Installing our DIY Insulated Barn Board Door on our Root Cellar
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- We are installing the DIY insulated Barn Board door on our Root Cellar and finishing up some of the trim work.
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Man Glitter! I love that! You are so productive! I love watching you complete so many projects. You set the homesteading bar so high.
You had me worried for a minute! Glad Gina was home to open the door. Lol... man glitter😎
😂 when Gina saves you! Good thing you didn't panic!
Thank you AL for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👨👩👧👸👕👓🐩🐈🌱🐔🐓🐥🏡🎥👍👍👍
10:38 "hip check it". I love it. You know your wife is a hockey fan when you tell her to hip check it, and she knows what you are saying! Lol. Keep up the good work!
Another great job Al! Man glitter hahaha. Have a Great Monday Lumnah Acres! God Bless
Oh my gosh! Man glitter! Love it! We had the same issue with our chicken coop. Spent hours trying to fix it only to realize we didn't have support beams on and it wasn't squared off! Lol! Live and learn!
Hoodie looks awesome! Great job on the root cellar.
Hi Al, congratulations on building your refrigerated room. You always show a great example of how your plan comes together. God Bless.
It looks so sturdy, could probably double as a storm shelter too!
I hadn't seen this video yet. I was thinking you needed a handle so you could get out agsin! One job that shouldn't be for when you are the only one at home! Glad Gina was there!
That door turned out realy big! Looking great Al! :)
Thank you for sharing getting locked in... I thought stuff like that only happened to me! xoxo from Arizona
Super Job Al ! I like the lip edge you nailed on the inside of the door and then trimmed the outside of it to prevent the cool air to escape. So now for the air exchange. I've seen systems with PVC pipes work wonders. Anxious to see how you're going to do your air system... You keep making it and I'll keep watching it. Have a good day :)
Awesome job Al. Good thing Gina was home to get you out laffs. Man Glitter?? Love it!
Good thing Gina was I would have been down there for awhile! Lol
Looking good Al !!
It may have been said before but trimming the inside border board. I learned the hard way too. Great fix !!!
Because of the thickness of the door, one could slightly bevel the mating edge of the door and the frame opening to prevent that swing gap problem. Seeing you run into that is helping me avoid that on a similar door I plan to build. My remaining challenge is that standard doorknobs and latches aren't designed for such a thick door. I may have to have a notch where the door is thinner to accommodate, or find hardware intended for thick doors.
Glad Gina was there to save the day!
Me too! :)
Hey Al next time maybe you could angle the knob side door frame to have the door wedge together just a thought. Its all gonna shrink and twist anyway so you will be back, and I have found a wire rope from bottom knob side to the top hinge side with a turnbuckle can pick up the door from knob side bottom rubbing. Good cool room may want more cfl bulbs or led less heat.
Great project I like the room that you made for your root cellar talking about holes that you have to manage if you screw hole and you no longer use it but it’s still affecting your hinge a good way to actually recover from that is actually use golf tee pound it into the hole cut it off and then re screw your hole with no problem of your hole or hinge tilting for the door placement
Loved watching your problem solving process, which is always enjoyable and your level of patience is always admirable. I wondered whether you might get trapped along the way, which was entertaining. Walk in coolers / freezers also employ that sort of overlap method for the heavy doors, I think. The _'man glitter'_ comments were a classic! :)
Man glitter- love it. My husband used to tell his young friends to drip a little diesel oil over their shoes so that the young ladies would know that he was a working man and had a secure job.
Love it!
Great job. I knew you would figure it out. Thank you for sharing.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR WONDERFUL FAMILY!
Thanks! Merry Christmas to you as well!
You're a GENIUS!
The cave is looking awesome!
Man glitter, oh my gosh, I love it! 😂
aloha! at first i was going to suggest a strip of weatherstripping(or something similar) on the outside for the door gap. you see it on walk in fridge/freezers...but having watched the rest of the video.. i like your idea better, looks nicer too!
Very cool room.
Man glitter, made my day!
hi good morning beautiful family Al it's always a pleasure watching you work and i know the root cellar is going to look just as good as the off the grit outdoor kitchen i'm expecting some great exciting carpentry and finishings videos to come Al and i know your going to deliver the best work ever. hi good morning Gina and Olivia enjoy both your day today and you to Al, hi Mr. Biggs, Andy and Rufus .till tomorrow same time same place God bless beautiful family bye. 💕💕💕💕💕🚺😘😘😘😘😘😘😘🐕🐈🐓🐔🐔🐔🐔🐖🐖🍎🍎🍏🍏🌱🌲🌿🌽🌾🌻⛅🏡🔨.
Always the confident d i y....Al you're a good model to follow in making useful necessary upgrades to the home.👍🐖😗
I really love following lumbah acres. I like seeing projects and watching the progress.
take a look at a walk in fridge and you will see the door is made with a 45 at the edges. This makes the seal and prevents the gaps. What you have done works, that's all that matters. Good job. Although you should have asked me first. LOL
Where were you when I was making the door! LOL
When we built our Mt home I had an 8' X 8' drive in door and a 4' X 8' walk in door in the basement. I used the 4' for everything that I could.
