scott brown here in today's exciting episode we uh come back from the south island
let's go brian here i'm back from the south island had an awesome trip and uh my foot isn't fractured
i mean this is good news right this is great news basically what happened was when i went to
the doctor that time they did x-rays of my heel and my side and everything and they said look
it looks like an avulsion fracture we can see a bit of bone floating around in there but then
once they did the full report they realized that that bone was rounded so much that it must have
been in there for years so i have had an avulsion fracture on my ankle but it happened years ago
so all that means is um yeah it was a bad sprain and now i'm walking on it now this morning in
this exciting episode we're gonna go and check out the previous job we were doing before i went away
and uh do a bit of a before and after because the kitchen is done the laundry's done
they've moved all their furniture back in there let's see how it turned out
but while i'm making my way there this is how my south island trip went
back through time and space now we are talking pretty stunning look at this
ah so potter changed those stairs completely
took the stringers away to make it match the front stair that i did
this one has been redone as well to match all three which match the back deck that was done
before our time and these weatherboards that we had to touch up syed has actually just arrived and
he's going to be painting all them doing little touch-ups so the idea is that we can make that
higher and make this less not better look how much that has opened everything up very nice
i think the last time we were on this job the kitchen was probably arriving around that time
since then plato's sort of been holding the fort and
all the different trades have been coming in the bench top guys the kitchen cabinets the splashback
plumbers electricians it's all come together really really nicely i really like the panels
on these kitchen doors it's not just your standard you know timber colored panel it's
got the pinstripe vertical pinstripe just to give it a bit more of an interesting look
and the led lights always help and that concrete looking splashback um breaks it up nicely i think
i'm not a real estate agent but i do like these things i do like seeing how we go from
an old dated kitchen to this new much nicer and the laundry as well the laundry is mint and
that'll that's matching the the kitchen cabinetry and we've got our ceiling hatch up there as well
going up to the storage syed is in there now just doing last minute touch-ups that happens for most
kitchen jobs you know a lot of stuff's been moved around and cabinets going in and bench is getting
pushed against the wall and you chip bits of paint here and there and then we're done i'm gonna get
my stuff and get out of here oh yeah installing those cavity sliders has really helped the area
you know when your doors open it's not in the way and that's really worked well with the way the
kitchen's laid out with both cabinets coming up to the door and i think the bonus of this job was the
flooring originally the plan was to pull up those questionable ceramic tiles and see what was there
and probably put some overlay flooring in but once we pulled that up it was pretty evident how
nice that flooring is as soon as my mate glenn came along and sanded it all up and polished it
it's beautiful native new zealand timber flooring actually where the cavity sliding door that goes
into the kitchen is there was a hole in the floor and it was covered up by the previous you know
wall framing that was there so we had to patch it with something and that's native timber flooring
you know it's hard to come by so what we did was the owner had held onto an old weatherboard that
got removed and it was underneath the house so we scraped all the paint and everything off that
weatherboard put it through the table saw planned it sanded it and it ended up matching the flooring
really nicely so yeah they used some really nice timber to build these houses all this stuff here
all native new zealand timber so i just gotta grab a few of my tools get rid of these and um
yeah that's that how good is the storage area by the way we also have the electrician put a light
up here that turns on when you turn the laundry on right there i've got to grab my lights as well
now i have a very familiar problem here
hey how you doing how's it going there's some caps for you guys oh very nice
innovation what do you got mate what do you got oh look at that it's a beast yeah so that's the
big one and i think this is the longer i'm sure i've got use a longer version ah nice
so this exciting episode has just turned into an unboxing but uh let's go back to the container
where i'll explain my draw problem and we'll see what's in here like you know what's in here but
the issue with this drawer here if you've seen my other video about how i built this straw
you'll know that the original rails that i use these ones here they weren't strong enough for
the weight that i put on them so eventually they just disconnected they stopped blocking and uh i
had to replace them so i ended up replacing that drawer now the other drawer inevitably did the
same thing and i've been kind of forcing it shut for the last six months you know like just lifting
it and pulling it open and then when i we're ready to close it again i'll just force it in there
but after the two weeks that we were away in the south island i don't know i guess it just
gave up all together and now the drawers just sitting in the container unable to be used all
right this is a problem for another day temporary solution let's have a look at these tools shall we
would you look at that that is massive so there is there the 260 ml diameter
10 and a half inch circular saw from akira 40 volt for a bit of scale here's the 190 millimeter this
is a more standard size circular saw that most builders have yeah so this is great if you want
to cut posts or something like that with now if you've been watching my channel for a while you'll
know that um yeah i made like 100 videos before i started getting tools given to me like this
but now they let me borrow tools like this and if i like it i get to keep it i'm going to borrow
this one see how it goes something tells me i'm going to want to keep this one though
i've never really had a tool quite like this one that can cut such depth i don't
know what the max depth is i'll pop it right here i'll do some proper research
but also one that's cordless and it takes the 40 volt batteries i'm on the 40 volt system now
could be a good fit so we'll see how that goes that's like a first impression just a little sneak
peek have you got any questions that you want me to answer in the coming episodes when i start
using this let me know below i've always used the dewalt miter saw stand this one here so i've used
that dewalt one for 10 15 years now no problems it's great apparently makita brought out one that
a lot of people weren't happy with and this one here has improvements on that previous one so
yeah it's got interesting kind of feet here this rounded but to a point foot this is adjustable
oh yeah it's got a good weight to it
tell you what it is in the north island it's a lot warmer than the south island
having a t-shirt here with an undershirt it's warm as look how sunny it is middle of winter
sorry about the wind it gets quite windy northland right by the sea wow that's interesting
i haven't seen something like this before all right can you see this
all right perfect tighten that up oh my god
let's be honest it's pretty light so i'll probably just carry it like this
anyway i'm going to sort of this stuff out myself and figure out if the festival drops all can fit
on these and sort out my van draw next probably um we've got a bit of a gap until the next project
start we're looking at a couple of projects at the moment so in the meantime i'm going to sort
all this stuff out van draw is first thanks for watching this exciting episode i'm happy to be
back the break was good i needed it but i'm happy to be back working thanks for watching
tell you one thing i'm going to do when i get home i want to put my feet up my ankle is aching
still a bit of time to recover yet
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