 It's not working so we can't go any further. It's the moment we've all been waiting for. So bad there's a problem. The entire house is rolling and it's not just like one little area. I just don't think we can sit here any longer. I think we need to start making a move. Two years ago we purchased this abandoned cabin with the goal of transforming it into the homestead of our dreams. And so far we've taken it from dark, overgrown, and unloved to an off-grid oasis with running water and solar electricity. Over the past few weeks we have been on a mission to transform the exterior but it's been a bit of a struggle. Will all our hard work be for nothing? Morning. Morning. You're sprawled, eh? You're sprawled. Okay. You love it? I love it. It's so nice. It is so nice. Good! That's the energetic good morning because nothing beats a very cold well shower. First thing in the morning. Double fist in this morning. Last week when we tried to side our house we were in a storm. No! Hence it didn't really work out. Now we're trying to side the house and we're... Anyways, I would take siding a house in a heatwave any day. I'm just so happy to send out. They don't even care. Check back with me at two and let you know if I care. The short pieces mostly are done under the windows and now I think the game plan for the top. I've done a few two pieces. I'm going to cut a bunch of long ones in their designated areas and then I will fill in the blanks at the bottom after just like this. So that's one full piece all the way up and then there's a cut piece that I've just married right down there. This look is a heatwave look. Strapping is making... I mean blue skin is making strapping look incredibly easy. A couple pieces up on a wall. Before we can start strapping this side we have to seal around our windows with the blue skin. We use this... is it recido? Resetto? Resisto! Technically we have to do a second layer anyways over it. That is perfectly cocked and watertight. So we're gonna use our good friend Henry blue skin. After many setbacks could this be the week we get our siding on? Fingers crossed it all goes to plan. No! Our nail gun's broken! Our nail gun's broken. All right well I'm about to have a meltdown so. What? Like this is just it's not working like this blue skin isn't working and it's coming off. What was going very well and what was very close to siding currently is no longer and I'm feeling super defeated because as I'm looking at the blue skin around the house the heat is hitting it and it seems to be bubbling out as if it's not adhered the way it's supposed to. Whether that be because there wasn't enough paint or it wasn't pressed down enough whatever it may be which we're trying to figure out right now is obviously not good because we're done the whole house now. And why it's so terrible is because we use blue skin that if water does get in that like a little pocket of where it is or forms it has nowhere to escape where Tyvex when you put it on you're just stapling it moisture gets in has it has room to breathe. This stuff doesn't really have any breathing room it's not working so we we can't go any further due to the fact that if moisture does get caught in these little air gaps then our house will basically rot. It's only bad if you get water in it that's when the problem starts. If you water in it then my friend you have to cut it open and put a patch on it. He's probably not realizing that like the entire house is bubbling and it's not just like one little area that's the thing that it's already like already bubbled. Thing now is you have to get the strapping on fast because you don't want all this bubble bubbling to happen. That's our friend. He has his own construction business in Ontario. Just the big jobs. What Altair doesn't know is that our nail gun just broke. We need a bigger roller to press it all down we need two so we can both go at the same time and we live an hour away from the store then an hour back so it's gonna be three hours. Whole day. Going back probably would have not used blue skin and would have used literally anything else and the only reason why is because I thought there'd be less room for air but there just seems to be more room for air so it's probably gonna all be fine like it will be fine it's just gonna be more work and more time that's it right and hopefully it works out. Problem you don't want it to lift so that is a problem that's that you don't want at all. It definitely is super defeating after spending weeks on this is obviously frustrating because we might have to rip it all down or we might have to go and roll even harder or cut out patches and put adhesive on it and all of that but I personally want to rip it down. I know that might sound like crazy to a lot of you but I don't know when something is gonna be in the back of your mind you're gonna think like how's that doing like what is the point. Yo we get it now. Superior product. We're gonna restart our day. You're gonna restart your day. You're gonna have a coffee have another cold shower and get back to work. I think the best thing we can do is spend every minute that we have left at the cabin putting pushing it down and putting up the strapping and then that's