I want to try something. I'm going to paste in the whole subtitle file in the blog in case I ever need to find a particular part of this long-ass video. Or in case anybody else needs to find it. That seems unlikely. But still. Here it is. I shall not transcribe in vain!
One neat thing about having an .srt file is I can quickly have TextEdit count how many times I said "tiny house" in this video.
21 times. I said it 21 times.
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Hi. My name is Barbara. I'm a blank builder and a blogger
and I'm on a mission to rebuild and repurpose
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this 71 year old aircraft construction aluminum trailer
home, Ally Mo
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But today I want to show you my tiny house
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I started building my tiny house in January of 2005
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I had a full time job as a scientist
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So every two weeks I'd take my paycheck and buy lumber
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And then on the weekends I would build my house
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A lot of the materials are surplus and salvage
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Or materials I had leftover from other projects
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My house is so small it doesn't take a lot of material to
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So what's leftover from a big job is enough to build an
entire tiny house
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I'm going to talk about some construction details as well as
maintenance that I do on my house
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I'm doing an intensive spring cleaning where I move
everything out so I can scrub underneath it
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So I thought it would be a good time to do a tour of the
tiny house
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My house is clad with HardiePlank
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With HardiePlank trim boards
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But the top part is done with HardieShingles
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and my soffits were too wide for my HardieSoffit so I did
them in this sort of step fashion
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And I have a bent sheet metal rake flashing
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And the vent stack for my bathroom comes out of the wall
instead fo the roof
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When I put the siding on my house I used a Snapper Shear to
cut the HardiePlank
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I love this tool because it's quiet and feels relatively
safe compared to a circular saw
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But a saw blade leaves sort of a burnished edge. The shear
basically works by pulverizing the product
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It leaves the cut end very dusty. I didn't realize at the
time just how problematic that would be
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but I should have. Caulk can't stick to dust.
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Where the factory ends butt up against the corner trim the
caulked joints look perfect.
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But the ends I cut, the caulk didn't stick. Little cracks
appeared
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I should have washed the ends of the siding in a bucket of
water with a brush and then let them dry before caulking.
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Since I didn't do that I had to redo the caulk 12 years into
the 50 year warranty
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I cut the caulk where it was very strongly bonded to the
corner boards and I got all the old caulk out of the joints
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I could make dust come billowing out of the crack with these
little dental brushes I got at the grocery store
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I washed the whole house down with a scrub brush and a hose
after I opened up all the cracks
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Then I scrubbed out each little crack again with the tiny
dental brush until no more dust came out
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At the end of the job I had about 115 grams of wasted caulk.
This is a data point without a purpose
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I was able to recaulk all these joints with less than one
tube of caulk
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I bought one gallon of satin house paint and repainted the
lap siding on three sides of the house. I still have over a
quart of paint left
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The roof of my tiny house is industrial sheet metal
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My roofing metal was 8' cutoffs from a bigger job
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And it was enough to do my whole house
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And that's why my roof has this interesting profile
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Because the pieces weren't very long
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You can also see all the pine straw on my roof
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One of my regular maintenance tasks is several times a year
I have to sweep the pine straw off the roof
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It's time to do it again now
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This little bump out is because I didn't trim my rafter
tails, I just put siding over them
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Because if I had made that transition sharp
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I wouldn't have been able to nail anything into the acute
angle at the top
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So by making this little... I don't even know what to call
it... this thing
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this bump-out place, I was able to make my wall and roof
work out
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My ceiling is made with HardieSoffit, 12 inch wide smooth
Hardie material
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My cousin gave me some paint samples that she bought to try
on her house
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And I kind of liked them together and I had two quarts of
this paint for free so I just made stripes
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In between my HardieSoffit is some PVC lattice
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Nailed up just to cover the joints
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When I first built my house I didn't have a porch, I had a
patio
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And the steps came down to these three 4x4s
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And then I decided I wanted to turn my door around
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I had an inswing door and I decided to turn it around so it
was an outswing door
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And build a porch
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So the patio is still underneath there
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And I totally reused the steps. There was nothing wrong with
the stair treads or the risers
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I have since replaced two of the treads. So these two treads
are new. They split and wore out
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So I've been replacing these one at a time. I can get them
at Home Depot. They're about $11 a piece.
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So as they wear out I get new ones
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And it seems to be working good, as long as they don't
discontinue these stair treads
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So this stair tread is 15 years old
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And this one is about 2 years old and this one is 1 year old
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My porch floor is screwed down, directly screwed down with
Deckmate screws
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And then I puttied over it with that Minwax putty that
smells like Bondo
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And then paint the whole thing. I didn't wait for it to cure
or anything
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I primed it and painted it with Behr Porch Paint. And it's
holding up really well. This is at least 10 years or 12
years old.
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A few years ago my house started to sink
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And the way I knew was this conduit broke
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And my main drain to the septic tank broke
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What happened was my posts that I had I buried directly into
the ground had started to rot
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They started to rot right at the interface to the ground
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So I bought some house jacks
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Some of which I have left here
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So I bought these house jacks and jacked the house back up
about an inch
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And then I dug out around the posts
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And I formed up concrete footings
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With Simpson Strong Tie brackets
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Poured me some concrete
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And then I added these 2x6 braces
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Between the ribbon joist and the concrete footing
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And that stiffened up those 4x4s a lot
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One thing I found really fascinating when I was digging up
these posts that had rotted
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The one that was the least rotted was the one right by the
outdoor shower
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Because I have a shower pan
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Underneath this gravel there's a layer of visqueen that's
made into a shower pan
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And it drains into a dry well
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A gravel... a ditch full of gravel under the ground
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So the outdoor shower doesn't run out on the ground
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And the result of that design is that this post did not rot
out
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when all of the other ones did
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Of course I redid the footing under it anyway. Then I
completely rebuilt my shower
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My outdoor shower floor requires maintenance cleaning mostly
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And then from time to time I replace some of these things.
See tis one is cracked and I might need to replace that one
soon
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I've only replaced two of these in 15 years though
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And I reuse the screws every time. These stainless steel
screws are gonna last forever
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The rest of my outdoor shower in my rebuild project
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The walls of my outdoor shower are made with vinyl blinds
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You can get vinyl blinds cut at Home Depot
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So I had a package of vinyl blinds cut to this length and I
screwed them on with stainless steel pan head screws
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And this has held up for several years.
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It looks good, it's lightweight. I've been really pleased
with this outdoor shower screen
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I mean, it's kinda wonky, but I don't care. It's fine
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I just took a shower and in the time it took me to get
dressed and get out here with a camera
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you can see that this wall is already dry
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This is porcelain tile with epoxy grout
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And it looks exactly the same as the day I finished it 15
years ago
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And I imagine this will be the last thing remaining on my
house
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I maybe scrub it with a stiff bristle brush maybe once a
year if it gets a little algae on it
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But it's amazing
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After 15 years this showerhead, the chrome is flaking off.
But it's brass underneath
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I don't think anything bad's gonna happen
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It's getting gross with calcium buildup. I need to soak it
in vinegar
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I took this part off and cleaned it with vinegar a year or
two ago.
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Because it gets water spots on it
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But I just take it apart and soak it in vinegar and it's
fine
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Let's take a moment to admire my North elevation. Pretty
cute, huh?
