[Kyle] We are building our barndominium just north of Malad Summit.
I really don't have any experience building.
Hey! Stop, guys. The dam's not stopping the water.
This is a waste of time.
It rained all night. We got mud everywhere.
Good gosh.
Mud.
Everything we do up here is just ten times harder.
And it makes everything worse.
Things are just not going our way.
We're a half hour easy for somebody to even get to our road to get to us.
Don't fall. This is insane.
- [machinery whirring] - Wow.
It's not looking good right now.
This is extremely dangerous.
We just saw lightning right behind us.
I haven't seen this much rain in a long time.
Right now, it's comin' right through the roof.
It's kind of a disaster at the moment.
It's not going upright. Something's off.
Brent!
[exhales]
[narrator] Are you ready to go off the grid?
[Kyle] Well, I'm thinking if we go
just a little bit right up here and we'll start setting those corner posts
so we can see how big it's gonna be when we lay it out.
[Kyle] This build site is pretty awesome.
We got deep valleys. We've got flat ground and we got huge mountains.
And the views are insane up here. It's just spectacular.
If we lay it straight this way,
put on a window wall that's gonna face the valley,
then we get all of this view every day.
I like it. I like this view. I wanna get this view.
- I'm Kyle. - I'm Shaneel.
And we are building our barndominium just north of Malad Summit.
Our build site is located in Downey, Idaho.
We're about an hour from Pocatello which is the biggest city around here.
The main reason we chose this property is once we got up here
we found out there's a spring and two creeks on both sides.
And that's my house water. So I don't have to dig a hole.
We just go with what we got.
Let's start right here, gents.
- Yeah. - So why don't you start hammering that
without hitting my hand.
[Kyle] I can't wait to get the family up here.
You know, especially my daughter.
I wanna get her out of town and up here enjoying nature.
There ya go.
She's excited to be up here. She loves this stuff.
Good job.
She's having a blast.
All right. Let's go over there and hit this post.
So what we decided to do, I started looking into barndominiums.
It's basically a pole barn on the outside but the inside looks just like a log cabin.
We're building a 5,000 square foot barndominium up here with
wraparound porches and a concrete slab for a base.
As you walk in the main doors, we're gonna have a fireplace
in the main living area to the right.
We're gonna have the kitchen to our left.
If you go straight through, we're gonna have the main
bedroom and the main bathroom right there.
Then you go upstairs, we're gonna have a big, open loft.
That's gonna be the game room.
And then we're gonna have Jensy's bedroom upstairs along with her bathroom.
Our off-grid features up here, we're gonna be solar for all our power.
We're gonna be using a fresh spring for our water for the house.
And then we're gonna be using a really awesome fireplace for the heat.
I really don't have any experience building.
I couldn't build a doghouse if I wanted to.
[Shaneel] We decided to bring in our good friend Brent who
is experienced in pole barns to have him help us make this build happen.
Should be awesome.
[Kyle] Right now, we've got Shaneel going back to work unfortunately.
So she's gonna have to spend a lot of her time back at home working.
But right now, it's me and the builders
Right there should be just about right.
Some of the biggest challenges we're gonna have up here
is weather's gonna be a big issue because it does change so fast.
But also just the fact we're so far away from everything.
We're a half hour easy for somebody to even get our road to get to us.
There's a lot of dirt roads. It's hilly.
We don't know if we're gonna be able to get
the trucks up here that we need to.
You got mountains. You've got hills. You've got creeks.
So hopefully, we can get everything here that we need.
[Kyle] So there's gonna be a lot of challenges that
we're gonna have to get through for this build.
I know they're gonna come. I'm not looking forward to 'em.
But in the end, we'll be sitting up there
in a rocking chair and it's gonna be awesome.
[laughing]
-All right. I think we're good. -Good.
Well...
What do you think of that?
[Shaneel] I'm excited.
This is gonna be awesome.
[Kyle] Our budget for this build is gonna be $300,000
and our timeline right now is a month and a half.
I talked to Brent, my contractor.
He says he can do it in a month and a half and I'ma hold him to it.
[treads rolling]
[Shaneel] Day one of the build. We're breaking ground.
We're super excited. We've been waiting a long time for this.
- [beeps] - [Kyle] All right.
