Our Alaska Log Cabin __ Building Frame Walls __ Plumbing __ Natural Gas __ Electrical

Due to this channel I want to welcome you to our family. We the reason we're called Montana Haven is we have a home in Montana and just recently we moved to here to Alaska and we're building our cabin here in Alaska and what we're going to be doing today is we're working on our interior walls. In this video we hope that you'll enjoy our family as we build this log cabin together and just the many things on this channel that we do together as a family. So welcome. Well we just got a screw jack put in here. If you remember watching the subfloor go in we've actually got a whole bunch of boards like that support post and underneath in the subfloor and then we just put a screw jack in here and this is going to be just to kind of help support this big truss right here and all the weight of the roof. So we just got that installed. We got this frame wall right here installed now and you might notice something a little bit different about this. If you look here you can see that I've got two 2x4s right here in this wall with the space in between and what that does is I've got I used a 2x6 plate on the bottom and I used two 2x4s offset and the reason I did that is so that this is a soundproof wall. Now sound travels right through boards like you would not believe. It just you can hear someone whisper on the other side of the wall. So what this does is it creates a barrier so that you don't get any noise going through the wall. I did this in my house in Montana and it does help. So these boards right here are not connected with the boards. The studs on the other side right there and then so the sheetrock will be screwed onto that side and the sheetrock will be screwed on that side. There'll be air gap here and then we'll insulate in between with some fiberglass insulation for soundproofing and that's going to help with the sound between the bedroom and the living room area to kind of give us a little bit more quiet space in there. So that's where we're going there and then we got to continue to get these other walls put in right now. All right we've got our wall slots cut on both sides. This side of the beam as well as over there and now we're going to put our wall together. We got to build it in two pieces because we can't lift it all up into one piece. Okay here's some bonus footage for you. Justin and Nathan are doing some forging here in our burn barrel. They're going to try to weld this together. What we're doing here is again putting this screw right in here. This screw has a smooth shank so I'm screwing it all the way up into here into the smooth shank and then as this settles it's going to slide down and keep the wall rigid. So we leveled it now it's threads there. We're going to frame up this kitchen wall right here next but in order for me to do that I have to first cut out my window so that's what I'm going to do right now. I'm going to make a couple passes rather than just taking one big chunk out of it. You can see that foam is holding it together. It's totally solid. Even though it was raining at work. One thing I'm really a stickler about is I do not like to see any saw cuts up into the wood or down because that just means you were an amateur chainsaw man or woman and you weren't careful enough because those you can see those later. Now I even still do it sometimes but I try to be really cautious when I cut up or cut down because later when we trim them out you'll see why. If there are any marks there you'll see them later. Okay so we've got this kitchen wall framed up and this is where my cabinets will be attached. We're going to slide this back up against the log wall and what I did right now is I slid the this wall all the way against my log wall and actually want to recess it a little bit into the log wall so that it just gives us more space in the house. So I actually made marks here and I'm going to make some saw cuts and we're going to chisel it out so that we can slide the wall back into the log wall. Give us a little bit more space in the kitchen. All right they're getting close right there and I'm going to start over here on this long wall all the way up there. I've taken a cut on two sides. It's going to take a while to do that. The laser set up ready to go. I'll recap what we got done so far today. We're just getting ready to put this wall up but it is quitting time as you can see by the lights that we've got. So that's the wall between the bedroom and the bathroom right there. We got everything laid out here on the floor with the chalk line and so we've got the kitchen that we got done. Got that all knocked out there. We've got that wall all those walls done over there and of course this wall here. So now tomorrow we're going to just work on this bedroom and bathroom and get that all done and then we're going to move over here to the guest bathroom area but it's time to call it a night. Well this morning we're heading to work in the old base known as the RV our motorhome and our home for all summer. We're actually taking it out to our property now and parking it for the winter. We got a big tarp to cover it. We had taken it to our rental to get everything moved out of it. It's been sitting there for a few days so now we're taking it back out or taking it out to our property there and storing it for the winter. So hopefully we'd like to keep it and maybe next summer we can use it to go around and do some traveling. I think it definitely needs work like needs new brakes and stuff like that but it'll be fine and we'll get it fixed up in the spring. So we're going to work about a half a day then we got to run into town and grab a whole bunch of all our electrical and plumbing and natural gas supplies. We have a friend coming up next week and then we're going to be gone over the weekend. We're actually going to go caribou hunting