I only used the 8' for the tractor or trailer load of wood. My wood stove was also in the basement so I wanted the doors to be insulated.
They were built out of 2x4s like yours. Outside was 3/4" t/g cedar insulated and luan plywood inside. I also had trouble on the 4' door like
u did. I built the closing side on maybe a 4-5 degree angle and make a rubber seal. The 8' door was 2-4' doors that swung out, cedar outside,
luan inside. When I made these doors I put a matching 5 degree angle so u closed one door and then the other door closed with no gap. The outside cedar fit so close that u had to be close to the door to see where the door split. I made my own hinges and inside latches, when we left to come home the doors were locked from the inside. Also the doors were very heavy, so I put cables from the top hinges down to the far corner
Wow. The cave is looking good!
I had no worries...cause I know if all else failed, you’d have just take the screws from the hinges and....free man, with glitter! How about forest green in some clothing? You are in the great north woods after all!! Nice work...as usual!!
I will be adding more colors to the shirts, I like forest green. Man glitter will stick out good on that color.
Lumnah Acres we’ll make it look gooooooood Al!!
Nice job!! I had the same problem one time. Problem solved 👍
Boy that brought back memories only I didn't have a phone to call for help - I pulled the hinge pins & pushed the door down! Man glitter?!? - it's not just for men! Give me sawdust over glitter any day!! I was wondering why you made such a thick door for a slider - I thought I heard you say you were building one. I was beginning to think you created some sort of slider that air locked in place! There is a lot of top gap with sliders & then you wouldn't have been able to wake Gina up to hip check you out! Yeah Gina!! Classic!!
I planned on a sliding door at first but then changed my mind.
Loved the video especially when you got trapped...I'm glad it isn't just me that does that kind of thing...the trim on the outside of the door would look great if you took a torch and scorched it...then it would match the patina of the rest of the wood...keep up the good work
If you take What they put on the Bottom of a Garage Door , you could use that for the Gap on the Door.never mind great Idea .
Great episode today. Will be exiting to se what temperature you get in there and what kind of vent you put in. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden
... about a 7 degree angle cut on the outside latch side of the door will make it close perfectly, if I remember correctly ... it may be 8 degrees for a 6" thick door ...
thanks
Great job Al, it's looking like a real cold storage unit now! You could try adding some weather stripping in between the door & the gap on the door frame if the gap is too big for just 1 piece you could add it to both the door & frame so they come together at the same spot when closed! Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!!🌲🌲🌲
Al, you are a very handy guy. You think ahead, always looking at the future. You make projects look easy, but I know the projects are not that easy to accomplish. Al, you have sure taught me a lot of tricks with construction. In The Philippines we get a carpenter for about $5 to $6 a day, (not an hour, but a day). I watch the carpenters there like a hawk. Then in Texas I can do my own work. Your hints really are worth watching the whole video. I am looking forward to the 20,000 subscriber. By the way, I thought you would open the door out of, and not into the cellar. That way you would have had more space inside the cellar. How did you determine which way to have the. Door open and close? God bless America.
Jim Claire .
We wanted more room in the basement. Lol
Good morning Al, I will be curious to see how much adjusting you will need to do in the spring/summer when the humidity returns. I thought it was very funny to have Gina save you from your own cave! I hope it won't be able to be closed and locked from the outside, that could be dangerous!
I will have to make an escape hatch out the window! :)
Man glitter ,utter brilliance!
So the furnace in the background is back up heating? I notice it has no duct work, so must work on same principle as your wood furnace, heat goes up the staircase and then back down the cool air vents. 😎
it looks brilliant Al !! and the trim finish it off a right treat !! i wounder what temp will it hold now in the winter months and what will it hold spring and summer time ??
Looking good! I am definitely not a carpenter so I'm wondering if there is a benefit to having the door open to the inside? I would have put it opening to the outside so I'm trying to learn your thought process or reasoning? does it matter? or just a personal preference thing?
I have it open in that way we can stack stuff on the outside walls and not worry about blocking the door
My thoughts were that the door will take up room opening in and limit the amount of space inside. To go to that much work, I would want as much room inside as possible. But, it's a matter of preference, I guess. Good job!
I love the term man glitter
Ok, that one busted me up; getting "locked" inside the root cellar.
Replacing the incandescent bulb with a florescent or LED bulb will reduce the heat generated when the light is on significantly.
I think that's awesome that you added the Amazon shop I love amazon and my boyfriend's always wondering were you got certain tools this is really helpful thank you
Would like to build the same cold room. Question please. If I was just keeping potatoes, carrots, cabbage. Do think it would be cold enough without the AC unit ? I’m living in Ontario Canada.
Merry Christmas to you and the family. Regards.
You might consider adding the one-by trim on the inside of the door, at the top and bottom making a dead air space on three sides. But I'm sure you'll have it figured out by tomorrow's video. xoxo from Arizona.
Lol man glitter 😂 I love it
man glitter was cool but the best was the rescue by your wife the fact that she knew what a hip check was, was the best!