Now, he's starting to hear. [laughs]
I never thought this day would get here and we're actually gonna start cutting dirt.
This is gonna be amazing.
- [Shaneel] That's quite the entrance. - Hey, you guys.
[Kyle laughs] It's about time you show up.
Well, you know, were we gonna do work with that guy down there?
[Kyle] Yeah, I was gonna get this all cut with that one.
- [Kyle] Is that not gonna work? - [Brent] Well, good luck
with that.
[Shaneel] Kyle has this dozer that's from, like, 1947, maybe 1950.
It's '50 at least, babe. Come on.
- [Kyle laughs] - [Shaneel] That little dozer's not gonna do the work.
We'll start pushing kind of everything out towards your view.
- [Kyle] Okay. - And give you a nice little pad there.
Let's do it.
With the grade of that pad, we're gonna have to cut down quite a bit.
We've got about an 18 foot difference in elevation from top to bottom.
That means we've gotta push a lot of dirt out of the way.
We got a football field up there that we're gonna have to clear out.
- [Brent] That's some dirt right there. - I know.
Yeah.
[Shaneel] It's gonna be unique and one of a kind.
[Kyle] It's ginormous.
[Kyle] So we've got an awesome artisan spring here on our property.
And we're gonna take that and develop that spring into
the drinking water for the cabin.
And to do that, we have to dig out all the muck
and the dirt that's down at the bottom of that spring until we hit hard pack.
Once we hit the hard pack, we're gonna put in a dam
and back fill that with gravel.
And pipe out the water through the gravel
and that will clean up all that water.
[Kyle] Right there.
Perfect.
Yeah.
I learn like everybody else does nowadays.
I looked it up on the Internet and figured out how I'm gonna build this spring.
Hopefully, we just set it in and it's gonna work like I think it will.
Water is gold when you're off the grid.
So if you don't have water, you don't got life.
We got the water. I don't have to dig for it
other than a couple of feet.
So this is gold for me.
If this doesn't work, I'm gonna have to spend
$100,000 and draw a well and hope we find other water source.
So this is it.
This has gotta work.
[Kyle] We've got it packed down good.
You can see it's already cleared from just coming through the ground hole.
Now we've got to dig out
where we're gonna place the dam.
And then we're gonna backfill the whole thing full of gravel
and I'll put some pipes on the back of this so they're gonna go into the spring.
That's gonna filter the water again and then it's gonna run straight out as clean water
is the goal.
So we'll see what happens.
I think we got this.
Pretty soon here, this will fill with water
and we'll see what kind of pressure we're dealing with.
And then we'll go from there.
Hey! Stop, guys. Stop, stop, stop, stop.
[Kyle] The dam's not stopping the water.
As we're building the spring up,
I start to see that we are getting water under the dam
and around the dam.
We've got a dam that's not damming.
[sighs in exasperation] Nothing.
This is a waste of time.
Hey! Stop, guys. Stop, stop, stop, stop.
[Kyle] The dam's not stopping the water.
We've got a dam that's not damming.
This is a waste of time.
[sighs in exasperation]
We're gonna have to pack this full of clay.
And then put the rock...
The clay should keep it solid like cement.
So if we pack it nice and tight, we should be golden.
All right. Let's do it.
[Brent] That's good.
Luckily, there's a lot of clay on this ground
and as we were digging out, we put some aside.
Now, we're gonna take that clay and pack it into the dam--
Pack that in nice and tight.
and then pack rocks on top of that.
And that should stop all the seepage that we're getting now.
Yeah, this is the perfect clay right there.
Well, now it's much better.
Oh, yeah. Look at that.
That's already getting clearer.
That's some good stuff right there. Getting good flow.
Everything worked out. So now, we're gonna be able to actually drink this water
and have it forever.
That spring's not gonna stop.
So it's just gonna keep rollin', and it's nice and clear.
That's awesome.
Spring's done.
- [laughs] - [Brent] All right.
Now, let's build a cabin.
[Kyle] We got a lot done today.
We got a lot to do tomorrow.
Well, we're at the start of day two and we were hoping to get a lot of work done.
And it's not gonna happen.
It rained all night.
We got mud everywhere.
This mud is way too nasty and slick.
So if we get that track up here
and start playing in this and we sink it,
there's no getting it out without some serious heavy equipment
or a crane and I can't afford that.
