First Night in the Off Grid Cabin at -3° F Outside | How Cold was it Inside? | R-Value?
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- Опубликовано: 23 дек 2022
- Near record cold temperature in middle Tn (-3° F) and I decided to test the cabin’s R-Value and spend my first night there even though it wasn’t fully insulated yet. Wind chills of -20° made for an interesting night.
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Just finished watching the series and I have to say I'm amazed at what you've accomplished single-handed. I'm an old guy and sometimes get discouraged over the direction things seem to be going in the world, but it gives me hope for the future to know that there are still people who have the ambition and ability to accomplish amazing things. God bless you and your family.
Thank you! There's still some of us that believe in working hard with a goal of being more self reliant.
Take care!!
Agree
@@TheOffGridExperience I love that cabin I wish I could build one from my wife and I to live in permanently by the way which part of Middle Tennessee are you in because I live about 30 miles south of Clarksville in Houston County
@Peter Joshua You have that victim mentality going on huh? I believe that's one of the things Steven was referring to, haha
@Peter Joshua wow! That’s pretty hostile.
My cabin was built in 1971. It's not air tight.
I've lived in it full time going on 3 years. The coldest outside temp so far was -47c.
I usually wake up to -5_-10 inside by morning. I get too tired trying to get up every 4hrs to feed the fire.
I just wear extra wool if it's really cold.
The joy of living in the bush in northern Canada 😊
I am a professional carpenter (I frame houses for a living with 6 employees) and I find this build absolutely fascinating.
Glad you liked it!
The cabin is very nice. I'm envious. Good work.
Thanks for watching!!
Looks so peaceful and calm. Beautiful wood stove!
Thank you!!
If you get the bottom of that cabin wrapped with something. Or a foundation, you'd notice a huge difference. Beautiful cabin though. I love it!!!
Thanks for watching!
13:37 nice video and a beautiful home you built. I live in Maine and you’re dead on regarding the floor insulation under the cabin but you also might consider a skirt barrier around the base of the house to keep the wind from blowing underneath it. Makes all the difference. Cheers and happy new year! PS Nice wood stove you’ve got there.
Thanks. Once I get it insulated underneath I should be fine. Plan to put some stone around bottom eventually as well.
Take care!
in northern maine. off grid. skirting and bubble insulation underneath. huge difference. this last storm with -58 below wind chill was a true test. cabin was hot n comfy. small woodstove.
My first time watching your channel. Cabin is beautifully built.
Thanks for watching! Take care.
Beautiful views around that cabin. It treated you well because you built it well. May you enjoy it for decades to come. Merry Christmas!
Thank you. I hope my kids and their kids get to enjoy it as well.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
What a Beautiful Christmas Eve video. Not only is your cabin amazing, I think you just proved how amazing it is. You really jumped in there during this "deep freeze" to prove it. That was genius. No doubt now. You really have a very creative eye along with all your building skills. You manage to always capture those moments and shots that really give substance to your videos. You had my respect before but when you flipped that omelette, BAM, you became the MAN! Thanks for sharing with us. Merry Christmas! Cheers.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thanks for the comments!!
Bam hahahaha
very nice cabin neat and clean organized i can not stand a cabin where everything is thrown everywhere great job
Haha...the upstairs loft isn't so neat. I have to store my tools, materials somewhere.
Merry Christmas!
Wow I’m a 68 year young senior citizen and I must say I would dearly love to spend the night in your cabin. It’s so awesome. I hope you and yours has many happy days and nights there. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for the comment. I'm looking forward to relaxing there when it's all finished.
It got windy and cold quick where you and i live. Glad you got to stay in the cabin and try it out. It’s absolutely beautiful.
Thanks. It was crazy how fast the temp dropped and wind picked up.
Merry Christmas!
@@TheOffGridExperience it was. I went outside and it was rainy. Literally a minute later it was snowing sideways from the wind. Merry Christmas to you and yours as well.
