece in every window okay we can get to it later Yeah by well we did run out of time and we don't have time to lay bags today yeah the day got away from us but what didn't get away from us is frequently ask questions with Jonathan and Ashley hi I'm Jonathan I'm Ashley and today we're going to answer all your frequently asked questions about our hyper Adobe roundhouse in hopes that we don't get any more questions like this question number one when the heck is your house going to be done guys listen we are going to get it done when we get it done we are not contractors we are building a house that hasn't ever really been built before and we don't know we just don't know like there's too many variables we're doing this as we have the time and as we have the money and we're recording it for you to watch and so that slows things down too but yeah I mean we just we don't know and when we know we'll tell you so don't ask us anymore at least a few more years question number two why is your house a circle well uh if you go watch this video we go in depth about the benefits of circular houses and the structures and how they're a whole lot stronger we added straight walls in between so that we kind of get the best of both worlds cuz circles are hard to design for like inside as far as like Furniture having a flat wall to put things against is nice but when you build with Earth bags having a curved structure is always going to be stronger yeah and you'll notice that we don't have a ton of buttresses on this building because it is mostly circular and because those straight walls also act as like internal buttresses so yeah we thought about it I promise we planned uh okay question number three how many courses I think I get this this question about 10 times a day yeah okay here's the thing the inner Courtyard wall will be 13 ft between 12 and 13 ft M the outer wall the furthest wall out which is the living room wall will be 9 ft yep each course is estimated around 5 in so do the math a lot we we did the math and roughly we're talking about 30 courses now obviously the 9ft side will be a lot fewer than that and the 13t side will be a lot more than that but we're averaging out about 30 courses for the whole building that's that's the goal so we just finished course 10 so we're about a third of the way done and how much material is on each course about 20 tons per course that we're moving with with shovels and Scoops multiple times right I mean you have to mix it and then you have to put it in the wheelbarrow and transport it and then you got to scoop it put it in the bucket then you got to Tamp it then you got to Tamp it so it's really like 100 tons per course of moving stuff question number four you forget the question no I thought you like it a little bit like you're angry no Angry fingers question number four do we even remember what the question is yes what is your floor going to be made out of concrete floor and why isn't it in well uh it's complicated so since the beginning and we you can go watch like the very first couple of videos here uh we've always talked about a concrete floor that's kind of always been plan we're going to insulate under it and that's why where you see like you know this black line here where we have the vapor barrier wrapped up over like we have two inches of floor of two inches of insulation insulation that's the word and then a 4 in pad four to five in pad uh and that will bring us up to that level and so we thought about all that during the whole Foundation thing it's going to be concrete now yes good question why didn't we pour it earlier couple reasons one yeah the option was we pour a few courses ago in sections yep and do it as we have the money mhm problem with that is if we want to do INF floor heating we need to pour this whole whole pad at the same time right and it's not just inflor heating like we're also considering maybe running some of these electrical boxes that we put into the Earth bag kind of like we did in our ouse rebuild where we put all that conduit and came up into the box we might do it that way or we might just run it in the bag and staple it in and plaster over it could go either way um we still haven't decided and there's just too many things that might need to go under this concrete pad that we just haven't decided yet and so we just building walls yeah we're just thinking about that as we go we have more time to think about it if we're just building walls right and you know what we have a lot of window forms and they'll be able to pump it in wherever they need to pump in it'll probably cost a slightly bit more because it's inconvenient for them to finish the floor with the walls up but you know we can only do what we can do right yeah and I mean obviously a concrete floor of this this shape and size is going to be a lot of money and so by continuing to focus on the walls which is a lot cheaper for us we can save that money and hopefully have it by the time we're ready to do it hopefully I know how much it's going to cost and we'll see I want to think that question number five how are you going to do your roof great question well let me explain something the inner Courtyard wall is the highest point on this house right like sitting at 12 to 13 ft 13 ft outer wall 9 ft yep so it's going to be a single pitch roof from from the courtyard to the outside wall but it's like in a circle it's like a it's like pitched but it's circular which is weird and it's going to be real fun to to lay that metal roof on top um and there's a few different ways we could actually build this roof which we're still researching and we can make that decision later but essentially you're looking at large beams that run from the inner circle inner Courtyard circle to the outside walls and obviously some walls are further out than others and