And so
we're gonna have to just wait for dry weather.
[sighs in exasperation]
[Kyle] Good gosh.
Mud.
Just to get something done today,
we're gonna at least try and move the gravel.
We're gonna get the gravel from the lower side of the hill
and bring it up to the top section.
We're gonna load the dump bed full and then hopefully, just haul it back up.
That's gonna be a lot of weight.
It's gonna be a tough job to get that up here.
Hopefully, we can do that.
Aw, yeah. He's spinnin' already.
We're gonna have a problem.
We are definitely gonna have a problem. Look at that.
We're gonna have to chain up. Let's go get him.
- [Brent] Throw those straps in the back seat. - [Kyle] All right.
[Kyle] Things are just not going our way.
He hits the one soft spot and starts spinning all four tires.
Hopefully, we're gonna be able to get it with two trucks.
- [Kyle] Okay. You ready? - [Lance] Ready.
[Kyle] We get moving. I thought we were gonna get it.
But I started spinning all four tires.
I'm sliding out and I knew at that point
two trucks isn't gonna do it.
That's too slick.
Everything we do up here is just ten times harder.
And it makes everything worse.
I'll make one other suggestion.
We go get the dozer.
[Kyle] I like the way you think.
You get in my truck and I'll just pull you up.
- You wanna do that? - Let's do that.
- Okay. Let's do it. - Let's go get the dozer.
All right.
Nothing's easy when you're off the grid. Nothing.
Let's get to it.
Okay. You ready?
You good?
Hallelujah!
It worked. They got that truck up here.
- Right on. - We got that done just right.
Yep.
[Kyle] There you go.
We got the gravel up on top of the hill
and that was a win for today.
I'm thinking it'll probably be two weeks before we can actually get dry enough dirt
to start moving up here again.
So we're just gonna have to wait and see how it goes.
[Kyle] Here's actually the end of the pipe coming out of the spring.
You can see the difference that
two weeks has made up here.
We had snow two weeks ago and now we're up here...
Got some fresh water.
That there looks pretty clear.
[exhales] That's some good stuff right there.
[Kyle] Well, this is a day I didn't think I would ever
see but today we actually got up here and we're diggin' holes.
It's been about six weeks
since we were up here
digging ground.
And, uh, it's nice and warm now. No more mud.
We finally got the post and brackets.
Today's the day we're actually gonna go vertical.
We've been waiting for this day for a long time.
So this is gonna be a patio post so we gotta go up that front corner.
We got different sized posts so we just gotta make sure
we get the right sized post in the right brackets
and don't get set behind like we have been.
My builder, Brent, just had a baby two days ago.
So he's home trying to take care of Mama and the baby.
Luckily, I found out my neighbor's son-in-law is actually a pole barn builder.
So this is the last post, right?
Yes, sir.
All right. Well, let's make sure.
We have one...
Five on the outside.
Five?
[Kyle] On that outside and then there's...
24, 25, 26.
We're short, like, six or seven posts in the lean.
What's our backup plan?
Do we have one?
If we wanna get the same grain treated, uh, we gotta go to Cheyenne.
- Wyoming. - Yeah.
- We're in Idaho. - [giggles] Yep.
[Kyle] That's, like, almost seven hours
to go and get posts.
We are screwed.
[sighs in exasperation] I have no idea what we're gonna do.
[Kyle] So this is the last post, right?
We're short, like, six or seven posts in the lean.
[Kyle] We are screwed.
[sighs in exasperation]
[Kyle] So we're just gonna keep doing what we're doing.
We're gonna try and get these posts up.
But after that, we're gonna be at a standstill.
And at this point, we don't have a plan.
So we gotta come up with one real fast.
So let's just get to work.
All right, guys. Let's get this up. Let's go vertical.
Go ahead. Try and hold.
[Dave] Okay. Got it. Watch out.
[Kyle] Braces.
Go.
Cool. Next.
Okay. Walk it up. You like it?
- Yep. - Hold steady.
[Kyle] Now, slide it.
Slow.
One more whack.
Right there.
This is amazing.
If I can get the other seven posts so we can finish.
It's gonna be phenomenal.
I got goosebumps literally right now because I've
actually got a pole in the air.
So let's keep going. Let's get it done.
