The Next Course WON'T Start Without THIS

good morning today we have to get a few things done before we can even start course 15 we have about 20 windows that need cleats so that is my job today I'm to get the saw out so it can go a little faster I just set a stop and chop a whole bunch of wood at once and then make some cleats to get them all ready and set in place so that when the time comes we are ready to start course 15 well it's a good thing I checked because I had a bunch of scrap pieces of tuby that were already in the shed and they are so close to the right size by do need to cut them down down a little bit but I have enough for all 20 windows so we're going to use the scraps first save the long boards for our kitchen window that we will be making maybe today maybe tomorrow depends on when Jonathan gets home he's at the grocery and running airon so let's cut these boards down we got our system finally set up so it'll be so nice to one day have a workshop when everything's just like there but it's fine everything's great we are going to start putting these cleats together it's going to go really fast put them in place and then maybe work I don't know I really really really want to work today it's such nice weather but we'll see I also need to move a clothes line there's some other things I can be doing while Jonathan's gone so let's get this done first and then we'll see what we can get into I'm so dumb I knew I had 20 windows I made 20 cleats instead of 40 so back to the beginning I'm not going to show you that when I get done we'll go in Stall okay okay I keep you round round cuz I don't like to be alone but now the sound sound sound of your voice is starting to get old you're so committed or am I wicked for all my want IND sometimes the bags are so hard the nail just bends and you can't do anything about it but put another one in so but let's not go anywhere for those of you that might be new here and you're wondering what the heck are cleats and why are we putting them in now so just a quick recap whenever you're putting a form or frame into an earthbag wall you need a way to lock it in and hold it in place so we build these little cleat they have nails going down and Nails coming up they're screwed into this wood and then they're also nailed down in and then when you lay the bag on top these nails will hold it in place and the weight of that bag and that wall as you keep going up means that this isn't ever going to move the reason we're putting in cleats now is we're about at the Midway point on these windows so we like to put one in at the bottom when we first start them in the middle and kind of near the top and having those three points where it's screwed in and all that weight is holding on means that it's not ever going to flex this way cuz you want to make sure that this stays Plum while you build so uh Ashley definitely has her work cut out for her with 40 something cleat good luck babe should I keep your set you free w drop your the Jonathan is still not back so I'm doing a little side project on my own this is 2in PVC uh the place that we have our clothes line has a mosquite growing up right next to it which keeps snagging all of our clothes and I can't it's so hard to pull those out cuz their tap roots are so deep and a yucka next to it which pokes into my leg every time I hang close cloes and really makes me mad so the problem is the thing that holds our clothes line is cemented into the ground and I don't want to dig it up so I'm going to rig up this 2in PVC I'm going to cut some holes in it push rebar through it and then we're going to cement it into a hole that I've dug and hopefully transport our clothes line over there where there's no amp no trees nothing that will bother it so Random side project this has been bothering me so I got to get it done okay so we have our 2in piece of PVC and then we drilled holes put some uh random pieces of metal from an old project in there the idea is we make this hole big enough that this can go down so we got to make it wider and then when we pour concrete on it that will keep it from coming up we have one bag of post mix left over from some random project I think the doodle fence so let's go get this set up and like finished and move our clothes line well I can't move it till tomorrow but we'll it's fine he e hey this looks really good thank you I Like It Isn't it nice it's a very centralized location M nothing's poking me it's really nice I love it well and you got to remember like the reason that we put it of the Airstream was why did we put it there I don't know cuz I feel like it was a bad decision it wasn't in a great I think we thought because most of the laundry would go into the air stream when we first did the pad I was going to wash stuff up there up there that's right that was the idea work there wasn't enough room yeah so we we ended up washing by the shed and then I'm dragging clothes all the way from the shed to the Airstream and yeah it's just a pain so this is really nice it's centralized it's close to the bathroom and it's like on the way to the airam on the way to the sh speaking of I think we should go over to the cast de Kaka and let's just look at it again because because this is the reason like you put it here because we're doing laundry in this room now yeah it's like the the bathroom and laundry room is the best thing we've done here I'm so happy with it also we have a small upgrade we do yeah on the door oh yeah let's go look at it okay this is our little upgrade our friends hunting Candace up in Phoenix made us this original sign it was this color the sun has like faded it which this is going to be faded and match it later but I just love it so much it is now the house of poop and laundry so so let's just we'll go in here look at it really there's not too much different in here it's the same like it's just it just works I was going to say how's it working out it works so well and the weather's been so great we haven't had to use a dryer unless the kids do a late laundry run which we asked them not to hey but you know what they can our kids do their own laundry I know I am not complaining they do their own laundry their own bedding everything so it's been really nice and I cannot thank my dad enough for coming out my mom and dad like helping us get this done it has been like you just like can Breeze like it's one less thing to think about one less thing