OK, every time I see a Skillshare ad (or any stupid ad like this), you will get my Dislike button instantly ... sorry for that .. of course, nothing personal here... I understand what you're doing here, but don't expect me to like/support this .. I'm sorry for that ..
Al; You should cap off all of those risers you have coming up through the floor . Rain and dirt can plug up open pipes, also critters can get in them too. Also when assembling PVC pipe with glue apply a quarter turn when inserting glue joints together. This will insure proper seal and assembly of pipe easier and better.
@@JohnSmith-dj1gy Gina is one of the nicest people on RUclips!! You must be miserable if you find someone like her annoying🤔. And how many buildings have you constructed compared to Al?? 😂
Gooood morning. From Chicago. You guys are strong to show your building work. So many others chiming in with their improvements from the couch while you do the actual work. Thanks for letting us ride along anyway.
So happy to hear you are going for the radiant heating. It may be a little more costly to put in but oh so cozy when you have nice warm floors in the winter. I guess Olivia started back to school today, tell her I hope she has a great year. Y'all have a Blessed day.
You should add 3 times the anchor pipes (nail rods) on the frames so the concrete weight doesn't blow out the frames. I was taught you can never have enough!
Good morning Al, Gina, and Lumnah friends. Love to see progress continuing on the 'Lumnah OGP' and installing the plumbing for your house should be coming very soon. Thanks Al and Gina for all the hard work and hours that you put into these fine video's and for taking us along on your off-grid journey. I hope everyone has a great week!
It must make you feel good to look around at the green valley and know your hard work and planning is working. Omg those meals are delicious. Thank you.
Form up the pad for the boiler in case you have left over concrete. You can pour it now or just put the left over in so as not to waste and pour it later.
Hello there Lumnah family..Al Gina Olivia hope you're all doing wonderful...I am happily following you along n enjoying your tiny house build..It's definately a lot of work but i guess for you Al with Gina's help a worthy labour of love..Keep on doing great i know it will be a amazing!💥✌🏼💞💯🙂🏠
Good morning Lumnah's! Good thinking to dig down all plumbing as much as you can now. You will save both time and effort later on. I notice that you have a lot of rocks in the ground. Get a couple of Gabion baskets and place them as a property border. Put the rocks in the gabions and Gina gets a very nice rock border over time. You can stack the gabions if you want a higher border "fence".
Hey Al, some people want to pick on you about not twisting the pvc pipe and/or not working to a blueprint. I want to pick on you (in fun) about your clock in the outdoor kitchen. It needs new batteries. It's been 7:25 for a long time now. Love your channel.
I'm always amazed at what you two accomplish! Another project in the books and on to the next one. I'm interested to see the well get dug. I'm curious, with all the water on the property, how deep you'll have to go and whether the water is potable or needs heavy filtration. We have the most amazing God-given spring that feeds our house and has done so for over 100 years. May God continue to bless all y'all with abundance and grace.
Crete Heat Floor Heat System. Really neat system. They work with customer to do a layout design. Minimizes waste and gets you the most efficient heating usage. If you do have codes where your building. Please have some one look at and approve what your doing.
I'm so glad that you're gonna put a wood boiler they work so well they will heat your house your barn everything that's a great idea I use a century boiler and I have a 1900 ft² home and a 4000 ft² barn and the heats at both
A trick I learned years ago, if you line up the markings on your PVC on the same plane. It will help you make sure all of your unions, Tees and Wye pipes will be horizontal and vertical. And your able to clock them as slope is needed. I hope this makes sense.
Simply take a 3 foot grade stakes nail the form to it, if it is to high drive the stake down while attached to the form, if it is to low, pull the nail raise up the form, renail, check it again, always driving the stakes down to set grade, those grade stakes need to in the ground strong, and there need to be a bunch of them to hold concrete in place...
Be careful working in those sheer walled trenches with close spoil piles Al. Especially anything over waist deep. Those walls can fall away and before you know it you have a thousand pounds of dirt on top of you. When your working on a timeline you can't afford to get injured, or worse.
I'm glad somebody else said that I just went to their Instagram pages and sent photos of him kneeling down in the bottom of that trench with a wall of dirt above his head terrifying I've watched it happened before in Florida where the ground is much softer there of course but it's still can happen and that scared me to death
Great engineering Job, but you missed the p- traps to prevent bad smell and vent pipe to prevent clogging, also don't forget to conduct the leak test for the drainage system before pouring the concrete.
Being a plumber for 48 years, I am surprised that you didn’t have to leave the trenches open for the inspector to see. Also, it would have been good to plug the main and fill with water above the floor level. Pulling strings to show wall layout is also a great idea when roughing in the slab. Always use temporary caps on the stub outs. Did you provide a trap for the floor drain?
