Beyond your myriad of construction talents ( and most importantly the patience to do it perfect) - I hope people realize your video editing and production skills are next level. I can't imagine how long this took to put together, to get the music just right etc but my you have my compliments. What an amazing job.
You just built a house, man... like yeah! And survived a hurricane without complaining. God bless you, hope you have many joyful days in this magnificent house!
That is extremely flattering!! We really do try our best to set a good example for anyone who comes across a video and models their project from it. We’re certainly not experts in any one thing but try to do our homework and replicate the work of the pros 👌🏼
Again, I am awed and humbled by the quality of the vision, planning, and execution for this project. You two are on a level all by yourself. I simply do not have enough superlatives! WOW!
Wow Alex and Elena, you two have done an amazing job! At a very high level quality wise! Well done! I will be subscribing and watching your other videos!
I cant even imagine the logistics of building, all I see is bolts, tubes, wood, small screws, machinery, tools, just insane if it was me I would be going to the store every 5 mins because something was missing great job, great video!
Haha the details definitely add up! It’s impossible for anyone to know everything about construction with how much the tools, products, and techniques are constantly evolving. That’s what makes it fun 🙂
Great job guys! I have so many friends that watch u guys… can’t believe all you’ve taught yourself to do … makes it look so simple… duh no… love the fun and love u put in everything u do! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Keep on building 🔨🛠️⚒️ … I’m sure a couple people up above are real proud of your work too!😘
Really happy for you both! Such attention to detail, this home will serve you and your family well for years to come. That’s Nittany Lion ingenuity!!!!
Having a house built for us in Waterloo, Ontario 9 years ago, I can say you have a well-built home. Easily 10x the grade and quality compared to mainstream builds today. Excellent work that will surely last many generations to come. 😃
Whew! I recently built a 360sqft cabin as a solo build, and I felt very accomplished. This is SO MANY magnitudes more fantastic. Keep up the great work!
Love the progress so far and what a great recap. I need to go back and watch more of your videos. I’m also building my own house and have gotten great tips and value from you sharing what you have used and are doing. Thank you!!!
Amazing! Glad you have gotten some value from our videos, between helping others and capturing memories that's what keeps us making them. Best of luck on your build, just keep going!!
You are amazing😮❤. And thanks to all these persons how are with you and helping you building this beauty . You can be very proud🙏. You can look at it with all the satisfaction of the ever❤
U two are great, i enjoyed your videos, smashing. I build something myself but not so big as you two. I wish u all the best, beautiful life in that house of yours. Looks the best with u too in it. Good luck.
Just randomly stumbled upon this video series... just wanted to say this is one of the coolest projects I've ever seen! Loving the progress and can't wait for the finale! Keep up the awesome work y'all :)
You get it! We did all the preconstruction and the first full year of building while working our corporate jobs but then quit, we have a whole video on that if you're curious
Merhaba, İngilizce bilmiyorum. Konuştuklarınızı anlamıyorum ama enerjiniz çok iyi. Ev yapım videolarınızı izledim. Emeğiniz çok değerli. Umarım çok ama çok mutlu olursunuz. Ve hayatınız boyunca sizi üzecek tek şey torunlarınızın hızına yetişememek olur. Sağlıcakla yaşayın. Saygılar.
Your vids are a major reason we have opted to GC our build in AZ at the ripe old age of 68. Estimated savings of $300K +/-, much of which will go into building performance and better materials, (and a pool/spa). I wish we had the skills and time to do a channel. (Maybe Rockwool would get back to me sooner!!). Thanks for your help and quick responses to emails and your very useful tools and spreadsheets.
That's amazing!! Best of luck to you guys, just keep focused on the next goal. Email Chris.Caporuscio@rockwool.com and he will hook you up with the right folks in your area if you want to use Rockwool!
Be sure to close all holes in the air and vapor covering. It looks like the holes made in the finished drywall roof also cut the film. Also the film should go over the inside wall because otherwise vapor will also diffuse there and condense on the outside film inside the house. Be aware that when the house is relatively dense, every small leak will lead to big problems while without the air covering, the air flow would equally spread over all outside walls and roof (but would not be dense at all).
