Your videos are a godsend at this time in my life. My wife is very ill and I just need something to watch to distract me. I have seen everything from the 2nd floor joists going in years ago. But your voice and videos just keep me from thinking about all that could go wrong. I know you later changed the roof angle, but even that roof held up. Nothing ever built to strong ever failed.

Been watching this for 2 years and you did a awesome job building this property up.

Makes sense using the rim joist, definitely stronger than a ledger board. You've made so many friends on YT that are cheering you on, folks wishing you much success.

I love how throughly you work, no detail is too small and everything about your work says ‘ done properly no shortcuts’ Consequently your house and land are starting to look picture perfect . I am envious!

Thank you for answering my question. A whole video was an added bonus. Glad you are using the Tico nails, their sheer strength far surpasses standard framing nails, so with the hangers and being nailed into the internal support board, this should definitely be stronger than just using a ledger. You'll likely have to clear snow off of the lower roofs, but I understand the aesthetics of the front and back roof pitches matching. You're doing an awesome job, I was just worried when I didn't see at least hangers in the previous video. (And yes, typically the hangers go up before or with the rafters). Great job, and great explaination.

Red poppy. Your doing a great job. Keep up the great work. Am a carpenter by trade. I like the way your doing things!!!!!!!!!! A little over kill,,,,,, never hurts on any thing. Being in snow country doesn't take much to have roof come down. Back here EAST COAST. In Connecticut saw 22" inch of snow in one storm winter year 10-11 plus there were snow before dropping 12-14" and then short time after another 12-16 " Yes saw a lot of roof go down. And wrecked a lot of building. Doesn't take much for roof to fall in with the right storm's take care. JUNKMANDO

The addition really gives shape to the house. Looks great!

Dad always said to build it "Bull Stout and Chicken Tight" so you're good. you built it pretty much the way i built my shop off the garage. i could have used 2x8 or 2x10 but i used 2x12s instead for snow load and due to a minimal roof pitch and for maybe a future deck or solar panels on top. the next winter we had 16" of wet snow sitting on it for over a week or so with no problems. you'll never regret using too much insulation or over building a structure i say.

A very good job well done. don`t stop the video`s they are wonderful. God Bless

It is crazy how fast the green left your background !! Love that view though 👍

May you never become injured doing the great work you're doing! Bravo! Excellent work!

Brings back lots of memories.

You're doing an amazing job Heath.

Love your journey! Such a great example of vision, implementation, and living the dream!

If you get a chance, putting down some late season fertilizer once its around full maturation will immensely help the grass through winter. Another great video my friend, great job!

Heath I loved the way you added "Rain" coming in and the " In-laws" coming at the same time. lol lol

great.. be sure that on the back door.. you have a second deadbolt or jimmy proof dead bolt installed at about 20 to 24 inches up from the floor to make it crazy hard to kick thru. there is a way to drill a shallow hole in the hinge side of the door. put a lag screw in.. cut the hex off. close the door to imprint the lag screw end on the door jam.. you can pound a piece of 1/4" galvanized water pipe and trim off the extra like you cut off the hex on the lag screw to make the door even harder to get thru.

I feel better now seeing the hanger put in. Thanks for explaining the background of your thinking. I forget some of the previous things you have said or shown about what you are doing. It makes sense now. I love your footwork while up on latter. Made me chuckle. Hey, when family comes to visit....put their ass to work and help out. ha ha Hope you have a fun and relaxing weekend. Can't wait for next weeks inspection. Should be short and sweet.

I hope it works when you get snow piling up on the addition, I think I would have opted for a steeper pitch, seen several barns in my area over the years where they built wings that collapsed because they had a flatter pitch than the roof on the main building. You're gonna want to shovel snow off that addition during heavy snow years to keep that from happening.

We love your videos, and greatly admire your work ethic! Totally agree with the statement of a generation who does not know how to struggle, happy you and your wife are teaching your children well. Excited to see the work continue inside this winter.

Nothing wrong with the way you did it. I always tack my joists then come back and install the hangers

Hi Heath, I loved the deja vue. It reminds us of how much work you've done, and points out the steepness of the terrain. The forecast "rain with in-laws" was pretty funny. ^^

Your doing a great job. Keep up the great work.

Just want to say thank you sharing your dream with all of us 😊 Many blessing to your whole family !

Agreed Heath! 10-20% OVER code is the way to go. Inspectors will love ya and you never have to worry.

Very nicely done.

Always enjoy watching how efficiently you work. Hope you're able to get it dried in so you can work comfortably in the interior.

That looks really good, great job on the rafters and snow load it will handle. Thanks for sharing.

I will share what happened at our two story house. Steel roof. Cantilevered deck from second floor, side of house under the dripline, built with 2x10s, some laminated (two 2x10s nailed together). Heavy snow load, which over the course of the winter accumulated a heavy base of ice. The snow load came down in one fall, and cleanly snapped off the deck, all boards were snapped off like toothpicks. It would have killed anything under the dripline, which fortunately was not a traffic area. I don't know what your snow load is, but I'd be nervous of accumulated snow coming down from the main house roof. We got about 100 inches of snow each winter, sometimes more, sometimes less. That winter there was a bit less.

