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Have you guys thought about taping your exteriror seams? I mean, if you aren't retaining heat, closing holes makes a big difference. Insulation will help too, but stopping the loss of the warm air at the first hard layer is a huge benefit. Just a suggestion.
I've never seen an electrical panel wired so neatly. Well done Martin! And the progress of the insulation must've been great as you could feel the warmth getting nicer and nicer
It is purdy huh?
Love seeing the family working together.
Martin I love the honesty. What you see is what you get. That is why I always watch all your videos with your family.
Good morning guy’s. Hope you get the build sorted out for inspections. 🙏🙏🙏Blessings
You have a great family. I like watching when you are all together. Keep living the dream!
Not sure if your location allows the WAGO connectors instead of wire nuts, but they would be a lot better for you than the wire nuts.
Definitely make sure to foam around floor and ceiling penetrations and the garage to living spaces. Wires pipes and open cracks (bigger than a nickel) or open holes
Yup. That’ll help with a blower door test for air tightness
Missing you kids, hope and pray everything's okay.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Another great video, the inspection fail was a good teaching moment.
Nice job on the panel, it looks very professional.
Love what you guys are doing!
Your family works so well together. Lots of progress in this video.
Love watching you all. I would encourage you to twist wires together before you put a wire nut on then. Big pet peeve for electricians. Get you a good set of lineman pliers.
Should have taped the exterior sheathing. I can see the light coming in. The exterior tyvek can rip, get holes & you have a source for heat loss. Ideally cauking every exterior wall stud also helps reduce air leakage. Also caulk every wall pentration, including plumbing & electrical using fire caulk. Not only for fire but also to prevent mice having access between your walls.
Since you already have the Tyvek up, Caulk the exposed shealthing joints from the inside for air sealing. This will also help prevent insects getting inside your walls.
With the whole family there working, you all got so much done. There is so much love in your house and it is so beautiful. God bless you as you work together and travel on the roads.❤❤❤
Don't forget that by code every single hole through a floor requires you use fire rated spray foam around and in the hole.
It's great watching the four of you work on the house. I can only imagine how much time it saves you having the kids home and working on the projects. Great job guys, so can't wait to see the finished house . You guys are going to enjoy it I'm sure.
Don't forget all the nail plates where wires go through the wood. We usually put the nail plates on before insulation.
Insulation is oh, so much fun! Looking good, ready for drywall. Can't wait to see the tape/float/texture fun!
3:50 They make a green wire nut with a hole in the end designed for that application you basically keep one ground long and twist the rest up. The also make crimps to tie the grounds once they are twisted.
Words of wisdom, you should install a sub-panel now. You will be so happy you did later. Most likely, you should have added a sub-panel earlier and shortened those horizontal home runs in the wall. They looked like maybe they were kind of long. It would have been cheaper and faster.
Good day. Thanks for the update on EcoFlow. I’m in the process of getting my Delta 2 setup, it’s looking good. Happiest to see the installation of the insulation going in. But your house will be the warmest for sure. Your into the winter 🥶 months stay warm!
A commercial electrical contractor friend told me about the variety of inspectors you encounter after being in the business for many years. One of his contractor friends became familiar with one particular inspector who had to find something wrong even when everything is correct. He dealt with that by deliberately making something wrong that was front and center and easy to fix. He said once the inspector found his "something wrong", he was happy and on his way.
Hi Martin and family. Wanted to ask were did "keep smiling" come from. Hearing it and experiencing you and your families calm demeanour is incredibly heartwarming. It's really inspiring and a calm I'd love to have I'm my life.
Iam so HAPPY the insulation is back up! I'm sure you will pass next electrical and plumbing inspection! It's gonna be nice watching everyone much warmer, working! I still never got an answer why one step on the back is not covered!? Is it for grandkids to take snacks while visiting? 😊 🤗
All of you are doing a fantastic job 💞. With the insulation in is going to make it feel a lot better and warmer ☺️.
Gotta love the irony of building a "homestead" but being constantly reminded that your not free in a "free country" and you must beg the govts permission to do ANYTHING, AND EVERYTHING. And, at any moment the county can just decide, to start fining you, for an alleged violation, and then, they can "legally" seize your property, to sell at auction. All because, of an inspector.
