Closing the openings in the floor to reduce the cold air being drawn up from the crawl space and insulating the floor to stop the crawl space drawing heat down from the house will have a great effect. That is why all-year round RV/caravans have well insulated floors. If your feet are cold you feel cold. Great vlog, very inspiratiional.
Build a wood box frame the size of your exposed pipe and the get a piece of your left over tin roof which you would have to cut larger that the wood box opening by 2 inches around to protect from water damage to box. Put a piece of insulation inside the box glued to tin roofing material to insulate your pipe. No cost as you have everything there already as scraps!! Fill around with dirt.
Best to seal the VB poly vapour tight and air tight, as vapour/air can cause the difference in interior and exterior temps to condensate between the wall cavities (batt insulation or on surface of sheathing). Highly suggest you use tuck tape to seal them seams, the dollar store tapes lose its hold over time. For extra you can use a bead of sealant along the bottom perimeter of the poly to the wall. Again, just a suggestion, you do you. I love what the family is doing and I wish I could too!
I looked at it and shook my head. Since I live just North and East of them by a few hundred miles. I am surprised the Inspector passed it. YES, in Canada we have that Inspector also, basically for the Vapor Barrier.
thank you knowledge, hopefully in the future I can emulate all the knowledge that has been given to me, thank you, greetings from Indonesia, healthy and successful always as a family
Use caulking for your bottom wall framing to the outside of your home to seal out the cold air coming into your home. A cheap project that could help with the temperature in your home! Check around windows, doors, electric outlet boxes and light switch outlet boxes for cold drafts too. Enjoy your build and God Bless
I live the same way you and your family do. Love every minute of it. You and your family are hard working dedicated folks. An example for all. I live in wild wonderful WV. LIFE IS GOOD ON THE MOUNTAIN. 🥂
What a great job, make do with what you can afford, That is how I have always lived my life and at 66 it paid off. Now I can afford a little more .... but I think WHY? because I saved, did without, made do, so I continue with that outlook, I splurge on things that are important, house looks good from here, so proud of all four of you. Home is coming along just great. Blessings and prayers for you all.
Hey Johnsons family, i like to watch your videos and see what you build. im a bricklayer from germany and i see many difference between the building here and the building site in the usa. the plastik is very good, but maybe insulating the floor could warmed it up. best wishes from germany and have a nice day.
Marty when you are in town pick up a roll of flex seal tape and a tube of flex seal sealant apply sealant to fitting first then wrap with flex seal tape. you'll be fine till spring when it's warmer weather . The stuff really works !! Not just a gimmick I carry it in my vehicles for emergencies
I've found that poly or PEX pipes and fittings are the best for cold climates. Far better than any type of metal or PVC. PEX can in some cases actually freeze solid without bursting, as it's very resilient and can expand without breakage. Kraft face insulation is in itself a vapor barrier. If using poly wrap it's best to use un-faced insulation. Anytime you go poly over kraft face it's a good idea to cut periodic slits in the kraft so if any moisture does get through the poly, it doesn't 'sandwich' between the two barriers, potentially causing mold on the paper. I've been a licensed builder here in Michigan since 1992 and been homesteading Michigan's UP winters for over 20 years. The lakes have been frozen here a month already...the fun is just getting started! Good luck...you'll be an expert in no time! ;)
Hey guys house is looking awesome, if you can find a cabinet shop or some place with saw dust it wood work good to cover up the line and insulate it for this winter and is pretty easy to dig back out if you have to. For on the cheap it’s hard to beat. Then cover it with plastic to keep it dry. Have a good one guys!
Yo martain family! Suggestion: When the soil is workable,dig down to the tank bottom and wrap the tank with r-19 or 30. And plastic. Wrap to normal high water level. Backfill with soil. Insulation will give a thermal break.
Shut the stairs and the upstairs off first that will bring down the square footage you're trying to heat, then think about lowering the ceiling height while after winter the difference will amaze. Cheers.
Best thing to do is install some heat tape on that water line then pipe wrap Best heat tape is Cable design with a heat plug attached cable installed bottom of water pipe.
When we do the sheet rock next year I will examine the tape and possibly re-seal it with the right stuff. Right now we have to prioritize our money the packing tape cost about two dollars to do the whole house. It will work perfectly fine for this year. Next yearWe will have more money.
