I love that you are just going after it and learning and figuring it out. Most people give up before they even try. Building out my skoolie now and came across your video looking for inspiration. great job , keep at it
Hello Emma, whatever you do, you do with heart. As long as you keep going, you are learning. You have found your way, each time. I celebrate the trooper in you. Keep going, keep going.
Amazing progress on yer bus. Never underestimate your ability, very few people could accomplish what you have. Pleasure watching you build your dream. Made it through a comment without mentioning how cute U R😉
It is never wrong if you learn from it. Yes, you are doing somethings different than some pro's would do it' but you are doing it yourself and doing a good job at it. You are able to figure out how to get things done without the privilege of having someone teach you. You should be very proud of everything you have done. By the way you have a really good singing voice.
Lady Emma you are rock can't help but love you ❤. Love your Attitude you dive in head first and just go from there love it. Please be safe until the next video.
Killin it, Boss Mode! only one hint I'll drop is Flexible sealer is a mobile builders friend. Looking forward to seeing something, sometime, or whatevers :-P
Great job Emma. You're doing just amazing. Excellent build. That's going to look amazing when it's all finished. Stay safe. Regards Paul from England. 👍
Congratulations. You should be very proud of yourself. You're quickly becoming the Bob Ross of Construction, Bob Villa. May I suggest though, you get a level. Makes life so much easier and you'll be much happier!! Good for you that you didn't go drag those cutie construction dudes over to help. To get the curve on the ceiling, you could try a piece of cardboard, cutting a general arch and gradually slicing away till you get the right curve. Then you can use that template for all your divider walls. But if anyone has a better idea, have at it. Take care and hugs from Canada!!
Hey Emma, Brilliant video!! Fantastic job working all that out on your own, measurements, designing, fixing it all in etc, absolutely BRILLIANT job! REALLY impressed with how much you've achieved and learnt along the way! (Especially for someone who's never done this before and doing it mostly on your own!) Great stuff! Bus looks REALLY good now! I Honestly look forward to every video just seeing the excellent progress youre making, as it's coming along so quicky now! Keep up the great work!! 👍💪❤️😎🏴
Hey❤️ I absolutely love watching you build you're bus. I think I have been watching right from the very start! I got lucky and stumbled upon your video. I'm in lovee with you're sun roof. Thank you for sharing you're experience. Believe it or not you have given me inspiration to do my own projects, I'm working on a massive garden this year! Its so much fun creating something you're passionate about.
For having zero experience, and not even knowing anything about tools or what tools to use in the beginning, you are doing really really well. Give yourself some grace. I have not been more proud of anybody else that I’m watching that is building, you’re doing a very good job. I have almost every tool known to mankind for woodworking if I don’t have it I have a lot of experience using it. And because I’m living in my bus while I’m going to be building it it will most likely take me at least two years. I can build a wall and have it insulated in a matter of a couple hours and it’ll be as good as a wall in a house. As a matter of fact this winter I am in Iowa, And I got stuck here last October. Lost my job and my bus was not insulated yet and looking at an obvious potential for subzero weather this winter I had to punt with very little money. So I ordered a bunch of mylar space blankets on Amazon and got all the free cardboard I could ever possibly need and then some, and built walls to separate the front drivers area from the rest of the bus and down to split my living area in half basically. The benefit to doing it the way I did using mylar and cardboard for insulation is it’s an easy tear out when it’s done. Also the whole project with window coverings and everything cost me 50 bucks. And with one electric heater in the forward part of the bus is where my solar panel and stuff is that one electric heater keeps my batteries at a safe temperature. While also that area is a cold part of the bus so I use that as my refrigerator lol. The drivers area is completely cut off and that is used as my freezer and works quite well lol. The back of the bus is where I live eat sleep and everything else I do have a diesel heater in that area just like yours, and I also have an infrared heater. But if it’s not in the single digits I cannot run the diesel heater because it gets too hot unless I shut off the infrared heater. Currently it is 16° outside and a very light breeze but because the sun is up, I have no heaters running. I said all that to say this as you gain experience you will be a wealth of knowledge to other people. And you having no experience doing as well as you are even with the help you’ve gotten, that is a huge inspiration for all of us that haven’t started yet. Thank you.
Good job, Emma. Things are coming together.. The optimal thing would be to place the walls in line with supports between windows, so you don't cut the windows + you can use supports to attach the wall to. Anyway, you're doing great and will find a solution. =) The shape of the bus is not straight, it has curvature everywhere.. Maybe picking the shapes would help.. The top plates for the walls could be made of laminated plywood to reach the thickness and to attach the sheeting to. Pick the shape of the roof with cardboard, scissors and pencil , cut two or three (depends on plywood) curved to shape stripes of plywood, glue them together and attach those to the roof. It should be exact with no sweat. =D Keep going.
