if you ever want to try and cut insulation with a hand saw get one like this
that insulation saw with a wavy blade on it oh yeah
so after last week's exciting episode I came in here and ripped all the lining off the laundry
and knocked all the cupboards out and the purpose of doing this now I know we're meant to be doing
the kitchen is we need the power board to move currently the power board's outside in this
little entrance and this entrance is changing more importantly the power board is super old
so all the electrical work that's going to go in here for the kitchen the living area
we want to set up the new Power Board now so we can run all of these new cables to that
morning uh you're way too eager to give me that coffee you're not going to send me under the
house are you well potentially I know the plan was to move this window that was our
initial plan for today yeah but it's miserable it's raining and uh I don't want to do it so
we're going to rip up the floor
the only reason we're ripping up the floor is so we can build that wall that the
pal box is going to go on I'll explain more about that soon enjoy your coffee
next what's up next three days yeah and we've been getting down about the weather as well oh
dear I think Scott's taking his frustration out in the cabinet you're right sweetie
so behind there is New Zealand still going this there's no bad weather that's just bad preparation
this is so Dutch I think there's Scandinavian well no the Germans say that too so perhaps you're just
so European northern European I mean I appreciate you know the attitude that it's not true
in the Netherlands this would be a good day
okay under this mirror here is the old layout so that's that little alcove there and the power
board is here the new layout is going to look like this front door is incorporated into the house
and this wall is slightly over compared to the wall that exists
so when you're looking at site plans they have the measurements along the bottom here
and then those three measurements added up gives us the distance to our wall location
all right if you pull that tight rather than following the squiggly wall here
we've got a measurement from there and then another measurement from
the bathroom and now we have a nice straight line to go off
so these floorboards are a New Zealand native Pine kahikate the issue with this stuff is like
most planes it's very soft we want to try and save these and reuse them elsewhere because
they're kind of hard to find but uh it's proving difficult so we've been punching
the nails down hoping that it will help but the Timber's So Soft any resistant so it just goes
Ah that's a good one full board
this one is the pile that made it and this one is the pile it's going in the bed
but from our perspective right now we just need
enough of the floor to support the wall the wall is the only thing that matters
thank you
so now we just go to First some studs up and then we'll be ready for our friend Armando
welcome back to the show Amanda okay thank you so we're gonna try and stay out of your way
and let you do your thing but the main power day is tomorrow right turning the power off
tomorrow we'll start from cut off from eighty eight okay and probably should be back around
three o'clock three four o'clock and hopefully that's that's enough room for you to do your thing
yeah
so we are working on this wall along here this is the north facing wall and that power board is
going here so we're kind of simultaneously doing the living kitchen and the entryway through here
and the laundry and the toilet all these things are kind of happening at once and then hopefully
we'll be able to put one of these big blue ticks over all these things at the same time
so this is a wool blend insulation mostly wool I fancied the idea of
using wool insulation no off-gassing no you know chemicals but I assume that it'll just
be more expensive turns out it was the same price as polyester which made me very happy
I need a better system oh that's not bad I was worried about cutting this stuff
the polyistas and Nightmare to cut but being only what 20 polyester it cut okay
so power's off all day tomorrow Amanda's done the preliminary work
so no power tomorrow nothing until finish
there we go if you ever want to try and cut insulation with a hand saw get one like this
that insulation saw with a wavy blade on it see that wavy blade I'm not saying it'll work every
time I've tried this with polyester and it was a real battle so far with the wall going this way
nice and easy but the tricky part is usually when you go the other way
because of the way they put the insulation together
you're fighting you're getting a bit more resistance oh yeah straight through
it's a lot easier to cut than polyester not bad
smoker time if I had gone with fiberglass insulation would have the itchiness with the stuff
flying everywhere it'd be easier to cut it would probably be a higher r value uh 2.2 is what we got
in the bedroom walls through there and this wool stuff is uh 1.8 but this stuff holds itself better
same with the polyester they kind of hold their form better than fiberglass insulation over
time so you've got that benefit as well what about you man what are you eating leftovers
does whatever you can scope together right don't show it out
I was talking to Potter the other day and we're talking about the job and the
fact that raising the videos and everything and he said tell Ray that I feel his pain
being filmed every day at work is how does it feel right and Potter's doing okay by the way he's
doing well he's uh he's back home now he's got people around him helping him out he's doing okay
and he's very grateful for all the contributions from from you guys so thank you once again
so we've replaced the rain with the cold morning oh yeah good chili
let's make it happen yep so Aaron here is the person responsible for
turning the power off at the street and then Armando takes over from there I've
never actually done this on a renovation so this is new to me as well curious
is it about what you expected about what I expected yeah
Spaghetti Junction so that's like the main power pole and then it feeds to this other
power pole that kind of distributes it to the houses around my house
yeah two poles users they're pretty heavy aren't they yeah yeah well it's been in service so
we know the cable's okay yeah but after he's manipulated it and changed it all around we uh
we do our inspection and testing and make sure it's good to relive them cool yeah exciting
so we decided to cut away the black paper that was on the back of the weather boys because it
doesn't have any breathability so we cut that away and replaced it with stuff that lets water
go out but doesn't allow water to come in and that's what is protecting the insulation that
we put in these in these holes now we just got a little bit more to do worried about
my plants they're definitely getting a bit a bit battered it's not the best place for plants to be
if you can give me measurements of these squares width and height
I'll cut them and I'll give them back to you and you can put them in the wall called any gloves
but lay not for the insulation because it's not it's not fiberglass isn't it yeah that's fine
but cool you should you should be fine just watch out for Staples it might hurt your finger on them
oh yeah that tape can be hard to read and just the way it's written is really confusing okay I've got
huh and and obviously you're going to raise that one
oh I just flat because then it's got room to Puff out inside see yeah okay do you micromanage
Ray like this no no well probably actually yeah that's great yeah that's great though
so what do you think of the insulation Jess that's nice it's just like
putting a Woolen jumper over the house well in the house a Woolen singlet I'm I'm biased because I
like wool I love will will and jumpers on scarves and I just think it's cool that it's from shaping
God knows we have a lot of those in New Zealand I think partly from sheep it's also like carpet
offcuts and stuff like that this is really cool this is really standard seemed like an
ad for this little selection full price for this yeah and probably not even a good rank
because we don't get trade discounts so it actually works out to be 60 whoa I was
reading up on the website last night 60 will 40 polyester and the polyester is The Binding
agent it's like a layer of wool and then the polyester binds it to the next layer and so
you keep all the wall together I prefer 100 wool jumpers so it's a bit different
foreign
I heard Amanda before it sounds like he is done let's go chicken we have some power
I think you've earned a cookie
I was on huh Horizon cookies a cookie time good huh just bake that power on oh my God