Growing up on a cattle ranch. We were never allowed to play on the hay for several reasons 1. You destroy the integrity of the bales 2 you can get trapped if they fall 3 other critters have their home in the hay
Don't keep the hay under your house, if it catches on fire, it will burn down your house! While the tunnels are fun, they can collapse! Careful! The house will be beautiful! Blessings 🙏❤🤗
My husband is a contractor and you won’t be disappointed in the spray foam. We haven’t had anyone who regrets having it put in. It’s in and you won’t have to worry about it ever again. Other than good windows, it will be the best money spent on the cool and heat of your home. Costs more upfront, but it will pay for itself in the long run. So, overtime, you come out at the same price with a better quality.
If not sure if you know about this but square bales can spontaneously combust when they’re stacked. Unless that hay is aged and super dry, the moisture in the hay creates heat like your compost pile and the whole thing will go up like a match. Your hay needs to be stacked properly with room for air flow and you don’t want to be stacking it under your house unless it’s well aged. Very serious fire hazard!
Definitely think about the mess aspect when deciding where to place the wood stove. I grew up in a tiny cabin and we had to walk across the whole house to feed the fire or clean out ashes. It left us with either wet shoes in the winter walking across the floor, or come in, set the wood down, take shoes off, pick wood up and carry on. On the spray foam topic: it can be good but I’ve known people whom have had issues with moisture getting into the insulation and molding. Sheet insulation you can simply remove and replace. Spray foam required them to tear out all of their walls and completely redo them. I’ve heard too many stories like this to use spray foam myself.
We bought a house that's 93 years old, I had zero insulation in it! Our fuel oil bill monthly was between $800 and $1,000. We added spray foam to the walls, an our heating bills whenever you feel or fuel oil about every 2 months. Last winter was our first winter what the insulation, pretty sure this winter it will have paid for itself. We're in northeast Pennsylvania
We resided our 120 yr. old house . It was insulated with newspaper(we redid it with 2 " foam board & vertical metal). Were in central Wi. it gets -25. Most everyone has 2 heat sources up here we have a inside wood furnace & propane furnace. Thanks, for sharing the reno :)
Hate to say it, but when we grew up, we got to make a fort in the hay, but we didn't get to run all over it, because of what you see happening on your stacked hay pile. Breaking up hay bales was a big No No, and a big lesson is it becoming unstable. It will just get worse the pile the longer it gets played on, sorry to be the bad news lady, just experience.
I agree bay bales were off limits. My uncle would get so mad at us if we messy up the hay bales! Sometimes those kids don’t really care about it …. Easy way for them and they are happy they want to play.
A lot of progress on the farm; thanks for sharing! Growing up on a farm, we were told that the bales could fall in on us & it wrecks the bales to run on them. Please be careful, kids! Bales under the house need to be ventilated to prevent combustion. The house will be beautiful! Blessings to everyone 🤗💗🇨🇦
You need to stop and consider moisture/condensation management in this house before you progress. You’re setting yourself up to have issues with condensation not being able to escape out of your house, which will cause a lot of issues.
Hey Justin I would highly recommend spray foaming everything. It's going to help the heating and cooling stay inside and insulating between bedrooms really helps with sound insulation.
There seems to be a lot of things that have had to be redone because they weren’t properly planned at the start. It’s an expensive way to do it, and it increases your risk of mistakes being made because so much keeps changing and it doesn’t always get communicated.
Pam here….for all the research they did…there is a lack of knowledge very apparent and they keep getting distracted by ‘shiny’ things. Triple redundancy for heating?? The wood boiler system have been such a nemesis for them…WHY keep that? They had an opportunity to really simplify systems with solar and battery backup. Would have kept walk in cooler/freezer going. Now they are going to have that massive maze of freezers and fridges all over again. I see all these ‘contractors’ coming through and leading them around like a cow with a nose ring…selling them this and selling them that….so much grifting happening and this family is way overspending and over complicating every system and room design. In the end it is so messy, discombobulated and difficult and time consuming to maintain it all. The gal who came and tried to help them ‘organize and downsize’ was even a bit overtaken.
Spray foam: YES!! I'm in the cold north, yes it's an investment but we did spray foam roof and 3" with R-15 batt over on walls. It's a great way to keep the house more thermally stable compared to the outside condition. Cooler in the summer, warmer in the winter!
Homes are struggling to get insured with the spray foam in the uk . It’s damaging the wood (not allowing it to breath) also when and if the roof needs replacing or fixing it’s impossible because it’s all stuck together . I would reconsider, kingspan is a favourite
I live in a cabin in Alabama, and I would never want to be without a wood burning stove. Ours is a Hearthstone, Soapstone stove and we love it. They are not cheap, but the soapstone absorbs the heat as the fire burns and will keep heat in the room long after the fire is out.