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I got that round window at the surplus and salvage place. I
think it makes my house look a little bit like a birdhouse
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The lines from the mini split are two copper lines, an in
and an out and a control wire
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Plus a condensate line
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With some vinyl gutter and aluminum flashing I was able to
make this enclosure for the lines
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for the air conditioner and it looks much nicer
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When I started building my house this little tree right here
was only in the wiregrass stage
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Which means it was a little thing about this big.
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And I was real careful not to step on it or damage it. So
this tree is fifteen years old, minimum
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So this is what longleaf does if it's kept in the shade and
grows really slow
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Fifteen year old longleaf pine
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I'll have to cut it down when it starts to interfere with
the house,
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but I'm keeping it for now. It's like my pet.
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This aluminum table is basically my outdoor kitchen
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The back feet are secured to the floor with a bolt through
the last deck board
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so it doesn't fall off
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In a previous life I was an interior designer
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And these porcelain tiles were samples I got for a floor for
a gymnasium at an Air Force Base
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I wonder if they ever built it?
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I liked the color combo
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I get my induction hotplate out of the house
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And I have this little skewer I use to prop open my cover
for my outlet
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Because my old hotplate, it damaged the strain relief on the
cord from the tension of the spring in this lid
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Now if I want to cook something that makes a big mess, like
fry something
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I'll get a piece of corrugated plastic, those big sheets
they sell at Home Depot
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and lean that up against the wall
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And sometimes I'll put a drop cloth down if I'm making jelly
or something
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Because I can just slide it under the front feet of the
table
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And then if I splash cranberries or something on the floor
it doesn't get all sticky
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When I first built my house I bought this prehung fir door
from the lumberyard
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I stained it with a Chinese Red Laquer color stain
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And finished it with water based polyurethane
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So originally this was the inside of my door
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But then I turned the whole thing around. I took the jamb
out
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I took the jamb out and took the threshold off and reversed
it
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So now it swings out
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My dad made me this oak threshold that I just love. This oak
threshold is the bomb
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And that's the only thing in my house that has an oil based
finish.
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That has spar varnish
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But all the rest of my clear finishes are water based
polyurethane
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I just wore a respirator when I did that.
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You may be looking at these 2x4s thinking, "Barbara, what
the hell are those?"
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Ya know? I don't know
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It seemed like a good idea at the time
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Part of my ongoing maintenance is to watch caulk joints like
this. I need to fix this
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It never gets wet. Even in hurricanes this doesn't really
get wet up here,
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But it does get wet when I wash it. So I need to fill this
caulk gap
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Let's take a look at the inside. I'll spin the camera
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The reason my tiny house doesn't feel tiny
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Is because it has so much light from these giant windows
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And you can just see outside all the time
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So you don't feel closed in, you just feel part of the
outdoors
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But without the bugs and with air conditioning
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Now the camera is set for the indoor lighting
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My grandparents enclosed a porch at their house with sliding
glass doors, maybe in the 70's or the '80s
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And in about 2004 a microburst tornado knocked a tree down
on it
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And they tore it down and built an exact replica
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But with low-e glass
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So they gave me all the sliding glass doors that came out of
it
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And I used four of them in my house
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I used all 3 foot ones. I still have some 4 foot ones in my
shed, if I want to build a bigger tiny house?
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I moved into my house in November when I just had Tyvek over
the window holes
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So I was motivated to put the windows in
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I tried to do all of them in a weekend
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And I didn't really know how. I didn't have a very good plan
when I framed up the openings
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So I just sort of shoved them the hell in there and just
caulked the fuck out of it
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because I needed it to not be so cold
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So I don't really... one day I will take these out and buy
some good low-e glass windows,
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plate glass windows to put in here.
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And do it properly. But it's holding up. I mean it's not
leaking or anything
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This thing is a plenum for the exhaust fan
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Right here I have a switch for my fan
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And the light over my head
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And the light over the sink
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Let's see what the fan sounds like
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So that's not bad. Just sort of a low rumble
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Wanna hear what it sounds like outside?
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There's an opening here where it sucks air to the outside
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And then there's another one in the house part, in the loft
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And this thing, this bump-out
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Is so the plumbing stack can go out the wall
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For lighting in my bathroom here in this little vestibule
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I have a ceramic schoolhouse light that I got on ebay.
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And I fixed it. I put a new socket in it.
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I love me some ceramic fixtures from ebay
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They don't go bad. They're great
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And I have a 60 Watt bulb with a reflective bottom in it
right now
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Because I bought some on sale when I was buying lamp parts
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I haven't gone to all LEDs and stuff because that light's on
like, maybe 5 minutes a day
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The lights here at the sink are just the cheapest $15 light
fixtures that Home Depot carries that I didn't hate
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I insist that lights be on either side of the mirror
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Overhead light is RIGHT OUT
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But these are fine
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And they're not on that much. I have so much light in here
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I mean, do I need light? No, I don't need light
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When all my clothes and stuff are in here I have a mirror
right here in front of the window
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Where I can do makeup and stuff and the lighting is just
perfect
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It's my favorite thing about this bathroom
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This window faces West
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So if I'm going out during the day I can use the mirror and
do my face
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The ceiling in the bathroom is tongue and groove pine
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Which is not airtight because it's tongue and groove
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So acoustically this is a problem when it rains
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It is significantly louder in the bathroom than in the part
of the house where I made the ceiling air tight
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I did that on purpose, for that very reason. So it wouldn't
be so loud
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But for the bathroom it was just easier and I did it later
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My sink and bathtub are both old
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They both have the date printed on them. This is from the
'30s and this is from the '50s
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My cousin gave me this bathtub
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She was using it as just a piece of furniture in her
bedroom. She got it at an antique shop
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And had just filled it up with pillows and would read in it
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But I wanted it for a bathtub. So it was in really good
shape.
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But it was painted on the outside.
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So I stripped the paint off with a wire brush
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Or actually I think it was a nylon brush on a drill
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So I cleaned all the paint off the outside
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And then I treated it with Penetrol
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Which is a linseed oil paint additive
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But it works great as a metal finish
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So this just has a Penetrol coating on it and it's held up
really great
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It has a lovely patina
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Let's see if I can get a close-up
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I got this floor tile at the surplus and salvage place
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And they had a couple of boxes which was enough for my
space
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This is a porcelain quarry tile made in Tennessee
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And it's very thick, and very heavy
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But it has a lot of thermal mass
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So I put heating elements under the floor
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so that it uses that thermal mass, heats it up, and then
that's my heat for my house
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This panel is here because underneath is just normal floor
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So I could drill through it and run the wiring up into the
panel box
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All the other walls are on top of beams and I couldn't drill
into that
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So I needed one wall that was not over a beam
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You have to think about where your doors go in a tiny house
because that amount of floor space is valuable
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So it's nice to have sort of a little parking place
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This bathroom door is just a two foot door
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And it's just big enough to get a clawfoot tub in
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A clawfoot tub is 24" from top to bottom without the feet on
it
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So you turn it sideways and carry it through the door
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And then you put the feet on it and it looks like a more
substantial piece of furniture
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So this is my panel box
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I have a 50 Amp breaker for my water heater
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20 Amps is just outlets and this is the air conditioner. 30
Amps for the air conditioner
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It's my mini split — a 1 1/2 ton mini split for this house
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20 Amp breaker for the floor. It's no different than a hair
dryer really
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And these 20 Amp breakers are just outlets
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This 15 Amp breaker is just undersized. I have wiring for 20
Amps, I just had a 15 Amp breaker
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This has always puzzled me. I have a 100 Amp breaker here
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But the breaker that feeds this? Is a 90 Amp breaker.