The wind is coming up and it's getting pretty nasty right now.
Obviously, we're struggling trying to get these poles up in the air.
If one of those comes down, they're about 250, 300 pounds apiece.
If that hits us from up there, somebody's gonna die.
All right, guys.
- Got it? - Yeah, yeah.
[Kyle] All right. Let's get this up.
- [Kyle] You got it? - [nail gun firing]
That wind's coming hard now.
[drilling]
[nail gun firing]
[Kyle] We're trying to lock in the last few and we're gonna call it a day.
And hopefully, tomorrow it'll still be standing and we can keep goin'.
Good job, guys.
[Dave exclaims]
Thank you.
[Kyle] So it's taking us a couple of weeks to get these posts.
Luckily, we finally got them on the way.
We're gonna get these posts and we're gonna get moving.
We got a lot of stuff done but we still got a long ways to go.
- Ready? - Yes, sir.
Today, we are trying to get posts on the very top so we can set trusses tomorrow.
All right. Going up.
All right.
[Kyle] Just be real careful because that left side's already off balance.
So just go real slow.
Dude, that's super sketch.
If that thing starts to come down, it's gonna take somebody out.
We've gotta be real careful with what we're doing today.
That's at least 27 feet
and, uh, we just gotta do it safe.
Don't fall.
If somebody falls off of there, it could kill 'em.
- I don't want you dead, honestly. - Okay.
[drilling]
All right. Last screw's in. [drilling]
- We're good. - All righty.
[Kyle] We gotta set another right next to it and put the two together.
Until we get that second board up there,
it's gonna be really sketchy.
That's why they gotta stay up there right now and hold it, so.
We have to hurry and get another board set in there to get stability on it.
[Dave] I'll hold long as I can but
if it goes, I'm gonna let it go.
[Kyle] This is insane.
Honestly.
[Dave] Good!
Keep going. Good, good, good.
Nail it.
[Kyle] The first one, obviously, was a miss
and we could've got somebody hurt.
So this time, we're actually putting the boards together down here on the ground.
So hopefully, we don't get the wiggle that we had up there on the other side.
So we're gonna get this set. It should go a lot quicker and a lot safer.
Let's do this.
Watch your head, dude.
[Dave] Right on the money. Good.
[nail gun firing]
[Kyle] That one made me happy.
Yes, this one went much smoother.
Much smoother.
Good job.
That's what I like to see.
[Dave] Lot smoother than the last one.
[Kyle] Killed it that time. Good job, guys.
Awesome work.
Good job.
[Kyle] Tomorrow, we got trusses.
We've been waiting for this day for a long time.
We actually got the crane up the mountain.
We're about to put the trusses on the roof.
The only problem is the rain's coming.
So if we get any lighting within half a mile, we gotta shut down.
- [man] Bad weather's coming right now. - [Brent] Yeah,
[Kyle] Let's get it up fast as we can
- [Brent] Ah. - before anything does come.
[Brent] Yeah.
[Kyle] Brent's finally back on location, and we're ready to roll.
[man] Going up.
- [Kyle] Hey, Brent. - [Brent] What?
[Kyle] It's not going up right. Something's off.
[Brent] Yeah, the weight distribution's off.
When we're picking it up, it's pulling the truss tops together.
[Kyle] Brent!
[Brent painfully sighs]
[Brent sighs]
We've been waiting for this day for a long time.
We're about to put the trusses on the roof.
And it's gonna be super sketchy.
[man] Going up!
- [Kyle] Hey, Brent. - [Brent] What?
[Kyle] It's not going up right.
[Brent] The weight distribution's off.
[Kyle] Brent!
[Brent painfully sighs]
[Brent] [painfully] Ah!
- [Brent groans] - [Kyle] Are ya all right?
[Kyle] And just as we're getting ready to lift up the trusses
with the crane, I hear a crack behind me.
I turn. I see the trusses shift.
And there goes Brent.
And you hear a big thud. [thuds]
Brent's hurt right now, and I don't even know if he's gonna be able
to continue at this point.
- [Kyle] Are ya all right? - [Brent exhales deeply]
[Kyle] Did it hit anything hard?
I'll be all right.
Ow!
[Kyle] Luckily, Brent only had the wind knocked out of him.
This could've been a lot worse.