What kind of roof are you using on the tiny house? Have you looked into a gambrel roof (barn style)? It would give you a slot more usable space on the second floor. Since this is going to end up being a utility building anyway. What happened to the shipping container/cabin? Did you stop working on it/change to the tiny house?
I suggest greasing the pins on your excavator. I can here the bucket sneaking when you use it. Grease much cheaper and easier than pins and bushings being replaced. Tractor loader also. Doing a great job.
Suggestv that you put rope out whatever you plav on pulling water line with in now especially for future house making turn in why may prove difficult is not alreadin place A man hole at junctions would be better for potential service work
Rick you're wasting your time trying to give him advice he doesn't even know how to grease his equipment and when you have a squeak at means it's your dry
@@katesisco , It is odd how the government can do illegal things but you as a citizen can not. And have you noticed ? It is the Democrat government agencies that are allowed to do the illegal things .
@@donaldmiller8629 Yeah, Republicans are really nice people that dont think of themselves. Everything they do is like god giving and they don't sin or evil, In fact they hate money too! Money you have and they dont
also, if you have radiant heating in the floor you will have to BUST it all up, when you realize the plumbing is wrong. just trying to help. get an INSPECTION!
I have noticed Al only responds to positive comments. But the most helpful comments are the critiques. This project will certainly have it's challenges in the future.
hats off to the partnership at build the new homestead. love to see working side by side with each other, keep up the good work to you and the wife. job well done.
@@tomvoyt3522 It's pretty obvious that you don't like ANYTHING about this channel. You just spew out negativity about EVERYTHING in every video, eventhough it makes you look ignorant, arrogant, and downright foolish! This negative behavior will not change the misery in your life. Try getting off YT and work hard to find your happy life.
@@DukeOOO Yes, Duke, we know that you are just another unhappy person! You don't have to keep proving it by posting repetitive comments. Lol...go find some happiness, life is short!
Al, you said that you were installing radiant heat in the floor. Have you purchased the foam insulation or the product to hold the radiant lines while the slab is poured, and if so was the added thickness of the foam calculated into the slab thickness? I also asked on the other video if your building code allowed building direct on a flat slab or if you needed to do a monolithic pour where the outer 2 feet of the slab is greatly thicker than the rest of the slab. Please check your building codes (and inspector) before possibly having to cut the slab and trench for a footer. It's a whole lot easier before the pour.
I think he should have pressure tested waste pipes before backfill. Priming pipes as you join them is important. If a pipe leaks its easy to find and fix while it's in the air.
@@ronaldfleming2990 The line that Al spent all the time on I believe is nothing but a conduit for other lines. I’ll have to go back and watch again. Yes, it’s important to use primer as it softens the PVC so that the cement can melt the joint together. The same thing for rotating the connection while wet. I didn’t see the video on the drain line prep and installation. That one will be a bear to repair after the fact if it leaks.
My question kinda pertains to your question as well. Like if the slab is not poured monolithic style, wouldn't it require footings? All I see is a flat slab of concrete on top of sand... I'm sure rebar will reinforce the concrete but I have never seen a slab without footings.
@@steverobinson4199 When I built my shop 5 years ago, the building department inquired if I was going with footers or the monolithic pour. Since my ground is loaded with limestone, I chose the monolithic pour. In my area, the outer 2 foot of the pour had to be 2 feet thick and 2 feet wide. The building inspector came out the day before concrete was poured to verify. My frost line is only 32 inches deep, so the 2X2 footprint is all I was required to do. Building on a slab, pouring on foam insulation and having the weight of a second level doesn’t sound correct. IMO, Al should contact the building inspectors office and inquire while the corrections are easy. Having to dig along the slab to install a footer won’t be easy, or fast.
Your recent videos have been extremely honest in showing how much effort it takes to build a solid house. It is certainly not just something everyone can do.
@@colinstace1758 Not sure he takes the courses he says he does. Without a job he needs to do the RUclips thing, not sure he is the one responding to comments, probably has a moderator.
Hi guys in the UK when we burry things like electric cables we have to put tape saying electric or sometime a clay tile saying electric about a foot above so working with a machine you know you are within a foot so you can hand dig the rest of the way the same could be done for water pipes takes the guess work out.
Yeah I'm a plumber in Michigan and I was watching you put that last section of pipe in the other day and you put your y backwards you got to put it direction or flow
What do you think about the water line being 4 foot deep, but the sewer and drain lines in the last video were just run outside of the forms less than one foot deep?
