Wiring My Shop and Spray Foam Insulation
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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I think it's worth mentioning that a huge disadvantage of spray foam (other than the enormous cost, which seems to be less of a factor for April) is that it makes repairing/altering anything in the walls/roof nearly impossible. It also makes it impossible to find leaks. Nice shop though! It's very similar in many ways to the one I'm building, actually, though April's happens much faster. I like seeing the progress!
I'm a fan. I have now tuned my 77 yr old father in law into a fan too, and that's a break through since he barely uses a computer and has been a carpenter since the early 60's. Thanks for introducing me to french cleat shelves, my robot work shop is wall to wall in them and i'm getting ready to add them in my garage wall to wall. Keep up the good work.
I love seeing the foam expand. It is somehow very satisfying. Looking forward to seeing the next video.
100 pct totally in love. Shop is so well though out and the host is mesmerizing. just listening to the enthusiasm and dilligence is a breath of fresh air. Very nice job
helpful hint, Always run electrical gray pipe from the top of your panel up and through the top plate. This way you can always come back and add electrical runs back into your main panel easily through the attic.
Just stumbled onto your You Tube special regarding your new shop construction. It was great. Your enthusiasm is infectious. My hats is off to you. I look forward to the next steps.
My hat is also off to your family and helpers.
April -that’s is a seriously impressive build I honestly do not know how you managed it without tapping into all the expertise offered in the comments.😉
This is SOOOOOO A.W.E.S.O.M.E. !!!!!!! Just popped in to re-watch some of your older videos (mainly the wall attached fold down table) and saw these vids of your new shop. I've watched them all and now can hardly wait for the remaining ones!!! I cannot thank you enough for all your tutorials. You are very talented and are my "go-to" when it comes to online woodworking tips /tricks/tutorials. TYVM, ma'am!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your shop is so cool, how much did the entire project cost and how much did you save by doing all the work yourself?
Wow great stuff. It would be nice if you could video the electric company installing the pole, the transformer and running wire. Our son is an apprentice lineman with our local electric company and of course we think these guys are amazing. They are the unsung hero’s of our society working in all kinds of weather and have huge hearts to ensure we have power. They leave their families in time of crisis to ensure we are comfortable and have power. Thanks!!!!
Wow.
Super informative. You get more and more awesome with every video.
It has been a pleasure watching you evolve from that girl who asked "which side of the hammer is the best to use" (kidding, but not really!) to the TEACHER you are today.
Drillprsss and bench grinder
Well said and totally concour.
There's no shame in not knowing things. It's only when someone refuses to learn, that it's a problem.
It is really neat to see the evolution of your shop. The one thing I did in my shop that turned out great was to install multiple 4 ways switches to run my dust collection all around the shop.
Mine is also outside and I did not want it running all of the time to suck my conditioned air. So now all I have to do it walk up to a machine, flip the nearest switch and it goes on. If I move to another machine I can use it and then flip the nearest switch to that machine and it goes off. This was WAY cheaper than purchasing the remote or blast gate switches.
I can't wait to see how this all turns out. Your shop is going to be the envy of all your followers.
This is one of the best insulated building's I have ever seen. This is absolutely a dream shop. You have really put a lot of thought and hard work into this. This is an amazing series.
I know nothing about construction and I find your videos incredibly interesting !
My friend and I was just talking about how much did this project cost in total? Excellent work!
What an amazing structure. This facility has unlimited possibilities for creativity and manufacturing. Fantastic.
Incredible, work! This has been so much fun to watch come together. Also, I wonder if the guy who was covered in foam from shaving it back to the studs is always the new guy to the crew. An initiation of sorts. haha!
Ha, I'm not sure but either way...I would not like his job.
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Very impressive April. I'm a builder from nz with 35 yrs experience. You are very thorough and your building will love you for it. Well done 👍🏻
huge difference between this installation and the one you did in your old place.
100%
I think you were really smart to add so many electical options. You will never regret it.
I love it when a plan comes together.
Mike
So says Hannibal from The A Team!
You are the most productive woman I have ever met! Thanks for another great learning video👍👍👍😎🇨🇱
Spray foam also makes the structure more structurally sound and will have less flex than and be able to hold up better in storms.
