THIS is our Biggest DESIGN FAILURE - Couple Building House Off Grid
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Hello everyone from Santa Fe nuevo mexico USA i see you guy’s working together and you guys make a good team and the House look very beautiful
Thanks for bringing us along on this journey!
However, I saw you cutting drywall without masks. Don't you think it's necessary to help reduce the risk of lung disease?
Design failure or not I LOVE our home. 💛
You've done a great job. Some real fun take the tractor push up a big pile of snow and make an igloo. Merry Christmas.
Lol
Regarding "Mana" and "Papa"... my wife and I don't even have kids, but we've had cats for 30 years. We call each other Mama and Papa... And when our Siamese cat is too chatty, I often hear "I'm busy, go see your Father!" hollered at him from downstairs.
I like it when Seth is reading the Chemistry book. 😁
Martin, not everyone needs COFFEE. I for one do not drink coffee, never acquired a taste for it. I am going on 70 years young. Have a wonderful day.
Hate to tell you this now but the drywall should lap over the top of the tub surround nailing flange!
My husband and I have watched from the tent days. You guys have accomplished your skills in building. What you don't know, you learn for future. We love your, "Keep Smiling." Stay positive. 😀
It might help to tarp those steps at night. Clearing them off the next morning is easy as pulling up the tarp.
The stairs are good now with that railing. The house is coming looking good! Tux ❤is such a good boy!🙂👍👍👍👍👍👍😀🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🧑🎄
I enjoy watching you and Julie working together. My husband got me started watching, we are from North Mississippi.
I smile every time I watch, will miss the every day smiles!!!!!!
Laundromat? You had a washing machine in your earlier videos. You can hang damp clothes all over the house. To make that process faster, I recommend a centrifugal spin dryer. They use much less energy than your traditional tumble dryer, and are much easier on the clothes, too.
Use the Tsquare as a guide for cutting the Sheetrock saves time
You know how to get that snow off your deck and when it's ice or on your stairs get a propane tank with a torch on it to where you can carry it and just spray the heat it up real quick you don't have to go all the way down just enough to you where you can put some salt on it and you should do that before you go anywhere do it every night I live in Iowa we've only got snow twice we don't have no snow out there now but put that salt on there every night
Hello Yvonne from Texas I love your home also.😍🎄☃️
Tux is the breakout star of this challenge 😄😄
Seth is always there for the pushups. 20 is a lot for me !!!
I do enjoy your videos. I have been following for a year now. I must say your dog Tux is THE real star! LOL
Idea Maring "man".....how about a temporary tarp covering the actual stairs before and during snow and ice storms...then you can just pull it off during use and not snow and ice issues!!!!!!! I know brother!!!!
I doubt if there’s one home in America that doesn’t have some kind of quirky failure in it. It’s looking great! Merry Christmas family 🎄☃️✨🎅
2:12 LPT: Check the price for water softener salt over "ice melt". Basically the safe stuff, at a cheaper rate.
Thanks for sharing, l used hear that they are people who are surviving in ice snow now I won't complain with our Southern African winter.
I think you should consider replacing the stairs with galvanized grid stairs, it will be safer, and a better fire escape.
20 pushups. Good job everyone. Thanks for sharing.
Great to see the daily progress. Enjoy the snow. Keep sharing.
Would perhaps a set of metal stairs with the large holes in it and the anti-slip spikes hold up better in the snow?
Marty, Have you considered doubling the sheetrock in the kitchen ceiling, as an additional defence in case of fire. Just mentioning the ideas as they occur to me. Regards Robin.
the t-square has a notch in the small section that makes it easy to use a knife blade along the long arm to run a cut so you don't have to draw a line and cut free hand.
Tux is so amazing I had one when my daughter was small they are very smart dogs
I’m completely in awe of this. Well done 👍
Thanks. You are too kind. Would you please share this video with your friends on Facebook.