You’ve built a beautiful place. What a great getaway. Got a little place similar to yours up around Strawberry Arkansas myself. God bless you young man. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
Thanks for watching. Looking forward to enjoying it once I'm finished. Nothing like the peace a cabin in the wood offers.
Take care and God bless!
Steve, I built one from two 100 year old barns just N of Heber Springs on Greers Ferry lake. Took me 5 years doing it myself.
Great looking cabin in nice forest, you are very lucky !
Thanks 👍
I’ve watched a few of these cabin builds…. Never seen one without any insulation being installed…..
Great series of films though … keep warm my friend
Ian….❄️❄️🌲🌲🏴
Thanks 👍Underneath will be insulated shortly.
Merry Christmas!
can't wait to see you start the bedroom and bathroom additions
hope you had Happy holidays
Thanks. First additions video should be out next week. Take care and Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas, thank you so much for sharing. look forward to the new year and your continous building of the cabin.
Thanks for watching! Merry Christmas!
Nice to watch on Christmas Eve, beautiful tree, lovely music. I knew you cabin would stand up to the weather. Merry Christmas!
Thank you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
absolutely well done from start to finish! currently down in Florida but cant wait to get back to the NC mountains in a few weeks...Thanks for a GREAT video!
Thanks for watching! Love the N.C mountains.
Kind sir: Your cabin is incredible; simply incredible!!! I’m a new subscriber. Can’t wait to both binge watch old videos and see new ones. Thought I had my cabin build completely planned until I saw this video; now I’m rethinking things. Can’t wait for your next video!!! Take care, best wishes, be safe and God bless!!! Chuck Knight from Buffalo, Texas. 👨🌾✝️🙏🖖
Thanks for watching and subscribing! More on the way. Take care!!
What an awesome cabin you built!! Great job!!
Thank you!
Love your cabin and you had an amazing Christmas tree
Thanks for watching!
Nice music ,wonderful places, good cabin,great video.Merry Christmas everyone.
Thank you for watching! Merry Christmas!
Very respectable R value, the whole time I have been watching I was thinking walls were only 4.2 inches thick. That cabin is amazing. Some skirting along the bottom with the foam insulation you mentions will definitely minimize the wind chill factor, because that is really what creates the drafts indoors. Don't know if I will ever build one like this, but I love the 2x8 construction and the way the beams stack. Keeping that in mind for the future. Can't wait to see the bathroom.
I have watched the entire series, absolutely gorgeous cabin. Finish the insulation in the floor, finish the addition through the barn doors and it'll be great. Outstanding!
Thank you! New video should be posted soon.
Take care!
Have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR . Love your little cabin & that Christmas Tree is beautiful. Be safe & God Bless.. Phoenix✌👍❄☃🎄
Thank you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!
Thank you for bringing us all along an awesome job hats off to ya merry Christmas an a vary blessed new year 👍👀🙏🏻🤗🤩
Merry Christmas and Happy, Blessed New Year to you too!
Awsome cabin, love the design kooks great.
Thanks! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and thanks for sharing. That cabin has a warm character charm about it. Looking forward to next year
Thank you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I'm a Canadian watching this in Aug 2023, appreciating the Christmas tree and music. And of course your workmanship is great! .........................Subscribed
Thank you very much!
What a beautiful cabin….blood sweet and tears paid off!stay warm….and injury free….God bless you…
Thanks a LOT of sweat, a little blood and no tears yet...
Happy New Year and God Bless!
Great video. Man I love that cabin! Happy New Year
Thanks. Happy New Year!
Oh I’m in love with the cabin. Great job.
Thanks so much!
What a beautiful episode! Thank you very much and Merry Christmas!
Thanks for watching 👍
Merry Christmas to you, buddy...no better present than to be able to live your dream!! I can only imagine how beautiful and peaceful last night must have been...God bless!!
Thanks. It was great! Merry Christmas!
Thank you for another great video. That's not terribly cold inside for being not completly done. Merry Christmas and God bless.
