We're Saving Thousands Doing This Ourselves! DIY Deck Build On Our Off Grid Home

We're saving thousands by breaking up the sheet metal flashing for our DIY deck!
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[@BrianCrans-vo2ji]

I know you say you don't need a set of forks but for under 1000 dollars you will be amazed on how much work they will save you. You really should consider it!!!

[@yorkie6760]

I love watching your videos. I'm an old lady who LOVES watching building projects and actually seeing them completed. So many people start a project and never really finish it. It bothers me. lol You guys are great. I always hate to come to the end of your videos. It's like coming to the end of an episode of my favorite TV show. They are never long enough. Keep up the good work!!

[@oleman490]

hey old lady;;;lol;;I'm an old man that likes the same;;;;always enjoy this young couple with all their accomplishmehts;;;that high spirited young lady has the strength of a gorilla with all the lifting and carrying she does;;;lol;;;I make a few suggestions every now and then and some I get kinda repramanded on;;lol;;;I wanted them to put a hook for bucket on their mill to catch the sawdust to save for various things around the property;;anyway;;no offene on the old cause I think I be older;;;lol;;;haave a good one;;;pardon in misspelling as I have a new laptop and still issinng letter every now and then;pluss my pup ate my specs and I havent replaced them yet;;;;

[@mikelskelley]

I’m not an old lady😂😂😂 but I still love to watch people with the drive to build a home for themselves, take care

[@oleman490]

sorry bout that coolda swore I read little old lady;;;unless ya changed genders on me;;;lol;;;anyway I also don't particularly like it when projects are started and never finished;;;;lots say they are gonna and they dont;;lol;;;have a good one;;;@@mikelskelley

[@sgrvtl7183]

Ditto me too! I am a 73 year old Grama- So. California

[@sylvianey205]

I'm a 74 year old grandma from Pennsylvania 🎉

[@kevincerce5056]

Now all you guys need is two rocking chairs

[@larrymesneak1334]

You two appear to work so well together. You're a pleasure to watch.

[@KenDavies-qv3fs]

The most fun after installing the stairs is walking up and down them !!

[@timkirkpatrick9155]

Love the dark flashing, very dramatic!

[@sharondagostino3348]

Not only are you saving money, but you know exactly how you want it to be built and to be supported properly

[@jimmullin7029]

As an old retired "tinner", I really enjoyed the nostalgia of vicariously reliving the making, then installation of sheet metal pieces. Fun!

[@wadeprior5203]

Hope you guys are having a wonderful wonderful day and keep up the good work and I like what you're doing God bless you guys

[@Lasolucion369]

❤❤❤❤ 1:07

[@brucewitcpalek5120]

Katie learns so fast. The two of you are unstoppable as a team !!

[@brianblum4591]

Greg is a man of many talents. Y'all make a great team, really complement each other.

[@CCRobertsCarpentry]

Katie you are doing a great job tokeep up with your husband bending metal keep up the good work thank you enjoy watching.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊

[@nschubach]

The parallax error potential on that sheet cutter is real.

[@lauraquigley6403]

Great job on the deck guy’s! The steps are looking amazing! So happy the chickens 🐓 are safe now Katie! The editing on the video’s is getting better & better Katie! Soon 100,000 subs!😊🙏🙏🙏Blessing’s

[@da1shark]

Katie is such a quick learner. Great job working together getting the metal prepped for installation.

[@barrymurray8264]

Great job. I hope you don’t mind me watching. In the 60’s today and sunny & breezy in Delaware. Be well.

[@eloleddie]

The work gets done almost “automatically”, without much talk or discussion. You seem to keep in sync all the time, and the result is leaving us speechless. We will just wait patiently for the final finished product! It cannot be anything else but a great success!

[@jeffmcauliff5315]

Seeing the roofing company shop brought back good memories of my roofing company I sold after 30 years in 2014

[@echoravenrider932]

I love watching your videos. Thanks!

[@cedricbroussard8738]

It's the simple thing in life that makes you happy, and having steps is one thing that would make you happy lol

[@mlutke4067]

What a gift to have full access to the metal shop & the skills to makes flashing, gutters etc!!! Love the stairs! I’m picturing a full shop someday on your property where all your equipment & tractor & atv will be inside from weather!! Everything is looking amazing!

[@markwaymouth4247]

That's awesome, I see that Greg is a trades person. What we call in the trade is a tinwacker.