As fun as it is, those kids are gonna ruin those loose hay bales. You will waste a lot. I was concerned about how loosely baled it was when you first picked it up. We have a very high ceiling with a reverse direction fan. Clockwise for winter and counterclockwise for summer. It circulates your heat on low.
With the hay bales being so loose - be careful letting the kids play in them. They can be crushed or buried by them. For next time have them baled tighter. Plus you are losing alot of good ediable hay for your animals because of the loose bales . Don't knnow much you paid, but as a farmer, every penny counts especially with Christmas coming up.
Well... they are no more real farmers... They are rich content creators and books authors. If you look at that house remodelling and future kitchen, they have no problem to pay for more hay. Still it is a great loss of good animal food and they shouldn't manipulate with it so dangerously.
Pam here….my head is spinning from all the ‘complicated’ systems. We just installed solar panels, battery banks going in about another 5months. Keep it simple. Easy. Make more energy that you could use. All the noisy gas powered generators?? Gas takes so much infrastructure to get to you….’if it all goes crazy’ your solar hums along all by its lonesome…with very little human input and energy
We spray foamed our house and compared to a coworker with a similar size house and same size family we were saving a significant amount of money on our heating and cooling bill comparatively. Well worth the extra cost up front.
time management. Moving everyone into the much smaller cabin puts more urgency on finishing the main house quickly (vs. years of building on their own).
Funny to hear you talk about a possible bad winter and I’m sitting here in 31F and it’s snowing for the first time here in northern Idaho when we were just in the 70s! It’s 40 and below from now on the weather says so it’s gonna definitely be a strong one. Another funny coincidence story for anyone reading or the Rhodes, my mom is actually in Hendersonville 20 minutes from you guys and then I’m in N-ID about an hour probably from the friends they visited on the American home tour I believe. Or I think an editor of Justin’s I forget the relationship exactly but how small of a world ❤
Difference in northern and southern winters is that you it winter storms are strictly ice. Not to mention they’re usually with odd patterns so the day before it may be 65 degrees and then we get heavy precipitation with single digits the next day. Causing the roads to ice over instead of pack with snow. I come from NH and now live in Tennessee. I’ll take 7 months of winter up north over 7 days of winter down here
I'm sure you already know but anytime you store hay where it's not getting adequate air flow, it may build heat. that's if it wasn't fully dried when baled. Just keep an eye on the temp
One thing to consider is that spray foam is very very flammable. Especially with the kids playing with hay under the house (there's a reason why it's recommended to keep a hay barn 200 ft from your house), that's something to consider. You should insulate, but rock wool is much less flammable. Also be careful with them playing in it. I know someone who's broken their back from a hay bale. If it's baled and carefully stacked, it's more stable nif it's unbaled and not properly stacked, it's a much higher risk of injury. Yeah, kids should be able to play and learn to analyze risk, but at some point there's some serious injuries possible.
Definitely spray foam the ceiling and all exterior walls. We built in 2012 and saw return in 4.5 yrs in electric bills. Over the past two years when Electricity skyrocketed - other house built the same time were paying 2x what we were paying.
We had 15 inches in Hooper's Creek back in 2008 or 09. That was a a lot of snow. Got the tractor stuck but it was all gone pretty quick. Asheville area doesn't get those deep snows anymore. Remember that ice storm tho like in 2004 or 05? That was crazy. I was living in Flat Rock then and thankfully, we did have a generator because all the power was out all around us.
Is it normal or unavoidable for customer to go back and forth so much on plans or decide things last minute in the build? Is it just part of house building? If I were building a house I would want to firm up as much as possible to avoid delays for the crew. My background is in engineering and I haven't had to build my own house before but it still seems like a lot of crucial decisions are being made on the fly.
We added spray insulation to our new house.. exterior walls and roof. It holds the temperature of the house so well. It really makes a huge difference!!
We have two half ton air conditioning units sitting outside next to our house, uncovered, and they have been there for 30 years, no problems with them and we live in Michigan so they routinely get covered with snow!