Now, we just need to get these trusses braced,
so it won't happen again.
[Brent exhales] Brace it up.
[Kyle] We finally got the trusses braced.
But the problem we got now is there is a big storm rolling in,
and it's rolling in fast.
It's not looking good right now.
[Kyle] Let's just hope that stays over there...
'cause that is gnarly over there.
[thunders]
[Kyle] All right, let's get this first truss up!
And hurry!
[Kyle] We just gotta move as fast as we can
and hope this storm doesn't hit us
'cause if it does, I think we're done for the day.
And that's gonna put us way behind.
[Kyle] I'm gonna be manning the tagline rope today
and help guide the trusses into place.
[Kyle] Keep it straight so you don't get that corner.
[Kyle] This way!
[Kyle] We've gotta keep it same direction as the house. [thunders]
This is extremely dangerous right now.
I mean, we just saw lighting right behind us.
But we're gonna try to do what we can.
[Brent] That truss have to come this way?
[man] Ah, yeah, I'm about perfect.
All right, now, we got the first truss
in place.
We're gonna secure it.
And it will follow up by hurricane straps later
after we get everything framed out.
[Brent] We have to anchor these four in.
[thunders]
[Brent] Man, how much is it gonna rain today?
[Brent] After we secure this one, I don't think
we'll be able to fly anymore today.
When Mother Nature's against ya, might as well just call it a day.
- [man] All good? - [Brent] You're good.
[Kyle] Just as we get that first truss put in place, the skies open up.
The lighting, the rain, the wind, it's all here.
[Brent] We gotta call it, man.
There ain't no way.
This is too gnarly right now.
[Brent] We gotta get the crane out of here.
If he doesn't get going right now, he's gonna fall down the hill.
[Kyle] Okay, we'll get ya out of here!
This is extremely defeating, so it really sucks.
[Kyle] This could put us off for several weeks.
[Kyle] So with the weather delayed, it's taking us two weeks
to get a crane back up here.
But now we've got it here, we're ready to get back to work.
Luckily, today, we were able to get the rest of the roof structure up.
This is extremely awesome.
It actually looks like a house with a roof.
So I am super excited about this one.
We can just move on from here.
[Kyle] Well, it's, uh, bright and early out here on the homestead.
It's a great day 'cause we've got concrete going in today.
That's the floor that we're pouring this morning.
So this is gonna be one heck of a great day.
[Kyle] We got a little chunk of good weather today.
So we're gonna grab the big chunks of metal
and try to get them on the roof today.
Some of these sheets are 28 feet long.
They're really hard to lift.
And not only that, once we get wind,
they're extremely hard to deal with.
And they're very sharp.
Not gonna be easy today, but we're gonna get it done.
We got 52 sheets to get on there, 26 per side.
And it looks like the clouds are coming,
so we might get a little rain.
So we'll do this side, and we'll tack it down.
And then we'll do the other side.
So if it starts raining or the wind starts really blowing,
there's not much that we can do.
- Cool. Well, let's get to it. - All right.
[Brent] All right, panel.
[Brent] Slide it up.
[Brent] Okay, make sure it doesn't waffle right there, Chris.
[man] It's gonna waffle. It's gonna waffle.
[shouting] What's the reveal on that?
[Brent] A foot?
So now, we're gonna have to cut every panel.
- Are you serious? - Yeah.
So with the foot reveal, once the snow comes,
it's going to bend all your panels down.
- So we can only cut it off-- - We can only have about a 2 1/2, 3-inch reveal.
- We verified these measurements-- - How we gonna cut all of it?
We got 52 panels that we have to cut.
This is gonna add probably three hours to our day.
And it's already getting late.
- [Kyle] We just can't get away from the problems. - Yeah.
[shouting] What's the reveal on that?
[Brent] A foot?
So now, we're gonna have to cut every panel.
- Are you serious? - Yeah.
So we just found out that every single sheet of metal
is a foot longer than it should be,
which means when the snow load comes off the roof
if you have that extra foot of overhang
the snow load is gonna bend them over just like that.
So we have to come back and cut every single one of these sheets
so they're flesh with the end of the building,
so we don't have that problem where it wraps over.
[man] If it's not one thing, it's another.
[Kyle] So we're gonna have to pull this one down.