The number of skilled trades that you learned was absolutely amazing! Which one of you is the video editing wiz? Nice edit! I do have one question. It seems like you had a decent amount of land to work with. So, why did you make it a 2-story house? Why not a 1-story rambler? With a rambler, you wouldn't have had so many height issues (working on top of a ladder) during construction. Also, stairs get annoying after the first few hundred times you climb them. Seems like land was not at all in short supply, so you could have easily just built a gigantic 1-story house rather than dealing with all the hassles of a 2-story. But I bet you had your reasons. I'd love to hear what they were.
Thanks for watching! We both do our fair share of editing but Alex is the timelapse editor 🙂 Architecture, aesthetics, and budget are reasons for going up instead of out. We wanted this to look like a garage that scales with and compliments the main house addition, not look like a house attached to a large barndominum (or two houses put together). We did play around with some barndominium concepts, but liked the more traditional design more. Keeping the footprint smaller keeps foundation and roofing costs lower.
God so much work done!! Compliments for that! Though it is strange for me as how more labor is needed for wooden house :) The silicate blocks are much better, both for fire safety, noise blocking, nature disasters. And then you need an insulation from outside. The wiring and plumbing is much easier on smooth surfaces than through the studs and beams.
Thanks! Block walls are a substantial amount of additional labor and cost here for marginal benefit, but a future addition out of masonry isn't out of the question
Hey, we were looking at a wood style garage door too! Oddly enough it was cheaper than the black version! Still undecided on which we will choose. Definitely great to DIY as much ad possible, no fixing someone else's mistakes! I'm grateful for our contractors (no way we'd meet our 2 yr deadline without them) but man, they can really leave you groaning 😂
Truly enjoyed the video, fantastic job, you two. The hurricane aftermath was gut-wrenching to watch 😢 At 6:30, what were you referring to when you said best 400 bucks I ever spent? Keep up the good work, greetings from Abu Dhabi, UAE.
wait have you both been learning all this along the build process? or did you start off knowing the fields? wow, extremely admirable. I am planning on starting my own process of this, but will probably work in the fields for a bit before i am comfortable lol. Editing to add more. Was at the fire part, scared the heck out of me . Thought you lost your home. Unfortunate the the neighbors did. :(
Imagine if our high schools showed stuff like this and how budget not owe everything to the banks. Oh yeah then the system wouldn't work and they wouldn't trap us. Great job guys I had a similar dream got the land and equipment paid off just gave up found another older home I liked and bought.
Build your main house out of concrete and steel studs. Fire suppression doesn’t help when fire is outside and the damage from suppression is just as damaging to home. I prefer fire prevention. Concrete ICF don’t burn.
How has the PVC siding held up? I'm between that and the james hardie smooth panel. My worry is how easily pvc panels dent and scratch. Any issues or insight?
It's been great. But we're not tossing hammers into it if that's your use case 😆 In the full video on the board and batten I explained why we did not choose Hardie panels
did you need a GC license? ETC....Did county have to inspect finished work? ... Did it matter who did work as long as it was up to code? curious... Im planning on doing the same.. Im taking some carpentry classes next semester... and then buying some land somewhere... may Florida, Texas, South Carolina...lol Or maybe all .. Thanks!
the shear amount of HVAC, plumbing and mechanical in this house is nuts brother... i know each state would have different climate and codes, but this is waaaaaayyyyy more than anything we do in Australia.. im also surprised you guys didnt do a basement which seems like another thing American's do..
it was definitely a lot of work! We put in several extras that you typically don't see like the ERV, dehum, radiant floor, and garage mini splits. Full sheetmetal ductwork is also not very common here anymore, it's typically fiberglass duct board and flex pipe. Can't easily do a basement under car parking, but the main house addition will have a basement
Curious on some HVAC details, is the garage area heated/cooled at all? Also maybe the siga video hasnt come out yet but did you siga majrex only the living area or the entire outer envelope?