Not to mention that is great to control the noice
Open cell foam doesn't add much for structural stability since you can poke your finger right through it.
WOW, LOT OF WORK..... I JUST SAW ALL THE VIEDOES AT A STRETCH ... MY HOME TOWN IS FILLED WITH CONCERET AND BRICKS... SO IT WAS AWESOME TO WATCH HOW WOODEN FRAME WORKS AND INSULATION SHEETS COME TOGETHER TO CREAT A WORKSPACE. I LOVE CARPENTRY AND IT WAS A TREAT TO WATCH. THANKS FOR UPLOADING IN UA-cam.. AND YOU LOOK GORGEOUS TOO...
With a cot, a microwave, and a mini fridge I could live in a corner of that shop. Add a robot vacuum and mop and all I'd need to bring is my teddy bear. lol The shop is looking great, April!
You forgot the coffee pot. ; )
Oh most definitely - coffee pot -- BIG coffee pot! lol
How about a cappuccino bar
I hope Neato will sponsor April with four robots.
Robot vacuum/coffee maker. It can keep things clean and bring you coffee.
Wow! Spray insul in a shop. Never seen that done. Nice!
A short story. I’m a retired architect/contractor and my last project was building a home for myself. I wanted energy efficient. I live in a redwood forest so solar was not an option but I spent 35k on spray insulation and big bucks on high end doors and windows. A tight structure.
So we move in. My wife owns two cats who get a lot more love than me. Those two would not use the new cats door. They had no problem with the cat door in our old house but the new one was somehow beyond their abilities. So the solution was to leave a sliding door open so the cats could come and go as they pleased. In effect my super efficient house was doing its part to heat Northern California.
April’s next project: how yo build a spaceship
April, I never see any of your videos without being even more in awe of what you have accomplished. What a fabulous shop you're going to have when it's ready to start making sawdust in it!! Thank you for sharing it with us all.
You went with open cell. Do you still have to have a vapor barrier or breathable moisture barrier? I have been researching a lot on spray foam and they always say that if you use open cell foam you have to have an extra vapor barrier and depending on where you live some kind of breathable moisture barrier that lets moisture out.
Is my understanding that S.E.S open cell doesn't require extra vapor barrier. (Its already on the B component)
Brian your wrong about the vapor barrier
I wouldnt spray foam ur sides by your wiring. Just do you ceiling. When you need to add wiring or redo the wiring later down the road its gonna be more painful to remove the spray foam than rockwool
A first timer, I thoroughly enjoyed watching your video and your shop is amazing!! I'm more than a little curious as to why the choice was made to go with open cell rather than closed cell. Like Brian, I've read a lot about the two so my curiosity is piqued.
BIG change from that tiny little garage you started in. Be careful you don't get lost in there. Congratulations... the shop is gonna be awesome.
Hi April. Your shop is really coming together nicely. I have a couple questions. First, will you be installing pneumatic lines for a air compressor and if so, will you locate the compressor outside to reduce the noise db? Second, will you be going with a one zone HVAC unit or two zone system? Just asking as I'm fascinated by your build. Thanks and I'm looking forward to your next upload. Cheers!
I personally would certainly recommend 2 zones, especially because I wouldn't want that grinding smell in my wood shop, but also because if you're only using half, why pay to cool both halfs?
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Stop Spaming
Im a carpenter from sweden. Cool to see the different ways we build! You are superfun to watch. Keep it up :-)
Will you be using LED lights? How about ceiling fans?
I'll be using The Garage Light from Big Ass Lights. : D
It's going to be "lit" as they say lol
Their "big ass fans" will fit perfectly in your shop too if you're infusing ceiling fans. Although they're on the way high price for me! Keep em' coming 💪🏻
I don't even woodwork and would never build a project of this size... But I've still been so entertained by this series.
Congrats on 600k subscribers
: ) Thank you
April Wilkerson no problem
I have watched you grow and expand your knowledge over the past 4-5 years, and am totally impressed! Lucky man, that Cody, wife with beauty and brains!