Nice job. I am wondering, are you going to insulate the floor? In Sweden we always do that specially when we put in floorheating. There is a special thick sheet you put in the ground under the concrete. I have never seen it done in american buildings. Is that something you do?
Al, for properly measuring the riser at 17:00 you need a plumb bob! For a very basic plumb bob (especially when you only need a vertical line) just tie a nut (a 25-30mm nut should do just fine) to a piece of string. Et voilà, you got yourself a plumb bob! And now you can properly measure the set-back from the [future] edge of your slab.
We had a 4” pie for well pipe. Mice use it as entrance to cabin. Have idea cap 4” pipe when you what to put a pipe in it use a circle hole saw size of pipe to make Entrance for the pipe you’re putting into 4 inch
Yeah Gina, I use cornflakes on my chicken. First season flour put on chicken then egg, then cornflakes. Either bake, deep fry, or air fry. Chicken stays moist.
I remember back in the 70's we used to roll cut potato pieces in butter then in corn flake crumbs and bake. I guess that was the beginning of potato tots. hahaha.
I've installed pull lines in conduit being done before. We did it for networking cables, etc. rather than water, but there should be no difference other than sizes. We always install the pull line WHILE constructing the conduit. Start at one end, leave the roll there and as each piece is added you first pull the line through a bit more, slide the conduit over the line and continue on. It would seem to me that it will be difficult to push a pull line later through hundreds of feet of conduit...
the last part of your video ( from before this one) the pipes were placed in wrong . it needed to be 1 degree on a slope, you also used corner T fittings which will have issues with less solid flowing threw the tubes. go back and watch it to understand .. have not watched today's so far.. will catch it later
Goooooood Afternoon Al , Gina & Olivia , Not much to say today. Except to say that the little excavator is just the cat's meow. Opps , I do have something to say. Al , you need to place some caps upon the above ground pipe ends to keep out dirt , debris and critters. And you need to do it now . Otherwise you will be trying to do pipe clean out in the future. I have learned the hard way. Just slide the caps on. They do not need to be glued on. I had to get a dead cat out one time. Not easy.
I'm not an excavator operator so correct me if needed. Seems to me when trenching all the dirt should be piled on the same side of the trench, not both sides as he is doing. Backfilling will more time consuming crisscrossing back and forth with dirt piles on either side.
do yourself a favor and cap all of your PVC lines. They will fill with dirt and water and creating a real problem for you when you get ready to pull lines and wires through them. Great job on what you do. I enjoy all of your videos.
You can really see how much your skills with the excavator have improved. Much more fluid movements with the arm. Just need to work on articulating the swing of the arm for small movements instead of turning the entire cab.
Another nice build day at the OGP. It seems that much thought has been done in the planning. This is a very enjoyable series, keep up the good work. Thank you for sharing with us.
Plug or tape all pipes above ground to keep them dry and dirt free. Havnt yet drilled for a water well yet and once u do u will have to trench again to run the water line underground below frost level to your home again moving the wood form. Hopefully when they drill for water they find it im the same spot not all.spots produce keep that in mind. Good luck God bless be safe. Jim
🙋♀️ Good morning. The experience your gaining is incredible! It's really coming along. 🙌🙌 Gina good job. 🙌🙌 Your meal prep makes me hungry. The cod looks delicious. Be well and God bless you. 🙌🙌☝️🙏👍👍
I only saw pipes being wetted with the bonding agents and twisted when inserted, but thought that was only a duct into which the working pipes or possible power might be pulled, however I did not see any pull ropes being added.
@@petesmith8362 Hi Pete I would like to thank you for sharing your positive thoughts on there mission to do plumbing. Why don't you share your knowledge with them to do it "PETE'S" way. 🚽🪠🛁
You should get yourself a grading bucket for the excavator. You will find it very helpful with some of the projects. Much better than a digging bucket at times and quicker, especially when back filling and grading.
It's great to see how Gina has progressed when she first started screwing stuff together she was very hesitant. Stop start with the drill until eventually it was done. Now, she is so confident. And the screw goes in as if it were you doing it Al. Gina,all you need to succeed is belief in yourself that you can do it, and it helps if you have a husband you can trust to support you as well. And should all that happen you would mAke an awesome camera woman ☺
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You have the land for a ground source heating system, worth checking out they are extremely energy efficient and zero labour to run.
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Al; You should cap off all of those risers you have coming up through the floor . Rain and dirt can plug up open pipes, also critters can get in them too. Also when assembling PVC pipe with glue apply a quarter turn when inserting glue joints together. This will insure proper seal and assembly of pipe easier and better.
