Better to use standard insulation over spray foam so you're doing good. Everyone down the road has some sort of issue with it either it doesn't mix right and never cures and off gases or people seal their building so tight they end up with mold issues from any little moisture or they end rotting there structure because they get a leak in the outside envelope and the water ends up following the wood studs or purlings with no signs until its to late and your structure is rotted and ready to fall down. I'm a contractor by trade and see the crap all the time, I couldn't tell you how many roofs we have had to cut completely off because they were spray foamed and they got a leaks in the shingles ot vents or skylights and the water followed the sheating and trusses rotting them away and owners had no clue of the leaks till they had to spend 10s of thousands of dollars in new trusses and roofing. Spray foam has been keeping us pretty busy the last few years I don't recommend it to anyone we build for, I direct them right away from it and the ones who insist on it I put it in writing that none of the work is guaranteed at all and I show them the damage that having spray foam causes and most of them will steer away from it but a few insist on it.

I am not here to comment about the insulation but how great of a father you are by not only teaching your daughters about how to work with tools and spending time with them. Reminds me when my daughter was their ages and every time i had a project to do around the house she was right there wondering what i was doing, handing me tools which she made up different names for them, i.e. needle nose pliers was "nose pickers". Now i don't worry about her needing to get a repair person for majority of the things around the house. When it comes to something new she don't know about , she calls me ask for me to come over and talk her thru it, and boom, she's done it and learned a new thing. In fact her 2 younger brothers are the same way.

Young man, I've said it before and I'll continue to say it... you are so blessed to have those beautiful young ladies as your daughters! I am just so impressed by the fact that they aren't afraid to try anything! And they seem to be growing up so fast!! In no time Taleah will be heading out into the world to start her own family and then Autumn will be doing the same...then Tylynn and before you know it, Haylee will be heading out! Enjoy every second with them! You're doing a fantastic job teaching them!! Well done! Take care, be safe and God bless!

Well done...to the dad for being willing to teach his daughters about the rewards of working with your hands to create something and to the daughters for being open to learning how to do things that really make a difference to a family.

This reminds me of how I was brought up. I'm a female and I grew up on construction sites with my Dad. You are giving your girls invaluable skills. Please believe me when they get older they are gonna truly appreciate it.

Hey! That was fun to watch. The little saw you bought for 16.00 is actually designed to cut Mineral Wool or in most cases Roxul products. A hot wire is the best way to cut foam. The reason that spray foam is so expensive is the result of the snow storm in Texas a couple years ago. Spray foam is two part and the Red or common part is mostly manufactured by one company that has never caught up to demand. I work for Canada's largest Insulation distributor and had a blast watching your video. While there are a lot of ways to do a hot wire you managed very well. Great video, great fun and great kids ... Cheers from Nova Scotia

Well... what was supposed to be a video about insulation differences (and I did learn that), ended up being a restoration in faith of humanity. Love seeing the family being together for all the chores needing to be done - related to each one's capabilities. Good dad! Thanks for taking the time to produce this. Now I know what to do for insulating my own. (can I borrow your family? jkjk).

They are the hardest working young women I have ever seen. Good Job, Dad.

Those girls using the teamwork method of passing that wood to stack it up is the neatest thing ever!! You've done well Mom n Dad.... Absolutely warms my heart to see this.

You produce great videos. It's great to see your kid's helping out with your homestead, most kid's these days won't do this.

What a fun dad. The girls are blessed to have you.

I really enjoy seeing the girls help out. There are so many skills that children can learn watching and assisting 'geterdun' relatives.

It's so nice to see the kids learning how to do stuff. It will benefit them forever.

Your lucky to have so much good help. Never heard one complaint. Teaching good work ethic and independence. Good for you!

I think it’s awesome that you’re teaching your daughters how to do this kind of stuff! ❤

That's a good hard working family you got going there sir !!!! Seeing kids not glued to some sort of electronic device gives me hope that's there's still some good parents in the world raising their kids the right way !!!

You should have cut strips of 1 1/2 to fit between the 2x6s then put the 2 inch over that. I didn't on one of the walls in my shop and I basically created mouse condominiums with roads. When I took some of mine down i had a mess. Blocking the pathways with more foam board helps a lot with rodents.

Great to see your family working together. Learning at a young age stays with them for a lifetime.

You've got such a great family. Kudos! I'm a retired GC 48 yrs lived in the UP. Moved to Florida in 1978. Built many steel buildings and pole barns Those bottom holes you are Using for venting allows Rodents (mice) To move in and they will They will eat holes in the Insulation We used a manufactured "L" flashing Around the bottom You could still do that

It's great the way you worked with your kids. That's real memory making. I would always let my sons work with me when I would do household projects, build custom cars or work on the motorcycles. We all learned something. To this day, we all put the things we learned to use.

