 Well, you see that? Those are the floors, and these are the floors here. Today I'm going to be installing the rest of the floors, which I learned from Ronnie. So thanks again, Ronnie. There's a saying in life. One door closes, another one opens. So I just want to share my excitement and enthusiasm. I finished my Instagram sponsored post series. The company that paid for 10 pictures. I finally, finally got the 10th one up. It's actually a beautiful picture of me standing here eating some pizza. Watching a movie. I cleaned up the bus for that picture, by the way. So yeah, I've been having more companies get a hold of me to take pictures, to help them advertise, to market, help them get the word out. For that age old question I always get, how do you make money on the road? That is how I am making money right now. In the past I've also had sponsorships and web series work. Actually, you know what? Let me link a web series below. And that video is how I ended up in a school bus. For the first time in my life I actually had savings, substantial savings, enough to gamble and take a risk and just go for something. And this is what I chose to go for, the bus life on YouTube. So anyways, let's get started on the floor. Alright, so just to wrap this up and reiterate, I cut through the floor to access the hole in the tank where you put the hot fox. Heated fuel, pickup. This is going to be a tight squeeze. First cut, well I didn't measure, right? So anyways, first cut, second cut, we put it all together, no big deal, no waters coming through here, nothing to worry about. I just would have preferred to have a proper correct cut. But you know, look, it's life. It doesn't always work out the way you think it will. You know, I just got to figure out how to get this one back in here. There we go. Okay, there we go. Easy peasy. I went to the hardware store and instead of buying a $20 piece, I actually got a scrap piece. So yeah, that'll just go under the flooring. Hopefully that doesn't mess with anything. This will be, you know, it's under the bench seat. So I don't even know how important it is to have it precise, perfect. Because nothing, nothing's ever going to go down here, but part of me does feel like I should at least screw this down or something. This is sitting higher than it was before. Also, on the topic of, you know, making money, whatever, posting things, I got another offer. So if anybody doesn't already follow me on Instagram, if you are on the app, come on over and say hi. If you see a sponsored post, don't be afraid of it. You know, leave a comment or something because, you know, that keeps me on the road and it doesn't cost you a cent. Because I'm doing all the work. Anyways, let's get this floor wrapped up. Alright, through the magic of movie making, I drilled these into a little nailer stud, whatever you're going to call it, a piece of wood, cut the foam, added wood, wood, foam in the middle, and then screwed and secured. Now, I already made my cuts. I cut off the, we'll call it the tongue side of it. We have the, well it's more like ship lap. The tongue that sticks out, the edge that sticks over, the tongue that sticks up again, and then I cut this flat. I'm not matching it to the rest of the wood, just because, I don't know, whatever. It's not that big of a deal. It's very close though. There's a seam there and seam there. No one's ever going to open this thing and say, well, I noticed your floors don't match the rest of the floors. That's not the point. This is for storage. So, anyways, so yeah, this is all ready to go. I'm going to follow Ronnie's previous recommendation. I'm going to do the same thing as the other video where I think it's titled, the correct way to install floor in an RV van, school bus, etc. We're doing silicone and tapping it in, like Happy Gilmore, tap-tap, tap-eroo, just tap it in. So, that's what we're doing. It will not float. Ronnie, the flooring professional, been doing floors for a long time, recommends to use silicone. Are there other opinions out there on the internet? We all know the answer to that. So, if you say, well actually, well, just don't. There we go, guys. On this edition of Jack's Learns Things, you've got the first one in. Now I'm just going to repeat for the next three rows, and then do the same over here. Well, would you look at that? Looks pretty good, huh? I'm going to wait and do that back edge because this is a pretty tricky system here. I don't have a pole device, and I think I'm going to trim up that little corner right there. So, yeah. Pretty easy, you know? If anybody saw the previous video and thought to themselves, so crap, I don't know how to do that. That guy's a professional. Yes, he is. Yes, he was nice enough to show all of us how to do it, including myself. And, yes, you can do it yourself, just like I can do it myself. It's always good to learn how to do it first. So, pretty straightforward, guys. Silicone. Don't cut the wrong side like I did too many times. Obviously the tools that Ronnie was using are very, very helpful. I don't have any of those tools. I just have a mallet, and I'm using body weight and the weight of the floors. But this is not a high-traffic area. This is just for storage, basically. So, if you do find yourself in a position to, you know, put in something and you maybe don't have the tools and it's not over something else, it's not going to be the end of the world. All right, after a short commercial break. Not for you, but for me. I had to deal with some emails. I ripped off one of the floor pieces here. As you can see, we kind of did it both ways. We had the small piece on the outside. Had the small piece on the inside. And what we're going to... The reason I'm taking this up is that I wasn't super clear when these floors are going in. Excuse me. And this needs to overhang this piece because of the type of trim I'm going to use. And so that's why I get to redo this whole thing. And I was mildly concerned about having the small piece on the outside. The last time I did that, it kind of buckled up. But I also didn't have lots of silicone and an interlocking. Actually, I did have an interlocking because it was real wood floors. Real wood floors being the key difference here. But like I said, I'm going to take this piece up, cut an identical almost piece, bring it out three-quarters of an inch so that it covers this vertical piece here. And this vertical piece here is going to sit on top of the bottom piece so that there is no crevice. Yeah, no crevice from the top. It's going to be hidden. Like, this will sit over... Just like this. It'll sit over the bottom piece. Also, update on Alaska. Badge told me that the price of diesel is $6.71. I don't know if that is including the exchange rate or not because that could go down 20% or so, depending on what the exchange rate is. It's $1.81 per liter. It's