Kitchen & Bathroom Earthbag Addition
Episode 2
Kitchen Building Plans & Moving the Toilet Flang!
We get our kitchen plans laid out and say "good-bye" to Ashley! The extentions are going to be a wonderful addition to the home and we're exited to see how they turn out! We hope you'll enjoy this video and we'll be back next week with more updates!
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Shae
March 30, 2018
Video Transcript
last week we laid the first bags for the
kitchen and cleared out the bathroom to
begin the earth bag add-ons on the main
house
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[sad music]
it's a sad day
is in LittleHomestead-Ville
thanks Ashley for coming and helping
thanks for having me
being such a trooper
I like hearing all the musicals
it was a musical journey
for sure
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lots of singing in the car and musicals we made her watch every evening
I don't think we even stopped to
consider - we're like "oh my gosh you're gonna
love this"
I think yesterday was the only day we
didn't watch something musical
really?
we got her hooked on one
Galavant
your're hooked on that one
that one's
a good one
that is a good one
how was your experience this week, aside
from the musicals
it was good
I got a sun bruise
I saw not just a
a sun bruise?
not just a sunburn, a sun Bruise
how does that work?
I don't know
what is that?
people where I'm from get it cuz we're
really pale but like you know when all
the blood cells rush to your skin and
there's just like a lot of them
it turns into a bruise
it's okay though
are you gonna heal and
be normal again?
yeah
okay that's good
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what's the plan Gar?
putting this away a little
bit so we can run some strings
and lines and stuff
what's this hole?
this hole is to determine the level of where
the floor sets at in the kitchen
currently
and then we'll know who our level is out
here and then I'm measuring across to
find my center
well we learned a new
term and a new thing this week so that's
good
Sun bruise
it called Pacific
Northwest
we go there to get paler and they
come here to get tanner
Bryson's getting the last of the tamping and we'll
call that a wrap for the day
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the plan is to loosen up this toilet
flange and then run this flange six feet
behind the door
Wow
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we're finally moving the toilet flange
yeah
and it hasn't been used, that's a good thing
I should say so
look at this
it's starting to work
arrrr arrrrr
well good work
this is fun
they say that grunting makes you stronger
yeah
is this the tactic you're using?
I don't know
it's like you're driving a wierd car
[car noises]
[car squealing noises]
you need it all the way to the end of that?
yeah, it's gonna sit over here
oh my gosh
whoa - yah
now I'm tired
just to watch I'm tired
I need a nap
I need to go outside now
okay
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Shae & I just got back from a garage sale and
we got the whole bunch of planks like
this, that we're going to go ahead and
use for the ceiling
I got two big stacks
for ten bucks
that's the lowest price yet for these
things
yahoo huh?
ya-hoo
originally we put the
soil cement in so that's what's the
hard stuff is out here
then in my
digging, I forgot about our floor we had
put in here
this is designed for a
radiant floor that we put into the big
family room which we have never fired up
and used yet so at some point in time I
think we'll probably activate it and get
it going for heat
the flange has to set
level so that the toilet sets level
it has
to be raised up approximately 3/8 of an
inch to a half an inch up above the
subfloor so that when we put our tile in
the tile slips underneath this
18 inches
from the center to here and
approximately 12 inches from the wall to
the center and that's where that toilet
flange sets
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we're excited about that kitchen layout
we're excited about some of the things
we want to do
since it's a round shape, maybe round cabinets - everything round
the sink is gonna go here
yeah, the sink in this little bay area
and that way we have a window that will go out to
the courtyard
this Bay will be completely wall
yeah, cabinets
cabinets in this area right
here
and then what do you have?
and this
will be a window
large window and the
kitchen cabinets and stuff will probably
stop right in here and then
this area here, we want to put an island in
the middle of it
and
they'll be big windows in these three
bays
right
kitchens are best laid
out if you can keep your sink, your
refrigerator and your stove top in
a triangle area
people say
anywhere from like five to six feet
that way you're most efficient in that
working area - working space there
we want as many curves as possible
we want to be
able to accommodate a lot of people
moving in the kitchen and I thought of
another one too that we want, we want it
to be easy to clean
countertops that are
easy to clean and coloring scheme
even though we kind of have a general idea of
what we're gonna do, we're gonna keep
looking on the internet
listening to you
and your ideas as well and so that we
can - will change and flex exactly what
we're gonna do
as a matter of fact, this
morning Gary just discovered on the
internet, skylights that we could have
down this way which would bring a lot of
light into this room and I really like
that idea
yeah maybe one here and then
one here or maybe just one in the middle
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I had some free time this week so I got
a little bucket of black paint and I
went around my little tire window and I
painted the tire black so you can
actually see it's a tire now
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the post
that we have here are kind of unique
these posts we brought back from some
property that we have up in the
mountains
we just had them laying
out by the hoop barn and we noticed that
they were deteriorating and we were
afraid we were gonna lose them
Gary came out here - him and the boys and they put
all these posts up
they weathered but
they're definitely in good shape still
well we're just standing off a lot of
this gray
if you stain over the gray,
it just looks more gray so we really
need the brown from the wood to come out
hit it with some sandpaper real quick
so that way
it looks nice
sand them up and stain them
and put a coat
of varnish or hardener or urethane or...
should we do that too?
ya, something that
makes it harder material
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thanks for being a part of our family
stay tuned for next week as we continue
work on the kitchen and bathroom
with
that toilet flange moved, who knows what
we'll be on to next
thanks and have a
great week
bye
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here's the
other thing
I got at a garage sale
what are you guys doing?
maybe fixing the internet because
we might of -
someone cut through it
do you have enough wire connectors there?
no
so this is the wrong
way to do it, first of all
it's the wrong
way to bury line but you know what
sometimes you just gotta send it
that's
what we're doing here
it's just internet
it's not important
only our lives revolve around it
I was gonna say
I would rather cut a hotline, then go through
this again
we should probably test it
oh yeah
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We moved from the city to the country in 2005. Since then, we have been building structures, raising livestock and growing some of our own foods. We are crazy about family, nutrition and want the best for our growing family.
