Purlins, Pizza, & A BIG Problem?

This place is full of spiders. It's a process, guys. Should have thought of that. First shower of the day. Yay! Look at us. Not a single crack, guys. Last week, we reached a huge milestone, finishing the adobe blocks on the living room wall. Today, we're switching it up and coming back to weld the missing C-Pro-Lens over that wall so we can throw a pizza party for the friends that have helped us with the roundhouse so far, even if the heat is starting to get to us. What we need is a floor. That's what we need. I hate a bond beam. I hate this helmet. Ah, it's so mad. But first, the Lava Creek Utility Lodge is driving Ashley crazy. That one is full of baby spiders. All right, I got some supplies. We are tackling a side project that's driving me insane. So let's get back to the homestead and get this done. Welcome to this disaster zone, also known as the Utility Lodge or the Lava Creek building. Today, we have got to block off access for these bugs to keep coming in. This place is full of spiders, black widows and others. So you can see you see that spiderweb flowing there. Yep. There's a lot and there's a lot of crap in here that doesn't belong in here. We are going to empty it, organize it, clean it and put foam up around the top of the roof line. To where spiders and nothing can get in. That's the goal. Honestly, I'm not even sure where to begin. I don't have a clean place in here to like move all the items to. So we got to figure something out. We have this empty rack out here next to the barn that nobody's using. So I think I'm going to take that over there, clean under wherever I put it. And then we can start organizing stuff on that and making a little free space to where we can even clean. It's just like there's so much stuff everywhere. Can't get to a single thing. One day, we hope to eventually put a 40 foot shipping container here and create like this U shape and then we'll roof over it. That's a long way away just because we have a house to pay for. When that happens, we are going to have so much room to like store tools properly. Right now, it's just overwhelming and they're all over the place because the garage we currently have is too small. Anyway, it's a whole thing. We just got to organize it better so that we can find things. And it's not a big junkyard and spider habitat. My main objective is to foam where the wall meets the roof line, because there's about an inch gap in some places, less in some places more. And before I can do that, though, I really got to get this cleaned up so that I can even get to the edge of the wall. So I think I'm going to put the rack here ish. Now I can put this power station up on the rack and I'll have my bench free for other things. Can you tell how hot it is? I don't know if you can tell. It's very hot. It's very humid. It's about to rain outside. I've got the windows open, but only what I can only open to right now because that one is full of baby spiders. I'm going to I'm going to kill them. Sorry, I'm going to kill the spiders. I can't have a bunch of spiders in here. So turn away if you don't want to see that. The sheer amount of spider webs that I have gotten rid of and still have yet to get rid of is just it's impressive. It's also really close. But this is already looking way better. Got more to do. Obviously, I still have to tackle all of this, but things are going good. Oh, there's spider web hanging from my camera. Anyway, got to keep going. Get this done before the rain comes. We've done it. The only thing left to do is all of that stuff on the scaffolding has to be taken to the garage is going to take a lot of trips. And then we're going to get the scaffolding out of here because we don't need it in here. We do need it at the house so that we can continue working on building up the walls. I'm not going to show all that. We're just going to put it in the garage. Get these jackets put up. Adelaide's hat, my hat. And then before we do that, I have a stool out here so I can start spray foaming. That's the whole reason I'm out here. You forgot about it. I need to spray foam where the roof meets the wall. So here we go. Now, one thing about this. Ignore the trash. So I don't know if you can see up here. There's not a whole lot of space. I'm going to hit the east side and the west side from the outside and spray towards the inside. But over here on the north and south side, I can't do that because that see, Perlin right there is so close to the edge of the building. I can't get up there. I'm so that north and south side is going to have to be sprayed on the inside out. I think I'm going to go and do the inside out ones first and then come out here and do the rest. We'll see how it goes. I was not expecting that. I was able to get all three walls done with one can. So the only thing left to do is the north side. And I was able to get it all