let's go brown here in today's sunny episode we're putting some cladding up
so
all right this is what we call a story rod so basically we make sure
the receiver is lining up with the level and then we mark the position of each weatherboard
so now we transfer the story rod to the other side line up the laser
now we transfer those same marks on this side
okay guys so a keen observer may have noticed that i marked the bottom of the weather box and
that's not very useful because you're where the boards overlap each other and we're nailing to
the paper so we need the top is what i'm trying to say so the reason i didn't mark the top on
those old weather boards is because they're a slightly different width to the new ones
so we use an off cut of the new ones that are stacked here we'll transfer that mark like this
so using a different pen to make it clear what's the top and what's the bottom
so i line the bottom of the soft cup with the blue marks
and the pencil mark represents the top that's the mark that we need on the wall when we go to collab
so now i have the pencil mark representing the top of the weather boards
turn the volume off there maybe i'll um pin it or through it throw it like i did around here
all right now we uh that should be the top of the weatherboard
there you go hope that made sense we carry the marks around that means we have the same level
marks there that we do there and we know it lines up with the house around there question is though
does it line up with the weather boards over here let's see how straight this 116 year old house is
so we kept the stick here we moved the laser there but the great thing about
this tripod is it has a little windy thing so i can turn this on and i can wind this up
until it goes to the level and now if you look closely you can see the other weather balls on
the other side and soak in the laser it looks like it's pretty good bro i'm looking at the lines and
starts to line up yeah down the bottom pretty it lines up pretty well
um after you get to the window height but the window that's around that corner will break up
any discrepancy between the boards we put up and the borders that are already there
so that crayon line is uh just one of the particular weatherboards
and that's it there so i circled that particular board and put a d for datum and uh now all i have
to do is line up that datum line with our crayon line and they should all line up beautifully
what are you doing there potter you look uh busy with that paintbrush painting a masterpiece
okay how do angelo
um
now that we've done the hard part time to do the easy part
there you go up to the top of the window
other side
so if you're wondering what we're uh what we're using to fix the fix the weather boards with
for the first time we are trying jolt screws it's like the same size as a jolt nail
but it's a screw threaded at the top where the timber of the weatherboard will be and
it's also threaded where the screw will be in the frame and then it's got this tiny wee jolt head
with a torsion but that um that sinks nicely into the pine and then you can
fill over it just like a drop now and uh i would hashtag add gifted once again because
echo hook this up echo new zealand thank you very much highly appreciate it so far so good
so like uh most of our videos where we have weatherboards these are pine bevel back weather
boards and uh that's not exactly what's on the house currently but it's very very close
on the last job we had to rip every single weatherboard to make it match the one that
was on the house but in this case it's pretty much the same width i think this is three or four mil
thinner width waves the weather grooves line up nicely it's good the old ones are square however
and these have the bevel back there's your bevel back weatherboard there you know 19mm 19 and then
it goes like that and that's so when it's on the wall it kicks out like that whereas the old ones
they're the same thickness all the way through so when they're up against the wall
because of the profile they're different slightly different from one another
so because of that we are reusing old ones on this side to try and line up we managed
to keep quite a few when we demolished the part of the house we extended on
this side we're trying to have entirely new weatherboards always prime your weatherboards
they say that these are self-drilling these um jolt screws but i noticed that i i feel
like i need to put more pressure on it when it's drilling its own hole
so we're pilot holding it just a two more pilot hole goes in a little easier
well the window should be arriving today and in the meantime we're going to machine
all these old weatherboards you can't just throw
on the old weatherboards we like to add weather grooves and this is how we do it
so we have the weather groove in the bottom there
that is to stop moisture from lapping all the way up into the middle of the board
it should hit there and then dry out and then we just need to add one at the top and then the
idea is that the two when that laps the one below it the grooves line up or close to it
there you go wow
wow the dust of this native timber is actually not the best for you it's quite a fine powdery
dust that can get into your lungs so wear a mask um this is the router base that we're using now
i'm a big fan of these makita routers that's what we're using to get the weather groove um i liked
it so much that after buying this one i bought a second one just so i didn't have to change the
bit so often and the cool thing about the second one is that it came with this little base here
that's a little fence that can be adjusted here in and out i'm not going to adjust it because it's
set for potter's groove there and yeah it's pretty cool that they included that they also included a
square base which will let you make all sorts of different jigs
we haven't taken full advantage of that but um it's cool that they're adding different
accessories and then once you've machined them all it's good to add a bit of primer on the edges
and you know for years this timber was sitting there without it but
anytime you don't have paint on timber it's prone to soaking up moisture even this old native stuff
so it's all about extending the life of timber and just adding a little bit of
primer you know not much work but um it could if it can extend the life it's totally worth it
i'm just keeping an eye on the window guy so we obviously want to get this
window in today and close this place up also paint the weather grooves as well
this uh i saw this in one of those pro packs here and in one of the recent
exciting episodes i was using this pen to draw on a coffee cup i was drawing a detail
and a lot of people commented you know what is this it's a pica a deep hole for four deep holes
um marker it's like a like it's a permanent marker so you can get into really deep holes
and engineers love them too electricians carpenters for marking pretty much anywhere
yeah even on concrete i always have one of these in my tool belt