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Good morning, adventure seekers. and welcome to what seems to be the 1047th day of tiny house construction. It became a never-ending construction of a tiny house. No, friends, the end is near, you understand? Yes, we are finishing the finishing work this week. Oh my God. Well, first we have to tell you the latest news. We have stained all the wind boards, so our exterior is starting to take shape. It looks pretty good. And the craftsmen came and applied a finishing coat to our plaster wall here. The color is not 100% what we wanted, but it is pretty close. He's still.he's pretty bright. We were hoping it would be a little more subdued. But whatever, we'll do something about it. We will find a
use for it. It will be okay. I know some of you have been asking about this random pillar here. We are going to replace it. It's very twisted and deformed, so we'll take a straighter one. That's why there are a bunch of strange stains left on it from the stain. This was our training pillar. As for the interior, in this video we will definitely paint it, trust me. You know, last episode we were working on all those ceiling boards. We've already done most of them. We're actually waiting for a few more to arrive because we need 16-footers for one section of the bedroom ceiling, and they won't fit in our truck. We just need to coat
some of them with polyurethane, and then we'll be ready to mount them. And we have another surprise that we'll show you when it's installed, but it's grand. He changes the rules of the game. This is what we've been talking about all these years, it seems like it's starting to feel that way now. Okay, but anyway, as always, we have a lot of work to do, so DJ, spin that thing. Wait, I said that in the last episode, right?
Really? But never mind, start the screensaver. So, now we need to decide what color to paint the interior. Did you know that there are about 50 shades of white? I didn't know until we went to Sherwin-Williams trying to pick a paint color. These are all variations of white, and each white is completely different. There is ultra-pure white, natural white, and delicate white. We couldn't make a decision, so we took a bunch of samples. One of them doesn't even belong to any of these types. This one is called "Chevyo". We called it "Chevrolet" all the time. But who knows. But whatever it is, our painter is coming soon, so we need to make a decision, which means we'll put some samples on the wall. This is how my
brain works, friends. I can't visualize it. The color looks different on the sample, in the store, or online. I need to see him on this damn wall. It's very tiring because I'm constantly coming up with: oh, I want this tile here, this wood there, this paint, and Eric says: you have to put it all together and show me. He can't visualize it. Believe it or not, before this job I was a graphic designer. I don't understand this. It didn't last long. So, we applied two coats and our swatches dried all day. What do you guys think? Do you see any difference on camera at all?
Probably not. Our winner is this one called "white snow." We wanted it to have a little warmth. We thought the one on the left would be just right, but it's too banana- creamy. Almost identical to the spray insulation above, which is not what we need at all. I think the main thing is that whatever white we choose, it will look good, especially when we do the ceiling and floor. Everything will eventually come together. Yes. We will have a lot of paintings on the walls. No one would care if there was another shade of umber. Okay, we've decided on the paint. We heard some rustling around the corner, and look who we found. The adorable little armadillo is just resting.
He doesn't seem to be too worried about me. That's right, he just snapped at the end. For some reason I thought they were slow creatures. They are not slow at all. No, he really ran fast. That was so sweet. In our last video, we got all these beautiful cedar planks. We are going to put them on the ceiling inside the house, as well as around it in the soffit area. But that means we need a lot of them, and each one had to be painted, so we spent a lot of time on it. And now we still need to apply a protective layer to each of them. For the interior details, we'll use a water-based varnish, but it will require several coats, so I
think we'll spend the rest of the day on that. It's finally happening. This is our last game for today, friends. We do this all day long, just standing here and doing it endlessly. Here's this big group we just finished. In fact , we already have four stacks ready there. We'll get many more of these in two days, but for now, let's pretend that's all. Our painter has arrived. I don't know if we've mentioned this, but we.yeah, we don't paint the inside ourselves. We're done with this, guys. So we hire professionals for everything possible. This means we can work on a bunch of other projects on our to-do list
while this man does a huge paint job inside. Besides, he's a much better painter than we are. He's much faster, much more meticulous, and says much less "that's a bummer" or "[__] you." The painter left. He said he was finished and we are now reviewing his work. It looks pretty good. What do you think? Does it look just white to you too? Well, later we can add an accent wall if we decide, or maybe do some kind of painting or mural inside. We haven't decided yet, so we decided to start with some kind of ivory-colored canvas. And, most importantly, which was the theme of the
last videos, we didn't have to do it ourselves. Yes. Believe me, we'll still have a lot of DIY work ahead of us. By the way, we're going to San Antonio for the weekend, just to take a break from the project and explore the city. But there's also a store there where we'll go to pick up something very valuable for the next stage of the project. What could it be? Something we accidentally put off for too long and that makes us panic a little. Of course, if we can even find it in the store. We really want to find this now so we don't have to wait for delivery, because a lot of these items-if you've never built a house, you don't know. These things deliver eternity. So you have to plan everything so that everything arrives on time.
