Dugout Roof Dirt by @cahlen on 3Speak
I add a couple inches of dirt to the top of the dugout shelter in preparation for planting grass and to improve the roof insulation. --- ▶ Watch on 3speak.tv
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Hey everyone, Callan here, and in this video, I'm going to be adding a bunch of dirt to the top of the dugout shelter here. You can see it's already buried on all its sides, but the dirt is only about half an inch thick here, and I want to plant grass, and I'm probably going to need about three to four inches of dirt in order to pull that off. So that's why I put the roof beams inside the shelter to help hold it. basically help hold all the extra weight because the dirt will be heavy, then when the dirt gets wet, it'll be even heavier, and if it snows, it'll be even heavier, so I felt like I needed to support it just so I wouldn't be worried about it. So, anyways, let's take a look at the dirt, and then I'm going to show you how I'm going to do this. So here you can see the dirt is currently not very thick at all, so I'm going to have to add... quite a bit, and I'm going to want it to be as fine as possible, so I'm going to be filtering it through a little mesh. So here's the dirt pile I'm going to be pulling from. There's lots of rocks and sticks and all kinds of different things, so you can see why I'll need to be filtering it, and I'll be doing it with this thing, which is just a bunch of boards in a square with some wire mesh. and just need this wheelbarrow, this thing, a bucket, and a shovel. You can see the dirt is very fine now. There's some little clumps, you know, that break up, and there's little rocks. But basically this is what I want, and I'm just going to scoop this into a bucket, and then take it over and pour on top of the roof. Now I just got to keep doing that for a few more hours probably until I get to the right thickness. All right, finished what I'm going to do at this point. I think I'm only going to take it to about two and a half inches because I'm not going to plant the grass this fall. I'm going to wait till the spring. So basically I'm just going to see how the roof handles this much weight, especially when the snows actually come. So finished right as the sun is setting, and I'll give you a closer look here. So I measured it, and it may not look it, but that's about two and a half inches. And three or four is probably the minimum for grass, but like I said, I'll try that in the spring. So the extra dirt will also help with insulating the shelter during the winter because a lot of the heat gets out through the roof. And really the only other place that he's going to get out is in the leaks that are kind of around the doorframe and in the hole. where the wires go out for the solar and the radio. But I think I'm just going to leave those because those allow basically an air escape. So the air comes in through the bottom corner of the building and then escapes through the outside. So that keeps everything fairly fresh, helps keep the radon moving, and if carbon monoxide is building up, that kind of thing. So having a steady flow of air is really important. So anyways, that's adding dirt to the roof. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you guys later. Night Night.