Two things: 1) If Isaac had a beard, he could be Sam's twin. Love that he was also learning. 2) ANGELA! You are so blessed to have a man who can admit his errors and learn from them.

It’s okay Sam, we all make mistakes. It looks great.

Very cool that you had Isaac to help you. I'll bet that made him feel very important. It was also very cool to let him see you admit you made the mistakes. That way he will know that if he makes mistakes, it's not the end of the world. You are a good dad Sam!!

Isaac, your a great helper for your dad and I bet mom as well. Keep helping and learning from dad and you'll go far So important to learn these skills So many young men don't even know what a hammer is. Way to go dude!

I was surprised to see a carport installed on piers. Having the tractor, I probably would have tried to do some grading, and then poured two continuous footers on flattened ground. I hope everything holds up with time.👍

he's a blessing and so proud he helped dad ,awesome

Honestly who cares if it is off a little. It’s a very nice carport and you will enjoy it even if it’s off. Plant some flowers around the ones that bug you so you can’t see the imperfections. Be proud of yourself and your accomplishments. As a past homeschool teacher I love it that you and Angela are not only doing the book part of learning but also hands on learning part. Your kids will be better prepared for life because you have taught them how to do things for themselves. Keep up the good work.

Your helper looks just like you. Nice to have a great helper like that!! ❤

It's always fun to work with the little ones, y'all did great.

I think it’s cool to have a place to put a drink other than the ground 😂 happy accident. Isaac did good in class today, showed up prepared with pencil and paper 📝 Have a great weekend

Looks like y’all made lemonade from the lemons! Isaac was a good helper!

Just presented an embellishment opportunity. Hedges. Flower boxes. Stacked stones. Gravel built up. Or metal skirting. All good. As long as it still supports the structure, you’re good! I still think it needs walls and big garage doors. ❤❤❤❤❤

Love the feral boys! Thank you Sam ! Love it!

Nice little helper! Good job Isaac.

I think you spent a reasonable amount of time and effort getting it as good as you could. It looks fine to me. If it still bothers you, plant some boxwoods along the footings or box in the footings with metal siding.

Sam you are pretty hard on yourself, a perfectionist always is ! So good to see Isaac being involved, you have very bright little guys there ! I will be sending out another order next week 👍

You had the smartest and cutest helper on site. Great job Isaac.

GOD BLESS YOU SAM! Your not wrong very often your a good man! Issac was a good helper!

To the naked eye, Sam looks fantastic. Being a perfectionist sucks, doesn’t it? I’m one too and we lose sleep because of it. Don’t kick yourself too much. Life goes on👍

Isaac is your MINI-ME! He did a great job as your assistant!

Sam, you’re a man with integrity.

None of us are perfect. You all are close enough. Absolutely beautiful family. ❤

My dad would have been so careful, measure measure measure... then if it ended up off, he'd say "ehh, it ain't no church!" LOL. Nice homeschool lesson with all the math! Love the spider.

I love it Isaac looks like Angela. The boys are so sweet reminds me of when mine were small.

Sam that saying goes if you're afraid to make a mistake you'll never learn anything. I think you did a great job and maybe you can even get the carport company to put those specs for the pre-drilled holes on their plan so that the next person will know.🎓

if you ever do this kind of job again , stake borads on line of your peirs then do the other side , when you have your tubes in hole back fill around them will keep them in place and you can get your squear lined up and move any not just right

Just a Dad knocking out three homeschool lessons in one project. 1. Applying math to real life. 2. Learned how to be humble with grace. 3. Arachnology.

All is well as long as the structure is secured.

You did a great job, first time pouring that many piers. Isaac's math skills are doing great. Good job.

I saw that in the build video and wondered what the issue was. It was your first time doing piers. Next time if you do you will know the process. God bless you all with your much needed shelter.

Oh my goodness can Isaac be any cuter? What a great helper!

We have considered buying a car port recently. I am so glad you are sharing what you learned. Thank you! I look forward to seeing your next video! Isaac is so cute! Good job, Buddy for doing such a good job helping Dad! Take care, guys! God Bless!

Thinking of ways to gussy it up...put box forms around the piers and add more concrete (may not stick well to old concrete) or fill in between piers with landscape timbers/railroad ties. Best option, level that ground up to top of piers with crushed stone/lime mix.