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I.... what?
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I have to tell you about this window
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So this is another one of the sliding glass doors from my
grandparent's house
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And when I was framing this wall I had my book
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And I read about what to do and how to size the rough
opening
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Originally I was planning to take the aluminum off the
double paned glass
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section and just mount the glass directly in the wall
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But I didn't really have the equipment
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To mill out the right parts
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Ehh, it just didn't work out. I ended up using the aluminum
and I just sorta
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Built up the opening until it worked
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using HardiePlank
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So there's a piece of HardiePlank directly on my floor
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That goes all the way through the wall
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It rains right on that piece of HardiePlank
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So if my caulk fails water is going to run either above the
HardiePlank or under the HardiePlank
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Onto my floor
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This is bad. And I feel much shame
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I want to take this apart
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This wall has you know, a minuscule amount of siding
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I would be a days work to take this whole wall apart
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Rebuild these two windows and put it all back together
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But I would have to buy the windows
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And this amount of low-e glass would be expensive
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But if I ever come into money I'm gonna do this
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Now let's talk about my floor
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This is a maple floor
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It looks like this in cross section
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While I was living in Atlanta my cousin salvaged this maple
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from a basketball court at a nearby high school
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that had a plumbing disaster
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and flooded the basketball court
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And the floor buckled
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And it was almost time for school to start before they
realized
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So they went in with forklifts and just scraped this off the
floor and dumped it outside
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My cousin came along with his trailer and just loaded it up
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and made multiple trips. Then he stacked it properly in my
shed to dry
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And there was a huge stack of it. It was taking up my whole
shed
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And he built a boat building workshop out of it
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And I built my house floor out of it
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And then I traded the rest of it to my dad for a lawn mower
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With wood this thick there's no reason to have joists every
16" or even 24"
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So I did a plank and beam frame where there are two beams
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At 4 foot centers
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So I have a beam at 4 feet, another beam at 4 feet
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And the two ribbon joists around the edge
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Instead of doing staggered joints on a subfloor this is it,
that's all there is
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So I ran the boards
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so that the joints fall on the beams
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So instead of being staggered there's this regular pattern
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Every now and then there's no gap because
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I had some boards, I had like, five or six, that were twelve
feet long
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So those go the full width of the house
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I thought that would make it stiffer if I spaced them out
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So I spaced them out across the 12 foot square
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And there are these little holes that are for, I don't know,
some basketball purpose I don't understand
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I don't care
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I have some round dents in the floor that are from dropping
the track ball out of my loft
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This big ol' dent is from where I knocked over my tripod
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There's a lot of noise in a tiny house
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My refrigerator is running almost all the time
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And when I turn my air conditioner on it gets even louder
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But it's kind of a pleasant white noise and it's not that
bad
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But you would have to think about it. I mean, there's no way
I could have an aquarium in here
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or anything else that made noise constantly
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Besides an aquarium would be a disaster just from a moisture
perspective
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But you have to have the air conditioning in South Georgia
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The air conditioner here in the house is a lot louder than
the one in my lab
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One day I'll upgrade it and it'll be quieter
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But it still works so I'm not getting rid of it as long as
it's still working
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This is where I get make-up air for my exhaust fan
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I just cut one section of this board out
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And then I have some filter material in here
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I got this sink on clearance at Home Depot Expo in Fort
Lauderdale when I was working on a hurricane
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And it was about 80% off.
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It was a couple hundred bucks but it's usually thousands
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So I was vey excited to get this cast iron sink
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I had this green porcelain tile leftover from my house in
Atlanta
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And I also had a section of Wedi shower curb left
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So I cut it in half and made this shelf
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Anyway, so this is a Wedi shower curb
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made into a backsplash because this Corian counter top
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Is a surplus countertop I got at the surplus and salvage
place
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That was a bathroom counter
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which are not as wide as kitchen counters
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So the counter stops shy of the wall so my cabinet would
work
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I already had this Subzero refrigerator when I started
building this house
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It's a all refrigerator so this drawer is the crisper drawer
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And this drawer is the jelly drawer, in my case. This is
where I keep all my jelly
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And this is the regular refrigerator
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I covered the door with just more of the paneling
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I cut the tongue and groove off and glued up a panel of the
same wood I was using on the walls
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This tile and this tile I had leftover from Atlanta
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And I bought the yellow tile and the border to finish out
the design
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Cause it was just a couple squares I just bought it off the
shelf at Home Depot
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I already had this cabinet when I started building the house
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I got it on clearance the same place I got the refrigerator
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So I liked the cabinet I wanted to use that
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And that's where I have basically my most important kitchen
stuff
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I keep my dishes in a drawer
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I keep my toaster and my rice cooker in a drawer
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Subtitle
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And I didn't see any reason I needed a cabinet under the
sink
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It just makes it hard to work on
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So I don't have a cabinet under the sink because I need to
work on it
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Let me show you
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So under the sink I reinforced the side of the stock cabinet
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With some of my tongue and groove boards
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because these are just thin plywood walls
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So I reinforced the sides because it's gotta hold up this
massive cast iron sink
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So what I did is I made a shelf with another piece of the
tongue and groove to hold up the sink
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On the other side I think I used a 2x4
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But then I had to get the sink up there and I can't lift
this sink by myself
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So I had to sort of lift it a little bit at a time
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And put books under one side and then lift the other side
and put books under that
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Until I got it high enough to lift it and slide it into the
space
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So the way the edge came out is not ideal
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but damn, I was... I almost killed myself so
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I'm lucky it's in there at all
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Now under here I have had a really hard time with the drain
on this sink
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It always wants to leak and you can see by the corrosion
what a mess it is
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So the gasket thing around the drain basket
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Those things, whatever rubber they make plumbing parts out
of
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I HATE it. I hate the way it smells so much
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I've painted this with water based polyurethane just so I
can't smell it
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It kept dripping just really very slow drip