8:14 the child inside me loves that. The adult not really ^^'
In 2011, My wife and I retired and moved. We bought a few acres and needed to build our home. But I wanted a workshop. So we had it built first and the contractor recommended we spray foam it for installation. We had a steel building. We intended to live in it temporarily while our home was built. We moved into the building in September. By November, we had decided to just live in it. It's so easy to heat and cool. We are in midwest-Arkansas. We use around 800-900 kwh per month electric (we are all electric). Two months a year we may use up to double that amount. I highly recommend spray foam.
Really informative on how things are done on the other side of the ocean!
But what if there's a problem with one of the electric cables? Did you all check them before butting the insulation in? What if, in the future, there's a problem with one of the cables, do you have to take the whole wall apart to replace it? I guess that's the whole purpose of putting electric in tubes over here in Europe, you can always run new wires thru it, electric wires in contact with wood, I guess the inspector would not be happy with that in my country. Sometimes things are so differently done around the world....
Not Just Sawdust yes here in Europe you must put cables in pipes where cable is in the wall or going thru wall basicaly if you cant see cable it must be in pipe for extra protection
Just a note: In many parts of the US, building codes are quite different than in Texas. I've also been surprised by several parts of this build.
In Texas the state wide building code is The International Building Code, 2018
www.iccsafe.org/codes-tech-support/codes/2018-i-codes/ibc/
Some building jurisdictions have not yet adopted the latest building code. If April is not in a city building jurisdiction but located in a Texas county there may not be a building jurisdiction. Then the state building code applies but there is no one to enforce a the code. If you are building in a non-building jurisdiction then the only enforce may be the lender of the construction money. The state electrical code is the, NFPA 70®, National Electrical Code® (NEC®). www.nfpa.org/NEC
That's true, there is the National Electric Code but the local town or city is the one that actually administers and enforces the law, and they all tweak the code to their region.
With the insulation to keep the wire from moving, there is very little chance of something happening to the wire unless someone cuts or drills into the wall. I'd just run a new wire in that case vs tearing all that out.
You are a hero! You are the Kate Upton in building from wood
Dust mask when cutting concrete board
outthasky yes, cutting that stuff throws the finest dust everywhere. I put fiber cement lap siding on my house and quickly learned that a dust mask was mandatory.
Doing 1-2" of closed cell foam, then open cell gives you the best strength and the best air control but costs a bit more. That is how I am designing my upcoming workshop. It is remarkable to see how much you have done and been able to get through. Incredible work!
EVERYONE LETS GET APRIL TO 1 MILL SUBS BEFORE THE END OF APRIL :) SHE DESERVES IT, SO LETS GET IT, ROAD TO 1 MILL WHOOOOO
Just got a job with a big contracting and construction company in my area for the summer. (I’m still in school). I get to do this all summer and I couldn’t be more excited. Congrats on your progress!! You’re channel has been a huge inspiration to me to get more involved and take on more projects in woodworking and contracting. Thanks for making videos April!
I'm curious about the excess foam that is scraped from the walls and whether the company has a waste reduction plan for reuse/repurpose.
David S I've always wondered about that too... I would think you could chop it up a bit and use it for loose fill in some attics.
Eric Wotton i believe it loses it fire retardation rating when loose like that.
Eric Wotton - pretty sure Mike west is right about loss of fire retardant properties. My curiosity led me down a Google rabbit hole. I found a forum discussion from 7 years ago in which installers throw around some ideas. sprayfoam.com/forum/topic/use-for-overspray-shavings/1554
It is sugar based so they grind it up and sell it to Starbucks to put in their coffee
that's exactly what we did with ours. We took the remanants from our home's spray foam insulation and broke it up and scattered it in the attic of our detatched garage. While it wasn't as good as blown in insulation, it definitely helped.
If your goal is to make everyone super jealous, it’s working like a charm. So glad to follow your success. And so jealous.
the biggest difference in open vs closed cell spray foam is that open cell spray foam requires a vapor barrier, where closed cell does not. also Closed cell spray foam runs about an r 6 per inch vs the approx r3 per inch that open cell gives.
And there is the vapor barrier ?
according the ES-Report for SucraSeal it is air impermeable at 3" thickness. It is its own air impermeable membrane.