[@erwinaddison2030]

Katie is a hard worker and a keeper😊

[@mikeplayer9035]

I'm a fairly new follower of the channel and I've just finished watching all your videos. So these comments are more general, and in response to comments / thngs said on other videos than specifically about this video. I didn't watch all these videos because Katie is cute. I certainly don't mind that she is (I'm only human), but that's not why I subscribed. I also like watching Greg, and he's certainly not cute (though Katie may disagree with me there 😀) There isn't just one reason why I watch. There's the satisfaction of seeing things grow (plants and buildings). There's the goats going for walks. There's the dogs and the cat - I don't think Juniper is pure blue heeler, I think she may be part cat with her ability to find the most inconvenient place to sit. There's the two of you coping with huge swings in temperature (I live in New Zealand and we get swings from about 25 to 30 in summer to around 0 in winter (that's really low here). The intros where you give a brief view of everything before getting into the meat of the video is especially good. I also enoy seeing Katie in a bikini - but that's at least partly because it usually means you guys are relaxing, and after all the hard work you do you deserve to relax. So, thank you for your videos, please keep posting them. I'll never go off grid myself, but I enjoy seeing someone making a really good go at it like you two do.

[@garygrant1726]

Cut your top step off, and you can leave the blocking. Your calculator gives you the number of steps, with the deck being one and your next one starts the height of your rise down from there.

[@leslietarboxjr4287]

Greg and Katie, you are both so talented and work so well together and make everything look so easy. I absolutely love everything that you have done to your homestead from the beginning till now. You have saved yourself so much money, not only on what you did on this video but throughout your entire build. Those dead trees saved you tons of money on the build and free firewood probably for life. Eagerly looking forward to your next video.

[@kristingrounds4163]

Hurray!!!! Stairs!!! They look really good!

[@1944chevytruck]

Looks awesome you guys!... good job!

[@TheHavasu_77]

It’s gonna look so awesome when it’s all done!! I saw another KZbin channel build a deck and they didn’t protect the edge like you guys did, I’m still silently yelling at them for that. 😩😂🤣

[@MrTimNed]

Y'all are rocking it

[@claudiorossi848]

Bravissimi!

[@edwardshupe6215]

In the US Naval Aviation you would called “ tin benders “ for the sailors who worked on the skin of the aircraft. I was a parachute rigger or PR on board the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier.

[@ElmerMiller-cr6mj]

Nice work you two. Can’t wait to see the decking applied. Let’s hope it shows up before it snows

[@ThisOffGridLife]

Us too!

[@TomHBP]

You should turn that leaf blower on your truck around and it'll go faster!

[@bobflores]

Definitely watch your fingers on that metal break. It'll squash them flat. Don't ask me how I know. The metal flashing looks good. More steps towards completion of the deck. Thanks for the video.

[@stephenoshaughnessy2279]

The flashing is professionally done. Access to good equipment really helps. Nice to get free gravel. The stairs look great. At this point, the comfort of your home is exponentially increasing.

[@KimYlitervo-wt4go]

Nice work again 😊

[@suelotts7177]

I always hate to see your videos end! Looks good!!

[@SuperJaXXas]

Deck is looking good, an awesome addition you will enjoy for man years to come!

[@donovanharrison3516]

I feel like dancing. Tune (15:17). Great job guy's 🙏

[@jackieanderson6599]

We so love watching you both on your journey ❤ like others hate when each video ends and cannot wait for next one.. so glad chickens are ok too... ❤ you work so well together. Noone is perfect but you two together do great... ❤ keep sharing we will keep watching ❤❤❤

[@DeirdreHickey-nx8nt]

The decking looks great really getting there 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@t4leta]

Greg. I’m not an owner of Chickens, but I’ve read that if you have a Black Chicken or two or if you have a black decoy in the chicken’s yard, the Hawk will think there are crows there which are a natural enemy of hawks? Don’t know if it’s true, but might be worth a try or look into.

[@NORMANMORRISON1940]

I might have already told you this but at the beginning of this year I had two bowl legal attacks in my chickens at the sort of hammer at 1 it wouldn't leave when I was yelling at it got about 20 feet away from it through a hammer at it and it finally left turkey chased the other one away in the backyard but the side yard turkey can't get in it's first time out of three years that they've ever attacked us and I've always had them perched up above my yard constantly and have never I was always told that they couldn't take off and make that incline from my place straight up into the trees but obviously they can so I put three 38 inch rope I bought 2000 feet of it for $29 and I strung at 8 feet in the air all around my yard and that stopped them all but it doesn't stop an eagle or hot because I hadn't recently had either an eagle or a hawk in the middle a afternoon diaper on one of my chickens went right underneath the rope but I'd only tried it once that was it didn't get anybody but that bold legal should pluck my chicken pretty good if it had been one of the red chickens I wouldn't have minded but it was my Bardrock and don't want to lose no bird rocks It must have been a bad year for Eagles not being able to get feed to feed their babies because that's when the attacks occurred is when they had babies still in the nests now that the babies were all gone they stopped even coming over

[@heiditaylor5896]

The stairs look so nice!!!

