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Previously on the backyard build. Holly sandageed perfection. No haze, no nothing. I think that we should have armor stone go from here over this way. I’d like to just take them all out and just do interlock. Baby, we will never financially recover from this. I I really I shouldn’t even talk. So that’s wrong. So both those pieces are wrong. That’s not right at all. Eh, everything it’s just so heavy. You get tired of like moving things and then they’re wrong. [Music] Okay, everybody in. Everybody in. Quick, close the door. Welcome to episode 10 of the backyard build. Today we’re in the greenhouse. Okay, good job everybody. Ready, set, go. That was perfect. So, this greenhouse was built several years ago out of mostly like secondhand material. We redid a deck, so we got a bunch of deck boards and 2×6 and stuff. All we really bought was the 4×4 posts, which I sunk in the ground, and the plexiglass, which is like an acrylic plexi stuff. It hasn’t yellowed or anything, which is good. Basically did it like a pole barn style. wrapped it 2 by six in the top, 2x4s in between, and then just dividing 2x4s to make it look like there’s a bunch of windows. It has its issues. The roof, the plastic would have been a good idea if there was no trees above it, but there’s always walnuts and debris falling and it’s filthy and some of the panels are cracked now. So, it just makes more sense to make it a shingled roof. It’ll be watertight. It’ll just be better looking in my opinion. And we’re still contemplating the back. those windows. I kind of drove into a few of them. Let’s show them. So, I hit this with the tractor a few times while I was digging this because I’d be going and then the wind would blow the window open and I wouldn’t see it behind me and the box scraper would grab a hold of this and that’s why it kind of did that. So, yeah, we’re going to do something about these windows. Let’s go inside. As Andrew said, this door was secondhand. I think it was like 20 bucks. Acrylic plexiglass was like 50 bucks. My lemon chandelier was another resale find. Everything’s been secondhand in this greenhouse. Even the shelving was made out of an old picnic table. So, all in all, this is our project for this week. I guess it technically won’t really be a greenhouse anymore. It’ll be more of like a shed. It’ll still have all the windows on the sides and the front. I think it’ll be more functional because the greenhouse kind of served its purpose, but where it’s located and how big the trees have gotten and everything, it doesn’t get sun from the top anyway. So, we’ll turn it into a nice little shed, get rid of the door, fix the roof. I want to do it relatively inexpensive. Yeah, because this whole project was like maybe $1,000. So, we’ll see how easy this comes off. I was hoping to just kind of pry it. And I’m hoping that the screws just pull out of the wood cuz I used really small screws. Yeah. [Music] This thing doesn’t even have gutters. I know. [Music] Might have some grease on it. Just be careful. Okay. So, I guess I got to inside. I have to unscrew first. [Music] You got to get out of there, buddy. Come on, bud. Come on. Good boy. Frig. It’s hot in here, eh? Oh my god. How many times did I spin this in there? Here we go. So many screws. Did you not want this to come apart ever? Did you never think we were going to change our minds? Hey, who built something to last? [Music] Okay, forget it. I’m losing patience. Uh-oh. No, it’s not a big deal. It’s just I don’t really want to spend the entire day unscrewing plexiglass. You think you can just like hit it from the other side? [Music] I don’t know why I always think demo has to be so clean and so organized and it’s like that’s who you are. Just break the thing and get it done. [Music] Now what? Before we get too far ahead of ourselves in this project, I want to tell you guys about a little project we’ve been dreaming up behind the scenes. And that brings me to the sponsor of today’s video, which is Fiverr. Fiverr is a website that connects you with freelancers that offer a range of digital services. Everything from website development to architecture and interior design, which is perfect because we’ve had a little renovation idea brewing for a while now, but we haven’t been able to fully visualize it. So, we took to Fiverr to