Hi Sam Angela & boys,Isaac is so cute & such a good helper.He did an awesome job helping.Sam it’s ok & it looks great.Have a great week!🌷💕🌷

Love your videos. The people that put it up. May the lord bless and protect you and your family

The carport looks good. The diagonal measurement being off is probably from the crew trying to adjust to keep the uprights from being off from the piers. With the anchoring holes being drilled 6" off from where you expected them to be, they probably "fudged" to keep the anchors in the piers as best as they could. Lots of unknowns and learning in this project. Don't beat yourself up. It's a carport, not a watch. Thanks for the video

I still love your videos. Your family is so great 👍. Glad you showed went wrong with your building. Always great to learn 😊.

So relieved that it is ok and you are happy .Isaac had fun too.

I know it’ll drive you nuts as a fellow perfectionist. But butt sometimes you just have to let it go. 😅. It tickles me to death to watch your boys!!❤❤

Oh man, so much prep work with those piers. It's good it still works, though! That's the main thing! Love Isaac's little vignette with the spider and his Jedi cap, goin' inside now 😄

It’s okay it looks great and I know you will get great use of it.

Looks great. Things happen in preparation that you don’t anticipate. Just have to roll with it. You and the builders did great.

Little guy is Adorable! I think he favors dad and the other looks like mom. Some little cuties and good little helpers.

Much respect Sam on sharing your learning on this beautiful Service Port. Isaac did a great job as your assistant!

Thank you for this video. We have recently started talking about building such a structure. You gave us good information and items to clarify with the manufacturer/installers.

It looks fine. No one will notice it in the future unless you tell them. The most important thing is that it functions properly and It certainly does. 😊 Isaac is a real cutie. He reminds me of my youngest grandson. Your boys are a real blessing. 😊

Sam you did your best. The carport looks safe and that’s what is important. I’m sure you will get many years of use from it.

Sam you are human. People make a mistake it’s normal. Don’t worry about it happens to all. I can’t wait to see more projects. Rebekah

Well Sam, no one is perfect, but I can't remember when you have ever made a mistake, so I would call this one a miss communication with the contractor, but your structure still looks great 😊😊😊❤❤❤

You are a good Dad. Well done

Great job Sam! On the next one you already know what to watch out for!

Your boys are the cutest, ever!! Blessings to your family, always...

I just finished building a 50’x60’ pole barn. I had several piers that were off a bit - a couple by quite a bit. It was my first time and I learned a ton. I got the building itself square but had a couple of poles that I didn’t plumb correctly and my fascia is a bit wavy. Lots of other mistakes made along the way. In the end, the building is sound and looks good. One of the things that I can share is that I learned a lot more from the mistakes than from the things I did correctly. Thanks for sharing. It takes a good man to admit that publicly and I just wanted to share that you aren’t alone

It looks great and will be functional. It’s just drive your ocd to the max. But you learned we learned they learned. It’s alright.

Issac You were a Great Record Keeper & I for one think You deserve an A+ for Math this qtr. SAM, I don't know anything about building that Carport Barn ? But, AS LONG as the Integrity of the Building is NOT compromised-I THINK IT LOOKS GREAT That Issac is definitely A Mini You! God Bless You All...

Isaac did a great job, and is so well behaved, both your boys are delightful!

As long as it is safe you did good . and it looks good too .

Hey! This is a great learning experience for both of you. I made a similar mistake building my first deck. I had asked a friend for advice on digging the piers. Long story short, my take away was "8ft on centers". That's how I dig my concrete piers. When he came to look at my work, he asked what my thought process was, then informed me that only the inner piers are constructed that way. The outers have a shorter span. He ended up helping me build the thing, and with some clever positioning off the joists we avoided cutting down 10 foot lumber to make 8 footers 3 inches longer. He also made it a cantilever design and got me an extra 2 feet of depth. Thanks James!

I LOVE the carport!! Your homestead is coming right along. Love seeing home school work in real life. GOD bless

It all looks great and that little guy is just the cutest.

The structure is beautiful and I don’t think anyone can tell. You all still did a great job!

Sam - go to a metal store and get a piece of steel channel that is the total length of the carport. Anchor that into the column, then bolt the carport to the channel. It will be strong enough.

Hey Sam and Issac- good video. Nice structure so it’s a little off but overall was a good build and learning never stops. Thanks for sharing 👍

You are fantastic dad you are teaching your son and also teaching him it’s ok to make a mistake and it won’t be the end of earth

We kind of did the same thing. We just built a box at the base around our forms and now we can’t even tell that we were off 😂

looks like it will be very sturdy and enjoyable.

LOVE that you are having Isaac help you! IF my calculations are correct - off 3" out of 241" - 1.24% - NOT significant... MOVING right along... Isaac is great at doing quality control on the strength of the braces - GOOD WORK JEDI MASTER!

I think your carport looks good. It's certainly much better than I would have done. Enjoy it.

