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Thank you for liking it! I have spend a lot of time choosing the music to try to fit the mood of the build segments. Same with our travel videos. Glad you enjoyed it!

I think you can, probably put it on an inside wall maybe. But it is terrible for letting conditioned inside air mix with ambient outside air. A wood burning free standing fire box might be better than a fireplace. This house is so tight right now when you open the front door, it has a little suction-seal feel. No vent for the toilet rooms, no vent for the clothes Dryer, and no vent for the cooktop. All inside air is cycled with fresh tempered and filtered outside air every 24 hours with our HRV. the only thing is all our heat is using electricity now, we don't have a secondary heat source if we were to loose power. Thank you for the great question!

@basecampbluesky thank you for the response. Enjoy your lovely home🏡

Also, don't try to film with one hand and take off the filter with only the other! Use both hands! Thanks for the thoughts!

I thought of that at one point early in the design phase. Because of the lofted living area, and the large, tall garage, I decided I didn't need the attic space. So we went with standard batt insulation instead. Thanks for watching!

I was a nice hike!

Thank you so much!! We don't need it any other time than the winter here! The walls and floor insulation do a pretty good job! Keep up with us on our Highway 89 series coming soon!

Thank you for the heartfelt words.

Loved having you along!

Sawtooth Mountains yes!

Oh yea! We are currently in the greater Phoenix area. 112 Degrees! HOT!

Thank you so much! On the road filming our next big series Highway 89 The first Good Road. Keep an eye out for it this Fall!

Me neither! Filming continues on our Highway 89 series. Debuting this fall!

Thanks for the questions. We used Engineered trusses because of the span in the garage area. All other interior walls are non-supporting. I designed a Barn-look, thus the exterior panels hung vertical. Thank you for the comment!

First Trip Log. Not the Actual series yet!

I made them myself. Should be on the How to install windows video, I believe. Thanks for the good question!

Me neither!!

Great Questions! We love our Rig. Purchased it used in 2021. 2017 model year. We travel a lot, put over 50K on it so far. Engine is still way under service miles, so just oil, fuel filter, etc. Towing our Jeep, up and over mountains, between 8-9 mpg, depending on how fast we go. Generator had 850 hours on it when we purchased it, only 16K miles driven, so very strange to have the generator run so much. It came from a Drag Racing Engine builder. It wasn't lived in much, but we have lived in it a lot, building our Barndominum for almost 2 years. The Tile floor seems to be the biggest issue, it is lifting and cracked in a few spots, as you can imagine over all the rough interstate roads we have in this country! Great Nation, but seems to need a little move road love.... Thanks for the questions!

One of our Favorites!

Nope! Pretty quiet in the morning! Better sun on the Monuments!

Kenai sleeps with us at the foot of our bed (or on the couch-she loves couches) both in the Barn and our RV. The super insulation does wonders. I think the floor insulation helps a bunch too. We put radiant pipe in (but no heat for them yet), just in case the Mini-splits didn't keep up. One winter in, a mild one at that, and we were fine. Good solar gain with the big south facing windows helped greatly. A little electric fireplace heat in the eve while watching football, or TH-cam, was all we needed. Never got below 60 in the living space, with the Mini-Splits working in the mornings only. We didn't get below 50 in the garage, with no heat at all! So far the hard work is paying off!

Well, Thank you for the great comments! I did everything myself. My next door neighbor is a long time resident in the area, and currently is a flooring contractor. He pointed me in the right direction, and so did the Montrose County Planning Department. Great people there! The only contractors I brought in were for the Electrical and the roofing. Electrical uses the State Department, which is a little harder to deal with as a self-builder. All the other inspectors were great, and pointed out a few things as we went. Also, I did all the home design, with the roof trusses designed by the Truss company, and the septic system was Engineered by local Septic engineering firm. Hard work, long days, rough winter, but got it done! Now on to traveling, hang with us as we use the Barn as our Basecamp as we travel and show cool places to visit in the west!

Not that we heard! Was fun though!

Travel does make things dirty. One trip this year, right after a wash the day before, it rained early in the morning,. Ss when we departed, the roads were just wet enough to make it worse than before I washed it. You can't win!

Fun Fun Fun!

Quite a hole in the ground!

Good duct tape!

We do too!!

See you soon!

Thanks!! Lot of work, Lot of Love. Happy Home!

Maybe next time!

Someday we will!

Thanks for the good question. I had 4 courses below grade, all the way down to the concrete foundation. Once that initial pour had cured, I covered it all with Nudura Water Proofing Membrane. I made sure the membrane went above grade, so that when we backfilled the trench, moisture wouldn't migrate into the foam. Then I put the siding up. I should have maybe painted the visible membrane black, because it is slightly noticeable just under the Versetta Stone, and below the LP Smartside Siding. I am not sure what paint would stick to the Nudura product.... maybe look that up! Good Luck with your build!

GREAT! But then is it not called a pole barn? ICF Barn? We need a good name for this style of Barndominium! Where in the country are you doing the construction?

@@basecampbluesky MN. Icf is the same cost as doing metal building and spray foam. Icf barn sounds great lol

Fantastic. Get it done! We will be up in MN in August. Great weather. But winter, watch my last video cautioning about cold weather with ICF's...

@@coreym5072what brand of ICF? I m trying to decide between Fox and Alleguard. When are you starting?

@@ToddBizCoach stronghold. In my opinion they make the best. Fox is good as well,but more expensive here bc concrete company sells them. Starting in spring now

You! Finally got it into a video! And finally a good time to do it too!

Don't we know it! Maybe we can help rekindle the art of doing things yourself! Hard work building it, but loving it too! Thanks for the great comment.

Lot of work, but it was worth it, thank you!!

More than welcomed!

Thank you!!

Oh yes!

Lots of good thoughts. We live in a high altitude, low humidity environment. the walls were poured maybe 10 months before we moved in. I can't say we saw or felt the humidity from the concrete, but I for sure felt humid when the drywall was being mudded, and when I was painting the interior. Once all that had dried, it really hasn't been an issue. Our Ventilation system has a humidity monitor, and we are typically around 30%. I will see if that goes down over the next year, as I have read the concrete will take that long to cure. Thank you for watching!

Thank you so much 😀

Thank you!

Thank you for the good question. Nudura ICF requires their own waterproof membrane: It doesn't deteriorate their foam. I looked into a roll-on product, but it couldn't guarantee it wouldn't melt the foam. As an example, I marked where all the vertical rebar was to go in the first foundation concrete pour. I used a can of fluorescent spray paint, and it slightly melted the foam if I used too much! Other Brands of ICF may be more resilient, I don't know.

Thank you!

Thank you for watching! We did 3 wall pours because concrete is very heavy, and would tend to blow out the bottom foam if poured in too tall at one time. Also, once the concrete is in place, the walls move way more than I thought they would! Concrete, when poured, is a liquid, and the foam barely had enough strength to contain it! So bracing a very tall wall would be hard to do.

Thank you for the comment. All doors were pre-hung. They were shipped in two very well made containers with very good bracing. We had no problems.

@@basecampbluesky good to know. Thx.

For sure. But it is a large space! Over 16' tall inside the garage, plenty of room inside, not sure if we could actually use the attic space... Over our first winter we were no lower than 55 degrees inside the garage with no heat! 65 inside the living space before we turned on the Mini Splits. So far so good!

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@@basecampbluesky What is the name of this song

Thank you so much! Kenai is her name, she is a good girl, kept an eye on me during the build, made sure I was doing things safely!

You are welcome! Lots of paint and nails!!

Thank you so much! This one took a lot of time to make!