from the inside. So that's really great. I only have one more wall to do. This is the one that the biggest gap. Now, the phone that I have, it says it can only do up to one inch, slightly more than one inch. So I'm going to see if it works. If it doesn't. This is just a temporary thing. Eventually, we're going to have this whole entire ceiling spray foam. For now, my goal is just to keep all the bugs out because there are way too many spiders and crickets and things in here. So another thing to remember is you're never going to see any of this or the wires because the ceiling goes on the bottom of the sea, Perlin. So it doesn't really matter what this looks like. All right. We almost made it. I need to get another can to finish filling in up here on the north side. But everything else should be sealed off. We want to say a huge thank you to Wild Grain for sponsoring today's video. 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Can you just take a minute and appreciate this? Yeah. It's so nice. It kind of makes you want to move our whole garage in here. It is really nice to like know where things are. I need your bucket because you're going to have to grind off again. I'm sure. Yeah, it's rain. Just a quick, quick hit. I need a tape measure, welding bucket. I've got extra wire. Well, and the big boy. And hopefully it's charged. Yes, it is. It's the power button. I know where the power button is. Thanks. I thought the power button was on that side. That's the DC power. Hmm. Hmm. That's why it never turned on. All right. So here's the deal. We need to let some adobes dry. We made a bunch the other day. They're looking really good. We might have figured our mix out. We'll talk about that later. But since we have basically finished the wall on the kitchen living room circle, we're going to come back and weld the C purlins in there, because you probably saw when you were working on that area near the front door, how there were some that were already welded in place and they were super in the way. So that's why we left them out. Now that we're done, we're going to weld them back in. But we ran out of clips. Anyway, before we get started, we got to cut some. And then we got to cut C purlins. We got to get all our tools and we got to weld. I thought we were just going to come out here and weld. It's never not about all the. It's a process, guys. It's a process, but it's going to look really cool. What's that? Then we're going to celebrate with the people. Oh, yeah. Not today. I'm going to get them all well. I need a new blade. Making me go the long way. It's easier than moving all that. Easier for me. Bring the ramp back. What we need is a floor. That's what we need. What's the next step? You need to get down and do it to the other side. Yeah, I'm back. I hate all of it. It's so awkward. I hate C purlins. I hate a bond band. I hate this helmet. It's so mad. I hate I'm not flexible. I hate that I'm scared of heights. Look, you got it. So much easier if I wasn't scared all the time. You did it. I still have to get down. You got it. Seems like it always happens on the last weld. One done. And I still have to do. I'm out of water. I don't like that you do that. Triggers down there. You know that I got it like that. True face on. Now you feel it right there. You know that I got it like that. Like a risky text. I'ma send it ASAP. If it's really what I want, I don't wait for it. Taking risks, get rewards. I'm prepared for it. Come on, we can go to war if they askin' for it. I don't wait for no applause. I just get to it. While you spend your whole day reminiscin'. I've been in the gym, waist draggin'. As you can see, it's been a while since we've been over here. Everything's grown up. But we only got two cuts to make. Long. All right, kids, here's the first problem of the day. When we were laying the second set of adobe blocks, remember, we're outside right now. And so we laid one row and then a second row to fill that full 16 inches. However, you can see the C-Purlin's supposed to be here and our wall is here. So we made a mistake. We should not have laid this last layer here because now it means we're gonna have to cut a big chunk of it out. And we're gonna set the C-Purlin up here to see exactly what that's gonna be. But I have a feeling it's gonna go most of the way down the second layer. Okay. We'll say it's about there. I'm just unclear on the best way to do it. I'll start here. Yeah, there we go. Look at us being smart. Whose idea was that? That's weird. It was both of our ideas. Hmm. Might even be able to reuse those blocks. Maybe. Oh, look at that. You know what? We're not gonna be able to clamp this one. Ooh, it's been a while since we welded. But yeah, I mean, look, we got this hole other than that, which we gotta do the wall stuff there before we can do the C-Purlins. But here all the way down, that looks really, really