Graeme sitting up in the loft having a conversation with Don Commentsectione. "I'mma make you a comment you can't ignore, Graeme. You shall thank me for this later."

@10:48 - You're dad in the background trying to out smart Duke is a nice cinematic touch.

You have the best intro montage of all the KZfaqrs out there. And this is coming from a semi-professional amateur photographer.

Holy Woodness Momsarockstarness baby!!!! Let me make this perfectly clear my brother. Mom out worked you and Dad without even breaking a sweat today. You guys need to take a lesson from mom‘s playbook. I love the way everything is turning out, and the Dookie den looks better darker and the loft is really taking shape. Your godfather impression needs a little work buddy lol. And I think you need a few more two by fours just for the hell of it 😂. Keep getting after it big G. And if you ever want to finish this cabin, make sure you bring Mom with you every time lol.

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Not only funny but you can build💪🏻 You’re the best Gram! Paint the whole thing black, it will look like a cool loo🚽

16:20 The rest of the cabin might fall apart, blow over or tumble down the mountain, but in a 1000 years from now one thing will still be holding up that loft: this quadruple steel reinforced lag screwed load bearing header! You are doing such an awesome job, Graeme!

That was smart Painting those cieling boards white cusps to your mom. ❤

Love your sense of humour, so entertaining

Kid. You are so lucky to have your parents! Embrace and enjoy!! Keep up the good work and the comedy is a bonus 😂

Woodness goodness and a little bit of steel👌

Oh my goodness! You weren’t supporting a second story, you were supporting a balcony with a bed on it! Some KZfaq viewers have to put in their$.02 worth when they could have just enjoyed your video! You could have had a square dance on that floor and it wouldn’t have moved! Can’t imagine dealing with these armchair architects who have likely never built anything bigger than a garden shed! You’re doing good work and that cabin is going to look amazing and serve the purpose which it is intended to serve!

Lookin’ good! I love seeing your parents help you - great memories being made. 🩵

coming along! two solid floors to work from now -- progress.

😅😅 great impression... Don't listen to these people that think they know everything... Your doing great ..

Awesome as always. It'll be great seeing this finished.

Happy Easter! Nice to see Mom and Dad.

So glad you fixed it !!

Great team work makes the dream work!! Lovely to see your mum and dad joining you in building this cabin. Thanks for a great video once again! 😀

Fine job there pepperoni 😎

Excellent video. Nice to see the folks help out. Easy to see where you get your positive attitude. Great fix for the header, now you can sleep at night.

Love seeing the progress! Looking good!

Congrats on 200k. Looks awesome

Sending a ton of positive energy your way Graeme. Your videos over the last few years have provided me with mental health when I've been going through tough times. Seeing you and your parents getting after it and you figuring out, learning and making it work on the go to come up with something amazing in front of an audience is inspirational...now I'm just wondering when you're going to pull up that teardrop camper and stay overnight. ;-) (that was the first video that brought me to you and I loved your vision of a mobile sleep/work station).

Gram, your videos are great and the cabin is coming along so nicely! I appreciate you attitude, I'm currently building a truck camper using light materials I haven't ever built with before and its been a great learning experience. You inspire me to keep going even though I don't know what I'm doing, thank you for that! Looking forward to seeing more progress on the cabin!

Your content is great, always entertaining 👍 great work

Looking great! Watching from up north and downeast in PEI

I look forward to your cabin videos every Saturday!

Great call with the steel bar. Its all coming together now!

I'm also building a cabin in the mountains right now and something I learned is that king studs are just as, or maybe more, important than jacks according to some folks! I'm not consulting any engineers but other folks online have said that their engineers will often put more king studs than jacks when there's a heavy load. I guess it helps keep things straight more than the jacks. BUT I'm sure you're fine don't go put any more kings in there you've done enough.