I think it's a temporary solution to use greenhouse film. The next problem with this can be humidity level inside the house. And ventilation sure. The wood boards must breath - to get to be more dry or more moist. I don't know how cold winters are in your place but water freezing in the tube is the serious problem too. In the country where I live, it's needed to dig the trench for water pipes to the deep approx. for more then 3 foots (1 meter) or even deeper to avoid pipes to be broken by frozen water. Cause we have very little snow cover on winter. Then you can try to dig the tube from the tank deeper or to think how to make insulation or even to make some water pipe heating on low temperatures. Thanks for sharing your problems with us, we need to help you to get everything done together.
Another small consideration for the future - when/if you replumb the water line between your tank and the house, if you will upsize your galvanized pipe to 1 1/4” at least, you will greatly reduce the likelihood of that line freezing in the winter. Also, keeping your water tank fuller by bringing in another 1 or 2 pods and raising the water level, you will decrease the likelihood of freezing. Great idea using hot water in a bag to thaw the line! They also have inexpensive, battery powered hose-end sprinkler timers you could set on a water bib at night and have it demand water periodically through the night to keep water moving thru the pipe. Just have it drain into a big (clean) bucket and then pour it back in the tank in the morning.🎅🏻🙂👍🏻
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving well you would be surprised by how much less wood and warmer it would be to cover bare insulated windows and sliders. if you still want the view i would atleast hang curtains or even blankets that can be pulled open or back. not hatin just sayin lol
Then I would tarp it you can always pull off the tarp to fill up the water but then you can wrap the tarp around and you throw up after the bales of hay to help your insulation
Because of it's adhesiveness, Packing tape is great for all types of sealing. I have even used it to temporarylly seal up a broken taillight and it lasted several months until I replaced the light. Art in CA
If you can afford it, ask your wife to choose the curtains NOW and hang them up, ( temporarily is fine !). Double glazed windows still transmit a fair bit of heat. Don't forget temporary pelmets, too. Great vids, look forward to lots more, merry Christmas from Australia!
Also insulate that tank like they say with hey but then put rockwool on top and then cover with tarping that should help and in when you need to fill it up again you just take the tarp it off in a little bit of the Rockwell unscrew the cap and then fill it back up that should help stop it from freezing, also use ropes around the tarping to hold it in place from the wind
Suggest you also finish the typvek coverage above existing and all the area below the floor with insulation , of course covering ALL the holes will help But!
The more recent types of sticky tape could be better. However, my experience was that many sticky tapes age quickly. The glue stopped sticking and went brown and brittle. Perhaps next year before you come to the sheet rock (plaster board where I live) you should check how well the tape is hanging in there before you finally seal it away for good. I have seen some tapes in warmer areas, (remember heat rises) fail after a perhaps 6~12 months. Condensation and humidity accelerated the glue deterioration.
Excellent vapor barrier. (That knucklehead on Red Poppy Ranch had hundreds of us telling him he needed vapor barriers to keep his house tight. That was painful to watch him say Code didn't require it, and smugly refused to.)
To each their own. The beauty of building your own house is that you can build it anyway you want unless you live in an over regulated code infested area. However when we put it out on RUclips for the world to see we should always expect some pushback. And have the strength to go forward with what we think is best for our own house. There’s always a better way to do it and people to tell you how. Thanks for the complement!
Use baby powder works really will finding drafts. I would rough in the ceiling and attic area above the kitchen ceiling and the living room with dry wall.. remember heat glue up
Well, a lot of your air infiltration is due your heat source. You are burning wood, which needs air, which is being drawn in from outside, anywhere it can enter. You can't make the house airtight. O2 starvation is usually deadly. Bring an air vent from the *outside* of your foundation (keep the warmer air under the floor) through your floor and up into the air intake for the stove. You are burning cold dense air which will actually help the burn, and you are not venting your precious heated oxygen rich air up the chimney. I learned this all up in Maine heating with wood at 42 below 0. Also, make sure you have some air turnover because moisture in an airtight home is the enemy. You'll grow mold in the strangest places. If you are drawing cold air in for fresh air exchange, run it past the exhaust stack of the stove to preheat it, if possible.