Keeping it Dutch installed a radiant heat fireplace that includes an oven. Or, what about a rocket stove heat source. Both are very efficient according to those that have them
so my name is kathleen I’m from Oregon💚 I just wanted to share something and maybe it’s been shared before so no big deal. There’s a Nother TH-cam family coghill farms they just got done building their home. You just might like to talk to them they did do spray foam, but they also did concrete floors so you might just get some heads up on some things that you might need and not need. They’re truly wonderful people and they’re your neighbors not too far away, good luck I enjoy your videos
This was one of the best you have done in a while. You explained things , we didn’t get an info commercial more like The show that got you so many v Followers
I would talk to your HVAC guy about extending what is already a long line set. You will definitely require more refrigerant to charge it properly and you may lose some efficiency.
1000% spray foam , we own a contracting company up in Canada. We wouldnt do anything else. It protects your house from rodents too. It makes a massive difference .
You guys should investigste a very old fireplace design...the masonry type...its very efficient -- and very pleasa t..nedds loads 1 or 2 times a day... Hmmm
Hi Justin I just wanted to ask you a question I'm a country girl that's been involved in baling hay all my life pretty much we were never allowed to bail hay as Loosely as that's been bailed because we were shorting our customers and we would have never gotten paid I don't understand just because you're in a different state why it's okay for that to be bailed so loosely yeah it's great the kids can lift it but you're being shorted hay you're paying for. Your animals will be going through it alot faster and you may not have enough for the winter. I saw someone post about the kids climbing on it and breaking them down. LOL I loved watching them playing on tne hay and ALL my granskids play on the bales ! When they are baled tight like they should be you dont usually have any of that breaking down or at least we dont. Just concerned about the amount of hay you will end up with !! Love your channel and your precious family, May God continue pouring Blessings upon you 😊
Nice job cleaning up the hay Josiah! I think that wood stove idea is great. We have two wood stoves to heat our place if we have to in the winter. We have a heating oil furnace but it needs electricity to run too! At least we can stay warm with the two wood stoves. We have plenty of our own wood so that isn't a problem either. I like the idea of moving your air conditioning condenser away from the house and pouring a bigger concrete pad there. I love those Panoramic doors you ordered Rebekah! Your remodel is going well! So many decision to make. You have thought about this and researched it very well. More hay! Thanks for this video Rhodes family!
I don’t know if you remember or not but I can’t remember a couple of videos of yours or you guys struggled to get it to like 70° in your house because you were still learning the ins and outs of the wood-burning stove downstairs outside
My husband had heating and air conditioning business and he has so much insulation in the that you can’t get up inside the attic. He has passed but my electric is amazing low compared to my neighbors. I have lived here for 30 years so I’m thankful he did it just like he did. I wasn’t happy when he spent all the extra money but wow the money I have saved. So I would go for it now. However I hear in 2024 we could have free electric. 😮
Justin. Have you watched Engineer 775 videos. Or watched Wild Wonderful off grid. Josh and Erin are a wealth of knowledge. Especially Josh since he is a Electrician.
I’m 64 older woman I do have a gas heater and thankfully a wood stove but I have to split the large wood that was given to me it’s such hard work but I like the heat from it. It’s better then gas heat. Not to mention the cost of the gas heat is ridiculous. 3-600 per month. I rather do the hard work and save the money
Watch Joe from northern seclusion. He has a wood boiler and he understands it and he can explain how it works. Justin doesn’t have a good understanding on how the boiler operates. My guess, the reason is, whenever anything is explained, Justin is so busy interrupting and asking questions that he is not a good listener. Every time they go into the remodel and talk to professionals, everyone is talking at once, just like in this video, nobody is listening. This house won’t be done a year from now.
The angled shots are hard to watch. I've noticed you doing these the last couple of episodes. The new house looks great though, y'all will enjoy that better functionality!
hang the heat pump on straps and then pour and then have it on blocks - way less labor but he is right to pout entire back - you will sort out details and get it just the way you like it - try to diy most but of course you need help - it is a work in progress and you can remain flexible - work more with the contractors who do the best work and will work with you
These contractors must have great memories, because things change by the minute yet nothing seems to be written down or recorded. Its just strange that an architect was not hired to map EVERYTHING OUT. Another youtube family is building a custom home for their 11 kids, but from day one the builder had an architect on the team and they had multiple meetings, walks on the property to determine where things would be, and I believe they had a meeting to see the mock - up computer generation of the house with the property. Now I realize Rhodes are working with an existing building, but just perplexed how many changes being made on the fly. I hope the final product comes together with out any problems in terms of design and the actual functioning of the house. These on the fly changes often lead to REDO. Still I wish them the best they have worked incredibly hard to get to this place in their lives.
