telling them to wear safety glasses while you don't? Really? what great helpers you have!!

FORCED CHILD LABOR, I'M A FIRM BELEIVER IN THAT !!! OR IS THAT RENT A KID ?????? 😊😊😊❤

We love the upper peninsula and your family

That’s good she teachs u patients as that is how she will learn them and to be particular in her work!!!

6’7” for the highest disco.

I use BOTH rigid foam like you have there and spray foam. Spray foam is quite expensive compared to fiberglass, rock wool, or rigid board. However, you have to figure the labor. Effectively you double the cost of materials to find the labor margin. In Las Vegas, where I live, there is ONE spray foam company that works under about four different company names. And today's spray foam is much better than 10 years ago. No outgassing and better mix consistency. If your goal is speed, you pay the company. If you want to save money, you DIY. Yup. I did both on the mountain house. I work so slow I couldn't feed a family this way. But visitors love the house and rave about the build quality. Having said that, I too use the workforce at closest hand: my three kids, two boys one girl. They can frame, finish concrete, flex and pull electric wire, and hang cabinets. My youngest actually assembled his own water manifold for a PEX installation from raw copper tubing and fittings. I let drywall guys hang and finish the walls. It's faster and they usually do a better job. I can touch up after they leave. BTW, my daughter helped me rebuild a classic Mustang and after she took the ASFAB for the Navy, they offered her a scholarship to learn nuclear engineering. She really wanted a wet assignment and qualified for SAR training in Florida.

Table saw and a skill saw work great

I would say the UP would be the last place for problems your training for

Styrofoam , great fuel for a fire.

Great video, I love seeing kids get involved and learning by doing. IMO, ISO foam is considerably cheaper than the xps you used and a better choice as it is not flammable.

Spray foam not passing home insoections right now. Paperback r19 or foam core boards best way......

Tablesaw for cutting foam board: fast and accurate. We use a big Delta Unisaw. Nice video but you are P. A. I. N. F. U. L. L. Y slow.

I wish I had a couple of helpers like that

Skill saw

Nope...dont want any heat loss through my crack. LOL Nice work!

Install Ceiling Fans to circulate the Heat downward to reduce Fuel costs.

I'll bet your daughters watched you with that saw in your hand and thought "Dad is such a cut up"... Great video.

So how did it work? No mice?

That will be a wonderful home for a new mice family :-)

Great info - very helpful - thanks!

He was a Skil saw and put the blade in backwards works great

YOUR KIDS SHOULD FIRE YOU LOL. YOU THOUGHT THIS PROGECT OUT. I SAY DIPSTICK. BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT...

AMATURE USE A BATTERY AND A WIRE TO CUT THAT HEAT ..

I STICK STAINLESS STEAL WOOL IN EVEY RIB TO KEEP MICE OUT AND IT CAN STILL BREATH/ VENTILATE.

Use the table saw to cut my foam board work great

Just use a circ saw

Hi there , what size is the ground wire in that 200 amp panel ? Thanks

Id Use A Skill Saw To Make My Cuts

I did an arch building with two 4" polliso Loctite foam and construction adhesive. Dont use great stuff. Locktite flue has the same expansion rating as the steel and the insulation. . There are hand insulation saws for $20 and they do go much faster. Harbor Frieght beam saw attachment for a skillsaw. Glue up and foam between each then tape. Foil faced on one side a white interior surface that can be washed to the inside. They make specialty tapes you get from commercial suppliers. Rood peak should have a vent. I'm a contractor

I see the kids moving and stacking the firewood and have memories... that was me and my brothers back in the late 70's early 80's... but oh did the house feel warm... hell even our St. Bernard dog loved to cuddle the wood stove. But when the power went out, we still had heat.

My youngest daughter was my little buddy. Always wanting to help. She just turned 40. She loves to please.

5:16 uh huh...

3:23 You must have shot that wild banana off camera.

How did you keep it attached to the 2x6 perline?

I see 4 son-in-laws in the future, if they can find boys that will leave their parents basements and get their hands dirty.

Awesome

Greetings from your neighbors on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Here in January it was -5 this morning with a wind chill of -24. We're about to begin regreening an old mining site we purchased in November. We'll be watching your videos for tips and info.

Overkill in the winter and cooking chickens in the summer.

Thank you for the detail brother. Ready to get my building insulated as well. I can handle 100 degree weather in the south just buy opening the door and turning on fans. 20 degree weather is a bigger beast tho. So this is really what I needed to hear.

I use spray foam not the Styrofoam because it gets next to useless in the extreme cold. I don't have trouble with spray foam or cans of paint because I pay attention to the directions and understand why the company puts them on because they don't want their products to fail. Spray foam is produced in its proper form if you mix the two chemicals together at the correct temperature, it has no other options chemistry is colidal

You just spray from it yourself just like you're going to hang that insulation yourself

Now, if I had done that in 'slippa's,' I would have dropped a toolbox or stubbed my toes within the first five minutes of starting the job!!😅😮

You wasting your money on this plastic and the roof

Happy new year for you and for all your wonderful and amazing family in peace , joy , health , security , happiness blessing . sorry for my late message .

Your young Ladies are going to be capable women!

still using a more difficult method lol Score both sides and snap 🙂

Yeah every box truck trailer or camper my grandpa would gut the fiberglass and foamboard it.. the thicker the better and just sprayfoam the cracks. He took the box truck to bethal alaska and slept in it at night and worked on cranes and bulldozers during the day.. guess the foam board was warm enough he did that s*** for decades. All while dodging child support for 3 daughters the cold hearted bastard 😹

Cut with razor blade on line as deep as blade will go. Flip to other side and pop off cut over a table edge or freestanding. Easier than you think. Maybe watch a KZbin video on cutting insulation sheets

I used 1/2" osb over insulation on walls then prime/painted white. Makes installing stuff on walls much easier. That was 16 yrs ago though and at that time osb was super cheap per sheet. Also bent a 3/4" x 4" L piece of siding metal vulkum urethaned to floor against insulation then wall holds in place (can float some and slide up/down freely). Held the osb 1" off floor. This inside metal adds another layer of protection beyond outside rat guard. Previous owner build the pole building who unfortunately didn't insulate under slab (I would have done this). I did excavate entire perimeter 2ft down all around to install xps and alum tread plate barrier.

I work in heating and cooling. Recently I have discovered that spray foam off gases some pretty nasty stuff. It routinely degrades copper evaporator coils to the point where they can't be repaired. If The gases will do that to copper then I prefer not to introduce them into my lungs. I would never live in a house that was spray foamed within a couple years.