Great job Dad! You are definitely setting your girls up for success. Teaching them to work with their hands and not being afraid to get dirtied up in the process. Beautiful work - Beautiful family! We need more of this in today’s world. 😎 👍👍👍👍👍

props to you for being a good dad, work is good for everyone :)

I appreciate you teaching your kids your craft. I learned the basics from my dad and have expanded that knowledge base when needed.

Ex Yooper here. Thanks for showing this. My husband wanted to spray foam ours...this video quickly talked him out of it 🤣

I love the way you are raising your daughters. Never got married and I always wanted to have daughters in the image of there mother. Keep on teaching them the way you are.👍👍👍👍

Your channel is always fun to watch Chad .. I’m so glad there will be no hiking through two feet of snow at 6 in the morning just to get to the car this year. It’s great to see all the family working together!🎉❤

I’m glad the whole family is backed miss you all big time

Thank you SO much for the laughs! I have Raised 5 children and have 3 grandkids I adopted at wonderful teen age. Love the signage on protecting your hearing. God bless your daughters for stacking that wood perfectly. You did good.

Great parenting!!! You’ll never regret the time you spent with your daughters. And they’ll never forget the time they spent with their father.

It's always a good day to get a video from you guys. Keep safe on the homestead

Love the interaction with your girls. Great job. Something they’ll talk about the rest of their lives.👍

The girls are a wonderful help! They sure help in the family. Dad, you are raising them up right. Great video.

You are a good man - teaching your children to live LIFE !

Great to see the kids out working and helping. They might not understand now but they will be a lot better off in life later on.

It's always good to see an awesome Dad working with his kids teaching them skills and hard work insulation is looking great keep up the great content

It's so heartwarming to watch you giving your beautiful young ladies great lessons in building and creating things. It's a incredible honor to be able to do that for youngsters. It ensures their future of self sustenance and the ability of being able to handle anything life throws at them. Watching them just stack the wood blew me away!!! They learned there's strength in numbers!!! Keep up the great work brother, I'm looking forward to watching more of your progress!!!

As a dad, I very much appreciate your candor. Love it!

You're building character in those girls that will last them a lifetime. Families like yours give me hope for our future.

Tuck tape is best to seal up the flat foam to foam connections and then use canned foam for angles or any awkward, gappy areas. Need a sealant at the floor to foam connection as well.

Great job teaching the girls how to use tools and their hands to make things. That's more educational than anything they will learn in today's schools. Great parenting!

You are an awesome father for teaching your kids how to build stuff.

Those girls are amazing Chad . You two are amazing parents . So excited to see another video from you . 🙏💕

You've got a great team - an all GIRL team to help you, Chad! I don't know if they complain any when you give them chores to do but even if they do grouse a little, they get the job done. That's the important thing! Your shop/garage is going to be so much more comfortable year round with that insulation. It'll be a pleasure to work out there. God bless you all and I look forward to seeing the progress at your homestead each time you post!

Always happy to see you guys. Love the laughs you give me. Great job girls on the wood stacking. Beautiful barn/workshop. Nice and clean and it's going to look really nice when finished. See you soon. Love you guys ❤️🥰

Congrats on the million view video !!!

We had the same problem when insulating an addition, and most recently a post frame woodshop. The spray foam guys wanted insane prices!! 6k for the tiny addition -more than the addition itself costed! The cost for the woodshop was close to 20k! We used batt insulation with Insul-Hold strips on 3 of the walls, XPS and batts on one wall, and batt and blow-in in the ceiling. If you are willing to do it yourself, you can save massive amounts of money! Note: Foamboard adhesive works dramatically better on XPS foam like that, and you can cut the XPS by scoring and snapping, cut it on a table saw, or a very sharp knife as well.

I get a big smile when I see you post a video. Just love the whole family.

A great dad can teach a skill and have fun doing it. Nicely done!

Y’all your girls are awesome workers. You and your wife are doing a awesome job as parents. God bless y’all. 👍🏻🇺🇸🤠

I think the world of your family your raising them girls to know there worrh and will be able to take on the world good for you ,thanks for sharing love you guys videos

That is awesome family time your teaching your daughters something they will never forget and will always remember helping you with the shop ...Hats off to you brother love the video ...

Teaching the kids makes me smile a lot. ❤

I would use a small bead of spray foam between each sheet instead of PL adhesive. Also start by placing the first sheet on the bottom (beded in spray foam) then stack the next sheets on the way up, leave a 1/8" to 1/4" gap on the sides then fill the side gaps with spray foam. Alternatively there is special tape for sealing foamboard seams.

Just love how you teach the girls!