You guys are so much fun to watch .... how big is ur house? WxL I mean? You get great light in there. Best wishes from our off grid place in northern Mn to yours ♡ Edit* ps.... I'm really glad u are doing the vapor barrier... there's another big you tuber in Idaho who built his home and didnt.... he argued and argued it wasn't necessary... I dunno, I'm from northern Mn and it's totally necessary here unless you want ice or moisture in ur walls.... so glad u did. Such a simple and cheap way to protect your very expensive investment.
it is 1490 sqft. the vapor barrier also keeps little peaces dust of insulation from falling into the house. important because we wont be sheet rocking it soon.
Tank should be below the frost line, or inside of a heated out building. Our well house has a small oil heater in it that keeps it toasty warm. Also, you should use rock wool insulation better than fiberglass insulation.
i am glad to see you are sealing it up with 6 ml plastic, it is nice were i live as i dont need a building permit, so if and when i find some money to build a small cabin for my self i dont have to buy the R2000 aproved 6ml plastic that is needed by code at 5 times the price, so many you tubers in your state that build do not put any at all, and man the drafts they will have, as i talk in my videos i broke my back at work in 1987 and got married in 1998 to a cheating gold digger, she broke in an flooded my old mobile home and insurance cut me a check for the write off of the home for 56k being we were still in court, she got a court order to hand over the check to her, i could go on, but some is in my videos but a lot more will be out later, the floors have broken though, walls pushed out, and in this 30 below it is like having the doors an windows open, before you put sheet rock on be sure to seal the plastic to the floor at the wall plates with that black acoustic sealer, the draft that comes from there is bad, if not sealed to the floor at stud, it is code here to seal it there and window framing .... also the packing tape is good for short term but it degrades in less then a year, for me any way, so be sure to get the red tuk tape before sheet rock.. i have to keep adding more as it brakes a part were i have taped plastic over all the areas were the walls an floor are broken open from the flood and left to freeze up, every day i am putting more plastic and packing tape, it also loss its sticky, and if you dont put the nolded plastic electrical box shells the draft that comes out of the out side wall boxs, i burn 130$ fire wood a week trying to keep it above 40 drg
I saw another channel use a infra red sensor attached to their phone to identify spots where heat was escaping when focusing on the house from the outside. Don’t remember what it was called. But I’m sure you could locate something like that on amazon.
Your insulation looks really thick! What R-factor is it? I had a small building back in the day in which I hung insulation throughout all but a small piece of the ceiling/roof. That small area was the area of a great deal of heal loss. I was amazed by simply finishing that small area, just how much warmer my shop was. Have warm and Happy Holidays...
If my plans go correctly we will be living in a used RV till we can get the house built and livable starting in early spring and with God's help it will be done before winter sets in....it may be tight living payday to payday doing what we can when we can I already expect maybe part of the first winter still being in the RV but it'll be warm but I understand trying to do something on a tight budget I've seen other people using the dollar store packing tape for their vapor barror I'm guessing it'll work fine
Use baby powder to find where the air is coming into the house. Squeeze the powder bottle so you get a smoke of powder around any openings to see where the air is coming into the house.
Am in England and are water tanks have like a coat on it is like installing with plastic cover it may help and my out door pipes I but like a form cover stop pipes freezing up not sure if helps but hope it dose
I've used Dollar Store packing tape twice when i moved, and always it was useless on boxes, hope for your sake it sticks better on plastic, won't on that wood though.
I lived in Sonoma county, and the rain is none stope for weeks. We had so many fire hit our town and burn so many of our homes that the rain is making it so dangerous. Most of our creek and river,! are flooded also. You have a beautiful family.
you be supersized how much water is lost in 24 hours from that small leak, i have to keep my taps dripping 24/7 so they dont freeze up al winter, and the water i go though is unreal, but my well is good, but not to flood my septic i have them drain out back, and it is a huge skating rink already, there best bet being that area warms up a lot, unlike here were it stays 30 to 40 below all winter, is for them to put rocks on the wood stove and put them by the pipes and cover with insulation an plastic on below freezing days/nights
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving you can wire them into a switch or just plug them in when needed.. The in the pipe wire check with a well driller guy,, i've had them do inside wires on houses I've built but wasn't there when it was installed... Off grid summer homes around the lakes & people started using them winters,, all they did was flick a switch & 15// 20 minutes they had water. the well guy put a switch next to the presser tank,, little thin wire runs right inside the black pvc!!!. we have 7 //8 feet of frost,, & ---25=35 below F.. aloha good luck
Will it cause mold to grow in the insulation if moisture gets behind the plastic? Can the temp difference from the outside and inside could cause moisture?