I'm so glad you are showing your build!! Even though you seem to not know what's next or how to do it. It makes me realize that we all can do so much more than we think we can. We just need to stop worrying if we make a mistake and go for it. That seems to be your motto or creed of your build. Keep up the good work!!
The method you are using to do your rolled cuts is a totally legit method most builders call shadow boarding. If you ever needed proof that you are progressing, you have indeed. That build method on the fly from your brain only proves you do indeed know what you are doing. Never hurts to ask questions when not sure. Honestly, winging stuff is really all professionals do tbh. The difference is it is educated winging. Noice work.
If your ever having troubles trying to find a perfect angle or making something fit exactly the way you want it too. You can always make a cardboard template then trace the angle or shape on the piece your cutting. However I have too say you doing awesome keep up the good work
good work on your top cut angle technique you developed. you are getting a logical handle on things; creating your own technique based upon the geometric/ mathematical principals, as those concepts solidify in your mind, you will understand methods other people tell you (rather than just fallowing instruction) and will adapt/ modify to suit your needs, as well as problem-solving where there are no conventional techniques. Ill have to use your technique in the future.
A carpenter's/framer's square is get this SQUARE. Ya know the one that's L shaped. Otherwise remember a 3-4-5 triangle. 1 side is 3', the other side is 4' then the long is 5'. The cool thing is multiples work too so on a deck for example 6'-8'-10' will be square, or 9'-12'-15'. Or 18"-2'-30" which is each divided in half for smaller. Another tip for the horizontal framing. Take a 6" 2x4 block etc, quick clamp it to stud at correct height you want then set the 2x4 on top of it...then it won't fall on you :) If you can't clamp it put a screw in to hold it temporarily. Tips for working alone :)
Doing a great job. What I would do differently is get your walls in to cover the installation. it will be easier to do that now before you get too many walls up. keep up the great work. Proud of ya.
I honestly thought I'd come here to the comments and find a lot more construction guys mansplaining things to you. I'm not a construction guy, so I can only offer encouragement. Birbie is starting to look like a home! You make me laugh and smile every week. Thank you!
Good progress! When feeling unmotivated for this projects try browsing some store sections where they have already built bathrooms and showers for display and maybe kitchen cabinets and similar stuff that you plan on building yourself in the future, look at them "closely", test them, that way you'll certainly catch some new ideas that you can use in your bus builds and it will help motivate you. Can't wait for the next video, take care.
To conform to the top edge better you could try scribing a pattern of the ceiling arch, with a pencil and compass, onto some scrap timber or plywood. Then cut that out and use it to mark and cut the 2x4 ends.
Awesome job. If you did anything wrong it would be that you may have over constructed it. That will just make it that more stable. Hope you are having fun doing it all. Thanks for the video.
It starts to take shape ! 👏👏👏 What impresses me even more is to see you calculate everything meticulously = Result: Never make mistakes! So far, I've never seen you need to redo something because of a measurement error! I know professional technicians who are not able to do a job without there being a small thing to redo, because of a small mistake!
Great progress just remember where your cables run in the ceiling when you are screwing into it. Saw another video where they went through a cable and caused all sorts of problems.
The way you struggled to get the cross rails in was funny, if you use an offcut of wood and clamp it to where it will support the cross rail it saves you having to balance it on your head and it is so much easier
Hello beautiful, how are you? I really enjoy watching you and your videos. You are coming along great with Birdie. I love how you learn through trial and error. Birdie is going to look great when you are finished and your going to be proud of what you have accomplished. I have followed you from the beginning and will continue to watch you and your videos.😋😘💖💞🥀🥀🥀🌹🌹🌹👅👅👅💋💋💋🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Emma this might be very useful for squaring your walls etc., make a construction square (make it using the 5ft hypotenuse 4ft 3ft sides makes a right angle triangle) or better still find a sheet cutoff the size you want with a square corner and mark or cut it in such away, so only that corner is used to mark from then there's no mistakes and sit it on the floor, everything then is at 90 degrees to the floor.
Live & learn by using 2X3's for interior walls when framing out, it saves space. Its just a thought. LOL! Live & Learn again; Use a 3'-4'ft Level for the wall studding OR a plumb bob level.
"I will be back sometime...........doing something" 😂😂Emma, you're doing brilliantly, keep it going girl!
