I don't recommend piling dirt up around the piers because it allows termites to travel a shorter distance before they reach wood. They will even travel across a treated beam to get to untreated wood. A piece of square sheet metal placed on top of the piers with the edges bent downward will make for an inexpensive termite shield.
** EDIT ** I did not know how to mount the beams to the concrete originally. It seems kinda simple but for whatever reason, I couldn't wrap my head around it. If you keep watching episodes, you will see that I eventually use dry anchors (wedge bolts) into the piers and attach the beams. Better late than never! Looking back I wish I had the confidence to put wet anchors in the concrete but was scared they wouldn't be square.
Yes, I’m watching all your videos in order. Been through a microwaveable pizza, and two ice cream cups. Lol I’m actually going to build a home for myself soon on a piece of land that my parents gave me. So this content really is helping me more than you know. I appreciate the jokes and just being human as well. Dropping the tape measure. Using your drill as a hammer every now and then. It’s real life. Glad to know I’m not the only one doing those things. Concrete poles in ep one are gold for me. I’m learning more than you could understand
I love that you are being true to yourself, errors and all! I think that is fantastic. You have quite a bit of knowledge, good on you, you are way ahead of me 😂😂😂. Cheers, Sean
Stumbled upon this channel now subbed..was watching a ton of shipping container home vids..but woodness is great and entertaining as well..good editing ..can't wait to see the finish my dude!!
I think these early episodes are your best and most enjoyable. You are an absolutely fantastic teacher, producer and I have gotten energized to build in part because of you. My only suggestion is to take out some of the added music and let the content exist a little more. Quietly building a small cabin is by itself some of the best mental health therapy I have. I can relax to just watching this and you describing what’s going on. It’s how I can relax in 2020: relaxing and learning.
Not only were you wasting your time putting the dirt from your vegetable garden around your concrete peers, you’ve created a very handy entrance for the termites to get into your cabin! That was a very bad idea! Now you should go back and remove all that dirt and just let the concrete show and that gives you the advantage of seeing any termite tubes coming up the side of the concrete to your cabin!
I’m planning on doing something very similar. How did those double 2x8 beams work out for you? Were they adequate for support? Hope to hear back from you
One tip next time you build wood beams cut sheats of plywood of 3/4" in by the 1/2" less than the beam width by 8' or 10'. Try to make a sandwich with the plywood and the 2 beams and in the middle try to leave like a channel of 1/4" deep. Then nailed down both sides. However for extra strenght and prevention of funny sounds like squaking it can come after beign built. Build the sandwitch using liquid nails. That will hep the structure to gain a lot of strengh more than the just 2 beams attach together
@@WoodnessGoodness If you want another tip. When you decide in your plans. Where to make the pipe columns. Not only make holes for the columns. Try to excavate 1 feet more than the area you are planning to build on. Escavate 6 inches and make the whole lo level then making the holes in the appropiate place your plans suggest and allow them to be at leat 4 feet deep. Then after dry. Try to make the holes and prepared them for the utilities such as plumbing electrical or anything that goes underground and place them where you are planning to go according to your planning. And build it to go outside where the plumber electrician may come and finish it. Then with those pipes at leat 1' 1/2 feet above the ground level. Try to flat the dirt and make like a dirt slab leveled all around with 6 inch deep. See videos on how to build an concrete slab with plastic. Then do the same and over everything. Use mesh rebar Then when putting concrete make and slope of 1/2" from the ends of the area toward the drain pipe you installed Make it nice and neat And let it dry. Why this because you want the property be protected in the foundations from animals, water, and seasonal stuff. Also you may want to have a crawl space for cheap with no brick intallation where you can fix leaks or anything in a clean place Also you want no cracks and no flooding from ground up due to erosion then this is why you may want to out plastic to avoid humidity in the slab. Plus it will protect your foundation from natural issues in ground to last for several years. Now how you cover the outside? Well after you build you first floor try to cover with wood the sorrounding area expose between the concrete slab an the first floor. Make a door way for you can enter the space and some holes for the place may have ventilation. For vapor relief. Them paint the surface of the same with paint that may help mortar and wood to bond then with some steel mesh for stucco nail it with nails and make some mortar and do some stucco yourself. This method is cheaper than building brick around the house and is fast.and protect. How to save on concrete or mortar. Buy portland cement by bag and buy gravel and sand by yard Rent some concrete drum for cheap. And build it mix it with a electrical generator that may good enough to supply the machine. The ratios for cement, water. sand and gravel you can esily find them online up to 10,000 psi wich is twice the psi any premix concrete home depot bag have. There are types of cement of portland vary by uses So buy type S used for foundation retaining walls and rough structures.