You are LITERALLY watching a video of the plans being recorded, and I’m sure they have tons of clips that were edited out of the Final Cut that they could easily save and send to the contractors. Problem solved. And they have 5 kids, not 11. This is an inherited family farmhouse that they’ve been living in for years, in relatively the same way it’s been for decades. Now they’re fixing it up to be the way that works for their family. These people have a huge operation going, and they manage it all perfectly well without your comments and I’m sure this renovation will be no different so stop pretending you have all the facts or that they’re not doing their due diligence just because they didn’t share their building plans with you.
I have a vocabulary question 😅 I hear a lot of American homesteaders talk about “redundancy”, but as a Canadian, that word to me means “unnecessary” or “not required”. But, I think the way you use it, you mean it as “back up” for things? So redundancy, maybe meaning not necessary but good if your main sources fail etc. lol it’s been making me scratch my head so had to voice it! 😂
Put in the refergeration room with a hanging rack system to easily load and unload beef 1/4s and pig 1/2s. Use to smoke for on farm events giving away meat but charging for the seminar/event. Farm hay wagon ranch tour includes a free lunch. Lilly sells her LHF cupcakes. LILLYS Horse Fund.
I was thinking that too but he might also be saving that for after the Reno or something. or would he be thinking of the power lines and such now for it
Wellness Mama did a podcast in 2018 talking with Andrew Pace (The Green Design Center) on how to actually build a non toxic home. Spray foam is a definite no. Especially for those with auto immune diseases. We scheduled one or two phone consults with him when we were building. We even sprayed a sealant on the framing of our house so that formaldehyde wasn’t off gassing into our air. Congratulations on the rebuild! You all are a lovely family!
Growing up on a cattle ranch. We were never allowed to play on the hay for several reasons
1. You destroy the integrity of the bales
2 you can get trapped if they fall
3 other critters have their home in the hay
was thinking all three but maybe its just for a day or two
@@sewingstoryprojects6178these kids have been making hay tunnels and using is as a jungle gym for years
Totally agree
Don't keep the hay under your house, if it catches on fire, it will burn down your house! While the tunnels are fun, they can collapse! Careful!
The house will be beautiful! Blessings 🙏❤🤗
It is not under the house.
@@HeyJudeDistributing-Watch again! Some of it is.
The kids play tunnel IS under the house😊
My husband is a contractor and you won’t be disappointed in the spray foam. We haven’t had anyone who regrets having it put in. It’s in and you won’t have to worry about it ever again. Other than good windows, it will be the best money spent on the cool and heat of your home. Costs more upfront, but it will pay for itself in the long run. So, overtime, you come out at the same price with a better quality.
I'd be careful with the hay bales falling in on the kids while they are in the tunnels they built in the hay stack
Ditto
If not sure if you know about this but square bales can spontaneously combust when they’re stacked. Unless that hay is aged and super dry, the moisture in the hay creates heat like your compost pile and the whole thing will go up like a match. Your hay needs to be stacked properly with room for air flow and you don’t want to be stacking it under your house unless it’s well aged. Very serious fire hazard!
Round bales can do the same
Agreed. Pallets underneath and air flow around is essential. Really don't like how the hay is stored under the house.
It's not under the house.
It’s right next to the house though. If it caught fire the house would most likely burn or receive serious damage.
They are not very smart
Definitely think about the mess aspect when deciding where to place the wood stove. I grew up in a tiny cabin and we had to walk across the whole house to feed the fire or clean out ashes. It left us with either wet shoes in the winter walking across the floor, or come in, set the wood down, take shoes off, pick wood up and carry on.
On the spray foam topic: it can be good but I’ve known people whom have had issues with moisture getting into the insulation and molding. Sheet insulation you can simply remove and replace. Spray foam required them to tear out all of their walls and completely redo them. I’ve heard too many stories like this to use spray foam myself.
We bought a house that's 93 years old, I had zero insulation in it! Our fuel oil bill monthly was between $800 and $1,000. We added spray foam to the walls, an our heating bills whenever you feel or fuel oil about every 2 months. Last winter was our first winter what the insulation, pretty sure this winter it will have paid for itself. We're in northeast Pennsylvania
We resided our 120 yr. old house . It was insulated with newspaper(we redid it with 2 " foam board & vertical metal). Were in central Wi. it gets -25. Most everyone has 2 heat sources up here we have a inside wood furnace & propane furnace. Thanks, for sharing the reno :)
That is taking along time to get done she keeps on changing her mind so that is taking them long time
Hate to say it, but when we grew up, we got to make a fort in the hay, but we didn't get to run all over it, because of what you see happening on your stacked hay pile. Breaking up hay bales was a big No No, and a big lesson is it becoming unstable. It will just get worse the pile the longer it gets played on, sorry to be the bad news lady, just experience.
