Kitchen & Bathroom Earthbag Addition
Episode 8
Frame in Shower, 3 Bag Layers & Chicks Hatch!
The bathroom addition is looking great! Dad has been hard at work on the shower and it’s pulling together nicely.
Spring is here and we need to get the windows ready to let the night air in. For Bree’s room, it means frosting the skylight and my room needs window screens! We show how to install new screens and how to make a frame if it is missing!
As we have been building the rooms and additions, we’ve had to pull the dirt from somewhere. For the studio, we were able to dig a big hole for the basement. Now we are back to our first dirt resource, a large hole in the backyard. We Briefly discuss our plans to turn that space into a greenhouse! We hope you enjoy this Weekly Peek and we’ll be back next Friday!
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Shae
May 18, 2018
Video Transcript
last week we got the wall smooth enough to
our liking and placed the window boxes
for the earthbag add-ons to the main
house
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originally we wanted this to be a
natural swimming pool filled with fish
and plants growing all around it
- just
had this little dreamy vision of an
oasis and then the reality of living in
the desert set in
here's the kind of
stuff that grows out here
there's a
hole
and there's a yucca growing out of
the hole
look at this yucca
that ain't moving
the water is scarce and the plants that grow
are rugged and they're usually pointy
and thorny and as rough as the terrain
to survive out here
and we've changed
our mind and thought well let's make
this into a greenhouse, partially
underground
which is still the plan
unless something changes
I'm gonna do a
baking show
gonna talk about the
building
from the dirt to the walls to
the ceiling
all of it is made of dirt
the outer shell is made of dirt and
water
water acting as a hardener for the
dirt
giving it that nice crust
supple clay
makes for an exquisite outer shell
nice texture
texture, that's a good one
that crusty texture
stop
you're not invited
I'm trying to make a bad commercial
that earthy smell emanates
from the beautiful, exquisite walls
giving in that nice flavor of...
dirt
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all right Gar what's going on?
get some more backing to put in here so that we
can have support
right down in this
area here we have a little bit of a gap
between where I want this to set and
where my wall is so I'm gonna go ahead
and just fir this wall up just a little
bit further so that when I put on the
cement board, we'll have a nice fit there
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one of the last plumbing things I have to
do in here is connecting up the
shower spout that comes out the top
this is going to set up inside there and
out and then, of course, the shower spout
goes right inside
just like that
if you haven't seen this before,
you can get kits for
Windows so when you're trying to put a
new screen in and they'll come with this
long rubbery thing and a tool
just go
around the window and you put a new
screen in
a little groove where that fits in
fits right in there like that
cut off the excess material
a tip if you do this, when you go back over
these to press it back in, you have to be
careful because these tools can cut the
screen
not that I know from experience
it was a bummer one time
because we only had so much material and
I stretched it across
yes we're gonna make it
so remember how I said if you get too close to this edge, you could
cut it
that's what happens when you do
it's okay though because I think the
screen will pull tight enough to not let bugs in
mmm-hmm
Shae's going to get bugs in her room
new screen installed
with a hole in it
[giggles]
but, you know, hey
what do you know
this goes in here
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so this one's a little bit different
because we don't have a screen for the
window so we're having to make one so
we get an old window frame
and cutting the distances and then
taking the corners and just fitting it in
we're using
a hacksaw
if you use a pair of snipers
or something, what will happen is it will crimp the end
of it and it needs to be hollow in order
to fit into the corner
does Shae want to finish it?
yeah
Shae, sporting new
glasses
you know it
should we do that?
yep
sounds good let's it cut it
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I was helping Shae by pulling this
tight while she was putting in liner
because that helps to keep this tight
otherwise you get saggy if you don't
have a second person to hold it
it's
pretty simple
you go to the hardware store and they'll do these for you too
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ta da
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getting ready to put on our first piece
of wonderboard
I'm gonna use a little bit of my
favorite stuff
glue everything together
help seal this off
a little better
some insurance here
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alrighty
and now I'll nail it off
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beautiful
look at that
I love that Gar
oh it looks so showery
showery
you can really picture it now
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this was one of the first buildings that
we did - my building
when we first were
doing these houses, we made these
skylights out of plexiglass and we've
noticed because it's clear, the sun
beats in here and cooks this little
place up so we found some frosted stuff
in spray paint and Garen is going to
frost it
Frost the glass
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we forgot to water this last night
the sunburn on my neck right now and
this wonderful mustache
got to rock the hat
you stylin'
our soil has about 50
percent clay content which makes it
really good for building these buildings
the dirt has to be a little damp so that
it compresses and binds properly
it's like mud wars
building mud houses
oh yeah
whoops sorry
our springtime is really dry so we have to
pre damp the dirt before we build with
it
this is an extra step we do not like
to do
we forgot to do that this time so
we're having to put in the water and mix
it as we're going which is like the
absolute worst way to do it
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hey hey what do we have here
let's see
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[turkey hisses]
I know, I won't get too close
I'm just gonna look
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three, oh my gosh
oh my
how many is there?
four, I think
wow, they look big and strong
- already
yeah
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hey Gizzy
Gizzy
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we've done some looking around
you go to Pinterest or someplace and you
look at all the different ideas
and thoughts that are out there and some
have a little pony wall or we could take
the wall all the way up and then totally
enclose it and then just have this
little space to get in and out
either a full wall,
short wall, a lil' itty bitty wall, no
wall
we just don't know
we're wall confused
even the itty, bitty wall
it's not a bad idea
I'm just thinking, I
want as little to clean as possible
yes
not that -
I mean - I'm sure you'll be out
here cleaning not me
no I'm not cleaning
if it's not dirty, I'm not using it
we're trying to figure out what's the
best way to keep the water inside the
shower and not let it splash out
we
really don't know what to do here so
we though we would come to you and say
is the pony wall needed to keep the water in?
do we need to have more than the curtain?
if
you have some experience with that or
have some ideas, we would sure like your
input
help
help us
thanks again for watching
another one of our videos, and being here
and supporting us, being part of the family
we're gonna be working on this stuff all
week again
we'll be posting next Friday
as always
we'll have a little more done
on both the kitchen and bathroom next
week so be sure to tune into that
thanks too to any of the Patreon folks that
have been continuing to give
we're very
thankful
very grateful - thank you
I've got an idea
why don't we put a wall
here, here and here and then you just -
climb over?
you make a little section cut out right here
and then you scootch in
yeah
if we did that we could have a little tub
yeah
or if Garen makes the bar strong enough, we can hang on to that and swing
splash
I like that one
that's the best
I think it will end way more tragically than you were thinking
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in this greenhouse, if we do bags around
the outside edges, we can put pots in
the walls
I can smell roses
I can smell the ocean
the ditch that Garen is digging right now is the one-man show
underground greenhouse
put like a cubicle over the top of it and we're
gonna grow one plant in there
and leave Garen in there
water it every day
he can eat whatever grows
we're gonna put him in a life-sustaining
liquid
sometimes my crazy schemes work and
sometimes they don't
and right now we're going to find out
here we go, ready?
come back here camera
yeah
Hey Ma
yah
you feel trapped?
it is
a little well -
there's gonna be one way
for us to get out and it's gonna be
these - these window frames
either that or
we just take some sledgehammers and bust
the wall out
that's my future kitchen
no
I meant that wall Mom
oh oh that wall
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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.
