We've NEVER Built a Roof Like This Before

Good morning from one of my favorite places ever, the metal yard. We're at Tucson Iron and Metal and we are getting some supplies to get the roof on the Lava Creek building and I'm getting very distracted because they have bins like this that I want to buy all the things and it's very distracting. I want all the things and I want to learn how I want one of those, one of those, one of those, and all of those. If anybody wants to know what I want for my birthday just take me to the metal yard and let me pick out something, okay? Okay. What's wrong babe? I'm so stressed out. What are you stressed out about? We don't have room for you. You mean this isn't organized? No. Our materials have far outweighed our storage. You know what would be really nice? It keeps getting worse and worse. You know what would be really cool? You know how we solve all these problems? What? If we just got that 40-foot shipping container. I know. You know what else would be cool about it? What? Not only would our lives be organized but I'd have a place to do some cool metal work. Yeah. You know what else would be cool? Listen. Not this. This is a disaster. I want to do that but we have to pay for a roof. Well you know what else we have to pay for? It's the problem. We're always going to have to pay for something. So do you want to have an organized life and pay for things? Well. Or. Do you want to have a roof on the house or be a little more organized? Both. I want both. Well. We are moving right along on the Lava Creek building. The workshop ended just a few days ago and we are already getting ready for the roof install. So we are working with our friend James. He's going to help us put a metal frame roof which we've never really done before so it should be interesting but we need to kind of prep this and get all this stuff cut off and ready for him to work tomorrow. Roll me to my next destination. Where do you want to go? That way. Can I do it with one hand? It's probably locked. Think about how nice it's going to be when we have a floor in the house. Look how nice this is. It's so easy. For plastering. Oh my gosh. We're going to be so spoiled. Can I throw that shirt away? Nope. But. It's my comfy shirt. But can I throw it away? I know it has holes in it. When you were gone I almost threw it away. So comfortable. When you were gone this week I did laundry and I was like I could just throw this away. It's a wall. Doesn't matter if I hit it. It's made of lava. Two at once. Look at that. From my view it looked like you were cutting the table. I was like oh no. There's all sorts of good pipe left. Why is this so close to the wall? Guru Das did it. I didn't do it. I'll just blame Guru Das for everything. I think Guru Das did it. Pretty sure. We weren't up here so we weren't keeping an eye on it. It's okay. It'll be fine. Oh. That's just. That is very little lava creek right there. It's okay. Everything's fine. It could fail. No. It won't. Nothing's gonna fit. That's the last one to cut. Other than the rebar. I'm just cutting these kind of high for now and we'll if we need to come back and make them shorter we will. But for now this will give us enough room to get a fitting on if we need to camouflage. It doesn't matter where you're cutting. Every single time it's blowing towards me. Now he's moved right here. Another caterpillar? That's the same one. I knocked him off the rebar to get him out of the way and then he's moved over there right next to it. Well maybe we should put him in the tree. Hold on. Can you put him on a cap or something? Put the glasses on the caterpillar. Just grab on. We'll go put him in the tree. How many more you got? Just that one. Just one? I think it's just one. I think there's a low one. Is that it? Yeah right there. He's a little shorty. Okay. Let me come roll you. Let me see if I can roll myself. I think it's locked. Hold on. Oh my gosh. Please don't fall. Is it locked? It wasn't locked. So you could have fallen. Oh my gosh. Aim that. I got blocked here so how much further do you need to go? Since we have the angle grinder out can we cut off all the spreader clips on the inside and outside? That's going to require a lot more clothing. I mean you have the tool. I feel like we should do it later. We need to see if there's a better way to do it because he said angle grinder. We'll do it later. Yeah let's do it later. Next step roof. I interrupt this roofing project to tell you about today's video sponsor ButcherBox. Now if you've been following us for a while you'll know that we have been on this property for six years now and when we moved here we had big dreams of raising our own meat and growing our own food and providing for our family from the land. And while that is still a big dream, building a house is expensive. So our animals have been put on hold for a little bit while we finish the house. 