Underground Earth Bag Construction
Episode 24
Exterior Cob, Stucco & Stoopwafels!
Cob Chinking & Applying the Exterior Stucco!
The backyard is looking more complete by the day as the MusArt exterior draws closer to the finish line! Check out everything we completed and watch the family try stoopwafels for the first time. Stay tuned for our Wednesday weekly live stream!!
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Shae aka Winter_Apple
March 10, 2017
Transcript of Video
Bree: In the previous episode, we installed the windows and doors in the underground MusArt Studio.
Bree: It is time to get that exterior completed. We start off by building the ramp up to the doorway.
Gary: We created a ramp up to the door which gives us the ability to roll in and out equipment, things like that. So, no steps.
Shae: Sometimes when it rains a lot, we get the water coming up to the door.
Bryson: We replaced that one broken window that we had.
Gary: So, it is kind of weird with all this cracked window tuff.
Shae: 2 down 1 more to go. Last week, while we were working on the outside, my friend Esther came over. She was a big help. We were all just singing songs. Playing a little bit.
Shelly: Esther, do you mind being in the video?
Esther: No.
Bree: I give you my consent to put my beautiful face on the screen.
Shae: Let’s just say that men of his stature are in short supply.
Bryson: you may want to lower your expectations.
Shae: recently, we have really gotten into a movie on Netflix called Shrek: the Musical. And we have all been singing songs, quoting the lines…
All: …”ans he lives in squaller”
Shae: Me and Bree were really happy when Esther saw the show so that she gets all of our jokes now and understands our quoting.
Bryson: “But you have to be this tall to get in.”
Shae: What can I say?…. It is almost Crue. It is a little weirder.
Bree: Ya. I don’t do Da’Dees… I don’t have time for Diesel antics.
Bryson: We’re done.
Shae: You said it was cold….. In the next three days, things are really get serious. We are getting closer and closer to the day of our deadline. We don’t have everything done that we would like to have done. So, we have been putting in an extra effort to go out 2 or 3 times a day to put as much mud on the walls that we possible can so that we can meet this deadline.
Bryson: do you want to see how far this clay pile is from our house? Well, let me just show you. Well…
Shae: we have been trying to find a good way to blend our our day old dry cob with our new stuff. So it does not look like it is overlapping weird. Recently we found if we take a paint brush and some water, and we brush it wet a little bit…put the cob over it and take a little more water and brush again and brush it over, the seem will blend it out and it looks really nice. We wanted to make the bottle lights look nice, we have brought the cops up next to it and make a little seem there.
Shae: Where’s Bryson? Dad. Where is Bryson? Bryson!…
Bryson: What’s this?
Shae: Look at it.
Bryson: Reuben. Oh my gosh…
Shae: I’m going to put it inside…ok?
Gary: Stroop Waffles…
Bryson: I think it is pronounced, “Srobe Waffles”
Bree: it is mystery box.
Shae: I want to do it.
All: Oooooo
Shae: So much food….It says, “Hi there. From your friend in the Netherlands. Isn’t that cute?
Shelly: Thank you Reuben.
Gary: I wonder what that’s for?
Bryson: Reuben, can you translate for us? We don’t know what it says…
Shae: He said warm and I believe in him.
Bree: They look waffles.
Shae: Ya I know they do. Let’s warm them up.
Bryson: everything is already in them. look what is inside of them.
Gary: They taste like caramel.
Shae: Me and Bree are going the Reuben way and heating them.
Bree: They are Stroo-pendious…
Shae: Stop…. Oh hot. My eyes are watering cause it is hot. but it is really good.
Gary: Not bad cold too. The caramel filling.
Shae: I think Reuben sent it to us, because he pitted us. …not being able to taste these.
All: Thank you Reuben!!!
Bree: Delicious…
Shae: We have the …from the farm…goats milk to try with it.
Bree: Load me up Shae.
Bryson: So, we are going to try the mud sprayer. Right Dad.
Gary: Yes we are.
Bryson: Dad, is currently covering up windows so we don’t spray the windows. We only get it on the walls. I’m excited. We are going to bring out the hopper that we used in my room for cob. It is a modified mud hopper for sheet rock. We we use the technique to wet down the walls with a very liquid …
Gary: Bryson would place his thumb over the “Hopper Hole”. When he is ready to release the air, he would pull his thumb away.
Shae: When we started to spray on the stucco, Mom was getting carried away with our paint brush technique.
Gary: She wanted to try it out.
Shae: She came in with a little bucket of water behind Bryson and started brushing the walls.
Shelly: Here is the painted. It brushes off like this or it is rough like that.
Shae: I was imagining us having to do the entire wall. And mom was trying to get us excited about it. “ oh look at how nice it looks. You guys would love this” We were not buying it. No.
Shelly: Is it worth it?
Shae: Nope.
Shelly: I don’t think so either.
Shae: Mom did eventually agree with us.
Gary: I think thicker or two coats. That’s what I say.
Bryson: I wanted it really wet. and Dad wanted it really dry. …Like a slurry dad. About something like this. It pours out but it sure goes on nice. We were on opposite ends of the field. and Bree comes in and says, let’s make an in between batch.
Bree: To ease both you and dad, we can have it medium ok?
Gary: ok. go get it. I’m game for something new.
Bryson: Leave it up to here to come up with something logical.
Shelly: Looks like water.
Bryson: Nice huh?
Gary: Looks nice.
Bree: Good huh?
Gary: Ya.
Bryson: I still think it should’ve been wetter.
Bryson: I need a windshield wiper.
Bryson: Every once in while, my dog will lose site of me
Gary: Ooooooo]
Bryson: And howl and howl. My dog is so attached to me.
All: He is over here.
Bryson: I’m right here.
Gary: Hi buddy.
Bryson: I can’t go anywhere without him howling for me if I lose him.
Bryson: Alright. Point out the spots dad. I know you have a thousand of them. I get done with covering the main part of the building and I hear dad say, I want to make another batch.
Gary: You were pretty tired.
Bryson: I wan’t very happy about that. But i knew we had to do that.
Gary: There were a few spots we had to touch up.
Shae: Mom and I were keeping up keeping the bottles clean after they had stuccoed them. We did not bother taping them off, or anything like that. So we had to go back through and clean them off. We found we had missed some of them because they would blend in. We had to come in on the inside and we would look to see if where the light was shining because mom was watching me clean off the bottle of the light would shine through and get lighter. it as cool.
Gary: Give this thing a couple days and dry and we will squirt it huh?
Shelly: Sound good.
Bree: Stay tuned for next time when we continue to build more on the MusArt Studio. Have a wonderful week.
All Thank You.
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Shelly: Pretty excited about that.
Bree: You know, it is the little things in life. Looks chillax. Pretty cool huh? Time to get the in-exterior…insterior? This word?
Shae: Our family moved from the city to the country. Thanks for taking part in our adventure.
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Bryson: Dad….
Shelly: That’s not taller
Bryson: Shorter and shorter.
Shae: Ompa Ompa
Gary: When they roll logs on top of each other they chink between the logs. Just like we are doing.
Shae: Oh.
Gary: It is a term.
Shae: So we are chinking…
Bryson: (Interupts
Shae: We’re chinking… Stop. What they don’t want you to know is that this secretly says dog biscuits on it. And our friend has been trolling us for months. “I’m going to send them some dog biscuits and i will them it is a dessert. Thank you Reuben.
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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.
