Building a Cabin? DIY SOLUTIONS FOR PROPER CONSTRUCTION. How To Avoid Ice Dams, Condensation & Mold.
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Are you planning to build your own house or cabin? Watch this before you start and learn how to avoid potential problems. Inadequate roof ventilation can cause condensation, Ice dams, leaks and black mold. In this episode, I show you how I deal withe these issues.
Homesteading off the grid and on the mountain certainly has its challenges but there's no place we'd rather live. We restored the old camp and transformed it into a cozy home for ourselves, then we cleared more land, built a workshop and greenhouse and spent the late part of the winter starting seeds and now we're busy planting our first garden on the mountain. Little by little we're reaching our goals of having a self sufficient homestead.
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i must say that your FRANKY AND THE BOSS theme song has to be the best tune on youtube. speaks volumes of a man and his faithful friend to the end........ jim in central florida
Love the bunny in it! Bunnies are the best!
I agree!!!
Great
Comment! Saying what I’m thinking
God bless my friend
I had to laugh when you said it can always be worse. A true statement JC if I ever heard one😅
Plus, the birds were singing away whilst Jim was chipping away...
The best way to eliminate the problem is to avoid the problem.
Good backwoods logic
❤positive grateful thankfulness is awesome... Not complaining just venting😉😂❤🇺🇸 God bless
I love how you explain everything! Common sense may have died all around us but it is alive and doing well at your place :)
The old dog for the road and the pup for the puddles!
Thanks for sharing Boss Enjoyed the video dogs jumping on bed made me chuckle and everyone commenting about bubble foil are on to something that would be another great video but I’m a bubble foil nut since you turned me on to it God bless see you on the next video
""TO FUNNY Tildy jumping on the bed!!!""🤣🤣🤣
I enjoyed your vlog.
Thanks Camera Lady Lori. 👍
Great video Boss. Like that deer on the wall. Nice one.👍
Always look forward to you educational videos!
Most definitely I do metal roofing for a living and there’s a shit ton of people who should see this video keep up the good work
One of your biggest fan. Nice to see you guys.👍👍👍🇨🇦❤️
(JF ) it's just good backwoods logic. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Boss, get that cabin fixed - I’m looking forward to your new build over the mountain.
Love seeing the babies! I need the fascia on my house redone and have no idea who to call. Take care!
A siding/trim guy may be able to cap it with the same color metal and you'll never have to worry about it again.
@@augustreil Yes metal not vinyl.
I always learn something from each of your videos. Love how the kids love your bed! LOL
That was some thick ice! Thanks for the info. Thank God spring is tomorrow!
I’ve just been educated again, by watching the Boss on YT. The best channel on the Tube. Thanks Jim! Stay safe and best of health to you and Lori.
Amen 🙏 you got that right!😊🙏🙏Janie D
I love watching your videos I always learn something. So a thank you is in order. Thank you!!. Keep the videos coming. Please show Tillie and Franky more if you can. Hello to the Mrs. God bless stay safe and warm on the mountain.🌹♥️🇺🇸
Good to know. I will use this information as I build this summer. Thank you.
Amazing info. Simply love the ending "Franky & the Boss" song. Keep up keeping up.
Your looking GREAT! That awesome New Hampshire atmosphere is doing wonders for ya!
thanks pal good stuff
thanks, never knew about the rafter vents.
Always helpful information that helps us amateurs!
Always informative. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and humor. Great video
Sooner or later things catch up with you! That's the way it goes with me. There is always something to do at the homestead. Boss, you're spot on with the solution. If I was there in good weather, I would help put up some tin on your roof, but as it goes now, I am in the tropical weather with my toes in the "sand" so to say!!! Good info and glad it all worked out. You, Lori, and the kids, stay safe and stay blessed...
Now I understand why the electrician said I had a hot roof. I never understood what that meant. Thank you!
What's daddy doing? Tildy... "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know!"
Thanks for the education 👍👏😎 Great to see the Pup’s 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾👋
Informative JC. Thank you. I am disappointed "bubble foil" wasn't mentioned!
Wow I dealt with ice dams in Colorado forever best way I found is to build a cold rack on top of the roof insulate the bottom of the roof and let the cold rack keep the roof from leaking but then again I was in Vail and tell you right and steamboat springs and different world there. Very good way of doing that boss.
Mark liss
Another interesting and informative video from the boss. Take care everyone
You know I will probably never in my life need this information.
Nonetheless I still find it really interesting.
Lookin good Boss!! You are an inspiration!!