Garage has a radiant floor and two mini splits (full videos on both) and correct the full SIGA video is coming soon but talked about it in the Rockwool videos. Encapsulated the upstairs and used some remaining for a few exterior walls downstairs
I'm Australia you'd never get signed off ( certificate of occupancy ) electrical and plumbing MUST be certified by a licenced electrician and plumber. The house frame also gets inspected and signed off
We also have inspections and some jurisdictions require licensed trades, but in ours you are allowed to do your own mechanical & electrical work if you are up to it! Still has to pass the same inspection as the licensed folks
only 1 thing i dont like about wooden frame houses is that one single flame bring everything down i had few incidents that kitchen catched fire, thanks everything is concrate so fire was just contained to the kitchen.
We’ll see ya for the Year 3 grande finale 😉
Get rid of all trees.
This channel is immensely underrated.
Beyond your myriad of construction talents ( and most importantly the patience to do it perfect) - I hope people realize your video editing and production skills are next level. I can't imagine how long this took to put together, to get the music just right etc but my you have my compliments. What an amazing job.
Thanks so much for noticing all that 🙂 it took a while, but worth it to look back on in many years!
You just built a house, man... like yeah! And survived a hurricane without complaining. God bless you, hope you have many joyful days in this magnificent house!
Appreciate the kind words 🙏🏻
We’ve looked at hundreds of TH-cam videos on building homes. Your workmanship is WAY above any we’ve seen. FANTASTIC detail.
That is extremely flattering!! We really do try our best to set a good example for anyone who comes across a video and models their project from it. We’re certainly not experts in any one thing but try to do our homework and replicate the work of the pros 👌🏼
I agree 😊
Again, I am awed and humbled by the quality of the vision, planning, and execution for this project. You two are on a level all by yourself. I simply do not have enough superlatives! WOW!
Wow, thank you!! So much appreciated 🙏🏼
Wishing you guys a happy and wonderful life together.
Wow Alex and Elena, you two have done an amazing job! At a very high level quality wise! Well done! I will be subscribing and watching your other videos!
Amazing how you handled that storm. Well done...I know that was a bummer.
the HVAC work is impressive, kudos to y'all
Just tonight discovered part 1, then part 2, now I can't believe I have to wait another year to see part 3!
Thanks for watching!! We miiiight be able to get part 3 out a little earlier next year 🙂
I cant even imagine the logistics of building, all I see is bolts, tubes, wood, small screws, machinery, tools, just insane
if it was me I would be going to the store every 5 mins because something was missing
great job, great video!
Haha the details definitely add up! It’s impossible for anyone to know everything about construction with how much the tools, products, and techniques are constantly evolving. That’s what makes it fun 🙂
Great job guys! I have so many friends that watch u guys… can’t believe all you’ve taught yourself to do … makes it look so simple… duh no… love the fun and love u put in everything u do! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Keep on building 🔨🛠️⚒️ … I’m sure a couple people up above are real proud of your work too!😘
Aww thank you ❤️ ❤️
Can't wait for the next video.
Congratulations on your work.
Hello from France.
Very beautifully made, with plenty of passion and hard work. Lots of love from Iran.❤❤
Really happy for you both! Such attention to detail, this home will serve you and your family well for years to come. That’s Nittany Lion ingenuity!!!!
Thank you!! We Are 🙂
Congratulations. What a wonderful journey. And a beautiful start of your marriage. The stories (and videos) you can share with kids and grandkids.
The memory keeping value is truly the primary motivation for making these videos ❤️
This channel rocks. I love your antics
I will definitely wait for 3rd year ... ❤
Having a house built for us in Waterloo, Ontario 9 years ago, I can say you have a well-built home. Easily 10x the grade and quality compared to mainstream builds today. Excellent work that will surely last many generations to come. 😃
Thank you for the kind words!!
Awesome! I've enjoyed watching your progress. Lots of great build details here
The house looks so great!
Love your attention to detail. You Nailed IT!!!
Amazing project . Hoping the bests for you guys.
I love everything about your garage. Spectacular. Congratulations!
Much appreciated ❤️
Whew! I recently built a 360sqft cabin as a solo build, and I felt very accomplished. This is SO MANY magnitudes more fantastic. Keep up the great work!