Don't forget price. That's a big difference in the open versus closed cell as well. 😜
Don't forget price. That's a big difference in the open versus closed cell decision as well. 😜
I dont have personal experience with foam. But It can be soaking in water - It was the reason that Alfa Romeo Alfasud rotted away so fast. www.aronline.co.uk/cars/alfa-romeo/alfa-romeo-alfasud/the-cars-alfa-romeo-alfasud-2/ And there was also all the sick resident of foamed houses just search for "spray foam disasters"
I just want to mentioned this as this was an add she made for this company, and only mentioned all the positive things about the product :-(
Looks really good. Only thing I'd do different is to run the wiring through flexible conduit to make it easier to alter if needed. I went to a demo on spray foam and how it is better than 'glass. They took 2 identical 8X8 sheds built using home construction methods. One got regular F-Glass and the other closed cell foam. They showed the heat losses and all the rest of the benefits. The last item was showing how the foam acted as a glue. They used a crane and lifted each shed so it was 20 feet in the air, then dropped them on a corner! The f-glass shed crumpled like nothing, the foam one sort of bounced, dropped flat and other than a slight bit of damage to the corner framing it was still usable!
I think April will not be satisfied until she has a TV series on PBS called "The New Rebel Workshop staring Norma Abrams".
I like "Wilkerdos So You Can Too" for her series name. I have been watching your videos since the very first one, and I just want to convey how proud I am of you and everything you have accomplished. Its been amazing watching you grow into something you love
I guess that April's nickname is now 'Norma'... lol That's a good one, Paulina Paulino!
Thats a great tag line. "Thanks for spending time with me, I'm April and remeber "Wilkerdos So You Can Too!"
If that ever came to be I would watch it religiously
she could take over the old spot for norman's wood shop
Shop is coming along very nicely. You can never have to many lights or electrical outlets.
Just curious April...Did you have to have the electrical inspected prior to the foam install? Great vid, thanks!
Tom Lagatol , good question.
Tom Lagatol Good question...don't know to rules in US, maybe it is allowed to 'megg' the cables. This way you can test the isolation resistance. This is how i do it with already build projects. 👍
I live out in the country where there is no jurisdiction for inspections. The electrical company will only be inspecting the pole installation work.
As a note on this, if you (as a viewer) live in a similar area with no jurisdiction for inspections, it's never a bad idea to have the work inspected even if it's not required. Of course in April's case, having two professional electricians speaks for itself so she really didn't need it, but for a DIYer learning from this video, it can't hurt to get an inspection for piece of mind :)
April, out of curiosity... did you mark as-built locations on prints for your wiring, i.e. mark on an elevation print of a wall where the wiring ran horizontally in the wall? Also, Did you label both ends of your wiring so you can easily label breakers and outlet covers with a number system or something like that? It sure makes it much easier when you can glance at an outlet cover, see the number on it, and easily locate it in the breaker panel.
BTW, I admire your work, your abilities and your "Can Do" attitude. You're simply amazing!
Really good update, April. I like how you narrate these shop videos. It provides a lot of good information in a compact video.
Why don't you use a trunking system (right word?) on the wall for your wiring instead of the wires in the wall? With a trunking system you would be much more flexible to choose the place for the outlets and it allows you to add every time additional wires.
Sorry, it is a german link, but you can see, what I mean.
www.hager.de/wandinstallationssysteme/bruestungskanalsysteme-aluminium/tehalit.bra-kanalhoehe-70-mm-oberteil-80-mm-frontrastender-geraeteeinbau/930234.htm
Rainer Lilje-Halbritter That’s a much better system, more expensive to install - but easier to install and modify.
Have such dado trunking just above table -heigth running all around the workshop. Placing all kinds of sockets whereever they are needed. In between table and french-cleat. Then regular cable conduits in the upper 30cm installation area of the walls for distribution. Only thing missing in the dado trunking are pressurised air, vacuum(negative pressure) and dust collection.
Finally you will have a shop big enough for your imagination and drive to work in and a space apropos of the heart you put into your videos. Well done.
It's silly but please use the guard on your grinder. Awesome work as always!!
Hey! Your shop is coming along nicely. You've done a great job and have showed us your many talents as well. Please keep up your courageous teaching leadership on your videos. They are great for we novice woodworkers. Hang in there crew.
