Tearing Off The Backside To Build On ｜A-Frame Cabin Addition

Previously we completed the entire foundation for our A-Frame Edition build. It's going so much better today than it has in the past. This was the final concrete pour for us and a huge move forward in the build. The forms are coming off. They're very very heavy. They're bare. Yeah New babies are being born, older babies get turned out onto pasture and we take steps forward by tearing apart our past. Ellie and I are heading out to check on one of our pregnant ewes today. She is keeping her distance from the rest of the flock so I'm pretty sure that we've got a couple of lambs out there in the field. Such a cutie, right? Yes! She's nursing. We'll wait until she's done, okay? Yeah. We don't know if it's a boy or girl. See, it's not scared. She's a brave little girl. I know she is. I hope she's a girl really bad. Alright, we'll pick her up and let's find out. Oh, good girl. Take a stand. Yes, she's got strong legs. And we have a girl. Yes! I love you. And sure enough, we have two more absolutely adorable little lambs born on the farm. Both of them are strong, healthy, nursing. And by the way, we have had seven lambs born so far and six of those seven have been ewe lambs. We've only had one ram lamb. It's crazy good luck. You're a good mama. Aw, are you licking your baby? You're going to be the best mama ever. Today we're picking back up where we left off yesterday after being rained out, removing all the concrete forms. It's going so much better today than it has in the past because we didn't put any shale down there to hold it in and make sure no blowouts happen. We used rebar instead. I want to pat my partner on the back for that one. Erin, great job. I think you're the one who taught me that lesson. It was a complaint and we think outside the box. Don't use shale to reinforce the bottoms of the forms. Use rebar. That's what I learned. I taught you that. I know you did. You taught me that the hard way. So what you're saying is that does work. Yes, a lot of complaining from the wife works. Okay, one, two, three. I can't really tell you guys just how happy we are to be past this point of concrete. Yeah, nice. Granted, we do still have to do the safe room walls and ceiling but we're going to wait because we are so over the concrete and we need a mental break from the concrete. So we're going to make some progress elsewhere and get the entire floor built and get the draining put in and the waterproofing and get everything backfilled and then I think that our spirits are going to be re-energized for more concrete at that point. Yes. And it might not be concrete. It might be something else. We'll see. We might be trying our hand at something new. And hopefully that goes well. You're a damn good block ladder too, aren't you, girl? You guys might not know that about me but I also lay block. Josh just lays pipe. Ready? One, two, three, go. Are you even pulling? I stopped. When were you planning on telling me you stopped pulling? I should have told you. I thought I gave it a little tug. I knew it was caught so I let go. I didn't say anything. You just kept on pulling. Did we put shale in there or did all that nonsense just fall in there? That fell in there. We're going to make that mistake twice. This thing is tough, man. The problem is there's no ditch. You push it on down in there and it slams in there tight. Pulling it out is just a bear. It was hard getting it in because we were trapped. It was probably harder to get out. Plus I used 16 foot boards everywhere. So leverage is not on my side. You know what I mean? Yeah. This board leverage is on my side. The 16 foot board. One, two, three. Are you ready? Two pieces. We have two pieces of forms left on the interior side. They're very, very heavy. They're a bear. I got it. I was really hoping for the celebratory crash right there. It just didn't happen. It didn't happen, did it? See, why are you going to make me look bad, Josh? This thing is like a water log. It's so heavy. The entire bottom half right there is soaking wet. The inside is done. I found it a lot easier to use my pry bar to take all the 2x4s off the plywood. Just pry them all off. It makes everything a lot lighter because the plywood is soaking wet and it's waterlogged. It's probably three to four times as heavy as it should be if you buy it from the store. So I felt that prying them all off and pulling them off made our lives a lot easier. Once he got all of the bracing off of this last exterior side, the entire wall form pretty much just came off as one. You know what the secret was? What? I didn't want it open. That's why. The inside, you got that much space and it's all falling on top of it and you just want it to come out. It was so easy. Thank goodness. I know, right? Finally a win. One, two, three, go. Got it? Good. Alright, cool. I was pulling it off, no pun intended. I can't do it without these guns. You know? It looks great. But we have a huge mess to clean up. It's going to be a massive mess to clean up. That