Looking great. How far under ground is your basement?
On that side it is around 5 feet under ground
since you like to experiment....Try 2 pipes say 3 inch or so. Install 1 as high as you can in the window, and the other as low in the cave as you can. Terminate both pipes outside at same level but away from each other. (Screens and such as needed, not sure what is on the other side of window) If geothermal transfer is not enough you could then add an exhaust fan to move cold air in and hot air out.Remember hot air rises cool air falls!
I like your thinking! My gears are just a spinning!
Do you ever have trouble with your rough lumber warping? We mill our own, but my husband hates using it in the house because it warps and twists in the dry heat. Any tips to prevent this?
How long do you let the wood air dry outside for?
On logs I think it is one inch a year. Drying slow seems to be the trick. The ends are most important to slow down.
We’ve tried a few different ways. We’ve milled fresh cut wood and dried it for about 2 years with spacers between each board (we were expecting this to be our best bet) and that warped pretty bad once we brought it in (we made shelves). That was hemlock and pine. We tried leaving the log with painted ends and air drying for a few months after milking and that didn’t work. That was a thick 2-3 inch slab of black walnut that we used for a butcher table. We have other various wood out there now that’s been drying for years but he’s hesitant to use it. We’ve used fresh milled wood for siding on our cow run ins, chicken coop, smoker and coolbot cooler. That’s all been great...but all outdoors. He’s talked about building a solar kiln to see if that would help, but we don’t have the funds to devote just yet.
Thank you for sharing this and being real about your hiccups. It gives a more honest presentation of the lifestyle than is often seen in homesteading related media. Btw, I'm stealing "man glitter". You're starting a fad!
Typically the leading edge of a door has a 2 to 3 degree bevel in order to swing properly. That bevel (carried out across the door thickness) is what has created your gap. Originally you were thinking about doing a sliding door. What changed your mind? It would probably have been easier to create an overlapping sliding door on the front combined with a swinging interior door, leaving a bit of an air chamber between them. Both could have less bulk and then you would still end up with a good seal as well as good insulation qualities. If you want to seal your current gap the work around is to make the edge of the door frame also have a bevel to match the door with the front exterior edge thick and the interior edge thin. That way when they meet up it will be similar to a lap joint made when joining flat stock end to end. Did that make any sense? At any rate ... you overcame the problem in the end and it looks great!
As Thunder pointed out the latch side of the door should have had a few degree bevel .. And if you want a tighter fit cut the door frame at the same bevel..and a channel around the outer side of the door a door seal could be added with room to be compressed..
and in the interest of sealing the doors r-value
The top of the door top and top of the frame could be cut with the same degrees of bevel..
Bwahahahahaha! MAN GLITTER! HAHAHA. That's great. Door looks awesome! Blessings!
you got your work out today. Carpenters gym.
Discs at Farm and Fleet, Fleet Farm, Home Depot, Menards
Our forefather used planes to fit doors...LOL.
Lol love the man glitter, lol
My wife said: "He'll probably get stuck in the root cellar....". 15 seconds later.... lol
Bwaa ha ha ha! Man glitter! 🤣 I love it!
I think Gina was hoping you close door and get stuck in and her and daughter would go to town for treat. Lol
This was worth watching to hear about man glitter.
I think that opening the door inward may be a mistake limits room inside root cellar.
10:58 What is this tool?
I’d have put the door on the other way. Pull open the door from the outside.
lol man glitter!!
Wouldn't putting the chest freezer in the cave make sense? Wouldn't it have to work less in a colder environment?
It would but the motor would also put off heat and warm up the cave
I have a journeyman electrician staying with me. His suggestion is LED lights in the root cellar. They do not produce much heat and last for a very long time. Also a large door handle on both sides. LOL!!!!
Hi Al curious for the summer how your cellar will do also bet Gina is your super hero now my wife calls you the Nutty Professor
I've been called worse! Lol. We will have to wait and see how cold it will stay
You were at 999 likes had to give you one so it was an even 1000. lol
That's why 1x2 door stop exists.
You got to get your self a power plane or at least a big belt sander...
We do.
Tip from an old timer put a bird net over ur cabbage no moth will get in cabbage r safe
Is that for when we are growing them?
Lumnah Acres yes when u put them in ur garden put a bird net over no moth will get to them
I like the man glitter. If we lived next door to each other you could use my electric hand planer that I never use anymore.
Thanks!
In a refrigerator the 15 (?) watt light bulb staying on is enough to over ride the refrigerators cooling effect..
That being said i like to put tattle-tales to remind me and my customers.. The light is still on...
Easiest way is to wire another light to the inside light.. And install it on the outside of the door...
If it's on...you forgot..which is easy to do..we all make mistakes..
only liers don't make mistakes..
Sence this project is a cooling unit..
I might have put a channel in the door stops .. so door seals would have a place to compress...then the door would have a double seal..
Hello??....hello???....is anyone out there??.....hello..... Next time maybe you should take a phone in with you!!!
My hubby also loves wearing his man glitter.Lol
LOL@ "man glitter
LOL