Raising the Exterior Walls - Couple Builds Dream Home

In this episode of our Couple Builds Dream Home series we are raising the extirior walls on our off grid apartment over garage.
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[@singhA1968]

really your wife is very strong and brave . i salute her .

[@armidaperez5360]

Seth looks so grown up now I thought you hired a helping hand til I put on my glasses. That looks amazing. The race is on til your dried in..

[@juliejohnson9531]

😂 he sure is!

[@DaDa-kx2fe]

True..its amazing....💕

[@louisl.8724]

That boy is sure growing tall! And he looks good in health. Just bleach the boards with mold, then they will be good to use.

[@juliejohnson9531]

Thanks. Puts my mind at ease a bit. I don’t like mold. 😞

[@blondeboyy]

Great decision to add the second story door to connect to the main house. Now you will have access to the second floor bathroom in the new building.

[@r3s3t73]

You are a great example to the rest of the world especially here in america. you have chosen to do a wonderful thing for your family that will last a lifetime. From one man to another I would like to thank you. I have a lot of experience in the construction and development field if you need any advice don't hesitate to ask

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

Wow. Thanks!

[@Dont.Tread.On.Me1974]

You've done a great job! Carpenter tips, put tee's and corners in while the wall is on the floor. Top plate them on the floor as well. Faster and less up and down the ladder. Also put insulation in your box headers before you install them. All in all, I'm impressed with you guys.

[@hpwahyudi4196]

Seth is a man now 👍 I've been watching your videos since Seth was a little boy.

[@delf6775]

Wow, I can't believe how much you guys have achieved in such a short space of time. You've come a long way since your "tent city"!

[@juliejohnson9531]

Agreed! 😂

[@KrissBartlett]

wow great job you guy's Seth is helping alot now great job for him !!!!!

[@rubydacherry1472]

I saw him doing very well

[@mom2breanna]

Thank goodness for Seth and I can’t believe how much he has grown since you started your house. The garage is looking awesome. Love you guys!! 🙂

[@sandravanlankvelt7975]

Wow looking good there. Going fast for sure and can't wait to see trusses and roofing on getting closer. This is definitely a total family affair. God's blessings to you all.

[@juliejohnson9531]

😃

[@Franzilator1]

Marty, you diidnt know that? Now, you know that. God bless you and your Family.

[@squeekhobby4571]

Great job. Pretty clean. Learning from mistakes and teaching it back 🙏🙏🙏

[@revpops]

Love to see the fam working together and your editing is real good.

[@abubakarabdullah7148]

Great job. Coming into shape. Keep smiling. 👍

[@dennislower4742]

I always look forward to seeing your progress. Your whole family is amazing. Great work!!!

[@juliejohnson9531]

😊

[@fredgarvin3216]

Now that's a garage!! Excellent.

[@DennisDuboisLifeview]

Don't worry about the little bit of mold. You treated it and that is all you need to do.. Just go ahead and use them. Not a problem. You have learned a lot since the house build. Well Done!

[@scottensley9964]

I think you need a nailer on that front wall to support the wall you will build for the bedroom wall. Will also help with hanging drywall, if this is the medium you are going to use.

[@dper1112]

The headers are a U shape and have a hollow inside. Most of them you can access later and add batt insulation. But the header above the shower window is already covered. Can you still fill it now, with a bit of work? Or, if you can't, you could drill a hole and spray foam it ... but that would use a fair amount of spray foam.

[@andyteohockguan7243]

Awesome achievement and stay safe, God bless

[@mjbearit619]

BTW, Seth, you are learning fast and doing a great job! I watch on the TV so until I pull out my laptop I can't comment. I saved up a bunch of atta-boys and here they all are! GREAT JOB!

[@kimvanvallis8961]

Awesome job! You three rock...

[@dalejohnson5148]

You all did a great great job!!!

[@elizabethbermudez2299]

Love watching you guys beautiful family wonderful son you have 🙏🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@paulrice1918]

Looking good in the Johnson neighborhood.

[@PaullaWells]

Y’all are rocking! Way to go!

[@cervanteshugo]

Great job. You're a powerfull family, mayor god bless you.

[@MyDieseldave]

I enjoy watching your videos, Great team work.

[@KoalityofLife]

Your thumbnail had me confused, having your floor painted gray made it look like concrete and I didn't remember you pouring a slab. lol. A little tip when you are tilting up walls on a second floor. You can nail a 2x4 to the outside of your first floor that sticks up about 4 feet and lines up with a set of window studs on your second floor. Then when you tilt up your wall it has a stopper of sorts to help keep it from tilting to far and falling off the edge. You guys are doing great. :)

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

Great tip. Thanks.

[@KoalityofLife]

@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving Kinda late but better late than never I guess. lol :)

[@VickyGeagan]

That is what Rob is doing with his mobile tiny home rebuild. He is also framing his walls in squares. He is framing each wall in sections so he can put them up himself. Same as Marty's neighbor and church member Health did with his garage shop he framed in. Rob's you tube channel is little house off grid.

