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Nelson all right should we get on with the episode I've got a beam to get ready for
so we're leveling the ceiling we're kind of just propping it at this point though we're
gonna level it once we have the beam in and then we can move things up and down now the way
we move things up and down is we make these studs 10 more shorter than they need to be
foreign ERS is put it under one side like this so making the studs shorter has given
you that Gap so you can start the wedges off and then you put another wedge on the other side
and then lock the wedges in
and we use these square head screws rather than Nails just so it's easy to pull apart
one thing that I found surprising in the UK the guys I was working with anyway
on their permanent walls they would use screws
to assemble the wall they wouldn't use nail guns I was quite surprised about it
let's check out a side on view of what's happening if you can imagine being in the
front yard looking through the living room towards ultimately the bedrooms which would be these back
walls this is our new footing here this is the old fireplace and we've got one two three posts
before we hit the concrete balcony that is sort of underneath that Timber floor and this is the
location of the new beam so it's a couple of meters in from that front wall right now all
that weight's coming onto an old beam that is pretty much the same location as the new Bean
hey Ray all right it's a new day is it yeah I felt like I never left what are we doing Scott
we're getting rid of the beautiful pelmet um they have a function there right these things
yeah do you want to hear about it yes please if your curtain is too short then you get hot air
inside the room and cold window you get this sort of circulation of air and when your curtain rail
is hard up through the ceiling or tucked under a repellent then it stops at circulation and you're
actually not cooling down your room but we're going to rip it out yeah let's get rid of it
thank you
our main reason for getting access to this is so we can fix bracing to the actual Timber structure
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ER up there and in between the two wall frames that were formed is where the
bend goes now one thing I've been trying to figure out over the last few weeks is the
beam turns out getting a big LVL beam is hard work we thought we'd have one
arrived by early November but that hasn't happened and I'm uh try to scramble and and
find a different source for a different being it needs to be eight and a half meters long 450 mil
High two times 63 mil thick so it's pretty chunky so I guess we'll just have to see what happens
it's insulated between the rooms I'm surprised foreign
did I say it right yeah
do we do it do we do it is that right do we do it see you next time all right
we nearly propped everything up we're just going to prop up this problem room
and then these studs can come out and then it's all about clearing the area for the beam
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overlap each other ceiling joists right where the existing beam is
look at this side the old struts they're actually some of them are not even sitting on the on the
game they just sort of nail through the side so the the weight of the roof sits on the nails
not on any timber I'll just Shear strength of the nails yeah wow so we're going to improve
that quite a bit that beam goes from this wall and then you can see the other end of it here
we're coming in now sir holy moly
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experimenting right yeah exactly so we need to get that beam up off the ceiling joist but
they're nailed to the ceiling joist which makes it a bit difficult so we're gonna try something
to the midpoint yeah
don't need to go to the gym this week right
God damn all right
yep
boom there you go Bob's your uncle new beam goes here
so at each end of the beam we have to have a triple stud and they have to transfer down to
the foundation that we did this post here this post here with all that extra concrete that we
put in it looks like we actually need to move the support that way a little bit
we'll go check the other side yeah needs to move over
so the easy thing to assume would be just put your triple studs back in the same spot but the
only reason there's a couple of studs here is because that used to be the corner of the house
it's not necessarily on the foundation basically the center here
we've got to a point where we've established our studs we know roughly where that one's
going that supports one end of the beam at the other end we've created some Carnage this here
is where the other stud goes triple stud I should say and that's the other end of the beam
coming through
so we're on the home stretch now right yeah look yeah it's all done out from here in a good way
how do you say it shoefuffle let's try again stoof waffle yeah
oh there's no lens in there just a loop of Apple it's the Rope waffle oh nice
I got some work today you pronounce it like a setup for dinner
just when you think you've solved all the problems my big problem behind the scenes of this episode
has been getting the beam um turns out getting a 8.4 meter long beam two of them is tricky
but I secured I figured that out that was a problem I've solved and I was very happy
all of this stuff here is the easy part or so I thought we found something funky at this end
so if you didn't know already uh this house has been extended before
from about this point onwards and we knew that it was onto a balcony concrete balcony
that's that's fine right but we didn't know about this this point right here is the point that we'd
love our beam to land on but if you look at this that there's just a little block wall That's
albera but our joists they just end here that's the joists there and right here is the foundation
that we beefed up so our double joist is ending so that means our triple stud that needs to support
the beam has nowhere to go now the thing we didn't expect is where this bottom plate is
in the extension the bottom plate is about 200 mil down there and there's a reason for that
here as it turns out used to be concrete stairs so under there there's a concrete stair going
through all the way so our studs can't go to the foundation because the foundation's over there and
then this is lower than the foundation so what do you do right you move your triple stud over
it only needs to move over 100 Mil not much but if you move it over at that end you need to move
it over at the other end and of course the other end here there's a doorway do we go that way we
have a skinny doorway and we don't want to go any skinnier than this this is one stud and there's
going to be two here so we're going to come up with a solution and we're going to get this beam
in the beams arriving in a matter of days and we need to make sure it has something solid to sit on
we also need to make sure the position is correct before we cut all these ceiling joists I'm
thinking of doing something that I would never do because it goes against all my building instincts
and that is put it out of square wait I've put this at a level put this bin out of square
move this end in towards the existing kitchen and keep that end where it is so over eight meters it
might be a hundred 140 millimeters out of square out of parallel from the house I think it's a good
idea there's a raise idea and we talked about it with the Architects we talked about it with the
engineer the engineer doesn't care he's happy with it doesn't jeopardize the strength of the beam and
the support and everything below the beam okay it just doesn't feel right but it's the best solution
otherwise we're looking at redoing foundations or replacing where the door is in that room and that
will kind of throw that whole room off it's the best solution just doesn't feel right but it is
the best solution I really didn't expect stairs to be down there so this is one of those things
that that come up in renovations right and it's no one's fault you know the architect can only design
based on the information they have the engineer the same that's what happens when you don't know
you have to discover it and come up with Solutions while you're doing it so it's handy that I'm the
Builder and the client because I can just say yes that's what we're doing so that's what we're doing
in the next exciting episode and we're going to install the beam oh my God I can't wait
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