I love that you are just going after it and learning and figuring it out. Most people give up before they even try. Building out my skoolie now and came across your video looking for inspiration. great job , keep at it
You are for sure the BEST.
You keep looking at the distance you have to go , But you don,t see just how far you really gotten . Your doing an Ossom job !
Once again i am impressed by your perseverance.
Hello Emma, whatever you do, you do with heart. As long as you keep going, you are learning. You have found your way, each time. I celebrate the trooper in you. Keep going, keep going.
Your methods Are more sculpture than architecture which I like because we don’t really know until we get there sometimes. That is a sexy ceiling.
Amazing progress on yer bus. Never underestimate your ability, very few people could accomplish what you have. Pleasure watching you build your dream. Made it through a comment without mentioning how cute U R😉
It is never wrong if you learn from it. Yes, you are doing somethings different than some pro's would do it' but you are doing it yourself and doing a good job at it. You are able to figure out how to get things done without the privilege of having someone teach you. You should be very proud of everything you have done. By the way you have a really good singing voice.
thank you!😊
Emma that is some expert head usage there. Nice work Birbie is coming right along.
Was feeling a bit overwhelmed with my build today but you’re brief inspiration/not inspiration was a nice thing to hear.
I love your modus operandi, and your smile.
Lady Emma you are rock can't help but love you ❤. Love your Attitude you dive in head first and just go from there love it. Please be safe until the next video.
Killin it, Boss Mode! only one hint I'll drop is Flexible sealer is a mobile builders friend. Looking forward to seeing something, sometime, or whatevers :-P
All the gear and no idea but your can do attitude is great.
All the best to you on your build and your journey through life.
Great job Emma. You're doing just amazing. Excellent build. That's going to look amazing when it's all finished. Stay safe. Regards Paul from England. 👍
GIRRRRRLLLL! YOU ARE KILLING THIS!!!!
thank you 😊💙
Good job Emma ! I love watching you ...... work !
Emma, your getting better each week. Nice job. Keep it up girl.
Congratulations. You should be very proud of yourself. You're quickly becoming the Bob Ross of Construction, Bob Villa. May I suggest though, you get a level. Makes life so much easier and you'll be much happier!! Good for you that you didn't go drag those cutie construction dudes over to help. To get the curve on the ceiling, you could try a piece of cardboard, cutting a general arch and gradually slicing away till you get the right curve. Then you can use that template for all your divider walls. But if anyone has a better idea, have at it.
Take care and hugs from Canada!!
Great job Emma. Life is about the journey.
Build that wall!!! And it looks incredible!
Top Job Emma, it's really taking shape now 👌💪
Hey Emma,
Brilliant video!! Fantastic job working all that out on your own, measurements, designing, fixing it all in etc, absolutely BRILLIANT job! REALLY impressed with how much you've achieved and learnt along the way! (Especially for someone who's never done this before and doing it mostly on your own!) Great stuff! Bus looks REALLY good now!
I Honestly look forward to every video just seeing the excellent progress youre making, as it's coming along so quicky now! Keep up the great work!! 👍💪❤️😎🏴
Very nice work.
The final lay-out is starting to come into focus.
That pocket hole jig is really helping a lot.
Go For It
“An up and downy piece” lol. It’s looking great keep up the good work!
Hey❤️ I absolutely love watching you build you're bus. I think I have been watching right from the very start! I got lucky and stumbled upon your video. I'm in lovee with you're sun roof. Thank you for sharing you're experience. Believe it or not you have given me inspiration to do my own projects, I'm working on a massive garden this year! Its so much fun creating something you're passionate about.
thank you so much!! and agreed, it's so important to be doing something you care about haha
you are doing great. learning new skills and applying them. bravo.
For having zero experience, and not even knowing anything about tools or what tools to use in the beginning, you are doing really really well. Give yourself some grace. I have not been more proud of anybody else that I’m watching that is building, you’re doing a very good job. I have almost every tool known to mankind for woodworking if I don’t have it I have a lot of experience using it. And because I’m living in my bus while I’m going to be building it it will most likely take me at least two years. I can build a wall and have it insulated in a matter of a couple hours and it’ll be as good as a wall in a house. As a matter of fact this winter I am in Iowa, And I got stuck here last October. Lost my job and my bus was not insulated yet and looking at an obvious potential for subzero weather this winter I had to punt with very little money. So I ordered a bunch of mylar space blankets on Amazon and got all the free cardboard I could ever possibly need and then some, and built walls to separate the front drivers area from the rest of the bus and down to split my living area in half basically. The benefit to doing it the way I did using mylar and cardboard for insulation is it’s an easy tear out when it’s done. Also the whole project with window coverings and everything cost me 50 bucks. And with one electric heater in the forward part of the bus is where my solar panel and stuff is that one electric heater keeps my batteries at a safe temperature. While also that area is a cold part of the bus so I use that as my refrigerator lol. The drivers area is completely cut off and that is used as my freezer and works quite well lol. The back of the bus is where I live eat sleep and everything else I do have a diesel heater in that area just like yours, and I also have an infrared heater. But if it’s not in the single digits I cannot run the diesel heater because it gets too hot unless I shut off the infrared heater. Currently it is 16° outside and a very light breeze but because the sun is up, I have no heaters running. I said all that to say this as you gain experience you will be a wealth of knowledge to other people. And you having no experience doing as well as you are even with the help you’ve gotten, that is a huge inspiration for all of us that haven’t started yet. Thank you.