to worry about and it's just been like I feel like I live in a house at some points I mean we can't forget the real hero of this room which is the toilet it is very nice we don't have to worry about anything it just goes where it's supposed to go and then we don't have to worry about it so the other thing that we had to worry about this winter when it was actually cold was we wanted to make sure it didn't freeze in here because now we have all these water lines and we don't you know obviously we don't want that to freeze and bust a lot of them are like under the slab but they come up and they come up and they're right near the wall um we kept a close eye on it this winter when it was super cold and I think it would have been okay but we did end up we have a little space heater here that we keep on we keep it on like the lowest setting possible and it did kick on a few times when it was like 15° outside I think the lowest I saw it was like low 40s yeah you see it lower I think I saw it in the 30s once and that's when we when I knew the really cold weather was coming so I got the little space heater but for the most part it's usually at least 15 to 20° warmer in here than it is outside it that thermal Mass transfer works pretty well but yeah it's definitely one of those things we've thought about and we are still keeping an eye on it we haven't really had much of a proper winter this year no I was just thinking when you said it's about 10 to 15° hotter in here like what's that going to mean in the it's going to be a little warm in the summer for sure well we got the windows the windows are nice cuz the breeze comes through and we could leave the door open if we really wanted to no cats cats are a problem what are they going to do they're going to mess with they're going to turn the water and blood it m we've had that happen in other places yeah but you were also saying that you fit like big blankets in here yeah I thought that I was going to have to take our quilt and comforter to the launder mat I don't it fits it's so great it means we don't have to go to the launder mat which is amazing yeah cuz it's disgusting okay well I think your idea to move the the what do you call it the sunshine clothes line um is good yeah very good I love that clothes line I have another one so that when we have the house and laundry over there we could actually have we have two laundry rooms could be running laundry multiple times this is amazing this is pretty amazing okay let's get that house done okay welcome to our home stead house hyper Adobe hey guess what guess what you got so much done the other day I did you did all those cleats on the windows and so we're ready to start course 15 now there's one more thing we got to do which I really wanted to do today but you said we're going to wait till tomorrow and that's the big window we we'll get to that later but for now we're starting back in course 15 we finished with the straight walls so what does that mean we are starting with our straight walls that's right we're starting at the pantry yep we're going start at the front door Pantry wall and then see where that takes us after that well we can't do the kitchen wall yet because of the window so let's get started it is gorgeous out today so beautiful 70° Sunshine windy this winter just be like this year round this winter has spoiled us well we've got a lot done so that's good all right are you ready to start yeah okay a oh step by step but walked the 100 miles and I still ain't sure is what I'm trying so hard to find the night seems longer and the wind blows louder when you wonder so far from home if I cross your mind say a prayer I find my way and get off for this lonely can you hear me tell me can you hear me i' been calling out for help still don't see nobody near me I'm down almost under grounding so deep in the valley I can't even tell you which way is the mountain God the only way word I got I could probably plant a garden all this dirt I got tra broken behind me from the I bought sometimes I really start friends I'm taking a stroll down the Burman the swell and you know what that means it's time to talk about the tiny shiny meet and greet this is coming up March 15th March 22nd so not very far off this is when we open up the homestead for a day and we give tours you want to see what's inside the solar shed we got you you want to look at the Airstream cover open up one of our solar pump houses and see how we hooked it all together absolutely you want to go look in our garage even though it's super messy you can do that you can look at adeliz Dome the chicken Garden the legendary goat Barn container and you can even walk through the hyperd roundhouse start to get a feel for what it's actually going to be like when it's done and of course Ashley and the kids are going to be making some delicious homemade food this is going to be so much fun we can't wait to see you all I promise you're going to meet some really cool people if you come out so again it's March 15 and March 22nd right now we're taking signups for the 15th it's at tiny shiny home.com meat greet and then once that one fills up we'll open up the 2 second make sure you reserve your spot before they sell out and hopefully we'll see you there now back to the build okay we got big straight wall done and the little pieces in between the Gin bottle forms uh and so now we're going to come right here get this last piece over and then we may go ahead and switch to this circle part since we'll have this bag to cut into um it'll let us start locking in some of these cleat here which would be good it's a little out of order but the nice thing about all of these forms is that we can really play around with that a little bit means we don't have to move our scaffolding as much we're trying to be a little smarter about working where our equipment is and not necessarily where the next wall is that we should be working on we're making it work it's fine n well small problem ran out of Portland cement again we have a bunch on we finally ordered like a pallet but it won't be here for another two days but this is a good stopping point we'll probably pick up a bag or two for tomorrow and then we'll get the rest of it Wednesday and then it shouldn't be a problem for a while but keep running out of Portland it's problem going home we're going home going home we're going home going home we're going home going home we're