means it's as bad as pulling everything off. Yeah, but not as rewarding. Not nearly as rewarding, no. Yeah, it probably will be rewarding once we get it all cleaned up. Yeah. There's probably only two and I think that you are probably big enough to carry your own this year. Of course I am. This year's baby chicks are fully feathered out and more than ready to be put out on pasture. So we're going to be taking them from in the brooder out into the chicken pasture. Josh is getting all of the front lawn moved down so the grass is not too tall for the babies. Ellie and I are going to grab the chicken crates and we are going to get that chicken tractor dragged out from its storage location and hopefully that thing is holding up. It has been through a lot of seasons and it is not in the best shape but we keep scabbing onto it and making it do and if we could get one more season out of it I would feel pretty good about that. She's got some age on her. She needs some repairs. Yeah. A little more feet than I remember. Me too. It's not safe the way it is. We've got a few screws, you know, a few more chicken wire and we'll be in the clear. This one will go outside with us, okay? Yeah, we need to go too. Yep. We probably need to get the bigger feeders out of the barn. Just get a good grab on him. Got him. So I know that this little chicken tractor is in pretty bad shape and it looks pretty ratty but... It's been used and abused guys. That just shows you that you don't need anything special with the various chickens in a chicken tractor. This thing was put together really nice years back with years and years of use and abuse and it still works. You gotta do a little patching here and there and now it looks brand new. What did it cost you to build this thing? A tarp. And it was just so inexpensive to build originally and quick to build. I think that most of this was reused wood and chicken wire that we had extra laying around an old tarp that originally didn't have holes in it but on the other one we used some leftover metal roofing and we put it on there and then we could just make little repairs to it each season and it kept functioning for us and then we used this actually to raise our meat chickens but for right now it's just going to be that transition point for these baby chicks while they get used to our full grown chickens and everybody can get along and then we have like a nice transition period but it just works so well and you don't have to buy anything crazy expensive. Although the expensive ones look really, really nice. Yeah, they're really nice. Maybe one day. Maybe one day. I'll get you that for Christmas next year, Josh. Thanks. I'll get you a vacuum cleaner for Christmas also. Darn it. Allie, you ready to put the chicks in? Yeah. Alright, come on. These white ones are so pretty, right? So, is cleaning up concrete forms more your style than decorating? I think I'd rather be out decorating than cleaning up concrete forms. I'm not going to lie. You know? Yeah. You're starting to have the same mannerisms as when we were decorating. Like a state of confusion and a little bit lost? Yes. That's how I feel. So, we are getting ready to head out today and since we are going to be gone for the entire day, we figured that it would be a good idea to go ahead and pack up all of our snacks and drinks to keep all of the kids and Josh taken care of for the entire day. EcoFlow Sinister Glacier is the first ever 3-in-1 portable fridge and freezer with an integrated ice maker. It features dual zones, so this actually triples as a freezer, a refrigerator, and an ice maker. The powerful 120-watt compressor works so that you can have solid ice cubes in only 12 minutes. 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When we first became the owners of this storefront, it was extremely outdated. It had multiple layers of drop ceilings, old paneling over all of the walls, and it was definitely not the look that we were going for, so we completely gutted the interior, and that's probably the last time that you've seen this place. Since then, the drop ceilings were completely torn out, revealing the original rafters and planking. The walls were framed. All the plumbing's been roughed in. All of the exposed spiral ductwork has been completed. The walls have been insulated. The drywall has been finished, and a lot of the electrical rough-in has been completed, but not all of it. Just a lot of it, and that's why we're here today. I brought Josh, my favorite electrician. I'm just a help, that's all. You're the talent, Josh. I already have these two 2-inch pipes poked through the wall. 