Thanks J.C. That was a real good one.
Jim, I swear both of us learned construction from the same person. Awesome explanation of ice dams and how to properly ventilate a roof. I was however waiting for the blow torch to come out to melt the ice.
Love that your thinking about the wild life. I had a wood pecker putting holes in my wooding clapboard looking for the flies hibernating, and it was noticeable damage, so the wife told me I’m going to have to shoot him(male) but I didn’t have the heart to do so. I just threw my glove at him and hope he finds food somewhere else. Never thought a woody wood pecker would get into trouble! Childhood cartoons. All the best. Great advise again bud!
You could open an online school, Boss. This information is invaluable for folks like me with no winter experience. Really appreciate. Thank you.
Great info, i agree with every bit of it!
Appreciate your videos and sense of humor Boss and Lori. Looking forward to seeing more adventures and the beautiful nature around y'all. Seeing the Happy Place puts a huge smile on my face. In our thoughts and prayers. God Bless y'all and the kids✌❤😁
Great video, thanks!
We need a new bubble foil video ASAP. 😂😂 J/k.. continue to: M.O L.G.A ✌️🇺🇸
With what " R" rating 😂
Go. back thru the older video's there are plenty of them. I love looking at them about every other year cuz there is always something I missed before!
Stock prices through the roof baby !!! L0L
I've never seen or heard of that pink vent material before I'll def look into it
The roof almost made it thru the winter! Spring starts tomorrow morning!
This video is gold , great info !! Thanks for sharing your insulation knowledge !! 👍🙏
Hi Boss as always I’m happy to see you. Thank you for explaining how to use the venting material. I’m glad the leak stopped. I will use ice and water shield when I replace my roof this summer as well as continuous soffit vents. My vents are about 4 feet apart will change the soffits. Thanks again Boss God bless you and yours.
Love your stuff Boss. Here's the problem. Here's how it happens. Here's how you fix it. By the way, this was done before I was born so it ain't my fault. From growing veggies, building green houses, clearing land, cast iron cooking and care and more. This is the place to enjoy and learn. And? You can laugh along the way with voice over squirrels talking, dogs playing and more. And? They care for the wildlife. You're the complete package where I'm off, partial grid, or totally on the grid, you show an easier way of life. Thanks for sharing.
Another good video thanks for sharing again. Blessings y'all
Another timely video, I used to work for a roofing company handling hail and storm claims, supervising roofing crews and selling new roofs. You made roof repairs, maintenence and new construction quite interesting. The vast majority of people I dealt with could have cared less about the details, they had a check from an insurance company that didn't cover the repairs, so I would go to the insurance carrier and get more $$$ to properly fix things.
Thanks Jim. Very timely and good sense. Saving this video because I'm going to need all those materials and now I know where to buy them. Just follow your links.
Thank you for this video :-) 👍⛷👍
I agree about the ice dam prevention. When I had my house totally reshingled about 5 years ago, the roofer quoted a price that included 3 feet of ice dam protection. I asked for and got 6 feet of protection for about $150 more. Cheap protection, in my book, as I only have a 6 inch pitch on my hip roofed ranch house. Had bad ice dams this winter, about 3 feet high, but no leakage whatsoever!
hind sight is 20 20 with what we should have done but some times life just gets in the way it will all come out in the wash lol no problem to tell you are no dub be sure to duck i am sure some one will take a shot at ya have a good one
I put a metal roof on 17 years ago. First I put 2x3 stringers lagged into the planked cathedral roof and then dropped 2 inch foam insulation into the bays. That left a space between the foam insulation and the metal roof that was fastened to the 2x3. Prior to the metal roof there was no insulation. It is a three season cabin. This method might work for you.
That's called a ''Cold Roof'' and works great.
We are suppose to get some warm weather this week. It's gonna feel so good!!
What a wealth of knowledge you have. Thank you for sharing and explaining.
Well stated.
I live just around the corner , and I've been watching for some time now and thought I would just say Thankyou for the entertainment and knowledge you share. Live free or Die
Glad you enjoy my ramblings :-)
That made my weekend thanks boss
Thanks for the great advice! Im the ice dam king at my cabin LOL ....Is that "off grid" ice shield? LOL :)
Thank you Good Mindset as usual an could ALWAYS be WORSE!! You always are sooooo lnspiring an uplifting!! Soooo Happy to see kids an Tildy a true talker!! Tells you what she wants!! Pray roof Good to go!! God Bless you an Lori an PUPs an Health!!🙏🙏🙏Janie D😊
I'm going to be building a garage / work shop this summer up on our property in the mts here in S.KOREA. This vid really opened my eyes to the need for proper ventilation. Thanks much !!!