Look it up on a span calculator. My beams sagged a little so I would have beefed up my beams or made sure my distance was less. Minimum THREE 2x8 laminated together for beams.
Hey, Love your channel man. Quick question, For the Beams, did you use Double 2x8s or Double 2x10s? It's hard to tell. I'm copying your build. Already build the piers (Mine are 10inch diameter though) Thanks in advance brotha'
How do you secure those double beams on to the concrete foundations ? You already remove the small piece of rebar that were sticking out from that concrete foundation.
@@WoodnessGoodness gratitude. Your beams and joist demesion if you dont mind. I'm actually on my last year of carpentry for house framing on just curious the different styles of framing people use
so I have a question, let's say if you wanted to go this route (cabin on peirs).....but lived in a northern climate like Canada. If you wanted to run water from a well, usually you need a heated crawlspace or foundation, but what if you ran the water pipe through an insulated and heated box up through the floor, could that be done? is that a thing?
Bringing the dirt up the concrete to the wood is begging for insects to be part of your home. You can insulate the pilings, and not with dirt? Your area under the shed/house cabin should be sealed and free of moisture and excess dirt piles. 14' runs shoulb be 12" or greater You say 12' ft boards but looks like you chose undersize 8" rough, whimpy ones you are doubling? Do you hasve a height restriction in the woods. I hope your rim joists also sit fiully on pilings, we will see iof you hang them off of nails screws or hangers?
I don't recommend piling dirt up around the piers because it allows termites to travel a shorter distance before they reach wood. They will even travel across a treated beam to get to untreated wood. A piece of square sheet metal placed on top of the piers with the edges bent downward will make for an inexpensive termite shield.
Gotcha. Good point!
** EDIT ** I did not know how to mount the beams to the concrete originally. It seems kinda simple but for whatever reason, I couldn't wrap my head around it. If you keep watching episodes, you will see that I eventually use dry anchors (wedge bolts) into the piers and attach the beams. Better late than never! Looking back I wish I had the confidence to put wet anchors in the concrete but was scared they wouldn't be square.
That’s why you needed batter boards to pull a string over the tubes with wet concrete. Then you set them in a perfect straight line.
Glad I found this because it is exactly what I am getting ready to do for my cabin build to get it close to the lake! Awesome
Yes, I’m watching all your videos in order. Been through a microwaveable pizza, and two ice cream cups. Lol I’m actually going to build a home for myself soon on a piece of land that my parents gave me. So this content really is helping me more than you know. I appreciate the jokes and just being human as well. Dropping the tape measure. Using your drill as a hammer every now and then. It’s real life. Glad to know I’m not the only one doing those things. Concrete poles in ep one are gold for me. I’m learning more than you could understand
Let’s go baby!!!!!!!! Build baby build!!!!
I love that you are being true to yourself, errors and all! I think that is fantastic. You have quite a bit of knowledge, good on you, you are way ahead of me 😂😂😂. Cheers, Sean
Just found this show… gives me my daily chuckles and interesting to watch.
❤️❤️
his voice squeaking when he sped it up made my night 😂💜
great job and great video, always point the wheel barrow in the direction that its going in.
Stumbled upon this channel now subbed..was watching a ton of shipping container home vids..but woodness is great and entertaining as well..good editing ..can't wait to see the finish my dude!!
HES BACKKKKKKK! Bout time you got rid of that darn “dare I call it a garden”. Boy do I not miss that VA red dirt/clay
ahhhhhhhhhh baby! Yes, the dirt is a joke!
You’re going to change the world with this series; it’s what “we” have all been searching for! Thank you!!!
He couldn't be doing this at a more perfect time for me
케빈은 영화배우처럼 잘 생겼네요. 케빈은 인생을 즐길 줄 아네요. 자기집을 지을줄 알고 능력이 대단하네요. 행복한 사람이네요.
This is fresh! Im going to take a page out of your book and do this for the pool table that we want but don't have space for in our house.
A 4 by 6 beam would be ideal for that size cabin, that's what handsome guys do.
You should have more subscribers. I know Im late but this is a fun series so far!
vaperainzero I appreciate or it!!
I think these early episodes are your best and most enjoyable. You are an absolutely fantastic teacher, producer and I have gotten energized to build in part because of you. My only suggestion is to take out some of the added music and let the content exist a little more. Quietly building a small cabin is by itself some of the best mental health therapy I have. I can relax to just watching this and you describing what’s going on. It’s how I can relax in 2020: relaxing and learning.