It was pretty comfortable all things considered.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Man I accidentally stumbled across your video and was hooked. I loved the actual build of this cabin using the 2x8 planks. Very intuitive.
I actually thought that the loft area with the ladder would be your sleeping section. I figure it would also be warmer since the heat rises.
But I guess it would be harder for you to stoke the fire from the 2nd level.
If you do intend to sleep on the main floor just get your self a folding cot and air thin air mattress to get you off the ground. Probably more comfortable on a cot anyway.
I wish i had the time, land and knowledge to build something like this. Much respect and Really awesome video!
Thanks for the comment. Since it was my first night staying, I wanted to be close to the fire and make sure I didn't burn the place down.
I'll be staying in the loft until the bedroom addition is done moving forward.
Take care!!
Being from Michigan YOU are correct! Insulation is key! SO is sleeping ABOVE the FLOOR! HEAT RISES!
Yes. True 👍
Good Morning - I would say your heat retention test was a success, especially considering you are not yet fully insulated. I just absolutely love the look of your cabin. It just looks so comfortable and inviting. You have done an outstanding job. Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas! Regards, Randy (Coyote Sticks) in Arizona.
Thanks for the comment. It was pretty comfortable!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I really enjoyed that rest of the walls. I think it passed with flying colors! I look forward to future work on your nice cabin.
Thanks. More on the way!
One of my favorite cabins I've seen. Liked & Subscribed. I'm in NC, less than 1/4 mile from the Appalachian Trail and Tennessee. Got plenty cold here with wind chills near -30F but my little cabin did a great job.
Love that part of N.C and TN. Glad to hear you stayed warm.
Thanks for watching!
Love the tree and music at the end. Thanks for sharing and all the best in the New Year.
Thanks for watching!
Just a beautiful project! Well done!
Thank you!
One thing to remember about using a fireplace or wood stove is that they breathe. Everything leaving the chimney/flu is replaced with the air from the outside. This being said, running your stove creates a vacuum inside which pulls cold air in. If you can modify your stove to have a cold air intake from the outside (maybe via the floor) you can negate the vacuum. The other items you mentioned will definitely help. Great video and best wishes.
Thanks for the info. Take care!
The wood stove appears to be a modern “airtight” stove. They are of course not truly air tight, since then combustion would take place. However, if you close off the draft, very little air enters the chimney. This has three advantages. First, very little hot air goes up the chimney. Second, very little cold air is drawn into the house to replace air going up the chimney. Third, the wood burning in the presence of little oxygen turns almost in to charcoal, which allows it to burn long and very efficiently, converting biomass to heat.
My family project as a teenager was to move and reconstruct two 100+-year-old log cabins in an off-grid setting. We had two old cast-iron stoves for heat in a rather large space (huge living and dining rooms and three bedrooms). They did a great job by virtue of their size, despite not being as efficient as modern, air-tight models. Your system is more than adequate for your space, by the looks of it.
Love the videos! The thermal mass of the walls will be slow to warm once you start heating, but the walls will hold the heat. Always takes longer to warm but thermal mass is king for holding passive heat
Thanks. That's what I'm thinking as well.
Just meeting you and enjoying your wonderful area. I lived in Memphis, Tennessee...not for too long and a challenging family moment, 2 gorgeous baby boys who loved traveling with me around and watching the gorgeous Tennessee nature. Wonderful loving friends and caring other little ones whose wives had to work. They loved the swimming pool during summer time ..kkk...so did I...and watching your surrounding view memory was strongly back in my heart....I loved Tennessee ❤ not forgetting and telling you I loved watching your accomplishment 🎉
I have enjoyed watching your videos on your journey to build your cabin. Happy New Year.
Thanks for watching. Happy New Year to you too!
These little cabin's are so freaking cool.
Thanks. I agree. Happy New Year!