Glad to see yall surviving your cold winter. Need another puppy video soon please.
Thanks Boss!! You two lovebirds take it easy ! Peace to all...💜💙💜
That whole video was over my head 🤪
Good advice, I used to be a roofer, I don't envy you.
I really love having such a great channel to watch. Being able to learn something new every time is such a huge asset in itself. But with JC and Lori, it's like having an extended family. This is definitely a family friendly channel.
Thank you my friend :-))
you always make it sound so simple
Thank you Boss, Have a great weekend. Hugs from Oklahoma
Shite happens, life ain’t fair, but it always could be worse!!
Like the Pillsbury Doughboy says: “It’s nice to be kneaded!” Keep at it, there’s always something!
Good luck replacing the old roof. Since you are always busy as a beaver anyway, it works with the help of Mrs. Lori. In any case, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you🪄💫☘️
Take a sock and fill it with rock salt and lay it over the ice dam. No damage was done and it will melt the ice. Easy fix,
So many people do this wrong even contractors I bought a place all jacked up luckily it's a spare garage/ cabin that was used while our new place was being built. I don't heat it in the winter so no problem but I need to redo the roof but at 63 I'm not feeling like slugging plywood on the second story roof alone. I temporarily solved by removing the ceiling and insulation and put bubble foil and 2 inch foam board insulation in place of ceiling. This leaves a 6 inch air gap. Someday I'll fix it right.
Great information as usual!
I was a roofer for 50 years and nobody really understood why ice dams form and I would explain exactly what you just explained, you just did a fantastic job explaining it and I couldn’t have done it better myself what i used for an ice melt after I chiseled a small channel in the ice dam is a pet friendly ice melt or Road Runner brand icemelt which is sold at Home Depot once again you did a great job explaining to the average person how this works and why it doesn’t work and how it will work if insulated and vented properly thank you
Seems like a very precarious plate balancing act to get this condensation thing at bay. Thanks boss for shining some light on it.
Love your contagious, mysterious, Dracula laugh at beginning of video explaining putting off the roof project and the leak. I get a kick out of that all the time on your vids. I am going to cry when I have seen all your vids. I do so enjoy you as a host and enjoy the nature in your backgrounds.
Oh, after searching 5 liquor stores, I finally got some corbett canyon pinot noir. I am not a dry wine person but I sure would give you the new box.
Spring greetings to you and Lori and the kids.
Thanks Boss! Wish you would have come out with this in 2015! Sending this to my contractor! All the best
Such good, instructional information. Much can be learned from Off Grid Homesteading with the Boss of the Swamp. Thanks for sharing.
We used asphalt based corrugated roofing panels , about 4x5 size.
Fast install, can be done with one person. The surface has self ventilation built in.
The ice and water block layer is an awesome product.
You may be smiling now, but wait until you get to the building supply store. Building material prices have, pardon the pun, gone thru the roof. Not only that, many materials are in short supply. My water heater just schooled me on long term plans. I was going to replace it last summer, then decided it could wait until this coming summer. Well, it decided to go on Monday morning. Thankfully I caught it at the start and minimized the water damage. It's always something.
I just put a metal roof on my house damn it was high but iam done with it
The Boss and ole Danny, always giving out the knowledge!!,,,
Nice job again Jim. God Bless you,🙏🍀🙏🍀🙏🍀
Everytime I see it and its aging naturally, Im so glad you chose the cedar shake siding! :)
Me too!!
Great info, thanks... sharing on MeWe!
All you have to do is breach the dam and let the lake behind it drain off the roof. I have used electric heat cables installed before winter to prevent ice dams although these are not feasible when you are off grid.
If I get an ice dam I will fill a nylon stocking with rock salt and lay it on top of the ice dam perpendicular to the dam. Overnight it will melt a channel through the dam and the lake will drain. I don't worry about poisoning the critters. They usually know what's good for them. I still get a chuckle when I think about the look my dog gave me the first time he jumped into the ocean instead of one of our fresh water MN lakes and tried to take a drink.
I would not physically remove the entire ice dam unless the roof is structurally failing. When you break up the ice a big heavy chunk may break loose. If some shingles are frozen into that chunk, the weight of the chunk will rip the shingles off the roof. If you have to remove the ice, the way you showed is the best.