Congrats on the build, and thanks so much! No matter the scale, construction is hard 😆
Love the progress so far and what a great recap. I need to go back and watch more of your videos. I’m also building my own house and have gotten great tips and value from you sharing what you have used and are doing. Thank you!!!
Amazing! Glad you have gotten some value from our videos, between helping others and capturing memories that's what keeps us making them. Best of luck on your build, just keep going!!
00:13:20 started french, ended spanish 😂 Great video ! cheers from France 🇫🇷
🤣😂 thanks so much!! 🇫🇷 🇫🇷
You are amazing😮❤. And thanks to all these persons how are with you and helping you building this beauty .
You can be very proud🙏. You can look at it with all the satisfaction of the ever❤
Much appreciated!!
I just found you now, and I am immediately hooked. I will go back to the start and I’m afraid I will binge watch much of it. Greetings from Sweden. ❤
U two are great, i enjoyed your videos, smashing. I build something myself but not so big as you two. I wish u all the best, beautiful life in that house of yours. Looks the best with u too in it. Good luck.
was für ein trip!, geil, weiter so
This makes me really appreciate all the hard work someone else put into building my home.
Absolutely, working in the trades is no joke!
Thank you for your channel and you guys' videos has been motivated me a lot on my own DIY.
Just randomly stumbled upon this video series... just wanted to say this is one of the coolest projects I've ever seen! Loving the progress and can't wait for the finale! Keep up the awesome work y'all :)
Thanks so much!!
Making a great adventure of building your home. Ours was hard work 70 years ago. I enjoy watching your success, my blessings on your adventure.
Woah 70 years! I'm sure the pride is still the same as the day you finished 🙂
I needed this today. I paid for our building permit today. Pouring heated foundation this summer.
Let’s goooo 💪🏼 get to work!!
You guys are awesome, and just inspired me to explore this idea with my gf as well. Good luck to the both of you!
It's a lot to take on, but completely worth it. Thank you and best of luck if you go down the road of self building!
Everything is done 💯 percent perfect 👍👍👍 22:46
Great edit, well done.
Awesome build I wish I had the talent you 2 have to do this, also as a sprinkler fitter I approve of your fire protection 😊
I looked for this video yesterday on your channel 😅 finally you uploaded
This is Awesome!
you did amazing work.
Thanks a ton!!
Inspirational. Great couple doing great things together.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Brilliant video!
Thank you! It's always fun to look back on how far we've come!
This is awesome!
This is so so cool! I am just about to finish some renovations in my house, and I have no idea how you did it! And still working 9-5...
You get it! We did all the preconstruction and the first full year of building while working our corporate jobs but then quit, we have a whole video on that if you're curious
So many wires and pipes. Madness 😅
You guys are amazing. I can’t imagine me building anything that doesn’t resemble a Homer Simpson spice rack.
Haha even Homer needs a spice rack though!
Woow! Good job, I love it!
Thank you!
Love it 😊
Merhaba, İngilizce bilmiyorum. Konuştuklarınızı anlamıyorum ama enerjiniz çok iyi. Ev yapım videolarınızı izledim. Emeğiniz çok değerli. Umarım çok ama çok mutlu olursunuz. Ve hayatınız boyunca sizi üzecek tek şey torunlarınızın hızına yetişememek olur. Sağlıcakla yaşayın. Saygılar.
looks so good
Amazing work 😮 👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks so much! It's been a wild ride!
Your vids are a major reason we have opted to GC our build in AZ at the ripe old age of 68. Estimated savings of $300K +/-, much of which will go into building performance and better materials, (and a pool/spa). I wish we had the skills and time to do a channel. (Maybe Rockwool would get back to me sooner!!). Thanks for your help and quick responses to emails and your very useful tools and spreadsheets.
That's amazing!! Best of luck to you guys, just keep focused on the next goal. Email Chris.Caporuscio@rockwool.com and he will hook you up with the right folks in your area if you want to use Rockwool!
This looks fun...
I like the house building Timelapse
Congratulations! Honestly could had watched a full hour time lapse!
Haha thank you! One day we'll put out a full start to finish.. from buying the property to moving in
Real stone oñ the exterior awesome job
It makes a huge difference. Absoultely love it
Be sure to close all holes in the air and vapor covering. It looks like the holes made in the finished drywall roof also cut the film.
