let's go around here look there's a hedgehog in my front yard
it's like one in the afternoon that thing shouldn't be here that's not what this
exciting episode is about this exciting episode is about us putting roof trusses up i'm a little
bit late i've got to go back there now so let's jump to yesterday where we started
it's been one of those weeks weeks full of rain rain and more rain but we have a scaffold set
up the top plates are all screwed off and we've got trusses which means we can stand a roof up
so that's the plan today dodge the rain and stand all the trusses up
so check this out we have like a circus net here and that is so when we're working on the roof
building the trusses up and before we land on this rather than that don't really have these
on renovations but um yeah i guess it's safer right zach here's doing it all over the house
good morning chris how are you yeah you're ready last week last week chris was here as
you know but um he was injured he fell off a scooter and hurt his face so he didn't appear
on the camera that much but now you're looking healed up you're looking good yeah almost better
so two of us have got his big ones and gone through those and i'll
one of us down there and strip those and start laying them out sometimes i get them
put on top here yeah um depends on the site yeah um if they're small enough and
the client's got enough room around i'll put them in the bottom and spread them out yep
is unmarked where all the crosses go on the side here it's like the trust number yeah
and then we are standing here this is our 098 which is our own a cool so we just match it up
switch
beautiful day in sunny nelson wow
ah the handy joists hanging alright
in this exciting edition of smoker time we're going to cospo coffees is that right or the zinc
cafe single crochet yeah yeah what coffee do you prefer um i like crust for coffee um it's a lot of
sweet food at crossbow okay um what was zinc food like um it's more probably more sour food yeah
good coffee at the barbecue shop who would have thought
so we put all the joist hangers on that truss there first so when we lift it it just drops in
sort of it's not going to drop in now is it yeah so the one closer to me this one
that's pretty smart idea so how many did you do without having the joy singers on first
before you started putting them on
it's almost like having another hand there
so you just assemble everything everything just sits on the top plate for now
what until we get it all sort of stitched together as one sort of
roof unit i guess you could call it and then you go around and fix it to the top
plates and screw it and all that stuff it's all about figuring out the puzzle
oh we're here so that's the garage yes we've got these ones in yeah up to this the tier eight so
the ones that we just put in they go up to there and then we've got the two top ones here and then
they're all labeled at the bottom there so these ones need to be 210is on this side because we're
going to put this big one t04 that's that one there tier four and it goes all the way down
so it's a big one so once we stand that up it's going to be very difficult to get stuff on
this side of it so we want to move that over to here and then get the big one and then put
it up i think that's right hopefully you got it 50 mil yes it is so it is our way around
bugger they're also the wrong way around we've got to flip them only what four trusses yeah
yeah four four big ones at least there's three of us so yeah i stand here and watch
oh
and here we are back at today we got most of the trusses up most of the big ones anyway
it's just a bunch of small trusses that chris and eva are doing this morning
and um i actually don't know what i'll be helping with when i get there
maybe some valleys maybe some short trusses maybe just screws to hold things down
either way and let's find out just me are you guarding your van either how's it been going
um we got one wrong truss but it won't be replaced until tuesday oh no although
they have to rebuild one yeah this truss is about 35 from a low so is this the only one
so they've just got to quickly make one of those up yeah because in new zealand we are not allowed
to make trusses as builders we're not allowed to make trusses so this one is correct we have the
straight edge over yeah but this one's like it's so small yeah we could knock one of those together
in like 20 minutes yeah but we're not allowed to wait to tuesday to fry them and dress up like in
the workshop that's pretty quick though usually we get it in the day nice but it's a long weekend
so you get the idea of what i mean by a complicated roof right
all the little trusses coming off the bigger ones
and the more of this you have corners the more complicated the roof because you've got to create
a truss structure to work its way around the walls so if you're ever building a house if you want it
to be simple make it a big rectangle how do you fix the trusses so that's how they're held down
both sides huh oh yeah and then you put this what why do you put that on that one um because it
says in the plan to use the second type cyclone tyres okay so that's extra hold down strength
another sunny day nelson a chris it's a cracker a lot nicer than yesterday absolutely
so that there's like a little right angle bracket and we put it either side of the truss
and then we put screws through into the top plate into the truss
and someone in the last um video asked about this hikoki gun this is like the new one i think
honestly unless you do like strenuous testing to me they're all very similar this is very similar
to the 40 volt impact driver that i use i can't really notice much of a difference
it's not until you do those screw tests things like that where you pick up any nuance it's a
good drill you got to be careful here because this top plate hangs over the top plate of the
wall and it does that deliberately so the ceiling has something to screw to at the wall junction
now another thing that eva uses that i don't use is this lanyard here a cokey lanyard kirky
branded lanyard and that is for holding the tool when you're climbing around the trusses like this
um so if you drop it it kind of bounces in the air it's like a harness for your tool so we've been
putting them on the nail guns as well it can get in the way so like i've had it loop around things
and get caught but i guess if you're more worried about breaking a tool maybe that's worth it
it's hard when you have to film it
do you need some more or you've got too much this comes to me probably 40 mil
we'll be
so there's all these little things that we have to do you have to eye up things like this
nail it put all these hold downs put all these zip nails you know the frames fly
up and you look like a superstar but then you spend a day or two doing this
um and then the next one down looks like it needs to go that way if you're gonna do that first okay
so there you go that's how you build a new house in 2022 in new zealand
you stand frames you stand trusses they're gonna go off to another job and the roofer
will come in the next exciting episode i'm gonna go back to the other chris and check out how his
renovation is going and speaking of renovations our renovation plans are coming together nicely
now we could be applying for consent very soon i'm gathering materials as we speak and uh yeah
i'm looking forward to it thanks for watching this exciting episode and i'll see you in the next one