all right team scott brown here this is another exciting episode and we are in the episode where
the beams actually go up it's all happening today let's uh show you what we're contending with
then sit down the bottom as you work your way up yeah that is out of plum
and then in this room the big bean goes through here over this entire wall
now we're adding in the full stud and the understud put it in this
i am setting up this laser to the height of our
well it's going to be the bottom of one beam and the top of another
so these beams are not steel they are laminated veneer lumber they're massive plywood basically
so they're glued together timber is stronger than
just regular timber and it means we don't have to deal with steel
how fancy it is oh my god they're good
so there you go there that's what the timber looks like when you cut it plywood pretty much plywood
i nailed so maybe you guys should lift as soon as i know let's see oh that sounds good
yeah should we double them up yeah we've made them even heavier yep so do you want to say hi
to the camera philly oh hello me and a pillow uh did our apprenticeship at the same company
we started like a week apart from each other yep yeah since the beginning
beam's in we can prop the ceiling on this side of the beam
holy moly welcome back scott yeah i was just outside cutting the
grass
guess what it's the exciting moment where the bend goes up now for the camera desktop
right now we're about to put a big
come with me nicely done
so what we got
pretty light
so oh
go up
nice one
ever picked up a piece of timber and wondered if it was the right piece it is the right piece
scott brown here today well yesterday the beams went up and today we have to actually do the work
that connects the beams to the existing structure and then we take all the walls out i love these
kind of days there's a great so the timber that is on the roof there is for a ceiling runner
and a ceiling runner is simply a piece of wood that runs along the ceiling and that's it
before we put that ceiling runner up there i've got a bit of a list of things when you're doing
tasks like this um it's easy to just rely on your memory and the steps that you know you need
to take and then just sort of go through them in your head but i find that writing them all down is
far better yesterday when we put all the beams up i had a step-by-step guide on my phone
that was like set laser to height of understuds and store under studs you know every step after
that i feel like that's almost like downloading your brain so you don't have to constantly keep
that information in your head as you're trying to physically do the work and it actually makes
the job run a lot smoother and also if you can send the guys the same list then everyone's got
a reference point they don't have to constantly look to me and go what are we doing next scott
so i've done that for today and the first thing on that list is straighten big beam and secure to
jack studs this is the big beam and it's sitting on these understuds here but a jack starter is
what sits above your lintel and goes to the top plate that supports the roof
and it needs to be secured to the beam and i notice yesterday that this beam's kind of
sitting with a bit of a hump in it so we're going to try and straighten that and secure it to them
so my string line says it needs to go out 10 mil quite a bit
all right back to the list straight in big beam and secure two jacks does check and then all i
have to do is look at this add fixings to both beams see i don't have to think this is great
all right there's all the connections at the posts and beams i've uh mentioned this in a
previous episode the way to read what um connections you need is on the plans here
see that being this is l1 at the start of it well that corresponds with
here r1 and as you can see it says type if fixing now at the back they always have
pretty much like a copy paste document that is available to most architects it'll show you the
different connections that you can use for type f let's type f there and it's got two little
two t4s at the bottom and then a strap up there so that's how i know where to put
those connections there are more connections to do but they're mostly up in the ceiling
see that there's a ceiling dress and because we're taking the walls out it was all twisted
and everything and there's a lot of timber up there that's kind of joining on walls walls that
we're removing so i'm gonna go up there and sweat another few kilos off fixing those ceiling joists
so
what about that cable there on that one as well uh that's all good
so we're aiming for the middle
just here get into position okay oh you're seeing it right back
yeah i need to go back to get past that crop what did you say so you're going
down there down and then to the right yeah going down this it's over here
is
all right everyone
so
so leona was just telling me that he's had readings of 48 degrees celsius
up on that roof and um i think i believe him
i wish i bought two t-shirts
there you go all that ceiling work all that roasting inside the ceiling leads to this moment
where the walls come down and the whole place opens up
okay
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