scott brown here in today's exciting episode we put in a what we call a cavity slider
some people call it a pocket door basically it's a door that goes into the wall when it's open
enjoy so this is the area where the cavity sliders are going one here for the kitchen one here for
the laundry and python has done the laundry ceiling and that's where the attic stair goes
i've already got a video on that i think i've done a couple of videos on those attic stairs
so i'll pop them up in the description below this video is all about the cavity
sliders
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all right i'm a little bit rusty on these uh cavity sliders so i'll put that one in we'll
put the second one in shall we first we can marvel at the work that is the cavity slider
soft clothes still gotta put the handle on there we go so how do we get that in let's have a look
okay they give it to you with the door sitting in there but the door isn't attached in any way
and they have this separate for transport as well so the whole package is within this size so
as i did before this little block comes off and you'll see in one second why the block's there
okay so this is the track here so there's a couple of holes here that they've punched in
now that that's on i'm going to tip it back up
all right i had this problem before where they didn't line up and i think i'm gonna have the same
problem to be honest there's two holes drilled on the back of this uh cavity slider frame and it's
meant to line up with the grooves that we screw these into but uh the holes are too close to each
other maybe the cavity side of guys uh put this one together on a friday yeah what do you reckon
not one's in working
lucky's aluminium powder nice and this is soft gear screen that you reckon let's give it a go
it kind of worked
the previous cavity side that we put in you would have seen did the soft close
when i pulled it shut just slowly close to the jamb now that is done with the carriages and this
crazy little mechanism here the first thing we do is we put this little one in so the first one goes
in and then this long thing goes on be careful not to lose this little bit
we put that in last so i'll put it up here so the last one to go in has a little trailer
hook there and you screw it in through there it's a little slot that that slides into
put that down there for a sec
so that goes up like that
and then we slide it in
now one thing that cavity sided people do that's really good
they've already got the latch in there and that's what hooks on to the carriage
and then oh too much
slightly there we go that's it we're in all right
we're in that's it there and the bolt the bolt goes in and to the right it's in now it's in
so this floor is falling this way so we have to lift this point up to keep it to keep it level
so let's have a look at this one okay oh spider we're having more luck on this side
so you're pretty much on the top of the thing there yeah
and then you work way over here and you're above it there yeah so we need to lift the
middle so for me it was easy to plumb the cavity side first and then the track
and then the bottom because the position at the bottom is dependent on the run of the door
so we packed the bottom packed the top and that kind of sets us on the right path
okay so having that plumbed up now look at that see the laser line is the same in the middle so
by plumbing that that way we've lifted that middle up we've just gone like that so there's a couple
metal gap under there now that we'll pack in a second but first we need this point to be correct
so now that that wedge is in the bottom we know we're at the right
height we want to check that we're in line with our frame so i need to go out a bit
but not too bad though
boom so now we need to make sure this is in the right place
now what i found when i was doing the other one was
it's really easy to get the doors rubbing against the bottom
that's what tells you where this needs to be positioned so we've got a bigger gap here than
we do over there so it's starting to rub in that corner so that means we need to tap this this way
that opened it up over there a little more it seemed to help quite a bit that adult
it's pretty good it's really raining out of there yes person down mate listen now
now people ask me about the strategy all the time it is
ox i believe i think it's an australian brand maybe um but basically it's just an aluminium
tube one thing that i'm qualified builders that i used to work under when i was apprentice
one thing they would do is i'd go to like window manufacturing places and just get
an aluminium tube and they'll get a big box one or something aluminium is nice and light
and nice and straight so i would just get an aluminium box tube from like a window manufacturer
it needs to go the bottom just go that way a little bit and they'll kick it in place okay
boot hammer that is like by the way nice boots
oh yeah yeah another question i get a lot thanks this wasn't planned seems like it was planned out
um but yeah they're uh john bull cougar 2.0 and for the last couple of years i put advertisement
there because for the last couple of years uh john blunstone has sent me them for free and pardo as
well yeah so yeah if you were looking for them um i don't know if they're available overseas though
australia and new zealand you shouldn't have a problem but not sure about uk canada america
okay that's plum triple check and the gap actually looks really good now both sides nice
it's just this jam now and they give you these little buttons here basically the battens
close off the the jam at the top so you don't see the top of the door or the screws and all
that kind of stuff but one thing it's good for is making sure that this space here
is uh consistent all the way up and down
just
so that's pretty good you want to make adjustments to make adjustments it comes with this little
tool here it's got a spanner and you just turn and then you check it for parallel with your uh frame
so i think that's it there pretty much and a couple of last things to crown it off
this thing here that we put on the windowsill so this goes
see that slides up there there we go and then i'll put it roughly there see that is it
tie them once one grab a screw and the idea is that this is meant to soft close
pretty soft bro okay so we need to move it you ready
hey that's more like it don't ask me how that mechanism works but that's cool
if you are in a house that has a cavity slider it's a good chance that we have
these little things on the door jamb at the top and what they are are little wooden plugs
that you just paint white
so typically on a screw hole you would fill it and then paint over it
but then that would stop you from being able to take these off
and access all the mechanisms that hold the hanging door if you're at home and you want
to change your hanging door or alter it just get a little butter knife and pop these off
and unscrew that unscrew that and then you've got access you just need a little spanner like this
all right
wow wow potter well we've done it two cavity sliders and not to mention give me the camera
i'm gonna do an expose of the um the scissor thing
wow wow wow wow see later bye bye bye see you mate bye see ya thanks for installing the stairs