[@russellwatters5891]

It's cool ya'll can cut and form your own metal works for the house. It's really looking great, ya'll are killin it! Love ya'll ❤

[@carlahubbard7561]

My niece just had a deck built, on the ground. It wasn’t half as big as yours……$8000.00! You ARE saving $1000s!

[@sarahschlosser1203]

Greg is there anything you don't? What an amazing job both of you!

[@randycornell9796]

Very nice.. Sure is coming along nicely folks.. Stay safe and have a great day.🤓👍🤓👍.Randy.

[@MrOneleggedjosh]

I think it’s Greg’s turn to don some yoga britches and be the thumbnail image. Y’all might get a whole new audience! 😂 Great work guys!

[@ninemoonplanet]

Before it gets frosty or snow falls, personally I would add one thin layer of finishing with fine sand spread along the steps. It won't prevent skiing down the steps, but may reduce the chances. The flashing worked perfectly. Hopefully you get the materials very soon for the deck. Hawks, eagles are also feeding up for winter, like bears and the rest of animals. Maybe get some surveyors flagging and tie it over the chicken run. Deterrence may work.

[@druhypokus]

Píšu ti z České republiky. Máš nesprávně orientované schodnice, pravá strana, tedy strana, která byla v kmeni blíž středu, musí být vždy nahoru. U dveří, u okenního rámu, u všeho musí být pravá strana vždy ven. Pokud to uděláš jak říkám, nebude se to deformovat. Také je pravá strana vždy hezčí. Tom I am writing to you from the Czech Republic. You have incorrectly oriented stairs, the right side, i.e. the side that was closer to the center in the trunk, must always be up. At the door, at the window frame, at everything, the right side must always be out. If you do it like I say, it won't warp. Also, the right side is always prettier. Tom

[@suezaple4950]

You two work great together to get the work done, Nice that Greg could use the metal shop even better you were able to get some gravel. My son works with metal owns metel roof business Yup it is expensive for sure nice you could save money by doing it yourself. Everything is coming together nicely way to go Katie & Greg. Your sure a hard worker Katie learning some great skills along the way and doing well. The deck looks epic folks . Ontario, Canada.

[@Mr_Mojo_Risin]

Love your videos and this thumbnail is gorgeous! Thank you!

[@1roland1953]

Regarding the steps being slightly higher near edge due to the steps being level and the deck is slopped, the top it the stairs could be trimmed to match the height of the deck.

[@jackreed3445]

At first I wondered why you were planeing the stringers but then I saw how nice it made the wood look. I like how Greg marks the place for the screws on the treads. I'm sure he does that to align with the stringers but it looks so uniform rather than hap-hazard and that adds to the beauty of the whole thing. Having fresh good looking wood of your own instead of the Home Depot kind make quite a difference also. You two work so well together and Katie seems to pick up on new things quickly. My wife and I are like that not having to be told over and over. You are going to have such a wonderful house rather than the somewhat normal forest cabin type of place. All of your work looks so "decorative" instead of plain. I look forward to all of your videos and would be happy with more of them and even longer ones too. Katie's editing gets better every time too. Greg's knowledge of wood working and sheet metal work is bringing things along nicely. Take care and try and have some fun along the way, jack

[@ilonakatalindako-tolman5545]

Pretty cool...so nice having it done before snow time

[@racebanning6390]

AWESOME!!!! LOOKS LIKE GREG HAS A FANCEE SHEETMETAL PARTNER , PUT HER ON THE PAYROLL , LOL. THAT FLASHING WILL SURE ADD YEARS TO THE DECK..... GREAT IDEA. THE STAIRS ARE EXCELLENT, AND LONG STEPS SURE MAKE IT NICE LIKE YOU SAID, WHEN CARRYING A LOAD A WOOD UP. MAY ADD 2 INCH GRIPTAPE TO THE FRONT FOR WHEN THERES ICE OR SNOW, LESS CHANCE OF SLIPPING AND IT CAN BE PEELED OFF AND REPLACED AS NEEDED. HAPPY AUTUMN YA ALL. 👍👍🙏🙏GOD BLESS. ROMANS 10:9

[@ronaldlincoln2935]

Yea!!!!! Field trip!!!

[@elzamiller]

I love it when a plan comes together! Looking good Katie

[@carljorgensen2813]

Whenever you put wood down, check the grain in what direction it’s going, should always be facing down..

[@user-hc9tv6oq5h]

Gregg as smart as you are i know you can surely figure out how to have a large metal Basket rigged up on pully with a winch to be able to walk up beside the steps to liad it with wood then winch it upon the porch. Come on make it a little easer for Katie please

[@jesseandrade8752]

Nice you guys are moving uptown. It’s looking real nice!