Thank you for the video as always I'm getting a lot of knowledge and information. You have definitely inspired me to build my cabin. Merry Christmas and a safe New Year to you and family
Great to hear! I hope this experience inspires many to build.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well!
I would say your R factor is better than round logs because of the logs thickness where they meet , a flat consistency would be better , best build I have ever seen , and thats the truth, would love to come see the finished cabin
Ihope the chinking and insulating underneath helps even more.
Thanks for the kind words about the build. It sure was and continues to be a learning experience.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I am sure the insulation of the ground floor and the back door shouldn't be a serious problem for you, should it? It just has to be done then - ha ha ha! In the end one should say that the test could have runned far out worse than it actually did. These two things are the only things that have to be mentioned, right? I think that the cold air at the back door was clear before - it is simply not completely finished yet, true? So it was no surprise for me at all. But nevertheless the atmosphere is very cozy and I want you to be congratulated to this wonderful cabin- project: It works out fine after all! I wish you and yours a merry X- mas and a comfortable leap over to 2023, the silver fox from Germany, David 😉🦊
Once the addition is done the barn doors will be interior doors and won't be a problem.
Thanks for watching and Merry Christmas!
What a perfect cabin and it'll be even 'perfecter' when you get the rest of the insulation done! 😎👍
Thanks. Yes, looking forward to getting it fully insulated.
Take care!
Old time wood stove chef here. So get u a cast iron griddle to cook on top of the wood stove.
Also get u a cast iron dutch oven as big as u can afford and keep water boiling on it for humidity. Hey and don't forget a good ash bucket those are handy and a must have. U did a wonderful job.
Thanks for the tips!
This cabin is beautiful! Great job…..seems to be very peaceful….love it!
Thank you very much!
Thanks for sharing this test with us!! I know my dad and mom shared with me how they survived on the prairies of the Dakotas and Minnesota in the early 1900s! It was brutal!!!!
We have no idea how tough it probably was.
Insulating the floor will make a huge difference! A lot of heat is lost through the floor. At my RV park, we make RV skirt with foam board in the winter so they don’t freeze their tanks or cost us a million dollars in electric bill trying to heat their RV.
Thanks. I think it will too!
Just beautiful thank you & Merry Christmas
Thanks for watching!! Merry Christmas!
From one Steeler fan to another, I love your cabin.
Big game Sunday night. Here we go!
Never thought about eating right out of the iron skillet but that’s a pretty good idea. Saves washing dishes and keeps your food warm.
It saves time and dishes!
Wood does not have a high R value, what it has is thermal mass just as stone does. It absorbs heat, then releases it. If you were in a colder climate it might have been a neat idea to add another board to the sandwich for the walls, with a piece of 1 or 2 inch rigid foam in the middle. More expensive, I know, but IF you were going to live in it full time it would help. From what I have seen, many cabin builders put up the rafters (or purlins), then a sheathing meant to be seen, then rigid foam, then vertical strips to provide airflow (if you want a cold roof), then the horizontal nailers to carry the metal roofing. Looks authentic, stays warmer, can all be done by hand. All depends on what your circumstances. I love your channel! Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to you and yours!
Thanks. I'm sure the stone definitely helped.
I have the ceiling boards on top of rafters followed by 10 mil vapor barrier, foil foam insulation and 2x4 strapping to provide about 1.5" of airflow between metal and foil foam.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
1" of fiberglass has the same R value as:
3" of wood
18" of brick
21" of average soil
39" of concrete
44" of stone masonry
You’re amazing Jamie! Proud of you and what you’ve accomplished! Proud to call you my friend… “Cricket”
Thanks 👍 😊
Merry Christmas! It's beautiful out tbere! Congratulations on your first overnight stay in the new cabin! It is a good R value.
Merry Christmas amd Happy New Year to you too! It was plenty warm.
I absolutely love your cabin! Thank you for sharing the experience that you go through with everything. Appreciate your time. 💛🙏🏼✝️🙏🏼❤
Thanks for watching. Much more on the way!