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and built up all this corrosion
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But finally the corrosion has stopped the dripping
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So I'm not gonna touch it. If I take it apart I'm gonna have
to replace all of it to get it to stop
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When I first built this house I had a different water heater
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I had the cheapest water heater I could get
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which was made by Eemax
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And it was garbage. It was about $150
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Total piece of shit
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So I saved up my money and bought this one that cost twice
as much
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But twice as much in instant water heaters is only like,
it's still less than $300
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I did the vent stack wrong. I didn't vent this sink properly
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So it doesn't drain as fast as it ought to
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I didn't know what I was doing
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I still don't. If I had figurd it out I would redo it
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But I still don't know how to do it
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I wrote a littel note and put it there in case something
happens to me
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And my brother inherits this house and he starts cussing me
because he doesn't know what the hell is going on
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He can see that I was sorry
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Because I had to move in before I finished
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The way I did the water is I just hooked it up
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so that it would get me through what I needed to do
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And then as I was ready to add more things I would just cut
the pipe and add a Tee
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And put in another thing
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The first water I had was going to that shower valve on the
outside wall
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And then the next thing I had was the bathroom sink
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And then I added the outside shower and then I added the
kitchen sink last
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In this corner you can see the basis of my construction
technique
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So this is a pressure treated 4x4 that goes all the way into
the ground
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And all the way up to the roof. So the house is tied
together really well
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And it allowed me to build it by myself
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There wasn't anything to tip over or fall on me
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And I could just add pieces one member at at time
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I just got the four posts stuck up there and then I just
started adding pieces until it got housey
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So here where the wall boards don't go all the way to the
post
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you can see the spray foam
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This is icynene open cell spray foam
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When I built this house manifolds were really expensive
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But when I did my lab the price on manifolds had come down a
lot
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And I enjoyed using that. It's a much tidier solution
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I've got this emptied out for spring cleaning, but typically
there's a bunch of shit shoved under here
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That's the typical collection of stuff under there
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Then you can't really see it when you're standing up
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This aluminum rail is from Ikea
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And it holds these accessories: this dish drainer
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And this one for cutlery
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And it's nice because you can take them down to clean them
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Or take them down so it's more decorative when you have a
lot of company over for a wedding
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This also fold up so I guess you could just fold it up for
whatever reason
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But I hardly ever fold it up. If I was gonna fold it up I'd
just take it all the way down
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One thing that I had to do to modify this
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I used this for years and it just sort of dripped all over
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And it started making calcium buildup on my faucet
448
00:37:15,567 --> 00:37:19,467
So I got a plastic cutting board
449
00:37:19,467 --> 00:37:22,667
Which just miraculously was exactly the right size
450
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,000
I punched some holes in the corners with a hole punch
451
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,133
Then I got some aluminum armature wire
452
00:37:34,166 --> 00:37:41,133
Just hook it on there. And now all the water just runs out
the front and doesn't get all over my faucet and stuff
453
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:46,233
I swapped out my rug while I'm washing the other one
454
00:37:46,233 --> 00:37:51,166
And the longer rug covered up this extra piece of floor
455
00:37:51,166 --> 00:37:58,333
Look at how much lighter the maple is where the sun hit it
456
00:37:58,333 --> 00:38:00,600
Compared to where it was covered up by the rug
457
00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:04,700
So maple lightens in the sun
458
00:38:04,834 --> 00:38:07,834
but check this out
459
00:38:07,834 --> 00:38:11,767
Pine darkens in the sun
460
00:38:11,767 --> 00:38:16,700
So where it's been covered up by that cutting board it's
lighter
461
00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:21,133
My whole house is getting darker and darker with years
462
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,800
See this outlet up here?
463
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:34,166
Originally I had a light fixture screwed right here with a
cord
464
00:38:34,367 --> 00:38:38,667
But I decided I didn't like it and I took it down
465
00:38:38,867 --> 00:38:45,000
This hole is where I had my computer mounted on a pole for a
while
466
00:39:07,467 --> 00:39:15,133
But when I built my lab I could take my computer out of the
house and this freed up all this space
467
00:39:15,133 --> 00:39:20,100
So now if I need extra lighting I just have a lamp. And I
use this maybe once a month
468
00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:24,467
My counter is not usually this empty of course
469
00:39:24,467 --> 00:39:27,967
This is the Corian I cut out of the sink hole
470
00:39:28,567 --> 00:39:34,900
I put this here if I'm processing a lot of fruit, like
peeling calamondins or peaches to make jam
471
00:39:39,567 --> 00:39:42,567
But usually it lives here
472
00:39:44,166 --> 00:39:47,166
I have this glass cutting board
473
00:39:47,166 --> 00:39:51,667
that I keep here with my hotplate on it
474
00:39:54,934 --> 00:39:57,934
So this is where my hotplate lives
475
00:39:57,934 --> 00:40:00,934
My other cooking utensils are a toaster and a rice cooker
476
00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:06,567
So these typically live up here
477
00:40:06,567 --> 00:40:09,567
Unless I need the space for something else
478
00:40:12,233 --> 00:40:15,233
This fuzzy logic rice cooker, toaster,
479
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:21,166
Microwave oven and induction hotplate are the only cooking
appliances I keep in the house
480
00:40:33,834 --> 00:40:36,834
I love my Panasonic fuzzy logic rice cooker. It's so cute.
Look at it
481
00:40:36,834 --> 00:40:39,834
Look at it!
482
00:40:39,834 --> 00:40:42,834
This is the cabinetry of desperation
483
00:40:43,367 --> 00:40:46,367
But you know what? It's worked for 15 years
484
00:40:46,367 --> 00:40:51,300
And it hasn't even bothered me that I didn't put any shoe
mold or anything on it
485
00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:53,567
It's just open
486
00:40:53,567 --> 00:40:56,567
So I just screwed 2x4s to the floor
487
00:40:56,567 --> 00:41:00,667
And then just nailed tongue and groove planks on it
488
00:41:00,667 --> 00:41:03,667
It's kind of fine
489
00:41:04,533 --> 00:41:08,000
This bar top used to be my coffee table
490
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:14,333
See how it had 4 legs that were set into it like this?
491
00:41:14,333 --> 00:41:19,734
My uncle made it from one piece of virgin longleaf pine
492
00:41:19,734 --> 00:41:23,867
So this is the center of the tree
493
00:41:23,934 --> 00:41:27,667
Whenever I watch sawmill videos they say you don't want the
center of the tree
494
00:41:27,667 --> 00:41:30,066
But, I don't, this is fine
495
00:41:30,066 --> 00:41:35,667
I guess if it's virgin and this right here constitutes about
100 years
496
00:41:35,667 --> 00:41:38,667
from there to there its fine
497
00:41:38,667 --> 00:41:42,233
but faster growing stuff maybe it would be a problem
498
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:48,233
It's epoxy coated. I haven't done anything to this. It's
been my coffee table for 30 years
499
00:41:48,233 --> 00:41:51,233
This other countertop
500
00:41:51,433 --> 00:41:55,266
is shortleaf pine and you can see the difference
501
00:41:55,266 --> 00:42:02,100
This countertop my father made to sort of match this one? He
matched the thickness
502
00:42:02,133 --> 00:42:06,834
This is the shortleaf pine tree that fell on my grandparents
house
503
00:42:07,233 --> 00:42:11,934
which yielded me these sliding glass doors to use for
windows
504
00:42:12,033 --> 00:42:14,600
Now this window used to be a sliding glass door
505
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:20,967
In about 2011 I replaced it with plate glass from the glass
supplier
506
00:42:20,967 --> 00:42:24,633
I'm not real happy that I can see the sealant through the
glass
507
00:42:24,633 --> 00:42:30,934
And right down here you can see where they sprayed it with
Windex and you've got that blue color in there
508
00:42:30,934 --> 00:42:33,300
It kind of bothers me
509
00:42:35,166 --> 00:42:38,934
Next to my refrigerator I have one closet
510
00:42:38,934 --> 00:42:41,500
It's the only closet in my whole house
511
00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:44,500
And here's a hint as to what's in it
512
00:42:45,333 --> 00:42:51,266
I moved into my house before it was finished because my aunt
wanted the bedroom where I was staying
513
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,400
to be her bedroom so that she could turn her bedroom into
the kitchen
514
00:42:56,100 --> 00:42:59,100
And in the process of that remodeling project
515
00:42:59,100 --> 00:43:02,033
This door got displaced
516
00:43:02,033 --> 00:43:04,967
So it's now my closet door
517
00:43:04,967 --> 00:43:07,967
I turned it over. This was the bottom of the door
518
00:43:09,133 --> 00:43:13,400
And a mouse chewed the door up
519
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:21,100
So I just thought it would be less obvious at the top than
at the bottom so I turned the whole door over
520
00:43:21,100 --> 00:43:24,467
Also the doorknob was way too low for me
521
00:43:24,467 --> 00:43:29,734
Inside my minuscule closet I keep a few essentials
522
00:43:29,734 --> 00:43:35,967
Including my Electrolux vacuum cleaner that I bought in
about 1996
523
00:43:35,967 --> 00:43:41,000
I think it was made for cleaning hotels
524
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,333
It has a 75 foot cord
525
00:43:43,333 --> 00:43:46,333
My house is 18' x 12'
526
00:43:48,066 --> 00:43:51,900
The back of the door is where I keep my hammock chair
527
00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:57,834
Typically after hurricanes when my power is out for several
days
528
00:43:57,834 --> 00:44:04,233
my habit is to get out the hammock chair and read all of my
books
529
00:44:07,066 --> 00:44:10,934
You know how some people have little platitudes on plaques
in their house?
