let's go down here in today's exciting episode is this ridiculous drill to draw holes
so now is the exciting moment where we use the battery-powered drill
oh my God one four amp battery let's see how long it lasts so I'm gonna
put on Half speed because that full speed seemed a little bit dramatic
wow do you think that you should go since we need a 400 hole yeah and
that's 200. you think you should go 100 Mil down on each and work your way down
all right before we drill more post holes let's go back to the start of
this episode where we set this building out it might be useful to some people enjoy
first thing I do whether it's a house or deck anything that
I'm going to build outside as I sit out profiles
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happy New Year sorry happy New Year happy New Year can you still say that in February yeah
good point what's the cut off there so as for Heights our height is going to be this this is
like top of decking the bottom of this sill here so we need to set our laser up to that
so our main reason for these profiles is to get string lines to give you the lines of the deck not
for the height of the deck so this is the finished floor level we marked that on all the pigs
and then this one here if I Mark at the same height that will be the finished floor level
as well but what I want to do is actually lower it slightly I don't want my string lines to touch
each other so if I lower this by five mil they can cross over one another without affecting the lines
this is crazy this is the height of the deck here give or take
just underneath yeah and then if you look over this side our houses are relatively
flat section or it seems to be but then look at the height over here
foreign so these profiles aren't for height but it's good to get them to floor level because
then you know that you can use the string for your posts you can use it for your bearers you
can use it for your joists all the way up and it won't be interrupted by the structure as
long as you check your height through the laser rather than the string you're good
so we've got our Mark here from the house to the edge of the deck and if you put your if you want
to put your line up don't put your nail right in the center of the of the line just on the
side of it because then with your string on the line and also if you're not really happy
with the position of your string you can always bend the nail over a bit to make it precise you
might think what do those two three millimeter matter on a um on a deck like this but if you got
the option to do it right from the beginning you don't have to make too many adjustments later on
two lines are measured parallel from the house in order to check that it is in fact Square
we do the three four five trick all right I'm at three meters
there and then from this side we go four meters
and then if this is square this measurement should
be five meters okay well we're 10 mil 10 mil okay lift without
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now it's got a reverse on it as well I think oh yeah it certainly does something quite satisfying
about watching you guys do girls good footage there yes nice watching other people work I guess
I'm helping Inspira do you want to stick our shirts off too
um please don't
that kind of Channel
so three bars three out of four not bad
is the battery hot nice and toasty so that's a four amp battery 40 volt and we've done well one
two three four five six seven eight in a bit and some of those are multiple holes because we're
trying to make the hole bigger two and a half batteries to do all this to do all this let's see
I had to change shirts but that was a futile effort but we managed to dig 18 holes
so this is the 8 Amp Hour battery and there's two bars left we actually
didn't get much beyond the last time we had a battery update and we changed over to a four
amp battery we burnt throughout really fast so two 4 amp batteries are charging and we've got
this 8 amp battery and we're halfway through that and we've done all 18 holes and like I said before
some of the holes are multiple drills so far so good we're just going to clear these holes out
pick it out we found a coin King George
under the bird 1947.
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CCA treated which means proper copper Chrome arsenic
so make of that what you will but it doesn't like to sit in the dirt
so you've got to make sure that this concrete not only around the post but also underneath
the post to stop it sinking so we put one of these on there's several ways to do this
there's another brand called space it which is the same sort of idea and you can also put
a concrete pad underneath or you could do what we've always done in the past which is brace the
post so it's suspended in the hole but that takes a lot more time and effort to buy one of these
screw it to the bottom you just drop it in the hole Yeah and double check these hands so there
you go and then you pour we'll base it a little bit more so the concrete doesn't knock it over
and then we pour concrete around it and I know people over in the states
will be watching it thinking you are pouring you're embedding your post that's crazy well
I don't know what the answer to that is we've been doing it for years here it's
treated with so many chemicals that it lasts and we even build houses on cars like that
so let me know in the comments below what you think of that
I've done that one moved the line
thank you