Yup!
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Not being American might be the reason why I can’t really follow your reasoning Mike Bolton. I understand that people would like to be completely independent from society. This, or any other family for that matter should pay for the benefit of using the roads to go to town and bet provisions or building materials, they have to pay to have the inspector approving their electrical since if the house may burn down otherwise and then someone has to pay for having firefighters ready and available to help and a heath system prepared to take care of your burns. So I think it’s only fair that the inspector is necessary and gets paid for. He is there for a good reason.
@@renatoazevedo9514 I respectfully disagree. Govts have done nothing but make people's lives miserable here in America. Our entire govts been taken over by crazies.
And those roads you mention, are in complete disrepair thanks to 40 years of boomer lead govt stealing public funds to fill their pension funds, while preaching "deferred maintenance".
The most awful, miserable, most terrible situation to be in, here in the USA, as a land and property owner, is living in a small community, where the same individuals and family's have "been in charge" for generations.
They collude, they lie, cheat, and steal, to get their way, and they weaponize govt against citizens they have a grudge against. And, in my towns case... we have generational hatred.
Where the town building inspector, took over for his father, and anyone that he didn't get along with in school, he now intentionally targets, with fines, and new made up obscure building codes, he uses to force people to waste money, tearing stuff apart, "too meet code".
The problem with govt in general is its run by people. People who all have their own private objectives.
Anytime you want to put your faith in govt, remind yourself of this...
There would be no terrorists, without govt.
And the absolute worst mass murderers throughout all of history have been... govts.
Yea, perhaps we should just ditch building life safety protocols and go back to the good ol' days where if 1 preventable fire started entire cities burnt down over night. Freedom
Gotta believe that will make a huge difference in the warmth you have in that part of the house now.
Well, now that Woodstove can do its job again.
It's not to late you can go back and fix it. You alway twist all your Electrical first and then you twist your Wire Nut last ! She did not do that, She put the Ground Wire in the wire Nut then twisted it .
You could use a greenie wire nut for connecting the ground wires😊
This may sound obvious, but you will need to be very careful removing those wire staples. You don't want to pierce the wire insulation. Don't ask my how I know! 😃
Love the family vib!! This country needs more of exactly this. The family home built by family is the strongest structure under the lord! Huge thumbs up here in Oklahoma!!
Great progress! Like so many times in life 3 steps forward and one step back. Sometimes there are reasons for processes and other times it's personal preferences...but as in the word ..."everything with prayer and supplication." My wife and I so enjoy watching you and your family building your dreams together with all the joy and excitement emanating from your character. God bless and keep you and yours always.
I know that has to make it so much warmer!! CONGRATS!!
I've heard of it happening, but this is the first time it's happened to me, that I know of. I was apparently unsubscribed from the channel. Luckily, I caught it. Good to be back.
You should really be twisting your wires together lines men pliers. Just using the maret isn’t good enough.
Looking soooo good. I dread for you the drywall and mudding you have to do.
TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More. What wonderful memories!
I don't know about Idaho but in Oklahoma and Texas we always twisted the grounds together leaving 1 longer than the rest without a scotchlock. We've had scotchlocks come loose,why, I can't tell you. Our panels had to always breaking trimmed out before the inspection. Inspectors like neat panels. They never cared how neat the wires were run through the house but they did like a neat organized panel. Panel looked awesome ,good job!
It would've been just as easy for the inspectors to explain what they want, and then check it with a photo or such. I mean, ya'll are building your own house, surely you wouldn't do any skimping or cheating. Love what you're doing ❤️
Good morning to y'all also
I will say as a Texas electrician that inspector was strict. Having the romex there and stapled and grounds rounds and all those others things but usually the wiring I’ve at least seen in my area we do all the actual landing after inspection
Great job guy’s!!!!! Keep up the heart work.God bless and thanks for sharing.☺️☺️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It has to feel so great to be done with the insulation
Whenever you are wiring outlets, leave some slack wire in the wall cavity (“rabbit ears”)so that if you ever need to rewire it you don’t have to pull a whole new run, you can just use a bit of the slack. Will save you a heap of work sometime in the future.