530
00:44:10,934 --> 00:44:13,934
I keep all mine inside this closet
531
00:44:17,834 --> 00:44:23,300
My dad made this live oak beam for me. It's in two pieces so
there's a beam shelf
532
00:44:23,300 --> 00:44:27,734
So the bottom piece is screwed and glued to the top piece
533
00:44:27,734 --> 00:44:30,734
And then the screw heads are covered
534
00:44:30,734 --> 00:44:32,734
My dad made it in his shop and then I went and got it in my
car
535
00:44:32,734 --> 00:44:37,900
We tested it. We put the ends up on five gallon buckets and
then we both stood on it
536
00:44:37,900 --> 00:44:40,000
And measured how much it flexed
537
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,333
And it flexed less than an inch over the whole 12' length
538
00:44:43,333 --> 00:44:49,433
And it's really good for traction
539
00:44:49,433 --> 00:44:54,333
to traction your back. I can't stop swinging
540
00:44:56,367 --> 00:45:01,500
Bedrooms have special rules, like you have to have a special
kind of outlet and special egress windows
541
00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:05,266
But if you have a removable ladder technically it's not a
bedroom
542
00:45:11,433 --> 00:45:15,166
So the ladder is removable. It just lifts up
543
00:45:22,633 --> 00:45:27,700
I cut the 2x6 side pieces of this ladder to fit
544
00:45:27,700 --> 00:45:31,500
I cut the notches and everything and I marked for the steps
545
00:45:31,500 --> 00:45:35,700
And then I took the whole thing to my dad's shop and he
built it for me
546
00:45:35,700 --> 00:45:40,200
And then I brought it home in my car and put it into place
547
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,633
He has really nice woodworking equipment. I do not
548
00:45:44,066 --> 00:45:47,066
He routered out that little handle. That was all his idea
549
00:45:47,066 --> 00:45:49,467
It was brilliant. That's the best part
550
00:45:49,467 --> 00:45:54,266
I put the floor of my loft down with the v-groove side down
551
00:45:54,266 --> 00:45:57,934
And I prefinished it with water based polyurethane
552
00:45:57,934 --> 00:46:02,967
Because the kitchen side seemed like the part that needed to
be sealed
553
00:46:05,166 --> 00:46:09,734
I put my 2x4s on 12" centers because they're shit
554
00:46:09,734 --> 00:46:13,200
look, see how I sanded all the rough spots off of them
555
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,700
and pre-stained them
556
00:46:17,934 --> 00:46:22,834
The quality of lumber at the big box stores is just garbage
557
00:46:22,834 --> 00:46:25,834
So I just put em a lot closer together
558
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,767
This is where I keep my outdoor kitchen skewer
559
00:46:29,767 --> 00:46:36,300
One of my favorite features of my tiny house is these hand
rails that I built into the window frame
560
00:46:36,300 --> 00:46:40,900
I saw this idea in a Fine Homebuilding article
561
00:46:40,900 --> 00:46:44,433
And it's just really great. I love em
562
00:46:44,433 --> 00:46:48,033
I had a vertigo attack a few years ago
563
00:46:48,033 --> 00:46:53,367
And I had to hold onto something every step I took and these
were invaluable
564
00:46:53,367 --> 00:46:59,500
The steps to my loft start out with this sort of alternating
tread design
565
00:46:59,500 --> 00:47:03,300
I did the most basic thing. It's just a bracket on the wall
566
00:47:03,300 --> 00:47:05,800
The little ends get a chunk of wood
567
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,667
and the big ends get a bracket
568
00:47:08,867 --> 00:47:11,867
This platform is a seat
569
00:47:11,867 --> 00:47:14,867
and that's why there's this yoga mat up here
570
00:47:14,867 --> 00:47:20,367
So I bought this yoga mat to put on my hard metal stools
571
00:47:20,367 --> 00:47:23,367
and this is what was left over. That's why it doesn't go the
whole distance
572
00:47:23,367 --> 00:47:26,367
but I sort of like it
573
00:47:26,367 --> 00:47:29,367
because when I come down the stairs
574
00:47:29,367 --> 00:47:34,934
If I'm coming down the stairs from my loft when I step down
and I hit the yoga mat I know I'm at the bottom
575
00:47:42,433 --> 00:47:45,433
This is the loft of my tiny house
576
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,667
This is my escape window
577
00:47:53,066 --> 00:47:55,233
so in a serious emergency
578
00:47:56,033 --> 00:47:59,567
I can open this window and kick out the screen
579
00:47:59,567 --> 00:48:04,433
And climb down onto the outdoor shower surround
580
00:48:04,433 --> 00:48:06,967
and make my escape
581
00:48:06,967 --> 00:48:12,867
It's not technically an egress window but it is for me
because I'm small and I can totally fit through that
582
00:48:14,333 --> 00:48:17,333
This is a fire prone place
583
00:48:17,333 --> 00:48:20,300
But I designed my house to be fireproof, so hopefully
584
00:48:20,300 --> 00:48:23,300
if I'm surrounded by fire
585
00:48:23,300 --> 00:48:29,700
I will smell the smoke and I will skedaddle out the front
door and get a hose and start trying to put it out
586
00:48:29,700 --> 00:48:35,900
Or I could open it and use it as an arrow slot
587
00:48:35,900 --> 00:48:40,166
For the zombie apocalypse. I can fire down upon the hoards
588
00:48:40,166 --> 00:48:44,567
that are trying to overtake my highly defensible position
589
00:48:44,567 --> 00:48:47,567
I was already living here before I put up the ceiling
590
00:48:47,567 --> 00:48:49,600
There was no loft here yet
591
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:53,467
Every Saturday morning I would move by bed outside and all
my stuff
592
00:48:53,467 --> 00:48:56,467
and put it up under one of those 10x10 pop-up tents
593
00:48:56,467 --> 00:49:00,200
And then I'd work on the house. So before the loft was even
here
594
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:04,467
I had a man come on a Saturday and screw the sheetrock to
the ceiling
595
00:49:04,467 --> 00:49:07,467
It's greenboard. It's the moisture resistant kind
596
00:49:07,734 --> 00:49:11,633
It's important to me that this be air tight for sound
proofing
597
00:49:11,633 --> 00:49:16,567
This is my only operable window. Everything in here is
sealed tight
598
00:49:16,567 --> 00:49:19,567
Because I want it to be soundproof
599
00:49:19,567 --> 00:49:28,066
So I caulked the joints because I didn't have time for
taping and mudding and sanding
600
00:49:28,066 --> 00:49:30,500
I had to get this all done in two days
601
00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:33,767
So I caulked the joints and then I painted
602
00:49:33,767 --> 00:49:40,433
And the reason this is two colors is not just for this
delightful sunrise/sunset look
603
00:49:40,433 --> 00:49:43,433
It's just all the paint I had
604
00:49:43,433 --> 00:49:47,934
I bought a gallon of this kind of peach color as oops paint
605
00:49:47,934 --> 00:49:51,133
And I painted the ceiling with that and it was just too dark
606
00:49:51,133 --> 00:49:53,633
It was kind of gross it looked like an esophagus
607
00:49:53,633 --> 00:49:56,633
And I had some of this yellow paint
608
00:49:56,633 --> 00:50:00,266
So I painted until I ran out
609
00:50:00,266 --> 00:50:06,900
And I was almost out here so I added some glaze and sort of
blended it in just to make it look like I did it on purpose
610
00:50:06,900 --> 00:50:12,266
But ultimately I would like to take all of this down
611
00:50:12,266 --> 00:50:15,467
Cut my caulk, take the sheetrock down
612
00:50:15,467 --> 00:50:19,033
And add some rockwool insulation
613
00:50:19,033 --> 00:50:22,900
I don't have enough insulation in my roof. Only maybe R-12?