[@dukeman7595]

I noticed you and your wife are both left handed; she does a great job cutting and the added mussel.

[@Ayayahya1]

the camera is excellent, clear and stable

[@johnnorris9874]

great work, great vid! Love seeing engineered trusses

[@mjbearit619]

You keep mentioning the stumps in the garden so I thought I would share something I have done in the past. Living in the city, building fires is somewhat frowned upon in Southern California, so for each stump I grabbed two large bags of charcoal, dug around the base of the stump to be able to nest half a bag of charcoal and light it. Over two days I would add more charcoal as needed and it would completely consume the stump and the roots as well. Of course none of my stumps were even close to the size of some of yours, but more charcoal would work wonders. You could probably also just build a fire over it (no diesel in the garden! LOL!) as that would probably work just as well. The nice thing is it would be removing the stumps whhile you are doing other things!

[@stevenrussell2218]

Looking good good guys keep it up

[@michiganengineer8621]

Looking good guys, especially the Demolitia t-shirt! I want to second, or maybe third, the suggestion about filling the header spaces with insulation as soon as you safely can.

[@jameslemon51]

The window is picture perfect

[@alexhutauruk7643]

Great job for Johnson family !!

[@mrssmith7234]

Looking good! When we were putting up heavy walls (had two 9’ high) we secured a rope to the top plate so that one of us (usually me) could keep it from teetering. Worked pretty good. But now that you’ve got your outside walls up, you’ll probably get those inside walls up piece of cake! 👍🏻😃

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

I hope so.

[@darkfactory8082]

Looking good, Mr., looking good, keep going! Nice work. =)

[@stephengordon8968]

Nice work its looking great !

[@mikeoconnell4229]

You should consider the final available glass on these smaller windows. Adding the jamb,frame,shimming space, and the window sash itself, you actually have a tiny available view. Nows the time to change it.

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

Thanks.

[@TheZambie1]

Keep smiling. Great advice 👍

[@danda_prahayuan0174]

Amazing, I'm waiting for the next video

When I build there's a triple block going into the front wall between the Windows for the inner wall to connect to and drywall to grab the corners. Also I double plate the top. Thanks

[@cocoalexander970]

Great job 👍👍👍 From : Bekasi Indonesia

[@alhashmi151]

Thank you Martin so much I learned from u guys

[@meloniewalston2273]

Great job!

[@doddy0912]

Very proud to see Seth has grown up and helping much ..😀 Very sad if remembering when he was 10th in Jogja , I watched all your Indo vlogs again and again til now😊 ... God bless you and fam , Pak Martin Johnson 🙏

[@juliejohnson9531]

😃

[@billyjohnson6355]

You have done an outstanding rigging and up all those pumps and motors for you existing water,FYI when my well was drilled I had a lot of fine sand that wouldn't pump out the well man had some kind of powder that he put in the well casing it had gel properties and gelled to all the fine sand and silt then he easily pumped it all out ,not sure where you get it good luck God bless you and your familiy, it,s so refreshing to see all you guys working together to for one main purpose.

[@gregkahle9046]

Looking good!

[@Franzilator1]

Marty, your wife is a unicat. Great Job Boys and girls😀

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

I didn’t know that 😂

[@Franzilator1]

Martin Johnson - Off Grid Living : Unicat means einzigartig in German. Anyone People are so like her.

[@J297WFD]

Looks great. Hope they get those fires under control soon.

[@cherylcaraway2511]

Just watched Garden Rescue from England tv and saw where they used tree root to make a garden and made me think of all the tree roots you have pulled . Was a Whales farm garden.

[@bigwallyhdfb]

Great work thanks for sharing keep it up

[@agusnadiarta634]

Nice house Mr Martin, greetings from Bali Indonesia 😁

[@muhammadyorman2701]

The best... Gretting from BIMA_INDONESIA...

[@dorisjohnstone9517]

God bless you and your family Martin Johnson!🤗😇. 💯 Love brother and sister in Christ, from Doris Johnstone Prince Albert Saskatchewan Canada, I just love watching your videos every time you post them!

[@smoochmcguire5291]

Great video thanks again

[@GirdHerd]

I would have recommended rigid foam insulation sandwiched in between the 2 by headers but it's too late now. Still a great job guys.

[@ronbinkc4625]

Looks good.

[@eldiampaso6543]

Great job 👍

[@fandyadry]

Great job..

[@randycharley6159]

Great work man

[@hufyfun1225]

so great❤👍

[@turyonosss1542]

Very good. 🙏🙏🙏

[@juliocruz5656]

Good job guys god blessings

[@idahodad1]

A garden window for the kitchen window would be cool to have. Hope you don't have to wait too long for Trusses.

[@ronbinkc4625]

great job

[@mikekahle844]

Really nice

[@jjchap9574]

Dang Seth is really getting muscles and his voice no longer sqeaks. Where has the time gone? Nicely done folks. Take care.