A robotic snow blower! Great idea. Send one to Jeremy Renner when they're done. Great family - by the way. Great workers. Doesn't seem to be a complainer in the bunch. And not a bad word about the inspectors!
a pair or two of Linemans plyers would do a better job than long nose or multi tools for twisting your grounds before adding the wire nuts
Wow...cool getting to the most wonderful moment...💫💯
Learning by doing it. It looks like about to finish. Keep warm🤗 and what a great team work.
To make your own Wire Twisting tool bit for your drill, take a large rounded head bolt and drill two medium sized holes in the head of the bolt using a vice. Put the bolt in your drill and lace the wires through the holes and twist away!
The laugh Jules made with the "J" comment 🤣
I just used the R23 Thermafiber for my bedroom. I had to fur out the 2x4 walls to 2x6 too. I also used a 1 inch R6 radiant barrier on the outside. Now I'll be ready for those few days it freezes in south Texas 😁
Insulation is no fun. Marty you are a brave one on that ladder. You all made some great progress. Almost drywall time. Yay. Time to get the red lipstick out.
Thanks for sharing. Take care, see ya :)
You could make that spot under the stairs for the dogs and cats to sleep I have actually done it to few homes now.
Jim Jamieson in the uk all earth wires have to be sheathed with green/yellow pvc sheathing to prevent shorting to the supply conductors why does this not happen in the US
Good afternoon & God bless you all
oh sorry for a 2nd commet. but you need to insulate your inside walls also. because like me i HATE the cold but my old lady loves the cold. and i can take and heat or cool any one room and not effect any other room. the only regret i have is not building 6 inch outer walls. but at the time i couldn't afford it. and really needed to get into the new house
Great job! Looking really good. You are all working so hard.
So much progress !!! Looking good !!!
Ideal makes a screwdriver where the back of the handle has a opening for the wire nut to go in and you spin the wire nut on
You made a lot progress. Enjoy the heat in there. Keep warm. Love your videos.
Not sure if electrical codes are different in Idaho then the rest of the nation but most of the circuits that serve habitable spaces in a dwelling unit need to have afci protection. The only exception is the 20a circuit that feeds your bathroom outlets.
A suggestion on the insulation: They make wire that you push through from one side to the other just a bit larger than the space between the studs. That will keep the insulation from sagging over time. With staples only it will eventually pull away and you will get a void at the top.
Nice job on your Panel, Marty... better than most electricians I know. I did the same things when I did my rewire. My electrician buddies tell me I do amazing work but I'd go broke if I did it for a living. I wonder what the reasoning is on having an outlet within 6 feet of a stairwell??
You both will be cool grandparents. I have six grandchildren. Three boy and three girls.
u get a more reliable connection if you grip all the wires at the end with stub nosed plyers and twist together tight, then snip off the tip for a nice clean end, THEN put the wire nut on. if you put loose wires into a wire nut then twist sometimes one of the wires might not be in there properly and you wont know.
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Hi guy's looking great a lot of hard work but your getting done team work. X
Wow I need to look into those ecoflow solutions. I'm getting a barn and will turn it into a house.
No trespassing signs work for government officials to if you didn't know that and you can also get paid
Wishing you a great day too!
even if it not required I think normally you handle the white an black wires in te same way as the ground. If you get a problem in the outlet the rest will still work. // Börje
Blessings Bro. Marty I commend you and your wife on the fabulous work you have accomplished.
I would suggest that you add a diesel heater to your energy grid shed and to the garage. You could use a recycle oil heater also set it for 40 degrees and it will keep those areas warner than freezing and you will not have to worthy about both you batteries nor having water freeze going through your waste pipes if you put one of these heaters in your basement /crawl space it would help to not need so much wood because many of the spaces would be somewhat conditioned... You could also consider a boiler to warm the floors since heat rises.
Again I truly think your family is doing such a wonderful job on your homestead!
Set an example to your viewers "Wear safety glasses and wear a mask".
