today's the day we got a bunch of rain overnight and this morning so this looks
like a huge mess but I was already already made the lift all the way out so
that we can get this first post removed I think once we get that done we could
probably bring the lift in the inside we're gonna get the header on this first
Bay and what we're doing is we're using these 14-inch lvls the engineer said two
of those for each opening should suffice so we'll get those done kind of like
what we did here the only difference is now that we are basically done instead
of having 12-foot height we're gonna have 12-foot - a 14-inch header and I
think it will actually look better because what we're gonna do is when we
run this header up here we're gonna do a double lvl on each side and then we're
gonna wrap the same rib steel that we've got on the sidewall we're gonna do up
here on the inside and outside so from the outside it'll look almost like just
a bunch of groj door headers and then same from the inside I think it'll trim
up real nice it'll finish real nice if only we would have known or had the
foresaw forethought hindsight is always 20/20 once they saw you know the spacing
on these posts realized that probably ten foot was a mistake I wish I would
have thought about it - it's just as much my fault but we're gonna be able to
make it right or make it better I wouldn't say wrong it wasn't wrong
what we're doing is we're ripping down a bunch of blocks so we can make up our
header but we need to rip it down because an lvl is an inch and 3/4 and we
only want to reveal of an inch and a half so when it goes through where these
blocks are going to be at we took basically a quarter inch off of both
sides so that our final dimension is eight and a half
this is cordless so not being paid or whatever to promote Milwaukee I just got
this and we're just giving it a go we got the 12-volt battery I've already
been ripping a ton of stuff so I use it the other day to do all the window trims
but back to our Bush fix
what we're doing is we're taking this block and we are lagging it in with some
monster GRK structural screws and we're going to use this to fasten to the post
that's behind here you know we're not carrying a whole lot of weight because
everything above here is actually supported on this post we might try to
make some sort of an angle bracket out of some steel just for extra support
there we go first beam is done the lighting is
horrible but hopefully you can appreciate what we did here and we're
gonna span this section next and then we'll do here since this beam was all
built up in the soffit we couldn't really do that without taking everything
off the roof off everything and really getting in there and chopping up our
trusses didn't want to do that so what we'll do here is we'll go ahead and
frame in some material just to give it the look of this and then you know this
will be rib steel so same steel is this that'll just kind of turn the corner
it'll get capped but we're gonna do what I'm kind of nervous to do only a little
bit because it's no different than that Bay I feel good
so time to time to take that post out I've already disconnected it I can move
it no doubt there's gonna be weight on it but how much I don't know I always
like to just run the sawzall through and if it pinches the blade real bad then we
know there's a lot of weight on it or at least that it's really tight biggest
whatever
hey where's the supersize I playing shop
Matthew that I expected there to be something kind of had to be something I
think
now why cut it off up there and it's ready for trim nice the other cool thing
is what we're gonna do we're gonna hook some bolts up to that yank it with the
Kubota if it works you might have to hook up to something bigger of the
customers but I just really want to show everybody because haters gonna hate its
bracket set in concrete with rebar without a J at the bottom it ain't
coming out of the concrete this will get pulled out of the ground long before
this dislodge is from that concrete mark my words I don't know yet I might eat
them probably I definitely made a difference out here so once that guy's
gone that would be really nice and we'll just continue this steel right down door
opening door openings
1/2 inch bolt got bent a little bit
I'm telling you you do not need Jay hooks at the bottom of this rebar it's
not getting pulled out before this wall concrete here gets cold
now while you're watching us finish off this detail on this header that we've
created the steel inside outside the wraps the soffit the fascia I just want
to clarify that I'm not an engineer no doubt that most engineers are gonna
require some rebar in the pier and maybe a j-hook
on the bottom of the bracket I don't I don't know but what I do know is that
I've done many buildings that were based off of an engineered print and I build
based on those specifications not every building do we have engineer because
most customers aren't going to pay for it because there isn't a requirement for
specific prints or certainty specs so we try to over build everything and what I
do is I base everything that I do off of the engineered prints that I have had to
come up with specifically when I've done commercial work inside city limits and
I've done some really big buildings that required engineering and I just kind of
replicate that and put it towards these other buildings knowing that I'm at
least overdoing it and maybe that could be wrong but that's the way I do it and
I don't know I mean as I grow maybe I'll bring an engineer on board and see what
I can do but if I go to a local builder supply where they sell building packages
they're gonna be a lot less chintzy or a lot more chintzy and a lot less
constructed I think based on what I've been experiencing than what we're
building now with all that being said enough talk of that it's just you know
obviously I get a lot of comments questions responses from people that you
know either know more than me or think they know more than me one or the other
and that's fine I graciously welcome that and I hope to learn myself I just
thought I'd give you a little bit of background on how we build where we come
