it's our great pleasure at Tresham college to have the second time visitor and Dan from DSS
and we're going to do a master class now before we get our keyboards out and we start suggesting
that we're showing the learners that we're not wearing gloves we're not wearing a respirator
with an outside air source or okay or maybe a tank on the back we're not wearing I don't know
grade three goggles okay sun cream and all the rest of it without chat about the PPE required
for this potentially we're in a controlled condition so please do not comment below yes
I take full responsibility for anything that is about that okay yeah all right so what I'm
going to do is I'm going to take this board up here so there's key things I'm looking for are
nails and that signifies well actually it should be consistent nails so if you look across three
or four boards you'll notice that there must be a joist running down here sometimes you have if
a board has been up before or there's something below there could be a couple of random nails
you cut it and there's nothing there so you're looking for consistency across the
board so what I would do now if I was prepared I would have had my set square in and I just
draw a pencil line just one side of the nails so chances are if the houses have been built
well you might even be able to see it so if this was someone's house you can clean
out clean out the board's a bit and you should be able to see the joist below so I know it is
there so those nails are ever so slightly off to one side so what I'll probably do is cut to that
side of those nails and this one probably cut to that side maybe right so first of all now
I've decided where I'm going to cut it's been so long since I've done this so better to do
this in the office Gaz right so when I'm using this a lot of people use circular saws because
you can set the depth and stuff like this as I mentioned earlier I had a bit of an accident
with one of those before so I like to use use this tool ideally you wouldn't use a blade that
long you'd use a stubby or one but you can sort of manipulate it by bringing this out
and forth but I'm going to try and do it in the most difficult way possible so you can
see what the real real life is like so what I do get as close as you can to your board like
that and if you just start it off slow because if you go for it no it doesn't do it now it'll
jump around and if this is a finished floor board you're going to go and just completely wreck it so
my cut line is here I'm starting just after it so if I start in line with the cut when I go to
pull that that whole corner is going to rip so go probably half inch past where you're going to cut
straight through the tongue and obviously I'm going to be cutting across the joist so you'll
see the blade disappears there completely so that's gone then when I get to there I'm
hitting joist no just level it off a little bit and then you should feel it fall back in that
so now the other side of the joist obviously I don't want to cut it like that because there's
probably cables pipes birds like anything that could be under there money you don't want to go
too mad of it so bring it out to a nice level so I know I'm only cutting that deeper an angle
because I'm old I have to stand up and do this
so now again I'm at this side and I've hit the other joist so again level it
off and now I'm across the other side that's probably a little bit excessive
I didn't need to go that far but again I haven't done any damage to the board
I've literally just cut the tongue out so do the same with the other side so
alright so for the sake of the video swap over and do it with a multi tool shall we
so now like I say I wouldn't normally have my set square and my line everything drawn
out haven't even got a pencil do we have a pencil thanks sir blue peter anyone anyone
anyone bring this you do know I'm going to cut this and it's not gonna be in the right place
all right and then same sort of thing I tend to start probably well what's that two or three mil
in because if you start right on the edge I said as before chances are you probably going
to bump and if like this is an old Victorian house or something like this you're going to
end up tripping this and then Mrs Smith is not going to pay your excessive bill and
you might be able to buy more cool stuff for your van so start a little bit inside
by that too close to the edge you get that tiny little scuffed in this respect or if
it's under carpet doesn't really matter but you obviously always trying to preserve the board's so
an obviously always have a decent bit you might want to time lapse this bit
that's one side done one thing to think about when you do that is you will feel so because
we've already cut these when you start cutting this you'll feel the pressure release and you'll
feel the board and sort of pop up a little bit and then you'll hit the joist below it's just one of
those things it's just experience you won't I've done this before literally gone done at it like
an absolute maniac got the board up and there's been two pipes running straight across the top
and I've literally just Muller them to death not quite gone through them but in older properties
that's always something to consider because they used to notch the top of joist and just run the
heat and pipe straight across so that is something to consider when taking out boards so I'll do this
other side and then we'll try and get her out no soft office hands Gaz office-boy hands I'm
going what I'll do is I'll go one side of all the nails so I know that's the edge that's the edge
of my joist and I want to be a decent amount over that I can then pilot it and rescrew it
because you never fix it's the board back down with the same names known that by my old boss
you do indeed sorry
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so now in theory small alec nearly I just want to be smart so you should be able to take it up well
as you can see it's what I used to dig garden lights in with basis it's just a basic crowbar
and you should so depending on which side of the nails you cut if you cut the other side of the
nails what I tend to do is you'll sort of start to lift it a little bit the nails will come out
I should have done that shouldn't I just made it difficult now but if I don't but that should
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