find a freelancer who could help us out with this. This house has so much potential. It’s one of the reasons why we wanted to buy it in the first place, and it has a lot of room if we ever wanted to expand and add on to the house. But we’ve always had a hard time envisioning what that would look like. So, we came up with a drawing of our existing home. We collected some inspo photos of what we’re thinking and sent over all the details to our Fiverr architect who specializes in a range of conceptual design and architectural visualization. As much as we love to create our own designs and come up with our own projects, sometimes it’s really hard to visualize it. And I don’t have the skills or the equipment to do a 3D rendering to actually visualize the space. I was able to browse through a range of architectural freelancers and select the person who seemed best for the job based on the amount of positive reviews and their extensive portfolio. You can even take part in a one-on-one consultation to gain insight and interview the freelancer before hiring them on for your project. I’m very excited to show you guys exactly what our freelancer came up with. And it’s also a little surprise for Andrew because he hasn’t seen them yet. Ta wa. What do you think? That’s pretty much exactly what we talked about because we talked about doing a detached garage, but then we also talked about how that takes up such a big amount of room and it would almost make more sense to just extend the back of the garage that’s there further out. So, this is the area we sent over for the rendering. I don’t know if we’ll ever get to this project. This is just something we’ve, you know, thought about and considered. But, it is so cool to imagine that this whole space one day could be living area if we ever needed it to be. If you guys are interested in checking out Fiverr, you can use my link in the description or use the code Sabrina for 10% off your first order. Thank you to Fiverr for sponsoring today’s episode of The Backyard Build. [Music] That scared me. A this reminds me of taking the roof off the house. I know. That’s what I said. It’s like ditching the split. Feels just like it. You passing me stuff. Me feeling stressed. You feeling stressed? Well, I was just nervous that whole episode. Why? Cuz I didn’t want you to get hurt. Oh. [Music] Oh, boy. Oh, that’s alive. That one’s That one’s alive. People [Music] are probably wondering why we didn’t do this before we did all the other stuff. Yeah, probably. There we have it. An officially mangled greenhouse. So, here’s our little uh backyard gas station drive-thru ice cream shop. We’re discussing what it looks like with no roof on it. I think Pizza Hut. Yeah, I think either that or a gas station. Okay. So, typically when you build a roof, you’ll cut the rafters, the bird’s mouths, but this is a special situation because I want to keep the bottom of the fascia the same height as the bottom of this. So, what I’ve done in the past is I’m just going to cut the blocks for the overhang, screw them all on, and put the fascia on first. And then you already have your fascia height. I’ll cut the rafters. Instead of doing the bird’s mouth with all that, I’m going to cut it. I’m going to cut it like a valley rafter where there’s two like a the long cut and the other short cut. And it’s going to sit right on top instead of like sitting on the wall. It’ll make more sense when I do it. It’s just a very small overhang. That’s the easiest way to do this and it’s perfectly acceptable. [Music] So, I need to cut a whole bunch of blocks. Four and a half. Screw them on. We only need to bring them in like this far because we’re actually going to be off of these posts. We’re going to be doing like a little covered roof. Like you want it right off of here, right? Uh like the roof to be this width. Let me check my drawing one more time. Okay. So, yeah, I’m going to cut a bunch of blocks four and a half. So, this is actually scrap lumber from a fence we did recently. So, it doesn’t cost us anything to use it for this. [Music] Why are you doing that? [Music] [Music] There you have it. There’s your overhang. Wow, that’ll be so nice to protect the longevity of our greenhouse. Does it look level? Let me get your level. No, I don’t get it. You don’t want it? Nope. You don’t want to know. We’re not going to use that