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And right now ButcherBox is offering you $60 off when you scan this QR code or visit the link in the description below. Now make sure you use code TINYSHINYHOME to save and thank you ButcherBox for making my days a little bit easier. Now let's get back to the roof because we got to get this building wrapped up. Welcome back to the Lava Creek build. Today we're working on the roof. Our friend James is actually going to come and help us today. So he'll be here in about an hour which gives me enough time to clean some of the rust off of these one by three metal tubing that we're using as the base of the roof. Let me show you my plans. Maybe that will help. All right this is what we're building. The yellow represents the one foot walls. So we'll have these long pieces running all the way off supporting some c purlins and then the metal roof will just attach to the c purlins. And don't worry we will explain it as we go. But right now I just only have an hour to get some of this rust cleaned off before James gets here. So let's get started. Okay a couple important things. Put a mask on if you have one. It would be very helpful if you. Oh no. It broke. Oh no. You have to take your hat off. Well I guess we're not doing this. I guess we're not putting a mask on. And if your mask breaks just go get a bandana and cover your face because you're going to be taking a lot of dust off these metal tubes. So protect your lungs a little bit. Okay now you might be wondering why we're doing this instead of working on the house. Well this is something important that has to happen for the house. And we can't start working on the metal trusses until my dad is here and he comes the end of next month. So let's finish closing this building in the meantime because there's nothing else we can do in the house until my dad gets here. Now I could have saved some time by getting these new but we didn't. We saved money by getting them at like a overstocked place. Tucson Iron and Metal. Sometimes they have just material like this that was extra on a job site and then they resell it. So when you have a little bit more time than money you can do that and then just you have to spend a little bit more time fixing it up enough to where you can use it and not worry about it. That's where we're at. Now I'm kind of regretting my decision. I wish we would have just had a little bit more money to get the stuff that I didn't have to clean and save more time. This is where we're at. Still on my back. Also I just want to say a huge thank you to Hunt and Candice who last time they came to visit brought us all these discs for grinding the metal. They're supposed to be used for the trusses on the house but we're gonna have to use a couple of them for this project. So thank you to Hunt and Candice you're saving the day today because I didn't have enough of these pads. One thing people don't talk enough about is letting your kids do stuff. I know they're not kids. I mean Jett's gonna be 19 in a couple months but letting them do things like this because I always was so frustrated because my dad never let me do stuff like this when I was growing up and now I get it because it's so dangerous. Like there's so many things that could go wrong and you just want to protect them but you can't protect them forever from everything. So just let them fly you know. Let them do it. Tell them all the tools that they need. All the safety protocols and hope for the best. So hoping for the best. Morning. We're here with our buddy James. We got this one too. He's gonna help us weld the roof on the Lava Creek building. I guess we need to measure that distance. Yeah. And that wall thread. In that way? Well I think if because you said it was two and what? Two and a quarter. Oh yeah push yours out a little bit more. Right there. Why is it spinning up? It's on the conduit. It's on one of the conduits. I think we're just have to find kind of roughly the. Yeah I was trying to reference like where this is in relation to the wall. All that we really need to do is we use that one and we drill that hole in the center. This one and this one we measure the distance from the center of the all thread to the edge here so that we know how far off-center it needs to go. Yep. Or we can just do that. Hey look at this. Got one. Trick is we just gotta get it parallel. Well whoever built these walls should have built them pretty. They're pretty close but it is hand built. The only thing that needs to be square is the purlins right? That's true. Something yeah. I mean this needs to be close but it doesn't really matter if they're perfectly perpendicular. It's the purlins that have to be square. Yeah. But it would be easier to make the purlins square if this was square. Yeah it would be. There's so many numbers I can't keep it straight. The problem is if we're going an inch and a quarter plus three quarters of an inch and you're measuring from the center you're past. No you're measuring from this. Oh from the inside. This is it's like simple but confusing. It's really confusing. Yeah like I don't know am I measuring to from here? No you're gonna be measuring from this from this flat surface. So the problem is between that one and the conduit. These are like the exact same spot. Yes. Are you measuring from the wrong side? One and a quarter or one and three quarters. Does that wake you up? I think it's the wall. The wall is just yeah. Grinding safety 101. Should have buttoned it up. For some reason this has two conduits that are right next to each other. I think it'll be like that where if we get it right on the corner I think it'll be okay. What does that second to last one look like? Okay