so which is why we came to Alaska to enjoy Alaska. So even though the house is pressing hunting and fishing and family time is more pressing so we're going to be doing that. So we're going to do that this afternoon get all our supplies so when we get back from caribou hunting he's coming and then we can get right on it and get all the hopefully the electrical all the plumbing and all the natural gas run. So that's going to be a big project but he's going to be here about three four days so hopefully we can get get that all knocked out. So but this morning we're going to be working on some more framing as well. Okay there are the old b6 right there we got her backed in there beside our trailer and covered for the winter. She'll sit there until the spring I guess. Okay we're finally ready to get our studs our long studs in. We got our wall slots cut yesterday and now we've got our top plate. It's real tricky to do these angles up here but anyways we got got the top plate on. We basically put a block up against the ceiling and we screwed our top plate to the block and so we can just get all our studs in there and then then we'll fasten the top plate to the roof so that it can settle down and we'll take out our little gap pieces. So that is kind of complicated but that's how we're doing it. Everything's got to settle around here. That's what makes it hard sometimes remembering that. Okay time for a quick walk through what we got done today. Starting to look more and more like a house. We basically only had a half a day to work in here and work on the framing because this afternoon we had to go to town and here's all our supplies all the electrical and plumbing because my friend Mike if you remember Mike taking us to Liberty University that's the same Mike. He's going to come up and help us plumb get all our tubs in do all the wiring help us out with all that. He was a master plumber and electrician and so he had me get all the stuff so we did all that this afternoon and so what we did get done though was we got done in here so this is going to be the I'm standing in the master bedroom and that's going to be the master bath right in there and the master closet. So there is our wall going clear up the top. They're like 14 foot long and so I still have to build my tub wall back in here so the tub is going to go in here. I have to build a wall around there and the toilet will be back in this corner and we'll put a ceiling on there so we can do a little bit of storage and I don't have to build a wall all the way up to the top. So that is the status on that. So again this is going to be all we're going to get done this week because we are going to go caribou hunting and I do hope that we're going to be able to get a caribou. It's going to be a lot of fun. It'll be myself and the boys and then Michael and his son Kendall and his daughter Christy. So all three of all six of us are going and we're going to have a lot of fun so when we get back this house will still be here and we're going to start plumbing start around the electrical and finishing the framing when we get back next week. All right well what we got going on here is we're back from caribou hunting. We were gone the last few days and we had a wonderful time. Watch for a video of that hunt coming out a little bit later and so now we're back and we have our good friend Mike from back in Liddy, Montana where we come from our neighbor. He's here to help us do all the plumbing and electrical and running the natural gas lines the next couple days. So that's what we're doing right now. The boys are helping him do that. I pretty much spent the day today just cutting wall slots for my trim. We did get this. This is the master bathroom. This will be where the vanity is going right here and then the tub will be going in behind this wall in this area here and I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to put an archway in right here. The reason I have that going across is to stiffen this up. I want to tile that and I don't that wall. I just felt was going to be too floppy so I tied it in across the top. I think we'll make a nice arch. I think that'll look good and then there's all these wall slots over here that we did. Got a bunch going out here. So yeah it takes a while to do all these. That's for my trim to go in behind. So working on that and let's go downstairs and see what the guys are doing downstairs. I think they're just about done with the plumbing down here which is pretty awesome. What do you think Mike? Looks good. Mike's doing a great job. Oh yeah look at that. I haven't even seen it yet. Oh you're missing a piece there Mike. I don't think that's going to work like this. That's a new shower. Okay looking good. I like it. I like it. Well this morning we're just working on framing and doing more work on the plumbing. Getting the tub installed over here. Getting all the plumbing in. So happy to have Mike here to help out. It's pretty cool. What are you up to Wyatt? Wyatt is burning all the scrap wood outside there and the cardboard and stuff. And Ethan's helping me frame. We're working on this wall over here. It's kind of complicated because it's such a tall wall. But lasers sure make it nice. Really amazing. Okay we're working on the building the wall for the bathtub right back here. So that's what we're working on right now. All right we're on our final tall wall here. First thing we got to do is put those spacers in there. Put our top plate up. Screw it to the ceiling so it stays there. Then we got to take measurements and then later take those screws out. So we got the wall. The other side there'll be like a hall in between there. And now all the bathroom framing is done. The tub will go. Tub shower will go right in this area here. The vanity will be on this right hand side. And then kind of hard to see behind this ladder. I still have to put a little closet wall in here. Right in this corner. And then the toilet will go right in there. That little hole there. We are literally just finishing up the framing. Ethan's putting the last boards on and we're done framing. Awesome. Got this tub installed. I'm going to help Mike on the plumbing now and start pulling the electrical. All the framing is done in here. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Kind of hard to see what's going on. I know a lot of walls everywhere. There's a closet right there that we built. This is the guest upstairs bathroom. And a closet back there. Okay. Wyatt's getting everything set up here. He's got the sandwiches warmed up for us and got lunch already on this little homemade table that him and Avalon made. Looks good Wyatt. Got the sandwiches heated up. All right. Nice. All right. Good deal. Waiting for the others here. Okay. We are going to try to pull this big wire out through that conduit right down there out to our meter base. Here we go. I got to go out and pull the rope. There's our rope coming out of the meter base. And our house is all the way over there. So we're going to pull it through conduit in the ground. So first, when we installed the conduit, we had a tiny little rope. And we pulled this bigger rope, the little rope through with this bigger rope. Now we're pulling the wire through with this rope right here. I'm just taking out the slack right now. That's why it's going so easy. It's going to go pretty hard once we actually get the wire going. Okay. I think we must be getting close to the end here. Okay. I think that's about it. I feel some resistance there. Wait to let them holler at me. Well, our first attempt to pull it through didn't work. Our rope and the wire together was too fast. So now we're redoing it to see if we can make it actually fit into the conduit. It wouldn't get in the conduit. Okay. You want me to go out and pull on it now again? Yeah. Let's try it first, huh? Yeah. Maybe you want to crawl down the whole way and see if you can go through it? Now tell him to try it again. Yeah. Okay. Get behind me on that. Okay. Come over here. We're getting it. One of y'all over there and one of you get behind me. Man, this pulls hard. Okay. I didn't get that on video, but we actually had to use the excavator to pull the rest of the way through. It was just too hard to pull. So we got it through now, which is awesome. We're getting all our electrical in. We've got pretty much all our boxes set everywhere and we're running our wires and getting our plumbing done. We've already run a bunch of wires, but still a lot more to do. We've got our ice maker box down here. We've got our getting our washing machine box set up over there. We've got a pot filler, which this is a little high. We're going to have to move it down, but there's a pot filler for the stove. I think Priscilla's going to like that. So we're moving along here. All right. We're still going to town here. It's getting late. All hands on deck here. Ethan's drilling vent holes up here. Then we've got another gentleman right here. David is helping out and he's helped me pull wires. He's another YouTuber that came by and he's got a channel called Rutherford Roamings. Go check it out. He does a lot of hiking with his dog and his wife. And so he's helped me pull wires. So we're going to have some pizza here soon and continue working probably kind of late. Okay. We are back again. Mike actually did not leave and he's here a little bit longer. We're going to work a little bit to finish this up today. And we're basically just wrapping up a few things on the electrical, the plumbing, and actually the electrical is a little bit more to do yet, but the plumbing is almost done. The natural gas lines are almost run. So we've got a couple hours and then he'll be done so he can head for home. So that's what we're working on today. It's a beautiful sunny afternoon here and it's the leaves are really changing quickly already. Most of them are already off the trees, but there's blue sky, which is so nice. So I don't have an exterior outlet on this little porch and I really want to have one here. So I'm simply just going to cut one in. Here we go. Cut right in the logs. First thing's first, I marked it off. I took this and just held it on there. I marked it and I'm just going to cut it in. What's nice about this little saw here is I can actually cut sideways. Simply take my hammer. A lot of times you can break it right out of there. It's loose. There we go. There's a piece. Have to chill it out a little bit yet. Now I've got my box cut out. I'm going to take this drill I'm going to try to drill down into my subfloor to my rafters down there. We'll see what happens here. Ethan's pulling wires. Mike's finishing up the plumbing. Got a lot of wires run. Justin is helping run gas piping here. Okay, Ethan's drilling the holes for these exterior porch lights and I'm going to cut them right here. We're going to put those in so that they inset and then the porch light is going to sit right on them. Okay, Ethan got it. Got this thing all burnt now and it's just a board. It's one of our deck boards that we took. Drilled a hole in it and that's pretty much where it's going to sit right there. I'll sand this down and burn that and their light fixture is just going to go sit right on there. That's how it's going to work. Well, what day is today, babe? First day of school. Yes, it is. They want to be up there sitting when mom comes in. They're so excited. All right, now finally it has arrived. We have eaten breakfast and Chloe's got her hair done pretty in Avalon and Priscilla is getting ready to get out the books. The teaching has begun. Oh, the joy of first days of school. Okay, you can all get out your napkins. There's nothing quite like the first day of school where you have fresh new books. You know what would be really good, hon, is if we had a