Man that is some beefy headers. Great job!! With the steel it won't sag. For the stairs have seen some videos of stairs that fold and go against the wall. Seems like overkill, but gives you space when not in use. I would put the stairs on a track with wheels on bottom like a barn door. Then you can move from side to side when needed. Love the build man!!

Bro! You just substantiated it beautifully. Well done. Probably was sufficient enough for the loft on hindsight but that steel LVL? Money dude! Let’s go!!

Doing the king and jack studs like that was genius!! I thought you’d have to throw a couple more jacks in and reduce your door width!

Haha! Man y'all are a great team! You're hilarious man.

Your mom did a pine job sprucing up your floor! ❤️🇨🇦

28:00. Yes to windows in the middle section! I've been saying that to myself ever since you framed it in. It would look so good.

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take care of your moms. they love you and believe in you 💔 I miss her very much

Well it wasn’t going anywhere before the steel plate now it is there for good. The floor/ceiling being painted before you put it up was a great idea. As you can leave the runners/joists/rafters unpainted if you so wish with out the hassle of trying to paint around them. Two tone the door. Just the door.

Add thoses windows at the low level... it's going to be worth it!

Clever solution for the loft beam!

Don't you think you should add a couple more 2x6's next to that door 😂😂😂😂 just kidding Graeme great work, I love the progress. Cabin is looking great!

I don’t know, your work looks sturdy enough to me. ❤. I’ve seen videos where a frame was built with 2x2s 😳. I think you’re being very meticulous with your build. Great job.

What you need when drilling is oil to cool and lube. No oil and you’ll kill the bit in no time.

Woodness, the good thing is that when we watch you make all these mistakes, it means when we build our own cabins in the future, we won't fall into the same traps. Thank you! ... Which means we'll fall into other traps, but that's the way of things, eh? Also, the sticker you sent a few years ago is still happily living on my fridge.

Shameless stainless steel for the win!

Love the parental supervision time. Not sure what the steel plate did for you. But it sure looks impressive now.

I wonder if the stilts that the cabin is mounted to will support all that weight so that the whole cabin doesn't go rolling end over end down the hill? Maybe some steel cable X bracing from one split to another??? Dookie will appreciate you staining his house

Good stuff! My ocd says to put one last header bellow that beam to make it flush :D and As I said in your last video, switch the front angled windows with back ones, that way you will have better view in the front and lower edge of the window wont be that low in the loft :)

If you leave the hood up on your tractor, the mice won’t try to meet in the engine compartment

KZfaq is a place to learn things and a place where they tell you what your doing wrong. 👍 yep. Thats funny.

I remember when we bullied you into buying the Milwaukee framing nailer, and now you can't put it down 😂

Your critters need some sleepy time snacks! Those wires will taste nice!

Your are a thing of beauty and a glutton for punishment. Ring shanked nails might have prevented me from going any further. Very solid now I would say. Do you have a pro deal with GRK or something haha. Also loving the ebony stain....hope your thinking a dark siding colour for the cabin. Good stuff all around.

your so lucky to have, such awesome loving parents, enjoy their life celebrate them every day,

I voted for the thumbnail but I didn’t think you would use it twice!

That header is so overkill! You wasted so much time and energy! Haha jk good job!

Not sure if that header will be strong enough! Might need a second 1/8 steel plate. 😂😂😂just kidding..😂 that ain’t going nowhere. Been enjoying the progress. Thanks for sharing.

There are alot of back seat builders on you tube Lol. Graham you have come a long way in the time since I subscribed to your channel and I havn't seen the happy dance in a long time? Be happy my friend and don't let the critics bring ya down, life is too short to be worrying what others say or think other that the ones you love. It wont be long now and you will be sleeping over night and fighting off Duke in the middle of the night when you go to Duke's Dookie Den, I see a mini cabin for Duke in the future Lol , he's a persistant little trooper. You and your family take care and have a great Easter weekend my friend God bless❤💙

22:05 If you watch closely... you can see the moment Graham loses his mind.