Also the film should go over the inside wall because otherwise vapor will also diffuse there and condense on the outside film inside the house.
Be aware that when the house is relatively dense, every small leak will lead to big problems while without the air covering, the air flow would equally spread over all outside walls and roof (but would not be dense at all).
Amazing job and glad I came across your channel 😅
Thank you! Welcome, happy to have you join us!
The number of skilled trades that you learned was absolutely amazing! Which one of you is the video editing wiz? Nice edit!
I do have one question. It seems like you had a decent amount of land to work with. So, why did you make it a 2-story house? Why not a 1-story rambler? With a rambler, you wouldn't have had so many height issues (working on top of a ladder) during construction. Also, stairs get annoying after the first few hundred times you climb them. Seems like land was not at all in short supply, so you could have easily just built a gigantic 1-story house rather than dealing with all the hassles of a 2-story. But I bet you had your reasons. I'd love to hear what they were.
Thanks for watching! We both do our fair share of editing but Alex is the timelapse editor 🙂 Architecture, aesthetics, and budget are reasons for going up instead of out. We wanted this to look like a garage that scales with and compliments the main house addition, not look like a house attached to a large barndominum (or two houses put together). We did play around with some barndominium concepts, but liked the more traditional design more. Keeping the footprint smaller keeps foundation and roofing costs lower.
@@MasonDixonAcres Thanks so much for the reply! I really appreciate that you took the time.
Hello, great work on that house, congratulations. Will yall ever do a price breakdown?
Fancy! 🙂
God so much work done!! Compliments for that! Though it is strange for me as how more labor is needed for wooden house :) The silicate blocks are much better, both for fire safety, noise blocking, nature disasters. And then you need an insulation from outside. The wiring and plumbing is much easier on smooth surfaces than through the studs and beams.
Thanks! Block walls are a substantial amount of additional labor and cost here for marginal benefit, but a future addition out of masonry isn't out of the question
Hey, we were looking at a wood style garage door too! Oddly enough it was cheaper than the black version! Still undecided on which we will choose. Definitely great to DIY as much ad possible, no fixing someone else's mistakes!
I'm grateful for our contractors (no way we'd meet our 2 yr deadline without them) but man, they can really leave you groaning 😂
Haha your options are good, fast, and cheap.. pick two 😅 We have a full video on the garage doors if you're interested in learning more!
@@MasonDixonAcres I'll take a look 😊
Y'all Penn Staters?!? Saw a PSU shirt somewhere. This video was UNREAL levels of high effort. So fun to see!! Good on ya 👍👍
Yessir! We met during engineering school 🙂 Appreciate ya noticing the small stuff!!
@@MasonDixonAcres rock on! It all started in the Hammond building haha! Good stuff, keep up the awesomeness.
Some first memories in Hammond for sure 😉
Truly enjoyed the video, fantastic job, you two. The hurricane aftermath was gut-wrenching to watch 😢 At 6:30, what were you referring to when you said best 400 bucks I ever spent? Keep up the good work, greetings from Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Thanks for all the kind words!! That would be the rotary laser level, more details on it in this video: th-cam.com/video/wNVbShMf-20/w-d-xo.html
wait have you both been learning all this along the build process? or did you start off knowing the fields? wow, extremely admirable. I am planning on starting my own process of this, but will probably work in the fields for a bit before i am comfortable lol.
Editing to add more. Was at the fire part, scared the heck out of me . Thought you lost your home. Unfortunate the the neighbors did. :(
Thanks for following along! We didn't have any formal training or experience when starting. Just lots of research!
Amazing job! Question- how did you guys learn the skills needed to do this build?
Imagine if our high schools showed stuff like this and how budget not owe everything to the banks. Oh yeah then the system wouldn't work and they wouldn't trap us. Great job guys I had a similar dream got the land and equipment paid off just gave up found another older home I liked and bought.
Amazing
Hey what software did you use to render? Beautiful project. Keep up the good work!
You guys are doing awesome work! When is the wedduing?
