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Well, good morning, adventurers. Good morning. And welcome to another sunny day here in Texas. So, y'all know that we finished all of our plumbing underneath the house, as well as the interior water lines, but we have yet to test any of it. And we're honestly a bit terrified of potentially flooding our house, but it's something we're definitely going to have to do later in this video. In our last video, we began the long and arduous, painstaking journey of running both power and water to our little tiny cabin. We ran into roots, we ran into rocks, and we could not get through it. So, we hired two young guys to come out and excavate it with a little mini excavator. That worked a lot better.
Well, originally, the electric company was going to do all this for us, but they quoted us $13,000 to do the trench. So, that's when we thought we could take matters into our own hands. But, it turns out with these wires and pipes, you need to cradle them in a little bed of sand so that rocks and stuff don't interfere with them. We couldn't get the sand in time, though, so the guy has come and taken his equipment back. Yeah, so that means once again, we have enlisted the help of a one Robert Katsinya. But, those who know him well, like us, call him Bobcat. This morning, we got our big old pile of sand delivered, and uh step one is going to
be grab a bunch of buckets of it, put a nice 4-in layer of sand in this trench, and then backfill, baby. All right, let's get to it. Which way you going? I don't know. I was going to the Bobcat, huh? What are you doing over there? I don't know what I'm doing. Okay. Well, we got our water line buried, and that means we have to move on to electrical and bury this big old boy. Look at that. Mac daddy right there. Ooh wee! If that doesn't power everything in my house, then I guess it won't power everything in my house and I can't use everything. So, this wire is rated to be buried without a conduit. You just have to go 24 in
down. We're going to give him a little sandy bed to sleep in for the next, I don't know, half century probably, hopefully. Dude, who knows how long this cable will be buried down there. be there for hundreds of years. I will be happy to never look at it again. Woah! Oh my gosh, you guys. This reminds me of my old CrossFit days. You lifted heavy things, pushed heavy things, pulled heavy things.
It was all meant to simulate this real-world experience, right? look. I'm so strong. I'm an athlete. Yeah! Hardcore! Look at this. Look at that angle. Well, look who we just ran into. If it isn't our old pal, 100 amp wire that went to the tiny house. But, that's what makes us confident about this direct burial. This has been down there for many, many decades. It was buried really shallow. It wasn't in a conduit, no sand, no nothing. Oh, this is a bone. Oh, of course. Is that a foreshadowing? Yeah. If we die doing this, just lay us in here and cover us with sand.
Home stretch. You're almost at the pole. Keep it going. There is enough here, right? Uh it's kind of looks a little short. Well, it's about 2 ft too short. That's dumb. We actually left it really long on the other end, maybe too long. But man, if this wire was any shorter, I'd be a very unhappy boy right now. I would give up. I would sell the property as is, just right now. Lots and lots of little creatures and creepy crawlies have already called this trench their home. There are so many beetles everywhere. We found weird little grubs, and we just saw the most
adorable little frog or toad, whatever you whatever it is. He was also not very camera shy. It was pretty cute. All right guys, we are getting very, very close to the end, but unfortunately, a situation has developed. This has gotten worse. My gosh. You got a serious problem, girl. what's happening is that we don't have a laundry machine, a washer dryer here.
We're getting to the end of things, you guys. I'm wearing these big old granny panties, and I think they're soaked. Is that the kind of thing you're supposed to say to tens of thousands of strangers on the internet? I have undone my shirt to try to hide this from you. That it's a little warm out here, also, if you didn't know that. Imagine, for a moment, if you will, 100 years into the future. San Antonio and Austin have merged into a giant sprawling metropolis. Buildings and resorts are popping up everywhere, including on our land, right here. We're long dead, but we are going to do these future cyborg half AI alien people a solid. We're going to put down some electric caution tape, in case they dig it up.