One Pair No Spare !!! Great video, my kids are in there 40’s and are truly a blessing to my wife and I, and I think it’s because of family participation in everything we did #1 was church all the way to house building, to family business, keep it up !!!

Another great video everyone! It looks like things are getting done for those cold winters up there. Here in southern Virginia it is a remarkable 80 degrees today. Too bad I don't have those girls to help me get a few things done. I'd really like to get my 2 decks painted before winter but at my age I have a hard time getting motivated. LOL A shout out to Tylynn for making me laugh when she started out the video showing those cannons. 😊 I knew it was going to be a good video. Looking forward to the next one and I hope all continues to go well for everyone there. Have fun, enjoy life, be safe. 🙏

I did my shop roof a few years back. Made a huge difference! HOT TIP--Your sawsall, circular saw or table saw would be much quicker and likely produce cleaner cuts. Even if the latter two will not cut all the way through, it's still far less hand work. Thanks for sharing this great project with us!

You have the Greatest Crew. Daughters are so special!

Great to see your kids working with you!

Looking great Chad those girls never cease to amaze me you and the Mrs. have done an outstanding job raising them the dig right in and stay focused till the task is done and learn every step of the way i did a 32×50 pole barn the same as your doing some 20 yrs.ago that's the cheapest and most efficient way to do it labor intensive but so rewarding have a great week all of you see you on the next one or the car channel

You are good Dad Chad. Taking time and Teaching them all of your skills. Well done stacking all the wood girls 👏👍😃

I’m impressed of how hard your daughters are working and learning! They do more work in one day than my lazy son does in a month!

Great job helping your dad Taleah

You can use a circular or table saw to cut your insulation also. Great to see the kids join in and help. Great content.

Love it that you get your kids out “doing”. Love them by teaching them. Great video, wasn’t interested in insulation though. Was interested in watching you model to those kids.

Blessed beyond with your daughters. Learning so much. Awesome work.

Well, that was the most wholesome thing I've watched since I saw that Mister Rogers documentary. You get a sub just for being awesome. That's just some top-flight parenting. Thanks for making your corner of the world a little better.

Adding the foam to your garage doors will change the weight of the doors which will effect the counter balance with the spring. You may need to add tension to the springs.

Watching this for one reason enjoyably turned into another. I came for some ideas for my garage, stayed for far more than that. The style & comedic level of your fathering is exactly what I do with my children, & its a relief to see it still exists outside my home. Your doing good bringing your daughters up, very good & it shows. I strive to do the same with my children, so whatever you do dont stop. If im ever to meet you, id be happy to shake your hand. In the meantime, my subscription will have to do. Thanks for the content, its been to long since ive gotten to see this level of family wholesome entertainment. Merry Christams to you all & God Bless

Safety glasses are no joke. I had a 16 Penney nail come back and stick in my eye when hammering on hard oak. Since then I live with one eye. Now I always wear glasses.

I like that you are teaching your children. FYI: I saw that you have a hoist attached to the bottom chord of the roof truss. The top chord is the load bearing part of the truss. The bottom chord is typically designed for minimal loading.

Great video. Wonderful family!🙏🏻✌🏻

Really awesome barn/garage. So glad ya, all got a more up dated home stead. Last house I had on a bigger lot had a 36' X 40' and sheeted the rafters on top & installed a set of steps & had storage area. Always good to see you & your family on a project. Get ready the chill is coming. Heading up to Hillman Michigan Sunday. See if I can put some meat in the freezer. Be safe, be kind & we are all waiting on the next video. Later.

It's awesome that you've got your daughters helping you. What a great experience for them. One hint on cutting foam. Use a Jig Saw with a long blade. Cuts like a hot knife through butter.

I remember doing a lot of this same stuff with my dad about sixty years ago and I felt good about being able to help (although always under pressure to not screw something up). My dad wasn't nearly as nice about explaining how to do it first heh. I did learn a lot as it just so happened (or else) and as a result, I always felt pretty confident to try to do my own repairs (home and auto) as an adult. But I sure wish that I had Utube back then heh. You are doing a great job with your family...I know the difference.

Great video. FYI, I just saw another channel have to remove their metal siding and add the metal covering the bottom of the sheet metal to prevent mice from going up the grooves in the metal siding. Mice can destroy your insulation from the inside out.

Great video of how to be a dad. Construction info was good but the unsaid lessons of work and including the goofy kids to learn to do for themselves was awesome. Great job dad!!!

Great Job! Its wonderful that you take time to teach your children!

Way to go girls since dad seems to be only playing around. lol Great job on the cord of woods. Insulation looks great also. Will help soon. Take care.

Love your videos and your girls are so helpful and lucky to have you 💗.

