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holy moly so Jess and I woke up on Saturday to a river on our street
overnight the water had gone over the whole street and come all the way down
because a train had blocked up on the hill a culvert that Culvert blocked and then the
water just spilled up onto the streets and all the way down through the neighborhood
close
now we've just seen the news you probably know that the damage has been way more extensive
than that all throughout Nelson houses have been slipping down Hills people have lost
their houses you know mud's been flowing right through their houses there's whole
sections of Nelson that you can't even go to because the damage is so bad so I'd already
been getting messages from people watching the channel and friends and family and up
until Saturday morning it was we were like you we're just watching it on the news and
then Saturday morning it felt like oh well our house is about to flood we kept an eye
on the water and as we were packing the water just subsided and drained away now it's just
mud patches everywhere and a little bit dirty but at least our house didn't float foreign
just finished Plastering this room now it's ready to paint you don't even bring the camera
like this when you've got something bad so I'm just seeing how you are okay as we pull
our house apart we're pulling out more and more materials we have stuff in the garage
that was wall framing we have old wardrobe doors leaning against the plasterboard and of course
we have this carport that has been a impromptu storage area and a not very organized one and
before we actually organize it I'm going to use some of the materials that we have accumulated
what do you got here some green smoothies what are they made from the color green just drink it
so yes we have four doors here two of them are clearly more sun damaged than
the other two our only consideration is really which veneer do we like those ones
it's got a little bit of damage but let's be honest we're going to do far more damage to
it yeah and ultimately it's just an MDF veneer Timber temporary table so what Jess and I have
is apartment furniture at the moment our dining room table is a 800 millimeter Circle so you can
fit two people around the table fairly comfortably but as soon as you add anybody else it's a very
uncomfortable so the goal here isn't to build the world's best table it's not even to build a good
table just today I just want to have fun and build something that's what it's going to look like
please
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making this like a door using strip Supply rather than a whole sheet Trying to minimize that sagging
we've decided after many deliberations we'll pop this piece on top of this Frame and maybe do a
on the corner so it's not so obvious and we're overlapping it like this rather than butting it
because you get more glue area between that and that and it's a stronger stronger joint
But ultimately we're taking a risk because it doesn't really matter if it doesn't work
out it's not the worst thing in the world it's just a temporary table
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yes yes it is
just half trigger it don't because uh yep perfect that's harder than a lux
do you want to glue that middle one again foreign
situation is not ideal there's big holes and only 17 mil of ply to go into so I got these ones
they've got a nice thick screw thread on it and the head of it is good for keeping
that leg attached to the table the only catch is we have to grind the screws short
remember I mentioned sagging
how to prevent sagging well here's my secret weapon it's a galvanized piece of Steel
so this is like a three mil thick piece of galvanized steel I've got high-tech
Glue by mounting this to the plywood the plywood is less likely to go like
that if I do it on this one this one and that one all of them together with the
top one on the surface I'm hoping will reduce the chunks of sagging
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will start looking like it's meant to be one knot ah okay oh maybe not
thank you
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hey
holy [ __ ] what this looks great it sounds surprised I am surprised
I I wow wow Scott we have a cool table so right for a wardrobe door I love it
I didn't think the rainbow was a great idea to be honest I didn't think it would do much but
fun now we've got to get rid of this table here that was ideal for a one bedroom apartment but
not so ideal for a three-bedroom home where we want to invite people around to our house
yeah this table's just always covered in stuff we never actually eat at it we just eat on the couch
the time to eat at the table
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it's a little high yeah yeah
it's amazing has such a small amount can actually make quite a difference
or maybe I just never really thought about it before
I like it I like it yeah I think it's great just uh don't zoom in on this join here
get out of here not bad wardrobe door to dining room table
this was fun I feel better now than I did at the beginning of the week yeah yeah me too me too
yeah what about you what a creek that's about two meters out the back of our house orphanage Creek
got to about all that close to going over the top so yeah I had my torch out in the middle of
the night looking out over there but yeah this is what it is the houses one over got evacuated
and we were told that if the water level was going to get any higher they would have had
to evacuate us because it would have just fell down the street coming through this properties
um fortunately it was fine yeah thank God new glass how can I get the heavy ones Scott
here yeah what do you think of this we've made it ourselves it's it's it's pretty good it's
like you know probably a notch above Ikea you know maybe just below Kmart maybe somewhere in
the middle okay thanks that's good thanks a lot what's the next what's the next project double
glazing into it no we've got a room to finish but the reason we have a bid in here is because
we haven't finished a room in there right okay in the next exciting episode of Scott Brown carpentry
we need to get back into this room so we need to paint we've seen some color samples from Dulux so
oh I think we'll hang them on the wall see how they look in the different light now before we
do all the exciting painting I need to do the skirting architraves and I don't
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