Hey everybody, the time has come to convert this old garage into a usable room.
With a bit of a garden shed out the front.
Formerly there was space for one car and a heap of tools and building gear.
Now I am concentrating on video production this area needs to be converted into a studio.
What I want to show you first is what I did yesterday.
I built this small wall.
One of the things when you build a wall frame that you have to do is make sure it's square.
So how do you get a wall frame to be square when you've got junk everywhere.
There is very little room to move and to work off without clearing the room out.
The weather is against me so I have to leave things where they are.
I know that this wall is straight and square with the rest of the building.
I'm not too sure about the other wall out here.
So, because I know this wall is straight, I was able to use the old pythagorean theorem.
If you remember back to the old 3 4 5 rule of Pythagorus.
The sum of the square of the two sides of right angled triangle equal the square root
of the third side.
When i come off this straight wall at a right angle the sum of these two sides will equal
the square of the third diagonal side.
I fixed my point of the right angle down there.
I came out exactly 3 metres and marked it.
I laid out a bottom plate and marked it at 4 metres from the same point.
Then, to get the diagonal to work, I moved the temporary wall until it I got a measurement
of exactly 5 metres on the 3 and 4 metre points.
Therefore I now know that the original point is a perfect right angle.
In fact that is how it became a perfect right angle.
3 m that way and 4 m this way and 5 m diagonally.
I left everything in place.
The materials & tools all stayed in place and I worked around them.
With all that I was able to build a wall at a perfect right angle to the house.
That is how you build a square wall when you are dealing with lots of obstacles.
Firstly determine which wall will be your point of reference.
Then work from that point.
Hope that helps with a project you may be facing.
The old education math systems do come in handy sometimes.
Thanks for watching More videos coming on the next stages.
Bye