I LOVE THIS CABIN! The build technique is genius! 😊
The R-value for wood ranges between 1.41 per inch (2.54 cm) for most softwoods and 0.71 for most hardwoods.
3 x 1.5" = 4.5" thick walls.
4.5" x 1.41R = 6.345 R Value.
This is only for the solid wall section and does not account for doors, windows or the roof. These items will be different and can be significantly less depending on their individual construction.
That being said, 6+R for a space that small is likely more than sufficient.
I'd be willing to bet that stove can make it uncomfortably warm in there?. 😂
Thanks for the comment 👍
Great job on this beautiful cabin. I'll be following you to see your advance and final product.
Thank you!
I love your cabin, it is really warm and welcoming. You did an amazing job on the inside. Your tree is very pretty. You need a dog to complete the picture and a bear rug for the floor. Merry Christmas!
Thank you. I do have a dog that I'll bring to the cabin eventually.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Thanks for your Christmas tree. I appreciate your response to my last comment about the lumber cost. I look forward to your future video breaking down the cabin cost. Please include the board lengths and the cabin size, including your new addition. All the best for you and your family!
I'm looking forward to doing the video as well. I'll do my best to get as specific as possible on materials.
Merry Christmas!
Outstanding video. Thanks so much for sharing your build with us. We live an hour south of Nashville. That was a cold night for a first sleep. Love your property, the cabin, bridges… everything. We are buying land soon and you’ve inspired me to consider a smaller project on our property using your building techniques. Thanks again. God bless.
Thanks for the comment. It was a unique night for sure with the extreme cold but I loved it. Best wishes on your property search and build. Would love to see a picture of the building when complete.
Take care!!
Great build! Happy New Year and blessings!
Thanks and Happy New Year!
R Value is simply a measurement of heat transfer. You are loosing most of your heat through the roof and secondly the floor due to the lack of insulation. Check out the code. I doubt the walls are the problem. A 6" wood wall is probably around R-22. Code is R-13 for walls in southern climates. The roof will require a minimum of R-30, or more for colder climates. The floor requires a minimum of R-19. Nice cabin, you are almost there.
Thanks for the info. The roof is as insulated as its going to get. Once I get the floor insulated underneath I should be good.
Погода просто класс! 👍Возле печки тепло и уютно.
Thanks! Merry Christmas!
Very nice build! I like everything about it.
Thanks!
Great cabin. Look at the solar cafe lights. A string of 20 led last all night on a charge. they work great.
Thanks for the suggestion. My current lights drain a lot of power from the generator.
Install a sliding board closure for the roof vent so you can control it?
Warm white lights would look good on your Christmas tree.😊
Gorgeous cabin 👍
Thanks!
Excellent choice of stove! Drolet makes bulletproof products.
We keep our home at 65' during winter with one of those stoves. If ever I'm tempted to turn up the electric heat, I just go outside for a while and when I come back inside the contrast makes it easier to appreciate the house's warmness :P
Hi from Eastern Quebec!
Question: Have you observed any lumber shrinkage since the build?
Thanks. I'm sure it has shrunk but nothing noticeable.
You and your family & dog stay in your nice lovely log cabin or just you and your smart dog..💙😊
In my country it's very rare to see the log cabin like yours.., almost none..
The Houses here in tropical country use cement and stuff like that, you know..
I love your cabin.., you inspired me to build like this oneday..💙💙💙💙💙👍👍👍
Man, I would love to live that life. Love your cabin. Well done.
Thanks! I'm not quite living this life just yet. Mainly on the weekends for now with a goal to spend more time here when my kids are out of the house.
Just stumbled in and have to say that is a sweet looking build you have. It looked like you had the Drolet purring and your temps were respectable .
Thanks. It's a good little stove. Take care.