I'm in charge of making some lunch for people. We don't have a lot but we have some tortillas. We have some mayonnaise. We have some cucumbers. We have some goat cheese and some deli turkey. So we're making a delicious wrap. Oh and hard boiled eggs. Oh it's good. Yeah I think that that's probably like the hard part. Is this your uh goat cheese goat cheese? Uh-huh. Yeah. We have seven baby goats right now and so we've just sort of hit that inflection point where we can get a lot of the milk. Yeah. Like for a while you know they need it. Yeah. And so we just hit it so Adelaide has just been she's like I gotta make cheese. I gotta make ice cream. Like we have way too much milk. All right so we have the structure well we have the tubing installed on all the all thread J bolts and everything is secured down. We are going to weld where they meet at each corner but right now we need to clean up the C purlins to where we can uh make little clips for them. Weld those on and get them installed. Easy peasy. School's in session. This is a mini replica of our roof. So you know we have these pieces running north and south sticking up off the building. That is what our C purlins are going to be welded to but we need something else. We can't just run a bead here and expect it to stay. I can but we're gonna over build it. Yeah we're gonna over build. So here's what we're gonna do. We are going to weld this clip all around here all four sides. Then we're going to weld here, here, here and it's going to not move in our winds. So we're going to do that on each side. Are we doing front and back? No. No. Just this side. So we have 20 of these cut because we have 10 C purlins that have to be installed. They've already been cleaned off. Yeah every two feet it's 18 foot so yeah. Okay all right we got the first purlin up. This one's a little bit different than the others because of the way we're using some sheet metal on the front of the clip to close the hole in that square tubing. The next ones we're going to start going back to the square tubing to use as a sort of bracer support. Yeah it's going going really good so far. Everything looks nice and square and level and plumb and even and all the good things. So we'll just keep doing one purlin at a time. Let's see how far we get today. Good morning. It's another beautiful spring morning here at the homestead and James is on his way. We're going to finish up welding the rest of the C purlins on this building. So we have two installed. We have eight more to go and we've already marked them. Jonathan and I were up early this morning. We have a couple problems. So we have conduit that sticks up and we have the bolts that are attaching the one by three tubing. So it gets complicated because they weren't put in a very detailed pattern. We're trying to put these purlins on two foot on center. At least the ones that are in the center of this building because later on we're going to be adding solar panels and a mounting kit and that requires a two foot spacing. So if it worked out on this wall to have the two foot spacing it didn't work out on the other wall. It's either running into a bolt or the conduit that we have to pull wire through. But we finally got it figured out. Little minor adjustments. Long term you're not going to even know that they're not evenly spaced because the center ones are going to be two foot on center and the two on each end are just whatever we need to do to make it work. It's improvised but it's fine. Everything's fine. Nothing's going to fail. We are way over building this as we do with all of our structures. So not worried about it one bit. Just got to get it done. I have to admit I was a little sad that I couldn't do this job just because I do want to be able to do everything myself. It's a toxic trait that I have. But a long time ago, I think it was a couple years ago, I was picking up some metal for a project and James, oh it was the goat fencing, and he was selling some pipes on Facebook Marketplace and I went and picked him up and saw that he was doing a bunch of metal work and I was like asking questions. How do you do this? How do you do that? And he was willing to show me and like that, that right there, being willing to show someone your craft is so important. Now we're hiring him to do this. So it's just super important to like go a little bit above and beyond what is expected of you and then you meet people like this who actually know exactly how to do this job and get it done and do it right and then we can rest easy knowing that it's done the correct way. And that all came from just a little Facebook meetup. Like I was going to get metal and he knew how to do metal work. We became fast friends. I helped him on a fence. He's helped us on fences. Now he's helping us on this. It's just really great to build that community. If you can help others, just go out there and try to do it. Like you're going to meet some really cool people. And it's just like that right there. The attention to the detail, making sure everything is perfectly in line. I know he's not just slapping it up there and welding it and like not paying attention to the details. I know for a fact he is looking at every single detail and making it perfect. So thank you James. This is like a huge weight off of our shoulders.