I agree bay bales were off limits. My uncle would get so mad at us if we messy up the hay bales! Sometimes those kids don’t really care about it …. Easy way for them and they are happy they want to play.
Especially they didn't compact those squares enough...they're soo loose😮
Yeah.. but it's busy on the farm and kids. will be kids
that pile is too dangerous, wouldnt be the first kid to suffacate in a hay stack
The most trouble I ever got in was jumping and sliding down the hay. It was super fun but it will ruin the bales.
A lot of progress on the farm; thanks for sharing! Growing up on a farm, we were told that the bales could fall in on us & it wrecks the bales to run on them. Please be careful, kids! Bales under the house need to be ventilated to prevent combustion. The house will be beautiful! Blessings to everyone 🤗💗🇨🇦
The square hay bales, uncured and poorly stacked, gave me anxiety. 🙈😅 I can't wait to see the finished house.
I love Gideon! Great show, buddy! 💕
You need to stop and consider moisture/condensation management in this house before you progress. You’re setting yourself up to have issues with condensation not being able to escape out of your house, which will cause a lot of issues.
Amazing how far your family has come! I have been here since Mr. Brown was on your back 💗
Hey Justin I would highly recommend spray foaming everything. It's going to help the heating and cooling stay inside and insulating between bedrooms really helps with sound insulation.
Please, No Balloons for the baby. ❤ ya'll.
What baby?
I don’t understand why these issues with the garage, and the woodstove were not discussed and resolved during the design phase?
There seems to be a lot of things that have had to be redone because they weren’t properly planned at the start.
It’s an expensive way to do it, and it increases your risk of mistakes being made because so much keeps changing and it doesn’t always get communicated.
Pam here….for all the research they did…there is a lack of knowledge very apparent and they keep getting distracted by ‘shiny’ things. Triple redundancy for heating?? The wood boiler system have been such a nemesis for them…WHY keep that? They had an opportunity to really simplify systems with solar and battery backup. Would have kept walk in cooler/freezer going. Now they are going to have that massive maze of freezers and fridges all over again. I see all these ‘contractors’ coming through and leading them around like a cow with a nose ring…selling them this and selling them that….so much grifting happening and this family is way overspending and over complicating every system and room design. In the end it is so messy, discombobulated and difficult and time consuming to maintain it all. The gal who came and tried to help them ‘organize and downsize’ was even a bit overtaken.
Spray foam: YES!! I'm in the cold north, yes it's an investment but we did spray foam roof and 3" with R-15 batt over on walls. It's a great way to keep the house more thermally stable compared to the outside condition. Cooler in the summer, warmer in the winter!
Homes are struggling to get insured with the spray foam in the uk .
It’s damaging the wood (not allowing it to breath) also when and if the roof needs replacing or fixing it’s impossible because it’s all stuck together .
I would reconsider, kingspan is a favourite
Also super flammable
Oh how special to see your place come together as it is now. Very cool! Always a joy watching your family.
I live in a cabin in Alabama, and I would never want to be without a wood burning stove.
Ours is a Hearthstone, Soapstone stove and we love it.
They are not cheap, but the soapstone absorbs the heat as the fire burns and will keep heat in the room
long after the fire is out.
As fun as it is, those kids are gonna ruin those loose hay bales. You will waste a lot. I was concerned about how loosely baled it was when you first picked it up.
We have a very high ceiling with a reverse direction fan. Clockwise for winter and counterclockwise for summer. It circulates your heat on low.
It seems the gentleman is not taking the advise of his followers seriously. May God protect the children!
So happy for you guys. Love to see the house coming along! Congrats
With the hay bales being so loose - be careful letting the kids play in them. They can be crushed or buried by them. For next time have them baled tighter. Plus you are losing alot of good ediable hay for your animals because of the loose bales . Don't knnow much you paid, but as a farmer, every penny counts especially with Christmas coming up.
Well... they are no more real farmers... They are rich content creators and books authors. If you look at that house remodelling and future kitchen, they have no problem to pay for more hay. Still it is a great loss of good animal food and they shouldn't manipulate with it so dangerously.
@@evamollikova2132 I'm more concerned about safety. Hay can be dangerous.
Pam here….my head is spinning from all the ‘complicated’ systems. We just installed solar panels, battery banks going in about another 5months. Keep it simple. Easy. Make more energy that you could use. All the noisy gas powered generators?? Gas takes so much infrastructure to get to you….’if it all goes crazy’ your solar hums along all by its lonesome…with very little human input and energy
I'm from Minnesota, I LOATHE winter, just HATE it! Hubby and I moved to the Gulf Coast TX, and just LOVE it here!!!
