I’m guessing you mean run lines to the island then t off to the master bath? If so, we could but I didn’t want to. I would personally rather have dedicated lines to every fixture so that water pressure won’t be affected. It’s cheap to do it now so it made the most sense.

That is our plan. Spray foam before any walls go up. Will be easier for them which should make it cheaper for us.

Thank you!

We have a greenhouse. 👍🏻

Our garage will be heated as well so the freezing of pipes is not too much of a concern there.

No. I don’t want to drain that into my septic in case there was oil or whatnot on the garage floor and I can’t just drain to the outside so I didn’t do garage drains. We won’t park anything but cars in here anyway. We will build a shop and an equipment shed in the future for that stuff.

I pay well. 👍🏻

Our video called “How Are They” gave a garden update. Not much happening there unfortunately.

Never heard or thought of that. I have knee pads somewhere packed away. Also, I used all those scraps too. Think I have one piece that was two inches and one that was like six inches. Not much left.

@@TriStarHomestead Because of the insulation property on the tubes they make great kneel pads in the winter on cold surfaces and last a long time. I used them often for many jobs including monoblocking and one pad would last a couple of weeks of constant wear. Try sitting on a few pieces and feel how warm your bum gets or put your bare feet on a piece for near instant heat. Great stuff that and i used every time without the knee pads as you had more freedom of movement . All the best and another great video.

The foam is only to separate our concrete slab from the outside ground. It’s dirt and gravel for the base that the concrete will sit on. The rounds are just our footers. It’ll all be encompassed by concrete soon.

We are over budget for a couple reasons. First we planned to just build the house and not the garage and do the garage later. We decided to just do it all at once. Second is for whatever crazy reason, prices in California (when we were looking) were cheaper for materials than they are here. So we are over in dollars but we aren’t really off as far as materials needed.

@@TriStarHomestead if you had said under budget i would have been surprised. My little experience in building a house, anytime i asked anyone, it always came in over. Stuff happens! Thank you for the reply, much appreciated.

Yeah we figured it wouldn’t be perfect but it’s hard to tell how far off we are being that the garage wasn’t in the original budget and everything is combined.

@@TriStarHomestead i get it, you are better off just doing the lot together. You are still young but one day not so far away you wont be. Just better to get it done and over with. God bless the three of you. Good honest people, i can tell.

Doing well thanks!

Yes the walls will have it for sure.

Yes the walls will be insulated.

It’s a good idea. We are burying water lines in the next video but not in pvc pipe. Once the concrete is in, there really is nothing that can cause a leak other than too much pressure so we didn’t bury it in pipe.

We will have them separate. Good point.

The insulation wouldn’t really be a vapor barrier below the slab but plastic would and that is a good point.

I have one or two in our storage. Used to use them all the time in my old garage. I can’t remember things lol

oOPS... i FORGOT ONE PART..... I write everything down on the white board.... Just as I am going to "the store".... I take out the phone, take a picture of the white board... and off I go.....

That’ll be in the next video. 👍🏻

@@TriStarHomestead Would still say yes. As someone else has said, you may not always want to keep the garage heated. I live in Australia, so no snow where I live, but you may find it too expensive to keep the garage heated. Power costs never seem to go down. ☹

I would definitely insulate there. I’m wanting to build a similar house and I will be putting a mini split in the garage. It’ll help those temp variances not bleed out.

Was thinking that too.

We will most definitely insulate all above grade walls.

Yes, we will certainly be insulating all the walls above grade.

We currently have 32 birds in there. I would say that is about max and maybe even a little much. I wouldn’t put more than that in there.

@@TriStarHomestead a jak zimą??? ja chce mieć max 20 kur na swój użytek może kilka kaczek na jajka. Ale martwię się że polska zima jest za sroga dla tego kurnika. Głównie zimne wiatry

Can’t say for sure as I’m not familiar with winters in Poland but we got down to -10 with windchill this past winter and the birds were fine. Chickens are pretty hardy and they get warmth from huddling together. As for snow, we don’t get much but when we got some I just brushed it off the top and all was good. You could add a pitch to the roof of this to allow snow to slide off.

We gave an update in the recent “How Are They” video. The harvest has been dismal at best. We received poor soil and not what we ordered so not much grew.

We certainly try!

They do! Can’t imagine the look my neighbors would give me if I wore that thing around lol I do have a chest mount that I always forget about though.