And they'll be like, "What is this archaic language?" won't even understand it. "Electrico? I think it means dig deeper." But seriously though, what you do is you dig to 24 ft, and then you bury it halfway, and then you lay down this line, and then bury it the rest of the way. And that means that if someone comes in with a big excavator and does a big scoop, they get this red tape along with it, and they're like, "Oh, shoot. Maybe I should stop digging." You mean 24 in, not 24 ft, right? I said feet? Yeah. You guys low-key we're getting a little hot, and this has been a lot of work, but we only have the Bobcat for 1 day, so we need to get it all done. Sadly, the piles are all on
this side, so we couldn't do half of this with the Bobcat, because we couldn't get in there. We had to do it manually. So, that's what we've been doing for like the last 2 hours is raking and shoveling, and uh Yeah, Yeah, might be pushing ourselves a little too hard, but we got to do it. We got to get it done. All right. Let's lay down some caution tape. Well, we got a little bit of bad news for y'all. Obviously, we were rocking and rolling outside getting that trench filled in, but then we got a message from our insulation guy. He said he needs to move the job up by like 4 days. Yes, so now he's coming on Tuesday instead of Friday. And that's the day after tomorrow.
Yes. And so now we have to switch gears and get the interior fixed up. Yeah, cuz as you guys know, we're doing spray foam for the ceiling and that means that everything has to be 100% cuz once he sprays it in there, you can't access jack up there after that. But behind the scenes, we've actually spent a lot of the stages buttoning everything up and getting ready for that. But one thing we have really been putting off is we have to test all of our plumbing that we did a while back. All of that is run mostly underneath the house, but some of it is also run in the ceiling and that is going to be covered with spray foam insulation. And the way you test that is you fill all of the little outlets with these little test
caps to plug them up. We sealed up the 4-in pipe that exits the bottom of the house, and then you basically fill the entire thing with water and hope it doesn't And you go like this, "Oh, please." We had to get back under the house a bit, which I'm not loving, and we are going to have to do that again when it's all filled to check all the connection points everywhere. There's a lot of connections in this house, y'all. Up high, down low. Too slow? You got me. All right, I got Mr. Hose all ready for us. So, we're just going to spray this into the pipes. Great. So, to start things off, I think we're going to start filling at the sink drain.
We'll let everything explode under the house before we fill the sinks in the house. Well, the end of the house is the most important anyway, so I'm just going to check that before I go just filling the whole thing from the vent stack. Helson crawled back under the house to see if we have any leaks. I'm a little nervous. It's the moment of truth. How's it looking down there? I feel like I'm I'm back in my natural environment, you guys. You look like a natural. I'm just like fingering some pipes under here.
See if they're wet enough. But, is anything leaking or what? No, nothing is leaking. Everything is bone dry. All right. Just the way we wanted it. You guys, it's working. We were so scared about this connection and all those connections and these connections, and they're all A-OK. All right, we ended up capping off the kitchen sink drain, and now we have moved on to the washing machine drain cuz it's a little bit higher. We're going to leave the water in the pipes overnight, and if these joints don't leak, I'm going to say we're good. Well, we have a problem. We made a mark where our water line was in the pipes just so cuz we're going to leave this overnight, and we wanted reference for the morning.
Well, it's way lower. So, we went looking, and we found a real leak, you guys. We forgot to cement one of the connections under the house. Yeah, for our 3-in vent stack. That sucker right there. So, the good news is there's no water that's going to be flowing through it. The bad news is it's not connected where poop vapor is going to be rising through. So, this is the spot we're talking about, right where this little joint sweeps up into the vent stack. You'll notice that there's no primer remnant or
anything like that around that. That's because we didn't cement this at all. Freaking idiots. So, the leak is right under this point right here. It's connected in here. It's locked in place here. This isn't budging. Yes. So, it's not like we can like back it out and fix it. If you all have any ideas, uh do we just sell the property now as is? I think maybe? Is that the solution? That was stupid of us, huh? really stupid. I was so proud, you guys. Just 30 minutes ago, we've been just talking about like how happy we are that the test is going well. We don't have any leaks.
And now we have a huge catastrophic leak. I'm done. Sell this place. I don't care. Burn it. Let's have a big bonfire. All you guys can come and watch it go up in glorious flames. All right, we are officially in for the night. I whipped us up a very fancy meal. Oh, yeah. Actually, I let the grocery store cook this up for us. Pop in the oven. Oh my gosh, you guys, it is so tempting to just be completely gluttonous at the end of the night because we work so hard during the day, but we're trying to keep it a little healthy. So, we have been getting so gross during this renovation. There's sawdust in my hair. We're literally climbing in the dirt. It is everywhere on me. And the sweat.