Great job done by all! House should be warmer now. Looking forward to next video.
You are not Martin Johnson.
I’d run your exhaust fan in rigid pipe with insulation since it’s going to pull warm moist air through the cold attic space, you could get condensation on the outside of it dripping through your drywall
Get the green wire nuts designed for laeving a pigtail out for the grounds.
my electrical i got lucky on because my box is on the back wall almost in the middle of the of the house. so everything to the right of the box went on the right side and same with the left. so if i though a breaker in my room i know its on the left side of the box. and it goes from the back to the front so if one trips in my bath room i know its top left and my bedroom its bottom left. except my Generator its the bottom right because of the safety cut off. we have to have here in Texas. you guys have this coming along great keep up the good work
Great video, love the time lapse.
Hello, lama tidak menonton mba Sarah aktif kembali di youtube. Thank's you pa Marten.
Looking great y'all 👍🤗❤
I recommend checking the insulation with a thermal imager. If you will check it out, I hope you video it.
I'm curious about your dog Tux and the 2 cats. Which did you have first ? Dogs and cats are known to "not get along" and I was wondering, how did you get them to live together so peacefully ?
I should tell you before you use insulation if you put baby powder or talcum powder on your hands, arms and face you will not itch later and if you have a shower after the fibers will just wash off , works for me and I've been doing this for 30 + years on every house I've renovated . Tell Julie the wingnut tool sometimes comes with the wingnuts when you buy a mass amount of wingnuts (check before you buy ) love the video nice to see Sarah again and I didn't forget about (muscles Seth) ha ha
That is going to be one super house, if you ever stop expanding it 🤣🤣
Can you share the book you used to guide you in wiring your house?
Really coming along well guys! I know Jules has the pink insulation up at this point, but you are missing a big opportunity. Get spray foam and use it to insulate the back of all of the exterior wall junction boxes. It makes a giant improvement.
you know they make a special wire nut for the ground that has a hole in the end you run one wire through "longer and then stick the cut ones in and twist them together along with the long Pigtail.
I have gotten to like the through wire green wire nuts for the ground pig tails.
9:47 Nice! Since you are ‘in’ with Ecoflow, you could pass two requests:
Make the wheels on Delta Pro a bit larger so they can actually be used on a fine gravel, and lose the annoying ‘you have to login and provide your email’ feature on the remote control app. It completely defeats the purpose of a power station in an off grid location.
Love the video, hopefully it willhelp me avoid mistakes in my electrical system.
Twist your your wire first with your pliers then put on your wire nut if you get the green wire nuts with the hole in in the center you leave one ground long and in cert that long one through the hole that’s your pig tail sometimes when you do it the way your doing it the pigtails come lose or not as tight then that’s a problem
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Amazing job you guys! I've been following you for years and love how much you've accomplished. Quick question. Did you wire that great room ceiling for lights and fans or plan out what kind and how many lights there will be? I didn't see very many outlet boxes ran across the ceiling. Didn't want you to start drywall and then think about that after the fact lol. God Bless and stay warm.
Y'all are doing a very good job on the house when can me and my wife move in I have not got a time from y'all on moving in ...... lol..... keep up all the great work ......
You should be wearing an n95 mask. No good for C19, but great for dust and fiberglass fibers.
With your wiring at 8:33, it would be a good idea to nail metal face-plates on every stud to protect that wiring. People will forget over time and decide to hang a picture at the level of those wires.
Thanks for mentioning CES. I'll try to visit next years showing.
Excellent job on the insulation. In the northern central valley of California, we've had unusual cold weather with three nights below 30 degrees.
Hi all, lovin the progress. How dare the inspector fail your work, Did you let Jules loose on him/Her. Insulation work is wonder and fulfilling because you can see from a distance what's done. Marty, remember when you get snow we get the tail end of it a week later, so no so much wishing for snow if you don't mind thanks. Later 👍
Great progress.
I'm getting worried ya'll. Toooo long since Marty checked in!
What up?
Just wondering why there appears to be gaps in the exterior wall sheathing to the right of the old kitchen window?