It seems like it's time for us to stop doing useful things and go have some fun. go to the store. We had a hard time deciding what flooring to choose for this place. I can't even tell you how many coating samples I ordered. We found one that we fell in love with, but it's the most expensive one I've ever seen. That's right. and we really don't want to spend a lot of money. So we decided to leave the house and go straight to the source-to Floor and Decor. I know it's not the coolest store in the world, but it should have all the options we need. Vedas. Here. Hey, it looks good, right?
Aha. This is something similar to what we planned. Definitely the color I was thinking of You know our ceiling panels are a little darker, so we wanted a lighter floor Mhm. Do you see this price? The price for the flooring I wanted online seems to have been $8.79 per square foot. I like this one much more. This is a significant saving. Yes, it's a slightly cheaper floor, but we have a small house. In my opinion, it looks quite luxurious. Yes, and this.What is this? Engineering board? So, technically, it's still natural wood. This is a layer of real wood. real. So, we drove to the back of the store. I think we'll try to stuff the entire floor into the trunk of our Doug. Well
, we were loaded. We took our entire floor. Surprisingly, it turned out to be a lot of boxes, considering what a small house we have. They are actually super light, so the weight is not at all what it seems. I think we are within the acceptable range for our Durango. Well, we unloaded our floor. We opened a few boxes and laid them out just to get a feel for what it looked like. Here is our ceiling panel next to them. We really like this color contrast. And with our freshly painted walls-it's exactly what we were looking for. The floor itself may be a little more colorful than we expected.
I would say this is 90% what we wanted. There are a few more knots and wood patterns here, but we think that once we lay out the entire floor like this, add furniture, rugs, and so on, I think everything will be fine. So you'll have to watch the following videos to see if it really works. I mean, how bad could it be, right? We have to balance price and quality because we have already invested too much in this project, as you already know. Aha. And we really don't like vinyl, so it's kind of the best of both worlds. Much cheaper than real wood, but better quality than vinyl.
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and they will also throw in free breakfasts for a whole year. This time-delicious food, October, so also a scary movie, and most importantly-turn off your brain and give your body some rest. Friends, I think we should have stayed in the city and not returned. I'm a little irritated right now. Before we left, we ordered another bunch of cedar planks because we needed 16- footers and they wouldn't fit in our pickup truck. So, they brought them, initially they brought two different batches. One was made of a completely different type of wood. We had to send her back. We told them they were trim boards. We need them all to be intact, without serious defects
, and this is what they sent us. call it a serious defect. This is a complete mess. A completely missing groove is a problem. A bunch of them are broken, which can be glued back together. That's fine, but these aren't the boards we would choose ourselves. But then we encountered a real problem. These pieces of cedar don't even have the same type of tongue-and-groove joint. This one is bigger. This one is smaller, and the grooves are completely different. Like They don't. The boards don't fit together even put it there. So, half the boards are one, half the boards are the other
, so they don't. That won't work. So, essentially, no board is suitable. We should have learned this lesson a long time ago. If you ever need good wood, don't rely on them for your selection. They will never choose what is right. You should always go alone. What are we going to do now? We just wanted to avoid the 2 hour round trip. We will have to choose each board individually and say: these are the boards. Don't damage them during shipping. We'll have to bring them in and take all this junk back. But we were going to do the ceiling as the next project, and now it's delayed and we can't do anything else until we install it. We are standing still again You know, stay with us. Let's see what happens next. We had to call all the
different branches of McCoys. It turned out that one of them had the necessary boards with larger spikes. So we went there, and there were huge piles that we had to dig through. Most of them were damaged, but we managed to pick out a few good ones and they will deliver them to us at some point. Yes, it was one of the biggest fiascos to date. And we had to take some boards with a smaller tenon, but we will only use them on the roof sheathing, because these two types of boards cannot be mixed. It's a problem, but the problem has been solved, more or less. We're almost at the site, so it's probably time to get back to work and try to install this ceiling.
Friends, I think it's time to install our ceiling boards. Agree. He was down there the whole time. Well, who do you think did that little camera move? It wasn't our assistant who's behind the camera now. M-hm. Falsehood. If only we had an assistant. No, it's just me. Only he does it all the time. Wee-wee- wee. I'm already very good at doing this. Yes, I think we've reached the point where we never want to see that ceiling insulation again. You know we put a lot of effort into staining and then varnishing all of our beautiful cedar
planks. I think they're almost ready. We still have a lot of boards left to finish, but that's for another room. But for this room we have almost all the boards we need. We hope we calculated everything correctly, friends. There are a lot of calculations there, and they may not add up a bit, so we'll see how it turns out. But at this point, we should have the perfect amount for this room. Since this is a very large area, any small errors can result in extra centimeters, so we'll see. Apparently, everything will be fine. You may also have noticed that we have the largest ladders in the world here.
