hey everybody my name is sam and i'm angela and welcome back to our channel so as promised in
our last video this video is going to be mostly about catching you guys up on things we've done
but we also have a little bit of story time that we got some serious sticker shock
so to get us started i want to let you start the show and get us caught up on all the horrible
work no okay your work's not horrible but the job was horrible
all the work you've done on insulating the room it actually wasn't that bad oh well in
that case we'll do some more so insulation is kind of a boring thing so i decided to kind of
do it in chunks i did the wall behind you over there in one chunk this one a different chunk
and then this really fun wall right here it kind of took a little bit of time
so
thankfully most of the pieces up top and below the window are all the same height so i was able
to kind of cut them all at once and then stuff them all at once there are some weird spots on
this wall you can see where the yellow insulation is right there it's just a corner so there's only
a little bit of space that's actually the old insulation we'll leave it there because it's
kind of hard to stuff the insulation in there and you get it all over your hands and everything else
we do have a little bit more to add to fill in some of the cracks mainly above in the little
triangle area up top there's just some smaller pieces that we're going to try and stuff
just to keep the cold air from eeking in
i guess that's it back when we were doing our kitchen and dining room renovation over a year ago
someone out there one of our viewers sent us a bunch of boxes of screws just wanna say thank
you again we are still using these things they've gone great worked wonderful and again thank you
i didn't like that one anyway
wow
a little buddy on my shoulder like a pirate's parrot so here is a better look
at what i mean by a corner for attaching the drywall this where is it right here
you want to make sure you have solid wood supporting every corners that way you can
attach them and they're properly supported so that was the second bird this board squished and
over here adding it for the box is the first bird still gotta put it up so we can squish it though
so
so what you saw me just do is take a scrap piece of wood it's about nine and a half inches tall
run it across all these studs give us a rough mark and that's where we're going to go through
and drill all the holes through the studs to run the wiring that's about the same height as comes
with the home or was originally put in the home so that it keeps a uniform standardized height
so we kind of think all the wires are at this level keeps everything nice and straight as well
so
so the other thing we've been doing is electrical work and that's not really exciting
probably the most exciting thing we've done is actually add a new light switch right here we
are going to put some recessed led lights and the little alcove or pop out above the windows
here we think it would be kind of a cool little feature to add and being that they're led they're
very low draw on the breakers or circuitry we're not worried about tripping the breakers
or overloading it and we figure why not it'll give it a nice little purposeful meaningful area
of the bedroom and kind of give it i don't know purpose another thing we did is also
add the wiring in this box for a light outside the house if we decided to do so in the future
right now the wire will not be hooked up and is completely dead from start to finish
but we figured now is the time to run that wire while everything was opened up so we have it in
the future if we want to do something out there as well as far as electrical we'll also go over here
another area that we did electrical work was right here with our new wall of course
this is the light switch for the boys bedroom i added an extra stud here to space it off of
the door enough so that when i add my trim the light switch is not too close to the door another
thing that we've always thought is weird i don't know if other mobile homes are like this or not
but it seemed like with hours the doorway was here but the light switch was like way
over it's like that in all the original ones i don't know why they did that so it's nice
to have this one closer and more appropriate in here in the bathroom we did more electrical work
walking backwards originally the bathroom door swung this way we obviously put our pocket
doors in here and so the light switch that was originally on this wall we could not put it there
because well we have a door inside the wall now what we decided to do is put the light switch here
which meant running the wiring up and over and kind of doing
kind of a loop the power comes from this way comes over the box and then goes back over
to the light so it's a little bit wasteful for wiring but overall it gives a good layout and flow
as far as flipping the lights on here but still having the lights above the sink and everything
one of the fun things about framing everything up especially with lumber prices being what they are
is the fact you have to put a lot of things in place only for the purpose of installing your
drywall this is a good example if you want to get a little bit closer you can kind of see it
here we have this is the doorway so this was needed and here are the two studs for this
doorway in addition to these three boards i also had to add another one here because you want the
corner to be totally wood for your drywall and then inside over here i had to add another board
i decided to use a 1x4 this is actually a bed slat from our bed well we don't okay it's from the bed
we took apart i'm not stealing our bed parts yet and the 1x4 will be perfectly fine to act as the