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At it’s best.
Gina is sooooooooo friggggin ANNOYING!!!!!!
@@JohnSmith-dj1gy Gina is one of the nicest people on RUclips!! You must be miserable if you find someone like her annoying🤔. And how many buildings have you constructed compared to Al?? 😂
@@JohnSmith-dj1gy get a grip your named after a drought beer
Love that you instill quality values to your daughter by having a family meal that begins with a prayer. Take care and God bless.
Gooood morning. From Chicago. You guys are strong to show your building work. So many others chiming in with their improvements from the couch while you do the actual work. Thanks for letting us ride along anyway.
Awesome Work!!! There is so much to do before the slab is poured!!! God Bless and have a Wonderful Week!! 😀⚘❤
I love the fact that Gina is not afraid of hands on helping Al! And she cooks! 👍🏼
I love fast forward!
So happy to hear you are going for the radiant heating. It may be a little more costly to put in but oh so cozy when you have nice warm floors in the winter. I guess Olivia started back to school today, tell her I hope she has a great year. Y'all have a Blessed day.
You should add 3 times the anchor pipes (nail rods) on the frames so the concrete weight doesn't blow out the frames. I was taught you can never have enough!
Don't forget the footer for the slab.
That's what I was thinking. Seems like all that sand will just wash way from under the slab.
Good morning Al, Gina, and Lumnah friends. Love to see progress continuing on the 'Lumnah OGP' and installing the plumbing for your house should be coming very soon. Thanks Al and Gina for all the hard work and hours that you put into these fine video's and for taking us along on your off-grid journey. I hope everyone has a great week!
/Wave, Goor Mornin'
Good morning David! 😃🐶👋🏾
Hey David! ☕️
Gooooood Morning
@@gerscollard1497 good morning Ger 👍🏻👏🏻
It must make you feel good to look around at the green valley and know your hard work and planning is working. Omg those meals are delicious. Thank you.
Form up the pad for the boiler in case you have left over concrete. You can pour it now or just put the left over in so as not to waste and pour it later.
I enjoy watching the progress on the property. Tons of work in this video when you build it yourself. Great job Al and Gina. ❤
Beautiful couple it’s wonderful your wife helping you ❤️♥️🌹🙏🙏
AL, if i were you i would get that plumbing inspected before you bury it in cement! some things were just not right.
Agreed, cap off the pipes. You are doing a fantastic job here!
Good morning ! 👨🌾🇮🇪. Tuesday coffee club ☕️☕️☕️☕️ hope a productive week for all
Gooooood Morning Ireland 🇮🇪
Howdy Ger! May you have a productive happy healthy fun week as well! 🖖
Morning Ger!
@@teresahyneman4349 hey Teresa
Hello there Lumnah family..Al Gina Olivia hope you're all doing wonderful...I am happily following you along n enjoying your tiny house build..It's definately a lot of work but i guess for you Al with Gina's help a worthy labour of love..Keep on doing great i know it will be a amazing!💥✌🏼💞💯🙂🏠
Good morning Lumnah's! Good thinking to dig down all plumbing as much as you can now. You will save both time and effort later on.
I notice that you have a lot of rocks in the ground. Get a couple of Gabion baskets and place them as a property border. Put the rocks in the gabions and Gina gets a very nice rock border over time. You can stack the gabions if you want a higher border "fence".
www.google.com/search?q=Gabion+baskets&tbm=isch
Hey Al, some people want to pick on you about not twisting the pvc pipe and/or not working to a blueprint. I want to pick on you (in fun) about your clock in the outdoor kitchen. It needs new batteries. It's been 7:25 for a long time now. Love your channel.
Bob zoblisein : Hi Bob I look at that clock every time he is in the outdoor kitchen and laugh at the time it doesn't change 😄
He's just very punctual at what time he does his video re-caps! haha
That clock is accurate twice a day!
@@dalet6250 Very true, right down to the second. I'm not pickin', just having fun with this!
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Both of your are very inspiring. Reminds me of time with my dad when I was a kid building his own workshop
I'm always amazed at what you two accomplish! Another project in the books and on to the next one. I'm interested to see the well get dug. I'm curious, with all the water on the property, how deep you'll have to go and whether the water is potable or needs heavy filtration. We have the most amazing God-given spring that feeds our house and has done so for over 100 years. May God continue to bless all y'all with abundance and grace.
Crete Heat Floor Heat System. Really neat system. They work with customer to do a layout design. Minimizes waste and gets you the most efficient heating usage. If you do have codes where your building. Please have some one look at and approve what your doing.
