The Day EVERYTHING Arrived at Once: Goats, Scoria Sand & a Concrete Pour

We've been hard at work on the Lavacrete Utility Lodge, a 12 by 16 structure that will house our off-grid solar system and water filtration for the Hyper Adobe Roundhouse. It's unique because it'll be made out of Lavacrete, a cool alternative building technique that uses scorious sand combined with cement, lime, and rebar to create strong insulative walls that don't need finishing work. In the last few videos we prepped the area, set the first forms, and installed all of the plumbing and utilities into the foundation, just in time for the team to come back and set the rebar and final forms. Good news is we are pretty much set and ready to go for the pour. They'll be back Monday to do it, so I'll give you a quick quick tour of what's going on. So this is the Lavacrete building. I'm inside it now. There's a bunch of plumbing that's already done. So we've got the toilet, the sink, the shower, and then a vent, and then that's the overflow drain right there. That has all already been put in and it's to slope, and it runs down and out to the septic. We've already covered it back up, but you can see there's a cleanout right there. Then the other part was all of the sort of utility trenching that we had to do. So we've got a little fiber line right there that is going to run underground, and it pops up back there that we can access later. And the same thing for water. We've got pipes that stub inside the building here and just kind of you and pop up there. We'll tie into those later when we need it. And then here we've got the main three lines, power, fiber, and water, and they go underground. And we've already covered this back up too, but they're trenched and they run all the way up into the roundhouse. And then finally you can see that they have come back. They've put in all of our rebar and the forms for the stem wall, and that's what's a little different about this particular build. You don't really want to run that lava crete straight into the ground because it is pretty porous. It's one of its benefits is it's porous and it's insolute, but it could hold water because it's got a bunch of space between all the grains, which is on purpose. So you want to build up a concrete stem wall. So you can kind of see, you know, the floor is going to come up about to pipe level, and then there's going to be a wall basically right there. We just have a tiny bit of cleanup work to do here today before they come tomorrow. We've got to wrap all these plumbing pipes with some sort of cardboard or insulation and get tape on top of them so that when they screed across the top, it's nice and flat. And then we can just kind of pop it and pull that cardboard off and have a way to put fittings back on and glue whatever we need to. The last thing we did was connect four gauge bare copper wire directly to the rebar to create an oofer ground for our off-grid solar system. Now we're ready for the pour. When we moved here almost six years ago, we had big plans of being self-sufficient. We wanted to raise our own meat and have dairy goats for our milk. And we did that. We raised three rounds of meat birds. We had four pigs. We still have our goats for milk, but all the other operations had to stop once we started building our house. The cost of materials was just too high and feed was too expensive. So we just had to stop raising our own meat. It's actually been really hard for us to find ethically and responsibly raised meat around here. So thanks to today's video sponsor ButcherBox for sending us high quality protein that we know we can trust. ButcherBox is a subscription service that delivers high quality meat and seafood right to your door. When I go to the store, I have a really hard time getting meat at the grocery store because I know it wasn't raised right. 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You say once I touch the ground I'll hit it running. Tell me how am I supposed to start when I keep stopping. Tell me how do I make something out of nothing. All right it's only been like 30 minutes. Truck number two is just pulling in so it's happening so fast. I'm always amazed. This is like one of those jobs that I really wish I understood and knew. So maybe they'll let me join their crew someday. Maybe. Truck number two. So busy day today. The pad they're just finishing up but the lava sand is on its way. It should be here anytime. So we've talked a lot about this and I think what we're going to do is use our sort of staging area here where we usually have dirt for the earth bags. It's a nice big clear area. We're going to need a big mixer. We need access to water and that all is right here so we're just going to have them dump it here. I can't wait to see both the red and the black rock side by side. It's going to be really cool. Lava sand is here. They just pulled in. And as if today couldn't get any busier we have another goat that's about to kid. So that's exciting. Very cool. This is her first time. This is Sorrel which is Bailey's daughter. Bailey's the one that had the three kids earlier this month. So this is Sorrel's first time. So hopefully everything goes well. Adelaide is very well prepared and stays very calm and she'll probably kick me out because I am the opposite. But let's go check on her. Hi Bailey. Where's your babies? Where's your babies? Is your daughter gonna have babies? Oh it's cute. It's so little. Oh my gosh good job Sorrel. It's so tiny Adelaide. It's cute. It's so little. Oh my gosh it's brown and black. Is she okay? Is it okay? Yeah I think it's a girl. Good job Sorrel. They're so tiny. Geez girl. She's not even stopping to look. Oh my gosh they're so tiny. That was, he just texted me didn't he? Oh my gosh. Is it really a number three or is that, oh. Is this okay that like they're so attached? Oh my gosh. This is the fastest I've ever seen. I've been recording for a minute and three seconds. Three babies in a minute. Okay wow. Oh my gosh they're so cute and tiny. I was, I thought she was just gonna have one. She looks very deflated. Oh good job mama. That is so cute. Good job Sorrel. Oh wow. Well it has been one heck of a busy day. Started, I got up at five to get my workout in and then Wilcox showed up at 6 30. Pad poured, sand delivered, baby goats delivered, a trailer here for me to try to sell for a friend. I feel like there was other things too but oh my goodness it's just been one thing after another. Good day. Very busy but a good day. Okay the pad has been sitting here for two three days. We've been spraying it down each day. Wilcox Rock and Sand put this tarp or piece of plastic over just to hold the moisture in because it's been really hot. Um so I think, I think we're good. We're gonna pull it off. We're gonna see what it looks like. And measure. And measure it. Make sure that it's right. All right. So what are we checking inside dimensions? Yep.