Dugout Shelter Roof by @cahlen on 3Speak
The roof to the dugout shelter is complete! It's triple protected against water leaks, and the whole structure feels much more stable now. --- DONATE: CONTACT: SUBSCRIBE: GEAR LIST: NOTICE: --- ▶ W...
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Hey, everyone, Cowan here, and yesterday I got the roof up on my dugout shelter, so let's take a closer look. Okay, here it is. I decided to go with OSB, despite people saying that was a bad idea, and I do think it was a bad idea, but I'm poor, people. Okay, so there is a slight incline there. You can see... Rain or melting snow will roll off the back. Got a little bit of an overhang on the front and the back. Now we're going to go down the ramp, which doesn't have stairs yet. Okay, so here's what it looks like on the inside. So basically there's two support beam. There's this beam going across here and this beam going across here. and those were basically all I was planning on, but then I was noticing that in the seams between the boards, there's three pieces of plywood, each four by eight, okay, one, two, three, okay, and then in the seam between them, there was a little bit of a sag, so I also put in this one, and this one. So when I get to put it in the insulation, which will probably be tomorrow, there will be a layer of the aluminum insulation on the roof. on the inside here, but I'm also going to put it on the top, and I'll tell you a little bit more about that. So to waterproof this roof, I need to put something over the top of it, and what I planned to get was billboard vinyl, so I have a 12 by 12 foot billboard vinyl tarp, and if it was completely intact with no holes, it would work perfectly by itself, but I put it up against the sun yesterday. and I saw that there were holes all over it. And I started patching them with tape, but I realized that was going to take a really long time. And even if I got to them all, you know, I don't have a whole lot of confidence that it's going to maintain its structural integrity, considering how many holes it has. And so I figured I needed to do something else, okay? So then I thought, I have this aluminum insulation, which is two layers of aluminum with foam in between them. and they're basically waterproof. You can't get water from one side to another. It won't absorb through. So I figured I'd just put an extra layer on top here and then put the billboard vinyl on that. So I am going to do that. And that would also be nice because when it gets hot in the summer, that will reflect more of the heat back off before it even gets into the wood of the roof. But that's not really totally foolproof. So anyways, I was talking with the owner of the place that I'm staying, and I was... throwing the idea by them, hey, I think I'm going to buy some 6 mil plastic sheeting. You know, basically, it's like for greenhouses and stuff, and it's not that expensive. And he said, oh, I got some of that. And so he took me into his shop, and he showed me a roll. And it's a little bit of a small roll, but I think it's enough to cover this whole thing. So I'm going to go aluminum, plastic sheeting, and then the billboard vinyl. And then they're all going to overhang the edges. And I'm going to staple them. from the bottom, okay, so there's not going to be any puncture holes on the top that water could leak through. So anyways, I'm going to spend a few hours doing that. I'll probably show you some of the progress, and I'll see you then. Okay, here it is with the insulation on it. I have on the seams some all-weather gorilla tape, and you can see it is wrapped underneath the edges. Okay, we've got the plastic sheeting on there. Kind of hard to tell because it's transparent. You can see it down here. And here it is with the billboard tarp on it. You can see, I've been walking up here. Very solid. Could handle quite a bit of snow. And I left an overhang over on both sides because I'm going to be pushing the dirt in here and then berming it up to the roof level, so there'd be a little heel here, and I want that tarp there hanging down below just to kind of reduce the amount of water, but you can get in going that way. So in the next video I'm going to be lining this with the aluminum insulation, so I'll be doing the actual insulation because this insulation layer is really just to give it an extra water layer. because I have extra, but the next step will be putting in the actual insulation around the walls on the outside and on the inside of the roof. So that's the roof. Definitely much more stable structure once I put all of this in, because the beams that go across are really holding it together, so I'm not really worried at all that this thing's going to have any trouble in the wind. The only thing I'm a little bit worried about is when I push the dirt in on the sides, but do it too quickly. then it might actually push the walls in, and that would be pretty much unrecoverable. But we've got a plan to brace the walls before we do that, so it should be all right. So, anyways, that's the dugout shelter roof video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you guys later.