prayer before we got started with school this morning. Yeah, let's do that. So we're going to pray, I think, just bless this school year and bless the children that they can learn. Bless Priscilla that she can teach well so lord we just thank you lord this morning father for your goodness over us lord we bless this school year we bless the children and we just thank you lord so much for this place this safe place that they can go to school here at home and we just ask for your holy spirit to just lead and guide and and teach each one of us and help them with their studies and teaching in All right, Chloe, let me see your book. So exciting. Learning with Numbers. Okay, first grade in Avalon. What have you got? Grade six with math. Arithmetic. That's what we always call it was arithmetic. When I was in third grade, somebody asked me if I had math that day. I said no. I didn't know what math was because we always said arithmetic. And Wyatt, you've got a nice clean arithmetic book as well. Okay. All right. Have a good day. Okay, so we decided to clean out the garage this morning because it was an absolute mess still from moving in here. So now we're going to surprise Priscilla and see what she thinks. That was a surprise. I'm excited. Oh, wow, babe. This is amazing. It looks so much better. Slightly organized. So now we have got all our windows and our front door right here. So we strap strapping them up, then we're going to take them to the house. Today is cleanup day. Clean up the garage, went get our windows, and now we're going to haul these scraps to the dump. We burned all the paper in this burn barrel and any wood chuckles and now all this stuff here, we're going to haul off to the dump. So we just got to clean up and we're going to have some company tonight. So get ready for that as well. All that metal banding was pretty much what came with the logs when we brought the logs up. That and some lumber and the second load of logs as well. All right. I just covered my excavator there for the winter. I don't think I'll be needing it. And while I was doing that, I had the boys clean out this pallet right here. This was all full of stain and chinking and varnish that we brought up from Metal Ark Log Homes. Okay. I'm back from the dump and we hooked up the side by side the little trailer that we borrowed and we piled all our caribou antlers that we found on this hunting trip. That's, you're going to see the video soon coming up. Now we're going to take this side by side and park it at the rental where we're at. And then we have to go pick up a couch. We found a used couch on like a marketplace, Facebook marketplace. Gonna go load that up. Okay. We just went and got this used recliner and couch. And now we're going to try to wrestle it upstairs somehow. This is going to be a real challenge going up that steep stairway, but we'll figure it out somehow. Yeah. Now we got a place to sit actually and kick back a little bit. That'll be nice. We're having company for dinner and there was no place to sit. So we finally broke down and bought something. We're taking it up. What are you making love? I'm just going to, I'm just doing a quick charcuterie board here for tonight. It's fun just to finally celebrate a little. Yes. Wow. This looks amazing. This is the best fruit we've had in a while. I think we got this far struggling to get it up up here. One, two, three, one, two, three. Okay. I'll let it go down. Woo doggy. There we go. Is it good ladies? All right. There's what's left of Priscilla's charcuterie board. Just look at that awesome view this morning. We're, we're taking the side-by-side back to its rightful owner. Unfortunately, it's not us, but just look at that beautiful view. Oh, it's a beautiful day today and the snow is coming down the mountains and it's so pretty. Good news. We're pulling up to our drive and there is Nstar, which is the natural gas line company. So there looks like they're getting ready to put that in. Sweet. Well, it's time to get started on these windows. This is going to be my first cut on these logs. And in this particular two front windows here, they're not high enough. I guess at Meadowark there was a, must've been a little goof up or something. I have to cut this top log out. So that's something I have to do extra. So here we go. Everybody likes to do things a little bit different. I like to make three cuts. If for me, I can just get it more accurate. If I do my first cut, just really concentrated getting it straight. And then my second cut, I go about two thirds of the way through the final cut. I go all the way through. If you have a saw cut there, your, your chain naturally wants to follow the groove. If you just go all the way through the first time, a lot of times it wants to go back and forth a little bit. Anyways, for me, it does. So it looks pretty straight. Yep. So I think we're good. I'm going to cut the other side. We will have a beautiful view. Now I made it higher. I could have cut down a little bit instead of up, but I decided cutting up is going to allow a little more sunshine to come in. So that's good. Now we got some sun coming through there. Okay. Well, the boys are just finishing up the, some electrical stuff while I cut out the windows in preparation for, they're going to start sanding the, the logs there that I cut out. So I think that's pretty much going to do it for this video and the next video, you're going to see me cutting out all the windows, getting that ready. So if you like what we're doing here, stay tuned. I God bless you guys. And thanks for watching. Remember to like subscribe and share this video. If you think the content's great, hopefully you enjoy our family content. I know it's not just the log home building. It's kind of our life. It's our family up here in Alaska. We hope you enjoy it. And again, thanks for watching and God bless. We'll see you on the next video.