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let's go about here another day in the sunny south island buying this house uh wasn't easy
and we had to buy it while we were still in auckland we couldn't fly down to look at it
we were still on lockdown it was a mission the real estate agent was very helpful and
we had some friends here but not not many we've only got a handful of friends here one of them
in particular was very helpful he even came to the open homes and filmed the whole place himself that
really helps us make our decision anyway i'm the reason i'm bringing that up now is because
in today's exciting episode you're going to meet this person unless you've already met him before
welcome congratulations i can't believe i'm here for the second time you've had a haircut ah
yeah yeah big one i was looking like lion king gaston lives in nelson and they said that they're
not weeds okay i'm gonna get cats there you go oh is that your box for flowers jess that's no
flowers what timing gaston you're kidding that's a spare ambulance so they spend uh
more than 10 years developing that secretary i assume it's the same as um a regular
got their different settings very especially developed as well for people with the
problems in their wrists hopefully that's not me for a long time no but i mean again they're
quite nice to use so um but i can show you uh please how do i open this i feel like larry david
hey where's the van i don't have it yet still waiting i was going to because i watched your
video traveling around there the trip that i do many times as you can imagine how many
times i drive all the way yeah so you can see very familiar freaking long ways yeah it's beautiful
the view from the ferry yeah i just got it so many times of you that it's oh my gosh this is
so generous no no that's okay that's fine that's that's so good and then you just put it away
in the center and then you got um the folding so that's for pruning it just i forgot the other your
roof was square oh you need to put it on there that's made by katipo by george and christchurch
that's awesome so that's actually quite cool for the square but also for any any verbals
how do you remember it gaston yeah yeah yeah that's what i liked about this place was the
neighborhood yeah for me was taking all the boxes yeah it was just freaking quiet yeah and then
you are absolutely really close to to the shops it's not far away and then on this place you can
there was more opportunity to do more stuff in the house into the other place nothing
it was already done you could just go with moving with your
toothbrush and that's it watch out with the ceiling right that's right
this can be the first hammer
looks like you got a good hole there just i know um i i'll talk to you all these ones um soon okay
thanks again gaston for helping me buy a house that's so good i've got a double garage there
that's completely empty oh man you're gonna fill that with so much gear i i can't wait it's gonna
get very dangerous well we should have a play date soon i agree come to my place and then one day i
come here tell our wives to come and pick pick us up like kids guys it's time to go great idea
so this garage is going to be a work in progress clearly it's very dark and uh making it lighter
is one of the first things i need to do but more importantly getting this place secure
so we've got those two tilt doors and i've changed the locks on them i've got this old school handle
here but i've gone and bought a handle that will look exactly the same as that
but replace it just so i know i'm the only one with a key not only do i have double the
floor space that i had in that container it's a double garage but i also have this carport here
just having this space is a real luxury for me check this weird thing out this is a cupboard
and it's been installed around the rafters of the carport and when you open the doors
you then have the pedestrian entry that's the garage so i i don't know if this is
like an added security feature or maybe just the old owner was having a little bit of fun
either way i appreciate it now one of the pressing issues with this carriage
is the fact that it's steel galvanized steel and we have this everywhere rust rust everywhere
and it's particularly bad on the roof and there's also a nice little secret garden here
that's the garage anyway it needs some paint or rust repair or both i don't know
i'm not a painter let me know in the comments below what you'd do
and the garden needs a trim as well oh yeah and the door here totally busted up
i don't know if you're sensing a theme but there's a lot of repair work oh my god look
at all these ants jess and i got given all these keys in this envelope when we bought the place
trial and error
oh come on the first key i tried
it's to be a few small jobs that we need to do around the house that's partly because we're going
to need building consent when it comes to doing the kitchen and the bathroom the other reason is
because my van isn't here yet yet it was meant to be here now part of the reason that is annoying is
my wholesale kit is in the van among other things
and right now i'm trying to replace the deadbolt so that's a new door handle and this deadbolt has
got a strange diameter hole i basically need to make that hole bigger in order to fit this
let's get a hole saw the issue with the house we need building consent because we plan to slightly
relocate the kitchen at least that's our initial idea and we also are more than likely going to put
tiles in a bathroom and anytime you add tiles i'm sorry about the bumpy road by the way anytime you
add tiles in an area that hasn't been tiled you need to get waterproofing and the council will
need to check that you're doing the waterproofing correctly so yeah we need to get building consent
but we're not as reluctant as maybe you'd expect because it's i think it's important to get design
ideas from people who know about design i am a builder and that's my area of expertise design
definitely isn't we've got some ideas but you should never underestimate the kind of tips you
could get from a designer i bumped into another builder here in nelson who watches the channel
and i mentioned that we're gonna start looking for architects and he said good luck apparently
wait times are months not weeks and uh getting this close to christmas might be a bit difficult
for the van well that's another story that is on the truck and the last i heard is that it's
in wellington and the annoying thing is i just put basics in there i just put basics like um
hole saws and work benches and ladders and things
things i didn't think i'd need but not the first time i've been wrong
i just seen a 54 millimeter hole that's like the most common size i think
you know it was cheaper to buy the whole saw door kit than it was to buy a wholesale
does that make sense not only do i not have the gear at the moment but i think my reputation as
a carpenter is in question with jess she hasn't said it but after the last exciting episode where
i put that chain on incorrectly i've uh gone and put a cheap deadbolt on and that broke in a
matter of days i'm trying to redeem myself here by putting this new deadbolt on if this works
all will be well if it doesn't work i don't know what i'm going to do
i think i'm just going to blame it on the move
if i make another mistake but but right here is a genuine issue that happens quite often
when you're putting new locks in old doors it's not as simple as just drilling the hole because
you already have a hole there let me show you what i mean so what you normally have is this
pilot bit that comes out first and that lets you position exactly where you want this bigger hole
to be but in a hole like this we already have a big hole there so the pilot bit
has nowhere to go
all we need is a little bit of scrap wood
and then with that scrap wood make a bunch of holes
okay
so now the only clamps that i have are extra long those are the ones that came
on the moving truck but they should do the job and all you do is position this over the hole
now the goal here is to drill inside here without
this moving i am concerned that perhaps i've already blunted this by using on the mdf
sort of smoked before but should be good enough put it in reverse first
that gives it a little something to dig into
i think it worked
so
success don't have to uh give up my day job just yet
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i've got my workbench i've got my levels but in the meantime you might have seen as i pulled up
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