I wonder what happens to all the surplus foam they have to cut off, is it usable for anything?
This is one of the issues with spray foam insulation, all the trimmings just get trashed.
A good spray foam installer won't overfill the bays. They'll know the appropriate amount to spray just so it might barely stand proud of the bays.
I would think by it's nature it must be oversprayed at least an inch or two at the thinnest spot meaning more than that in the thickest areas? Otherwise, you wouldn't get it 100% flush everywhere. Not sure a "good" installer would intentionally under fill the bays and it's impossible to get it perfect.
I'd think that some amount of overspraying is inevitable. I was hoping the surplus could be used as, say, granular loft insulation but I'm guessing that it's thermal performance is much poorer when it's not a solid mass.
It's always a treat when a new video is posted. Your new build is absolutely wonderful and I'm very jealous...but very happy for you. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us.
I'm very impressive your video from the beginning to now and more to go. I think you're the best female carpenter in the world. You're ROCK. 🤘🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🖒
Well thank you, that's kind but not true. : ) There are plenty of badass women out there who have been through years of training and real life experience but I just happen to be doing my work on a very public platform.
April Wilkerson
Well April, I see your working and I don't see them working. Lol
Yup, but you still BADASS. 🤘🖒
April Wilkerson Baby
Firstly outstanding work April... I'm an electrician in Australia and it was great to see a glimpse of how you guys do things across the pond. Keep up the great work.
Wow, the guys filing the foam down flush has a one crappy job!
Probably gets paid well though
It’s easy lol and you get paid good
Watching this with a mixture of awe, envy and anticipation of seeing it all coming together, April. This is going to be a tremendous workshop.
The only comment is “WOW”
I am pretty sure there are a lot more comments.
It's awesome to watch this project come together as each stage is completed. I love spray foam, but don't know a lot about it, so thanks for teaching us. I'm loving it! April, you rock!
Metal shop? Does that mean you are going to have metal working tools like lathes and mills etc?
Including some Clickspringing?
In a wooden house nonetheless.
Closed cell is where its at. That, or silver glow to seal off an attic. SIlver glow is more for us northerners that get snow on the roofs. Great work on all that you have done so far!
So no plumbing.
The Cynic not in the walls
Not unless she drills a well.
She could connect into her house system, unless it's too far away to be practical. It could especially be a problem for the sewer system if her septic system is uphill from the shop. Though a "lift-station" could help with the uphill problem.
Or a toilet system like they use in an RV or a camper might solve part of the problem - or a good old-fashioned outhouse nearby. And unless she wanted to do showers or wash-up, she could always bring a cooler full of whatever she wanted to drink for the day.
This place is big enough to be her home and a shop.
So is this going to be two shops one for her one for her husband?
You have spared no expense and it will be warm in the winter and cool in the summer so nice work.
No Bathroom?
She's in the great outdoors, nature's bathroom!
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2 story outhouse
Good question.
+Bryce Beatty Yup. I see all manner of trees around there. 😀
First build in the new shop, outhouse.
Our company has been using closed cell spray foam for the last 20 yrs. on mainly oil field truck bodies. Works great, can not beat it as far as insulating value and noise reduction. Great job with the electrical (been an electrician for 40 yrs.). I will not pound on you about electrical, the county codes are pretty lax. Great job April !
Sugar as a fire retardant? But sugar is extremely flammable.
It's very interesting to read about. They pass every fire rating test with flying colors.
What about mice is it critter proof?
That was kinda blowing my mind too, but a quick google search shows several patents on the idea. The sugar just one part of the chemistry. Here’s an example: patents.google.com/patent/US20130030067A1/en
Not sure about the open cell, but the closed cell is very "critter proof" due to its make up. It not only seals possible entrances, but the materials contain a component that they will not chew and repels insects.
So cool! Our 9 year old daughter really gets excited when she sees you have a new video!
Like others have mentioned, you get better with every video!
I sure wish I could afford the spray foam for my 30 X 40 shop! So glad you're build this shop!
Consider looking into Earth Tubes for heating and cooling.
No guard on the grinder!!!!!