on this project. [Music] It’s kind of nice that we did this path first. It’s nice and flat to work on. Yeah. Feels good to be fixing this thing up. It’s got to be [Music] Oh, that’s a little different than what I had planned here. So, this should have kept coming this way, but that’s harder to shingle cuz then you have that sitting on top of this. And it’s Are you going to be okay with it just being the same height? Like just picture that is up. So that ends the same height as this. Will it look good? Yeah, that’s the same as our porch. That’s what we did on our porch. Okay, we’ll see about that. I’m going to hire a real carpenter if you mess this up. Do you want it like that or do you want it up? Can you make it look like this? There’s not really much space. Okay, then do it your way. It’s going to look good. He always does this. This is Don’t watch me. Don’t watch me. Need to cut some rafters. 4T 4 and 1/2 is the center. Two. Three. Four. Who wants a super speedy tutorial on how to lay out our rafter? Nobody. That’s what I thought. You want to give them a tutorial? No. Oh, they don’t care. Nobody wants to actually know. No, I don’t think Oh, somebody’s going to say that they wish that you you did it. Just do it quick. You have a square here from 1 to 24 on one side, from 1 to 16 on the other. This is a framing square. When you lay out a rafter, you take half your building width, divide it by 12. That’s how many units of run you have. On our roof, we’re doing a 1212. So, for every 12 in that goes over, it’s going to go up 12 in. So you line your square up on the same edge of the 2×4 or 2×6, whatever you’re using as your rafter, 12 12, and you mark the 12. And that’s one unit of run. If you’re doing a 412, you line the 4 and 12, 512, and so on. And you mark that for as many feet you have. And then I have 4 1/2 in. So you’ll still hold the square like that. And then on the top here, you’ll mark 4 and 1/2. and then slide your square over and draw that line. And that’s your length. You’ll take half your ridge off, which is right there. 3/4 of an inch. You would typically take off your overhang as well if you were doing a bird’s mouth and stuff, which I’m not. So, I want that to sit back about/ an inch from the edge so the plywood sits nice and tight. That’s our one mark minus our 3/4. Okay. So, we’ll cut that. And those are just 45° angles because 12 and 12 same length equal 90°. 45 45. Okay. So, we’ll cut two of these. And then I’ll check it. Right. [Music] Are you done? Yeah. Okay. You’re a fighter. I You’re feisty. How far are we going? I don’t know. You’re pushing me. Well, we we back it up. How’s right there? You could carry that on your own. How’s right How’s right there? Okay, this is a 45. Trace it and you can cut. So, do I have to turn the 45 or can I Yeah, you have to turn it back to zero to 45 the other direction. Doesn’t go that far. Oh. [Music] So, I’ll take one of them. It’s actually going to be a bit of a pain. Should we build them on the ground? You can’t. That’s a great idea, though. Oh, I like that slope. Way better, eh? So, that’s a 45° angle. 1212. Oh, the other one was like a 312. I made it work so that the plexiglass, a 4ft sheet, worked. And that’s why there was really no overhang on it before. Oh, cuz we I literally didn’t want a seam in the sheet. Oh, gotcha. I’ll need the other one around the back. It’s all making sense, though, eh? Yeah. So, yeah. Then you’re That’s perfect cuz then the inch and a half ridge is going to sit inside there. Oh, okay. Gotcha. And then the other one is going to sit there. And then we’re going to have our hips coming down, right? Okay. Okay. Cool. So, if you want to trace 1, two, three, four more. Mhm. I’ll take them. Looks way better on the inside, too. Now, you’re good with this, right? It’s not too steep. Yeah. Like, you like how that looks? I think so. It’s It’s like It’s a little jarring to see it compared to what I’m used to seeing. Do you want to see it from down here? I don’t care. Okay. I think it’s good. Okay. I trust you. Oh, don’t trust Don’t trust me for the design. Oh, boy. [Music] Looks like a church. I know. Is that okay? What do you mean? It looks really steep from the ground. Like too much. Like it’s like borderline the same. It’s like almost like the same height as the thing. I think you should come down and look at it. Like you know