My Industrial Cabin Build

[747driver]

Good choice on the Ghost Controls gate opener. I looked at them and it seems they have a good product and you can build whatever setup you like and need ! Did you get the

AXZL ZombieLock Automatic Gate Latch/Lock ?​

I like this feature.

 

[Gator6x4]

I don’t want to post anything incendiary. My neighbors who share the private road have a bunch of very obvious private road signs along the way. So, by the time you reach my gate, you’ve seen several signs that announce it is a private road. I have been fortunate and not had a lot of issues with theft or vandalism. We have had some trespassers early on and there is always someone who wanders thru each hunting season. The gate, the cameras and security system and locked doors are all part of a system but a hardcore thief is always gonna be a hardcore thief. I’m keeping the old farm gate because it does just fine and doesn’t scream out come see what I have to steal. The big difference is an auto opener vs a chain and lock.

Don’t forget to open the gate if snow is forecast. Tough to have to dig the gate out when it snows with a shovel.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

I watched a few videos of the Zombie lock. one of the nice things about this system is that I can add it later on

 

[WoodChuckDad]

Just dropped our first tile video. No divorce attorneys were contacted during the making of this video. That’s a win.

 

[EddieWalker]

At around 14:30 into the video, you are working on a side wall. At the bottom of the wall, below where the tile starts, but above the shower floor, it looks like OSB. Is that exposed OSB?

 

[WoodChuckDad]

At around 14:30 into the video, you are working on a side wall. At the bottom of the wall, below where the tile starts, but above the shower floor, it looks like OSB. Is that exposed OSB?

That is a strip of OSB that I was using as a spacer to put the first row of tile on so that it would not slide down the wall. The level was too long to fit in there.

 

[dstig1]

Yeah your thinset looked a bit soupy in that first batch. The difference between too much and not enough water is pretty narrow... You also had me worried that you were not going to clean off the thinset on the surface until later on after that first wall. You'll never get it off if you wait too long, but I saw you must have come back after and done that. I always tried my hardest to just not get any on the surface and if i did, cleaned it off right away before I forgot. It can be hard to see on lighter tiles, but really obvious on yours. That is a very nice color/design. One trick is after you spread the thinset, change gloves for placing the tile, and keep them clean as you go.

The hardest part of finish work to me is the transitions. Moving from one material to another. Like the outside edge of the shower or the edges of the niche. It really pays to think about what you want to do with those ahead of time as you will often want to get some additional detail tile to handle those edges. Something like a thin pencil tile is one trick that works well. There are corner pieces for some tiles that are the same pattern/color but made to cleanly fill those corners. It can also be a different material for contrast. But those transitions are the thing that always have me scratching my head the longest on and where you need to think it through ahead of time quite thoroughly.

Nice work!

 

[civilian]

Yeah your thinset looked a bit soupy in that first batch. The difference between too much and not enough water is pretty narrow... You also had me worried that you were not going to clean off the thinset on the surface until later on after that first wall. You'll never get it off if you wait too long, but I saw you must have come back after and done that. I always tried my hardest to just not get any on the surface and if i did, cleaned it off right away before I forgot. It can be hard to see on lighter tiles, but really obvious on yours. That is a very nice color/design. One trick is after you spread the thinset, change gloves for placing the tile, and keep them clean as you go.

The hardest part of finish work to me is the transitions. Moving from one material to another. Like the outside edge of the shower or the edges of the niche. It really pays to think about what you want to do with those ahead of time as you will often want to get some additional detail tile to handle those edges. Something like a thin pencil tile is one trick that works well. There are corner pieces for some tiles that are the same pattern/color but made to cleanly fill those corners. It can also be a different material for contrast. But those transitions are the thing that always have me scratching my head the longest on and where you need to think it through ahead of time quite thoroughly.

Nice work!

I think he said Jefanna did not want the rounded edge tiles for the niche. A tile friend of mine uses one hand for spreading thinset and the other for handling the tile pieces. And he has a bucket of water there for hand cleaning and a sponge to wipe the thinset off the tile. Also used the square notched trowel for thinset, not the putty knife. But He has been doing this for over 40 years, learning from his father. Jon

 

[WoodChuckDad]

With the cleanup, I basically waited ling enough for the tile to not move around too much as I rubbed the stuff off. Just used terry cloth rags I pretty much did that at the same time I was removing the excess thin set so I have a grout channel. Next to the doorway i
Used a whit piece of painted aluminum edge trim

Around the niche I would have preferred some pencil trim or bull nose. But the boss was adamant that she did not want that and only wanted me to cut to fit and take off any sharp edges. It is one of those situations where I don’t like it. I know I will regret it because it will come up later.

 

[747driver]

I am with you David. I do not like cut edges on my end pieces. I always used the rounded mfg. edges to finish off the edges. It just makes it look so much more finished.

I might have used the niche as a center point as it stands out more.

You have done a nice job, so go with it and move on !