614
00:50:22,900 --> 00:50:26,600
My air conditioner would work a lot better in the summer if
I had more insulation
615
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,166
And it wouldn't get as cold in the winter
616
00:50:28,166 --> 00:50:31,133
This is a pretty mild climate, so it's not a huge deal
617
00:50:31,133 --> 00:50:35,667
But it's sort of in my wanna-do list
618
00:50:35,667 --> 00:50:38,233
There's nothing wrong with the sheetrock so I could take it
down
619
00:50:38,233 --> 00:50:41,233
Put in insulation and then put the same sheetrock back up
620
00:50:41,233 --> 00:50:47,066
And then take the time to tape it and mud it and then paint
it all a nice color
621
00:50:47,066 --> 00:50:50,367
White? Maybe? I dunno
622
00:50:50,367 --> 00:50:54,467
But I'd like a better paint finish because I can touch it
and
623
00:50:54,467 --> 00:50:58,467
And everywhere there's a little imperfection in the paint it
bugs me
624
00:50:58,467 --> 00:51:00,767
I don't have any sheet goods in my house
625
00:51:00,767 --> 00:51:03,667
Because I can't lift it by myself
626
00:51:03,667 --> 00:51:07,500
So the roof? The metal is screwed directly to the purlins
627
00:51:07,500 --> 00:51:10,500
But before I put the metal on the purlins
628
00:51:10,500 --> 00:51:13,500
I put sill seal down on the purlins
629
00:51:13,500 --> 00:51:15,467
As a vibration barrier
630
00:51:15,467 --> 00:51:21,166
So that the vibration of raindrops on the metal roof don't
transfer directly to the wood members
631
00:51:21,166 --> 00:51:27,033
And then I also put spray foam directly on the bottom side
of the metal
632
00:51:27,033 --> 00:51:31,967
And that dulls... that dampens the vibration a lot
633
00:51:31,967 --> 00:51:35,500
But making it airtight
634
00:51:35,500 --> 00:51:38,500
And dampening the vibrations
635
00:51:38,500 --> 00:51:41,500
made it a lot quieter than it would be without
636
00:51:41,500 --> 00:51:43,700
I can compare by going on the porch
637
00:51:43,700 --> 00:51:47,367
in a rainstorm and it's way louder
638
00:51:47,367 --> 00:51:51,367
without any of the insulation on it and the airtight ceiling
639
00:51:51,367 --> 00:51:54,367
So this is what it souds like inside the shed
640
00:52:04,967 --> 00:52:09,433
Here's the sound of a nice hard rain from my front porch
641
00:52:14,900 --> 00:52:19,667
Gotta get enough light on the meter. There we go
642
00:52:21,867 --> 00:52:24,867
Less loud than the shed
643
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:43,400
Now we'll try inside
644
00:52:49,934 --> 00:52:52,934
And immediately it gets quieter
645
00:52:55,100 --> 00:52:58,100
Let me get light on the meter
646
00:53:00,033 --> 00:53:02,166
50 dB
647
00:53:02,166 --> 00:53:08,400
So that's about... so that's 50 dB or less
648
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:22,533
Now let's compare the main part of the house to the bathroom
649
00:53:24,734 --> 00:53:27,166
It's not really raining that hard right now
650
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:34,166
The metal roof on the house is way quieter than the shed or
the Spartan
651
00:53:34,166 --> 00:53:41,433
Because of the sill seal. Because of the closed cell foam I
put on top of the purlins
652
00:53:41,467 --> 00:53:47,834
The metal just can't conduct as much sound energy into the
structure
653
00:53:49,734 --> 00:53:52,734
So whatever is coming through is coming through the air
654
00:53:55,767 --> 00:54:00,734
This isn't bad, but sometimes when it rains really hard?
Whuf
655
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:07,033
It's still loud though
656
00:54:07,033 --> 00:54:08,567
What are you going to do
657
00:54:08,934 --> 00:54:13,233
People that say they love the sound of rain on a metal roof
658
00:54:13,500 --> 00:54:16,500
Yeah, how far is your head from the ceiling
659
00:54:17,033 --> 00:54:20,834
So the problem with my scheme to add insulation to the
ceiling
660
00:54:20,834 --> 00:54:24,633
I only need 20 pieces. 20 physical pieces of insulation
661
00:54:24,633 --> 00:54:26,800
which is 4 packages of 5
662
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:30,800
But they only sell it in sets of 12
663
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,133
I found out after I built this house
664
00:54:33,133 --> 00:54:37,800
that you're supposed to put sheetrock behind tongue and
groove boards
665
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,800
For fire resistance. I had no idea
666
00:54:40,900 --> 00:54:44,500
And how ridiculous is that?
667
00:54:44,500 --> 00:54:45,900
I'm not doing that!
668
00:54:45,900 --> 00:54:48,900
This house is so tiny if there was a fire in here
669
00:54:48,900 --> 00:54:53,467
I would just be dead from the smoke before it even started a
wall on fire
670
00:54:53,467 --> 00:54:58,200
Just the smoke right out of the appliance that started the
fire would kill me
671
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,200
So who cares if the walls burn the hell up?