it like I don't think we should move on to the siding I think we should just focus on getting every wall sealed. I just don't think it's realistic like I was excited to start the siding and show everyone and like I'm so excited about it but it truly doesn't make sense like I think every single side needs to be strapped and ready. You have bubbling just because you have the hot sun like you said in your message you know hitting the surface and if you have a little bit of an air bucket it will just create a bubble right. Don't worry so much about that. Thank goodness but Altair got back to us. Gotta love friends who are in the industry and know what they're doing. Altair has been working construction forever and that was a huge relief to hear that everything is fine that we can roll out these air bubbles and move on because it happens all the time in even commercial construction so people have been doing this job for the last 30 years. I just like get really into these projects and like that was like destructive for me to look. Did you also hear Tia? I was not well. Anyways Jasmine's leaving she's going to get us a massive heavy duty vinyl roller so we can roll this blue skin back on because it's going to be fine it's going to stick I just need some work and everything's going to be fine and I can now breathe again. I'm off. Ciao. You want a burrito when I come back girl? Sure. I know the way to your heart. She surprised you. Just a van watch. No it's not HGTV. Just the two of us we are the construction workers but if anyone wants there's no better way to start your day than with an AG1 and that includes when you're restarting your day so let's hit it. It makes getting the most fundamental nutrients for your body so simple and convenient they even have travel packs for when you're on the move and a huge thank you to our sponsor for offering 10 free travel packs and a one-year supply of a vitamin D dropper to you with your first purchase. Use our link in our description to access this offer. Your body will thank you. There are a whole slew of benefits with AG1 such as increased immunity, gut health, focused recovery levels, energy. It is truly such peace of mind knowing that with one simple scoop your body has everything it needs. We've been taking AG1 for so many years. We love being able to share it with you and when we're out here working on the homestead it is an absolute essential. It's absolutely true that you can push all of those supplement bottles to the side as they say you're going to need a smaller cupboard because AG1 is jam packed. All of their ingredients are online and you will be blown away by how it makes you feel. It covers all of your bases. That was the refresh that I needed and we're off with an ice cold bubbling hand. One hour to go. Imagine I made you all drive the full hour with me on YouTube. How many of you would click off? I have super fast jasmine and not jasmine. One thing and one thing only. Got it. Dancing, eating all of you in here. Off to win partner of the year. Wow there's no line up. Things are looking up. I'm feeling a lot more optimistic. Sweat my butt off. Cutting the rest of the strapping for this side. Jasmine's coming home with burritos. Everything's going to be good with the blue skin. Life couldn't be better honestly. So things just don't always go to plan and although for a second I had a bad way of dealing with it it's going to be fine and I think it's absolutely the coolest thing that we bring you along for all of the ups and downs and really really just bring you along for our raw life and our true selves. So much of the time showing exactly who we are, how jasmine and I are, our true interactions and the reality of certain projects of this size and just even yeah just life you know. I think it's the coolest thing because if we didn't share all of those pieces it wouldn't be the full puzzle. Hey did you get the nail gun? Oh my god. I had a feeling you forgot. See you when you get home. Thanks for reminding me. Okay. I would have literally just used a hammer. Yeah that one sucked. It's all sold out but spent way too long wrestling with this nail gun trying to figure it out. It's suddenly not working. Kind of hard to believe. How's it going? Jasmine literally went to the hardware store to get that roller and a new nail gun because it was acting up. It's good because they didn't have any in stock and ours is working now. Can't believe I'm even asking that. Cold all day baby. I even jumped back in the outdoor shower to cool off because we got to keep this train moving. Jazzy's gonna be here in maybe 15-20 minutes. We still have a lot of daylight left so let's do it. Is that mama? Is that mama? Oh my goodness. Welcome home. Three, two, one, roll. Quite literally. Want that coffee? Is that light saving? Wow that coffee has me so high. I know it's all melty. That's what I'm saying because it's hot. Maybe it says do not use it. It's very hotter. It's really hot. The caulking seems very weird and we have to caulk around the windows in order to start strapping it and satting it. Should we wait through this side? I think it's fine. There should be chop-chop-like liver. Like chop-chop-like liver. Chop-chop-like liver it is