Awesome family team, great video ! Thank You all 👍😘 From Alaska.

It doesn’t surprise me that your girls step up like they do despite your picking. It won’t be because they weren’t taught that is for sure. Be proud of them as I am for they are not mine. You’ve done well and it helps when you have good help. The girls aren’t slow either. They fire chained that firewood. Great teamwork. Most impressive. Thank them always for good help is hard to find and very rare nowadays. Press on sir!

Notice how the boards are scored, so you can easily snap them into halves or thirds? You can use a utility knife to make score marks wherever you need to snap off a chunk. HTH ✊🤓💜

I bought a spray foam setup to do my steel building after seeing my neighbor use insulation boards years back. His metal rusted pretty quick due to sweating. At least use butyl tape on the board's perimeter so there's no air penetration, that stuff stays pliable and sticky no matter what temps drop to. Great channel BTW, I subbed, you got a nice setup!

I did the same thing in my pole building for the same reason. Worth the work.

I started the video for the content but the bond you are making with ur daughters melted my heart. U are a super lucky and a good dad

Usually you should wear safety glasses but I’m standing on a ladder so it’s okay… I love it! A man after my own heart.

Hi Chad it has been a while I thought you were not doing homesteading type of videos any more.I thought you were doing car stuff anyways nice to see you back.Those girls of yours are i believe rare such hard workers so helpful to good old dad.Great job on the wood stacking girls your a lucky man Chad.See you on the next one bye from Quebec Canada.

They have plastic washers so when you use screws they do not just sink into the foam but hold it securely. Also easier to tape the joints then use caulking. Mice will enter all those metal siding channels. There was a trim that would have blocked the channels along the bottom.

Great dad teaching his daughters!

I watched your video on clearing land a few years ago and I did that also with a little twist. When I piled the brush and logs, I rented an industrial wood chipper for the weekend for a couple hundred dollars. It mulched everything under 10 inch in diameter. I can uses mulch on my garden, orchard and flower bed. Once all your piles are ready, it takes no time to clear acres of land. Then I started the process all over again. It just an idea to make life easier. Peace from Canada 🇨🇦.

The walls are going to be full of critters . If you need ventilation , fill the openings with stainless steel wool . I have used it to keep out critters as small as ants .

Best way to cut it hook up a wire to battery long enough (9 volt should work for a while) on a switch to make a circuit. Close the switch battery turns thin wire red hot slice your foam

It is good to see you and your family. Teach them young that your girls are not afraid of hard work. Looking good.

👍 I did the same with rigid foam and saved a ton over spraying. My hand will never be the same after cutting each piece by hand lol. Don’t make my mistake- Get a heated element knife. Cuts that stuff like a hot knife going through butter. Be careful with that wood pile… The weight of all the combined wood is more than enough for that corner support.

Ornery old engineer here and I have to say that it is so refreshing to see a young family like this!!! Some of the best memories my siblings and I have are working with our father! Kudos!!! Unfortunately, I have to advise you that the air gap you created will be a nightmare for you. With the gaps to ground at the skirt board, you've created an absolute haven for field mice. They will devistate your insulation within just a couple winters. Moreover, their urine will accelerate failure of the coating on the steel siding. Secondly, your premise for the air gap is incorrect and a very common misunderstanding. Reading SPFA-134 would have quickly helped you with that understanding. You have created an environment that will actually result in condensation on the back of the steel siding dramatically shortening its life. Moreover, while I agree spray foam is ridiculously costly, it absolutely is not an issue when the PROPER foam is PROPERLY installed in a pole building. The aforementioned reference is the guide, and all the large steel siding manufacturers I can think of off-hand are ok with it. What is hard to find is an educated and experienced foamer, and you also shouldn't install it on typical econo-grade pole barn siding typical on residential buildings (29ga) because of oil canning. Thirdly, if you do not have a moisture barrier under the slab, you will like have constant elevated humidity and condensation in the interior. There are some coatings that can be applied to the slab - none are DIY - to create an after-the-fact barrier. Fourth and final, and if you are concerned, your installation does not meet the State Code. You're not providing a compliant thermal barrier. Truly, I hate to be critical, but because you have a large following it's important to share an appropriate understanding. There's nothing wrong with DIY, but it's best done in an informed manner such that it is also do-it-once. Best to you and your family in 2023!

We love our closed cell spray foam. Not only is our home better insulated, it actually cuts down on outside noise. We used to hear cars passing by all the time (we're not far from the street), now it is perfectly quiet inside.

I cut the same insulation and the squeaking of it was the only thing that bothered me lol. Great to see your kids involved we try and do the same thing teach them even the simple things. Great video!

Funny humor and great kids. Love video.

Glad we did the spray foam on the ranch before the big price jump… wow