T out of 2x4 to support drywall to ceiling and cable hoist about $100 and up u can make a stand or some to lift thing so u don’t have to carry drywall walk up the stairs
Tux is so adorable.
Your house looks more than perfect to me😊.. and most importantly, you building a house with your own family, full of love..
Hi guys, dudes, man,
In the bathroom, youu should go OVER the showed stall lip unless you plan you la tires over the drywall.
Keepnup the good work!
You can put snow holders on the roof and possibly problem of falling snow will be reduced. It holds heavy lower layer of snow on the roof but upper layer is blown by the wind. But roof must be able to carry additional weight of snow!!
I have not missed one episode in December or this last year, I'm addicted. Remember, Safety Sally is Watching you. I also really like what you have done. Only wish that I had the guts to do what you guys are doing.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 у вас такая красивая природа. Успехов 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Connect to the stairs and put a roof with metal over the stairs will be much easier then exstend the roof line out
Since you want to keep moisture out of the are behind the drywall in the bathroom, I would recommend you silicone caulk all the seams before you cover it with mud.
Put a roof over the stairs and then you won't have that ice up situation. Plus in the long-term it would make it safer.
Put a tarp over the steps at night, or when you’re gone for a few days.
Come on!!! No way a man and his wife could work like you two...
Just kiddin of course.
Love your work.
Have you guys ever told us about what you do with your wastewater? Septic system? And why no washer or dryer?
simple fix for outside stairs. install a Canvas to cover them. frame made of aluminum tubing. easy to bend with making a jib. you two can do it and it will look great .
maybe if its gonna snow overnight you could throw a tarp on those stairs beforehand. Weight it down at the top with a couple rocks. Then when ready to use just pull at the bottom and any snow or ice should fall right down.
Stop with the logic. Where's the drama going to come from if you solve the problem? lol
Do you have fire/carbon monoxide alarms hard wired? With a garage above the apartment a fire or co2 alarm should go off in both the garage and apartment.
You will need those outside stairs for a fire escape.
switch the stairs to the other side of the deck where there is no roof
instead draw a line use utility knife side drywall square and cut wall You are double work green dry wall go all way to shower in closer
We have a roof over our outdoor stairs, no walls, and it barely reduces the amount of snow they still have to be shoveled. I wonder if expanded metal steps would make any difference.
Icey stairs, even though there is no salt underneath it would break it up. You "temp" could put down some roof asphalt tiles, then salt the stairs. Then the salt would not damage the wood.
Everyone NEEDS Coffee 👍👍👍!
Yep. Lots of smiles!
You guys have and are doing a fine job, God bless...
Liat keluarga pa Martin begitu hangat.
Your videos bring us so much joy. Thanks for sharing.
Sincerely I love this morning watching your show nice videos
We love watching “you guys” really enjoy the videos. All the way from across the pond in the UK 😎 stay safe and keep smiling 😁
Saya suka melihat rumah2 di amerika...apalagi ketika natal gini... Rasanya seperti di tengah2 udara dingin ada kehangatan di dalamnya, nuansa natalnya bener menakjubkan
Bro heard of a jab saw for cutting holes in drywall ❓Go counter clockwise around cut outs with the rotozip ❗Lastly Safety Sally says she needs a shower , she's chocking on all the drywall dust 🤣😂😎👍
Julie you have to go all the way down on those push ups. But good job better than nothing ( like me criticizing from my recliner)
HOWdy Johnsons,
ROOF overhanging the Exterior STAIRS
COOP
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Tux is so cool, just like his family 💕💕
Love your video’s and your way of life.Thanks for sharing.☺️☺️☺️👍👍👍👍❤️❤️
Wow! That was a jam packed video! The drywall is moving right along!