The sweat never stops. But one thing that has stayed squeaky clean is our mouth. And that is because we have been using our Surry electric toothbrushes. And yes, as you might have guessed, they are partnering with us once again on this video. Unlike our old brushes, our Surry toothbrushes stay nice and clean because they have a little UV light built right in. Ooh, that is the color of clean. You guys, we only have to charge these up once and they last for a freaking month. Which of course makes them perfect for travel because it is one less thing that we have to worry about charging. Plus, as you can see, it is
super slim and takes up hardly any space in your bag. But my favorite feature is probably the pressure sensor. I used to have all sorts of problems from brushing too hard, but Surry won't even let me. It says, "No, it's too hard." Surry gave us a special discount code to give to y'all. Just use code endlessadventure to get 15% off. And y'all, seriously, you only have to try it once and you will never go back to your old way of brushing. Next up, we have to test our water lines and that is high pressure coming straight from the well house. Our well house is in a state of disarray, but first thing I have to do is splice on this little valve so that I can hook up
the PEX to it and then actually run pressure through it to do a proper pressure test. But before I do that, we got to get rid of the stowaways that have been living in our well house for about a year now. It's this huge group of daddy longlegs. Eric has the bright idea to try to scoop them into this bucket here. And then free them to somewhere else so they can be someone else's problem. Well, I kind of need you to hold the bucket. Oh, I hold the bucket? Yeah. Just hold the bucket right under it. I'll just sweep them right in there.
Oh my god. Like that? Yeah. Are you ready? No. Okay. Ah! They're coming out! You said THEY COULDN'T! I REALLY thought they wouldn't be able to climb up the sides of this bucket, but they really can. No! Well. Ah! Okay. Be free! Oh god. Every single one of them launched out of there. Sorry. All right, I think we're going to pause right now on fixing that connection down there that we forgot to connect for our sewer lines. We're not exactly sure what we're going to do with that, but I know we're going to have to spend a lot of time under the house just like figuring and moving and adjusting and trying not to break something. Uh so, maybe we'll do that a little bit later. For now, we
have to move on to other stuff and uh that is going to be testing our high-pressure water lines. So, here is the plan. We have our buried 1-in PEX water line that comes out of the back of the well house. For right now, we're just running it into the front of the well house and then I've tapped it directly into that valve that I put on earlier. So, that way all we have to do is open that and it'll feed the water into the building. So, we have quite a few little tees and elbows and connections. We went through and walked through every single one and made sure that they were all super tight. This blue line right here is where the 1-in line goes into the house from the crawl space. We put a little inline valve
right here so we can have a shutoff. In order to test this, we have to have a way for the water and the air in the lines to escape. So, we've just hooked up a hose to our outlet box for our washing machine. That is going to go into this little green bucket here so I can make sure everything's flowing and working. What could go wrong? Completely flood our house. I guess that's what could go wrong. But, Allison's currently in the pump house and when I give her the signal, she's going to turn that valve and then I'm going to turn this valve and then I'm either going to be like awesome or I'm going TO BE LIKE [screaming] HERE WE GO.
OH, it helps if you turn it the right way. Wait. Oh, okay, a little bit. Water's going through. That's full pressure right there. I'm not seeing a single leak. I think we might be golden. I don't think we showed you guys, but we installed a little outdoor faucet. Now, let's try it. Oh, yeah. Well, that was Do it again. Run it a little bit. Holy cow. That's good pressure. Wow. All right. WELL, THAT WORKED. AND IT'S LIKE AN anti-freeze valve. So, the valve mechanism is like 6 in the wall, you know, past the insulation. So, we should never have a problem with this freezing.
Never. Yeah. Ever. Famous last words. This is our little box that goes behind our fridge to feed the ice maker and water machine and stuff. We don't have a hose for it, but I think we're going to turn that on just to get the air out of lines and make sure everything is full and check all our valves and stuff, right? a feeling it's going to be terrifying. it kind of close. Okay, I THINK IT'S WOW. GOT IT. WOO. THERE YOU GO. WOW. IT'S SOME intense pressure right there. Wow. Imagine that ice it's going to make.
Oh, my god. The biggest cubes we've ever seen. How is it going out here? Not good. You guys, I've been putting this off, but we buried most of our cable in the trench. But, there's sections like this that we have not buried yet. Yes, because as you can see, there are low trees here and we couldn't get the Bobcat back in here. Sadly, when the guy came through, he put all the dirt like way far away instead of piling it nicely. So, I'm having to rake everything back here and then push it in. Yeah, this is a lot to backfill by hand, huh? It is a lot, and then it's rained a bunch, so it's gotten a bit compacted. But, electric's coming the day after tomorrow after the insulation. So, this is all got to be buried before then.