We used to make do with other ladders leaning against the wall, but now that the walls are nicely decorated and painted, we won't lean any ladders against them. We will not damage these walls. So we rented these "beauties" from Home Depot and they are huge. We thought it would be a good idea to paint before installation to have a nice edge near the wood, but now we have to be very careful not to touch the walls with the wood We thought, "Oh, if the walls are finished, the paint won't get on our cedar boards ." But now the walls are finished and our cedar boards could ruin the paint. Something always comes up. So, we are officially. So, we have officially installed our first board. Um, as you can see, it looks nice, but as you can also see, the wall now
doesn't look nice at all, Eric. Things aren't going too smoothly, friends. We just installed the third board, and I was shooting a timelapse clip, and this board alone took 15 minutes. I didn't think things would turn out this way. God, I wish we had waited to paint it. That was a big mistake, because I just made a huge scratch on the wall over there. And you'll notice that we use solid boards for the ceiling. Hmm, that's exactly the look we wanted. We didn't want any joints. Um, it might make our lives easier if we did that, but since when do we look for easy ways? I don't know what you think, but I think it would look pretty damn cool. That is if we can align
them. That was part of the problem-just trying to make sure that when we got here, we weren't half an inch off. Because the house is mostly level, but not 100%. So stay tuned and see how pleased or very annoyed we will be with the result. In any case, they will be installed, so there is no turning back. I probably didn't paint all those damn boards. They will be installed, baby. Happy fourth plank. Let's do it in record time, huh? Let's set a new personal record. Oh no. You need a Kyiv woman, right? I need a girl from Kiev, yes. Should I throw it away?
No. Right out the window? Definitely don't throw it away. If you hit the wall, I'll be angry. You. You just reach out to me like it's the Sistine Chapel. Oh yes. You don't have to say "oh", I'll do it myself. Do it again. Friends, we have made such great progress today. Look at this. We installed five bars. What? We wanted to achieve our personal best, our best result, and we did it. The fourth one took us so long that we ended up tearing it out and starting over.
Yes, that's why I turned off the camera. Yes. And shouted a few swear words off- screen. Dude, we still have a lot ahead of us. Also, some rafters are about a quarter of an inch lower than others, so the boards come out a little wavy. So we're trying to decide if we need to level it. This is not noticeable from the ground, but it makes it very difficult to join the tongue and groove. Hello everyone. I was going to do it myself, but then I thought, "Why waste the opportunity to do it on camera?" But something really cool is going to happen tomorrow.
Something very cool and maybe it will soon become very warm. A. Friends, we are getting air conditioning installed just in time for T-shirt weather. But in reality, we feel disappointed and a little annoyed that it didn't work out. We climbed these ladders at least 200 times each. So we're going to the city of Wimberley, guess what we're going to do. Good morning. Friends, our cool project is finally coming to life. We are having air conditioning installed today. We have already mentioned this. We didn't make this a surprise. Is n't it?
Yes, exactly. A. But yes, we are installing an air conditioning system, at least our mini- split heat pump. Just in time for the temperature to drop. Now it is about 15-20 degrees. So air conditioning isn't really needed right now, but that's okay. Now we have it. They are currently working on installing the outdoor unit. We chose Mitsubishi. It looks very cool. And we also have an indoor unit that they will install right above the window. And it will cool the entire house. That's 18,000 BTUs. It must have a sufficiently powerful cooling and heating system. We'll see if it will supply enough air to the far part of the house where the bathroom is. If not, we'll make a through hole in the wall or something
similar to direct the air there. But I think everything will be fine. It's a fairly small space. We have to cope. Anyway, they'll work on it while we install the ceiling boards, and we'll do it. Yes, shall we.Friends, do you hold the boards like that for hours? Everything hurts. Well, you made it five. Five out of what seems to be a total of 39 for two rooms. Boards. Boards plus 30 extra. Yes. I will be so tired. Dude, cutting holes with a jigsaw is such a pleasure. I prefer crown molding, but we're cutting a hole for our first obstacle-a small smoke detector box-and we didn't have crown molding that
size. Honestly, we installed everything, nailed it down a few times, and then realized we needed to cut it out. So I had to unscrew it all, remove it, and do this. We do it away from the air-conditioned guys so they don't see how stupid we are. We went up there, looked at each other, and realized we were idiots. This tape turned out to be the perfect size for the box, so this is our template. Look. There's air conditioning upstairs. It's not yet connected to the outside electricity, but it's real, it's installed, everything is happening.