Our fireplace insert is wonderful. We have geothermal and a generator. Yes, redundancy is a must!🙂
We spray foamed our house and compared to a coworker with a similar size house and same size family we were saving a significant amount of money on our heating and cooling bill comparatively. Well worth the extra cost up front.
What happened to I'm going to be doing most of the building of the house myself?
time management. Moving everyone into the much smaller cabin puts more urgency on finishing the main house quickly (vs. years of building on their own).
@@AB-ol5uzWhoosh
Throwing hay makes men out of boys!!! Better than going to a gym! 😉Good job guys and your home is going to be GORGEOUS!!!
IT IS SO GOOD TO SEE YOU SO WELL. I HAVEN'T BEEN ON HERE FOR AWHILE AND YOU WERE SO SICK.
Funny to hear you talk about a possible bad winter and I’m sitting here in 31F and it’s snowing for the first time here in northern Idaho when we were just in the 70s! It’s 40 and below from now on the weather says so it’s gonna definitely be a strong one. Another funny coincidence story for anyone reading or the Rhodes, my mom is actually in Hendersonville 20 minutes from you guys and then I’m in N-ID about an hour probably from the friends they visited on the American home tour I believe. Or I think an editor of Justin’s I forget the relationship exactly but how small of a world ❤
ugh yes, I was so enjoying our late fall warm spell... its dropping snow ( already 6") and will be 15 below this weekend! WINTER IS HERE lol
Was it Dan Oman in Idaho?
Difference in northern and southern winters is that you it winter storms are strictly ice. Not to mention they’re usually with odd patterns so the day before it may be 65 degrees and then we get heavy precipitation with single digits the next day. Causing the roads to ice over instead of pack with snow. I come from NH and now live in Tennessee. I’ll take 7 months of winter up north over 7 days of winter down here
Maybe think about a Woodstove that you can cook on if need be. Just another thing to cover to be prepared.
Proud of you guys!!! May GOD bless your family.
I'm sure you already know but anytime you store hay where it's not getting adequate air flow, it may build heat. that's if it wasn't fully dried when baled. Just keep an eye on the temp
My parents have panoramic doors and they are amazing, im sure y'all will love them!
Ceiling fans that reverse spin for summer and winter will help bring the heat back down.
One thing to consider is that spray foam is very very flammable. Especially with the kids playing with hay under the house (there's a reason why it's recommended to keep a hay barn 200 ft from your house), that's something to consider. You should insulate, but rock wool is much less flammable.
Also be careful with them playing in it. I know someone who's broken their back from a hay bale. If it's baled and carefully stacked, it's more stable nif it's unbaled and not properly stacked, it's a much higher risk of injury. Yeah, kids should be able to play and learn to analyze risk, but at some point there's some serious injuries possible.
Yay! I love this update on this lovely, God serving family.
God Serving? Not in anything I have seen.
Omg Henry is growing up way to fast thanks for sharing your life with us blessings from North Texas ❤
Definitely spray foam the ceiling and all exterior walls. We built in 2012 and saw return in 4.5 yrs in electric bills. Over the past two years when Electricity skyrocketed - other house built the same time were paying 2x what we were paying.
I live in North Georgia. I remember the blizzard of March 13, 1993. I was to take a flight to the North, flights were cancelled.
We had 15 inches in Hooper's Creek back in 2008 or 09. That was a a lot of snow. Got the tractor stuck but it was all gone pretty quick. Asheville area doesn't get those deep snows anymore. Remember that ice storm tho like in 2004 or 05? That was crazy. I was living in Flat Rock then and thankfully, we did have a generator because all the power was out all around us.
Is it normal or unavoidable for customer to go back and forth so much on plans or decide things last minute in the build? Is it just part of house building? If I were building a house I would want to firm up as much as possible to avoid delays for the crew. My background is in engineering and I haven't had to build my own house before but it still seems like a lot of crucial decisions are being made on the fly.
Can't wait to see the finished product 😊
We added spray insulation to our new house.. exterior walls and roof. It holds the temperature of the house so well. It really makes a huge difference!!
We have two half ton air conditioning units sitting outside next to our house, uncovered, and they have been there for 30 years, no problems with them and we live in Michigan so they routinely get covered with snow!
