We Have To TEAR DOWN Part Of The House

This thing built our entire house. It's out with the old and in with the new for both Josh and the dogs. Look at that guys, what do you think? We've had our hands full managing the farm work and the renovation house that seems to have a surprise under every board. All the corners of all the windows are rotting. Over here also, if you look down here, rotted out. The interior framing is close to being finished and best of all our lower six acres is now occupied by livestock. 30 feet, I'm out of breath. Just a little bit Josh. Hold on, I gotta unhook it. Okay now go. So today we're down at the lower six acres of our property. This is our what we call our lower pasture. It's where the pond is at and I'm really excited to tell you guys that we have 300 feet that we need to close in down here and then this entire portion is completely fenced in. So we've had our cows down here for a little bit just kind of like testing out how they're going to do with the whole fence as it is right now. The one portion of this area that is missing goes like up the hillside and they're not big fans of going up it but they will because anybody that knows cows know that cows will just walk and walk and walk that fence line looking for any weak spots. So eventually they're going to find that and we want to be sure that we can get that buttoned up so that everybody is secure down here before anybody finds an escape route. How are you doing up there? Not too bad. No? My leg's burning. That's a steep climb. Yeah we're about a quarter of the way up so all you can see is down there there's an orange tag around the tree roughly there's where this fencing stops. I don't think y'all can tell how steep it is. Doesn't look that steep at all but a lot higher. Don't slip now. Not too. I was pulling on that cable with all my knees climbing up. Fencing in West Virginia huh? Mountain of West Virginia. So our goal is to chuck up this mountain with some barbed wire do three layers or three rows and nail them to trees. We can't do the standard fencing like we did around the other portion of the pasture because it's not feasible at all. So our job is to climb up this mountain pull strand by strand. I guess I nail it with uh what are those nails called? Fencing nails. Fencing nails. I don't know. Whatever. Fencing staples not nails. We're exhausted and we're gonna nail the trees as we come down. We'll go up there we'll loop it around. There's a fence up there and it goes all the way back around the pasture but it never made it from up there down to that fence. Yeah. So we're tackling this project now. One strand down we got a couple left. I think the going down part with the nails and hammers would be the easy part. Yeah. That's my feeling on that. Yeah. I'm willing to bet a thousand bucks. I'm enjoying the positive mindset here Josh. But I think we gotta come back out a couple more times. So we ain't done yet. Okay are we hammering on the way down? Yes we're hammering on the way down. Need a hammer for my nails. You trust me. The thing you have to do is keep tension on it because if you don't keep tension on it it comes off the reel and gets stuck on the tractor. So 30 feet I'm out of breath. Erin's on her way up there. Oh yeah sweetheart. Oh yeah I ain't seen the phone girl. There you are. Yeah I know and I'm dripping in sweat dude. I can't see anything. No we're gonna be using the cell phone light for the staples to go in this tree. Sometimes we like to get it on. Sheets. We like to get fresh sheets on our Helix mattress. Yes they're very comfortable. I enjoy them very much. Helix is the sponsor of today's video and ever since their mattress arrived at our door eight months ago they've been ensuring we get the best sleep ever. 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The window right there behind me you got to close that off a window right there and reframe to get a little bit bigger. Also back towards the bedroom we have reframed that window make it a little bit larger. But the big goal is today the things we really need done is this window right there. We got to take care of that. And then what you should do right there I'll get an electric unicorn um like merry-go-round underneath the thing too so you can run the merry-go-round around the entire bedroom. Do you want to do that too? Yeah. Well we need to turn it on you got it. It'll shoot like stringers and sparkles at you and drop fairy dust in there while you're doing it all. I need to take everything from here down to the floor over this way all the way up pull it all out. So I'm so glad we're actually putting eaves and overhangs on this house. The reason why is first none of the windows doors are waterproofed properly. Second with the eaves and overhangs just non-existent we have issues like this. Right there all the corners of all the windows are rotting. Over here also if you look down here right there rotted out. So that's why I'm glad we're actually going to change everything out all the windows and doors are coming out. I'm going to put all brand new stuff in there waterproofing properly. Eaves and overhangs are going in so this won't happen again. Keep in mind these floors are salvageable and I plan on restoring them so while you're banging and chipping away let's you know let's try to take care of the floors a little bit okay. No dropping tools or walls or windows. You're the real MVP Josh. I know the problem is I'm placing all these predicaments. It's 100% my fault for doing this that and everything. But then I come in and I schedule it in so that it can actually happen and then I co-sign. I got all these big grand ideas and you put you pencil into the schedule. I do. Called being a supportive wife or a partner in crime either one. Partner in crime girl. So Josh has completely gotten the window out back there as well as the entire wall. I mean to tease the entire wall out. We also decided to go ahead and demo the existing door to the exterior. Keep in mind that was in what was originally the kitchen and that was the back door. That room is now being turned into a bedroom so we're going to be closing that door up. We had framed up the new wall with a door into what's now going to be the bedroom and then where Josh demoed at there's going to be a new door that goes outside to the deck that we're going to be building out there. So it's moving along. I kind of thought we were past the stage of demo. I don't know why. I guess it's because we got all the big stuff done inside. But no there's always