I'm so glad that you're gonna put a wood boiler they work so well they will heat your house your barn everything that's a great idea I use a century boiler and I have a 1900 ft² home and a 4000 ft² barn and the heats at both
A trick I learned years ago, if you line up the markings on your PVC on the same plane. It will help you make sure all of your unions, Tees and Wye pipes will be horizontal and vertical. And your able to clock them as slope is needed. I hope this makes sense.
Yes it does. A very good idea! Someone mentioned it in the previous episode. Hopefully someone will get the memo so it can help in time.
Simply take a 3 foot grade stakes nail the form to it, if it is to high drive the stake down while attached to the form, if it is to low, pull the nail raise up the form, renail, check it again, always driving the stakes down to set grade, those grade stakes need to in the ground strong, and there need to be a bunch of them to hold concrete in place...
Be careful working in those sheer walled trenches with close spoil piles Al. Especially anything over waist deep. Those walls can fall away and before you know it you have a thousand pounds of dirt on top of you. When your working on a timeline you can't afford to get injured, or worse.
I'm glad somebody else said that I just went to their Instagram pages and sent photos of him kneeling down in the bottom of that trench with a wall of dirt above his head terrifying I've watched it happened before in Florida where the ground is much softer there of course but it's still can happen and that scared me to death
Your videos are so instructive. If I were 30 years younger, I would be building my own home just by watching you and Gina.
Gooood evening Al, Gina and Olivia, I hope your Holiday weekend was a good one!!
Good evening G
@@annettegregg8654 Good evening Annette
It was hope yours was too!
Good morning Mr G 🌆
Howdy Mr. G!
Great engineering Job, but you missed the p- traps to prevent bad smell and vent pipe to prevent clogging, also don't forget to conduct the leak test for the drainage system before pouring the concrete.
Good Evening Everybody from Enniskillen, Ireland.
Evening Ireland!
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Good morning Tony 🌅
Howdy Earl Grimes!
TONY! Good morning to ya! Hope you're having a wonderful morning and at least a second cup of coffee!!
Many fine....Blessing for u'all.....Gods peace brother...!
Being a plumber for 48 years, I am surprised that you didn’t have to leave the trenches open for the inspector to see. Also, it would have been good to plug the main and fill with water above the floor level. Pulling strings to show wall layout is also a great idea when roughing in the slab. Always use temporary caps on the stub outs. Did you provide a trap for the floor drain?
Probably not, he also had a fitting in backwards from the last video
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Go back and check if he put a trap in on the last video.
What kind of roof are you using on the tiny house? Have you looked into a gambrel roof (barn style)? It would give you a slot more usable space on the second floor. Since this is going to end up being a utility building anyway. What happened to the shipping container/cabin? Did you stop working on it/change to the tiny house?
I suggest greasing the pins on your excavator. I can here the bucket sneaking when you use it. Grease much cheaper and easier than pins and bushings being replaced. Tractor loader also. Doing a great job.
Preventative maintenance is key to long-life with tools! Oil changes, greasing, filter changes... I'm in total agreement with you!
Al, maybe k missed it but I didn't see you put in any clean outs or vents in your tiny house plumbing layout.
Why do you always park 20 or 30 or even 50 feet away and carry your supplies to where you are putting them. You had a good driveway to back up on..
I notice that every time 😠😠
Just to say you are doing a great job providing a lovely house for your family looking forward to watching it all the best stay safe 😃😃😃👍
Good evening from Wexford Ireland 🇮🇪
Good Evening Annette.
@@tonygrimes13
Good evening Tony
Good evening Annette
Goooood evening Annette
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You and Gina are a great team! God bless your family!
Good Tuesday morning! I was wondering if we could get an update on Hopes babies and the piggies!
Howdy Connie!
@@samvalentine3206 Good morning.
Suggestv that you put rope out whatever you plav on pulling water line with in now especially for future house making turn in why may prove difficult is not alreadin place
A man hole at junctions would be better for potential service work
Good morning Lumnahs and friends.
Good morning Lisa 🌅
Gooooood Morning
@@LumnahAcres morning Al, Gina, Olivia and babies. Hagd!
@@Heisstrong morning.
@@lisabevans8107 👍🏻👏🏻
Preplanning is a very smart move.
This is why blueprints are a must! You would have installed this system and not digging up what you’ve already done! I always hated double work!!
Al clearly likes work, even double work.........😊😊😊
@@katesisco ~ Wow, Kathleen; you've certainly been through it. I hope the future ahead is much brighter.