y'all. Wow it's so hot. I love it. Where are that rain we just got? I f***ing ate blue skin. I'm not gonna tell you that. It's so over it. Let me tell y'all I'm going on vacation after this. I only could have told me a week ago how brutal this would have been. Remember how I said we were like oh this reminds us of the cabin season one. Like it's so fun. Two of us so excited for this project I think to vote. It's like duct-taping your whole house. Who would want to be that? No one. Here's Tyvek Sebo. LOL Henry. Well we made it this far in the process with a few bumps in the road but we are nearing the finish line. Shredden. I will black you. Yo get me off here. Do us dude. I'm beat. I know. Dude like I'm actually dripping. And you know what I think should go on textbooks. When you're having a bad day restart your day. Copy in a cold jar. I think it was really nice. I don't say girl. I know we were backside but I'm pretending the backside of my house doesn't exist. I don't know why you keep it wet. I don't see it. Every shot I take is from this end. Okay as much as I'm pretending I don't have a bag of my house I'm not allowed to pretend anymore. Boss says gotta get it cocked and strapped. Well cocked and rolled. Maybe strapped. We'll see. However there is a problem. We're short AF. So I'm still looking for someone tall to come on over. I also have to rent a genie boom which is pretty silly for one piece. But it's also not silly because then well I don't fall off and burn my neck. Supervisor Bella told us we're not allowed to do it. No way moms. I like having two moms she said. Three, two, one. Donzo look at that y'all. Literally just had enough cocking. God my just fell out of my hand. It's so broken. Hello. Great choice of spot. Hello. That's why I got two meals. I got the veggie crunch tacos with corn tortillas. We all saw Chris's big burrito being made. I can't believe one time I thought we were gonna do deciding and waterproofing in one video. LOL. I tried to tell you it was gonna take us a month. Waterproofing. Take a day. Do you remember that? Oh wait I'm gonna take one week to paint. One week to blizzard. One week to strut. What's wrong with me? I just know that like as a newbie everything takes twice as long and then you're filming. And then if you run out of something the hardware store is too far away. How many trips is on the hardware store? Yeah I don't know. We need to chomp chomp and then clean up the yard because guess what everyone a special someone just texted us saying looks like it's finally sunny. I'll see you tomorrow. Does it ever feel nice to have a quiet clean space? Wow it's probably been a month since our porch and our deck have looked like this and I love it. We're having a little burn now on our dirt front yard and it's just remind me of cabin season one so much lights around in the greenhouse. Let's go see what the little lady's up to. Magic. Don't scare me. Sorry what are you doing over here little lady? I'm fertilizing the... Oh my gosh it's great. What are you doing with the hose over here? Everything's doing so wonderful in here everyone. Look at Kale. Just a little update. Look at the basil. She's growing. And I just did pick that basil the other day because I made a pesto pasta. Summer's back everyone. I love summer nights. This is perfect. It's the moment we've all been waiting for. They're gonna be so excited. Is that your best friend? Is that Porter? It's Porter. It's Porter. Morning. Porter's back. We are tackling the project of leveling out our front yard on getting that drainage and that easy slope into the woods so that way the water can run away. It is now dry enough that he can have his machine here. I'm just beyond thrilled. We've all missed Porter. I know you've all missed Porter. Things are getting done. Fun. And while Porter gets leveling you're probably wondering what is Jasmine doing with all that. It allows the water to irrigate through it into the French drain and run away from that cabin. So that just got done so fast and it looks like Porter's just pulled over. He needs some grease. We're gonna do some greasing of the excavator and it looks like he's gonna help Jasmine. What a gem. You want to do my machine? You learning? Going around in the tractor and just thinking how much I love watching machines. Like do you see the excavator? Do you see how far that is and they're bringing like no rocks? Excavators are like a whole different breed. Thank you Porter. I'll be back in 10 hours. I've been at Jasmine. Why? Because she was just smearing it on and you got to actually get it in the pit. What a newbie. Yep, he said it. It's so nice to see Porter back. We tried to do the strapping but we can't resist watching the best show in the woods. You strap when there's an excavator in your yard. How'd you get so good at excavating? I don't know. That's so good. Hi Larry. All right, we're making good progress over here. I wonder if you could bring another load of fill. I got it on the truck right now. I'll leave in a few minutes. Awesome. Thanks so much. All right. Okay, see you soon. All right, Larry is back for another load of fill y'all and I don't know if anyone's noticed but the yard is going to be basically tripling