better than me. I think that’s fantastic. Well, come look at it from the grass. Just cuz the ground’s not like the same height, so it kind of affects the way that it looks from different locations. Your efforts throat was definitely less steep slope. Yeah, it was going off of like the same slope it already was, which was extremely low. Like this is high. If you you could reduce it by 50% and do a 612, but I think that’s perfect. Yeah. I I do, but I don’t know. Like I’m not Green Houses have steep roofs to begin with. They do. Oh, yeah. Cuz they don’t want the snow sitting on glass, right? That’s That’s a good point. People do low slopes for to keep things cheap, basically. I know. I guess that’s why we did it in the first place. Okay, we’ll keep going with it. You sure? Yeah. Kind of hurts. Is it giving witches hat? I feel like it is. It’s giving top hat. Like it looks like a witch. Like a face with a hat a little bit. Okay. I think it’s too steep. It probably is. It does look a little funny just cuz this ground is even higher than over there. So like you’re almost walking into a roof. I know. Like this height here like right there you’re 6’5. Yeah. Oh my god. No. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. The same thing. Oh. Is it the same? The Oh. So the vibe’s a little off cuz my camera just broke. my new camera. It’s like three weeks old. So, we’re back on the old camera. Probably looks the exact same to you because it is the same camera that I I just bought it twice. One, two, three, four. [Music] Tell me how that’s possible. It’s the rafter’s the exact same length. like at a different slope. Yeah. [Music] So, did we explain why we’re taking this apart? Cuz it looks ridiculous. Yeah. If the greenhouse was bigger, it wouldn’t look so weird, but it looks unproportionate. Yeah. I think that’s fantastic. [Music] We’re just always trying to make things tall. Yeah, to compensate. [Music] Oh, shoot. Wait a second. Oh, no. That should be right. [Music] We’re going to look back at the footage from the first time and laugh. Oh, yeah. That’s still a good slope. It just doesn’t look so ridiculous. What’s wrong? That’s way too long. It’s 4’4 and 1/2 to the middle, right? Let me come down and look at that rafters. 612. So, we got one, two, three, four, 4 foot 4 and a half. Did you figure it out? Yeah. It’s too long. Way too long. Do you want me to bring those other ones over to recut? Yep. Look how long they were. They weren’t in a good head space. Yeah, but like that’s way off completely. I used to cut every mistake out of our videos because I was so scared of people, I don’t know, criticizing as if we’re not human, too. I don’t care. We’ve never claimed to have all all the answers. Let’s try this again. Third time’s the charm, I guess. No. [Music] You okay like that? Yep. Good from there. Looks really good. Oh yeah. You can see that’s It looks significantly higher than the other one, but that looks good. You want me to hand you these? Uh, yes. I will need those first and then the piece that’s on the saw and then the two three leaning up on the truck. And I need you to remember that exact order. Exactly. Are they different? Yes. Oh, frig [Music] had to strip a screw. We got five feet. So, I’m gonna do our two facasia rafters, 2 and 1/2 foot, 612. They’re going to sit right on here. And then we can put when I put the can put the ridge on. Okay. [Music] And this is getting held in between these two. Flush with the front. Flush with the front. That should stay. That’s scary. So scary. Oh, now it’s getting hot. How’s that? Cute, babe. Now you can see it, eh? Yeah, that looks really cute. Oh, I love it. I think I need to get back into my filming uniform. athletic shorts and a tank top. That was probably really bad. The next step will be cutting the four hips for the corners. That way we can get the rest of the rafters in plywood and then finish that little front. It’s perfect. Here [Music] comes the rain. Oh yeah, here it comes. Oh no. Quick, get the camera. We need seven more of these and seven more of these. [Music] Did you just cut your finger? No, I pinched it on what? Underneath? Yeah. Oh, shoot. [Music] Ow. Okay. You want me to take back? Oh. Oh, yes. Okay. If you can. You don’t have to. I’m filing a WSIB claim. [Music] And then two little ones, please. You should probably mention that we couldn’t keep