Random thought, the loft side without roofing yer, what about adding a dormer on thar side? Allows you to add a window that can open and gives more room

Leave the plywood that is there on the side pointing to the view. You need as much lateral support on that wall as you can get. That's plenty of glass up high anyway. People aren't going up into the loft to look at the view. They're sleeping I'm sure....

Looks beautiful, metal plate should support a good thrust session with force up to greek god.

You’ll have to put some kind of sign over the door when all is finished. Like “KZfaq told me what to do and I did it!” 😂

Goodness I have to bing a few

The windows up top would be pretty sickkkkkkk 😬

That header was an absolute beast. Screw the keyboard warriors man..... Idiots dont know anything, Love from Ireland. Im currently living oin my building site with my wife, 5 yr old aand 3 dogds haha Love you guys

Do an update on shop build

That's called a flitch plate....sort of. That flitch plate should shut everyone up. Greetings from Texas....JB

Add more windows!

I wouldn't replace window header, I'm sure it would been fine. it not like you are going have building respecter.

Where are ya ?? Need my Woodness fix!!!!!

Header was fine as it was. How many people were you going to put in the loft?!

U should build duke his own dookie den next to yours

Spray some Tomcat rodent repellent around the tractor and on the tires. I’ve done it to a bus that had to sit for a winter and it worked. It’s non toxic And it just occurred to me, it’d probably keep duke away from the den

Maybe everything isn't perfect. But atleast it's better than the cardboard box that i would fail at building for myself.

Love these. Are you putting a wood burning stove in there? I do not recall.

Try peppermint essential oil on the areas the mice tend to dwell...

Bro, I did not get what others said but it seems that the only enemy is wind over there, the structure itself was fine as it is without that way over the top metal plate, concentrate on having the roof secure and the building secured on the ground.

😂 love it ❤..... Ignore the ##it nay sayer what would they know. 😂❤

Man I haven’t been keeping up with the videos but since I last watched I also got a Milwaukee framing nailer. My lanta is that thing a dream. Only thing I don’t like about it is it can’t hold two clips, is yours the same Gram?

Great video. What kind of shoes are you wearing in this video?

Ich verstehe nicht, was Sie sagen, aber wenn ich so zusehe, könnte das Haus bis ende des Jahres fertig sein. Kleine Frage, momentan wird alles auf KZfaq mit Stein gebaut. Kommt bei Ihnen auch so etwas ähnliches ins Haus? LG aus Nürnberg Bayern 👍👍

Your parents are so cute

That's not going anywhere!

One more retrofit and I'll stop. I swear. You need to beef up your middle stud on the back wall below the windows up top. In the center. Never too late for more windows! Thanks for the funny video.

Any ideas to cover the joist hangers, or are you letting them show?

Add the windows!!!!

As an professional amateur myself I'm now happy with your steel lam header! I've seen that done quite a bit over long headers like garage bays. I see something else you did wrong but I won't mention it until it's way to late to fix it! Jk lol 😂😂😂

how can you loose your mind in a serene place like that

Can I get a side of fries with that beef? Yes you can sir!

Good video bro you're a trip though I get a kick out of you but where did you get that big yellow bar at I want to get me one and do they got any more land up there like that like up way up there on top of the hill like you got let me know please I need to find me something nice out there

I assume since you painted the bottom of the loft floor your going to just leave it exposed as a finished look

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Graeme, talking to his Italian gangster alter ego in the loft: 😎🤌🏼 Graeme’s parents, outside hearing the conversation: 👁️👄👁️

Four inch probably means the tips are sticking through the osb on the outside.

Well done sir! Tell the whiners to stuff it! Lovin' your channel!

And where did you get that red saw handle at I like that song bro let me know please

is that stain one that needs a special UV light to cure? or did they just put UV on the can because its good in the sun?

Think you will be sorry if you dont put glass in those spots. Your cabin so your decision, but IMO it will be much better view out gable end with glass? Either way its gona be a great place to hang out!!!