in size. So the idea is that we're going to level it off with the driveway and a gradual slope into the tree line into the forest. That way we don't have any more flooding. Even on summer days it was happening. Not going to lie. It was just never drying. So we'll have a nice lush dry lawn after this. Not only is it going to be tripling that way and the yard going underneath the panels like gardens and all of that jazz. We're still designing that. So if you have any ideas on how we should design underneath the panels, let us know in the comments. We'd greatly appreciate it. We already have a few of our patrons giving us a few ideas in our texting group chat. You should join that if you haven't already, patreon.com forward slash fan wives and we text the room. It's like real life updates and the yard is also going to be going through the left side of the house. So over there wrapping around the back over to here. Porter just turned off his excavator to let Crystal and I know that it's scary working underneath the panels. He is literally like this close in the panels. Oh my goodness. I'm freaking out. It's better not to look. They're just so delicate. Those crack, right? The excavator is so strong. Oh my goodness. He's freaking me out. I think he's more freaked out than us. Let's be real. He's the one doing the job. What we want though is the ground to level up right to that pole so you don't see any of this cement or anything. It's just going to look phenomenal. I'm envisioning it right now. Are you? No. I can't think of anything other than the fact that he's underneath the solar area now. He's freaking me out. I can't watch. Nice. I'll go up there. No problem. I'm going to go get the blue skin then. Okay. I can't believe it everyone. I'm told not to make this a big deal but here I am making this a big deal. Look how high she is. How do you feel? Yes. I go get a hammer and crowbar. Okay. I'm coming up with big shakes. Don't freak out. No. That was good. You already got that off? Got some pole? What? One off. I actually don't mind it up here. I'm happy to hear that. You're better at hiding to me. I get angry and I freak out and then no one's happy. Crystal, you should wear this to your bachelorette party this weekend. What? So as a construction worker? No. It's Henry. Hi. My name is Henry Blue Skin. Last piece of blue skin. The girls think they're coming. I mean they technically could go to a bachelorette. Yeah, they could. Give me the light of the party. Come on, dogs. Got a bag of shoes? Yep. Fun shoes? Fun shoes. I love you. Bye, honey. Have fun. I miss you too. I miss you too. See y'all in a bit. I love you. Okay. All right. It is just Porter and I today and Larry of course when he makes the appearances to drop more dirt, a lot to dirt. Anyways, when I heard my neighbors brought in 26 loads of fill in order to level up their area, I knew right then and there, one, we didn't have enough money, year one to do that and two, we also didn't bring enough fill in. So now we are going to start making our way around the house. But first we need to move that scaffolding. It's too hot to go on that black. Hey everyone, this is about Porter and I do when the boss is in around. We chit and chat. Here we are. We just stand there. We've been standing on the stage and just talking. Story to story to story. Yeah, let's. Okay, I'm going to duct shape my mouth. Oh, it's light. Cool enough. Yeah. That's wet. Oh, that does feel nice. Got to her. I've hardly got any of this done. He is a fast driver today. Look at that berry all. The raspberries are coming in so nice. Those are shantarrel mushrooms. A neighbor just came over and asked if I wanted some. They're out harvesting right now. And apparently this year compared to last summer because it's been so wet, there are an abundance of shantarrels. And the reason the neighbor came over wasn't just to give me some mushrooms, but an important package came in the mail. Starlink. Our Starlink got hit by lightning. I'm so excited. I should set this up right now to be honest. Drink coffee. No, just these things. Thank you. Prime. I know it might just look like a bunch of dirt to you all right now, but it seriously is so much more than dirt and fill. It is everything. We have been waiting so long to do this with the weather not cooperating and to it finally being sunny enough to do everything has dried out that we can do it. And thank you to Porter and Larry for switching up their schedule and coming on over to help us out. He's making it flush against the sonotube so you don't see that concrete. Crystal's at a bachelorette party and I wanted to surprise her with what I'm about to build. She's been wanting to do this forever. I've been seeing these designs on TikTok and I think they look nice. The biggest decision of the night. Where to put these? Even harder decision because Crystal's in here. After cleaning up the old Congee Queen and cement blocks from last year, Clementine meets Kitty Cat on the playing field and teamwork went a long way. Is that straight? Oh my gosh, tomato plant's so happy. Crystal should be home in a couple days and then we're both off on a plane. See you all in two weeks. Miss you. Love you. Sing it Bella.