At least you have a source for nylon stockings. I get some very strange looks when I have buy some.
Curt
I read this on computer about the nylons filled with salt and it does help . 👍
Camping this weekend i had to to go to the camp store to get more ice for my beer lol thanks for the videos boss 👍
Always a great video with full explanation. My husband usually handles that type of building and insulation but it gives me relief to see him glued to the instructions you give as well. I laughed at all the blue Maxwell house plastic containers. We have had so many over time I finally had to start giving them away as we don't have much storage here to store them but in time, as we add more buildings and more shelving then we will be back at it. I use a super big one to store our coffee grounds and egg shells until I walk out to compost them. Today we got our second load of sheep manure from a Jacob sheep farm for free, we emptied their feeding and sleeping shed in two days of labor for an elderly couple. They were super pleased with what we accomplished for them. We were super pleased with the garden gold. I have been planting already outside as well. I just put straw on top but my greenhouse is growing great stuff to be put out when I get more beds going. We are in zone 7 so have longer growing seasons than NH. I am going to help a neighbor half an hour away with her garden and she is gifting me with some blackberry and elderberry startings. There are many ways to barter labor for what you need. I send blessings to you and Lori and the puppy poodles. That bed dance was glorious. juanita mae
I still have 18" of snow on my garden area. Not fair!!!
@OFF GRID HOMESTEADING With The Boss Of The Swamp ha ha your place is so beautiful and all that snow is going to seep down into your garden goodness and YIELD like crazy. Many in my area have not started their gardens yet but I am doing things that love it when colder for starts like peas and mulch heavily with straw. I am also not afraid of failure because I try many methods and learning this homestead in our second growing season. I was reading last night Psalm 65:10 You (God) drench the plowed ground with rain, melting the clods and leveling the ridges. You soften the earth with showers and bless its abundant crops~~~~and then in vs 13 reminded me of the sheep farm I went to yesterday~~~~~The meadows are clothed with flocks of sheep, and the valleys are carpeted with grain. They all shout and sing for joy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~blessings boss, juanita mae
Great example of venting a roof. Simple sketch,great detail, and obviously you have learned from mistakes. I really appreciate your content.
"learn from my mistakes" Boy you're not kidding there haha.
bummer...no damage priceless !
Hope you have seen the back-ass of winter,or at least the snow part .
A few nice days in a row will give you a whole new perspective,
And a brand new list of to -do's .
keep em coming Boss 🛀🐎
Please keep the videos coming. As long as I can live my dream by watching your videos. Thank you so much.
Unless you use Ice & Water Shield under the metal roof. YOU will have leaks due to the rubber gaskets on the screws when using Barn steel, with the ribs. Standing Seam Steel won't leak because the screws are consealed. I would also assume using the new Steel Shingles would have consealed screws. I have barn steel on my single story roofs and now they are leaking. No one in my area of NW Wisconsin does roof sealing, so I guess I will have to replace the barn steel with something else.
I fix leaking metal roofs in Texas.
The rubber grommets on the screws rot or the person who put them in torqued them to tight.
Search for a product called NP1. It is a commercial grade urethane sealant.
There are several colors.
Ace Hardware sells it here.
Wear clothes you do not mind ruining. The stuff will not come out.
Get a GOOD caulking gun.
Wipe the dirt off around the hex heads.
Shoot a spot of NP1 on top and then wipe around and seal the screwheads.
Do this to every screwhead.
After 24 hours run a water test on the roof and see if it leaks.
Flood each screwhead.
If it does you missed a spot. Fix it.
While up there check the roof stacks and other penetrations for damage.
The plastic roof stacks have a rubber ring around the pipe.
They will rot over time.
One fix is to NP1 a new gasket ring.
A little bit of gasoline will get NP1 off the skin.
BUBBLE FOIL BUBBLE FOIL BUBBLE FOIL!! Hey Bless You Boss Lori and Pups! Always Love Your Videos! Stay Safe You Guys! Joe & Kelly
Always love your tips, keep them coming.
Great stuff my friend! Great insight as you always make DIY projects easier to understand and full of good common sense.
Thank you my friend :-)
Good to see ya Boss! Love your building tips!
Thanks for the ice dam explanation and solution. I have water damage to my home b/c of this. What a mess! Also it was clever of you to tape plastic sheeting so the water could drain into the bucket on inside floor. As you say it could have been worse.You always teach me something. Thank you for the information. Tildy makes me smile, stay well!
Great information James! Keep living the life! Your friend in South Alabama!