Keeping it Dutch installed a radiant heat fireplace that includes an oven. Or, what about a rocket stove heat source. Both are very efficient according to those that have them
so my name is kathleen I’m from Oregon💚 I just wanted to share something and maybe it’s been shared before so no big deal. There’s a Nother TH-cam family coghill farms they just got done building their home. You just might like to talk to them they did do spray foam, but they also did concrete floors so you might just get some heads up on some things that you might need and not need. They’re truly wonderful people and they’re your neighbors not too far away, good luck I enjoy your videos
This was one of the best you have done in a while. You explained things , we didn’t get an info commercial more like The show that got you so many v
Followers
I would talk to your HVAC guy about extending what is already a long line set. You will definitely require more refrigerant to charge it properly and you may lose some efficiency.
I like the square bales best but your guy didn’t pack them tight enough.
I hope Josiah picked up that bale twine. It could be big trouble if ingested by a cow.
As a Michigander I have learned that four heat sources are neccesary. Electric, wood boiler, woodstoves and fireplace, and propane heat.
Hi love the channel and you teach us so much. Just a thought, MOVE YOUR HAY AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE.... Fire Hazzard?
Agree with the fire danger!!! Hay attracts critters too, like mice and snakes. They'll likely end up in the house.
Foam is recommended in Saskatchewan wind chills of minus 60 Celsius. Foam will also keep you cool.
1000% spray foam , we own a contracting company up in Canada.
We wouldnt do anything else. It protects your house from rodents too. It makes a massive difference .
We just did closed cell foam in the ceiling walls and floor 7,000 2 months ago in Tennessee 1500 sqft
You guys should investigste a very old fireplace design...the masonry type...its very efficient -- and very pleasa t..nedds loads 1 or 2 times a day...
Hmmm
“ keeping it dutch” has one, it’s wonderful
Consider an air return at peak of ceiling in the great room to return air to that rooms floor level.Basically a recirculating fan.
You need to take a class on bailing hay. And then kids not playing in it, it’s dangerous 😮
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Hi Justin I just wanted to ask you a question I'm a country girl that's been involved in baling hay all my life pretty much we were never allowed to bail hay as Loosely as that's been bailed because we were shorting our customers and we would have never gotten paid I don't understand just because you're in a different state why it's okay for that to be bailed so loosely yeah it's great the kids can lift it but you're being shorted hay you're paying for. Your animals will be going through it alot faster and you may not have enough for the winter. I saw someone post about the kids climbing on it and breaking them down. LOL I loved watching them playing on tne hay and ALL my granskids play on the bales ! When they are baled tight like they should be you dont usually have any of that breaking down or at least we dont. Just concerned about the amount of hay you will end up with !! Love your channel and your precious family, May God continue pouring Blessings upon you 😊
We did flash and bat. A light spray foam then regular insulation. Less expensive than all foam. Boy is it worth it!
Nice job cleaning up the hay Josiah! I think that wood stove idea is great. We have two wood stoves to heat our place if we have to in the winter. We have a heating oil furnace but it needs electricity to run too! At least we can stay warm with the two wood stoves. We have plenty of our own wood so that isn't a problem either. I like the idea of moving your air conditioning condenser away from the house and pouring a bigger concrete pad there. I love those Panoramic doors you ordered Rebekah! Your remodel is going well! So many decision to make. You have thought about this and researched it very well. More hay! Thanks for this video Rhodes family!
Look into a masonry heater, wood heat with very little wood!
I don’t know if you remember or not but I can’t remember a couple of videos of yours or you guys struggled to get it to like 70° in your house because you were still learning the ins and outs of the wood-burning stove downstairs outside
That’s why losing the fireplace might not have been a great idea.
Fireplaces are VERY inefficient! A wood stove is WAY better!
With an insert they are great
Evidently money is no object.
Playing on those hay bales will break them apart, 😢
My husband had heating and air conditioning business and he has so much insulation in the that you can’t get up inside the attic. He has passed but my electric is amazing low compared to my neighbors. I have lived here for 30 years so I’m thankful he did it just like he did. I wasn’t happy when he spent all the extra money but wow the money I have saved. So I would go for it now. However I hear in 2024 we could have free electric. 😮
Justin. Have you watched Engineer 775 videos. Or watched Wild Wonderful off grid. Josh and Erin are a wealth of knowledge. Especially Josh since he is a Electrician.
Loved the Gideon show! 😂
Oh wow it’s been 8 years? I was looking at the old videos and I think I’ve been around for 7. When mr brown was a baby.
I’m 64 older woman I do have a gas heater and thankfully a wood stove but I have to split the large wood that was given to me it’s such hard work but I like the heat from it. It’s better then gas heat. Not to mention the cost of the gas heat is ridiculous. 3-600 per month. I rather do the hard work and save the money
Who designed this place?! This is taking a long time for building a home?!