Those temps are very reasonable for your cabin, I am impressed! I am sure your cabin will hold way more heat once you tighten up all of the leaky areas. We have a small remote plywood cabin here in Alaska and we get some crazy long and cold winters. I have spent hours and hours and hours caulking and that did cut down on most of the wind blowing around doors, windows and walls. (and mosquitos) But the smartest thing I did was to hook up an outside air source for the wood stove. Game changer! That cut the amount of wood I need to burn by at least 20% in really cold temps and around 50% or more when its warmer out. I really like the look of your cabin and I enjoyed watching your build process. I have to admit, it inspired me. I would like to put up another cabin, log style, near by. lt could be a guest cabin or a place to seek shelter in an emergency if we somehow burn down our main cabin during some cold winter night. Our only access is 4-wheeler or snow machine and I dont have the time or the finances that I can justify an expensive 3 sided log cabin. I am leaning towards a 14' x14' trapper style cabin with a low 12/2 pitch roof and built in your same style with triple 2x8. Since I have a large pole barn on our small farm, I am pondering the idea of pre- building the cabin and temporarily erecting up to the rafters as time allows. Then take it apart in the fall and trailer it up to the site and getting to work. I'll be watching your channel to see how your project progresses and "borrow" more of your ideas.lol
Thanks. I'll have to look into the outside air source for the stove. I've had a few people recommend that.
Would love to see pics of your cabin build when you get to that point.
Take care!
Seems like no matter what’s cooked it always looks better when cooked like this in this type of setting……tree is gorgeous!
Cast iron cooking makes everything better. Thanks for watching!!
Just the wood stove and christmas tree is stunning!!
Thanks for watching 👍
I love the ride in the woods at the end. Sleeping on the floor is not a good idea, if you use a camping inflatable mattress it will be much more comfortable. Mary Christmas !
I almost got frostbite on that drive...lol. It was COLD.
Merry Christmas!
To the tune of First Noel. Very nice!
@@1940limited One of my favorites!
That's amazing. You did better than us lol. Our mini split AC in our cabin froze up when it dropped below 0f last night. Took me three hours to thaw out while we used propane heaters.
Yikes. That's the beauty of a wood stove. Just throw a few logs in and warm up.
Merry Christmas!
Thank you for sharing and merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I think your cabin is perfect. Never seen that method used before. Amazing!
I watched the most recent video showing the time-lapse of the cabin build. You got me hooked and subscribed. Looking forward to future videos! Thanks for making good content in a world full of fake people and social media garbage
Thanks for watching and subscribing. Much more on the way!
I'm a city guy who bought an abandoned 150 year old house in the country. It's usually cold and drafty here but I've really come to like the winter. I guess when I was always in a warm environment I became detached from the weather. Now that it's a lot more real I experience it differently. I love cold windy nights now.
I’m originally from upstate NY and miss the snow so I get it.
I’m in Colorado. Love the cold and snowy winter.
I’m getting ready to build at 9600’
@@tonynitz3571 sounds great.
I fell in love with the Tennessee mountains when I saw them for the 1st time when I was 18. I had never seen mountains before that and I was so overwhelmed by the beauty and magnitude of them that the only reaction my body could make was to cry. I have drreamed of them ever since. That was back in 95. To have a simple cabin in those mountains on about 5 to 10 acres is my dream.
Tennessee is a great place to live 👍👍
Awesome cabin. I love the tree! 🎄
Thanks! Have a Happy New Year!
Wonderful❤
Hope you had a great Christmas
New to your channel. Nice job. I lived in a primitive cabin years ago. I miss it. Your cabin is very similar. Happy New Year from Ohio
Kim
Glad you found it. Thanks for watching. Happy New Year!
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you. More on the way!
