everyone my name is Sam and I'm Angela and we're Green Acre Homestead we are in the
green house today and look look who I found
she's still alive she's not been in the past couple of videos because why I've
been working and what you tell me though it was boring well that to you
she doesn't think painting a green house is fun or doing bracing is fun and a
tail I don't know what's wrong do I had a blast me of you have asked us and now
it's finally time to see what we chose to cover our green house with and we
chose plastic now this is not some off-the-shelf plastic you get from the
hardware store this is specifically dedicated design
and made for greenhouse use this is 12 mil thick and has a middle layer of
woven I guess mesh or crisscross patterns of fibers to really give this a
lot of strength and durability I guess you could say this is reinforced
greenhouse plastic I know well we have come to discover that we've got to
unroll this entire thing nine feet wide 120 feet long because it's kind of fold
and twisted and origami in here so our only place to do this is literally like
the entire backyard so here we go
right out of the box this is guaranteed for seven years of constant use and the
greenhouse environment commercial environment against any kind of
discoloration deterioration and problems with UV and all sorts of stuff like that
in addition to blocking the harmful UV rays this plastic is also a little bit
diffuse as you'll see it is more white than clear this softens the light and
makes it less harsh it is supposed to do better in a greenhouse environment as
well after spending this much money in the greenhouse I wasn't about to just
trust any kind of plastic or do something off the shelf and went with a
professional greenhouse product
we're after this afternoon with the goal of putting the plastic on the roof this
has been a long time coming the other day Ansel was out here with me and we're
kind of talking through and I explained to her what my idea was for the plastic
and then you had a much better idea so since it's your idea tell us I don't
know how are we putting the plastic on the roof well we're starting that one in
when it all rolled up and we unroll it and tack it down a little bit and unroll
it a little bit more and tack it down some more pretty basic we are going to
do the roof in two sections this rectangle will be a piece and that
rectangle will be a piece I don't know how belts better to explain it so let's
just put the camera in the corner and get up there and start working you can
what are you going to do
I'm almost almost halfway through half of this roof the first part was really
difficult to do I did not give myself enough overhang over the ridge because I
assumed hmm don't assume that the factory cut edge was perfectly straight
and it started to waver and move a little bit so I stopped the presses
pulled it off give myself plenty of overhang top and bottom and that is
going much much better I don't have to be as concerned as far as his this thing
kind of tracking one way or another within a couple of inches I just have to
worry about keeping it tight between the rafters and it seems to be doing well so
far so all right we moved the camera so you're not just getting a whole lot of
butt shots and we'll keep the party rolling
yeah you shade Sayid I hadn't heard that before
here's a look at our method for cutting the plastic we drag it out and we will
measure from the end up 17 feet 6 inches because the greenhouse is roughly 16
feet and I have enough extra that I ordered that I can be a little bit
wasteful it's a lot better to be more plastic up there than less plastic
anyway so we're going to measure on each end of the plastic up 17 and a half feet
then we take this 4 by 4 lay it down and use a marker draw a line and cut it with
scissors this plastic cuts really really easily with scissors so no scissors is
allowed in the garden ever ever again
coming closer to this part
here's a look at the plastic and how it overlaps there is a good foot overlap on
each side of the ridge so this should really keep it from leaking or more
importantly have the wind blow it off these strips of wood on the roof are
holding the plastic down on both sides so I really don't expect this to go
anywhere especially with the ridge cap that I'm getting ready stick on this
thing really it's not going to go anywhere I hope if it does we got bigger
problems so I've got one last furnished rip to do up here on the roof but I want
to wait to do that and go ahead and install the ridge cap which is a
decorative piece that I made that really just helps lock the whole roof together
but really is for looks more than anything the furring strip and the
overlapping plastic was really secure and tight as it is but to take things up
a notch make it that much more pretty I made this really cool decorative Frehley
ridge beam just because why not
yay let's get that off that ladder for we fall ready for the ascent yep there
we see what exactly the strength loader this route is I guess
I barely reach that I'd like to slowly exhale all my air out I'm trying my best
not to have to get all the way up here I
need to get me some scrap 2x4 so I can lay on right here I'm not that brave so
I'll put me some safety boards up here I'm gonna pin them with these screws
real quick that was not fun but it's done done
here's a look at the roof guys there is a tiny bit of curve or wave in this top
board I think it may have moved a little bit whenever I cut it with a saw and it
said I here for a day or two but you're only ever going to see it if you're up
here so enjoy it now it's the only time you're ever going to see this otherwise
it's done it looks great this roof is super tight this plastic is
super strong I'll tell you story about that in a second but looks great I'm
ready to get down off this ladder now I smell good that smell is you know the
Roma that is all right GERD being up on the roof honey
it's a good thing my bottomless facing this guy I guess otherwise we'd have
some holes in the teeth it looks great it does look great
oh my goodness think thank the Lord thank goodness is it's you know we had a
plan but you can have the best plan you want and it will still go all to pieces
so take days instead of hours yes we're lucky and blessed and that was the
hardest part of the greenhouse plastic for sure probably the hardest part of
the whole greenhouse I don't know it's definitely the most stressful yeah
definitely so I do not regret doing the roof in two sections no I don't see how
we ever would have got it done if it was one sheet of plastic now and a lot of
greenhouses that you'll see or I've seen you'll see whatever everybody sees they
like cover the whole thing at once which I guess is great for hoop houses where
you don't attach it on the roof but on something like this this is the only way
to go so if you're looking to build a wooden one do this that's our
recommendation it worked really well doing the rolling it out and doing it
bit by bit instead of leaning over the whole roof at once it did and that was
her idea I may not be able to execute it but I
can think it up you get a good borders and direction I can surely agree that
one well you think of a little fancy frilly thing
is it at the top I think it's cute it reminds me of a like an old carnival
tent or something like that and it's cool
so we put a circus tent on the top of our Hill my neighbors will love it as
well it sounds like a circus out here most of the time hey guys well the boys
are down there freaking out in the car ready to leave they're gonna go to
Mimi's house to plant some lilac bushes yeah Miley whistles flower stuff so go
ahead and let you run for that one I'm going to happily stay home then rest
after I clean up all my stuff well we appreciate all of you guys come along
have any questions or comments or anything leave them for us down below
otherwise I'll see you next time on the homestead see you guys bye so here's the
funny story I was up there straddling the rafters and it was about the point
of no return I realized oh crap oh crap so Angela grabbed me two two by fours
they're left over long enough to straddle at least three rafters one of
them did four so I was able to put some little screws in or not little screws
big screws in stick out a little bit put them here and that way the two by fours
wouldn't slide down on me I was able to use that as kind of a kneel on and stand
on top situation it was still terrible so I was up at the top I was getting
that last screw in and myself slipped off of the rafter and oh it's like boom
like immediately in hammock mode and that was really scary
but but testament to the roof it didn't tear it didn't drop me through it and
it's still tight you can't like tell that a body was laying up there Oh
things that are funny once they're done and over and your feet are safely back
on the ground so big kudos to I guess me for spending the extra money to buy the
really thick durable heavy-duty might have to hold your big butt between the
rafters because you slipped off the rafter greenhouse plastic we're not
supposed to have any wind in the forecast but you guys know how things go
out here so we put this kind of work pinned down
the plastic and everything making sure it's buttoned down because we don't want
all of our hard work to just blow away overnight because the weatherman was
wrong all right she's all buttoned down roof is done
yeah there's trimmed to do but that's gonna hold off and wait to see how the
sides pan out I want to make sure that the plastic on the sides are overlapped
by the roof if we can do that so leaving it long I'm gonna tack down and good
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