About 6 months ago, but recap video coming to the TH-cam screen shortly 😉
What did they do about adhesive for the drywall, is it just relying on the screws?
Correct no adhesive
Can you please do let us know that how much it gonna cost to build it from scratch ?
WE ARE!
Guys..where is the slowest deck!!..
Seriously awesome job. This could be a tv show, i would easily watch it.
Haha that's in the grand finale! We publish videos about every week so you can always find us there 🙂
Where do people learn how to do all of this?!
The internet 😅
@MasonDixonAcres oh lordie 😆
Any particular sources you found useful?
Build your main house out of concrete and steel studs. Fire suppression doesn’t help when fire is outside and the damage from suppression is just as damaging to home. I prefer fire prevention. Concrete ICF don’t burn.
i just know that building house is a very complex thing to do 😵💫on my carpentry course now, hope can built a house like this someday
How has the PVC siding held up? I'm between that and the james hardie smooth panel.
My worry is how easily pvc panels dent and scratch. Any issues or insight?
It's been great. But we're not tossing hammers into it if that's your use case 😆 In the full video on the board and batten I explained why we did not choose Hardie panels
hehe yeah Bro, My 98 Acura EL, Honda Civic basically, also still running at 358 000 km, Canadian eh
Woah, that was quite a scary storm. Was that just a powerful microburst? 😳
Tornado touchdown 😬
Man what’s your background? You are very talented!
Thank you! We both went to school for mechanical engineering.
@ that’s awesome! You both have done a great job! Y’all should be custom home builders!
did you need a GC license? ETC....Did county have to inspect finished work? ... Did it matter who did work as long as it was up to code? curious... Im planning on doing the same.. Im taking some carpentry classes next semester... and then buying some land somewhere... may Florida, Texas, South Carolina...lol Or maybe all .. Thanks!
This always varies by jurisdiction and inspector, but we are allowed to self perform all work since it is our own house. Everything is inspected
the shear amount of HVAC, plumbing and mechanical in this house is nuts brother... i know each state would have different climate and codes, but this is waaaaaayyyyy more than anything we do in Australia.. im also surprised you guys didnt do a basement which seems like another thing American's do..
it was definitely a lot of work! We put in several extras that you typically don't see like the ERV, dehum, radiant floor, and garage mini splits. Full sheetmetal ductwork is also not very common here anymore, it's typically fiberglass duct board and flex pipe. Can't easily do a basement under car parking, but the main house addition will have a basement
Curious on some HVAC details, is the garage area heated/cooled at all? Also maybe the siga video hasnt come out yet but did you siga majrex only the living area or the entire outer envelope?
Garage has a radiant floor and two mini splits (full videos on both) and correct the full SIGA video is coming soon but talked about it in the Rockwool videos. Encapsulated the upstairs and used some remaining for a few exterior walls downstairs
@@MasonDixonAcres thanks for the reply!
Oh, you are using rockwool insulation. Danish and high-quality.
Are you guys structural engineers?
Nope! Mechanical
I'm Australia you'd never get signed off ( certificate of occupancy ) electrical and plumbing MUST be certified by a licenced electrician and plumber. The house frame also gets inspected and signed off
We also have inspections and some jurisdictions require licensed trades, but in ours you are allowed to do your own mechanical & electrical work if you are up to it! Still has to pass the same inspection as the licensed folks
This is cool, what do you think this would cost if you paid construction workers to do all this for you?
Way more than we could afford!
Out of curiosity, why did you sub out drywall?
We would be off our rockers to NOT sub out 275 sheets of drywall 😆
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
5:17, is it just me or does that roof look wonky?
So nice to see that you didn't forget about the ethernet. That's winning right there.
True! Video on our PoE camera system coming up 👌🏼
Great job, although I think you will regret using particle board for stair treads.
Thanks! It's 1-1/8" rim board that will be covered with LVP, very stiff & no seasonal movement
only 1 thing i dont like about wooden frame houses is that one single flame bring everything down i had few incidents that kitchen catched fire, thanks everything is concrate so fire was just contained to the kitchen.
Whats up to date on your total cost, including materials, subs, and your labor?
Mean power