Yeah, I imagine they're not going to be happy if we just have exposed wire everywhere, so I'm unexposing it. De-exposing. It's an expose. Whatever. I don't care anymore. Well, there's one thing we have been dreading, and it absolutely must be done before the guys come in to do the spray insulation in the ceiling. And that is to clean up this disgusting mess that we've made.
Obviously, they have to use a lot of ladders and instruments to spray the roof, and it gets really messy, and they have to be able to set up everywhere. So, we can't have anything in here. Every single corner of this place is full of junk. Even though you guys saw we cleaned it recently, but stuff just has a way of piling up after just a day or two of work. I really don't know where we're going to put it, you guys, because we barely have any storage on this property, and what is here is basically full already. But, we are going to spare you all of the sweat and toil, and just do a quick
transition to it all being done. You guys have been at this for about an hour, and the room looks pretty much the same. There's just so many little bits and bobs and trash and all kinds of stuff. It's taking a lot longer than expected. Well, that took a really long time, but we did it. We did this. I filled in the trench. It's all somehow done. Yeah. Well, it's not really done. We just moved everything into a giant disgusting pile in front of the house, cuz we don't know what the heck to do with it all.
Yeah, looks like the worst yard sale in history. But, most importantly, we are pretty much ready for our ceiling insulation. Uh conveniently, I text the guy, and I was like, "Hey, are we ready for tomorrow?" And he was like, "Oh, maybe my foreman had a kidney stone randomly and had to go to the emergency room. So, I'll let you know later on." And he still hasn't let me know. So, they might not even be doing it tomorrow. And now it's what, 5:30? You guys, we've got a very tight schedule. He's supposed to come tomorrow. The next day, the electrical and some air conditioning guy
is supposed to come. The day, we're supposed to be going to the city for a weekend off. Oh my god, a weekend off. And if anything puts a damper on those plans, we're going to be pissed. I'm going to unleash her on You don't want that. Nobody wants that. Anywhere near them because it also smells. Yeah, I can't tell who smells worse right now. It's probably me. Oh my gosh, you guys. Well, before we can fix our little plumbing debacle, we got to let all the water out of the system.
Woo! It's going to make a huge puddle. It's going to be really big. Oh, no. Whatever. What else can you do? All right, we're back under the house, assessing the situation, puzzling over it for about an hour or so far. We're just going to cut the pipe one at a time and see if we can kind of get enough give in the pipe to slip this down, get some cement on there, and put it back in. And then we'll repair the pipe with like a little sleeve boot thing. Oh, baby. It went in. Check it out. I got them coming off of that sleeve. Oh, that's good. Woo! I got him off. All right, I'm thinking I can get in here just enough to get the cement on this thing and get this pipe back together.
Let's give it the old try. All right, that's going to have to be good enough. Uh, there we go. Can you wedge stuff under it? I did it. I think that's going to hold. And we only had to cut the pipe once, right over here, off camera. Or no, you can see it, right here. Man, doesn't feel very good to cut out all my new, perfectly done work. But the plan is to rebuild this, so we'll put a coupler on the cut part, and then just build the pipe as it goes, and it'll be golden. And the only downside is we'll
have one little coupling right there, which doesn't really matter. Get it out of here. Aw. Those were expensive pipes, too. That sucks. Oh, man, you guys. Okay, but now that is fixed, it is official. Our water line is buried, our power line is buried, our pipes have been tested, our vent pipes have been tested, our electrical's all run. They come and put in the ceiling insulation tomorrow, and the next day is power, and then we're rocking and rolling, baby. And then, put a bed in there and let's stay in it.
Yeah, for real. It's kind of crazy. I feel like these past few weeks, we've just been scrambling. We've been kind of fragmented and just doing so many projects, and now they've somehow all come together at once and been completed. And really after this, it's like drywall and or insulation, then drywall, then like flooring and things. know? I'm I'm counting insulation as a finishing, you know? We're putting something in the wall, then something on the wall. Yeah. There we go. But I think we're we're going to wrap this one up. that's it. Look, we finished things, so many things. Yeah. Okay. Goodbye, adventurers.
We'll see you on the road. My camera battery died, that's why we're on the phone, if you were wondering, but we'll see you on the road.