672
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,834
I had better just get the hell out
673
00:55:03,834 --> 00:55:07,967
I have a smoke detector. So as soon as the smoke detector
goes off I go out the door
674
00:55:07,967 --> 00:55:13,667
When it's time to actually go to sleep I have to do some
modifications to my bed
675
00:55:13,667 --> 00:55:19,000
On the wall right there I have some magnets that hold this
meat tray
676
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:23,800
that I got at a flea market. And I have to take this tray
677
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:28,266
And slide it under my mattress like this
678
00:55:28,266 --> 00:55:33,400
Lift it up and put this mallet under there
679
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:37,433
And that raises my bed up 6 inches
680
00:55:37,433 --> 00:55:40,433
So that I can
681
00:55:44,767 --> 00:55:58,200
So then when it's sleeping time I sleep this way because I
have acid reflux and I have to have my head elevated
682
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:02,867
This is my live oak persuader that just happens to work
perfectly for this
683
00:56:07,700 --> 00:56:10,700
So here's a million dollar idea
684
00:56:10,700 --> 00:56:15,567
So it's like a Murphy bed, but instead of folding up against
the wall, the foot drops down
685
00:56:15,567 --> 00:56:18,567
So that your head is elevated 6 inches
686
00:56:20,333 --> 00:56:25,700
It would need to be like a regular bed, a convenient height
for changing the sheets
687
00:56:25,700 --> 00:56:31,233
and getting in and out. But then you can change the foot
height
688
00:56:31,233 --> 00:56:35,033
Not like an expensive motorized hospital bed
689
00:56:35,033 --> 00:56:40,567
But something like a Ikea bed but that lets you drop the
foot down
690
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:47,800
I've been editing this video and I realized its over 50
minutes long
691
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:51,333
But I never recorded an ending
692
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:56,233
At the end of every tiny house tour they always ask how much
it cost
693
00:56:56,233 --> 00:57:01,967
I saved all my receipts for this house, but I haven't gone
back and added them up
694
00:57:01,967 --> 00:57:04,967
I kept meaning to make a spreadsheet but I just haven't done
it
695
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:08,900
It cost under $25,000
696
00:57:09,300 --> 00:57:12,700
I had to spend most of my money on infrastructure
697
00:57:12,700 --> 00:57:17,633
The septic tank and getting the well repaired
698
00:57:17,900 --> 00:57:22,800
And I already had a well dug, all I had to do was put a new
pump in it
699
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:28,934
So getting a well from scratch and getting a power line run
would be very expensive
700
00:57:28,934 --> 00:57:34,734
But because I used an old house site that already had some
existing infrastructure I saved some money there
701
00:57:34,967 --> 00:57:39,700
I moved out of Atlanta and built my tiny house because of a
giant technology recession
702
00:57:39,700 --> 00:57:44,700
And I built this tiny house to sort of recession-proof
myself
703
00:57:45,300 --> 00:57:49,100
When I finished my tiny house in 2006
704
00:57:49,100 --> 00:57:52,467
I started graduate school... (thunder) ominous...
705
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:57,567
because I wanted to further my second career in
environmental engineering
706
00:57:57,567 --> 00:58:02,533
And sure enough in 2008 when there was another giant
recession
707
00:58:02,667 --> 00:58:06,266
I lost my job in my second career
708
00:58:06,266 --> 00:58:12,333
And thanks to my tiny house I've been able to continue not
having a job
709
00:58:12,333 --> 00:58:16,867
I worked briefly in 2010
710
00:58:16,867 --> 00:58:21,867
in Austin, and I was able to just close up my tiny house
711
00:58:21,867 --> 00:58:24,567
I blocked the drain traps
712
00:58:24,567 --> 00:58:28,066
I turned off all the circuit breakers except the
refrigerator
713
00:58:28,066 --> 00:58:31,633
And the refrigerator provided a little bit of dehumidifying
714
00:58:31,633 --> 00:58:37,066
And my house was able to just be vacant for a year and it
was fine
715
00:58:37,066 --> 00:58:42,066
And it didn't cost anything. I put my internet on vacation
mode
716
00:58:42,233 --> 00:58:47,000
And my power bill was $10 a month just for having a meter
717
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:54,533
And it was great to have the mobility to go take a job
somewhere else
718
00:58:56,166 --> 00:58:59,633
And now I'm doing fine in a pandemic because
719
00:58:59,767 --> 00:59:05,066
I already never left the house and only bought groceries
every two weeks
720
00:59:05,066 --> 00:59:10,867
My expenses are so low I can make a living making things and
selling them on Etsy
721
00:59:11,066 --> 00:59:16,300
I can get obsessed about a board game and spend two years in
research and development
722
00:59:16,300 --> 00:59:20,233
After an estuaries class in graduate school
723
00:59:20,233 --> 00:59:26,867
I went up to the professor and I asked him how development
was compatible with preserving the ecology
724
00:59:27,166 --> 00:59:30,300
and he just looked at me like I was ignorant and said
725
00:59:30,300 --> 00:59:32,100
"It's not"
726
00:59:32,100 --> 00:59:36,467
"As long as there's economic growth the ecology is de facto
going to decline"
727
00:59:36,467 --> 00:59:39,967
like everybody knew that
728
00:59:39,967 --> 00:59:41,900
and everybody accepted it
729
00:59:41,900 --> 00:59:45,333
But I don't accept it. I don't think that
730
00:59:45,333 --> 00:59:49,300
growing the economy is worth destroying nature
731
00:59:49,300 --> 00:59:52,300
What's the point of growing the economy?
732
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:58,900
I decided to do an experiment in not having economic growth
733
00:59:58,900 --> 01:00:01,900
How small could I make my life
734
01:00:02,934 --> 01:00:06,533
So I've been running this experiment for a while now
735
01:00:06,533 --> 01:00:09,200
You can make it pretty small
736
01:00:11,266 --> 01:00:15,200
But I think that it would work a lot better if we had
universal healthcare
737
01:00:16,266 --> 01:00:21,767
I enjoy building science. I like learning about the new
products and seeing how people are using different
materials
738
01:00:21,834 --> 01:00:24,800
Maybe I watch too much sci-fi
739
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:31,100
but I keep waiting for them to stop talking about HVAC and
just refer to the life support system of a house
740
01:00:31,367 --> 01:00:35,467
My main challenge here in south Georgia is humidity control
741
01:00:35,500 --> 01:00:40,166
But it's only a matter of time before we need CO2 scrubbers
in our houses
742
01:00:40,166 --> 01:00:45,633
While building science is important, it's not more important
than the whole point of a house which is shelter
743
01:00:46,100 --> 01:00:50,900
If you've got to get out of the rain and out of the cold you
gotta do what you gotta do
744
01:00:50,900 --> 01:00:55,834
If you only end up with R-12 insulation in your ceiling....