Well gee Sam we all make mistakes and as long as you’re happy with the overall outcome then all is good 👊🏻👍💪🏻

Carport looks great, I love it.

What a sweetie. Beautiful smile.

Was a great help and so adorable

sam carport looks great

It looks great and will serve its purpose well. It takes a big man to admit his mistakes; Sam, you’re a big man…..in only the nicest of ways! Great job Isaac!!!!!! You’re a big helper👍🏽

A little confused. But then I am recovering from encephalitis! Lol! In n earlier video you showed the build done, sidewalls even. I think you did fine. It will serve you for years. Enjoy. Love that you are humble to admit you were wrong. Enjoy moving in!

Rock-filled Gabion baskets around the piers!

My opinion is it looks pretty dang good. God bless.

Issac , what a quitie . Blessed

Thanks for the explanation on what went wrong.

The world needs more young Jedi. 💜

If you should want to do this again, I’d recommend setting the 4 corners and getting the box square, then setting the individual piers. The anchor bolt hole positions should have been called out on the plans. It’s best to have the columns on top of the piers to transfer the load correctly. Anyway, nice looking carport and kudos for showing that even dads can be wrong.

It looks absolutely perfect to me

This is amazing! I hadn't considered lining up the piers with the legs - I am not making piers 4 ft subterrain but did plan on driving earth achors between piers. Also my carport is only half this size. I feel so much more confident about this project now having seen it done and turn out even better than I envisioned. I actually was starting to make some design changes due to my trepidations I was looking into composite footing pads and precast and composite piers or posts and I'm really relieved to know that my original plan will suffice. It was a pleasure seein this I'm gonna go ahead and sub with the idea that great minds think alike!

More anchoring points can be added if you want. I had all my uprights every 4 feet, much easier to enclose in the future, and is about 25% stronger.

Thanks for the explanation! Sharp hat, Isaac!

I did this with a fence i put up at my first house, luckily I didnt pour any concrete for the posts so i could pull them all and reset. What a PIA. Doing it myself i fell off center on the first post and it multiplied so much that by the end post I wasn’t even close to the post with the panel. Kinda stinks that those tubes are so large and permanent but they still work. Just be glad you didnt wet set any brackets into the posts.

Sam, we also moved to Tennessee last year and my husband and I are so impressed with how much you and Angela have accomplished! Also your young son is growing up to be a fine young man.

Looks good enough n for what you're doing with it. And the flaws just add character.

I think it looks fantastic!!!

I Would definitely fix that one pier that has rebar anchoring the structure. Drilling a new hole and installing an anchor bolt is relatively easy.

Great job anyway, it came out great and rust free from being installed on the ground. Glad also that the roof panels are running up and down. The other type that run horizontal is cheaper but comes with the disadvantage that leafs will be stuck, not be able to run off and create a leaf pile and eventually rust and leak. Great choice.

Truely good men can admit their own error and still know their great worth. Love y'all.

Over size the holes than you can set the sono tubes where you want them it happens to all of us still nice job and keep teaching the little guy we need them

Cool jedi hat. overall, it still looks really nice and will come in very handy. Awesome job to all.

It worked out though. With wood it's measure twice cut once. With Metal it's measure 4 times cut, stop halfway measure again finish cutting. With concrete it's measure 4 times, set, remeasure reset. Measure again. Stop. Stare. Obsess. Measure again. Set forms, stop part way, remeasure. Set more forms. Measure again. Finish forms. Measure once or twice more to be sure. Lose sleep night before pour day., pour day measure again, have seven cups of coffee while trying to recover from no sleep, measure again. Ask someone to double check your measurements. Start pour. Stop at least three times to measure again, just to be certain. Finish pour. Reconsider measurements while waiting to set. Finish trowel. Lose more sleep waiting to strip forms. Strip forms in zombie like state due to lack of sleep. Remeasure. Think to self you most likely screwed up somewhere. Give up. Build project, during build realize you forgot to carry the two. Dang, too late. Been there a bunch.

You have a great helper there👍

You probably won’t see this; however, here goes. no complaints from me. I’m just a youtube lander anyway. Just want to suggest you find a way to block any openings in the metal to keep out hornets and the like from nesting. I’m assuming the posts are hallow. Awesome carport. I’m sure it will be super useful to you. Thank you for sharing your time with us.

It is good to know why it happened ….new constructions are very seldom Perfect…but in the end all is well that ends well and the the structure integrity isn’t compromised. I’m sure it will serve you well….. issac is a great little helper 😊

You can always add an anchor to the rebar end for extra safety

You guys are the best ! Thank you