We're OFFICIALLY DRIED IN // A MAJOR MILESTONE in our SELF-BUILT Home
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- Опубликовано: 26 мар 2022
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“Do one thing that scares you everyday.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt~ This quote swims through my head a lot as we work on the house build. Oftentimes, I laugh as I think of it, and wonder if I’m earning a stockpile so I don’t have to do as many scary things as I grow old. Because there are some days on the build where we do more than one scary thing.
What scary thing are we up to this time? We are installing our FINAL doors. They are our BIG sliding glass doors. One thing stacked against us is that they are so heavy and there are only two of us. The other thing stacked against us is that we have to get each sliding glass door OUT of the house on some sort of platform to install it correctly. We get creative, end up with a little bit of help from a friend, and we push through our feelings of self doubt to make it happen.
And even though I really dislike doing all of these scary things in the moment, we both come out of them feeling stronger and more confident in our abilities. Maybe Eleanor was onto something.
For those of you that are curious. To get from laying our sill plate to installing our final door, it took us 5 months. We still have soffits to do and window trim and caulking, but when we look back and see that it only took us 5 months to get to this point, we’re pretty dang happy!
And now a little back story on us, in case you just found us on RUclips. We’re Sara and Ryan. We are your average suburban family, but 9 years ago, we purchased a raw piece of land in the Hood Canal in Washington. We’ve been developing this piece of property slowly, and this year we knew it was time to go all in. So we purchased a log cabin kit home and decided that 2020 would be the year we built a house on our property. We plan to build this cabin (as much as we can) on our own.
Unfortunately, COVID-19 put a delay on our cabin kit being produced and delivered in the time frame we had originally planned. While we could have just waited it out and pushed back starting on the build of our home, we decided to shift gears and change our course for the time being. We purchased a 30 foot yurt, and will be setting it up as additional living space when we begin to build our cabin.
In the summer of 2021, we FINALLY moved to the Hood Canal so we could start the build of our future home. While we are building our home, we are living in a camper trailer and the yurt that we built in the summer of 2020. We hope to have our cabin kit home built by the summer of 2022. Just my husband and I are building the house. We get help here and there from friends along the way and we do plan to get help on the roof but other than that we are doing it all on our own.
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How wonderful...the most exciting moment when finally being able to have all the doors in 💫 and you have such a window view from the living room, warm, cozy and the gorgeous view💫 working inside will be so much more pleasant 🤗🥰
The windows on this plan is what made us fall in love with this house.
I think the best thing going for you is a positive attitude. I know the work is hard and demanding.
Congratulations. Just being dried in makes life easier. Now to get rid of all the mold & mildew
Exactly!! It was a huge relief! And you’re right, now onto drying out the house and getting the moisture level under control!
Nice! We hope to be dried in, in the next couple of weeks!
Amazing! The house is looking so good.
Congratulations!! Being Dried In is a BIG BIG BIG Milestone!!
My dad worked construction his entire life. It was nice having his expertise when I did jobs around the house. He always laughed at me and said I was wound as tight as a three dollar watch. I wanted to make sure things were correct and ready to go when he arrived. Not a panic or anxiety attack, but close. He would calm me down and remind me we could only do, what we could do. You make your plan and do what you set out to do. As soon as you worry about what might happen, the things you want or need to happen slow down or don't happen. You guys took on a hell of a task. You doing fine. Some things are hard, you work through them. BTW...The doors and window look fantastic!
Pretty cool, goal achieved and the house with the best warmest place. And with spring popping a warming time ahead will make it all faster and the beautiful house ready to give you the wonderful feeling of goal accomplished 💫🌟
I tried to comment? Great to see your progress! Hope you have a great week!
Hello Dear
You are doing an amazing job
The doors & the windows are looking great.
You are getting closer to move in
Very excited & happy for you
And your beautiful family.
🌈💝💙
Thank you so so so much!!!
Congrats on a major accomplishment.
Thank you!!
I'll bet that's a huge relief for you two. The house looks great.
