@jhelbich: En mi experiencia con proyectos de construcción, las paredes de pallets son una base sólida, pero lo crítico viene con el impermeabilizado del techo. ¿Ya tenés pensado qué material vas a usar para esa etapa?
Dugout Shelter Walls by @cahlen on 3Speak
The pallets walls of the dugout shelter are up and ready to be insulated. The next major steps are putting in the roof and waterproofing it. --- DONATE: CONTACT: SUBSCRIBE: GEAR LIST: NOTICE: --- ▶...
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Hey everyone, Callan here, and I've got the walls up in my dugout shelter that I'm going to use to survive the harsh winter, and I'll just figure I'd give you a look. Here it is from the outside. There's the drain, so I put in the gravel, you can see around the edges. There's a trench built underneath the walls. which is filled with gravel, and it's all leaning to that side, and then it will go out that way, and also have a pipe coming in, and it'll go on the side of the wall to have an air inlet, fresh air inlet, and then we've got the ramp going down. Got to be careful with this one, because it's leaning a little bit. All right, so this is over six feet tall, even in the back corner here. You can see, well, you can't really see. There's a post in this corner, which is about the same height as the pallets. And then we have a post over here, which is about three inches taller, and a post over here, which is three inch taller than that. So basically the roof will sit on top of here, and it will have a slight lean, so the water flows that way, or as to snow melt, it will flow that way. And I'm also going to have some 2x4s, which are going on the back side of these and connecting them around all four corners. And then also in this middle beam, we'll have one going across the roof as well. So it's pretty sturdy. See, I decided to use nails instead of just tying it with string. You can see I did tie it with string, just to kind of hold it up in place, which is pretty sturdy too. but I think nails are probably a better idea. So next, I'm going to wrap the entire outside of the walls with aluminum bubble insulation, which I'll show you. Here's the insulation that I'm going to be using. This is different than the stuff I usually get. I usually get the reflectics, which is kind of a name brand, and it has bubble wrap insulation in it. This is Vever, which is kind of a knockoff. but it's about half the price, and it looks just as good, maybe a little bit thinner, and it doesn't have, like, bubble wrap in the middle, it's more like foam, but it's effectively the same thing. Then after that, I'll put in the support beams, as I was talking about. Then I'll put three pieces of plywood going across. Then I will put insulation on the bottom of that, so that I'll be facing downwards into the shelter, and I have a 12 -by-12-foot... billboard vinyl tarp, which will sit on the top here, and we'll hang over quite a bit on all sides. Then I'll be pushing dirt into this thing. I might have to brace the structure on the inside so it doesn't push things in when I do that. But if I go slowly, I don't think it'll be a problem. So, anyways, this thing will be basically surrounded on all sides by dirt, and then there will be this little section. that's coming up above the ground and there will be a berm up against that, which will go up underneath where the roof pokes out, okay? So any water that flows off will flow off into that berm and off to the side, ideally. Even though I have the trenches in there, I still don't want water getting in. Then the stove will go right here. I'll build a little fire brick stove, and I'm thinking that we're going to have the chimney come up a little ways and go out here. and then come up out of the dirt. That way I don't have to worry about messing with putting holes in the roof and then getting them to be, you know, so it won't start a fire and also so it won't leak, which is kind of a big problem. So originally I was thinking of putting rocks in the walls, which I can really do at any point. But I think what I'm going to do is finish the stove, you know, finish the structure, finish the stove, run the stove in here, and then see if it's actually necessary because I think it's going to be... really warm in here. In fact, I don't even think I need a heat source in here once I've got it buried with all the insulation on it, because I'm used to living outside for season. I've gone through winters where it was, you know, around zero degrees Fahrenheit, and I didn't have a heat source the entire time. And I was out and exposed to the elements, and in this, I won't be, right? I won't be affected by the wind, I won't be affected by rain or snow. So, I mean, I think it'll be plenty warm in here, but it is nice to have a heat source, so I'll probably go with that. Plus, it's more fun, and I have a sack of refractory mortar on the way, and I've got all the bricks, and I show you the firebrick stove that I was going to make. I think I'm going to make it a little bit smaller than that, because this space is pretty small, and I don't want a sauna, so, at least not a non-stop sauna. So, anyways, that's the update on the walls. in the dugout shelter. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you guys later.
@jhelbich: En mi experiencia con proyectos de construcción, las paredes de pallets son una base sólida, pero lo crítico viene con el impermeabilizado del techo. ¿Ya tenés pensado qué material vas a usar para esa etapa?