We're gonna have to cut it.
Then we're gonna have to cut 51 other sheets to go along with it.
It's gonna slow us down quite a bit.
[Brent] There ya go.
How's the reveal?
[Brent] Measure it again.
So, after we cut a foot off the first panel, it fits.
It looks great.
We're gonna put it back on the roof.
[Brent] Up, up, up.
Okay.
It's going smooth now.
We got some panels on the roof.
That's what I like to see.
Hey, Brent,
have I told you how sexy that roof looks?
Say it again.
- That's what I'm talking about right there. - [chuckling]
I had a kid.
Yee-yooh!
All right, guys. Last sheet.
Let's get 'er up.
All right, here we go. Last one.
Oughta be careful comin' off them roofs.
Yesterday, we got the metal on the roof.
And, uh, today, we're getting a lot of framing done.
We're getting the cabinets in.
We're getting templates done for the kitchen cabinets.
Morgan's over there, building up another wall
inside the walk-in closet.
Yesterday, we got our stove installed, and it looks great.
Today, we're actually gonna put the rock around it
and it's gonna look even better.
Let's check down in here.
There's a good one right there.
I figured if we're gonna build a rock fireplace,
we might as well get the rocks off our own land.
Look at this.
It's got yellow.
Yeah, let's get a pile of at least... 20, probably.
Luckily, I've got my daughter Jensie out here.
She just turned 15, and we're gonna be collecting a lot of rocks.
She's got the muscle, I've got a bad back,
so I bring her to do the heavy lifting.
Check this out!
- It's a horseshoe! - [chuckles] Wow.
If we put this and hang it right over our door,
it's supposed to be good luck for your house.
Things have not gone right for us at all.
It should reverse the luck, right?
Hopefully.
We'll take all the luck we can get.
We'll take a horseshoe any day.
I think we're good, kid.
That's a great one.
Why don't we just get these back to the house
- and let Rick get to work? - Yeah.
- [Kyle] What do you think? - Yup.
[Kyle] It looks like we got a storm headed this way, too.
With the rain slowing us down on the outside,
hopefully, we can move inside and get some progress done there.
My buddy, Rick, is a mason,
and luckily I was able to convince him to come up here
and help me put in this awesome fireplace.
[Rick] This type of stone in this type of weather,
you can't go too fast.
Of course, there. Everything we do up here is not gonna go fast
and it's not gonna go easy, so.
That's just the way it is up here.
It's gonna look phenomenal when we're done.
- Last rock-- - Dude, I love it.
I'm so glad we finally got this done.
- That's money right there. - Right on.
Awesome. Thanks, buddy.
Nice.
Yeah, I'm really excited about this fireplace, but I ain't gonna lie,
this weather has really got me nervous.
I haven't seen this much rain in a long time.
Especially up here.
And, unfortunately, right now,
it's starting to leak inside my house.
I mean, the rain's just coming in sideways right now.
Like, this is-- It's just insane.
Right now, it's coming right through the roof.
And the sidewalls, we don't have any wood up there.
So, we're just trying to go as fast as we can,
and, unfortunately, we didn't have that sheeted.
So now I'm dealing with water.
It's kind of a disaster at the moment.
I've got cabinets in here. The cabinets are gonna get wet.
If I lose the cabinets, I lose thousands and thousands of dollars.
So we just gotta keep it dry as we can.
Things have just not gone right for us up here.
[Kyle] Right now, it's coming right through the roof.
And the sidewalls, we don't have any wood up there.
So, it's kind of a disaster at the moment.
The cabinets are gonna get wet.
We just gotta keep it dry as we can.
The only way we can stop this rain is
to try and get sheets on the side of the walls.
Luckily, I've got some great guys that are working their butts off,
and they're putting the sheets up now,
and, hopefully, it'll stop the rain from coming any further.
I've got 2 inches of water in there.
We just gotta push it out.
We gotta keep pushing it out until we can get those sheets up.
Once the sheet's up, then I can relax.
But until then, we got a lot of work to do
just to keep the water out.
Luckily, we got a break in the weather.
We actually got the wall up.
That's gonna help keep any other rain out.
I'm hoping that we didn't damage any of the cabinets.
They're shimmed up a little bit.
So I think we got the water underneath, and we had towels down.
This wood will dry.