The idea is to keep moisture from getting behind the plastic. Moisture flows from warm to cold. In the winter the inside is warm and moist the outside is cold and dry. We don’t have air-conditioning here and don’t need it in the summertime.
Martin Johnson - Off Grid Living that’s great. We had the opposite conditions in our mission house in Manila. Cold inside from the aircon. Hot and humid on the outside. We put up a plastic barrier while rebuilding. Went back to the States for a few weeks to raise some funds and came back to mold behind the areas with the plastic. It’s great that you guys won’t have that issue.
I think there is a receptionist job opening at the Vet where you had the dog fixed, if that would help out with some cash. Is the wood stove big enough for the house, or will you need to look for a larger one?
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving These bricks build heat and can handle it. They radiate heat a long time as a buffer, while the logs die out. Buy like 5 stack em close and do a test.
Closing the openings in the floor to reduce the cold air being drawn up from the crawl space and insulating the floor to stop the crawl space drawing heat down from the house will have a great effect. That is why all-year round RV/caravans have well insulated floors. If your feet are cold you feel cold.
Great vlog, very inspiratiional.
Build a wood box frame the size of your exposed pipe and the get a piece of your left over tin roof which you would have to cut larger that the wood box opening by 2 inches around to protect from water damage to box. Put a piece of insulation inside the box glued to tin roofing material to insulate your pipe. No cost as you have everything there already as scraps!! Fill around with dirt.
Best to seal the VB poly vapour tight and air tight, as vapour/air can cause the difference in interior and exterior temps to condensate between the wall cavities (batt insulation or on surface of sheathing).
Highly suggest you use tuck tape to seal them seams, the dollar store tapes lose its hold over time. For extra you can use a bead of sealant along the bottom perimeter of the poly to the wall.
Again, just a suggestion, you do you. I love what the family is doing and I wish I could too!
I looked at it and shook my head. Since I live just North and East of them by a few hundred miles. I am surprised the Inspector passed it.
YES, in Canada we have that Inspector also, basically for the Vapor Barrier.
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thank you knowledge, hopefully in the future I can emulate all the knowledge that has been given to me, thank you, greetings from Indonesia, healthy and successful always as a family
Use caulking for your bottom wall framing to the outside of your home to seal out the cold air coming into your home. A cheap project that could help with the temperature in your home! Check around windows, doors, electric outlet boxes and light switch outlet boxes for cold drafts too. Enjoy your build and God Bless
I live the same way you and your family do. Love every minute of it. You and your family are hard working dedicated folks. An example for all. I live in wild wonderful WV. LIFE IS GOOD ON THE MOUNTAIN. 🥂
Amen.
What a great job, make do with what you can afford, That is how I have always lived my life and at 66 it paid off. Now I can afford a little more .... but I think WHY? because I saved, did without, made do, so I continue with that outlook, I splurge on things that are important, house looks good from here, so proud of all four of you. Home is coming along just great. Blessings and prayers for you all.
Hey Johnsons family, i like to watch your videos and see what you build. im a bricklayer from germany and i see many difference between the building here and the building site in the usa. the plastik is very good, but maybe insulating the floor could warmed it up. best wishes from germany and have a nice day.
Hebat...tidak mudah bangun rumah sendirian tanap professional help...stay warm guys..keep smiling..
Marty when you are in town pick up a roll of flex seal tape and a tube of flex seal sealant apply sealant to fitting first then wrap with flex seal tape. you'll be fine till spring when it's warmer weather . The stuff really works !! Not just a gimmick I carry it in my vehicles for emergencies
I've found that poly or PEX pipes and fittings are the best for cold climates. Far better than any type of metal or PVC. PEX can in some cases actually freeze solid without bursting, as it's very resilient and can expand without breakage.
