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LOL, Just Add Water!

The baler goes in the barn over winter, but we plan to add a barn shed to the existing slab to store equipment too ;)

The garage has the same roof/trusses as the house. So they are going to sheet it all at the same time.

You'll see, don't worry :) This is part of what makes it a barndominium :)

Glad you liked it!

Oh yes, I'm not sure what I was measuring in the opening scene unless I needed that small bit, but the wood IS all different lengths so we do measure what we need :) But I can't honestly remember one day to the next, stuff flies so fast around here shooting video is a blur, hahaha

Good to see you Chris!

Cats . . . I'm going to build a loft and fill it with CATS :D :D

It's kind of an Alice in WOnderland house . . . things are never as they seem, lol. It SEEMS like it would be very expensive from the outside but it's a very simple house plan and won't take much $$ to finish off.

You got it! And that's pretty much how it all played out too, hahaha!

It looks massive when it's empty, that's for sure!

LOL

Ugh! I have heard! I'm really hoping that will be on a limited bases with this build . . . we've changed sooo many things while planning this JUST so we don't have to deal with the 'I wish we would have..."

My Challenger was supposed to go alonge the back wall. Not anymore I had to sell it to help pay for the new house.

@@ruralridez6165 that's tough. I hope you can get over it. I still miss my 72 Duster after fifty years. You could turn it into a man cave with all the room.

Open to suggestions! We've talked to 2 hvac guys and a fireplace store. Fireplace store suggested a pellet stove to heat 4000sqft, and Hvac recommended a furnace along with a heat pump . . . to pass code you need at least a furnace . . . We love the idea of wood heat (we have it), but the chimney is the killer with the tall roof . . . Insilation will be open cell in the roof deck and MAYBE the sidewalls too, or blow in in the walls...

@@This1LifeWeLive What do other barndos in your type of climate do?

@@cancelbubble6535 there are 3 going up right now, similar to ours,but I think ours is the only 2.5 story one.. most do furnace (code) and pellet stove..

That had been the original idea..

Check local building codes FIRST, plan it later...

Thanks Billy!

Open to suggestions! We've talked to 2 hvac guys and a fireplace store. Fireplace store suggested a pellet stove to heat 4000sqft, and Hvac recommended a furnace along with a heat pump . . . to pass code you need at least a furnace . . . We love the idea of wood heat (we have it), but the chimney is the killer with the tall roof . . .

@@This1LifeWeLive heat pumps for sure,,,a lot depends on your insulation choices,,,windows,,,doors,,,walls,,,,under floor heating with a couple forst air units,,,plenty of filters,,,,,I'm no expert,,,but I did stay at a cheap as hotel last night...dig n the new channel...that's a tone of stress,,,chin up you guys,,,stick to your dreams.

Definitely need a fire place...or an old big pot belly stove ?? Make it a focal point? Black pipe all the way out the top...unless it's not exposed??

@@This1LifeWeLive,,personally speaking of course,,,,I recommend not including the garage to the homes hvac,,,block the garage off as much as possible,,keep the fumes out of the living space...a couple cheap little heaters on the ceiling ,maybe a window air conditioner?? Save money as well..

We do have a nice spot in the corner we can add a woodstove if we want, the BIG issue with a fireplace OR woodstove is the chimney. The chimney stack would cost more than the actual stove :(

That will come with the workshop garage :D

The original plan called for a 3 car garage, we cleared one garage bay into a bedroom and shifted the whole plan :) Since we went extra deep, we do technically have space to fit 4 vehicles in there, just maybe not with two big trucks, lol

That was the plan but we had to cut back to stay on budget. I plan to build a workshop garage on the double wide slab once it's removed.

Fully agree!

Great suggestion. The chop saw has a face guard that should prevent this . 😊

haha, you know I actually DO need to now because Erik added a VACUUM attachments to suck up all the sawdust as you cut . . . and likely hair too! I usually keep a hair band on my wrist for such times but couldn't figure out where it had gone to from the day before :(

Nobody listens!

Hi Jacob, nice to meet you :)

@@This1LifeWeLive nice to meet you too

That's very sad to hear :( I feel like when it rains, we get a pouring and then nothing for a while. Ponds are all drying up, and no rain forecast for at least a good 10 days. I don't think we are as bad as what you are experiencing though :( prayers for rain!

Just north of Grand Rapids :)

You could do your own version of the song, something similar but different . . . that's really what it is anyway :)

I think it's just being legalistic, and reading the laws as they were written for folks 75 years ago, back when you COULD probably build a whole house in 3 months AND they had lees requirements for how to do it ;) Now their "big fear" is someone RENTING the old house out . . . heaven forbid! And then everyone complains that farmers sell land to developers, but how ELSE are people going to find a place to live?

@@This1LifeWeLive *Yeah people need homes to live in... but council's also need to keep up with the times... You & Eric put forward a good case to overturn that ruling... this will now help others in your area for the future home owners 🙂.*

I didn't realize that was a "thing" either until we went to apply for our building permit and they told us that because we had a house on the property already (a trailer) we couldn't put a new one there without a waiver, and that waiver was good for 3 months. SO, if our house burned DOWN and we HAD to build a new one, we'd STILL only get 3 months. BUT Joe a mile down the road can take as long as he wants to build on his vacant land . . . I don't know WHY they created that law, it's absurd. So we had to get a specialized waiver that set a NEW limit, and cost us $2500 for the permit instead of $300.

@@This1LifeWeLive I’m in rural-ish Texas and I don’t need any permits for anything.

@@This1LifeWeLive I’m sorry, except septic. That is a fee of some sort. Other than that they leave me alone.

HAHAHA!

It can be that way anywhere. You go to the local butcher and don't weight your meat . . . they could be selling you a 3lb roast for the price of a 5lb roast. But with the hay, once they get one grapple load on your trailer, you can legally insist to touch it and pick it up. If you feel it's too light have them unload it back off. To be fair, hay DOES lose a decent amount of moisture once baled. I've baled 55lb bales that dry down to 45lbs, if its been sitting a while that's a possibility. It's also possible the first load they picked up did weight 75lbs, and they didn't realize the later loads did not. At the end of the day, you can go elsewhere. Our feedmill had baled a bunch of sticks and leaves, calling it hay, and charged $9 for each bale. I never went back there again.

@@This1LifeWeLive very true, moisture content loss, but not half the weight they advertise, going somewhere else doesn’t address the problem unfortunately, it is more than one farmer; many have done this to me. Quality is a whole other topic like you address, there is a learning curve I have found with buying the right hay for my horses and sheep over the years. When I was a kid I never heard my parents complain about bad hay this way, not saying it didn’t happen but I don’t ever remember it. I have finally found a farmer that really takes pride in his product (will not be fooled by “stored right”, you can store shitty hay all day and winter long in a nice covered barn, it is still shitty hay) and “will load” (see above ha ha) again). It is very very difficult for me to get his bales up in my rafters, and I love that back-breaking work 😊

@@This1LifeWeLiveBTW I LOVE this video, will watch others, you are so knowledgeable, really appreciate your wisdom!

The roof is known as a "warm roof" (according to what I'm told), so there is no venting like a normal roof. This is going to use parallel cord trusses to maintain an even roofline front to back :) They look VERY similar to our floor trusses :D

No thing on the main floor has been framed in yet. The loft was framed in because it's 2 story, and that's how they are erected :) It WILL still be just two bedrooms on the main floor, but you'll see how it all plays out as it continues to take shape :)

I will send you an updated e-mail :D

@@This1LifeWeLive good! Plans too!