securement point or nailer for our drywall as it comes across here you've got to have something
to support it in every joint and everywhere you can otherwise it'll get blown through especially
with kids or just you know general usage and stuff so that gets you guys all caught up
on the random little things that we've done in the bedroom things that in and of themselves are not
you know momentous wonderful videos but we did want to cover the many things that are behind
the scenes that you do in a project like this little things add up to a lot yeah yeah nickel
and dime yeah little things definitely add up to a lot especially when you consider you know that was
a trip was to the store we forgot this and we know we can't go forward until we have that so yay yes
so i heard you got a little proposal in your email today i did because you called the people
and told them where is our proposal and it's been over a week so need to fill people in on what the
world we're talking about yes first let me back up and explain ourselves a little bit
we removed our electric furnace in one of our previous videos and in that video the clips or
the storyline of that furnace removal was like a cliff note we had some problems with the camera
we had some files and clips corrupt and a lot of that story was lost so i want to catch you guys up
with why did we remove our electric furnace well for one the electric furnace costs a lot and i
mean a lot to run because it's an old inefficient one yeah from the 80s it was original so a couple
years back we had gotten a wall propane heater and we had been using it well we have we still
yeah exclusively that's what we use and we are able to use fans and it heats our whole house
and me being how i am when we went down the road of getting this propane heater i actually did
like a whole cost analysis to see are we saving money and with our power company how it is and
prices and all that we would use about 15 per day for electric heat plus the home and when we don't
use that we used about six to seven per day so it was significant yeah yeah so we ran that way
i mean we still do we still have the propane heat and that's what we use for our primary heat source
so we've not been using our electric furnace i don't think it's turned on the past two years no
only in like emergencies did we use it but we just circumnavigated that issue with power outages or
well propane outages by getting a second tank okay so i think that covers the story of our
electric heat yes and how we are not insane we didn't remove our heat source from our home we
just took out something that we've not been using anyway and knew we wouldn't ever use again and
so now we have used that spot open it up and it's going to be a big hallway yes but we were curious
about central heat and air because the propane does add a lot of moisture into the air which can
cause problems if you don't do something about it or run a dehumidifier like we do most all the time
so i decided that i wanted to call and get an estimate from an hvac company to
see how much it would be to add in a unit in our house whether it would be
like an all-in-one unit that would sit outside or many splits that we would do
three of and to do different zones yeah bedroom bedroom and then main living area
so a week ago a guy came out looked at everything did his calculations and today sam got the
proposal so what we had him give us a quote on was both the conventional unit where the unit is
somewhere else and it uses the floor vents already existing in the home with new ductwork he said we
have to do new ductwork which is good i knew that the original duct work was junk and then he also
quoted us on mini splits so tell them what is the cost for the conventional unit what were we quoted
well let me say that we were hoping for a high end of about seven thousand yeah i would say i
was thinking it would start around seven would be somewhere around seven grand considering the size
of our home and and what we needed or whatever it ended up being fourteen thousand dollars
yep for the conventional unit now many splits are supposed to be so much more economical
and well known to me much more economical and i'll give you the
honor i don't remember oh the mini splits are going to be ten thousand dollars
okey-dokey well that answers that we are not going to go that route uh i will say this
the hvac company we went with to get a quote on is the best one in our area
yeah there's probably cheaper guys out there but i am not going to spend the amount of money it would
cost on i don't know joe's hvac company i would only go with the reputable company in this so
i'm not going to quote or shop we're not going to get another quotes we're not going to another
hvac company come out and do that because we would only use this one company but we're not going to
be using that company so we don't get to do hvac stuff that's okay because what we have works it
keeps us hot and it keeps us cool and whatever we need we'll see i might still look into some
more diy units there are a lot of mini split systems out there advertised as diy solutions
so maybe we can check into those i know mr cool is a well-known company
as far as mini splits in the diy world so maybe i'll look into those but otherwise no central
heat and air for us right now which is what we've been doing the past five years so
well guys hopefully enjoyed this video on catching up on what felt like a thousand little projects
that were not really noteworthy otherwise and hearing the story of how we spent some time
getting hvac quote had some ludicrous laughter and are going to stay with what we've been with
for the foreseeable future if you have any questions or comments please leave them below
and otherwise we'll see you guys next time in the construction zone it's pretty cool
you