we ask anyone who's experiencing cold or flu symptoms to get tested here we go again
we're very lucky here in new zealand we just hit alert level three which is
just below the highest one alert level four but we can still work
so we can we can work pretty much like normal we just have to keep a one meter distance from each
other wear masks make sure everyone scans in when they come to site and yeah carry on my apartment
building car park was completely full this morning um so the official the official rule is
if you can work from home you do work from home obviously we're builders so
we're allowed to go to work so the reason i am the reason i say we're lucky here in new zealand
is because i mean the rest of the world they've had lockdowns for months and this is our third
lockdown and i think the longest one was about six weeks it's always a bit of a worry when this thing
happens because you don't know how long it's going to be for three days at this stage but
who knows but it could be a lot worse i mean i don't have to deal with covert directly but
purely from a selfish perspective we're hoping we don't go to level four
because this is the only bathroom in the house and if we go to alert level four we can't work
and this bathroom won't proceed so we're hoping we stayed at level three for a while at least
long enough to get this thing going again this is a self-leveling compound and underneath it
is the underfloor heating which goes up through a cable in the wall to here which is where the
thermostat will be and uh it'll keep your feet warm while you're brushing your teeth
let's see here if you watched my makita 40 volt video you'll know that i'm only borrowing this
for like a week and then i'll be going back to the festool k-peps
because we've got a lot of finishing coming out but
while i had the opportunity to borrow from akita i thought why not take it
so our main goal this week is to get all the stuff inside the kitchen and dining
done and unfortunately it involves pulling off plasterboard yet again this stuff here
that pilot was pulled off now the reason he's pulled that off is it's a bracing element
and i've talked about that in other videos it's basically a
plasterboard equivalent of um a bracing and that's the last one thankfully so the end of this beam
which connects to that beam that beams got a brace in there and the end of this beam is braced by
those two ones that you would have seen us do over there and i'm gonna try and tidy up this window
well at least something is open didn't have much food at home and the supermarket is so
crazy so uh subway it is
hey there how's it going so what's the procedure uh you need to either do online order
oh we can't order here i want the three paper chicken please uh foot long yeah smoked thank
you i'm like i'm looking at the guy through the window what's that uh toasted thank you
thank you okay thanks am i watching the guy through the window as he's ordering this all right
thank you very much appreciate it take
care you have to i can text you my um
so we've been plodding along doing the jib doing the little bits around the windows pretty much
trying to finish everything inside we've got the floor sander coming next week so we want
to get it to a point where we can go outside and he can finish what's going on around the kitchen
and luckily the merchants are still open because we need to buy some
pretty select timber trims you know this is an old house
and luckily they still make that stuff it's just not at your regular merchants
and the one that we need to get it from is still open thankfully left it on too long again boiling
the water is supposed to help not burn the coffee but then it takes a lot less time on the cooker
one of the tasks that were weighing heavy on my mind on the inside of here is this wall
here this wall was like horribly out of level and we knew we needed to make this corner level
to hold these beams so it was i was concerned that when we try to tie the two walls into each other
we're gonna have issues we've made these packers 20 mil to match the top of the wall up there and
then we've tapered in this packer to link up with the wall so it's out of level like that and then
we've brought it level here and it's definitely level here and that should look pretty good
let's check some jib on now the good thing is as you can see we've got wayne's coating up to
this height for the waist height on the wall and we're continuing that around here around
this corner and finishing it at the door and what used to be there was the laundry door you probably
might not remember that so we're trying to make it look like the laundry door was never there
one thing that i like to do when i'm joining from old to new is i like to cut back the old a little
bit more than is necessary this is about 100 ml over onto the socking this is our new frame and
the reason for that is the new frame is h 1.2 pine and it's got some packers on it to bring it out to
the line and the old frame is sucking on native timbers very different timbers so we can get the
plasterboard over and onto the old stuff you're not going to have that difference of movement
because it's sharing both timbers less chance of cracking basically is the easy way to say it
these screws are longer so they can go through the plasterboard and through the packers
and then from the left side you're like 80 tight
all right it's moment of truth what do you think is that straight or what
i think that's pretty straight 20 more pekka
lines up pretty well an old builder i used to work with used to say a good plasterer will fix that
still a little bit uncertain the whole covert thing i'm keeping an eye on my phone because
hopefully we go down or at least just stay at level three because level four means no work
at all which means no kitchen no bathroom it depends on these tests i think they're doing
there's like three people in one house that have it and they don't know where they got it from so
they're testing all the other people that they're connected with and when those test results come
back they're gonna hopefully have some news just picked up some materials from the merchant and
it was very busy crack as soon as i opened the gates the place was full and just as i
was leaving driving past there were four or five cars out the front of the gate waiting to drive in
we find out whether we go up a level today and maybe that's something to
do with it people are getting enough materials to keep themselves busy during a full lockdown
looks like our weather's definitely improved it's the thing about living on an island in the
middle of the ocean one day it's pouring with rain and the next it's beautiful and sunny our
inspection passed as well in the bathroom that means the tyler can start tomorrow so we're
well on track to um having a working bathroom again all right a couple of wedges what's those
another thing we need to do is uh the ceiling up here the big hole we created a big hole when
we took the old kitchen out and that hole is because the ceiling was a different kind of
ceiling in there now we've got this open space we have to tie it all together and make it look like
one big ceiling that was always like that but the issue is these are timber battens
native 10 mil thick timber batterings they're about that wide so you can't pick that up off the
be going out shelf we have uh received a notification
this morning of uh two additional cases uh around
three community cases it's not very nice no it is it's the disrespect it forgets me
now because we have that issue with the native timber that we can't buy we have to put some sort
of timber there we can't put plasterboard because we have to join the two so we have this nine mil
plywood it's got quite a smooth surface so once it's painted it should be sweet
put a few blemishes on the side but yeah i'm good
the ply seems to be a good solution just got a bog to join a little bit and one thing that we
have to do is see these spaced out batons they come all the way down the hallway and previously
all of this was walled off at the end of the hallway a wall going straight across the
wall here the batons continue into what used to be the bedroom now the wall ruins the spacing of
the kitchen we just follow these centers all the way through it won't work it won't match
up so we've gotta probably take off another one of these and then slowly creep them until
they match but that'll be in the next exciting episode this is where
we're ending it here i'm excited potter's excited thanks for watching another exciting
midnight episode auckland will drop down to alert level two
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