in the previous exciting episode of Scott Brown carpentry we tackled the
outside of the living and kitchen area and now after a quick break where we
traveled around the South Island we are back and we are excited
so in today's episode we need to do a job that will get us
one step closer to having this big room ready for inspection
we need to pull this wall down as part of completing this room but it's one of the
steps that I'm not really looking forward to only because it's kind of boring right
just pulling a wall down reframing a ceiling but it has to be done before we do the fun
part which is the kitchen because all of this is under a building consent we need
to get all these walls inspected and the ceiling and there's part of it so Raymond
yo so this wall is supporting the ceiling and we want to keep the ceiling there so
it doesn't fall down when we pull the wall out so let's do it as efficiently as we can
so I want to do the kitchen you want me to do the kitchen you can only
watch so many videos of Me Knocking a wall down and reframing a ceiling
but unfortunately we have to do it it's just a part of this renovation
I'm gonna have to do something about this garage certainly before I start building cabinets
but this has to wait lights lights
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so there's a big beam that we put in and the ceiling runs in that direction has anchored off
this big beam it's probably better Illustrated on the plans they're running from this wall to
the beam but that Span in the middle needs to be sorted out the way they've sorted this
out previously is they've put a six by two a rough sworn six by two called a strong back
across the ceiling joists and they rest one end on a wall and the other end on a wall it's resting on
the wall that we need to take out so we need to support the strong back and we need to support
these roof struts as well there's really just so much going on Raymond yeah roof strut roof strut
we got the rich beam here that's supported on two ends
in this hallway they've actually changed the direction of the ceiling joists rather than
going from wall to beam like that big room they're going side to side that means we need to reframe
the ceiling completely so it does the same thing that the living room ceiling is doing wall to beam
we go this direction
people ask me if I'm going to keep the wooden paneling in the hallway
I think the answer is no there's no wood paneling it's straight
so we turn this wall into as much of the skeleton as we can get rid of the cables
and then figure out how to sort the ceiling
not a very work conducive environment so I'm gonna head out but
hold on
you're not going to use this are you good I feel very self-conscious
let's go
let's give it a good push at the top a bit tight yeah
so for the record I do like the idea of a Timber feature wall but
I just wish that this one was done in real timber because then you if it looked a bit
tired you could sand it make it look nice again but this stuff here single use only
so I've set my track saw to seven mil thick I'm going to cut a little section off it off
thank you
good news the good news is we are going to be able to we're going to be able to leave the
ceiling in place and still pull the wall out let me show you what I mean the secret is this beam
oh hi Ray good morning morning
good guess five four fifty
a little known fact about Raymond here he knows the measurements of his entire body
that sounds weird uh like if you don't have a tape measure on you it's just handy to know certain
references right yes so I know that from the tip of my finger to my elbows it's about 500 so I can
and then I got 200 here and a half a hand there's 100 and then like a foot would be 30 centimeters
so you can sort of work your way through yeah we'll we'll be looking at a wall that we need
to knock down or something and he'll start looking like a mime yeah trying to measure it good place
do you have any luck with the bits and Bobs ah the uh
what about uh the metal connectors and stuff you find anything like that yeah
I'll go back I just have fun to keep you going thank you I can spend hours
just trying to get rid of Ray there because I've got a surprise for him
check this out so when Ray and I were framing the front door um above that concrete entryway
he dropped his Milwaukee framing gun onto the concrete and it bent and and broke the tip and
everything bent the the nozzle part even snapped in half which was kind of crazy anyway reached out
to Milwaukee New Zealand and they kindly sent him a new one but he doesn't know that yeah
crazy lady having massive heads for the next season what kind of suits are there these ones
are zinnias I'm trying to save all my flower seeds my veggie seeds I've actually just let everything
go to seed and a bunch of things like coriander have just sprouted up all over the garden which
is awesome I think it says a lot about this area I mean it's May and I'm still getting
flowers veggies are still growing Everything grows here I got these out of the Garden today
it's May I'm not complaining what do you got there right I got the magic bucket
so I guess every Builder should have a magic bucket is that what you're saying
every leftover bracket and cleat goes in the magic bucket doesn't it oh my God
only one girl stainless by the way right that's yours
so yours right courtesy of Milwaukee New Zealand no way not me
I just like to say I was honestly in the emails
yeah that's yours
yeah of course yeah of course wow enjoy enjoy back to the beam good news we can
remove the strut here turns out this was the only rafter that had a supporting strut in
the middle and now with the new Big Beam at the bottom it wasn't necessary which
means we only need to replace one strut so we want to prop all the way down to the floor
here and then the roof is supported and our way is cleared for the beam
how much more do we got uh another 50. oh I think we'll just get it yeah nice there you go
now we can prop this up all right I'm ready it's probably just a bit more than 50 I'd say 60.
ah go yeah
yeah we'll put the bigger chamfer on this side like that yep
okay all right we'll contact it yep okay that's it
when I um first started building in 2004 I was 17 years old and as a typical 17 year old my attitude
probably wasn't the best and I didn't really like building I hated it actually but when I started
kind of understanding the bigger picture then I started to enjoy it what I mean by that is I
was made to do a lot of crappy jobs in my first year you know all the cleaning I had to seal up
all these fire cupboards with sealant so I just spent weeks you know sealing fire cupboards just
a lot of crappy jobs but then about a year into it I was able to do some of the better jobs and
also understand how the crappy jobs I was doing fit into the bigger picture of the whole project
yeah like wax on wax off when you start a building did you get made
to do a lot of crappy jobs I went straight into management
um it's kind of similar with this project here like yes we're back up in the ceiling
we're putting another beam in a little bit exhausting but a little bit repetitive but
this is part of it in order to get a framing inspection of this whole area we need to get
that done and then once the framing inspection is done then we can put insulation in that whole
room and then we can get the insulation signed off in a pre-line inspection my point is we
have to do all these framing elements in this entire room before we proceed to the next step
when you have that big picture in mind all this makes more sense and it's a bit more tolerable
a few moments later
we've got the payment and this end of the beam is supported by the wall oh my
God and in this end is supported by the big bang and now the roof
is beautifully propped onto the part of the beam that sits on the wall the ceiling
here is suspended using these brackets like this suspended onto the beam so
all of this ceiling we didn't have to touch we just had to attach it to there and then this big
ceiling Runners remember those big six by twos that go all the way they are bolted to the back
all of that is a long way of saying we can take and take wall out now oh my God
together
we did it right there was a cool two days yeah you know what they say sweeter after difficulty
I've never heard that instead of a like Scott Brown family
saying I actually got it off a Sandra Bullock movie yeah yep