Rick you're wasting your time trying to give him advice he doesn't even know how to grease his equipment and when you have a squeak at means it's your dry
@@katesisco ,
It is odd how the government can do illegal things but you as a citizen can not. And have you noticed ? It is the Democrat government agencies that are allowed to do the illegal things .
@@donaldmiller8629 Yeah, Republicans are really nice people that dont think of themselves. Everything they do is like god giving and they don't sin or evil, In fact they hate money too! Money you have and they dont
Sharp looking co. Attire Al. Prettiest helper too!
also, if you have radiant heating in the floor you will have to BUST it all up, when you realize the plumbing is wrong. just trying to help. get an INSPECTION!
I have noticed Al only responds to positive comments. But the most helpful comments are the critiques. This project will certainly have it's challenges in the future.
@@wam1952 right. I’m just trying to help. Save time and money
He only responds to "good morning from xyz" never to constructive criticism, personally I think Olivia does the answering to comments 👍🙂🇦🇺
@@colinstace1758 lol
hats off to the partnership at build the new homestead. love to see working side by side with each other, keep up the good work to you and the wife. job well done.
I miss watching the animals while y'all do the chores. Hope thay are all doing great!!
I don't
@@tomvoyt3522 It's pretty obvious that you don't like ANYTHING about this channel. You just spew out negativity about EVERYTHING in every video, eventhough it makes you look ignorant, arrogant, and downright foolish! This negative behavior will not change the misery in your life. Try getting off YT and work hard to find your happy life.
@@darlaherbst5929 stifle
@@DukeOOO Yes, Duke, we know that you are just another unhappy person! You don't have to keep proving it by posting repetitive comments. Lol...go find some happiness, life is short!
Did you remember a buried line for electricity between the two houses? And sewer and water and Data? You don't want wires spoiling the view.
Al, you said that you were installing radiant heat in the floor. Have you purchased the foam insulation or the product to hold the radiant lines while the slab is poured, and if so was the added thickness of the foam calculated into the slab thickness? I also asked on the other video if your building code allowed building direct on a flat slab or if you needed to do a monolithic pour where the outer 2 feet of the slab is greatly thicker than the rest of the slab.
Please check your building codes (and inspector) before possibly having to cut the slab and trench for a footer. It's a whole lot easier before the pour.
I think he should have pressure tested waste pipes before backfill. Priming pipes as you join them is important. If a pipe leaks its easy to find and fix while it's in the air.
@@ronaldfleming2990
The line that Al spent all the time on I believe is nothing but a conduit for other lines. I’ll have to go back and watch again.
Yes, it’s important to use primer as it softens the PVC so that the cement can melt the joint together. The same thing for rotating the connection while wet.
I didn’t see the video on the drain line prep and installation. That one will be a bear to repair after the fact if it leaks.
@@ronaldfleming2990
I too wondered about leaks.
My question kinda pertains to your question as well. Like if the slab is not poured monolithic style, wouldn't it require footings? All I see is a flat slab of concrete on top of sand... I'm sure rebar will reinforce the concrete but I have never seen a slab without footings.
@@steverobinson4199
When I built my shop 5 years ago, the building department inquired if I was going with footers or the monolithic pour. Since my ground is loaded with limestone, I chose the monolithic pour.
In my area, the outer 2 foot of the pour had to be 2 feet thick and 2 feet wide. The building inspector came out the day before concrete was poured to verify.
My frost line is only 32 inches deep, so the 2X2 footprint is all I was required to do.
Building on a slab, pouring on foam insulation and having the weight of a second level doesn’t sound correct.
IMO, Al should contact the building inspectors office and inquire while the corrections are easy. Having to dig along the slab to install a footer won’t be easy, or fast.
Good Tuesday morning Lumnah family and friends from NE Mississippi! Hope everyone is having a wonderful week!
Howdy Teresa! Wishing you a fabulous week as well!
Good morning Teresa! Have a great day!
@@samvalentine3206 Hiya Sam, thank you.
@@daviddavis703 Good morning David!
Your recent videos have been extremely honest in showing how much effort it takes to build a solid house. It is certainly not just something everyone can do.
He makes it look harder than it is, he's got a lot to learn 🙂👍
Agreed. Also, one should not acquire all their information from the internet.
@@showmemo3686 the internet is a good place to expand your knowledge but you have to watch a lot of clips, I do both 👍🙂🇺🇲🇦🇺
yes Al and Gina, some times it feels like you are taking 2 steps ahead an one step back, but you will get there anyway 👍👍😉😁
Good morning Lumnah Acres will you be adding a drain in your wash room just incase it were to ever leak in there...
Awesome progress!!!!!! Moving right along ! Very nice.
I dont know why it is, but it is a blessing for me to hear y'all pray over your meal.