My wife & I love your videos. Gradually getting through many of them. We also watch Pure Living for Life in Utah & My Self Reliance in Northern Ontario Canada. Close to where I grew up in Toronto. But... what’s really amazing is that people from different parts of the world can have similar views on life (we hate the banks & love our dogs) With all the crap going on in your country at present, I think you are wise to go off grid. Hope MAGA works for you guys. We appear to have many things in common... despite the fact that I’ve been living in West Australia for over 40 years now. Eg. Sheep... I’m on 2.5 acres & have my Polaris & Hustler Rapter Zero Turn to help me with the my yard. Solar on the roof & lots of trees. We spend weeks in our outback doing a little detecting / prospecting to get away from the traffic & congestion which creeps ever closer. Enjoy your life & keep up the videos. Cheers Trevor & Rose

Looking good. Just a bit more to go and you will have the addition dried in.

It's coming along really nicely! Awesome job on the house and awesome work on the videos!

Another awesome video. Thanks so very much. I so enjoy your videos.

Thanks for another interesting video. I m praying for you to get the addition done before the hard part of winter gets here.

Land of the free, home of the inspectors.

red poppy solid! I knew there was method to what seemed like madness! We all want you to succeed, thats where our comments came from. I know I do. Keep at er! All the best from Toronto.

You inspired me to build my own house, but yeah there's no land in Singapore 😅

Good job it is looking good. I love listening to you narrate.

You should do audio books your voice is so calming.

that declared my answer! Good idea to do it this way, well done!

Sorry for being one of the ones asking about toenailing the rafters . Lol. Didn't know about the Simpson connectors. All is well now. Ha ha.

Looks great just about dried in

I'm watching you from your first posts. You have many fans in Italia. Courage to you!

Each and every day brings this dream closer to fruition. Can there be any greater sense of satisfaction than a job well done and nearing completion? The only thing to make it sweeter will be the family nestled warmly inside together in this home. In some ways I will be so sad to this journey end. Yet, in another way, the joy and well wishes for completion are indescribable. To your journey!

Beautiful work Heath as always.

You had hangers in a box waiting to be used for a year and a half in an addition that you'd not even known that you were going to need. You're psychic!

Beautiful work Heath.

Great video - thanks for giving us all the skinny on this roof. You seemed slightly defensive - - it just seemed odd. I've never seen anyone add the hangers afterward. But I have seen people rely on toenailing, which of course is neither code or safe. Your roof now is never going ANYWHERE. I've always installed the hangers first, then slid/tapped in the rafters after - making it much easier to work by myself. I even had some 20' rafters on my porch - they were oh so much fun ;-} You are really jammin' Wonderful to see that you're going to beat the weather -- AMEN !

Lots of ways to skin a cat Heath and that's one of them. It will work just fine.In that situation I usually just put a skilsaw slice square in from the heel of that cut and slip a regular joist hanger in when I toenail the top to the line. Then I just come back and nailgun them on there later.Both ways get the job done. I prefer the way you've done it versus a ledger board for potential snow load.

Gotta love when people jump to conclusions. You did say that you were nailing the rafters to the rim joist... In my area, you can't have the plywood between the rafters and ledger board/rim joist, but it is considered acceptable to use the rim joist as you did. You clearly were not done with framing in your last video. Hope you get your inspection soon... Snows gonna start flying soon.

Make sure that your have good drainage around your house, that's a steep hill snow melt or a heavy rain could bring a lot of water towards your home.

I always enjoy your videos. Makes me want to build a home for my family. maybe in a few years.

Loving every video. Thanks for putting them out there for us.

Love watching your videos. You never know... Blessings.

Hello from oregon; Love your videos. Can't wait tell you can move in.

Right on! Great! Thanx for clearing up the questions! Again looking good bud! I am no way questioning your knowledge or abilities just curious! Keep up the good work!!

Great video.

Your roof looks amazing. I think your on the right track making it all flow the way you want it. Your over building will just ensure it to out last you in the end... I can't think of a better reason can you? Just think your grand kids can watch video of you building it... Sounds good to me. Great video

Great video!

Wow I really enjoyed this video! !Good job and so knowledgeable!

Really enjoying the videos and the story! Thank you!

Very nice build, thank you for sharing your knowledge. :)

Happy to see your progress, best wishes.

Always enjoy the content Good job as always I am willing to bet because its all tied in together those rafters could hold 300lbs or more easy. I retired as a finish carpenter so trust me when I say tied together its very strong.

Fantastic job. I can’t wait to see y’all get into this house. I know you can’t either.

I see now what Heath did now on the roof rafters. He lowered the Room Addition ceiling height so that the top of the rafters would run into the second floor Rim Board, and he used this Rim Board as the Ridge Board for the rafters.

