hey everyone my name is Sam and welcome back to Green Acre Homestead and
welcome back to part 4 of our DIY green house build in today's video we're going
to do some official really fancy-pants cross-bracing for the walls and then
we're gonna add our double top plate and begin just barely framing the roof let's
go
come on
don't sit down on the job Oh good-for-nothing batteries up amber
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it would have been a very easy just to take the boards they're already in place
and just screw them to each of the studs and lock it in and call it done with
that but being a woodworker I like to make things a little bit pretty with
wood also thinking ahead to some possible future modifications with the
greenhouse I wanted to recess those diagonal braces into the wall or at
least make them flush with the inside of the wall that way they wouldn't be in my
way inside the greenhouse they were all steps for doing this is pretty
straightforward having a clamp to clamp the board diagonally onto a stud and
then a pencil mark to line everything out and draw it was hands-down the most
important tool of this part of the project the most detailed part of the
cut was actually doing the angle pieces in the studs I had to make sure I set my
circular saw to a depth of one and a half inches or just a little bit over so
that it would really truly recess the board's in the wall completely I had to
be careful as I was cutting that diagonal line as well to be right on my
pencil line because I didn't want to sloppy joint now the screws that hold
the boards together does a lot for rigidity but I also wanted a wood joint
there as well and again being a woodworker I kind of
wanted pretty joints of wood too
I am covered in sawdust that circular saw doing the angle cuts along with the
wind you just can't help but just wear it so wear it proud
with all the diagonal braces done I could then move on to doing the double
top plate of the wall this is where you take the wall joints where you have one
coming this way and another this way and you put a board on top that kind of
overlaps the two this also makes the top board of your wall double thick and
twice as strong it's very important whenever you put your roof rafters on
there and you want it to be strong and stiff and you know that's just what you
do putting the top plates on was pretty straightforward
I put the board's up there in place mark the ends to cut off with my pencil
zip them off screw them down and kind of work my way around the greenhouse
perimeter doing that spending the extra money to get full length timber like 12
foot long 16 foot long is well worth it so I don't have any joints in my walls
or my top plates that might be weak points in the future I'm running out of
time today it's pretty late in the evening and I've only got enough time to
barely just start framing the roof I want to go ahead and put my uprights on
the gable ends and these little boards are wired are going to hold the ridge
beam in place until all the roof rafters get put in place and start doing their
work too
well guys that's gonna be it for this part of the greenhouse I can't go any
further without fully committing to finishing framing the roof I don't want
to put the ridge beam up there because all it probably will do is sag and that
just won't be good so I'm go ahead and call it quits for part 4 the greenhouse
build I appreciate you guys coming along if you have any questions comments or
something I didn't cover or just questions and comments in general leave
them to me down below appreciate them and we love reading all of them we'll
see you guys next time on the homestead
here's a little sneak peek some future stuff in the greenhouse this is a
food-grade plastic 55-gallon barrel I picked up 20 of these off of Facebook
marketplace there was a distillery in the city that had these for sale on a
super good deal so I snagged them my plan for these are to be grow beds for
the greenhouse whether it be put that where you guys can see it so my plans
where the barrels are going to be grow beds for the greenhouse whether it be
vertical and just full of water with nutrients in there for plants to grow
kind of hydroponically whether it be chop them in half make them self wicking
sub-irrigation beds or whether it be cut them in half lengthwise and do some kind
of an aquaponic system or just a longer more rectangular self wicking bed either
way these are key to giving me some large containers to grow in at a very
cheap price so this is one I dragged it up here the other day the other 19 are
still down there next to the truck where it parks so I didn't want them up here
in my way but I didn't want to see how much space these barrels going to take
up and I was very pleased with seeing how small it feels in the greenhouse in
addition to grow beds I'm probably going to use a good portion of these for
thermal mass as well they'll be full of water and they will act as batteries of
a sort to collect heat during the day and
radiate it at night this won't be very beneficial in the summertime I don't
believe because this greenhouse is gonna be pretty fairly wide open for
ventilation but when the thermal mass will come into play will be in the
wintertime and the colder season when the sunlight still comes in it can drink
up the heat and then radiate it at night there's a lot of other science projects
in my head as far as solar-powered water pumps collector with black pipe tons of
different ideas so stay tuned for that if you have any ideas if you know of
greenhouse systems that work that maybe you have as at your place or you've used
commercially that can be adapted to a small skill situation like this I'd love
to hear about that as well alright guys take care what does this mean alright
guys take care
you