Building Cabin Using a Sawmill! | Red Roof, Chimney Flashing, Fireplace Installation Ep8

It’s time to install our beautiful red tin roof by Vic West on our small off grid cabin in the Canadian forest! Roof was supplied by Vicwest Building Products (Roof): https://vicwest.com/.

We are now working on the outhouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j1N5TOmBLI

The roof is fastened together with metal screws with a rubber gasket that makes the roof remain waterproof. Installation is over milled strapping 2 foot on center in each rib of the metal roof. The completed roof went up in about 2.5 days including the tricky part, installing the gasket around the chimney pipe. We did this using a metal sleeve, prefabricated and insulated double wall chimney pipe through the ceiling. We really wanted to install the chimney correctly so that it wouldn’t leak and would be safe to use.

Norwood Portable Sawmill: https://www.norwoodsawmills.com

On this off grid cabin build project we put our sawmill to use by milling wood on the spot to create an off grid small cabin in the forest.

We are hoping to beat the Canadian winter and get a cabin that is comfortable enough to sleep a few people. The main goal is to produce something that brings us closer to nature, not something that helps us escape. Life is really about producing balance.

Later will will us the Norwood Portable Sawmill to turn dead standing trees into lumber, which is the goal of this build; use materials around us to create something beautiful.

This whole series is about building an all-seasons cabin that will house more than a few people. The idea is team-work, use of tools, hand tools and power tools when possible to construct something great that will bring us closer to nature and provide balance to our lives that we so desperately crave.

This isn’t about escaping the rat race, this is about getting close to things that help us get balance in our lives. Too much of anything, including isolation is horrible for the soul.

In this series we use materials around us to construct a small forest cabin.

We’ll use cedar, pine, ash, maple, and whatever else we can scrounge up from the 30 acres around us. The aim is to avoid using as much store bought material as possible and keep the budget reasonably low.

Originally we set a budget of $1000, but that included the use of a frame from an old camper trailer. As we build, the budget will remain flexible in effort to produce a cabin that we are proud of and one that will last a long while, be comfortable, and sleep real human beings.

In episode 1, we dig in our “foundation” from reclaimed pressure treated 6×6 posts, level, and set the lower foundation in place which will then accept the first floor of the cabin.

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