WE'RE IN TROUBLE WITH THE BUILDING INSPECTOR
bad news everybody the party's over so today while Eamon was out um in town I had a knock on the door and we had a visit from the local township building inspector apparently multiple complaints were filed against us for building without permits we're Eamon and bec van lifer's turned amateur renovators over the past eight months we've worked hard to transform this cabin into our dream home only to find out we've been breaking a lot of rules along the way you driving good and you might have noticed we are not at our place today but we are with Tim here with tim yeah hey tim's here yeah eamon eamon's favorite uh favorite worker favorite person to see on a wednesday morning yeah just a wednesday morning only wednesday morning we have come to our neighbor's place matt and jackie and they are gonna let us use their beach because we are building something very exciting floating dock what are you doing come on it was a little less steep than our place eh so we decided to use barrels like this they're like food grade barrels tim has like the supplier guy that he knows um they're 30 bucks a barrel versus normal dock floats which can be upwards of 200 bucks a piece yeah okay yep exhausted already so we're saving a lot of money i knew i'd be grateful that we're not building this at our place but imagine just imagine honestly can't imagine i had to take all these barrels down there down the back make sure the barrel doesn't fall off you just miss us he's fine he's totally fine but yeah very grateful for this level ground thanks guys the one side is sealed see how it's already i don't think it's ever been opened so that's fine most of them have a cap yeah don't worry about the cat don't worry about the cap and then for these ones you're gonna undo them oh so see this one doesn't even have a seal and that's why you got to do this because otherwise water gets in quite a bit well you don't need that much put that that's good okay all right okay one of 32. of course the boards we need we're at the bottom coming right through the camera oh the butt shot's coming in not even two minutes into the vlog and tim's already got it in front of the camera classic if anyone cares this is my last one yay as you guys probably know tim and i have built a lot of different platforms by now and we always seem to struggle when it comes to squaring it and that makes a big difference in the structural strength plant-based nutrition as well as the uh you know when you put the boards on you know you're gonna start coming out of whack so i have a trick thank you tik-tok tim would typically grab the corner and go to the other corner and then move it to the other corner and it does this like silly dance all you got to do is the 6 8 10. you come out to six yeah i'm actually curious come out to eight and this should be ten it should be ten so yeah this side's gotta come in can you just lift that and bring it that way maybe a little bit more of the leg towards the leg yeah just a little bit perfect right there yeah you've got to square it down yeah you think well let's go corner we got to do this side too yeah we shouldn't have to should we what are you doing well if that's doubting my ticket where is it yeah let's go corner corner check it uh no we're way off oh so we got to do this side too you just saw the first part and then stopped watching after i got so excited way off wow okay so you gotta check tiktok and watch the rest of that video tick tock fail back to the old fashioned tim way bud you were just making fun of it okay tim's method's the best we just realized that it might be unclear exactly what we're building today or what we're doing here and on our lake you can have a floating dock so you can actually come out on the water and enjoy so we are replicating exactly what matt and jackie did a few weeks ago nice is it 16 by 16 believe it's 16 by 16 floating dock so now we're putting in stringers and the beauty part about building this this way is we haven't even made a single cut because we're just using the true 16 foot long boards yeah i was actually wondering why the chop saw didn't come over in the gator this morning so there you go cross your toes there you are we might have to take this apart this is actually an inch over no it's over no so we got to cut it we got to cut them down to 16. come on dude yeah yeah an inch over i guess my toes weren't crossed tightly enough to be honest i thought things were going a little too well this morning we got an angry aiming on the job site that's a big mistake dude what if we um is it's an inch we got to buy what if we strapped another board on or something well no the uh another cause which way are they going problem is that the the deck boards will be wide enough they won't reach the sides we've determined that our saving grace will be if we can find seven of these boards that are actually 16 and 5 8 because even though they say they're 16 feet they uh they're never true 16s we've found three so far can you cross those toes again for me get a winner we've just propped the uh the old girl up we're waiting for matt to get off the business call um and then he's gonna help us carry it down to the beach and in the meantime we're gonna get these two by fours set and these are gonna hold these are gonna be like the cradles to hold the barrels thank you yeah how's that how's that for fit that's perfect first give me 25 crunches yeah kiss the barrel no sparrow no there we go one more time kiss it there we go very good very good 20. while i'm in and tim finish that up i'm gonna head home and make some quick lunch let's make some fajitas okay that just confirmed i'm the worst vlogger on my own i didn't show you the burritos but i packed them i'm leaving the kitchen a mess and we're back to it got some watermelon i mean i might not be the best solo vlogger but at least i'm showing up with watermelon snacks right the queen has come bearing gifts because mistakes were being made and when mistakes get made you need to slow down grab yourself slice the watermelon i regroup oh all right go ahead yeah we gotta send back into my place into westport to pick up a tool that i forgot to bring today maybe she could uh grab you a kleenex as well yeah all right okay no you got hot sauce all over your face yeah just a little in the corner let's go to the lake that's what he was zooming in on the hot sauce yeah we are going to get matt and jackie we're going to uh bang this guy which probably weighs like 2 000 pounds wow would you say or no is that exaggerating it weighs a lot we're gonna get that over into the water and now that we've got the supports underneath we're actually just going to set it onto the barrels and it'll float and then we need the quick drive tool which tim forgot to get the deck boards on everybody on the streets around the king all right it's gonna be amazing in there we were just about to leave and then um realize that the hardware store sent us the wrong kit so beck's also gonna make a stop and pick up some new okay this should work as long as that window doesn't break if you're still not sure what the quick drive tool is we're going to show you that in a minute tim and i reckon that will save us at least two hours and it's worth the half an hour drive so that's where beck's gone in the meantime we're going to work on the extension so this will live just sitting on the land we've already got it framed out we're gonna have two barrels maybe four barrels at the front and