Kraft face insulation is in itself a vapor barrier. If using poly wrap it's best to use un-faced insulation. Anytime you go poly over kraft face it's a good idea to cut periodic slits in the kraft so if any moisture does get through the poly, it doesn't 'sandwich' between the two barriers, potentially causing mold on the paper.
I've been a licensed builder here in Michigan since 1992 and been homesteading Michigan's UP winters for over 20 years.
The lakes have been frozen here a month already...the fun is just getting started! Good luck...you'll be an expert in no time! ;)
Hey guys house is looking awesome, if you can find a cabinet shop or some place with saw dust it wood work good to cover up the line and insulate it for this winter and is pretty easy to dig back out if you have to. For on the cheap it’s hard to beat. Then cover it with plastic to keep it dry. Have a good one guys!
Yo martain family! Suggestion:
When the soil is workable,dig down to the tank bottom and wrap the tank with r-19 or 30. And plastic. Wrap to normal high water level. Backfill with soil. Insulation will give a thermal break.
Shut the stairs and the upstairs off first that will bring down the square footage you're trying to heat, then think about lowering the ceiling height while after winter the difference will amaze.
Cheers.
Agreed. That little wood heater is inadequate for the area he has it open to.
Enjoy watching your video
martin, ya got ta get that thermal wall behide that stove done. it will make such a big difference. and any tape that works is good enough.
Thanks.
Best thing to do is install some heat tape on that water line then pipe wrap Best heat tape is Cable design with a heat plug attached cable installed bottom of water pipe.
After one summer that tape will not stick anymore! Spend the money to do it right, I learned the hard way on my house!
When we do the sheet rock next year I will examine the tape and possibly re-seal it with the right stuff. Right now we have to prioritize our money the packing tape cost about two dollars to do the whole house. It will work perfectly fine for this year. Next yearWe will have more money.
..being warm in winter is an essential requirement, you are well on your way to making that happen.. ..great vid...
thanks!
I live in the south for five years now ,but I love cold weather, yes the snow looks Amazing white Christmas well close to it.
semoga Pak martin dan keluarga selalu diberikan berkah dan perlindungan selalu oleh Tuhan.Amin.
Martin,
You're a good friendly talker and I'm easy to persuade. I hope you know what you're doing.😊
pak Martin sukses selalu...
Sukses slalu pak Martin,,,,
I think it's a temporary solution to use greenhouse film. The next problem with this can be humidity level inside the house. And ventilation sure. The wood boards must breath - to get to be more dry or more moist. I don't know how cold winters are in your place but water freezing in the tube is the serious problem too. In the country where I live, it's needed to dig the trench for water pipes to the deep approx. for more then 3 foots (1 meter) or even deeper to avoid pipes to be broken by frozen water. Cause we have very little snow cover on winter. Then you can try to dig the tube from the tank deeper or to think how to make insulation or even to make some water pipe heating on low temperatures. Thanks for sharing your problems with us, we need to help you to get everything done together.
Opinions, opinions, opinions. Martin and your family are doing great. Love you channel. God Bless
Every opinion (comment) helps he channel grow.
Go Julie! Good idea to get it thawed!
She is so smart.
Love your journey! Christmas 🎄 shows our “journey” to our precious future! Which is ...H❤️ME!
Another small consideration for the future - when/if you replumb the water line between your tank and the house, if you will upsize your galvanized pipe to 1 1/4” at least, you will greatly reduce the likelihood of that line freezing in the winter. Also, keeping your water tank fuller by bringing in another 1 or 2 pods and raising the water level, you will decrease the likelihood of freezing. Great idea using hot water in a bag to thaw the line! They also have inexpensive, battery powered hose-end sprinkler timers you could set on a water bib at night and have it demand water periodically through the night to keep water moving thru the pipe. Just have it drain into a big (clean) bucket and then pour it back in the tank in the morning.🎅🏻🙂👍🏻
Cool ideas.
i would have left vapor barrier over windows until it warmed up or you were ready to hang drywall.
part of living here is the beautiful view. we will sacrifice a little warmth for that.
