We're Using THIS To Protect Our Wooden Greenhouse For Years ｜ Building A Greenhouse Home

This week on OSRL, we coat the wood of our greenhouse in something that promises to offer long-lasting protection. How's it going everybody? Welcome back to the domestead. Now if you're new here, my wife and I were building our own home off-grid here in the Arizona desert, but if you caught our last video, you know I had to do a death-defying stunt in order to finish up some of the blocking here on the greenhouse side of our house. But now that that's done, I'm ready to protect the wood, and I got something special to get this done. I'm very excited. Let's go pull that out and let's get to work. So what I got here is an elastomeric roof coating, and this is what I'll be using to put over the wood, protect it. You know there's going to be a lot of humidity in the greenhouse, so we want to make sure that wood lasts a long time. So this should do the trick, and I'm going to start putting this on the wood. I got this little cottage cheese container, figure just put some in here, and that'll make it a lot easier going around this. So I've been working on painting that south side, the greenhouse side, getting that elastomeric roof coating on the wood over there. I'm really excited about that elastomeric coating. I really think that is going to be very helpful to the protecting the wood on that greenhouse side. You know it's going to be a little bit more durable than your regular like exterior latex paint. So it should be more durable, that can handle all the moisture that might be in the greenhouse, the humidity, and stuff like that. So it should be really be able to repel that. I mean it's made for for roofs. The particular stuff I bought does have like a seven-year warranty on it too, so that's nice. Got a little bit of a warranty. I don't know if the elastomeric comes in different colors, but I mean we want it white anyway. You know just to make sure it's reflecting that sunlight and getting even more light into the greenhouse area. See not only am I painting your greenhouse, but I'm learning karate Show me. Paint the fence. All right so I got a nice coating here on the front boards. Now I'm going to head up to the top. That'll be a nice good first coat. Of course I'm going to want to go over this again. Make sure these boards are nice and well protected. Really perfect protection if you're going to use wood in a greenhouse. Come on. I actually got the idea for using the elastomeric roof coating from by Joel Osentowski. If you're not familiar with him, you can look up the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute. They have a bunch of greenhouses there and you know they're up in the Rocky Mountains. They get a lot of harsh weather there and they have like tropical plants growing in their greenhouse. So really kind of cool and we got some ideas from them. All right so I'm out early. It's still pretty chilly. Probably mid 40s out here. But I'm out here. I want to get the front of this finished painted up. I'm painting the post right now. I was out late last night painting. Painting this morning and we're gonna get we're gonna get this front finished and locked in. Don't worry I got Yuvie out here with me. She's gonna she's gonna help me out. Hey well happy holidays. I know for you guys it'll be after Christmas, post Christmas. We're wearing our new Christmas gear. I like it. I got uh some clothes without holes in it which is a nice change every now and then. For a little while. For a little while. It's not gonna last long. Christmas has just passed. New Year's is coming up. I'm actually not really big on New Year's resolutions. I'm not against New Year's resolutions at all. I think if you're gonna make changes in one's life just do it. You know no need to wait for a special time. No need to wait. Don't wait till New Year's. Don't wait till next week. Don't wait till tomorrow. Just start doing it. Myself I just made a change in my routine recently that I'm trying to keep up on. I hate to talk about it because then I'm going to be held responsible for it. But I mean I've added weight lifting to my kind of training routine. And you know I just got some inexpensive dumbbells and that's perfect to add to sort of like a body workout routine. So you know I just I didn't wait for the New Year. I just went ahead and started adding some weight training into that. And I can't stress enough like you we get a bunch of physical activity out here but I think it's so important to actually make the body stronger than it needs to be. So if we're actually going to be very physical out here it's probably even more important to take care of ourselves physically and make sure we're actually stronger than we need to be. Yeah it probably helps to prevent injuries. And I know quite a bit about that. So yeah if you want to make those changes in your life don't necessarily wait until a specific time. Just get it done. But New Year's is right around the corner. So hey if you can use that as a springing point to make some changes in your life do it. Yeah. So if you do have any New Year's resolutions we want to hear about it put those down below. What are your goals for this upcoming year 2025? Do we have any goals for 2025? Just