Dude, the only thing cooler than that is my dance moves. I was completely wrong. The only thing hotter than that is my dance moves. That's it. But the guys are working on the outside unit there. They have already laid all the highways. They connected him to this. He rounds the corner of the house, and there it is, done. I thought something would definitely go wrong here and they would say, "We have to come back next month because the part we need is out of stock." Maybe we'll have air conditioning by the end of the day. Literally in a couple of hours. Madness. And while they were doing that, we, my friends, managed to nail two boards.
We are losers. We managed to install a few more ceiling strips, and it looks really good. I hope you're starting to see what it's going to look like. It's going to be cool, guys. We get so excited, it's a strange feeling. I'm not used to this. Usually I feel only irritation, despair, and shame. But look, friends. They did a great job installing our split system, but I have to admit-Allison was right. Something happened that caused us to not turn on the air conditioner today. I went to the store twice for a 15- amp double-pole circuit breaker. I even took two because I didn't know which one they needed. In fact, I even took a third one. There
must be a third one somewhere here. That one was wrong. I went and got these two. These two don't fit either. They don't fit into the shield, and he needs one to connect the power. Unfortunately, we don't have electricity, so I have to get a circuit breaker , and then I'll probably connect it myself, because I just need to connect these two wires and everything will be ready. But you can see that the block inside looks very neat on the wall. We'll tile it, and the outdoor unit, of course, looks fantastic. I'm so glad we secured it to the house instead of putting it on the block below because now it's elevated off the ground. I never thought we would get to this point. I'm a little surprised. hereby. so good. Oh yeah, I meant to say it's called a line shroud, it
covers all the freon and electrical lines going from the indoor unit to the outdoor unit. But yes, we can paint it black without any problems, and it will blend in with the house. Yes, you'll just forget about him because he's a bit of a pain in the ass. It's sad, but it doesn't matter. Air conditioning is necessary. Yes. That's all for today, because, as you can see, it's already night. That's right, my love. And we need to do something about the mosquitoes, because they were biting us all day, especially when
the sun went down. This is just terrible. They nest somewhere here. So, one more day and we might finish the entire ceiling? Apparently. Yes, yes, yes. Let's see how it goes. Dreaming is not harmful. Back at the facility, and the weather has turned bad. It's just disgusting outside. It's raining. It doesn't stop, and everything has turned into mud. Yes. And we also have wonderful cedar planks. Some of them still need to be painted and varnished, they are all under tarpaulin.
I hope they didn't get wet. They don't come into the house, guys, so we can't bring them in. Halloween is coming up, and our torture device just arrived in the mail. Can you imagine? Oh my God. What can it do to you? We both accidentally hit it with our hand when we were trying to fit it. Yes, it is insidious. Yes. This is to cut a hole for our built-in lighting. We need to return these ladders later today, so we're trying to do everything we can that's high. But look what we found in Milwaukee's crate in the shed. It makes things like this much easier.
Where was that when we were making all the holes for our pipes and wires, man? It was in the barn. All this time? Yes. So you made me almost lose all my fingers and limbs. I cut most of the holes. Oho. These lights are really easy to install. They have these handy blue clips that are supposed to just slide in. And it was easy. So, of course, we still need to connect the electricity, but it looks ready. Oh my God. Class. You know what? It turns out our boards get very, very wet under this tarp. So we scramble, trying to get them inside so they don't get soaked through.
Yo, we just found the scariest black spider. I don't know if it's a small tarantula or what, but it's just huge. He crawled right into our path and I feel like he fell off one of the wooden planks. So, we just walked around carrying this guy on us. No, I decided not to believe it. Oho. My mom always said, "Imagine them rushing to their family. They have kids and a wife at home. He just went out to get food." Well, we tried, but there's nothing we can do here, friends. It all started so promisingly. We were so excited, you know, to finish the decoration, to install the air conditioner, and now everything is half done and nothing works. We thought that in one day, well, definitely in one day, maybe in a day and a half,
we would do everything and just be careful, but now we realize that there is so much here. There are so many things to maneuver. And we of course put a bunch of dirt inside, even though we haven't put the finish floor on yet, but we don't want any more dirt in there. Yes. We've cleaned that mess up so many times. I know you're probably thinking, "Well, I should have checked the weather forecast." And we watched. There was talk of light rain from time to time throughout the day. There was no mention of a downpour for several hours. Besides, we thought we would be finished long before the rain. So, anyway, we'll do it. We'll figure it out, but it seems like we had too many obstacles this time.
I don't want to end on a sad note, but, you know, we've had some successes lately. Apparently, everything can't be perfect. Okay, we need to get those ladders back so we can stop wasting money, and then hopefully the rain will stop soon, we'll dry everything out, and we'll be back to work in a few days. I do n't know. Apparently. Yes, I think that's all. Farewell, adventurers. See you on the road.