the original roof and just replace with the framing that we already had because the pieces were like one by Yeah. Some of you may be wondering why we didn’t just put plywood on the other roof. I used one by twos for most of the rafters because it was just holding the plexiglass. I think your head’s cropped out of it. hips and the like four common rafters were 2 by six, but I used 1 by two. Brad nailed in just to hold the plexiglass. So, that wasn’t strong enough. And we wanted to put an overhang on it. So, we had to put longer pieces on. And you can put that one down and just go get the small ones ready. Okay. And then if you can just hold that ladder for a second. Okay. You got it? Yep. Okay. You may lower. Take a little one and then a big one this time. All that 2×4 is extra. No. Yeah. What the heck? [Music] Always do get the dust off. Okay. Okay. If you think you can slide it up. Yep. It’s a lot lighter than the ones out front. Oh, yes. You’re good. Okay. This probably looks ridiculous, too. Putting screws in roof plywood. My nail guns at the office. Oh, disclaimer. I’ll put nail use the nail gun on this. Pure amateur hour to do this, eh? Is it? Oh, yeah. We’ll let the Tik Tok pros you tell you about it. I hope they do. You want me to hold? Yeah. If you go up and hold that. Do you think you’ll be able to screw it in? Yep. Or I might be able to reach it if you hold it. We’ll find out. Babe, there are people here. How’s it look? So cute. Babe, are you filming? Yeah. [Music] What? I know when you ask me that what that means. Yeah, you do. You know exactly what it means. Can I be a hack? Can I be a hack? [Music] How’s that? Looks good. It’s not sticking past anywhere, is it? No. [Applause] [Music] Thank you. I’m going to mark it for you. Okay. The line closer this way that has the check on it. Okay. [Applause] [Music] Don’t look at that. That one got a little funky. Is it windy down there? You guys missed the cut I made right before this was actually perfect. As always, if you guys are enjoying this episode, don’t forget to share it on your Instagram story and I will do my best to repost you. What happened? I was telling them to share it on their Instagram story. Yeah. Make sure if you’re watching, take a picture, share it on your Instagram story. We’ll repost you. [Music] Thank you. [Music] [Music] [Music] Meow meow meow meow meow. [Music] Yeah. [Music] Heat. [Music] Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow. [Music] Can you look inside and see if I am hitting them? Whoa. Just don’t stand right under it. You missed it on the first one. Okay. Which way was it? You got to go. You got to go that way a little more. Just a hair. Near the top or bottom? Near the top. Yeah, you got it. This greenhouse has basically just been used as like storage during this renovation. So, it’s a mixture of like some plants, but mostly tools. [Music] We’re going to shingle. We’re going to shingle. Well, you’re gonna shingle. I thought you wanted to. I do. I will. I’ll do it. You want me to come up? I’m not really going up yet. You’re going to be my little passer. Cut me a piece like maybe 4 ft long. That smells like manure. Oh, yeah. It does, right? Cut me another one that’s like about your hand. Like this. Look. If you want to open one of these up. Here’s the shingles we chose. I’ll take a shingle. Wow, these are light, eh? Yeah, they’re really light. Where do you nail on the white line? Uh, yeah. I’ll take one. Thank you so much. Can I see another one? This is too stuck together. I’ll take one, honey. Thank you. Take another one. Another one. Yes, please take another one. You ready for another one? Another one. And then could you cut me one like a little bit longer than your arms? Ow. Frig. What? Paper cut. Oh, really? Sir. [Laughter] on the chin, too. Is the paper good on my chin? It’s bleeding. No. Oh, yeah. So, my initial drawing for this greenhouse makeover included a cedar shake roof, but it was out of budget, so we went with brown cuz it kind of is the closest color to cedar. Yeah, it looks nice, too. Can I have a couple of those? Yeah. [Music] Thank you so much. Welcome look at shingle security. Nobody’s taking our shingles. Right, buddy? That’s my boy. He’s sitting on the shingles. [Music] You are so cute. Look at him in his little house. I know. He wants a dog house. He doesn’t. He wants a king-size