00:04 Speaker 1: Nah.
Nah.
Aha!
Found it.
What?
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00:34 S1: Now listen up, all you DIYers.
Today, I want you to pay attention because I have the number one tip when it comes to
finding a timber stud.
It's an absolute fool-proof method and, remember, it's our little secret.
So don't tell your mates.
Anyway, let's duck inside and I'll show you what I mean.
00:55 S1: Now, there's a number of methods that you can use to find a stud.
You can use your knocking-on-the-wall trick.
You can fork out $50 plus, to get a half-decent stud-finder.
Or you can even remove a power point, because power points are attached to studs and they'll
tell you where a stud is.
Or, you could do this, go to your fridge and remove one of your fridge magnets.
That, I believe, in my opinion, is the best stud-finder you can get.
And it's our wedding photo, the wife, me and some crazy photo bomber, classic.
This method is so good, I think it deserves its own drum roll.
01:46 S1: Yeah.
Alrighty.
We have a magnet.
We have drywall, or plasterboard that is attached to timber studs using metal fasteners.
Aha!
Let me see.
Magnets, metal fasteners, magnetic attraction.
Bingo!
We have lift-off.
Now all you have to do is get yourself a bit of painter's tape.
I would like to use painter's tape 'cause it's a little bit stiffer than normal tapes.
You don't have to, but that's just what I like to use.
A length of string, about a metre long, like that, and a washer and I'll show you what
to do with these.
02:29 S1: The first thing you need to do is attach your washer to your string.
Once you've done that, grab some Blu Tack and just attach this string to the magnet,
just like that.
Make sure it's in the center of the magnet, like that, there we go.
And then, put your magnet on top of your tape, like that, and wrap it around, just like that.
And what this does is...
This'll be my handle, for holding the magnet.
And let's go to that wall and find those studs.
So there we have it.
There's your home-made stud finder.
03:22 S1: Now, all we need to do is rub this across the surface of the drywall or plasterboard
and it will pick up any metal fasteners and that's where our studs are.
Let's give it a go.
So, run it across the wall, like this, and there we are.
It's found a stud.
How easy is that.
Absolutely fool-proof.
So, once the magnet has found a fastener, it's found the stud, you let the string hang
down, which is weighted by these washers.
And that gives you the centreline for the length of that stud.
So you can nail any where along that line and you will hit a solid stud.
How good is that?
And that's not all.
04:10 S1: Seriously, I should be selling steak knives.
And the last thing that you can do with this amazing invention, is if you know your stud
centres, which are roughly 450 for external walls here in Australia, and around 600 millimetres
for internal walls and if you get it in the States, I think it's 16 inches on center.
Now, on center means from the center of the stud to the center of the next stud.
So if you know your centres, you can mark those on your string and just turn your string
around like that.
And bang, that's where your next stud is.
Great tip, knackers!
04:53 S1: Oh yeah, like I promised, the best magnets to use for a home-made stud finder,
you need a reasonably strong magnet.
So, what I use are magnets called 'rare earth magnets'.
This one here is about 25 millimetres in diameter and about 5 mil thick, and they'll cost you
around about 10 bucks or something like that.
Or, you could even vandalise an old hard drive you've got floating around the house and they
have rare earth magnets in there.
There you go, freebie, even better.
So, there you have it.
How to find a timber stud using a home-made stud-finder.
How cool is that?
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