Yes! A HUGE relief!! Thank you so much for watching!!
hello dear people, I've been following you for a while now and think it's very brave what you do with just the two of you. I saw your panic up there with those big glass doors (and even though I know it went well) I also felt that uncertainty. but it all looks good. looking forward to the next video. Greetings from the Netherlands 😘🤗
I (Sara) was soooo nervous, but it all ended up okay! Thank GOODNESS!! Thank you for watching all the way from the Netherlands!!
Great job, now I can breathe again. Be safe.
Thank you! Now we can breathe again, too 😂😂
Always with moving window. Center Tac nail bottoms CHECK FOR SQUARE IF SQUARE nail the sides. We were told in the 8o's do not nail into headers.
OMG! I have just spent my entire Saturday afternoon\evening (now early Sunday morning) watching all your videos. I should have been working on my camper, but I am from the NW and have been looking to buy some property and move back up there to do something off-grid in the very near future. I think I would be happy with the yurt, but you all are really inspiring. Just goes to show how the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. I wish you all the best and congratulations on the major milestone.
We love it when people go through and binge watch our stuff. I'm curious, what was your favorite episode since they are all fresh?
@@OneFootOfftheGrid That's a tough question, but I'm watching mostly to learn. So I'd say the yurt episodes were among my favorites. And I was already planning on the bucket method once I get my camper done and hit the road (hopefully by Summer) so I enjoyed the reassurance of those episodes too.
You guys are doing fantastic, and you're hilarious!
Glad you think so! We try to have fun in the process. Did you like Ryan's sound effects when he jumped off the platform?
Yaa, way to get it done guys!💜👍🏾
Tolle Arbeit 👏👋😇😁😊
❤️❤️❤️
this channel and the site "this off grid life" are quickly becoming my favorite house building sites. you guys are great. thanks for the videos. stay dry and hopefully warm.
I think we’ve watched them a little bit! Thank you so much for following our build.
Wow
One more step forward.
Most of the people I watch building their own home like you , feel so relieved when they get to the "dried in" phase. Everything thing else seems to go much faster.
I remember in some past videos Sara was so down over the seemingly daunting task to the point of crying in front of all of us
It's good to see her smiling again.
I'm excited for both of you.
Can't wait to see the happenings of the inside work.
Ryan, Just a couple of points I noticed, I did wonder why you were burning scrap wood outside, when it could have been used in the wood burner to heat the house. I hate to bring up old comments, but sometime back, I mentioned installing angle iron in the door openings, which would have helped maintain the wall planks in plumb. Congratulations on getting finally dried in. Well done everybody. Regards Robin.
one person (I will let you guess which one) shall now be known as wood chip bearded person. I laughed when I saw that.
Our wood stove manufacturer recommended not burning treated or laminated wood. Angle iron would have been a good idea or even attaching the bucks earlier in the process. Sometimes the only way to learn is to make mistakes unfortunately.
Yes! I think I was finding them in there a few days afterwards even.
I've been watching from day 1 and held off making any comments on your build, So glad you've finally got dried in and i know you both are as well. I'm watching from Kentucky and have enjoyed every episode. Will continue to watch every episode till i get caught up but am very tempted to fast forward but don't wanna miss any excitement.
When you get to plumbing it gets a little boring so we won't hold it against you if you skip through some of those episodes. LOL.
@@OneFootOfftheGrid your content is never boring....🙏🙏
Great to see your progress. Hope you have a great week!
Such a great feeling to get that accomplished. One huge worry down the drain, and now it is off to the inside work. Congratulations. One step closer. Great work and yes that smile and we did it at the end was great to see.
Awwww! Thank you so much!!! Yes! It’s so nice to know the windows and doors are in and now our house is more protected.
YAY!!!
Great CAN DO attitude and I understand panic attacks. You persevered!!
You guys must be so proud of your accomplishments! Its looking beautiful :)
Thank you! There was a lot of SLOW steady breathing happening that day!
Way to go!!!!!! Yeah🎉🎉🎉💪👍
Awesome all dried in what a relief for you guy's i bet have a great week see ya on the next one❤🙏😁✌
Thank you so much for watching! It felt Great to get that final door in!!
Thank you for sharing I really appreciate it. Take care and please be careful
Congratulations 🎈🎉🍾. That’s a big deal.
AMAZING!! you guy's rock
Thanks for following along with the journey for so long.
Nice house building :)
Thank you!!
