scott brown here and today's exciting episode well remember that chimney the one that we
knocked down the last episode well we have to put a beam in the same location this is how we did it
i bought myself a laser this was after using rich's laser for some time i really liked it
so i put up powerful center only hunger and bought myself the
green line gll 380 cg rolls right off the tongue it comes with this sort of clip thingy
looks like one of those clips that you put on metal ceiling rails or something and a green
reading clip thing and i'm pretty sure this is also the laser that you can get a receiver for
an optional receiver so i want to use that this morning as we try and mark out this new bean
all those studs were put in around the chimney and now that the chimney isn't there it kind of
looks like chaos one of the posts that we did is directly under there and we did two posts pretty
close to each other and one is there and one is there and then the weight is distributed with this
lintel here and then on top of that will be the beam what is my what am i doing i'm just
saying hi oh good morning everybody welcome to another exciting episode of scott brown campus
all right so there's the line look at it go all the way up to the roof oh my lord
because we have so many props and everything in the way it's
difficult to get a scaffold in here as well
all right so the first stage of decluttering this maze scaffold done this little mark right
there is the center point of the beam and as you can see there's a big chunk out of the top plate
so we need to replace that bit of timber so i'm going to put a top plate underneath it first
all right old top plate gone sometimes when we do beams they ask you to put a double top plate
to take the uh you know the weight in this case they're not asking that but it's easier for us to
put this bottom piece in so we can put the top piece in afterwards otherwise
there's too many things attached to it so you've got this support here that i've now
attached with this block and goes to another wall with a strut on it and this support
goes to this wall with a strut on it renovations man
before we get the beam on there we need to put some fixings that there is the
doorway that we're doing and it says l4 l4 190 by 45 that's what we put in g type fixing
so it has your lintel there with the strap and then it's got like a bracket at the
bottom so we can add that stuff later what that doesn't show uh is this see that there
those straps go up the stud and over the top plate and down the stud and then the beam sits on top
just uh for this reason just to make it easier so the jib would go over it yeah
oh is this a good shot with the hammer
yep for my hammer review yep that piece of wood was an old brace and
i want to get a full width stud in that place that's where the brace had to go
i like it i like it
we'll have to like clamp it as we go along because oh because they're a bit wonky yes
yeah that's what i'll say now anyway
that sounds ready we're about to make one big leap toward getting this thing maze free
and here is a part of the beam that will help us do that
finally
okay that's going to slide there we go i'll hold that if you want to jump up all right
so we're doing this beam in pieces so two pieces of timber and a steel plate
but because it's so heavy is one big piece we're bringing them up in sections
i'm not looking forward to doing this with the steel plate part
there's a chamfer on the top here to account for the roof that's how it goes there now the steel
so the plan this week is essentially getting all the framing done on the inside
and obviously these beams are a big part of that and then we can get on the outside here and
focus on the cladding because anytime you're extending a house or changing the outside i feel
like it's always best to get that building closed in here's the steel plates two beams two plates
right okay yeah all right that's gonna work all right you ready for an action shot an action shot
of the gopro on the stream player extreme steering strength extreme action building hashtag epic
i'm starting to wish i had two gloves and we both flipped somehow maybe you need to swap somebody
uh
and we just need the other half do we do we have an actual weight of this
plate no no can we invent one for you six kilos
120 120
this one's a bit lighter
such a difference
few more bolts to chuck in there so the steel plate and the timber work together
and that the steel is stopping the timber from sagging and the timber is stopping the steel
from flexing you'll see as we carry the steel in how floppy it was well the timber stops that
what's going on here can you leave my crawl alone it's actually very good for you and delicious
it's that time of day now i wasn't prepared so i have to go and get myself a pie
i'll be right back bro oh you did bring your life i gotta get a pie i gotta hello um could i please
have a steak and cheese pie take away thank you how's it going that's actually delicious yeah
nice
there we go that's not what was there
before
looks good you can see why we wanted to put some good posts on the ground oh yeah all
that weight going from there down to one post and all that weight is going down through that lentil
to two posts we're just gonna add a little prop there and then these come out
and then we do it all over again up
here
that was
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