keep doing what we're doing. Hopefully have a place to live. I guess that's a big one. That's a big one. Maybe we'll be living in this thing in 2025. That would be nice like living in here full-time. Full-time. The dome is a just an excellent place but you know we need a kitchen we need a bathroom in here. And we need a greenhouse. And we need a greenhouse. So 2025 I expect to make some fantastic progress on here. I think this is also a great time to reflect on 2024 and everything we've done. You know sometimes I think people watch these day-to-day videos and they forget all the things that have happened in this past year. Yeah. I forgot all the things that happened in the past year. And it's happened to us. It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day things. Yeah. Just looking back on the year it's um it's like wow yeah we actually did a lot. A lot of things and a lot of things just kind of happened too. We did a lot and a lot of things kind of happened. So I think the year started out we were just finishing up on the root cellar. So we built a root cellar. That was a whole thing in the previous year where we had this root cellar built and then we had like this flood and it collapsed and then we had to rebuild it. So we were just finishing up rebuilding that. We just got a door on that at the beginning of the year. And then I think we got some winter rain. So that kind of tested that out and we're kind of biting our nails about that. We had like three straight days of rain. But everything worked out held up. Everything held up so that was a relief. Then we moved right into building the rest of the house and we revealed our plans for the house. You know doing this pole barn style build with straw bale walls. So that was an exciting time. And I think just as we were starting the build on the the rest of the house we had an issue with our water tanks and the pipe burst and that that's like our main source of water. So we had to get that fixed right away. Got to fix that right away. So you got that all patched up. You did a good job with that. Thank you. And that's held up well since then. Yep. I think around that time I was also I was going through some stuff but I made some discoveries about myself and I was suspecting I might be autistic. And we're still kind of going through that process. You did an assessment. You're waiting to hear back on that to see whether you can move forward with a day official diagnosis or not. Yeah so maybe. Fingers crossed on that. See what happens. We'll find out something about that in the coming year. Most of the year we spent just working on the house. I mean we got the materials delivered for the house. A lot of the materials came. Then we set the posts and did a lot of the framing. That was a lot of work. We were going to put in the foundation but we decided to install an earth tube air conditioning system and we had to put that in before we got the foundation in. So that was quite the project. Took quite a bit of time but very important to do that before the foundation otherwise it'd be hard to get those tubes underneath there. But we knocked that out got that finished. That was a huge project. The foundation was a big undertaking too. Quite a big area and we had to fill all these bags full of gravel. So while this was all going on we were noticing some health problems with our dog crew and it got to a point where he was really struggling. So we made the decision to have him put down. It's definitely a tough part of the year. Never easy. I still miss him. We also got our hydro panels installed. If you don't know what we're talking about there's some kind of program where they were giving out these hydro panels to people in the area. They basically collect water vapor from the air and filter it and get drinkable water from that. They've been producing a surprising amount of water. It's nice to just have that supplemental water in addition to the rainwater catchment. Another big thing we did with the house was putting the roof on there. Perfect to give us a little extra shade, protect the eventual straw bales that are going underneath there. So well at least part of the roof is up so that's good. Yeah. Still more roughing to come. And then the straw bale walls. So this was something new for us working with straw bales. Definitely a new technique we're doing. Obviously the walls go up a lot faster than earthbag or whatnot but it does still take a lot of work to cover them up with cob. Which I'm still working on. And then of course we've gone and moved along to the the greenhouse portion of the house. And that's where we're at right now. Yeah. Yeah we're really coming along. Obviously a lot's going down in one year and hopefully we'll be living in this full time in the next upcoming year. Yeah it's just a lot of elbow grease. A lot of just a lot of constant work on it. But I really think this upcoming year is going to be fantastic and I can't wait to finally be living in here and just seeing this dream become a reality. So 2024 was quite the year. I think 2025 is going to be even better yet. So definitely stick around to see how this all comes together. All right y'all we'll catch in the next video. Bye! I guess we'll see you guys next year then.