DIY Off Grid Cabin Build - Episode 01

[Music] so [Music] okay i'm here at the property [Music] and i'm thinking about this flat area right here for the cabin [Music] so the well is staked out over here not sure if you can see that that stake right about there so the trucks are going to need to have access through here and then up here in to the road so if i place the cabin over here it'll be out of the way i'm thinking right in front of this [Music] pile of logs right there nice and flat got a nice backdrop [Music] and easy access to the road [Music] so let me go ahead and get this staked out [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so the frost line here is only six inches um there's nowhere uh that deep anywhere in california even in northern most parts of california the frost line is only 10 inches so right here it's six inches so i only have to go down about 12 inches to get below the frost line so that's what i'm doing okay i've got these composite post pads here foundation pads so i need to dig my hole round enough or wide enough so that i can fit this in and then my post will sit on top [Music] all right there's my pad i'm down 12 inches or there about i know it's lower than six inches so this one is ready for the post all right i've got all of my post holes dug got my foundation pads in [Music] this will give you an idea of what the size is going to be [Music] these aren't uh perfectly square but uh that's okay i'll be able to get the posts square before i backfill them all right go grab some posts all right i've just got the poles laying in there right now they're not back filled or secure [Music] but they're pretty close to being in line so i'll make sure that they're nice and plumb the right distance apart before i uh backfill them so now what i need to do is find my level line and cut these to size [Music] [Music] [Music] all right let's see how close i got [Music] it's pretty close i'm gonna see if i can get it a little bit better than that [Applause] so [Music] i think that's pretty good so these posts right here are going to be what i set all the other posts off of [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] hope i remember to bring my chisel oh that's a no on the chisel hopefully this screwdriver will do the trick [Music] all right well a screwdriver is not perfect but uh i guess i got the job done let me flip it over and do the other side [Music] [Music] okay so what i've done is i've made a shelf on two sides for my two by eights to rest on as they wrap around the corner i'll have to do that to each of the corners and then just one side on the two center pieces so let me get to another one okay everywhere that i made a cut on those treated six by sixes i want to uh paint with this wood life copper coat [Music] so this is uh another method of treating uh any kind of uh untreated wood so let me go ahead and get that on there [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] okay [Music] okay i just wanted to uh you know any any time you're working with treated lumber and you cut make some cuts that expose a side or an end you should treat it with that copper coat that's what i'm going to do that way my entire foundation posts are are treated [Music] i went ahead and attached this rim joist with some lag screws and i'm still deciding if i want to put a third one in the center there i don't know we'll see maybe i will but i wanted to get that attached to get everything plumbed so i at least have one side that is plumb and level and attached and the rim joist on the front and the rear i want it covering the end grain of the sides that's why i cut an additional three inches off and flushed it up with the edge right there so this will give you an idea of the size it's going to be 8 by 16 which uh if they go by the interior is less than 120 square feet if they go by the exterior just a little bit over um i don't think that that's going to be an issue i'm pretty sure they go by the interior so this is something that i can build without a permit all right that's going to do it for this video so i'll talk to you guys later [Music] you