[@SurvivalLiving]

Every video you guys post I learn something new. Amazing job 👍👍

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

Thanks. You doing the same ok down there?

[@SurvivalLiving]

@@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving yeah brother we are doing okay down here.

[@etnasotnas7729]

Watching from the philippines

[@estellaknox4488]

Everyone makes mistakes se go back and correct them but you guys doing a awesome job God Bless

[@gwenmoody8323]

Love and Hugs from Sapulpa Oklahoma

[@rogerwhiting9310]

Get yourself a Diablo saw blade. You will love it

[@agungwibowo2319]

all I can do from Bekasi is just watch the video, like it, share it...and not skipping the ads. Thats it. Hope Pak Martin sekeluarga doing great. support from +62

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

Thanks. Bekasi rocks!

[@jamesnightingale8209]

extra 2x4 in wall is good thing

[@DaDa-kx2fe]

Love u guys...💞💞💞

[@ariffathuri1830]

Genius

[@VickyGeagan]

Marty, I have a hunch of were you got the idea for your garage from. It will be nice when you are through with the upper deck above the breezeway underneath connecting the two together.

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

Where?

[@catmemes6065]

Hi, not sure if u have noticed, the black spot under your nail (index finger left hand). It could be a blood clot, but better get it checked. My father had the same thing and fortunately it was just a clot. Anyway, great job and love the build.

[@arfendyjohari7666]

Wayoiik good job mr

[@mikeoconnell4229]

Hey guys, another thought on the off centered windows. If your not committed on the windows it would make better sense to put one nice size window instead of two In each room.. You could in-fill the interior framing and need only change and inlarge the other. The larger size would provide much better views,better insulation, probably a little less $.

[@MartinJohnsonOffGridLiving]

Thanks for the ideas.

[@seyiesu923]

Hey! I think you guys are kinda building it faster compared to the first house, I think. Anyway keep it up, your videos are very soothing.

[@juliejohnson9531]

😊

[@mountainviews5025]

Everything looks awesome and guy's the reason that wall felt so heavy is because you changed the way you were lifting because of the 12 inch little knee wall just a little bit changes everything also do you not put solid headers in and why I'm a General Contractor on east coast and I've never seen that the 36ish years I've been doing this again looks amazing thumbs up my friends

[@SobatTV]

Semangat Pak Martin

[@hanzon]

You really are a wonderful failure who works so well together, your son seems to give everything for the family. 👍

[@word2RG]

the way to father is often failure

[@hanzon]

I mean "a wonderful family"

[@adoniasadonias8029]

Tidak sabar lihat kesiapannya..

[@dookiejohnstone256]

Is this going to be like the guest house? Nice 👍🏾

[@Kingsleykrewvlogs]

So great guys !!!! Is it just as the viewer.. or do you guys feel like you're going crazy fast this time around too ?? I REALLY love those small windows as your front view when coming in the driveway.

[@juliejohnson9531]

Thanks! I think we’re gonna love them too!

[@randymackintosh6559]

I would put another large window to the right of the sliding glass door to get more of that view from the family room area...

[@bobjoncas2814]

...lookin' great, nice job, stay safe..

[@vmorganbogart]

The two middle windows are too close to the partition wall. If you are going to put curtains on them, you need space for the rods. The outside edge of your curtain should go 4” past the window to prevent light leak. They should also be centered on the inside wall for the aesthetics of the room. I know you like the looks from the outside, but it is going to make the rooms look odd from the inside. Maybe 1 larger window in each room, centered on the inside wall. I have a degree in interior design. I had a builder put a window on each side of the fireplace & they were right up against the fireplace. It presented quite the challenge. I am amazed the amount of work y’all have gotten done. Blessings, Love & Hugs from Vicki in Ft. Worth, Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸👍❤️🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@mikofrancisko6948]

Seth is getting bigger😄

[@mkzenthusiasts]

Your wife sounds like Wild wonderful offgrid. You are part of the Malitia or Demolition Ranch keep it up and you'll be close to having your clothing at Bunker Branding

[@abbasalaidaroos7108]

Hello my friends, how are you? I congratulate you as a very beautiful, wonderful and creative family for your wonderful and beautiful work. I wish you a happy life.⁦🖐️⁩⁦🖐️⁩⁦🖐️⁩⁦🖐️⁩👍👍🌹🌷🌻⁦🇾🇪⁩⁦🇾🇪⁩⁦🇾🇪⁩⁦🇾🇪⁩⁦🇾🇪⁩⁦🇾🇪⁩⁦🇾🇪⁩

[@juliejohnson9531]

Thank you.

[@lefthand4398]

Gurts (spacers) in the upper framing.

[@gothatnocat6965]

Have your lumber prices gone up recently? Could have been a hit to budget but I think you've made the right choice going with 2x6 walls.

[@ricknepo]

How about having a roofdeck from the garage too. A place to relax and enjoy the stars at night