I bought one of those dual wheelbarrows a couple years back. Not crazy about it for concrete but it's nice for dirt.
Yea it feels easier balancing it on one wheel as you walk with it.
nobody:
nobody at all:
me: ohhhhh shit did he just point that nail gun towards himself 6:32
I know I must not do that.
Could you show how the beams are attached to the concrete ? Thx ! Awesome !
I use a bracket that slips into the concrete when it's still wet.
Looking good so far.
Enjoy watching your video
That nail gun goes off like a 12-pounder Howitzer
Puts safety gear on.....
then nails directly towards his body....genius
Ever slope slightly, a slope?.. dimensionally?…. Didn’t think so…
🍻cheers
Great to seethat the project is moving along. 👍
Not only were you wasting your time putting the dirt from your vegetable garden around your concrete peers, you’ve created a very handy entrance for the termites to get into your cabin! That was a very bad idea! Now you should go back and remove all that dirt and just let the concrete show and that gives you the advantage of seeing any termite tubes coming up the side of the concrete to your cabin!
Yea the dirt was removed shortly after.
Now the hard part comes building the floor.
How do you join the wooden beams with the concrete pillars? 👀
You could off pur the beam Ankers in the Conceret.. Different building code ..Well done 👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Pratley steel
I’m planning on doing something very similar. How did those double 2x8 beams work out for you? Were they adequate for support? Hope to hear back from you
The beams seemed to work fantastic!
For your garden maybe you should try adding sand in with your soil, it may help
Why rebar in a vertical concrete column? Concrete is real good in compression and usually rebar is to help in tension loaded concrete, no?
One tip next time you build wood beams cut sheats of plywood of 3/4" in by the 1/2" less than the beam width by 8' or 10'.
Try to make a sandwich with the plywood and the 2 beams and in the middle try to leave like a channel of 1/4" deep.
Then nailed down both sides.
However for extra strenght and prevention of funny sounds like squaking it can come after beign built.
Build the sandwitch using liquid nails.
That will hep the structure to gain a lot of strengh more than the just 2 beams attach together
Ah! Thanks for this pro tip! That sounds bomb proof! My next cabin I will take this into the plan making.
@@WoodnessGoodness
If you want another tip.
When you decide in your plans.
Where to make the pipe columns.
Not only make holes for the columns.
Try to excavate 1 feet more than the area you are planning to build on.
Escavate 6 inches and make the whole lo level then making the holes in the appropiate place your plans suggest and allow them to be at leat 4 feet deep.
Then after dry. Try to make the holes and prepared them for the utilities such as plumbing electrical or anything that goes underground and place them where you are planning to go according to your planning.
And build it to go outside where the plumber electrician may come and finish it.
Then with those pipes at leat 1' 1/2 feet above the ground level.
Try to flat the dirt and make like a dirt slab leveled all around with 6 inch deep.
See videos on how to build an concrete slab with plastic.
Then do the same and over everything.
Use mesh rebar
Then when putting concrete make and slope of 1/2" from the ends of the area toward the drain pipe you installed
Make it nice and neat
And let it dry.
Why this because you want the property be protected in the foundations from animals, water, and seasonal stuff.
Also you may want to have a crawl space for cheap with no brick intallation where you can fix leaks or anything in a clean place
Also you want no cracks and no flooding from ground up due to erosion then this is why you may want to out plastic to avoid humidity in the slab.
Plus it will protect your foundation from natural issues in ground to last for several years.
Now how you cover the outside?
Well after you build you first floor try to cover with wood the sorrounding area expose between the concrete slab an the first floor.
Make a door way for you can enter the space and some holes for the place may have ventilation.
For vapor relief.
Them paint the surface of the same with paint that may help mortar and wood to bond then with some steel mesh for stucco nail it with nails and make some mortar and do some stucco yourself.
This method is cheaper than building brick around the house and is fast.and protect.
How to save on concrete or mortar.
Buy portland cement by bag and buy gravel and sand by yard
Rent some concrete drum for cheap.
And build it mix it with a electrical generator that may good enough to supply the machine.
The ratios for cement, water. sand and gravel you can esily find them online up to 10,000 psi wich is twice the psi any premix concrete home depot bag have.
There are types of cement of portland vary by uses
So buy type S used for foundation retaining walls and rough structures.
I wonder how long it took him to make the house, he is really taken it easy :P
How far apart should the concrete pillars be? I'm building a 14x44 cabin. Using 2x8 floor joists.
Look it up on a span calculator. My beams sagged a little so I would have beefed up my beams or made sure my distance was less. Minimum THREE 2x8 laminated together for beams.
Hey, Love your channel man.