thank you!!
This is so exciting!!
I’m going to enjoy this video when I take a break from busting rivets ❤️
I saw your post! good job on that one, it's the worst 😅
This is the coolest thing ever cuz! Can't wait to see it finished.
thank you!! 💙
Looking good so far. Keep getting after it...
“I fixed it” 😂😂😂👏👏👏 yes, you did. Bravo.
Emma your doing perfect your always bubbly and smiling your doing amazing I’m proud of you for never giving up on your project
So great seeing your confidence grow with each vid. You’re killing it 💪🏼💪🏼
You're awesome I like watching you build you done such a good job you're really smart you pick up building skills really fast
Making progress
Emma, you shake the whole bus and the walls don't move, I say you have done a great job!!!! NICE.....
Give me more Emma!!!!
Kicking butt yet again! Keep it up.
it's great to see how far you have got building birbie. you're doing great emma ! cant wait til next video. cant believe how fast 20 minutes flew by.
Good job, Emma. Things are coming together.. The optimal thing would be to place the walls in line with supports between windows, so you don't cut the windows + you can use supports to attach the wall to. Anyway, you're doing great and will find a solution. =) The shape of the bus is not straight, it has curvature everywhere.. Maybe picking the shapes would help.. The top plates for the walls could be made of laminated plywood to reach the thickness and to attach the sheeting to. Pick the shape of the roof with cardboard, scissors and pencil , cut two or three (depends on plywood) curved to shape stripes of plywood, glue them together and attach those to the roof. It should be exact with no sweat. =D Keep going.
Great job on your walls great video Emma 👍👍
You doing great work. Looking good..
❤🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Walls look great, awesome
Seriously for a young lady your doing a wonderful job definitely know what your doing great stills can't wait until you're finished
Love the Sweater! Cows ice cream from PEI! I’m from Nova Scotia. Hopefully when Birbie hits the road, their will be an Atlantic Canadian adventure!!!!
absolutely!
Wow it's coming along nicely 👌
I love watching you work thru things!!
I'm so glad you are showing your build!! Even though you seem to not know what's next or how to do it. It makes me realize that we all can do so much more than we think we can. We just need to stop worrying if we make a mistake and go for it. That seems to be your motto or creed of your build. Keep up the good work!!
thanks so much!
You are doing so great. It's coming together wonderful.
Looking really good Emma Keep it up
Great job the bus is coming together nicely👍👍
"just winging this, but...." Probably said by all converters. As for using 2x4 on its side and affixing them with pocket joints, great idea.
The method you are using to do your rolled cuts is a totally legit method most builders call shadow boarding. If you ever needed proof that you are progressing, you have indeed. That build method on the fly from your brain only proves you do indeed know what you are doing. Never hurts to ask questions when not sure. Honestly, winging stuff is really all professionals do tbh. The difference is it is educated winging. Noice work.
thank you! 😊
Nice work, I like how you're just figuring this out as you go! It's coming along great!
Great job! 👍 Always look forward to your videos 📹.
I like the way you always figure a problem out.Starting to look like a house with the framing.Great job!
sweet cuts, girl- get it, get it!
If your ever having troubles trying to find a perfect angle or making something fit exactly the way you want it too. You can always make a cardboard template then trace the angle or shape on the piece your cutting. However I have too say you doing awesome keep up the good work
Walls are so underrated anyway. Research is good, smaller size lumber saves space.
Looking wonderful
Emma's building vocabulary first word " Up and Downy Thing ". Emma please do not change you are wonderful love you videos.
good work on your top cut angle technique you developed. you are getting a logical handle on things; creating your own technique based upon the geometric/ mathematical principals, as those concepts solidify in your mind, you will understand methods other people tell you (rather than just fallowing instruction) and will adapt/ modify to suit your needs, as well as problem-solving where there are no conventional techniques. Ill have to use your technique in the future.