Maybe her cooking needs the lords help ?
🤣🤣
Did you fix your floor drain and the backward y in your kitchen.
I bet that Skilshare offers a blueprint drawing and reading a blueprint course!
He needs to take the plumbing and draining course
@@colinstace1758 Not sure he takes the courses he says he does. Without a job he needs to do the RUclips thing, not sure he is the one responding to comments, probably has a moderator.
@@wam1952 all replies are very impersonal
Cheap shot
I wonder if they offer anything on manners or kindness.
I just though that when Iworked PVC we did a 1/4 turn then locked the glue.
I see this a lot when running conduit for future pulls put your pull rope in the conduit as you assemble it, will save you a ton messing around later
That makes a lot of sense.
Seems easier to blow the pull line through the pipe once it's all done than to try to run it through each piece now.
@@madsciencegary3830 yes, I have seen this on red poppy ranch. He uses a vaccume.
@@patchurch1677 ~ I think Al used a vacuum when pulling lines through the conduit in his Jamaica Cottage barn build.
Hi guys in the UK when we burry things like electric cables we have to put tape saying electric or sometime a clay tile saying electric about a foot above so working with a machine you know you are within a foot so you can hand dig the rest of the way the same could be done for water pipes takes the guess work out.
Good morning everyone From AZ...
Gooooood Morning
Good morning Cocoadiva 🌅
@@LumnahAcres ..Good 🌄
@@Heisstrong ..
Good 🌄...
@@cocoadivamgold1371 I hope all is well
Yeah I'm a plumber in Michigan and I was watching you put that last section of pipe in the other day and you put your y backwards you got to put it direction or flow
What do you think about the water line being 4 foot deep, but the sewer and drain lines in the last video were just run outside of the forms less than one foot deep?
Good morning, guys! If this house is tiny, your big house'll be a palace!! Well, you deserve it! 🙂👍
😆 this one isn’t that big once we start building you’ll see.
Howdy Rachel!
@@samvalentine3206 Hi there! 🖐😀
Cute that you match 😋 Fun to watch your progress.
Nice job.
I am wondering, are you going to insulate the floor? In Sweden we always do that specially when we put in floorheating. There is a special thick sheet you put in the ground under the concrete. I have never seen it done in american buildings. Is that something you do?
He mentioned in an earlier video that there will be foam board under the slab.
Al, for properly measuring the riser at 17:00 you need a plumb bob!
For a very basic plumb bob (especially when you only need a vertical line) just tie a nut (a 25-30mm nut should do just fine) to a piece of string. Et voilà, you got yourself a plumb bob! And now you can properly measure the set-back from the [future] edge of your slab.
Good Morning Lumnah Family! The new tiny house is starting to take shape!
We had a 4” pie for well pipe. Mice use it as entrance to cabin. Have idea cap 4” pipe when you what to put a pipe in it use a circle hole saw size of pipe to make Entrance for the pipe you’re putting into 4 inch
If you had Rototilt on your excavator, it would have been easier to dig.
Gina .. you're pretty good with the two handed hammering on stakes.
Yeah Gina, I use cornflakes on my chicken. First season flour put on chicken then egg, then cornflakes. Either bake, deep fry, or air fry. Chicken stays moist.
I remember back in the 70's we used to roll cut potato pieces in butter then in corn flake crumbs and bake. I guess that was the beginning of potato tots. hahaha.
I've installed pull lines in conduit being done before. We did it for networking cables, etc. rather than water, but there should be no difference other than sizes. We always install the pull line WHILE constructing the conduit. Start at one end, leave the roll there and as each piece is added you first pull the line through a bit more, slide the conduit over the line and continue on. It would seem to me that it will be difficult to push a pull line later through hundreds of feet of conduit...
Light string and a leaf blower 👍🙂🇦🇺
Good Morning from Texas!! I am past the point of knowing what you are doing on Do Over Acres, but I trust you know the plan.
Al I think you need to put some grease on them bucket pins
the last part of your video ( from before this one) the pipes were placed in wrong . it needed to be 1 degree on a slope, you also used corner T fittings which will have issues with less solid flowing threw the tubes. go back and watch it to understand .. have not watched today's so far.. will catch it later
Goooooood Afternoon Al , Gina & Olivia ,
Not much to say today. Except to say that the little excavator is just the cat's meow. Opps , I do have something to say. Al , you need to place some caps upon the above ground pipe ends to keep out dirt , debris and critters. And you need to do it now . Otherwise you will be trying to do pipe clean out in the future. I have learned the hard way. Just slide the caps on. They do not need to be glued on. I had to get a dead cat out one time. Not easy.
