what's got around here in today's exciting episode i'm going to pull this window out
this deck's already propped we're going to cut it away from the house
hi there mark hi how are you doing i'm doing good how are you good good what's happening oh
it's a bit slow this morning yeah yeah just like a bit of contact tracing for the day
the other day we went under the stick and propped everything up and that is because we need to cut
this deck away from the house so that joist goes all the way through and the flooring is attached
to it all the way along so in some cases you can keep the deck connected to the house like this
but only if you have a 50 ml drop in height from the internal floor to the external floor so the
original plan was to keep it like this and put some saddle flashings over there but uh then we
measured out from the existing house and there was only like a 30 mil difference therefore cut it out
so this is the top part of this wall and we're making it join with the
existing which is over here this is gonna be the new stuff and the rain's on the way
the rain is coming because we couldn't move this beam this beam had to stay here it is
slightly out from the wall line this wall see there's the frame there's the beam so what we
have to do is we have to put a vertical flashing that is stepped i got one made
oh the rain's arriving but we got the flashing in now we gotta get the frame behind it
so oh there's a bit of a rush with the weather coming in and you know it's about to buck it
down with rain so we've quickly got the window in and um now look at it there's one cloud r2
this is one of those uh hand-me-down tools from my dad laser level i have to plug it in every time i
can use it the battery the battery is always flat but i shouldn't complain about a free laser level
those things are expensive so that rotating laser has picked up on this receiver here
what i'm trying to do is get a level line that we can reference when we put our weatherboards on
so the laser lets you jump from there over to there with the same height
and then around the corner
all right now the corner marked i can reset up the laser on this side of the house
the main reason we need a consistent level line around the perimeter of this
wall that we're clouding the main reason is so we have a reference point because we want to try and
match up the weatherboards that are way down there on that side with the weatherboards on this side
now the chance that they're level with each other i know it seems pretty slim
and it goes all the way all the way all the way
thanks to this guy it goes all the way around here too what i wanted to do now was see
whether the weatherboards match so you count that one and tell me how many into our chalk line
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven
twelve i think yours lines up with the chalk line that bottom weather board um mine doesn't 25 mil
difference that's pretty good for a 100 year old house it's pretty good this is a little plastic
strip that keeps that bottom weatherboard where we want it to be because it's not overlapping
all right these are the old weather boards right they're just sort of flat boards that
have slowly warped over time as they've been pushed against the wall and you can see where
the paint isn't is where they overlap now it's always an issue in renovations trying to match
weatherboard profiles these are the closest ones we can find and they're bevel back which
is you know what what you want but they're a lot wider that's quite a lot wider there
when you line them up they aren't too bad so you can see that that will uh that will work
so in order to match with this we have a much larger overlap on the wider board so usually
it's more like that it lines up grooves to groove and then you just pop a nail in there but because
we're going to that pencil line there we'd have to pop the nail way back here and that is my concern
i think i think i have a solution for the weatherboard problem let's go back to the job
after a little bit of deliberation we've come up with a solution to our weatherboard issue
so this is the original one and we've cut this one to match the existing ones and because we
cut the top off that weather groove disappeared so we've routed in a new weather groove there and
then we've just got to prime it all so now instead of this where you've got a weather groove there
and there and a too big an overlap we have this so now we can put a nail in there so the thing
is you should only ever nail the bottom of the weatherboard and when you're nailing the bottom
you should never let that nail go through the top of the board below it so if you nail both the top
and bottom you're not allowing the weatherboard to move and expand and that leads to cracking see
out there if we had overlapped more and nailed all the way up here there's a chance that the
bottom could soak up moisture and then when the bottom moves as a result of drying out curls and
that wouldn't look good either so the extra time that we'll spend making it match the existing will
prevent both cracking and warping how's it going buddy oh you know covered free it's going good bro
so ripping the boards and routing the weather guru mate you're working your way for that
yeah got a few left but um over there so like any bear edge that we create
we're gonna have to prime all this and then it's ready to go up
once rich and i finish this slow part we can um these things are going to fly up the wall
ah so although paddo is milling up a bunch of new timber
we are trying to recycle the old weatherboards that we managed to take off intact
a lot of them were cracked and split you know being on the wall for years
getting better by the sun but there's some good ones and it's native timber so it's very strong
so these are the packers i paint them all rich ask me why and i don't really have a good answer so
just go over and above over and above why do the minimum code why do the minimum code when you can
go over and above homes on homes eh homes on homes so we're gonna have our bolts either at the bottom
or at the top here staggered up and down as the stringer goes along
it wasn't very nice under there
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