Quick question, For the Beams, did you use Double 2x8s or Double 2x10s? It's hard to tell. I'm copying your build.
Already build the piers (Mine are 10inch diameter though)
Thanks in advance brotha'
I think they are 2x8! I might do three together to add a little more beef!
@@WoodnessGoodness Thank you! I might just do that
How do you secure those double beams on to the concrete foundations ? You already remove the small piece of rebar that were sticking out from that concrete foundation.
dry set anchors. wedge anchors to be exact. did it later on...
When are you getting a tractor?
I'm thinking I start with a skid steer....
should have staggered the boards to make one really long beam, instead of two separate beams butted up to each other
How did you conclude what diameter/depth of piers, spacing of piers for the load being carried into your soil type?
did you nail in the beams to the concrete?
No need curing the concrete because of the cardboard ?
Do you have dimensions of the build? The build plans? Thanks! Looks great
What was your cabin dimensions and how did you secure the beams on pier with out anchor bolts ?? Just curious to know
12x20’ and I used wedge bolts to the piers
@@WoodnessGoodness gratitude.
Your beams and joist demesion if you dont mind. I'm actually on my last year of carpentry for house framing on just curious the different styles of framing people use
8:31 literally a saw pulled out of mid air
Could those beams be as strong as LVLs?
Are the beams pressure treated or not needed ?
Why not put the beam saddles in the concrete when you poured?
Couldn't find the right brackets. But all is well! It was easy to drill into fresh concrete.
why did you remove the tip of the irons? they would give greater security in the structure.
I dry drilled anchors later in the build. It was one of those things that I wasn’t sure what to do at first. But I eventually forgives our a solution!
How did the wood attach to the concrete bases?
what's this utility overall's brand ? Great job !
Carhartt
no glue on the beams????
so I have a question, let's say if you wanted to go this route (cabin on peirs).....but lived in a northern climate like Canada. If you wanted to run water from a well, usually you need a heated crawlspace or foundation, but what if you ran the water pipe through an insulated and heated box up through the floor, could that be done? is that a thing?
Honestly that’s a great question. I don’t know that answer! If the water runs below your frost line maybe that’s a thing? I just don’t know...
@@WoodnessGoodness yeah, hopefully someone can chime in, there's gotta be a way to do it.
How do you attach the beam to to concrete post?
What size of nails are you using?
Gotta ask the age old YT questions.....What camera you using? Mic?
utseay just a little rode shotgun on the Panasonic GH5
Woodness Goodness Casey Neistat never got back to me so quick...I consider you among the greatest at this point. Don’t disappoint.
utseay lol no pressure....
What size is this cabin build
thats conk creet
You should never ever have a safty guard on a angle grinder.
Hello, I always heard that angle grinders are dangerous. What can happen if it has a safety guard??
Thanks!
@@AJ-jf7cq well I was joking but I use one every day and I've only cut myself a few times.
@@braydeny Ahh okay 😄
Your fingers are too close for comfort in the firing line on the other side of the beams. 😅
The intro music. Loud much? Holy hell! Otherwise great video!
Haha yea I corrected this later on. I just wanted to make sure you were alert! 🙏🏼
Could you drop a link to the folding saw?
I’m trying to find it! I will post when I do.
@@WoodnessGoodness Thanks man! Just finished watching your cabin build playlist. Super entertaining and can't wait to build my own!
The beams aren’t attached to the concrete in any fashion
john hancock I attach them a little later.
Woodness Goodness ohh, seems like that siding on the new vid is a pain
@@chupacabra6263 yes, although it really pays off if you like the look, or if you like puzzles!
Bringing the dirt up the concrete to the wood is begging for insects to be part of your home. You can insulate the pilings, and not with dirt? Your area under the shed/house cabin should be sealed and free of moisture and excess dirt piles. 14' runs shoulb be 12" or greater You say 12' ft boards but looks like you chose undersize 8" rough, whimpy ones you are doubling? Do you hasve a height restriction in the woods. I hope your rim joists also sit fiully on pilings, we will see iof you hang them off of nails screws or hangers?
I agree, never pile up dirt around a pier and always use termite shields. Inexpensive to cut a square of sheet metal and bend the edges downward.
Why 3 beams and not 4?
Not sure. Designed as I went!
@@WoodnessGoodness ok, I'll take that as "is not a big deal" 🤣
okay
Energy is wasted on the youth.
Why back fill your footing
I had dirt had to get rid of and figured little extra frost protection wouldn’t hurt but honestly I was just trying to get rid of dirt
What did you do buy every tool in the hardwood store?
Don’t tell my wife!