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hey guys how you doing it's the honeydew
carpenter I got over 5 million views on
this one project now there's a lot of
misconceptions about it when I started
this thing it was completely
experimental and so I'm gonna go through
the top 5 things that actually worked
well and the top 5 things that didn't
work so well and actually had to change
things around and do them differently
for things to go smoothly and to get
this project done if you ever wanted to
duplicate a project like that shop I
built out behind grandpa's house this is
a video you are gonna want to watch
thanks guys
I'm gonna go ahead and give a thumbs up
to using sheet metal studs to create the
wall panel forms now whether you're
going around a window or a door or
headers it allowed me a great deal of
flexibility to build the building blocks
in whatever configuration I wanted to do
as you can see here I originally planned
on doing the gable in multiple pieces in
multiple building blocks these sheet
metal studs can be manipulated into any
configuration or any shape that you want
so I was able to go ahead and do them in
one piece forms and it made it way more
simple from a production standpoint
actually got the point where I could
measure stick in my jig the pieces and
fasten them together and complete a form
in eight minutes and so I was able to do
multiple forms in one day I think we did
like 32 of them and I did it all with
the help of a 16 year old kid from an
engineering standpoint whether you're
building a shop the shed or even a tiny
home leaving the sheet metal studs
around your heir Creek building blocks
gives us a building a great deal of
structural integrity as well using even
a rudimentary plan you can go ahead and
build the blocks and then they'll just
fit together kind of like Lincoln Logs
and because they're made of air treat
and they're light two people can put
them in place
guys I tried many things and thumbs up
to using this Queen as an underlayment
for each panel you there 16 inches wide
just cut 20 inch pieces and then stretch
them out because the visqueen roll comes
in ten by hundred foot pieces the forms
fit right on and that gives you two
inches on each side of the panel to roll
up the side and just tape it to it and
then once the panel set up and cure it
out it just peels right off and they
look great
Here I am pill in the plastic off of a
raised garden bed panel but whether
you're building a building or a raised
garden bed it really doesn't matter
this ain't the same applies you just
peel it off okay guys I'm gonna go ahead
and give a big thumbs up to using rabbit
wire as reinforcement in the panel's you
just cut it to whit cut it to length and
then it just fits right into the panel
and you can cut little pieces of it and
use those as wedges to just hold the
rabbit wire on one side of the panel at
this point guys you only need
reinforcement on one side of the panel
when you put the building up and put the
stucco on the outside it'll get
reinforcements on the outside just as a
little tip I'm gonna give a thumbs down
to using regular tin snips to cut rabbit
wire just invest in the double cuts it
makes it so much easier
I am also gonna give a thumbs up to
taking your mixing receptacle and
cutting it down to size the smaller the
better okay this is a big no-no I
totally abandoned it don't use a cement
mixer
the only way I got it to work was to
throw rocks in with it and then it was
difficult to get consistent panels
mixing your slurry in a cement mixer of
the first ten panels I made when I
started this experiment I actually had
to throw like five of them away because
they were so light and it was just hard
to get consistency using a cement mixer
do yourself a favor just weigh out the
ingredients stick them in there put the
water in mix up your slurry and then put
the foam in with it just for mixing the
slurry I use a beater mixer that looks
like this
and I got it at Home Depot and it works
just fine
adding the foam to your slurry this is
great especially if you're wanting to
spray some engine degreaser or something
on your car but I just found that for
more controlled and a measured thing I
came up with the wand accessory and for
me I just like it it works a little bit
better and I don't think you lose as
many bubbles like you do when it's
coming out at a high velocity it's just
more of a measured thing and you can
fill it right up to the line right where
you want to be at okay while this did
work and it really looks cool it
eventually broke because the vibration
and stuff and what I found guys I
completely abandon it because it works
three times as fast if you just used the
augur by itself I was so glad that
sleeve broke on that auger I thought it
was a good idea I was gonna try it but
afterward as fast as Melanie could put
the foam in this thing could fold it
right in it just works so good so yes on
the auger but as far as using the
two-stroke motor and the actual whole
shebang I would just go ahead and get an
electric one I've sent a band in that I
actually welded a drill in on the auger
and I just used a heavy-duty industrial
drill in the video there was a method to
my madness once I got the panels poured
I tried to stomp along the side of it
just to make sure that no air bubbles
got caught up in it I recommend you
actually get an electric massager and
just vibrate the side of the panel that
actually works good okay thumbs down on
this guy's it did not work don't cover
the panels while they're still wet
because what happens is the skin
actually cures and sticks to the top
layer of this queen and when you go to
peel it off what happens is it actually
comes off with the visqueen instead of
doing this just go ahead and let it sit
out in the open air for 18 to 24 hours
and then
put a layer of visqueen over it and let
it cure out for several days and that
holds the moisture in and helps it cure
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hey guys Here I am putting the scratch
coat on but before you do that you're
gonna want to do some prep work I am a
big fan of engineering and right here I
am putting hurricane strap
I am anchoring them directly to the
reinforced concrete slab that this
building sits on I am installing the
anchors in an X configuration on all the
corners of the building as well as every
third panel throughout the field gets a
X configuration as well and everywhere
one of the straps crosses the sheet
metal stud configuration it gets
fastened into the stud as well okay here
I'm wetting down the wall in preparation
for the first layer or the base coat of
stucco the scratch coat and you can
clearly see the X configurations of the
reinforcement on the walls and that
panel to my right is a really good
illustration of one of those panels that
the skin was pulled off of it once it's
covered with a stucco it's not you won't
be able to see it and it looks really
good but regardless it's nice to have a
skin on them so guys this is my very
first stucco project and we really had
no idea we were doing but our boys and I
had a ton of fun regardless though I was
able to put some on and get it smooth
and it ended up looking really good the
whole family ended up having a ton of
fun and in the end it ended up looking
pretty good now every time I do a
project I learn a ton about efficiency
and better ways to do it even though I
put the mud on one trial at a time for
this base coat here's a little bit of a
sneak peak of when we were putting the
fiberglass mesh
on the outside with the final stucco
coat and I found that there are better
ways to put this stucco on and it is
using a spraying apparatus if you like
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