good. Like to see that. And it's cool to see how the C-Purlins are just kind of gonna nestle up against that adobe wall as we go around. The rest of them should be much, much easier. We shouldn't have to peel any bricks off for that. Hat, did you get your, did you feel like you got the hang of it again? Yeah. I'm not worried about the welds at all. Okay. It's just- Hot, sweaty? Well, it's also was annoying to like go up and under C-Purlins. This is why we didn't put the C-Purlins on until now. Cause otherwise we would have been fighting that throughout all the adobe brick laying. I'm really glad that we left those off. After dealing with that wall with C-Purlins, that was awful. Yeah. But also that thing on the helmet. Huge difference. Oh, I bet. Yeah. Thanks, Hunt. Also, we did have to go ahead and put these here and that adobe wall will have to go up into those, but that will allow us to notch out bricks as we go up into it. So we did think ahead about that too, but that's not going to be fun. But you know what? It is what it is. It's a short wall, right? Yeah. Mostly. First shower of the day? First shower of the day. Okay. ♪ In the first life, I was taking you astern from a dream. ♪ ♪ Things in life you can be certain like birds in the sea. ♪ ♪ Keep returning, I'll fly across the ocean, never lose my way. ♪ ♪ As long as stars are in the sky. ♪ ♪ As long as day comes before the night. ♪ ♪ As long as the shore bears the heavy waves. ♪ ♪ I will love you always. ♪ Took forever, but scheduling's are set up. So now what we should be able to do is just hit this pie, this pie, and this pie. This should be really easy. Where they hit on the bar joist and where the single layer or single width of adobe walls come, there's just sort of little notches we have to cut off for each one. So, yeah, we're just gonna throw those up real fast, right? Easy peasy, no problem. Yeah. 182, 174. Tape measure. Do you have a marker? Yep. Okay, section one is done. We're gonna measure for the next section, go cut the purlins, bring them back over, and then weld these up. And then there's one section left. Let me know when you're good. All right, let's do 182 and three eights. And 174. Okay, let me... Do you want him to chop mine out more or do it back a little? I gotta chop mine too. You need a chop? There we go. I'm at 25 and three quarters. Let me pull mine back. Okay, one more section. I won't have to trim here because we haven't laid these blocks yet. So when we build them up, we'll just have a couple. For a few, we'll have them in the way, which is not that big a deal. But we're gonna just go ahead and get these up so it can be done with this part. ♪ Believe that the sun's awake ♪ ♪ Skip that stone across the lake ♪ ♪ With low leaves of shade ♪ ♪ Feeling fine and free ♪ Thanks for doing all the hard stuff. Last two. ♪ To be alive, sing and let it be ♪ ♪ Empty pockets, early June ♪ ♪ Got nothing but this silly tune ♪ ♪ No big plans, it's summer soon ♪ ♪ Feeling fine and free ♪ What do you think? We're done. We did it? With this little section. All right. Can you take that? Just a quick reminder, our homestead tour coming up in just a couple weeks. Guys, we have some sad news. Oh no, what's wrong? This is going to be the last homestead tour for a very long time. How long? For a while. A long time. Guys, we really need to focus on our house. And so, yeah, we just, it's gonna be the last tour for a while. Maybe we'll open up tours once we make a little more progress on it. So October, that is going to be it. If you want to come and see this house in progress, this is your last chance. So you can go to tinyshinyhome.com slash events and sign up. And of course, if you come to our workshops, we've got the Lava Creek Accent Wall Workshop and the Hyperdiving Lava Creek Workshop in October and November. That's also a chance to come see the homestead. Those are almost full. So if you'd like to come, make sure you sign up soon. And, Cloud's here. Cloud's here, yeah. All right, so anyway, guys, make sure you visit tinyshinyhome.com slash events to either come to the homestead tour, which is the last one for a very, very long time, or the events that we have, our workshops. Listen, you're smart. You'll figure it out. We believe in you. One of the reasons we have been pushing so hard to get all the adobes done over here and then adding the sea purlins in, in the living room area, is that we're planning something special. We'll be inviting a bunch of people who have been a part of this house build so far, who are local to the area. We're going to come to our living room slash kitchen. We're gonna make some homemade pizzas in our pizza oven, and we're gonna hang out for the evening and just sort of make sure these people know how much it means to us that they have been a part of this house build, because obviously we've done a lot of the Hyperdiving Roundhouse