then that'll be hanging on the shore tim's cutting the five foot boards right now now there's only one thing left to do man nope there's several things left to do say hello to my little one second my little friend a lot of algae in that water i'll drop the tool buddy somewhere montana say hello to my little friend hmm we'll see you tomorrow morning good morning how's everybody beautiful how was your sleep my sleep was good i'm ready to have a beautiful dog to jump over today and i'm pumped i had kind of a weird sleep where i like i had a dream that i could walk through walls you dreamt last night yeah that i could walk through walls that's kind of cool you spirit or something it's kind of cool that's kind of cool yeah that's all my superpower was just all right it's a good day hey baby how's it going good are you already swimming today oh yeah the dark's done oh it looks so nice and nick's been asking about you all morning you got a new boyfriend huh yes yeah it looks like i got a little bit of competition here a little kid nick is uh starting to flirt with back a little too hard i might need to put him in his place yesterday he made her a bracelet that says beck and a heart neck neck all right and the doc is ready for its maiden voyage probably it's one and only voyage back over to our camp camp cabin and the wind is perfect yesterday the wind was coming the opposite way now the wind's gonna help us but first we gotta see if we can get the atv dude the atv will fit on your trailer oh it might if you've got the strength to get it up there i don't have the strength but i have the balls to drive it all in the pursuit of adventure and tim's always willing to uh give your crazy ideas a try isn't he just like that too easy we've asked to see if um anybody wants to join the maiden voyage and everyone's turning us down so it's just a solo mission you're doing something silly well solo beck and i don't know bye come on you never actually doubted us did you it's gonna be a good day we're getting close hello home keep paddling buddy reinforcements are on their way to them come on buddy oh the wind's picked up okay we're coming in hot oh we're just staying in the same freaking spot or what yeah oh tim go that wind just kicked in the wrong time yeah guys this is so sweet looks so good we should probably clean up the area and start to enjoy the dock but first i want to finish a little project you might remember last episode where we tried to make a rope swing it was an epic fail i think the design of the rope swing was the problem let's go again just needed a different design this works really well okay now that the important stuff's out of the way like a rope swing we're gonna clean this up so we can actually enjoy the dog now the most important part a little dangerous stealing the chairs from the other platform i learned from the porters in nepal rest it on your head that barefoot works oh yeah the barefoot beast heyman oh take a seat but oh that's amazing what do you think pretty awesome sweet spot you guys have here i'm sure each week we sound like a broken record when we say that this just changes everything but having this dog on the water really feels like it changes everything and we're just a couple steps quite literally away from being finished so tomorrow we'll be tackling the steps up to is that platform d e f f finishing the alphabet finishing the alphabet and then guys we're just gonna be enjoying summer and kicking back relax and all cool well you know that's not true but to a big day tomorrow to a big day tomorrow see you then i feel like this is where we come to share bad news with everyone so today while eamon was out um in town i had a knock on the door and we had a visit from the local township building inspector apparently multiple complaints were filed against us for building without permits why you might ask we're such lovable couples well i would have thought the same thing i think initially my reaction was to be angry at the people who reported us because they're projecting something on us that's going on but really at the end of the day i'm more angry on ourselves that we didn't know better to be honest we're like new homeowners we're fairly young we were building what we thought was a beautiful home and just had no idea the expectation for permits and getting the township involved and all these complexity that is permits and drawings and engineers and all that stuff and even just like how it varies from place to place and township to townships so anyways how do you feel babe i've had a lot of anxiety around everything the worst case scenario would be we have to take everything that we've built down and this includes indoor renovations as well like the windows which is interesting because we've hired people to help guide us along the way and nobody's ever mentioned pulling permits so worst case scenario i really don't think is gonna happen i think we're gonna hopefully be able to submit our permits work with the township but the struggle here is that we're on a no construction order so tools are down and now we're just sitting here twiddling our thumbs yep as you can imagine it's it's a stressful time but we are just you know gonna get through it and work with the township to make it right yeah we're definitely committed to making it right and we want to make it right and learn like how to do this properly in the future because we hope to you know do other renovations to the cabin so so get your permits kids yeah unless you live like way in the sticks like middle of desert off-grid and even if you even if you do you probably need a permit and if you're not going to get a permit well don't share your life online it's just the price you'll pay i think and if you were the one that mattered on us i got some words for you in my private vlog coming soon sharing our lives with you in this way is something that definitely helps eamonn and i get through these more challenging times so a big thank you to the community for just showing up every single sunday and a big thank you to skillshare for continuing to support this channel and sponsoring today's video skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of courses where millions of people come to further their skills and illustration design filmmaking photography i recently shared about marquez brownlee's new course on skillshare all about scripting shooting and editing your youtube videos and i think it's an amazing place to start if you guys are interested in getting into filmmaking or becoming a youtuber right now skillshare is offering the first 1000 of you who clicked the link in our description box a one month free trial of skillshare so make sure you don't miss out okay fam well we will see you sunday and make sure you call someone you love and tell them you love them also sorry if that felt really like low energy and down and like whiny and complaining but we're just sharing in real time and that's just the feelings we're feeling right now and i'm sure next week we'll be one step closer to figuring it out and it'll all be okay and we can calm down and it'll all be fine if you think permits suck give this video a like and we'll see you sunday how's my hair today does that what do you guys think of like what i've been doing here i just kind of want it off my face you know always good to test spin it first that guys have no value in background most girls have no value in background sure that's true yeah
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