Zach and Ash's off-grid build reaches the awkward angles
Metal board-and-batten siding joins the stone exterior as Zach works around vents, windows and tight porch eaves.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Time is Running Out For our OFF Grid Home
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- 1:05Zach installs flashing, a corner piece and top trim before starting the metal siding.
- 4:20Rain interrupts the work, sending Zach, Ash and their daughter beneath the porch.
- 6:51The angled sidewall requires individual panels to be measured and cut to follow the roof slope.
- 12:28Zach makes window trim in his shop before siding the porch-covered wall.
- 14:40Working from the metal porch roof puts Zach beneath the tight upper eaves.
- 17:36Scaffolding goes up for the front wall and its upper and lower windows.
The straight wall is only part of the job. In Zach and Ash's October upload, fitting metal siding to their Kentucky home means cutting panels to follow the roof slope, making window trim in the shop and squeezing beneath the porch eaves.
There were no new uploads this week, but "Time is Running Out For our OFF Grid Home" remains the channel's busiest video. Where the earlier stonework supplied one part of the exterior, this installment fills in the walls around it. Zach starts with flashing and corner trim before locking panels into place. Rain briefly sends the family under the porch; later, that same porch roof becomes his work platform for a cramped upper section. "Why did I build a house like this?" he asks.
The channel added about a thousand subscribers over the week, bringing it to 198,000. Weekly views were lower than the previous month's weekly average, though the subscriber gain accounted for half of the month's growth. Among nearby outdoors and homesteading channels, Piney Grove Homestead had a particularly busy viewing week, while Zach and Ash's weekly views were close to Flock Finger Lakes'.
The house supplies the other active threads, too: the moving-in video and the masonry-heater installation remain among the uploads drawing the most daily views. Moving in has given the build a new chapter, not removed the scaffolding.
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The videos drawing views on Zach & Ash - Off Grid - The Pastured Homestead right now
- Subscribers
- 198,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 106,648
- Videos published this week
- 0
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Zach frames mounting blocks and trims around intake vents for the ERV and heat pump water heater.