Lived in a log cabin for 6 years. It was built back in the 60's with the 5 to 8 inch pines off the property. I was told the previous owner had built it and lived there while building the other much larger house on the property with lumber. The cabin was 24x24 with a 10x 16 addition on the back I used as a bedroom though it was supposed to be a sunroom, 4 windows and a windowed door. The main house was all round logs, 4 inch gaps in between and had been permachinked by the owner/landlord back when they bought it in 1989. The roof was vaulted and it had a front porch 4 feet out from the entire front of the house. It was very drafty, you could feel the wind blow on your leg in the bathroom. The floor was separate from the walls and there was a gap as big as an inch all the way around. I filled the gaps I could but still in the summer the ac would run all day and not get the house below 80. The underside of the house would be 50 degrees. I heated it with a wood stove and probably split no less than 4 cords a year by hand. Got a splitter the year before I moved.
Anyways on to your house. I can say with a strong degree of certainty that insulation under the floor will be all you need other than maybe a way to cover the ridge vent but likely not even that. The house I lived in was drafty as all get out. But if you ran the wood stove for long enough (a day or two) the logs would warm up and the main house would get downright hot. Then the wood stove only needed to burn easy to upkeep it. Your cabin is waaaaaay better sealed up than my old cabin, you could run a window AC unit in the summer in that thing and cool it down no problem. You'll get some cold spots when you build the bump outs though, but that's nothing a bigger stove, or another stove can't handle. A cast iron cookstove could supplement things nicely although getting it out there might be a pain.
Thanks for sharing. I think getting the insulation underneath will be a big help too. Would love an AC in the summer but that might be asking too much with limited power available.
Take care!
@@TheOffGridExperience
That ridge vent will have a nice draw on a hot summer night with a window or two open. Pack in a chest full of ice and just let it melt in front of the window as you sleep.
Very nice cabin. My wife and I live in West Tn and we are building a cabin as well. We just cleared the spot off and I’ve been milling getting ready to set posts. Looking forward to the cabin build experience. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching and good luck with the build!
Make sure to get your roof / attic insulated well. Frank Lloyd Wright is quoted as saying "If your roof is insulated properly, you don't need it in the walls." (But I would anyway) But remember and research the three critical parts of efficiency.....1.) R-Value 2.)Air Infiltration and certainly not least 3.)vapor barriers
I had the foam insulation sprayed in my house. Under the kitchen sink and bathroom sink I sprayed foam in the gaps that are around the drain pipes and I also did the conduit pipes for my electric service then I went around my back door trim to seal out any drafts and then I sprayed it in the old vent pipe for my old gas water heater in the ceiling in the utility room and after I sealed everything up my house was much much warmer and comfortable with no drafts on my feet
Yes, foam underneath definitely helps. Once I get the draft eliminated it will be really comfortable.
Take care!
Love everything you built here. Excellent job!
Thanks. New video out tomorrow!
Alot of people commented on underpinning and that's key. More so than insulating the floor. On my cabin I used steel roofing panels cut to fit and ran vertically over a treated 2x4 frame. No pests like groundhogs or mice and no air circulating under the floor. Mine with a small 5000 btu stove will run you out of there at 0 degrees outside. There's days I have to crack a window because it's too warm.
Yes. Exactly. Getting underneath closed in will be a big help.
Thanks for watching 👍
Great looking cabin that you built really good quality work and craftsmanship in it i agree that like you said once you finish with your insulation it will really hold in more heat .with that being said one again really a great job with your build keep up the amazing work
Thanks for the comments. More on the way. Take care!
I have been reading the comments and I am amazed at all the attention you are getting in regard to insulating your cabin from the cold. It is a CABIN, folks! It is a place to go to be one with nature. Most of the suggestions have merit but what is wrong with just throwing a few more logs on the fire? I think it is just awesome the way it is. Great videography as well. Love the B footage. I wish I had the time and youth to build one just like it. I am hoping to see some distant shots of the cabin as I am having a hard time trying to figure out how far your cabin is from the stream. It appears that your temporary tent was right next to the creek but where did you build the finished cabin? What is the source of your electric power? Cheers.
Thanks for tue comment! It's plenty warm enough with wood stove. Will be better when weatherproof.
Cabin is on the hill above creek.
Take care.