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving well you would be surprised by how much less wood and warmer it would be to cover bare insulated windows and sliders. if you still want the view i would atleast hang curtains or even blankets that can be pulled open or back. not hatin just sayin lol
Idea for temporary insulation of the water tank is to stack bails of straw around the tank.
Then I would tarp it you can always pull off the tarp to fill up the water but then you can wrap the tarp around and you throw up after the bales of hay to help your insulation
Because of it's adhesiveness, Packing tape is great for all types of sealing. I have even used it to temporarylly seal up a broken taillight and it lasted several months until I replaced the light. Art in CA
It is pretty good stuff.
you guys need a low pressure, pressure switch on your pump to protect it from a no water situation Dave from Canada
If you can afford it, ask your wife to choose the curtains NOW and hang them up,
( temporarily is fine !). Double glazed windows still transmit a fair bit of heat. Don't forget temporary pelmets, too. Great vids, look forward to lots more, merry Christmas from Australia!
The curtains will be trashed in a construction environment. Better off going to a thrift store. Find alternatives, sheets, blankets, comforters.
Also insulate that tank like they say with hey but then put rockwool on top and then cover with tarping that should help and in when you need to fill it up again you just take the tarp it off in a little bit of the Rockwell unscrew the cap and then fill it back up that should help stop it from freezing, also use ropes around the tarping to hold it in place from the wind
Suggest you also finish the typvek coverage above existing and all the area below the floor with insulation , of course covering ALL the holes will help But!
The more recent types of sticky tape could be better. However, my experience was that many sticky tapes age quickly. The glue stopped sticking and went brown and brittle. Perhaps next year before you come to the sheet rock (plaster board where I live) you should check how well the tape is hanging in there before you finally seal it away for good. I have seen some tapes in warmer areas, (remember heat rises) fail after a perhaps 6~12 months. Condensation and humidity accelerated the glue deterioration.
Thanks. We will be checking it.
You should use the red tape that packing tape will dry out soon and you will have leaks behind the drywall.
That could be.
Brick around heating source will absorb and hold heat.
Great video!
Excellent vapor barrier. (That knucklehead on Red Poppy Ranch had hundreds of us telling him he needed vapor barriers to keep his house tight. That was painful to watch him say Code didn't require it, and smugly refused to.)
To each their own. The beauty of building your own house is that you can build it anyway you want unless you live in an over regulated code infested area. However when we put it out on RUclips for the world to see we should always expect some pushback. And have the strength to go forward with what we think is best for our own house. There’s always a better way to do it and people to tell you how. Thanks for the complement!
He is a bonehead. Like looking at a trainwreck! R.p.r. try simple living in Alaska. Young couple,real,interesting,entertaining!
Use baby powder works really will finding drafts. I would rough in the ceiling and attic area above the kitchen ceiling and the living room with dry wall.. remember heat glue up
Great job Martin. You are so. Cool
Well, a lot of your air infiltration is due your heat source. You are burning wood, which needs air, which is being drawn in from outside, anywhere it can enter. You can't make the house airtight. O2 starvation is usually deadly. Bring an air vent from the *outside* of your foundation (keep the warmer air under the floor) through your floor and up into the air intake for the stove. You are burning cold dense air which will actually help the burn, and you are not venting your precious heated oxygen rich air up the chimney.
I learned this all up in Maine heating with wood at 42 below 0. Also, make sure you have some air turnover because moisture in an airtight home is the enemy. You'll grow mold in the strangest places. If you are drawing cold air in for fresh air exchange, run it past the exhaust stack of the stove to preheat it, if possible.
The stove gets its air from a duct outside. I showed it in the video.
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving Huh... missed that the first time!
I would not put steel as a fix I believe Pex is your answer to prevent cracking
Go get some straw and pack it around your tank. It will save you a ton of problems and after winter is over throw it in your garden.
You guys are so much fun to watch .... how big is ur house? WxL I mean? You get great light in there. Best wishes from our off grid place in northern Mn to yours ♡
Edit* ps.... I'm really glad u are doing the vapor barrier... there's another big you tuber in Idaho who built his home and didnt.... he argued and argued it wasn't necessary... I dunno, I'm from northern Mn and it's totally necessary here unless you want ice or moisture in ur walls.... so glad u did. Such a simple and cheap way to protect your very expensive investment.
it is 1490 sqft. the vapor barrier also keeps little peaces dust of insulation from falling into the house. important because we wont be sheet rocking it soon.