It's kind of a concrete cutting diamond blade that's made of steel I guess ;o)
The wheel is made of steel and it has bits of synthetic diamond impregnated in it. I've got a couple of wheels like that and they work well. The problem is that April took the guard off her grinder. That's really dangerous. I know that people do that to give the tool more range, but grinders operate at a very high speed and when a disc fails it shatters in every direction. You need the guard there to keep bits of the shattered disc from flying back at you.
As far as I know steel discs don't get shattered at 11000 rpm.
Any disc can shatter. If you're using a good quality disc, rated for the size and speed of the grinder, and applying it the right way (no excessive force, and not trying to abrade with a cutting wheel or vice versa) then it's normally fine. But discs can and do fail, and the mantra of "safety first" dictates that the guard is the only thing standing between flying disc fragments and your face. I would never operate my grinder without the guard on.
Love your videos. I got my certifications for electricity, plumbing, carpentry and a couple more by the age of 18. Then after that i went and worked for a spray foam company and i thought that was fun and interesting work.
Loving watching these videos and watching the shop come to life.
Smart move. I used spray foam when we built our house and saved almost enough in a smaller A/C unit to pay the difference in price between it and fiberglass and the monthly savings are amazing.
Every time I watch these videos of your “Church of April’’ being built I am just amazed at how far you have come. You are awesome!
Thank you I am enjoying the shop build very much. I am old but have always enjoyed shows like yours I am old an can not do any work like you are doing so I build ship models. I think of you as Norma A.
This project is mesmerizing! What a huge undertaking yet all coming together so nicely. Good job April.
I spray foamed my basement when i finished it, makes a huge difference. It convinced my sister to spray foam her whole house when she renovated. Makes a huge difference and well worth the extra cost as April stated.
I also firmly believe you made the right choice on the interduct conduit for the CAT-5. It will make for far easier upgrades. If your shop is close to your home, and are considering sharing Internet connectivity, please bare in mind "ground fault differentials" - the difference between two electical systems grounding efficiency. Electric differences will follow the path of least resistance - which includes copper network wiring. Fiber optic between buildings will provide speed as well as flexibility. You can bury cheap plastic water pipe between buildings to allow for upgrading and expansion. Best wishes!
Tip for filming in messy conditions: you can get inexpensive rain covers, aka 'rain sleeves', for cameras that will protect against any dusty debris in addition to rain. Use a cheap UV filter on the lens to protect the lens element. I use these all the time doing wildlife photography in poor weather, dusty areas with high wind, and beaches to protect against salt water spray.
Thank you for the ideas on spray insulation.... WOW!!!! Am I amazed as I have watched your videos with your various shop rearranging all the time.... I am very jealous!!! Am very proud of what you have accomplished...
Fascinating! Hows it feel to have the whole country pulling for your shop project!! Nice!
Great video. I did not read through the responses here, so this may have already been said, but foam does some thing else according to a Texas A&M study done 15 or so years ago. They said foam actually increases the strength of a building by 20% or more since it literally GLUES the building together. That's good to know to windy areas.
I've been spraying foam since around 2003 or so when I bought my own machine for building Monolithic dome homes. I read everything I could get my hands on about foam. I will say this though, I have NEVER sprayed open cell foam, only closed cell foam.
I was building a dome in Siren Wisconsin back in 2000 I believe it was, when we had an EF-3 come through. The winds were around 180 mph and it killed several people. My dome I was building had JUST foam and the rebar up and NO shotcrete at all as we were going to start to shotcrete that day. The tornado took down everything around us except silos and chimney's, but the wind never hurt the dome at all with just foam and rebar. Foam is VERY strong stuff and I only use 2.5 or 3 pound foam.
I will say this, do not pay any attention to the "R" value as it really is a joke and more of a marketing thing than anything.
What you really want to know is the "K" value of insulation or its thermal conductivity. I won't go into it here as you can do your own research, but the lower the number in the "K" value, the better your insulation is at NOT transferring or allowing heat to move in or out of what we're trying to insulate.
