Igloo Dog Houses

bree: last time we completed the walls forthe underground earth bag building or what we are now calling our mus-art studio - getit ‘cause it’s going to be an art and a music studio. [music] it’s time to build the stairs that willlead down to the underground earth bag studio

Igloo Dog Houses, or mus-art studio. after the underground stair walls are built,dad starts on the threshold. gary: the threshold needed to be set at alevel so the door would fit inside. we putting in the threshold for the door andthat will tell us where the level of the floor

level of the stairs will start. that had to go in before the stairs becausewe needed a level area to begin to set the platform at which starts the first step. so you go to the header, measure down, putthe threshold in so the door will fit in. bree: okay, stop. it’s time for the where’s waldo part ofthe show. which item from this shot comes from another video? let’s see if you can find it. this board was used as a platform to paintthe nuts and bolts for an exterior door of

bryson’s room. just a little trivia. gary: for our steps here, we have a 4 footopening going up. if you had to reach for the door knob, wouldyou want to be standing level with the door knob or on a step this high? garen: level. gary: level. so this is really still that floor right here. our first step actually going up is goingto be right there.

garen: okay. gary: is that cool? garen: yeah. gary: bryson? shel? does that soundbryson & shelly: yeah. gary: okay, good. and we want to have steps that are going tobe about 7 1/2 inches high on the riser and we’re going to pour a 12 inch tread butthen we’re going to lay the next step on

an inch and a half so we’ll have a 10 1/2inch tread. bryson: we built one frame so that allowedus to use that same frame throughout the entire build. gary: garen, put an inch and a half on topof these in those 3 spots and lift it up off of that so we can really get underneath thereand get a nice, flat step. garen: sounds good. gary: love it. alright good. let’s try it with this.

it doesn’t need to be too sturdy. it’s these that need that need to be fairlysturdy but i think we’re okay. gary: let’s cut them shorter. gary: maybe we measure here. measure there then try to make the measurementsall the same or adjust them or whatever. i don’t know what they really are. this circle is way, like this circle is prettyclose to dead on. gary: good. garen: it’s thatgary: if we but up against this and make it

pretty level this way. i think we’ll get ‘er and make sure theseare perpendicular. the steps were actually rectangular, however,they needed to go in a spiral going up so you’ll have one side a little smaller andthe other side larger. so this overlaps onto the concrete an inchand a half. look how crooked this is, garen. shelly: ut oh, he’s going to dump it. garen! so that’s the first step there huh?

bryson: yeah, this is the step we made. we are preparing the next step. one step at a time. then we’d tear the frame out, and then setour next step, and then put our next step in and then pull the frame out and keep usingthe same frame all the way up. gary: leveling this out so we can put thenext step in. one, two three, four! four, five, step six. bryson: so, we were just doing the steps andsuddenly, what?

what, the dog! look at this! if that is not a dog print, i don’t knowwhat is. can you believe that? monday, was it you? was it you monday? was it diesel? who was it? who put their paw in this?

man talk about feet prints. i’m gonna put my foot in there. gary: the tops of the bags i’m standingon isn’t going to be the top of the floor. what’s going to determine the top of thefloor is going to be top of the top step. so, we have to get 2 high, to get to the height of our floor. bryson: we’re going to have to add someextra on the end because there were no walls to build against. gary: our top step will be here. our floor will come level to the top of thatand whatever floor covering we put on that,

will go over the top of step and the floortogether. bree: will the floor be wood? gary: yep. shelly: you feeling pretty good today? bryson: 100%shelly: 100%? bryson: so, we went waterskiing and the sunkissed us. and then my muscles wouldn’t work. i couldn’t get myself to haul this big,heavy bottom out of the water. gary: i’m a teenager and i couldn’t move.

bryson: you weren’t the one skiing behindthe boat. gary: see? smart. woohoo! alright, we’re done! we’re done! see …done. gary: incredibly happy with the result. bryson: very happy.

bree: stay tuned next time when we begin thefoundation for the 2nd story. thanks for watching and have a fantastic week! it’s time to build the stairs that willlead down to the underground mus-art studio. ooh, i can’t do that very well. shae does a really good one she does one like… do you go all the way down? do you scrunch and then come up? i need a lesson in good eyebrow movements. gary: [mumbles]bryson: rudolf.

gary: does it hurt when i touch it? boop. bryson: if you push it too hard, my arms mightfall off. shae: our family moved from the city to thecountry. thanks for taking part in our adventure. we have new videos every friday evening. if you’d like to help us out, you can likethis video, share it, subscribe or support us on patreon. see the links in the description.

garen: ohhhh. you filled in diesel’s foot prints.

you were helping with the building huh? yeah, you’re trying to help. oh, there is still one. we’re good.