745
01:00:55,967 --> 01:01:00,100
One thing you learn as a scientist is you can't change all
your variables at once
746
01:01:00,100 --> 01:01:05,066
When I'm thinking of solutions to problems I can think of a
whole lot of things to try
747
01:01:05,066 --> 01:01:08,066
But I have to force myself to only try one at a time
748
01:01:08,066 --> 01:01:10,000
Or I won't know which one worked
749
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:15,033
I feel like a house this small is a good opportunity to try
some stuff
750
01:01:15,033 --> 01:01:21,400
So I sorta did some stuff on my tiny house knowing that it
could fail
751
01:01:22,300 --> 01:01:25,300
I barely did any of the stuff you're supposed to do to make
a house tight
752
01:01:25,300 --> 01:01:27,834
I didn't use any expensive tape
753
01:01:27,834 --> 01:01:30,700
I didn't use OSB sheathing
754
01:01:30,700 --> 01:01:32,967
I didn't use sheetrock
755
01:01:32,967 --> 01:01:37,367
All I did was use open cell spray foam
756
01:01:37,367 --> 01:01:41,700
And yet my house is so tight it behaves like a loudspeaker
enclosure
757
01:01:41,700 --> 01:01:45,967
My tiny house contains about 900 cubic feet of air
758
01:01:45,967 --> 01:01:50,300
And the front door is basically like a port on a loudspeaker
759
01:01:50,300 --> 01:01:55,734
And you can calculate the spring constant of the volume of
air inside that doorway
760
01:01:56,834 --> 01:02:02,133
And trying to close the door is like pushing against a
spring. It wants to come open again
761
01:02:02,133 --> 01:02:04,967
And that's how I can tell my house is air tight
762
01:02:04,967 --> 01:02:07,500
The same thing is true of my Spartan
763
01:02:07,500 --> 01:02:12,166
It's so tight that if I have a window open it's much easier
to close the door
764
01:02:14,900 --> 01:02:17,900
I did some things on my house that I was pretty sure weren't
going to work
765
01:02:17,900 --> 01:02:20,900
Like putting the posts all the way down into a hole in the
ground
766
01:02:20,900 --> 01:02:23,900
but, did I really have a choice?
767
01:02:23,900 --> 01:02:26,400
It was the safest way to build it by myself
768
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,400
And the way I fixed it later
769
01:02:30,333 --> 01:02:32,567
Was pretty good. I might do it again.
770
01:02:32,567 --> 01:02:35,033
Build a house with the posts all the way into the ground
771
01:02:35,033 --> 01:02:37,567
And then later cut em off and put the concrete under them
772
01:02:37,567 --> 01:02:41,200
It seems like a ridiculous order to do it in
773
01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:45,000
But I honestly haven't been able to think of a better way
774
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:48,600
Because at the time I just needed to get started
775
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:51,600
I needed to make progress
776
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,600
And the investment and the labor
777
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:58,600
of the concrete, I just wasn't in a place to do that then
778
01:02:59,100 --> 01:03:01,700
And honestly I don't feel bad about that
779
01:03:01,700 --> 01:03:03,367
I think it worked
780
01:03:03,433 --> 01:03:04,633
I got 10 years out of those posts
781
01:03:04,633 --> 01:03:06,100
Maybe that's all I needed
782
01:03:06,100 --> 01:03:07,266
Maybe in 10 years
783
01:03:07,266 --> 01:03:10,033
I would've been able to afford to build a bigger house
784
01:03:10,033 --> 01:03:11,800
And I could've had a house mover come
785
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:14,467
Saw off all these posts and pull this house outta here
786
01:03:14,467 --> 01:03:17,467
Sell it to somebody else who could put it on concrete
787
01:03:18,300 --> 01:03:20,200
And I think flexibility's important
788
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:21,667
You can't be too hard on yourself
789
01:03:22,066 --> 01:03:24,800
thinking you're going to do something once and not ever
touch it again.
790
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:26,967
There's nothing wrong with touching it again
791
01:03:26,967 --> 01:03:29,033
I took that shitty water heater out of here
792
01:03:29,033 --> 01:03:31,100
I stuck it in my warehouse for a few years
793
01:03:31,100 --> 01:03:35,233
And then I built my lab and I needed a water heater for my
laundry room and I used it again
794
01:03:35,233 --> 01:03:37,266
It's fine
795
01:03:38,233 --> 01:03:43,133
There were some parts of my house that I really couldn't
figure out and I had to go and ask my dad for help
796
01:03:43,233 --> 01:03:46,233
and he was really pretty short with me
797
01:03:46,233 --> 01:03:52,367
He does not approve of starting a project where you can't
visualize every detail
798
01:03:52,500 --> 01:03:57,467
all the way through and know ahead of time what you're going
to do all the way to the end
799
01:03:57,467 --> 01:04:02,734
But I didn't have the mental capacity to do that
800
01:04:02,734 --> 01:04:07,133
I had to just start and I had to just trust myself that I
would figure it out
801
01:04:07,133 --> 01:04:10,133
I had to trust that my dad would tell me how to do it
802
01:04:10,166 --> 01:04:14,900
And he did. He didn't want to. And he didn't really like how
I did it
803
01:04:14,900 --> 01:04:19,533
While I would love to be able to picture every detail all
the way through to the end of the job
804
01:04:19,533 --> 01:04:21,767
That's just not practical
805
01:04:21,767 --> 01:04:24,100
I know myself a little bit better than that
806
01:04:24,100 --> 01:04:26,700
I have confidence that it will work out
807
01:04:26,867 --> 01:04:31,633
And I have confidence that once I'm standing back looking at
it I'll know what to do next
808
01:04:31,633 --> 01:04:37,967
But sometimes I just have to see it full scale and in 3D
before I can really picture what's going to happen next
809
01:04:38,467 --> 01:04:42,100
And I could feel bad that I'm not doing it right
810
01:04:42,100 --> 01:04:43,633
But I don't
811
01:04:44,233 --> 01:04:47,967
I have a house to live in and it shelters me from
thunderstorms
812
01:04:47,967 --> 01:04:51,567
I have been through lots of hurricanes in this house
813
01:04:51,567 --> 01:04:55,867
And every time there's a hurricane I start thinking about my
windows and I wonder if they're going to get
814
01:04:55,867 --> 01:05:00,567
Sucked out of the hole because there's nothing really
holding them in there but finish nails and caulk
815
01:05:00,567 --> 01:05:05,100
But they never get sucked out and they are tempered glass,
so I've got that going for me
816
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:09,667
I wonder if I would be crushed to death if a tree fell on my
tiny house
817
01:05:09,667 --> 01:05:12,667
But honestly I think I built it better than most people's
houses
818
01:05:12,667 --> 01:05:15,667
Because of that rigid frame I'm probably better off
819
01:05:16,100 --> 01:05:19,834
I have double 2x6 beams across the tops of my walls
820
01:05:19,834 --> 01:05:24,500
Instead of just 2x4 double top plates
821
01:05:30,767 --> 01:05:33,767
It's pretty common for trees to fall on houses
822
01:05:33,767 --> 01:05:38,967
If you're in a big house the chance that the tree will fall
on the part of the house you're in
823
01:05:38,967 --> 01:05:41,400
I guess, is reduced
824
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:45,734
And in my tiny house if a tree fell on it and crushed it it
would get me for sure
825
01:05:46,066 --> 01:05:49,066
But what I've decided about trees falling on the house
826
01:05:49,133 --> 01:05:51,533
Is it depends on how far away the tree is
827
01:05:51,533 --> 01:05:55,200
If it's really close to the house it just sort of leans
against the house
828
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:58,500
But if it's far away and it's all the way up to speed
829
01:05:58,500 --> 01:06:01,834
It's gonna smash the shit out of your house and there's
nothing you can do about it
830
01:06:01,834 --> 01:06:04,667
Whenever there's a hurricane, and there's a lot
831
01:06:04,667 --> 01:06:08,300
they say to get to an inside room away from windows
832
01:06:08,300 --> 01:06:13,400
and I don't have an inside room away from windows
833
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:20,633
So I channel my cousin Annie and I fill the bathtub with
pillows and I get in there and read
834
01:06:20,633 --> 01:06:25,900
That's all for the Beachton Buck Rivet Report. Go buck
yourself