And once we get the sheeting up on this wall,
that should stop the problems that we had with the rain.
We just gotta clean up the mess.
Yeah, that's much better.
The cabinets all survived the rain.
I'm very relieved about that.
Now we just need to get the rest of them in
and finish out this kitchen.
Getting countertops installed.
And here's the countertops in the bathroom.
Well, so far, so good.
We're trying to work on some backsplash for the kitchen.
Just a little bit more stuff to do,
and we might actually get finished before the rains and snow come.
Just as we were starting to make some awesome progress out here,
I got hit with more bad news.
My contractor, Brent, had to go home because he had other builds in town
and a baby to take care of.
Unfortunately, things are getting really cold up here.
I'm having an extremely hard time getting anybody else
that can come up here and work.
My neighbor across the hill here,
Dave, he's been helping me out wherever he can,
trying to get this done.
We just gotta do what we can with...
what we got.
It's just been quite the nightmare, honestly.
Unfortunately, for us, fall is here,
which means winter is coming really fast.
It could be here tomorrow.
Well, the last thing I wanted to do is just dry in this building
and call it quits for the winter,
but, unfortunately, we don't have a choice.
Once things get wet up here,
you're not getting any vehicles up here.
So, at this point, the only logical solution is dry the building in.
It's been a while since we've been able to do a lot of work,
because it's been me and Dave trying to get the rest of this built.
We've been busting what we could, but it's just slowed us way down.
Cold front's coming tomorrow morning.
We gotta this dried in as fast as possible,
make sure that we don't get any water in the building
and save what we got left.
Today, we're gonna put in a couple of windows that we have left.
Looks good.
Got it.
After we get the windows in...
That's good.
Beauty. So we'll put in the French door.
[grunts] That's gonna be the main door coming in on the east side.
- Got it? - Yep.
[drilling]
- Pretty good. - Looks great.
[Kyle] And we gotta then put up the metal.
Door's on.
Let's move the metal.
Once we get the metal up, we're finally gonna have a drain in-built.
[truck beeping]
Right.
We're just finishing off the one side of the house and we'll be ready to go.
Add a little more kick.
- Brent. - Lock it in, man.
[drilling]
[rock music playing]
[Kyle] We've gotta get this up. If we don't get this right in today,
we're gonna have a big cold front, we could have snow tomorrow morning.
[groans] This is so easy.
- [chuckles] - [hammering]
[Kyle] Oh, that's it. Beautiful.
- [Brent] Screw it in. - [drilling]
Nice.
Good job, man.
So the place is finally dried in,
and I can't tell you how excited I am just to have that happen.
This is what I wanted to see.
No more water in the bedroom.
We're trying to get as many finishing touches I can done up here
before my family shows up.
I want them to show up here and actually feel like home.
I want it to be home.
It's gonna take a few extra days,
but we're gonna do what we can to make it look and feel like a real house.
[Kyle] The building's finally dried in.
We're super excited to at least be to this point.
It's not exactly where we wanted to be.
But we're excited to see the vision come together of what we wanted,
to have this beautiful view,
and have a place to stay warm.
[Kyle] So now it's dried in and let's save it for spring.
Hopefully we can come back and get it finished.
The journey to get to here was not the best.
We had a lot of bumps in the road.
But, you know what? We overcame all the problems that came up.
We made progress.
The original budget for this house was gonna be $300,000.
We ended up spending $340,000 so far.
So, our original timeline for this build was one and a half months.
We missed that by quite a bit. We're now at 6 month mark.
But you know what? We beat the snow.
[Shaneel] So today we're having my best friends, Bree and Kendra come up.
- Hi, guys. - Hi, guys.
- This looks awesome! - Good to see you again!
- This is huge! - Huge!
I know they're gonna be excited with how big this is,
'cause I think this is bigger than anybody thought it was gonna be.
- Including us. - Yeah. [laughs]
Can you believe this?
That's a view, huh?
- Horrible, huh? Right? - It's so beautiful!
- The colors of the leaf changing, looks great. - Oh, my, you can see forever.
It's a retirement house, so,
we figured we're gonna be sitting in those rocking chairs,
enjoying this view, looking for the elk and deer and moose everyday.
Did you get chairs for all of us?
