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let's go Brown here check out these uh Timber doors we have four of them here I
just picked this up from my friend Vincent here and we are going to double glaze them
so the double glazing is going to help but this little product here
might be very helpful if you have Timber Windows because we're going to use it to seal ours up this
is where it was there yes so those two doors that we just got from Vincent were here one here and
the other one was over here so they have replaced them with these double glazed aluminum windows now
the advantage obviously it's double glaze the other Improvement you're getting when you get
new windows is the mechanics of it the hinges and the rubber seals you've got all these draft
seals here and rubber seals going down down here up here when you close the door you're actually
sealing it off from the weather sealing It Off from a draft and that's the hard thing
about Timber windows so I'm hoping to replicate the aluminum doors in there with these Timber
doors and this seal here it's called a aq21 seal I'm going to have to check the documents
to make sure that I am correct about what it is made from so let's head back to our house
and see how we're going to make this seal work on the windows that we've already double glazed
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this window let's get on with this window so I had to pack this wall out and add some extra layers of
insulation I did that in a previous episode and that has presented this problem this window Jam
doesn't come all the way out to this plasterboard line so when I go to put an architrave here
you have you have all this the solution for this is also the solution for the Rubber seal problem
that's just Timber on Timber there's no air seal drafts here weather seal so we
want to hit two birds with one stone with this job
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this timber here is from the wardrobes that we
took out in one of those rooms it's absolutely filled with these nails
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it's going to be perfect for packing up this window frame
leverage it's all about Leverage
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goes down here like this and the idea of this is to support the plasterboard and the Sill
I'll show you that in a sec when we do the sill all right so this piece of wood
is pretty obvious right it just extends the jam to the front of the plasterboard here so we can
pop an architrave over the top but I'm doing a little bit different usually I would do what is
called a double Quirk that is basically when you move this piece of wood two to three mil
out of flush if that makes sense if I was to put it flat like that in line
and then paint it and screw it on and all the rest of it over time that line would appear as
a crack so rather than trying to hide a line you just make the line more obvious and then
when you paint it it's just like a feature just to add to the confusion I'm actually
going to make this flush like this and then well I'll show you what we do after that
oh hi there wait
no way you know what believe it or not I feel like another coffee
now that we've got our building consent we uh at the stage where we're gonna plan everything
we're gonna knock down a chimney that fireplace is going this problem room here disappearing big
beam goes from this wall behind you all the way down there I kind of want to start with
the beam and that involves going under the house digging holes and I always thought it would be
a good idea to do an episode about how we plan a renovation you know why does one job come before
another how to plan around if someone's living in the house that you're renovating it's something I
think about a lot every time I do a job and doing it on our house presents a whole bunch of other
challenges as well so let me know in the comments if you're interested in an episode like that and
um maybe maybe we'll do that in the future good coffee foreign
I'm having a nightmare remu is overrated sure it's beautiful native Timber but it
is impossible to work with sander and it's bad for your health the dust is like quite
toxic and get lodged in your lungs and it breaks every screw and nail that you try
to put into it especially this old stuff which is dry as a bone I'm getting very frustrated
so I'm gonna effectively pilot hole most of my way through
it's ridiculous did you ever think all those years working in Auckland under
that too dry Timber would be your problem foreign
now the screws keep breaking the episode ends here and we don't see a window we
move on with our lives I go have a cry and um you wait for an exercise
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there we go it worked I'm over it now now the part that we actually the whole point of this episode
is the gems we've got something solid now to nail my new gem too we need to put the jam there with
the windowsill grooved into it cut into it curved into it either way I've already tried to do this
I've already tried to seal these windows if you look right here see this rubber strip this was my
ill-fated attempt at sealing the window so it was all good when the window was closed like that but
as soon as you try to open it I see the awning just comes in and just destroys whatever Rubber
seal you have there I tried to do this the day after we double glazed it and now I'm going to
do it properly after a little bit of research some better weather stripping and some lessons learned
the groove area that you need for it to attach happens to
be the same thickness as my table saw blade
one of the hard things about doing renovation work is you're often doing
things for the first time every time it's an argument to be made for getting the pros to do
the individual jobs but when it's your own house you have to make exceptions this is working well
though I actually got the idea for this from my mate Todd up in Auckland when we did the
villa and Bungalow Renovations in Auckland he did all the windows the Sash and case Windows
he made them all double glazed and put this stuff on it's got like a um vinyl I think
coating over the top of the foam that protects it so it shouldn't tear like that cheap stuff
that we used the first time okay so this Clips in really nicely in here which I'm happy to say
all right so this is the top Jam let's do the two sides
it's not breaking screws aren't breaking
screwed shop forever so the key is to be in enough to get a seal but not in too much where the awning
window won't work so I'm going to go up just a little bit see that's it that's pretty good
there so the good thing about what this foam is made out of and the fact that it's shaped like a
triangle it's got a memory so it always Springs back to its original position but the triangle
shape of it will allow it to be open in some areas and close in other areas so this isn't perfect
and this triangle cell can kind of blend in with that uneven shape I realize I'm being a little
inarticulate here but I know what I meant so now that I know I'm good I'm marking the back of this
is the newish Milwaukee 18 gauge nailer it was given to me quite a while ago and
um I just haven't got around to using it I haven't been doing much finishing
work but I've had to play with it already and Square minutes
we can go through arima that's a good sign can I have a go yeah oh that one popped out
so can I have a go yep let me just get everything in place first
no Jess it's your time to shine it's the first Milwaukee tool I've ever used I don't know I
don't know if you use the stapler the big guns exactly all right what am I doing just it needs
a couple of nails there the further out you nail the better and then it prevents it from cupping
if you only nail the middle then the outside can move yeah so I press the red bit you press it in
first and then you pull the trigger like that yep and then anything else I need to be aware of no
no okay evidently yes yeah well so you push it in more and you have to keep the pressure on it ah
okay yeah that's more like it nice yeah they don't have to be perfectly with x's are right no okay
anymore
I'll punch the door
the sun's just creeping away
I've got my weather seal already on here
look at that
so many things a good trip over and I made it so it always looked like that that's my theory
anyway put an architrave over here just gotta seal all the window obviously oh my God I've
still got to add a couple more here with some rubber seals on it to seal the center column but
I'm really proud of this this is awesome this is a sealed and it looks like they always looked
it looks like the 1960s window that was here before but it's double glaze and weather sealed
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you know what it smells like Silly String
it's probably the same stuff smells like kids birthday parties
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well as well that ends well had a good day and I'm feeling confident about the windows I think
we've got a system that's going to work and they look like legit they look like they've
always been there now that's what I wanted that's what I always aim for with renovations
I tried to make it look like it was always like that but bring the performance up
also I picked up this little nugget here this little golden
nugget here carpentry in New Zealand it's a textbook from the 1970s and it's basically a
how-to guide tools techniques standards to build a house just like this I mean look at this and that
bottom windowsill part is in this book it tells you how to do cortisone all the wall framing is
like our wall framing how cool is that once a year here in Nelson they have a Nelson book fair
it's at this big Hall and it's just thousands of books and I dug and I found this pretty cool huh