hey guys welcome back to the channel my name's Sam and this is Green acre homestead we
are in the middle of a major kitchen dining room renovation in our mobile
home and we're doing it on a budget for those of you who follow us this is the
next part of the step we just did drywall the other day and today this
morning while I wasn't working on in the office Angela and prep stood her Bob
from the self-reliant Roadshow who is in town here at our place this week started
demoing this wall they taken out in the wall cabinet the drywall and the
insulation open up the wall got everything ready to go and start putting
it back together awesome progress so what we're going to
do next is continue on with the work we're gonna do a little bit of outlet
work and move some outlets around just a hair do some wiring vapor barrier
insulation move on with this project to hopefully and this is a prize to Angela
over here let me show you the surprise with you hopefully the goal is that you
will have drywall done tonight at least hung up not mudded maybe but we're both
getting ready to tear into it myself and prep Center Bob so nice you get the
night off what are you gonna do what laundry dishes it's all yours
no dishes I don't have a sink yet right all right guys without further ado let's
get jumped in this project so we can get done well first up for this project is
to take out the outlet box we're gonna do some moving of the outlets and bobs
over here and he was getting working and then angels like oh yeah do you want the
power off so she turned the power off which is nice but she killed the breaker
to the entire house she tried to barbecue boss she did the barbecue so
this shouldn't take us but a couple of minutes we'll get this rerouted and
we'll turn the power back on
so what do you think from electro standpoint is one side in the stud bad
in the other okay it's all about worried convenience of
yeah the strong as the Waltons moral of the story so you guys know this
reason different electrical boxes today and then what I showed last time those
others are a piece of junk don't get them even though they're more expensive
right right you get the ones with the nails in it
rock solid so that's what I get for trying to go fancy
that was still alive was don't ever trust me turn your breakers off sorry I
found that's where it is though if someone is true it's all part of the fun
so I use insulated pliers to do a rough in luxury work yes
all right these two go to the main switch but what weird rounder switch
that's nice news are you one of those dishwasher ones for possible new white
circuit which I guess we need to determine like right now yeah so we got
these recessed lights that we thought were pretty Lucy okay okay I don't know
how hard we have to do this before your interval yeah well like we had talked
about we like how that light looks just shining up on the ceiling we had talked
about oh yeah just something shining up on the ceiling because it lights
everything up really well so we had talked about just putting those lights
on top of the cabinets to light up the ceiling well you can just put an outlet
up there and then put whatever lights for them and then just mount them on top
of the cabinet it's called offset like that you can actually shine right up do
there and you can do it one of a dozen different ways you and when you set your
cabinets bringing down a little bit you have an outlet there and then what
recessed lights against the wall that way it's a track pipe and then you have
to put them anywhere you want let's do them just gives you options will do okay
yeah we'll do an outlet up there then
so the purpose of that really really tall box is it's going to be an outlet
and in the future we're gonna get some lights and probably just plug in up
there to give us some what'd you call it again indirect lighting indirect
lighting kind of bouncing off the seal and give us a soft lighting but add
lighting in our kitchen because it's kind of dark otherwise you knew it as a
sconce you could do it as an outer as though a wall-mounted light or the
option I like to use as a traffic light that way you can put any type of globe
any type of direction any positions and then if Angela the sites you want to do
Christmasy you can also plug in angels back here saying no you don't want it to
look like a Mexican restaurant with the Christmas lights a little chilly whites
we should get a chili lights
so the reason we just ran new wiring is because we're moving the location of
this old outlet that was at the floor over and we have to run new wire so we
don't have any hidden junctions or breaks and the wires in the wall we're
gonna do something special we have a special surprise for the self-reliant
Roadshow trailer but in order to make it work effectively what we're gonna do is
push the wire to the back of the box because I don't want to hit the wire
I'll show you why here in a little bit so for a view watching and wondering
what's the tape on the wire I think earlier today Angela or Bob noticed that
there was a little bit of an abrasion on the romex sheathing none of the
insulation of the cut or the wires were cut so they just taped it up just to me
go yeah safety
let me do this one yeah I don't have to get the ladder out if you're here this
is really convenient for me is it
Angela's over there grinning cuz we're one step closer to getting Katniss and
yep every second that goes by happiness grows check that out
this guy works fast so no lawyer viewers come from out in the country which is
now different and if you remember way way back in the day out in the country
did some work out of guys to place named bobblehead homestead this is the guy
that converted his shed to a tiny house so we're in pretty good hands here all I
can do is just try and catch up as fast as I can
handing him tools fifties rocking and rolling
all right I want to show you a trick that we use we got Sam a very special
tool out of the self-reliant Roadshow trailer from homestead connection
somebody donated a Rotozip so what we're gonna do is mark the boxes and then show
him how to use it all right mark the Florida it's a double
wall switch I find the center of the box which is forty four and a half so I
marked it at forty four and a half I'll show you why that's important days each
outlet its marked the same way
now what does that symbol mean that you circle with two lines circle two lines
is the standard electrical term for outlet
you said was 89 I think about Jill trailers they tilt not only that when
you put Bob on it it really tilt all right no he can get the door all right
this
one of the things we got Sam and he knows about it is out of the self
reliant tool or out of the self reliant Roadshow trailer we have a thing called
homestead connections and somebody donated a rosette so I'm getting Sam
some bits for it but there's two types there's a standard point and a guide tip
point and the guide tip point is the one that works a lot better because that way
you're not cutting through your boxes and everything else so we're gonna show
him how to use this on his drywall it'll make everything nice and tight and
really pretty this is a tool we're gonna give Sam an Angela here it's a Rotozip
it's used but it's in really good shape even this is rare it even has the wrench
with it it's real simple has a collar lock in it make sure you get the right
Rotozip bit we'll look at that
that's it wait to see how this works couple other things we're gonna do here
is Sam got the right drywall he got moisture barrier resistant or moisture
resistant drywall so that's a huge plus what I did was mark where all the outlet
boxes are we did not screw it tight we'll be able to take this go right
around the box and that way the drywall fits tight to each of the box watch this
another thing I want to point out here is most drywall better drywall has these
X lines these are known as in the field what that is is that should be where
your studs are located these are 16 inch centers that's a 24 inch Center so since
he's got a stud here he's got an outlet right here so we're gonna make a small
hole make sure that we're in the center of the box come out to the edge of the
box lift the point just to the outside and
then just like you wrote a router we're gonna trace out the box you want to try
it sure
at least it's my house I'm messing up
might be a little bird all right looks like Bob finished this one now let's the
idea to is make more work for us
hey is that all cover a little bit of mud that won't be a problem
all right so given I kind of messed up on my first try that is still awesome
mind blown when it comes to doing drywall with these boxes I think a
little bit of practice they go smoother for me oh they're not yeah I must move
that guy to put that new window in this instead of shoddy construction perhaps
there he's out to get you so in a whopping ooh 25 maybe 45 minutes total
well it's kind of a wide range but you know time the drywall is done and we are
pinning up the outlets for now as far as tying together the wires complete the
circuits and that was phenomenally fast he doesn't like to stop and talk a whole
lot working on it
because I'm doing this for Angela that's right
the pressure well what do you think I'm excited I have a wall well if we hustle
up and we get a little bit about on here we can go ahead and start setting
cabinets tomorrow if you want with that ready for yes they would smell that that
would be awesome that would be awesome very cool well if you guys want to see
it you got to stay tuned if you don't know prep Center Bob suffer like
Roadshow links are below go check them out this is it this is the first rodeo
but you want to see that stuff he's done for sure see you guys
you