Emma you have done fantastic work with this bus build. Keep it going and keep up with great uploads
Great job Emma 👍
Your learning that’s GREAT
A carpenter's/framer's square is get this SQUARE. Ya know the one that's L shaped. Otherwise remember a 3-4-5 triangle. 1 side is 3', the other side is 4' then the long is 5'. The cool thing is multiples work too so on a deck for example 6'-8'-10' will be square, or 9'-12'-15'. Or 18"-2'-30" which is each divided in half for smaller.
Another tip for the horizontal framing. Take a 6" 2x4 block etc, quick clamp it to stud at correct height you want then set the 2x4 on top of it...then it won't fall on you :) If you can't clamp it put a screw in to hold it temporarily. Tips for working alone :)
My wife and I are building a short skoolie. we think your doing a great job. keep it up not everyone is a carpenter
thank you!!
Good job 👏 Another fun video!
its coming along so nice my dear
Doing a great job. What I would do differently is get your walls in to cover the installation. it will be easier to do that now before you get too many walls up. keep up the great work. Proud of ya.
Great Work Emma! its really starting to come together ! keep the videos coming!!
I honestly thought I'd come here to the comments and find a lot more construction guys mansplaining things to you. I'm not a construction guy, so I can only offer encouragement. Birbie is starting to look like a home! You make me laugh and smile every week. Thank you!
thank you! 😊
@@EmmaBuildsBirbie you're welcome!
You can use a trim nailer to temporarily hold the boards together
You can use some shorter Nails 2 Tac your boards to the ceiling
Amazing as always... A nice 2' or 3' level always comes in handy!.. great progress Emma! Cheers from Missouri..
Good progress! When feeling unmotivated for this projects try browsing some store sections where they have already built bathrooms and showers for display and maybe kitchen cabinets and similar stuff that you plan on building yourself in the future, look at them "closely", test them, that way you'll certainly catch some new ideas that you can use in your bus builds and it will help motivate you.
Can't wait for the next video, take care.
3:44 Princess Diaries! Very nice taste.
so glad someone recognized it 😂
To conform to the top edge better you could try scribing a pattern of the ceiling arch, with a pencil and compass, onto some scrap timber or plywood. Then cut that out and use it to mark and cut the 2x4 ends.
Awesome job. If you did anything wrong it would be that you may have over constructed it. That will just make it that more stable. Hope you are having fun doing it all. Thanks for the video.
Good luck in your build 🇬🇧🍀
It starts to take shape ! 👏👏👏
What impresses me even more is to see you calculate everything meticulously = Result: Never make mistakes!
So far, I've never seen you need to redo something because of a measurement error!
I know professional technicians who are not able to do a job without there being a small thing to redo,
because of a small mistake!
hahaha I make many, many mistakes! Thank you!!
Coming along nicely, you're doing a great job
Great progress just remember where your cables run in the ceiling when you are screwing into it. Saw another video where they went through a cable and caused all sorts of problems.
Awesome job 👍👌👌👌👍👍👍
Emma's back...Smiles
The way you struggled to get the cross rails in was funny, if you use an offcut of wood and clamp it to where it will support the cross rail it saves you having to balance it on your head and it is so much easier
Your doing good young lady!!!
you are a Very Good Carpenter
Great job!
Good job roll walls in place :)
It's life roll with it
That's so cool love the bus
After the toilet and HVAC, nothing else matters. The rest of the things are bonus.
God! Cant waot for the next videos!!!
Hello beautiful, how are you? I really enjoy watching you and your videos. You are coming along great with Birdie. I love how you learn through trial and error. Birdie is going to look great when you are finished and your going to be proud of what you have accomplished. I have followed you from the beginning and will continue to watch you and your videos.😋😘💖💞🥀🥀🥀🌹🌹🌹👅👅👅💋💋💋🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
thank you!
Good job!
Emma this might be very useful for squaring your walls etc., make a construction square (make it using the 5ft hypotenuse 4ft 3ft sides makes a right angle triangle) or better still find a sheet cutoff the size you want with a square corner and mark or cut it in such away, so only that corner is used to mark from then there's no mistakes and sit it on the floor, everything then is at 90 degrees to the floor.
the bus is looking great Emma. Make sure you connect those water tubes before you close in the wall :).
You go girl love it love you
Live & learn by using 2X3's for interior walls when framing out, it saves space. Its just a thought. LOL! Live & Learn again; Use a 3'-4'ft Level for the wall studding OR a plumb bob level.
Awesome you go girl …