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And for days like today when we know that we're going to be working for a long period of time, we luckily have 8 hours of runtime with the add-on battery. The Wave 2 can be charged in 5 ways. AC power, solar panels, power stations, cars or the Wave 2 add-on battery. With the convenience of multiple charging options you can enjoy comfortable, cool or warm air wherever and whenever you desire at home or on the go. We have two 200 amp Cutler Hammer panels we're going to knock them out knock both and drug them to the wall we have wood behind the drywall we're going to screw everything together and once that's done we have some wiring to do. Both panel boards are up we're going to come out of the top of the panel boards with 3 quarter inch pipe going up to the ceiling and up there we're going to mount a trough. The pipes are going to the bottom of the trough and we're going to run MC throughout the entire building going into the top of the trough and spicing everything up. We're going that route. We don't want MC going down the wall into the panels. It's going to look kind of crappy. It's all exposed and MC can look bad if you start slinging that thing around the ceiling not doing anything nice tight and neat we're saving cost by doing MC versus piping everything in and pulling wire so we're going that route so next step is pipe up and hit a trough. Time of year where you get those hot sticky like beginning of summer rains outside and then the thunderstorms in the afternoon but it's kind of nice. It's like the universe has some sort of way of being like okay today you're not going to work outside you're going to go to the cafe and get that job done. That's how it works. We just got done drilling out the can and putting all the connectors in it the next step we're going to do is take pipe up to a trough and I'm going to say it again the reason why we're piping it up is so we don't have MC coming down the walls because MC will look bad coming down the walls. We'll trough the entire thing pipe it all in. MC goes into the trough, splices everything up looks nice, neat and pretty and that's how we're doing things here. You know I'm sitting by the air conditioner eating snacks while Josh does all the work sort of thing. I think I have to go up here girl. I'm starving. I'm sweating I'm wasting away at nothing. Get down there and lounge with me. I took your air conditioner and your snacks now. You do realize this is supposed to be a job site? I'm supervising. I think I'm doing Oh man. Must be nice. Now I need the work truck. I'm your chauffeur don't worry about that. I got that covered. If any of you are interested in checking out EcoFlow's Wave 2 or their Glacier be sure to check out our link in the description box below. I'll be sure to leave our discount code down there for you to find. She knows. It's not your first day on the job. All the panels are up, we're piped into the bottom of the trough. We have probably a day worth of pulling MC, getting everything coming down spliced up, tying everything in. If you guys want to see all that stuff it's going to be on the after show. But now we're going to head home and we're getting back to work at home and get a house to build. Today we're going to be working on the back portion of the house the back deck here. This all needs to get torn off because the next step in the entire house build is to get the floor joists up get the subfloor down and get this entire thing built out here. But in order to do that, all of this needs to come off because the floor joists are actually going to come over here and tie into this portion of the house here. I'm actually excited to be tearing this off because I'm looking forward to seeing how everything held up because nothing under here is pressure treated. It's some two by's right here. So we'll see how it looks. So we're going to pull everything off but now it's time to tie the old house into the new house demo time. I remember when we were doing all this blue skin it was the worst. Here we go. This is my very first learning experience about leverage. Was it? Yeah. Push on that end. Leverage. Leverage. One more time during this build. That's good girl. I think it held up. That's a hot mess expressed under there but you know we expect for a deck under a flat surface but I think it held up. You did a good job installing that. Yeah. As we tear the house apart, we see the layers beneath of what it took to get here. The forgotten but not lost memories of spreading blue skin across the wood in the summer heat. Hoping it would protect this house we were pouring our heart and soul into until one day we would be able to reach phase two of our home build. The addition that until just recently has always felt just out of our reach. So it's not safe to walk with this anymore. Just saying. This little back porch carefully built with the intention of serving us in the now while being a doorway to our future build held up exactly the way we hoped it would. And now as we see it go piece by piece, we also revisit each piece that it took to get us here. I came to the realization I'm tearing the backside of this house down so I brought in the big guns today. We're cutting this floor out. There it goes. A lot more fun this way. That's a wrap girl. Now the house is unfinished. This was a next step for us to keep on moving forward. Now that it's down, steel plates, floor joists, subfloor, we go up.