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have you considered hemp instead of sprayfoam in the walls, floors and roof? it is also fire resistance and create so good indoor climate 😊
I feel like the wood boiler is more trouble than it's worth, thoughts?
Watch Joe from northern seclusion. He has a wood boiler and he understands it and he can explain how it works. Justin doesn’t have a good understanding on how the boiler operates. My guess, the reason is, whenever anything is explained, Justin is so busy interrupting and asking questions that he is not a good listener. Every time they go into the remodel and talk to professionals, everyone is talking at once, just like in this video, nobody is listening. This house won’t be done a year from now.
@@CarolSchrefflerso much waste in remodeling what they just remodeled...
Kids are having a blast on that hay😂
That's fun but also looks dangerous if the bails get collapsed onto the kids
Ceiling fans, at a slow speed can be helpful for air circulation.
At this point, Josiah will be able to get a job as a heavy machine operator and make great $$$ for it!
Hope you're going to put ceiling fans to recirculate the air from up there back down.
Underfloor heating on part of your floor . ?!
I would do that . Of course wood stove or two ❤😊
I love those high ceilings .
We are approaching peak color here in Sparta, NC! 🍁🍁
I can’t wait to see the finished house❤
The angled shots are hard to watch. I've noticed you doing these the last couple of episodes. The new house looks great though, y'all will enjoy that better functionality!
hang the heat pump on straps and then pour and then have it on blocks - way less labor but he is right to pout entire back - you will sort out details and get it just the way you like it - try to diy most but of course you need help - it is a work in progress and you can remain flexible - work more with the contractors who do the best work and will work with you
@justinrhodesofficial.01. it is normal to be overwhelmed - a lil coffee can help - i am already too lucky so have to pass on free draft horses
These contractors must have great memories, because things change by the minute yet nothing seems to be written down or recorded.
Its just strange that an architect was not hired to map EVERYTHING OUT. Another youtube family is building a custom home for their 11 kids, but from day one the builder had an architect on the team and they had multiple meetings, walks on the property to determine where things would be, and I believe they had a meeting to see the mock - up computer generation of the house with the property.
Now I realize Rhodes are working with an existing building, but just perplexed how many changes being made on the fly.
I hope the final product comes together with out any problems in terms of design and the actual functioning of the house.
These on the fly changes often lead to REDO.
Still I wish them the best they have worked incredibly hard to get to this place in their lives.
You are LITERALLY watching a video of the plans being recorded, and I’m sure they have tons of clips that were edited out of the Final Cut that they could easily save and send to the contractors. Problem solved. And they have 5 kids, not 11. This is an inherited family farmhouse that they’ve been living in for years, in relatively the same way it’s been for decades. Now they’re fixing it up to be the way that works for their family. These people have a huge operation going, and they manage it all perfectly well without your comments and I’m sure this renovation will be no different so stop pretending you have all the facts or that they’re not doing their due diligence just because they didn’t share their building plans with you.
add an electric heat tape to the water lines running through cement.
I have a vocabulary question 😅 I hear a lot of American homesteaders talk about “redundancy”, but as a Canadian, that word to me means “unnecessary” or “not required”. But, I think the way you use it, you mean it as “back up” for things? So redundancy, maybe meaning not necessary but good if your main sources fail etc. lol it’s been making me scratch my head so had to voice it! 😂
I’m surprised that the stove isn’t planned already. You guys are really far into the build to not have a plan.
I live in Georgia and I remember the blizzard of '93
Put in the refergeration room with a hanging rack system to easily load and unload beef 1/4s and pig 1/2s. Use to smoke for on farm events giving away meat but charging for the seminar/event. Farm hay wagon ranch tour includes a free lunch. Lilly sells her LHF cupcakes. LILLYS Horse Fund.
How much does the spray foam off-gas?
13:38….. add some ceiling fans to get the heat down from the ceiling, South Georgia Peach 🍑
I'm surprised you guys don't have solar too?
I was thinking that too but he might also be saving that for after the Reno or something. or would he be thinking of the power lines and such now for it
Wellness Mama did a podcast in 2018 talking with Andrew Pace (The Green Design Center) on how to actually build a non toxic home. Spray foam is a definite no. Especially for those with auto immune diseases.
We scheduled one or two phone consults with him when we were building. We even sprayed a sealant on the framing of our house so that formaldehyde wasn’t off gassing into our air. Congratulations on the rebuild! You all are a lovely family!
How about a mass earth heater Bench in the sun room so the bench be warm all 72 hrs
Just a thought…. Why not add an attached garage by a new attached hallway