ourselves, but there have been critical and crucial junctures where we needed more help. We needed expertise, or we just needed more hands, or we needed professionals, or, you know, whatever. With a project this size, there's no way six people could do it on our own. So Ashley's spending the whole day prepping for the food. I'm gonna come out here. We're gonna hang some lights. We actually did this a while back, and it turned out really cool, so I'm gonna go. We still have them over here. I'm gonna get up on here, hang them off the bar joists and the sea purlins and stuff, and we're gonna start to get ready for this event that will hopefully happen tomorrow. Depends on the weather. Hopefully we don't get rained out. But yeah, let's hang some lights. What do you say? Yay! Look at us. We did it. Here's a little checkup on our experiment. These were the blocks that we made out of all the pieces that we trimmed off when we were doing the double bricks on the wall near the front door. These have some micro-cracking, so I don't know if you can see that. But overall, feels like a good, sturdy, solid brick. We did not chop the straw for these, though. Next up, these are the two-to-ones that we just started from scratch, just kind of like the other two-to-ones that we've done. And we got sort of similar results, where you can see there's more significant cracking, like all the way through. I mean, it still doesn't feel like this is gonna fall apart. It's still really sturdy, but I don't like that. It's not what I want. Okay, next stage. These are the one-to-ones with chopped straw. These turned out really good. You can see there is still a little bit of cracking, but overall, it's a nice-looking brick, right? Yeah, I would definitely use these bricks, but I think we have a better one. Okay, here's our two-to-one with chopped straw. These look really good. There's very minimal cracking. Another thing that we did with all the chopped straw bricks is we threw a little bit of sand down on the plywood, because what we were noticing was is that when we wet the plywood down and we put the brick in and put the brick on top, as it dried, it would kind of suction itself to the wood. And so when it was time to flip it up, there was often so much tension on it that sometimes the brick would even break, because it already had a crack in it, and then you're pulling it, and it made the bottoms all goofy. Yeah, look at the bottom of that. That is nice and clean. So we're definitely gonna be throwing just a little bit of sand on the bottom. Okay, the last one is what I'll call my happy accident. I was trying to do like a two-sand-to-one clay, but it got a little wet, and so I added another bucket of clay into it, which makes it more like a three-sands-to-two clays. Let me tell you, these are beautiful. Look at this. And I think it was this one that I made in the morning and I left out. I never covered it, unless it was gonna rain, then I would cover it. But otherwise, I didn't cover it at all. Not a single crack, guys. Not a single crack. So I'm, oh, guys, I think the three-to-two might be it. I think it might be it, because if we can make them and leave them out and let them cure the way adobe bricks are supposed to cure, because generally, you don't have to do all this like covering and misting and stuff that we've been trying to do to slow down the cracks. And I think it was just a combination of chopped straw versus large pieces that maybe weren't as evenly mixed as we thought. Could also be the weather. You know, like I said, it's not been as hot. It's been more humid. I think the sand on the ground helps a little so it doesn't stick. And I don't know, I'm feeling pretty good about this. Like, these are real nice. These are good bricks. I would be proud to have these bricks in my home. I've only made one of these three-to-two batches, so I'm not gonna declare victory yet. We're gonna do it again and let it run like a whole week and see if we just got lucky with the weather or what. But I think we're close. Hey, friends, we have a surprise for you. We have started a new YouTube channel. That's right. High Desert Dreams is gonna take a bunch of the stuff that you love from our TSH videos, like nature photography, animal fun, and our favorite music with the artist and song title listed to create short, 10-minute breathers. 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All right, it's time to get to our pizza party. ♪ I give you all I want, give you everything ♪ ♪ Till the sky turns to star dust ♪ ♪ I get lost in your light, there's a look in your eyes ♪ ♪ That I follow for miles ♪ ♪ Where you go, I find my home ♪ ♪ You're the one my heart beats for ♪ ♪ Like an anchor to the shore ♪ ♪ Oh, don't you know I'm yours ♪ ♪ I'll say it a thousand times, live a thousand lives ♪ ♪ Right here by your side, oh my ♪ ♪ It's a sacred space, tingled in your way ♪