Shae’s Earthbag Bedroom
Episode 29
Skylight Construction & Interior Paint
This Weekly Peek takes us one step closer to our goal of finishing my room by Valentines Day! I’m excited to share how we did the skylight and what colors we chose for the walls. We also welcome some new members to the farm! Enjoy and we’ll see you next Friday!
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Shae
February 2, 2018
Video Transcript
last week we installed the soil cement
subfloor on the upper section and finished
smoothing out the walls with sheetrock
mud on Shae's earthbag bedroom
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before we
start work on the ceiling, we need to
plan for the lights
okay we need to discuss
alright
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have this one going to here somewhere
if you look at this space - this gives some light
yes
then over here
dad and I are trying to figure out where
to put the lights in my room
maybe in here or over there
ya, maybe around here
light this darker area
we're starting to run
our wires now for the electrical
this room and in that room and then on
the other side of this beam and one
outside
that mama will bite you
she will bite you
careful the mama can be mean
come here
she's a beautimous goat
this one's so cute
yeah
Diesel feels
like he's not getting enough attention
two little boys huh
something's in that belly
i wonder
what that is
little man
go see your Mama
get some food, you look a little skinny
goats milk again Shae
he's making little noises
every year we
take the winter off from milking and dry
the goats up
and so now with the new
babies, we'll be able to get goat's milk
again
it's amazing how when we have
goats milk in the house how much the
grocery bill drops
saving us money as
well as bringing health into the family
his eyes are so beautiful
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look how big he is after holding all
those tiny little babies
he's so big
he's so big and heavy
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getting ready to put the can lights in
it's matter of finding out where at in this
bay
it's gonna shine down on the floor
so I imagine we are going to have a light here and
light here
I'm trying to
pre-think the building a little bit, figure
out where the furniture is gonna go
it's going to shine down from here which is good
because we have the stairs coming down
so that'll help to light the stairs
and
then that way when we put our lights in
that everything will just work together
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so Garen, this is his motorcycle and that
is our flooring so he has clearly mixed
the two very nicely
mom laid out
all the woods so we can see them more
clearly now
this is the one we want to
use here
I got some paints out
a lot of
different maroons and blues
see if we
could make some purple ourself and we
will just see how it goes
I should
have been more strategic about that
Oh No
it's fun
okay, you guys are mixing paint
right now?
Shae's got purple going there
it looks really nice together
do you want to go with those
two?
I think so
let's get a sample to
take to the store
we have three colors
we're gonna go down the store and get
kind of a goldie color
I'm going to take this
stuff over right now
what's the matter Bry?
I don't think I will be able to get out
no, no
this is not the best idea I have ever had
my foot's stuck, great
a 200 point turn
on our way
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alright, got our paint
see if it works
out with the chair
and look at that
just perfect
kind of a tritone on my
room
I'm marking out where I want my
yellow
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so you'll have three colors in here
is that what you're doing?
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I don't like
this at all
you don't?
no
that was not what I
was expecting
I love all three of the
colors but I don't like them in that way
we could do it section by section
that gray or the yellow would be good
she's gonna do
a new color in each room
oh okay
you want sunshine where you are working
purple, yellow, gray?
yeah
okay
let's do it
I have an idea though
do you wanna hear
my idea?
you take the purple and you wrap
the purple around like this
so start
around edges, purple, purple
around the windows
then put light blue and then yellow on everything else
Mom!
I just - the dog did something funny
Shae, did you hear me?
so it's like it's shadow
wow, just wow
I'm out
just suggesting an idea
hello - oooh
oh, it's so cute
it sparkles
are we having too girlie of a moment?
no man will be
staying in this room that's for sure
what's your new discovery?
are you ready?
you're dotting it?
yeah
look at this
silver sheen on this
yeah, that'd be very
pretty
for that and then it would be
kind of like stars
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I think the blocking looks
super cool
I love how how you've got all
three of the colors and I just think it
looks awesome
it actually is a gradient
in itself a little bit because it's got
the light here and then it goes to this
really bright yellow and then the darker
down and the smaller
it's cool
I love that
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Bryson is starting on the
ceiling down there
alright
we used laminate flooring in my room
the first boards of goodness
we're going to use laminate
flooring for Shae's room
the first boards of boadish goodness
and the insulation
the
way we do this is really just putting
the floor in but reverse on the ceiling
and it's kind of weird but it's
basically the same thing as you would
put in a little laminate flooring
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you
just pop in the boards
except the only thing different is we
use a nail gun to nail it up because it
won't stay up there
and we also put
insulation up there for insulation
I'll get started on it this weekend hopefully
we'll finish it next week
I got the
opportunity to go to Alaska and see a friend
Joey's up there working the Chena Hot
Springs Resort
the land up there was
just really beautiful
you could really
tell that it was cold all the time there
wasn't just snowy for a week
and then it you know got into the 50s
again
it's like minus 26 when I got
there
surprisingly, the daylight wasn't
too bad
it was just kind of like a
little bit more than a dusk
the snow,
because it was so cold up there and it
never really hit temperatures where the
trees could even heat up and they start
really drooping and hanging
they have
these really cool military vehicles
track vehicles - that they would bring
people up to the top of this mountain
that way you could get a really good
view of the Northern Lights up there so
I was able to see those
turns out I got
pretty lucky to see them
at the top of
Charley Dome, which is where the vehicles took you up to to see the lights
they had a couple yurts up there that
way you could warm up while you're
waiting for the lights to come out
they
looked really solid and then
there's snow just built up all the way
around except for the door
they cut that out so you could get in and out
I actually didn't even think reindeer
existed
I found out they were real
our car got a crack in the windshield
all the way across and needed
replacement so Shell and I drove down to
get a new windshield and while we were
there, we're looking at how they
were doing the window placement, the
types of glues, the types of things that
they were using and of course that gave
us the same ideas that we're gonna use
today to put up the skylight
those suction cups look like Spiderman
I'm gonna be
building the curve for the skylight
that's gonna be put up there
eight
pieces - sixteen pieces actually to cut
here for a curb that's about three and a
half inches tall
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cut them one at a time, I think is more acurate
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I'll be using this flashing here to go
around the edges to keep the water out
and give ourselves a little bit more
waterproofing up there
and this is easy
I need eight of these
the flashing here is gonna go
down in eight pieces all the way around
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then once we have it all down, we'll
pin down the corners and that'll give us
our flashing to keep water out
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gotta make
three rings with it
so make it last
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then I have a double stack of two by
sixes that'll go here for three inches
fit for a curb
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we mentioned this
before about this glass but this glass I
picked up at a garage sale and the guy
had like 50 of them that he had sold
over the course of time and he said that
the ones that had broken had stayed
together - all in one piece - so we feel
pretty confident that it's a nice piece of
glass for up above
and the glass will
set right on top of the curve
and it'll be
glued together
get the hammer and bang
on a little bit
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alright
well done
time to take the tools down
I got these
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I'm going to put it in the cab
yep, got our shovels
Bye guys
see you soon
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stay tuned for next Friday as we
continue work on Shae's earthbag building
thanks for being here and we'll see you
soon
bye
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you can't see me
I'm not here
your legs are hanging
no, no, no those aren't my legs
there part of the chair
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our family moved
from the city to the country
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taking part in our adventure
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there
I not only know how to wash them, I can hang them too
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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.