Was wondering Marty do u have a thermostat installed yet for your furnace?? Reason why I ask is furnaces are not designed to constantly run. If u run it constantly u run the risk of the heat exchanger inside the furnace to fail causing a fire and co2 emissions. Safety first always
Home sweet Home 🏡 😌 💕 💖
I think blocking the stairs in but with windows
In Australia we use plasterboard adhesive as well as screws
Do leave Safety Sally down too long cause Tux might hike a leg !!! LOL 😆
I love your videos. You work good together. Keep up the good work
Nothing but air and opportunity between us
Some people use in fared in their bathroom. so as you step out bath tub ....you will will step in to warm area and not a cold register blowing down on you.....brurrrrrr!!
I was just thinking the same thing about Tux!!
Idea what about adding the same railing that yall have on the padio to the love loft? Was worried tux was going to try to jump off at the pushup challenge
That outdoor stairway is clearly the most dangerous thing on your homestead. It is not something to take lightly. It would be fine if you lived in the desert but unfortunately you live in snow country. I hope your are diligent in cleaning them off daily, I would hate to see one of you walking around in a cast. Thank you for sharing this with us. I spent 27 years in the US Army so I have done my lifetime limit of pushups.
I thought Tux was a French bulldog, great dog you have.
One of the greatest words of endearment was MOM or variations of it, like hey momma or even times was yes mam as it always meant to me and the miss's loved it even before kids. If it feels wrong to the misses, then it would get dropped but for me would take some time as I have heard it used all my life by others... including of all or least of all, expectant daughter. I know that term was used by my grand parents who passed at a very old age in the forties. Everyone in my family line had kids very late in life.
Tux is awesome!!!
Marty Jules and family have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
sarahs got an awesome cheeky laugh, makes you wanna laugh with her. love that cheekyness
Maybe you should try using your drywall square as a straight edge for cutting drywall.
Wondered that also. Why draw a pencil line and then free hand the scoring.
Have a merry Christmas 🎄 and a happy new year🎉 Stay safe and healthy you two young love birds😜
can you box the entire stairwell and that makes it very safe too.
God bless, I like to watch your fam. work together. May God continue to bless you all.
Rotorzip is a brand name, like skil saw. It's a rotary tool and a circular saw. I wouldn't have said anything but you have neither of the brand names.
...LOOKIN' GOOD. KEEP SAFE...
I am wondering, why don’t u get a cable hoist to help u lift dry wall and other things! And u can make a. T to support drywall to the ceiling at smaller room so u don’t need to use the drywall hoist
You could always... temporarily... hang a tarp over the stairs. Wouldn't be all that hard to do but it would save you LOTS of work.
nice video i think the stairs are still danger be careful
It is a beautiful home.
Every room uses so many CFM as measured on calculation ... Using voltmeter it can be determined on the air flow for that room.... not having damper in each run you will have to turn the registered to cut down the cfm..... Some room will have to be adjusted foe summer and winter....also adjusting the rest of rooms the closer register it will give air flow for the rooms correctly please balance system the bathroom for example does not need need a full flow... can be damper back... I am glad that the cold air return is far away as possible from the kitchen and that bathroom.... AS it will pull the smell the stinky smell from these rooms a will spread all over the house!! Check into what I suggested as being correct..............
Make sure to put plywood on bottom of shower before setting a ladder on it.
My husband and I have been married for 40 years. We have 6 kids and 19 grandkids. We’ve called each other Momma and Daddy since we started have kids. It’s totally normal (at least that’s what I tell myself) 😂
Wishing you and your family a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!!-Kev UK
Hi John from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Can you not place a temporary tarpaulin on the side stairs? One pull and all ice/snow would dislodge.
Good idea.
good morning guys ....
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Yous should make the picture on the thumbnail into a jigsaw, I would definitely buy one 😉
What about wood ash from the wood stove to deice the steps? (properly cooled of course 🤠)
I sometimes call my wife momma, but not as often as when the kids were small. I more often call her something like sweetie. My wife sometimes calls me daddy, probably more often that I call her momma, and it is for the same reason. We kind of got in the habit of doing it when we were teaching the kids.
Great video folks,