Good morning!
Gooooood Morning Michigan
Howdy Kevin!
@@samvalentine3206 Hi Sam!
Good morning michigan from s.e. michigan
@@evalinawarne1337 good morning!
I'm not an excavator operator so correct me if needed. Seems to me when trenching all the dirt should be piled on the same side of the trench, not both sides as he is doing. Backfilling will more time consuming crisscrossing back and forth with dirt piles on either side.
Good morning everyone from Barbados
Gooooood Morning Barbados 🇧🇧
Howdy Barbara!
Good morning to ya Barbara! How's it going in Barbados?
@@teresahyneman4349 Sunny and hot here
Good mauhnin Lumnah acres and friends!
Hi Gina & Al when are we seeing Gina on the excavator? Driving /working it?
07/09/2021
🤣🤣 oh that's funny, have you ever seen her climb a ladder ?
She's not the most coordinated person
do yourself a favor and cap all of your PVC lines. They will fill with dirt and water and creating a real problem for you when you get ready to pull lines and wires through them. Great job on what you do. I enjoy all of your videos.
Good morning y'all from the south of Texas
Gooooood morning Texas
Howdy Eric!
You can really see how much your skills with the excavator have improved. Much more fluid movements with the arm. Just need to work on articulating the swing of the arm for small movements instead of turning the entire cab.
Another nice build day at the OGP. It seems that much thought has been done in the planning. This is a very enjoyable series, keep up the good work. Thank you for sharing with us.
Well said Harold. But there are still a lot of these "I would have" or "You could have" comments!!!
Good job guys!!! Stay blessed!!
Good morning from Grand Forks
Gooooood Morning grand forks
Good morning Dean 🌅
Howdy Dean!
Plug or tape all pipes above ground to keep them dry and dirt free. Havnt yet drilled for a water well yet and once u do u will have to trench again to run the water line underground below frost level to your home again moving the wood form. Hopefully when they drill for water they find it im the same spot not all.spots produce keep that in mind. Good luck God bless be safe. Jim
GREATEST Morning from MICHIGAN ✝️
Gooooood Morning Michigan
Howdy Evalina!
@@samvalentine3206 Howdie SAM. How are you❓🀄⛵weather looks bad in news.
@@evalinawarne1337 - Hanging in there, Evalina... thanks for asking. Hope that's it with you and hospital visits for a long time to come! Stay well!
I'm off grid in Michigan it sucks LOL today I need to get gasoline and water
if you have a garage area also put in a floor drain for snow ice melt drainage inside.
Al, why wouldn,t you park the truck closer to the intended resting place?
I counted 100 paces
Guess he figures Gina and he need exercise?
Annoying isn't it ?
🙋♀️ Good morning.
The experience your gaining is incredible! It's really coming along. 🙌🙌 Gina good job. 🙌🙌 Your meal prep makes me hungry. The cod looks delicious. Be well and God bless you. 🙌🙌☝️🙏👍👍
Gooooooooo morning Lumnahs!!!!!!!
Howdy Ray!
Gooooood Morning Ray
Good morning Ray!
Make sure and run the plate compactor were you moved the dirt/rock. Dirt/rock won't settle and break the concrete.
I noticed Al is not twisting the PVC connections after he glues them together. He better plan to have leaks in the future.
I only saw pipes being wetted with the bonding agents and twisted when inserted, but thought that was only a duct into which the working pipes or possible power might be pulled, however I did not see any pull ropes being added.
@@richardjones5255 Can you say "Train Wreak" or "Cluster F- -k"
@@petesmith8362 Hi Pete I would like to thank you for sharing your positive thoughts on there mission to do plumbing. Why don't you share your knowledge with them to do it "PETE'S" way. 🚽🪠🛁
@@petesmith8362 I can say train "wreck" maybe we just spell it differently in Australia 🤣🤣👍🇦🇺🇦🇺
But yeah, he's got no idea
@@richardjones5255 They can be blown in with a shop vac at a later date.
You should get yourself a grading bucket for the excavator. You will find it very helpful with some of the projects. Much better than a digging bucket at times and quicker, especially when back filling and grading.
It's great to see how Gina has progressed when she first started screwing stuff together she was very hesitant. Stop start with the drill until eventually it was done. Now, she is so confident. And the screw goes in as if it were you doing it Al. Gina,all you need to succeed is belief in yourself that you can do it, and it helps if you have a husband you can trust to support you as well. And should all that happen you would mAke an awesome camera woman ☺
But she still needs to learn how to hold a shovel, hammer, pickaxe....etc.