so the reason it's got to go up 13 ft in the middle is that to get like a 1 to one and 1 12 12 pitch that's how high up you got to go when you go this far out to the far outside wall and you still want that to be about 9et tall yeah inside we don't want it to be like squatty and short inside it's not going to be squatty and short so that's that's sort of the rough plan for the roof it will be Meadow we'll catch water off of it uh lots of things we're thinking about for that but that's the rough idea question number six what do you guys do when your walls get up to the point where you can't reach anymore which we're about to to put the material in the bucket uh scaffolding and benches and extra people extra people it's going to slow down when you get up high it's just there's no way around it um it just means we kind of have one extra person in the process because they need to be up on the scaffolding so someone will take out of the wheelbarrow hand it to them and they'll hand it to the person that's up on the wall or just dump it straight into the bucket it just definitely gets harder comp yeah it gets a lot harder and you're constantly moving your scaffolding and then and then tamping yeah it's just a lot of up and down and back and forth we definitely need scaffolding on one side once we get really high just because when you're up there on top of the bag and you look around sometimes you get a little disoriented and you got to stay focused for sure question number seven you guys got so much done during your Workshop a few weeks ago why don't you just do workshops all the time I don't know if people realize how much is behind the scenes of workshops but it's a lot it is so much work and prep and planning and then that whole week or five five days or however long is just nonstop craziness I mean we needed almost a week to recover right after yeah we would love to do more workshops and hopefully next year we do add a little bit more but you know we can't do it all the time it's just too much um that being said there is a new Workshop coming soon in the spring and we can't wait to talk more about it and we're not quite ready oh I wish we could just tell you how amazing and awesome it's going to be and who else going to be there we'll tell you soon we'll tell you soon just keep an eye out tiny shiny home.com meet up is the email list you want to jump on to learn about any events that we do here first question number eight m is this you singing in all of our background music no it is not I have not made music in a long time I do not have the time unfortunately one day we'll have time to make music again yeah but no we have a subscription to where we can find music that fits perfectly for these videos yep and we both pick it out and sometimes the kids pick it out and so everybody's like who picked out the music it just sometimes it's both of us sometimes one of us it just depends well usually when we get a lot of comments about the music being so good it's when I made the video course sure number nine how much does that bucket weigh full of material I don't even know I would say it's at least 50 60 lbs it's enough to take you off the wall if you're not paying attention it depends on you got to learn how to manage it when you're up there right you're only really lifting that when you're moving it the rest of the time you're just kind of leaning it against your body but yeah it's definitely it's heavy it's a lot of material you'd be surprised how even just a little bag that you fill up by hand to get it up onto the wall where you're going it's it's heavy we should weigh it we should we should get ably like one and a half buckets and see how much it weighs uhhuh so we can add it up yeah maybe you want to do that sometime sometime okay not right now okay what's our last question last question number 10 where do you get these red bags hyper orw Earth bags yes so our our friends at vul companies are the ones that make them but also we have a bunch here right now like in stock so if you're in Arizona or New Mexico or California close enough to drive where it makes sense you can buy them a little bit cheaper from us because we had them shipped on a big truck so you don't have to pay as much for shipping so there's a link right here you can go check it out we like I said we have them here you can order it and text us and come pick it up the next day if as long as we're available sounds great it depends on if we're building or not that sounds great babe yeah question number 11 uhoh going off script what are we doing for the rest of the evening we're editing video I was hoping you say take you on a date oh where do you want to go Sushi oh my gosh when was the last time you had sushi so much the other day and no you've been to Sushi so much without me I went two times and they didn't even do the all you can eat sushi it was only a little bit of sushi and then it wasn't good enough then I felt like I needed more and I didn't get more listen we're almost to the end of our crazy videos before the end of the year so we're going to have time to go on a DAT soon I promise we're going to do it well okay let's let's make a plan now live oh live okay all right so tomorrow we can't do it Wednesday Wednesday we can't do it oh yeah well Thursday we can't do it so for the next four weeks we can't do it huh February Valentine's Day Sushi well I mean our anniversary is in March if you made me wait till March we're sush me so no we're g to we're going to figure it out hopefully this week okay guys we're going to go on a date at some point next year Sushi date all right we're out we got a lot to do uh thanks for watching we'll see you next time must [Music] [Applause] be this must [Music] be I've been dreaming [Music] it's a garden stay for hours so alive with wild [Music] flowers all around