about 4 gallons per... Whatever, that's... What's that? 360 times 2, 720. Oh, 720 minus... I don't know what the exchange rate is. 20% 720, so that's $14.40 off that. Yeah, so it's like 6 bucks a gallon or something. Do you want to go to Alaska? Do you want to drive in a caravan? I mentioned this before on Instagram and a lot of people said yes, but it is 2,500 miles from Portland. In a big bus like this, assume that a 60-gallon tank gets 500 miles at $3 per gallon. That's $180 a tank times 5. That is a lot of money one way. If you're in some other kind of vehicle like it's better gas mileage, like a car, it's still a substantial amount. It's almost like driving across the entire United States each direction. But if you're interested in going, the plan is to leave no later than for myself, July 1st. But I'm still working on this thing, so I don't have a concrete date, but if anybody else is going up there in the summer and wants to link up, contact me through Instagram, and I'll be happy to let you know, or I should say I'll post updates on Instagram, and I'll be happy to let you know where I'm crossing the route. I want to take it kind of slow and easy, maybe 200 miles a day, or 300 miles a day, and do some hiking, fishing, camping, et cetera, along the way, stopping at places of interest. So yeah, please contact me over there, and I will have some exciting changes and some exciting news for this channel in several more videos. Once the bus is a bit more done, and I grasp the idea more concretely. Alright, just like magic, it's up. Just used this pry bar and mallet. Just went gingerly. As you can see, some of the OSB will come up. I'd never used OSB again. I would use MDO, like I did on the first bus. MDO is the most waterproof wood that you can purchase in a plywood style. It is not marine grade. Marine grade refers to the, what is it called, tensile strength, the amount of tension it can take, like a bow of a boat, bending, think bending, but waterproof, MDO. Anyways, I'm gonna rip out this little piece. I might rip out that piece, and then we're ready to rock and roll. Looks like I got another email. So, I'm just curious, has anyone used the discount code SCHOOLY5 at amsolar.com because the guy I communicate with over there, the CEO of the company, sometimes we chat about things. I'm just curious about people using the discount code, whatever, it's been used 20 times. And somebody just today bought the whole SCHOOLY kit, the exact same one that I have, so I was just curious if anybody's finding it from these videos and if it's helpful. Again, it's tax-free because it's Oregon and 5% off, you know, support small businesses, things like that. But I was just happy because they provided such an expensive, amazing kit with the highest quality components and after today's email, 20 people using it, and one entire kit itself, I thought to myself, well, I think I earned my keep here with them, so I'm just, you know, it just makes me happy, you know, because I'm recommending good stuff that I would have wanted to purchase anyways and, you know, they helped me out and, you know, it's working, you know, it's working to their benefit and mine. These are the champions, my friends. I did it. I got this flooring. I'm sweating. Whoo! Well, boy, does it feel good to learn and do stuff like this, you know, by myself. Of course, I do prefer to have friends helping me because it's a lot more fun. Trust me, it is way more fun to build one of these things with friends. Highly recommend it, especially friends who know more than you do. But, uh, yeah, see? Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime. This is the following day of nothing but smiles on my face. This looks absolutely incredible. Well, the whole thing is looking incredible. Um, so, yeah, I don't know if I mentioned it before this clip, but, uh, because I'm so tired last night. Some wise man once said, or wise woman, I'm not really sure, uh, something about playing with power tools when you're tired, probably not a good idea. So I decided to leave. I got two little dings on my fingers from, uh, my drill. So I'm back. I'm gonna finish, uh, the steps. Uh, so for this video, uh, as, I hope some people are noticing, I'm trying to keep some of the jobs together, so it's easier to search for, it's easier to watch, easier to find, and soon I'll be back on the road. Um, anyways, I'll do the bottom pieces and then I'll do the top parts separately. Uh, the reason being is I don't want to step on these after I put silicone on them, and, uh, the idea is for the top pieces to, uh, retain the, uh, I don't know. We'll call it the, I don't know, part of the goes over, and then I'll push this all the way up. It's getting stuck here. Anyways, it's gonna, it's gonna fall over. These two edges are gonna meet almost. So, anyways, you get the idea. Alright, moving on. I got the steps. Well, the actual stepping part. I gotta do the vertical part. Tomorrow, the reason being, the stuff needs time to dry, so I'll let it sit overnight, and then I'll attack that part of the morning. Once I finish that, well, then the real fun begins, because we get to put together all the rest of the inside. Arm rest, arm rest, we're gonna put that thing up, we're gonna hide the wires, and we'll put vertical pieces in between all of the windows. Uh, so yeah, that'll be the next video. And I also have a addition to the roof. Does anyone have any guesses? If you've watched this video this far, do you have any guesses? What I could possibly do to the roof, to add a little, I don't know, fun in your life. The finished product took me an extra day to do this. Um, and so basically I'll just share with you how I did this. It's pretty straightforward. It's just silicone on the bottom of this. Um, the vertical piece, alright, so this, all the top pieces hang over enough to where the vertical piece could kind of slide under it a little bit. And what I did was I just, uh, have the, call this the female edge. Um, go over the cut edge of that. These are two edges coming together. Uh, we will call this a male edge. Um, this is my last little piece I gotta do, but the part that sticks out like that will call that male. So the female part was coming over and it kind of went over that. So it created an extremely small seam um, three steps and so the piece of trim that I need to get will be very, very small. That's the reason why we, we redid these in the first place. Um, was to you know, because we had them cut a half inch back and uh, so we just decided to make them a little tighter and uh, that way the trim can be very, very small. But uh, the yeah, I made them really tight so actually I hit, I had to pound this part in under this little lip if you can see that. So um, so yeah, it's nice and snug and I'm gonna shoot another, I'm gonna start another video right now for the next video.