orthopedic bed. That’s true. With a heated mattress cover. This looks really good. So, is the roof done? Shingling. Yes. I just need to fill in some stuff in the porch so that we can do the ceiling in it. Figure out what we’re doing for a door. I know. I don’t think I’ll find one in time for this video. And I want to do the set and fascia. Get that sealed up. Okay. [Music] So, this is all left over from doing the front of the house. Another expense saved. You think this is enough to do the whole thing? Oh, yeah. Okay, good. [Music] I was just thinking it probably looks funny that we’re like putting a beautiful roof on it, but then like there’s still like rotted parts on the bottom of it. I know. Well, we’re working from the top down. And if you saw that big rotted part at the front of it underneath the flower bed. No, you didn’t. We’re going to change it. I know. It’s just funny cuz we didn’t even acknowledge it. We just kept going. Oh, yeah. I built a wall in front of it. like literally covered it. We know it’s a problem. You don’t want to put some sophet lights on it. I don’t put any electrical in this. Or are we? If you’re our building inspector, we’re not. Lady at Home Depot said I’m cute. No, she didn’t. Yes, she did. Who? The cashier. No, she didn’t. I start relationship. Why’d she say that? Um because she asked if I have any plans for the long weekend. Yeah, she asked if I had any plans for the long weekend. I said, I forgot it was long weekend. She’s like, you’re cute. I don’t know why that would make me cute, but that’s what she said. Maybe you are cute. Does it make you jealous? No. Oh, good. You don’t care. You are cute sometimes. I had my little golf outfit on. Oh, yeah. You did have your little golf. Maybe she could tell you dressed yourself. [Music] You got no battery in it. Yeah. Okay. Grab me some glasses while you’re at it. You find some. I’m I have to go in the house and find some. [Music] Do you want the scuba mask? No. [Music] Sorry everybody. You’re a bad in. Okay. Cut the same angle from there that way. I’m so sorry everybody. Please forgive me for not wearing safety glasses. Mother, if you’re watching, we’re going to build this super fast. Oh, look at the footwear. What a disaster. Okay, get in your little house. Did you find me glasses? Oh, yeah. They’re on my head. [Music] How long have we had these? Since we did our fence. Holy cow. Why? They’re a little cupped. [Music] And now metal’s going to cover that. Yeah. And it’s going to overlap. It’s going to come down and underneath to hide the edge. Cute. Love it. But I need one more. I just have to take one of our fence boards off. No. That’s crazy. Why? I can’t believe we’re short one fence board. We’ve been short one of everything. We were short one shingle and now we’re short one fence board. Oh yeah, I didn’t tell them that. I think just take a board off and I’ll put it on later. Where’d you take it from? Over there. I’m staying fence boards tugboat so it matches with the pergola. This would have been easier to do while they were flat, but who doesn’t love an added struggle? [Music] You think that’s going to fit? What do we think, people? Holy smokes. First bend, first cut, too. You’re good, babe. Although, that looks kind of wonky today. That should have been over. See that? Right at the door. I’ll cut that after with the knife and I’ll just slide it over tight. But that looks good for now. Mhm. So, I’ll do the other side cuz there’ll be eaves trough like across here and across there, but nothing on here, right? Nothing here. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But look, I put a roofing nail through it. Can you believe that? What are the odds? Like, how does that happen? [Music] Babe, it looks really good. What a difference from a week ago. Just need to do the easter, touch up some paint, maybe change the front door, and decide what we want to do along the back. Plant some flowers in the raised beds. Mhm. finish the top and hang a rain chain. The hard part’s done, though. The hard part’s done. We came up with this all on our own. And if you need help coming up with something, don’t forget to check out Fiverr. You can use the link in the description or my coupon code, Sabrina, for 10% off your first order. Thank you to Fiverr for sponsoring today’s video. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you. Oh.