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving it's turning out just beautiful
👍👍👍❤❤❤...Nice view P.Martin.
The way you handled the end of the video... That was excellent!
thanks!
Wow you guys are my hero so so much work ive watched every video so far please keep them coming im learning as you work
Wow thanks. Where are you from?
North Carolina near Charlotte
Good Idear Julie
Wow... the progres your home almost finish, pak martin... hopefull would be blessing family home...
Nice concubines
btw you want at least 1/2 inch of polyfoam on the walls , it has better heat insulation (convection )
Tank should be below the frost line, or inside of a heated out building. Our well house has a small oil heater in it that keeps it toasty warm. Also, you should use rock wool insulation better than fiberglass insulation.
Are you suggesting I remove all of the fiberglass and change it with rock wool ?
No, but you can tape over it with wider tape before you drywall. The cheap tape will come off easily when the glue dries.
Exothermic heat, Marty. May I suggest Fibercast Piping.
Action action action.
i am glad to see you are sealing it up with 6 ml plastic, it is nice were i live as i dont need a building permit, so if and when i find some money to build a small cabin for my self i dont have to buy the R2000 aproved 6ml plastic that is needed by code at 5 times the price, so many you tubers in your state that build do not put any at all, and man the drafts they will have, as i talk in my videos i broke my back at work in 1987 and got married in 1998 to a cheating gold digger, she broke in an flooded my old mobile home and insurance cut me a check for the write off of the home for 56k being we were still in court, she got a court order to hand over the check to her, i could go on, but some is in my videos but a lot more will be out later, the floors have broken though, walls pushed out, and in this 30 below it is like having the doors an windows open, before you put sheet rock on be sure to seal the plastic to the floor at the wall plates with that black acoustic sealer, the draft that comes from there is bad, if not sealed to the floor at stud, it is code here to seal it there and window framing .... also the packing tape is good for short term but it degrades in less then a year, for me any way, so be sure to get the red tuk tape before sheet rock.. i have to keep adding more as it brakes a part were i have taped plastic over all the areas were the walls an floor are broken open from the flood and left to freeze up, every day i am putting more plastic and packing tape, it also loss its sticky, and if you dont put the nolded plastic electrical box shells the draft that comes out of the out side wall boxs, i burn 130$ fire wood a week trying to keep it above 40 drg
I saw another channel use a infra red sensor attached to their phone to identify spots where heat was escaping when focusing on the house from the outside. Don’t remember what it was called. But I’m sure you could locate something like that on amazon.
Great choice of music for this episode
Your insulation looks really thick! What R-factor is it? I had a small building back in the day in which I hung insulation throughout all but a small piece of the ceiling/roof. That small area was the area of a great deal of heal loss. I was amazed by simply finishing that small area, just how much warmer my shop was. Have warm and Happy Holidays...
R30 on ceilings and r19 in walls.
If my plans go correctly we will be living in a used RV till we can get the house built and livable starting in early spring and with God's help it will be done before winter sets in....it may be tight living payday to payday doing what we can when we can I already expect maybe part of the first winter still being in the RV but it'll be warm but I understand trying to do something on a tight budget I've seen other people using the dollar store packing tape for their vapor barror I'm guessing it'll work fine
Really enjoying the videos. Not sure if I missed it but did you discuss how you insulated foundation/floor.
FYI.....approximately 60 percent of heat loss is through the ceilings....good choice to continue covering and taping all geems.
Keep up the good work!! 👍
as too the water line, try a heat tape, that ya can plug in when needed.
How would you power it?
Get spay foam to seal holes in the floor
Roof is beautiful sir..
thanks.
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Don't use poly as a second vapor barrier moisture will get trapped in between the poly And vapor barrier use better house wrap.
Use baby powder to find where the air is coming into the house. Squeeze the powder bottle so you get a smoke of powder around any openings to see where the air is coming into the house.
Good idea.
Am in England and are water tanks have like a coat on it is like installing with plastic cover it may help and my out door pipes I but like a form cover stop pipes freezing up not sure if helps but hope it dose
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josss pak martin !!!