Super job !!!, not bad for 1 man crew ....

Pulling be hangers on later is easier. A palm nailer works good on them.

Can you think that since you build youre house, i started mine? When i'm tired, bored, wet, cold, i think about you and i said to myself, come on, one more, until i finally finish the day. When i saw you get hurt by a plank, i was truly sad. But hopefully it wasn't bad. Thank you.

Great Work; happy with your approach -I'm an Engineer

Red! Nice work looks amazing.

Seem like allot extra work without that ledger board, not only do u need blocking for the osb but also drywall ceiling .

Nice job.Steve in Thailand.

Beautiful.

I built a 2x4 wall under my jost hangers on my adation to make sure the 2x12 never come lose from main house

I picked up a cheap air palm nailer at Harbor Freight that works great for nailing Joist Hanger nails. It saves a lot if fingers.

Awsome awsome video today thank u

I haven't been commenting lately, my right knee got infected, it had to be ripped out. I out I've been in hospital for three weeks.

good job on your project, wonder why you didnt put a steeper pitch on the roof, beings you had plenty of room under the windows. That would have helped allot for snow loads and slide off. thanks for posting, keep up the good work.

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I was gunna ask in the last video why no ledger board for your roof there, but you cleverly used the second floor ledger as the roof ledger. Nice. I would have slopped it a bit more but i know you were working in a height issue on the addition and the main house ledger.

Some day I'd like to drive over and just see this from the outside. I know we've seen it all in the video but I'd still like to see it all at once. Don't worry the odds aren't too high I'll make it though😂😂😄❗️

I was under the impression that I had to use a ledger board on the wall for the rafters, and I would have built things that way. But maybe this is not true. Maybe I can tap into the rim joist like you just did. Please, let us know if the roof passes inspection and what the Inspector says, because I am learning too.... so I'll rethink this ledger board issue. Also, you are absolutely correct about the snow loading - the way to have a stable situation is to increase the rafter sizes, and in your case, you upped the Annie to 2x12s; or increase the pitch. I forgot about your snow loading because I am here in Northern California. No doubt, a higher pitch in snow country really helps. But if you are allowed to have a low roof pitch by local code, then by all means, knock yourself out. 😉😉 May the Lord provide you with more resources, including 2x12s, to get the house finished. Great, great job!

Lookin good my man!

still Looking good keep going :)

Nice!

great joy

Hey mate. Been playing catch up watching your uploads. How’s the back holding up. Crikey I felt your pain down here in Australia mate Hope all is well. Keep on keeping on

had to draw them a picture. hope that does it there pretty hard headed.

you should look up this youtube vid and see how easy it is to get snow off your roof " Shovel Snow off Roof- Norwegian Style " or this one " Lume eemaldamine katuselt Snow removal from roof "

I hope it doesn't rain on your OSB. Why are you all alone? Your work would go much faster with a helper. Do you get cell phone service at the house? The grass looks good. By the way, why didn't you build a basement? You can dig a root cellar into the side of your hill/ embankment.

Ok I feel better now ! :-)

I was thinking that you should have used cheaper prefab trusts instead of 2x12" BUT at 2,000$ for the whole lot instead of 6,000$ is a steal !! Good for you ! I am also always looking for deals, end of runs, slightly damaged materials and stock them. 2 weeks ago, I went to the local "big box" lumber yard for some screws and saw they were clearing paletsfull of 1/2" x 7/16"x 8' quarter round moldings at 1$ each (!) Usualy priced at 8$C ! Bought 60 of them. Could'nt resist. BTW, regarding those hangers, I know they are now mandatory everywhere by code. But do you know they become useless after the house is dried in ? Unless you use kilndried lumber, the wood looses it's natural humidity content, thus shrinking cross grain, (not lenghtwise) and then holding on only by the 1 1/2" nails !! You did good by toe nailing them ! Take care, Heath !

The problem with no ledger board is that there is nothing to nail your roof sheeting at the house end. You could add blocking, but what a pain with the hangers.....

Hey Dude, it's not an LSU,..It is an LUS and it is just an acronum for "light u strap" or "light under strap" ..not sure which, I've never remembered to ask them when I've had them on the phone.

the slope on that roof should have been higher.. i think you are going to regret that down the line

I came across your channel recently and love it. I too have a remote place that I'm working to put a house on. It's in South Central Washington. I had one question - I see that the videos are dated 2016 but by following the sequence it looks like you've had a couple of winters. When was this video recorded?

im more for the ledger board my self then all the tyco nails. seems they split the wood and weaken. some where i have torn apart came aprt easy. but the ledgers always hold the weight. and if rot then pointless lol. so its all in type wanted.

looking good!!🍒🍒

Nice job ! Was wondering if your front porch will be screened in ? On hot summer nights with bugs it can be used a lot more and also be additional sleeping space for company with cots or air mattresses..