alba is a very special boat and full of light inside we don't have any side hutches
but what we do have is nine large windows that let a ton of light in
some boats have portholes the tiny round windows that are very charming
however we specifically wanted a boat full of light when we were choosing our new home
it's coming up to three years of boat life at the beginning we didn't do much diy at all but slowly
we moved on step by step onto bigger and bigger projects a year ago we upgraded the bathroom
this spring we've taken the roof to bare metal and repainted it and now
it's time to upgrade the window frames i don't think we could have done this three years ago
as we needed to gain a lot of confidence and it was a gradual process it didn't happen overnight
but step by steps taking on projects that seemed impossible and then completing them helped us to
gain the confidence to do nine winter frames good evening and welcome to smashing up alba
first on the menu is this pretty old window frame i'm gonna smash this up and then we're
gonna smash that one up and then hopefully we're gonna put together two new windows where are we
going maya's your favorite shot we we're after being cute and sainsbury's what we're getting
at being here in sainsbury's food and materials to continue continue reframing our windows yes
traditional sunday dinner well now it's getting a bit autumnal
let's see where it's dinner i'm gonna get a linda mccartney joint have roast potatoes
yorkshire pudding chicken for yorkshires red cabbage carrots i'll make the right cabbage yeah
i'm gonna um double roast the roast potatoes i've not done this before but i'm gonna cook them a
bit first boil them a bit first as you should then i might air fry them for 10-15 minutes
and then put them in the oven to roast sounds good let's give it a go so we've just been
to the shops for everything back and we are going to start on the two living room windows
need a screwdriver
we're getting handy today i feel like i need to put a pencil layer
the multi-tool is also really fun to use it's low wattage which is great for boat life and also has
a few attachments i already know the other project i'm going to start using this stool
once the old wooden frame is off the window we apply silicon to the metal frame
we also glue each piece of the wood with wood glue to the frame as well as nailing them
is this tickling that on this one
we didn't really need to do all of their windows but as we started and realized that
we can do it we wanted to make all of them the same jigsaw puzzle isn't it it is
perfect yeah i'm so pleased with them
there we go yeah looking good i think we do much better than the first time well you would
hope so weren't you i am so impressed with ourselves i think we did amazing
yeah it's really challenging to do 45 degree angles uh to match them on four sides when nothing
matches on the boat and nothing is like square or anything like that so yeah we did amazing
our gas is still not been fixed so i was having a very cold shower this morning thinking
showers at the moment is a slow form of torture and yeah i didn't have a very nice time and then
i saw the sunrise came out and again it just feels so so incredible to be able to
see these sunrises and just be in nature immediately just living live in the boat
so yeah even with the cold shower it's still absolutely worth it
oh well there is even a rainbow for me
just absolutely perfect morning
um
hi and welcome to tall time i'm your host miles the tall man taylor and this is my assistant
marina borland make it yeah we're doing the final window frames i say final it did take us two days
to do the other two so doing four in a day is a big achievement but we're quite good at the
power tools now our handiwork's coming on nicely the window frames are looking so much better
so yesterday we did two windows and today we're aiming to do another four we've got a lot more
time today um and halfway through the prices we figured out how to streamline our time because we
both can do all of the tasks so we kind of did two windows together alternating between tasks
i'm really enjoying working with wood measuring cutting re-measuring every side multiple times
to make sure that frames fit perfectly it does add a lot of extra time but it's
worth the effort we will be looking at these frames daily and as some might say the windows
are the eyes of the boat and we want albert to look her best we have three windows left today
but we only have enough wood for two of them yesterday when miles and i were doing these
two windows in the living room miles found a way more beneficial way of cutting it
which means that we can save some of the planks and use that on the fifth window so
the challenge for today is to find spare wood from four windows done for the fifth one
no idea if it's going to work out but we're going to try and don't ask why we didn't actually get
enough wood any reason to share have you found any any useful tips teamwork makes a dream work
yeah well you're doing a lot of the cutting
and the measuring i'm doing a lot of the sort of ripping and fitting how long does it take us
three to four hours per two windows it doesn't need to be that long though doesn't it no
but there is a light switch to move and there is something else to clean and there is you
know there's always something you want to rush it because if you rush it and you it looks crap
you've got it crap forever you know yeah the other reason we're not rushing it is because all of the
windows are different and each side is different and one side is like 51 and another will be 51.2
so it's really important for us to stop and measure and only cut one side and then try on the
other side so there's a double or triple measuring going on that's why it's also taking longer than
than you think i guess but it's still not not too long i'm enjoying it i'm actually enjoying
it i really enjoyed the using the machinery remind you very tall you're funny though it is good fun
oh i have a small tip to share um that we haven't thought of before we only thought
of it on day three if two of you doing it then have double of everything so
double measuring tape double pencils uh double angles and stuff like that so that makes
makes the work a lot easier i guess we are also working in two different rooms so
outside inside we don't have to run around too much to get a thing we need we are so
lucky we don't have any portals i wouldn't had a clue how to change the frames for those ones
two more to do today yeah i get smashing and dashing and where's dinner next yep roasting
the next motivated by food in life really it's four o'clock now i reckon we'll put it on at six
yeah something like that now we have experience in window demolishing these two are going to be a
breeze especially doing it together feels so good to get rid of the old and make space for the new
doing the windows on the boat made me think about how people live in vans and then they
played events you know maintenance stuff like that every year or two years so on the boat we can
live on alba and upgrade makeup grades at the same time we don't really have to move out
unless we really want to so it's doable to
have a project in living it and i'm not sure i haven't got an experience but i'm not sure
this is possible for those who live in vance if you do let me know would be good to hear
almost there we only have four sides to do
basically just need to do 45 degree angles angles and then we're done
obviously you haven't done any varnishing but that's okay that's a joke for another day
but we're so tired and exhausted 45 degree angles is not the job to be doing when just so tired it
requires a lot of precision and a steady hand so really happy to be finishing and incredibly happy
with the result the windows are looking just 10 times better so much better they look amazing
this is going to be our first roast dinner of the season
i cannot be more excited what we've got here
rust in the babe don't forget this crap
yesterday miles vanished all eight windows
i look like a new boat i did a good job of these didn't i
didn't we give us a call if you need some new window frames
a million pounds of window we need to do two coats so today i'm going to revarnish them and hopefully
that is all done for these eight windows
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