[@ld5714]

Katie, did you ever think a few years back you'd learn how to use a metal brake? You continue to add to your skill set which makes you such a strong and independent young woman. You and Greg work so very well together and are fun to watch along your journey. It sure is nice that Greg has access to what he does through work as it saves you so much money and makes it much more convenient for you guys. The deck and stairs look great. The structure where you were planing is the old chicken/goat area, correct? Have a good week ahead - productive and safe. Larry, Central Valley, Ca.

[@randydobson1863]

hello this off grid life and it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy

[@karenwornum6275]

Love your channel especially your tiny flock of chickens, the mini rooster and his three girls are the cutest

[@danawelder5561]

Maybe in the future, you could add on a lower level with hot tub ❤

[@buddyreed2623]

Hi Katie and Greg. What a fantastic boss you have to let you use the equipment. Five years ago, you would have saved a lot of money. Today, I guess you could double that. Have good days!

[@glendajune9140]

Another amazing project complete. The stairs are beautiful,& well built. Great job with the sheet metal. Looking forward to seeing how good it’s gonna look. Thanks for sharing the progress you’re making. Stay safe, healthy, happy, productive,& blessed.💯👏🏾💜✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸

[@louistorcello3525]

I must commend you both for how well you work together. Hawks do not like owls, my suggestion is to install 2 or 3 large fake owls around the area also sit one high in a tree. Another trick is to hang shiny strips above your birds. Greg may have scraps at work. Following from Australia.

[@thomasspainhour1112]

Awesome build, NC USA 🇺🇸

[@florencecampbell774]

Good team together.

[@heinzbauer4356]

I really want to see the completed house

[@henryminton4760]

I love your front porch ,both of you two are doing a very good job..It looks like a professional has been working on your porch..The name of the game is to save as much money as you can in now days..The cost of living is very high..When you do the job your selves, you know it's done right...Looking forward for more good videos..

[@user-zy9xy4ru3f]

they have a round cage to put chicken in to feed when Halk or out feeding it works.

[@waynedavenport3919]

Looking awesome guys. Great team work ✌️

[@larsk3254]

Finishing touches so cool....

[@venturingout4235]

Hi. You two did a great job.

[@jbfuzzy]

katie best looking tripod on youtube

[@ronaldclark2624]

Looking very nice! Big congrats to the Hen that escaped the clutches of the forest Denizen. Ron PTL USA

[@desrotiny9066]

Just so you know why your top step is higher than the deck you have to cut the thickness of your stair tread material off of the fee of the stair stringers

[@elwoodlindquist9324]

Great job, once again you two work really well together. Can’t wait to see the whole process.

[@jerrystout3032]

Outstanding job guys 👍!😇!!

[@tomthumb3843]

Stay safe and healthy guys , love all your vids , form Australia

[@Mr.Stacey-L-SCC]

Nice stairs! That is a true sign of progress!

[@robertconner5126]

Looking good! Thank you for sharing.

[@totallyoffgrid3008]

1:00 Whoa whoa whoa…… Q&A. I thought Greg said he was a professional Cat Hurder??!!! Lol. 😂

[@outsidewithrodney8240]

The deck is looking great

[@erinprovancha4293]

Katie, if you pour with the spout of a square gallon can on the top instead of the bottom, it will pour smoothly. No more glugging. Job. So fun to work together.

[@jersincl]

Excellent episode. It is so fascinating to me to watch both of you complete even the smallest part of a project ! Thanks again for your incite.

[@DeirdreHickey-nx8nt]

That was amazing “fabrication”is that the correct word,? I hope so. Well done to both of you. 🥰🥰🥰🥰👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@57monoshock]

Mighty Fine.

[@pattymcculloch9000]

Great job guy l love watch u too

[@SandraVanLankvelt]

Wow this is exciting to watch you two in a metal shop creating your own pieces for your deck. I use to manage a metal roofing and fabricating all of their pieces as well as using big breaks to bend the metal. FANTASTIC JOB you two. The metal and the STAIRS look awesome!!!

[@johnkirby6547]

Thanks for sharing another awesome video with us ❤ Stairs looking amazing and glad your chicken is safe, great job at the shop Greg cutting and bending all the metal 👌

[@lorettaandjasonoffgrid]

Looks amazing guys! Love the red in the wood. Good job on the flashing!

[@stevenbryant6436]

I feel tamarack ( your larch) is the most beautiful and useful wood ever grown in nature. That deck is superb great work.

[@michaelmiller1109]

I could absolutely be wrong but planing stair stringers is just visual after cut.

[@KrissBartlett]

Good job you guy's came out good

[@paulmonk7820]

I was able to download a free stair calculator that gives the option of top step either even or below deck. ❤ 😊 19:35