something that we're demoing it seems. The end of that is coming soon I assume. But first before we move on we're gonna have to clean all of this up so that we can sheathe the outside of the house once we get everything framed up. But this brings me to a good question that's been asked over and over. We keep seeing people wonder whether or not we should have just torn the entire house down or not even wondering but people a lot think that we should have in fact just torn everything down and started from scratch because it would have been cheaper. And that is not the case and I can explain why. One the foundation on this house is perfectly fine. Second of all there are areas of rot due to there not being any eaves and overhangs anywhere. But that's all fixable. It's in the areas where there were windows and doors. There's no termite damage, no insect damage, nothing like that. And one of the biggest things is the cost of dumpsters. The cost of demolition. It would have absolutely just been astronomical to tear this house down cost-wise aside from the fact that we would have created a ton of waste. And the house does have good bones. It just needs to be fixed. So you know we're not tearing everything down. Like there's there's pieces of the home that we're tearing down and we're building back. But we're on budget. That's the important thing. And starting from scratch would have been a completely different ball game. So it does seem like there's a lot of craziness going on. But it makes sense. Trust us. It'll all make sense when we're done. I don't know who this is for. This way you come down. This is how I do it. This is where you climb to come down. I'm not buying it. Nice try. This is my first day on the job. But to tear this place down I've been over $30,000 just in demo with dumpster cost and equipment rental. Yeah it's a beautiful place. It's very unique. Looks like you're ready to go. Demo, demo, demo. Renovate a house, Josh said. It'll be fun, he said. I'm having a blast, guys. You're having a blast? Oh yeah. Demo, demo, demo and build. It's a good time, you know. I'm tired. I'm not gonna lie. I'm tired of landscaping. I'm tired doing stone. I'm tired doing fencing. I'm tired of anything that's outside that's uh site work related. I'm I'm back in the groove to get building some sh**. I'm very very very very excited about it and I'm. I'm buying what you're selling, Josh. You're buying it? I'm buying it. I'm not gonna do salesman but I can sell it on Amazon. So we found out a surprise. So I mean just no surprise. Everything here is a surprise and the good thing here I got big country. It's free labor. 110% free labor and nothing but muscle. But the subfloor if you guys can see. Didn't know once we pulled everything out the subfloor. I'm just pulling it up. That portion it's uh rotted out. So they actually have uh planks going this way. It's uh two by fours that are. I'm sorry. Two by sixes are tongue grooves and that one on this closest side right here where the window's at rotted out. Pulled out completely. Not a big deal. We can get it fixed but looking at everything we're taking off now. This entire thing. Let me get down a little lower. This entire thing right there completely rotted out the entire way down. So since we have this portion of the house torn off I guess we'll go ahead and uh we'll cut here. Rip this entire side off and put a new one on real quick. Then once that's on we can start building up. So by the end of the day this entire thing behind me be closed up with a brand new entrance. If no more surprises come. We'll see. So we got everything cleaned up. Um you can see the floor joists are in good shape. That one's actually a little wet from the uh antifreeze that leaked out from that thing I removed. But that board is the only thing that was rotted. Like I said the floor joists are good. This is good. So we're gonna go ahead and put another one back on there and uh that's why you need overhangs guys. I mean I think it's a combination of the not having overhangs water coming down through there and but also where this deck was that a bunch of dirt and soil and leaves pushed up against it too with all the rain coming down. It just uh got wet and stayed wet over time just rotted out. So we'll put this one back in. We're actually gonna go ahead and start framing all this stuff up and once that frames gets framed up we're gonna chop drop back and take this out and this out. Can you see this right there is rotted also. So we'll pull those out and get everything framed up and closed up and my wife says I'm an hour and a half behind so I gotta hurry up. So I hit one nail in. The gasket here blew. Um so all I was doing was blowing air outside now. One nail went in and it's done. Kind of sucks. Just if you guys don't know this thing built our entire house okay. So we'll save it for now. Yeah I'm absolutely gonna say that. We're not gonna throw it away. We've built our entire house. Yeah. All those millions of nails you guys saw me putting too many nails in your house. This guy did it. They came from Harvard for $110 too. He did his job. So I think it's actually time to upgrade to a new one. Maybe we'll get a gas powered or a battery powered one or maybe we can save pneumatic. I have no idea. We'll figure it out. But for now a few times done my friend. Good job. He did a good job. He's got a special place in my heart. We've got the new rim joists installed and also the bottom plate. So we're gonna go ahead and we're going to frame up for the door first back here so that everything is supported. It's holding it all up and then we're gonna go back through and remove some of these studs that are in there that we don't really like the way they're looking. So they're gonna get fixed up. The RO is 38 three-quarter by 81 five-eighths. That's right. So 33 three-quarter or 38 three-quarter. Too cute seeing them walk down with the ducks like that. They're all following. The goose is in charge. Look at him. He's in front. Papa Goose has all his ducks in the ball. Good job guys. Look at that guys. Now that's a proper bull. Oh yeah. You think they're gonna like it better? Yeah. Oh they love it. You look and see the turkeys are trying to follow the ducks are coming down. They're glorified crew I should say. The goose is in charge. You have the ducks and you have two turkeys that stay away from the rest of the turkeys and they all stick together to a glorified crew. They're a family. Yes. One big happy turkey duck goose family. Yes. This is your new spot. What do you think?