up with our designs I do it mostly in my head and I base it off of these prints
that I have used in the past what we were waiting on was this trim right here
what I wanted was a special custom trim that's gonna cap the ceiling steel and
it's going to come up the edge then what we're gonna do is we're gonna run our
soffit j-channel right here on this spot and that will accept our soffit then
we'll able to put our fish on and then finally
do our gutters well there we go now that might make more sense what
we're doing we got this piece of flashing here that's capping the ribs
and really this was just to get a little bit of definition a little bit of detail
line that I'm hoping pays off for all the extra work instead of just running
this ceiling you can see that detail now I think it'll work and we got our post
trim that's gonna cap this off and then it will get Gutter that is why that
overhangs that'll cap our gutter makes it look nice and clean I think this is
gonna look nice what we do on all of our end fascias or the faces that go on the
end I always make an inch and a half mark square that down I use the
appropriate snip for my cuts which here I use dreads and I do that so that it
pushes this side down and that's so it bends underneath nice and clean I'm
gonna go ahead and snip the hem off and then what I like to do is just take off
a little sliver of a triangle and the reason I do that is when I take my
benders get rid of my line
and get a nice crisp 90 degrees to go around that corner
there we go had to stop recording for a second because AI was frustrated and I
needed Gregg's help now you can see we got the trim on here we got our fascia
trim we've got our custom trim here that's gonna cover the ceiling all we
have left to do right here is we'll Bend up another piece of jade channel that
will cap this off put a nice little miter on it and this corner is done and
then when I get those post wraps we'll come and put those on without showing
too much sunlight there's that final detail it was a little bit more work for
sure but that's usually what gives you a better end result I just like having
this detail line some people might not like it but where it changes from a rib
steel to a soffit panel but I kind of like it'd be really nice to get these
post wrapped
it's all in the details lots of detail work just to do it an overhang our life
would have been so much easier if this was all a wall if there was a drop
header here things would have been so much easier but you know what they say
sometimes what's easy is not always good and what's good is not always easy so
sometimes we take the heart room okay I just got back from my shop and I went
ahead and made up the post wraps that are gonna go on these posts behind me
and remember we had to take out a couple post so I wanted to beef up the posts
themselves and add some structure so what I did was I made a post wrap out of
tube I treated material so it's going to be really beefed up and I'll show you
what we're doing what I did was I made up a set of L post wraps with treated
lumber and I got one set for each post and what I'll do is I'll just - PC so
it's gonna be two by ten that I ripped down to eight and a half and that was so
that I could get an eight-and-a-half dimension by an eight and a half to
mention that way the post would look mostly square I didn't want it to look
odd and if I were to just add a maybe apply on the back or something it would
really not make sense so my goal was I'm more worried about the stiffness of the
post this way so I wanted to laminate a column on the front or a post and if I
did that it just wouldn't you know four and a half inches wouldn't really add a
whole lot of strength and if I did one on the front in the back it would make
it really wide or really deep but narrow so I wanted to make it look symmetrical
so what I did was I ripped a two by ten for the face on both sides and I ripped
it down to eight and a half so when I add a two by here and a two by here
it'll be eight and a half this way and eight and a half this way well there you
go that's the first column we finished up and you can see now what we were
doing there we just wanted to kind of oversize it while adding some strength
so by getting this ply here in the front underneath
beam and that beam you know this was all kind of afterthought but I think it
turned out quite well I've got a double wrap that way you know you know
someone's going to hit these things I'm liking that finish I think it turned out
pretty good it's a heck of a nice place to put your leftover machinery stuff
like that well it's just super frustrating we went Gregg went and got
the second set of trims and we were able to get one of them done and it was tough
it looks good but we really fought it the problem is twofold one these trims
this dimension was supposed to be four and three-eighths minimum but loose that
way it would go around these posts which are 4 and 3/8 but the problem is you get
like right here where this post is opened up just a sixteenth of an inch I
needed a little bit of slop in these post wraps so they couldn't be exactly 4
and 3/8 like that was the dimension I was wrapping and I guess I just didn't
convey that perfectly I understand I told them four and three-eighths I said
but that's minimum make it loose and err on the side of bigger that way we have a
little bit of slop I can't I can't really get too mad because they're dead
nuts 4 and 3/8 both sides everything so they did a perfect job bending them I
was hoping that they would bend them looser than 4 and 3/8 needless to say I
just spent my afternoon just almost cussing and fighting and trying to get
it to work because I hate oil can and if you if you try to force that smaller
profile overtop of a larger piece of wood or material it gets wavy and it
just looks like garbage and so now I'm super frustrated it's Friday I was
hoping to wrap this up and we're gonna have to order some more trim and be back
here but tomorrow good news Saturday morning they're gonna pour the concrete
here inside the shop so I'm gonna come over for that take some video hopefully
and so we'll see you guys tomorrow