-Oh, of course we have. Of course we have. -[all laughing]
- One day. - Sweet.
Ya'll have to tell me about the horseshoe.
[Kyle] Me and Jensey picked up this horseshoe when we were out
getting rock for the fire place,
and since we've had all the bad luck,
we thought we'd throw that up on the all and hopefully from now on--
Nothing but good luck.
- Good luck. Yeah. - Yep.
That's what we wanna hear, right?
- Let's go see inside. - Okay, I'm ready.
Let's go.
- Oh, my God. - Oh, my gosh, this is huge!
Beautiful!
I love it! My gosh, this dream kitchen.
Looks like it's almost done.
So this kitchen's about done. There's a few things we need to do.
We need light fixtures,
then we're gonna put some old barn aluminum tin up there
to kind of hide space over the pantry.
We're excited to eventually get it done.
It's like I'm partying in here.
- [Kyle] Exactly. - Do some good dinners.
- You've got table that will fit everybody. - [Kyle] I know, huh?
So where do you get your water?
So all the water for the house is gonna come from the spring.
We're gonna pipe it up the hill and bring it in the house.
What about the electric?
So, we're gonna use solar?
It's absolutely off grid. There's no water, there's no power unless we bring it.
- So, it's gonna be awesome. - Amazing.
[Shaneel] Shall we walk over and look at the fire place?
- Let's check it out. - Yes!
- That turned out so beautiful. - It looks awesome. It's huge!
[Kyle] Every bit of this rock came off the property.
Me and Jensey went out and picked them up.
And it just turned out amazing.
- It's beautiful. - Yeah.
It just feels like home once you get a nice, warm fire place.
I can't believe how much heat this puts out. It's gonna heat up this whole place.
- [Kyle] I know it's so warm. - That feels so good.
[Shaneel] So eventually we're gonna put some dry wall up there,
and then Kyle's just super excited to put his big elk up there.
- [all laughing] - Of course!
- I can't wait to see more. - Yeah, I'll show you some more.
You guys check out the main bedroom.
- Oh, look at this furniture. - So cute!
We've already brought the bed in because I'm ready to stay in a cabin.
- [Kyle] Honestly. - [all laughing]
Plus the deer hunt's coming next week, so.
- Perfect timing. - I'm gonna be comfortable this year.
[Shaneel] And we have a bathroom over there.
- Oh, my God, that is so cool. - Oh, my God, that is so beautiful.
[Shaneel] The vision is into the bathroom will have a barn door that closes,
and then we'll have a shower and a toilet in there.
[Kyle] It will be great in there.
- And you can soak in the tub while he goes hunting. - Yep.
- Exactly. - [all laughing]
I wanna see the rest!
- You wanna go upstairs? - Yes!
- Let's go check that out. - Let's check it out.
[Shaneel] Watch your step.
Oh, my gosh, this is so cool!
My gosh, this is awesome.
What are you gonna do up here? Game room?
- [Kyle] Yeah, it is actually gonna be a game room. - [all laughing]
We got Jensey's bedroom right there.
Got her own bathroom up here as well.
[Kendra] What a lucky kid to grow up in here.
- She loves being up here, so. - Yeah, she does.
You guys come over here and check this out.
- Oh, my gosh. - The whole vision is to be able to sit up here,
and see the entire valley.
[Kendra] That view still goes forever and ever no matter where you are at.
Beautiful!
I know there's a lot of work that needs to be done,
but what do you guys think about this overall?
- Beautiful. - Awesome. It really is.
I just can't wait for it to be finished.
[Kyle] It would have been great if we could have finished it,
but at least we got a live able space now.
We can come here and hang out and have a great time.
I love the barn dominium, I love what they've done so far,
they put their heart and soul into every bit of this.
I've really got an idea of you know what it's gonna look like in the end,
and I can't wait to see what comes with this build.
Now you just gotta watch out, 'cause Bree's think she's taking your bed.
[all laughing]
[Shaneel] Building off the grid has been challenging.
It's been hard, it's had it's ups and it's downs.
[Kyle] Nothing up here has been easy. It's been a long road,
-but this-- this is where we ended up. -Yeah.
Right now it's livable and it's loveable.
We finally see the vision.
We have so much to look forward to and we have a whole life ahead of us to enjoy it.
[Kyle] It was worth every step.