Enjoy your videos watching the progress. What is your average temp in the house with the wood burner? Keep the great videos coming.
Love hearing about this build.
I've used Dollar Store packing tape twice when i moved, and always it was useless on boxes, hope for your sake it sticks better on plastic, won't on that wood though.
Well it was made in USA. Hopefully if was better.
How’s the weather out there now.. the house is looking beautiful..
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I lived in Sonoma county, and the rain is none stope for weeks. We had so many fire hit our town and burn so many of our homes that the rain is making it so dangerous. Most of our creek and river,! are flooded also. You have a beautiful family.
That leak may keep the water from freezing again - moving water is harder to freeze.
you be supersized how much water is lost in 24 hours from that small leak, i have to keep my taps dripping 24/7 so they dont freeze up al winter, and the water i go though is unreal, but my well is good, but not to flood my septic i have them drain out back, and it is a huge skating rink already, there best bet being that area warms up a lot, unlike here were it stays 30 to 40 below all winter, is for them to put rocks on the wood stove and put them by the pipes and cover with insulation an plastic on below freezing days/nights
Wrap the water line with a heat tape.. You can put a wire inside the line also when the tank is empty..
how would you recommend powering it?
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving you can wire them into a switch or just plug them in when needed.. The in the pipe wire check with a well driller guy,, i've had them do inside wires on houses I've built but wasn't there when it was installed... Off grid summer homes around the lakes & people started using them winters,, all they did was flick a switch & 15// 20 minutes they had water. the well guy put a switch next to the presser tank,, little thin wire runs right inside the black pvc!!!. we have 7 //8 feet of frost,, & ---25=35 below F.. aloha good luck
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Will it cause mold to grow in the insulation if moisture gets behind the plastic? Can the temp difference from the outside and inside could cause moisture?
The idea is to keep moisture from getting behind the plastic. Moisture flows from warm to cold. In the winter the inside is warm and moist the outside is cold and dry. We don’t have air-conditioning here and don’t need it in the summertime.
Martin Johnson - Off Grid Living that’s great. We had the opposite conditions in our mission house in Manila. Cold inside from the aircon. Hot and humid on the outside. We put up a plastic barrier while rebuilding. Went back to the States for a few weeks to raise some funds and came back to mold behind the areas with the plastic. It’s great that you guys won’t have that issue.
Hi Martin, when will you add the exterior cladding and what will it be? Cheers
I don’t know. Sorry.
get an out side vent to the wood stove ,,,big difference,,,,,,cut a hole weld on a 9/0 withe a valve to the out side
I think there is a receptionist job opening at the Vet where you had the dog fixed, if that would help out with some cash. Is the wood stove big enough for the house, or will you need to look for a larger one?
Thanks. It was rated for 1800 and our house is 1490.
Hopefully moisture finds a way out.
Normally when you here with wood you have to add moisture to the house because it is too dry.
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hellow from Greece
That's summer music LOL !!!!!!!
Really. Perfect for my Australian friends.
Good One !!!
If you can put some curtains or some other covering over the windows to block the cold. Tuck tape the red one works really good?
yes we could. but dont want to. we like the views.
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving curtains usually are used at night, when you can't see outside
Go get some heat tape that they use on trailers it can be plugged in and it will keep it warm so it won’t freezes any more
How should I power it?
Martin Johnson - Off Grid Living It will run off 110v
You just put 110 plug on it when you install it
And run the generator all day?
Would you mind bricks around the fireplace? This works amazing make a 3 walled structure the same height as the stove. 😎🤙🦅
What would the purpose be?
@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving These bricks build heat and can handle it. They radiate heat a long time as a buffer, while the logs die out. Buy like 5 stack em close and do a test.
Would a ceiling fan help,during the winter we switch them to reverse to circulate the hot air at the ceilings
"You want the house to be warmer?"
"Yes!"
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Enjoy your move!
I like your floor plan, do you have dimensional drawing available?
Why do you not stop the watertank completely into the ground. The water freezes more slowly.
It is an above ground tank.
Morning to
Like 921.
Sesuatu yg seperti spons warna pink itu apa anti bakar?
You might need a bigger heater we have a bigger one keeps us toasties.
true. we will see after we go through this winter.