The thing is, it is not "SEXY" as far as marketing to say I have a K value of 0.02 insulation value, but Americans LOVE big numbers, and they will always go for an R value of 40 or 60 or whatever and they have no clue what that even means in the real world, but it sure sounds cool. Bigger numbers are always more sexy in the marketing side of things, but really mean very little.
I always tell people, if NASA uses foam and tiles to insulate the space shuttle from the massive reentry heat coming back to earth, I think it's good enough to insulate your home as well, but what do I know. Keep up the great work.
April you seem like you have everything under control and like everyone else I think it is awesome. I don't know the climate where you are but I built a much more modes shop and thought it a good idea to have the dust collection and central vac outside of the main workspace. It wasn't long before I realized I was sucking huge amounts of expensively heated air or expensively cooled air and throwing it outside. Eventually had a return with a filter. A heat exchanger might be a better idea.
I like that spray foam and can see how that seals up all the cracks, so although the physical r value is almost the same, the lack of air movement probably makes a higher apparent r value. I'll bet its nice and quiet in there with a real solid igloo feeling.
That foam expanding looks like a special effect from a sci-fi film. Also the guy leveling it must have some GOOD ppe! Fascinating to watch!
This is very exciting to watch. I can only imagine how thrilled you are to be accomplishing this project. Fantastic!
That is going to be SUCH an awesome shop! BTW, your hubby is a LUCKY man!
Hey April, I watched all of your videos in a 2 day period and have absolutely fallen in love with your channel. I'm a huge DIY person as well, a tinkerer and a woodworker and knifemaker in my free time. I also build custom aerial drones and do videography with my phantom drones. Im kind of a jack of all, master of none person. I see you were cutting down some cedar trees around your shop and I'd like to make you and your husband custom slingshots from some of that wood if possible. If you are interested please let me know. I think it would be great to have matching sets of his and hers slingshots made from the woods found right there around your shop. Either way, congratulations on the new shop and such a great channel.
Very cool. Spray foam rocks. Your build site seem perfect for a solar system and a windmill too.
Binge watching April from the beginning..lol, kinda fun watching her get better at woodworking, welding, camera work, and presenting sponsors. She of course is college educated and a hard worker. Congrats so far! My favorite part is when you reference those who help you, influence you, or inspire you. To me, THAT'S the real world....you can't go it alone. Continued Success! :)
Spray foam was the smartest way to go. Good job!
Something I have done that is a little cheaper that the foam.... if you are a little more budget concerned or don’t quite have the funds for the real stuff. On a 2x6 will, cut 1/2 foam board with radiant barrier on one side. Fit it between all wall cavities and use the canned expanda foam to seal the sides top and bottom, then put in wire. Then R19 batts. I was quoted 2.25 sqft, for the foam and I was a contractor who used these guys on other peoples projects, this was my own house i was working on. Anyway, use the foam board, spray foam to seal, and Batts to provide additional protection. All total I insulated my area for .85 a sqft instead of 2.25. Just a cheaper option, but love the real stuff too. Great job, “WILKERDO”!
April, for your in-between wall, you should have used fiberglass insulation instead of cloased cells. Sound absorption is way better than and cost is lower. Keep the good work I really enjoy your videos. I'm a fan since many years now. You have your own style and it is what charecterize you.
I hate myself for having to say this , but I am so jealous of your shop right now!!! This whole process of building is very informative and fun to watch! Great job Mrs. APRIL . No wonder why you have a great following 😎
I think you inadvertently made a good choice not running your low voltage wiring before spray foam. I have seen the spray foam heat up enough during the expansion process to cause low voltage wiring (catagory cable, speaker cable) to melt. It is recommended to run these through conduit as you have done. Really nice shop!
Your really doing a nice job April but instead of doing the lights outside of the man doors with the automatic sensors on at dusk and off at dawn, consider using a standard fixture then using a programmable switch that you can either use preset times, program your own times, or override and just use on and off. Some of the newer switches now even come wi-fi enables so you can turn lights off and on or change programming from anywhere that you have internet available.
Your gonna be in heaven when your done!!! I’m proud of ya, keep it up but be safe!!
Boy you are just killing it!! I can't believe how quickly your getting things done. You are a VERY hard worker! Wont it be great when that space is done! I definitely have shop envy!
It will be the best when it's done. : D