Oh wow congrats on your build of the door 😍❤️🇵🇭❤️
It feels SO good to have it in! Thank for watching.
That's awes all Dried in
Thank you...
You’re welcome! Thank you for watching.
Congratulations guys!! Of course you did it!! Never doubted that you wouldn’t!! I was however worried that someone was going to lose a hand or two!! Yet again your patience and team work came up trumps. Stand tall! Be proud! Another milestone achieved! I admire you both! Sarah l really admire your tenacity when it comes to heights. There’s no way l could overcome my phobia and do what you do without a major attack!!
Again guys a very big CONGRATULATIONS!!!! 🍾🍾🍾🥂🥂🥂🍾🍾🍾🙏🏻🤗💐💐
Thank you so much! And yes my fear of heights is getting better but sometimes it sneaks up on me.
Yay. Congratulations guys. Hugh success. Thxs for sharing guys ❤️
Thank you so much!!
Congratulations on this epic milestone. I bet there where days that you thought you'd achieve it. But as always your amazing team work won the day. Now it's time to make it a home.
Thank you so much! The interior seems a little daunting at this point, but we will break it down to one step at a time and with consistent action, we will get there.
Well done you guys 😊.
Congratulations, N I C E
Thank you so much!!!
Show! Brasil 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇷
Awwwww! Thank you!!!!
LOOKING GOOD. NICE JOB GUYS
Thanks 👍
Kudos folks, the sliders look awesome, well done for a couple rookies. When will the next home be started??
YEA YOU BOTH DID IT OMG YOU BOTH HAD ME BITTING MY NAILS I WAS SO NERVOUS BUT AFTER YOU GOT THIS LAST DOOR ON I GOT SO EXCITED WHAT A GREAT VIDEO YOU BOTH ROCK
We were so excited, too! Thank you so much for following our build!!
Great Job
Thank you!
Good job! 👍👍👍
Looks good .
Thank you!
Awesome Job
You did it and I am so proud and happy for you two, well done kids. I know the feeling way to go now the fun begins hahaha
Do you get snow? If you do,do you need a snow splitter on the roof to safeguard the chimney. Love the way your house is looking.
Congratulations
Thank you!
wtg guys you smashed it
But at least, you are now dried in! Hurrah!
Well done, massive achievement!
Thank you SO much!!
Which of you two insisted on all those windows and those two big patio doors? Whoever it was, owes the other one big time!!
complimenti bel lavoro
if you take the glass out its a lot easier to move the frame
I always look forward to your video's 😍
You've accomplished so much great job.. ✔️ under house to see how dry the stove is drying the wood I'm curious 🧐..
Keep those videos coming.
The stove helps so much!! With it running when we build we are always able to get the moisture level much lower.
congrats
bravissimi
I just thought of something, is it going to be a problem cleaning out the chimney each year being it's so high up ?
😯👍👍👍👌
Why do you guys never use the tractor an forks to help move stuff and make platforms
We do use it when it is safe. With the sliding door we weren't sure if the tractor would be stable enough and the forks are only the "clamp on" variety. Building the temp platform meant I could walk on it as well as put the door on without having to worry. I am looking to pick up a real set of forks for the tractor soon and I'm sure I'll get a lot more use out of them then.
That flashing tape isn't doing a bit of good they way you installed it. You should have followed the contour of your logs to get a good seal. I would have used a liquid flashing. You should really think about re-doing that flashing.
We were worried about this as well. What we ended up doing (per our manufacturers suggestion) was getting it as close as we could to the logs. Then the trim was put on. Then we applied spray foam in the gaps. Then We sealed it all up with caulking. You’ll see it in the next episode (most likely).
Third try for making a comment. In an hour I will come back and have 3 comments. Hope you have a great week.
Thank you so much for commenting! we appreciate that you're watching so much!
When are you guys gonna seal up the eaves so squrriels and roof rats don't get into your beautiful home through the eaves in the nice snuggly insulation?
Soffits go in on next! Unfortunately, half of our roof only gets them because the other half will attach to a roof that forms a covered deck. I could see a squirrel trying it out but not a raccoon . . . But you never know. I’ve actually been surprised that we haven’t found raccoons under our house yet, but most of the time we keep the window well entrance closed.