what's going on here welcome to another exciting edition of scott brown has no
building materials for his home renovation therefore he has to work with other builders
in this edition we work with my friends eva and chris
good friends and i'm excited about it and we're building a new house starting too
it's winter isn't it it really is winter
is gonna be a sunny day
good morning
so it is a very crispy morning here in sunny nelson but it's beautiful and we're going to
be standing frames i haven't done this in like seven years or something not like this anyway
welcome to the exciting episode ava
so this is my friend eva's building site and um she loves being on camera
um eva has her instagram so i'll pop that instagram over here if you want to check out some
building stuff um she's a qualified builder and her and her husband chris they're both qualified
builders they do new builds like this they've done a lot in this area here and um yeah i'm
going to help them with this one today there's something interesting about these frames that
i've never actually worked with before so they're like plastic packers and they are in place of your
dpc damp proof course or malfloyd the stuff that we usually put on when we're doing renovations
to separate the timber from the concrete so in this instance it's plastic and what do you call
them high and dry packers high and dry packers they're called basically they're under every stud
so the bearing weight that goes on that stud is being transferred to the floor
so the idea is that the bottom plate doesn't take as long to dry when i've done pre-line inspections
in the past i've occasionally failed because of the moisture that takes a lot longer to dry
in the bottom plate the whole frame will be ready to ready to line but the bottom plate is the last
thing to dry out so the idea of this this is up in the air has more air circulating around it and
it dries quicker and also it kind of acts like a roller skate when you're moving the frames around
um the frames you see the print up here yeah the other side doesn't have a print which means
the print is always on the inside of the house interesting which makes it easier so when you
see the frame you know exactly which way around it goes so if it's anything like it used to be
for me is basically just codes all over the floor plan that show where each frame goes
and then each frame is labeled with that code so you know so that's d1 there e14
so this frame here should be e14
where do they label it yeah there we go b14 that goes over there does it feel like a piece of home
does it feel like you've got a piece of home no home is here don't film me drilling a hole
you know interesting it's the first time i've held in my turbo tool in my life
so
all right
so you label the the hold down as you're standing them type f yeah so i've got f's g's
h's yeah and sometimes ease that's not each yeah so we are here and that's type f
e10 that's there's that one there e10
so there we go just like that you turn half a forest into a house
modern houses go up really quick
he's a chunky boy he's a junk movie hey buddy you smell do you smell food
hello hello yeah it's real cute happy doggo
oh my god this dog apparently they don't even know who the owner is it just comes
here every smoker time must smell the food or something and then it wants a little pat
something to eat and then it then it strolls back
so it's all about efficiency right stand the frames up then all the openings have different
hold down requirements and they call them like type e type f and then they go around sort of
marking them all so they know exactly what hold down requirement is needed at each opening and
they mark it on the inside of the studs so they can see it from both the outside and the inside
but the idea behind that is that you can just go around and at a glance you know what to do
i'm enjoying this it's like putting a puzzle together where's all the h's f h there we go
we got one more another h
they look horses
so it goes on there like that
mess it for now we still got to straighten all the frames so i don't want to anchor anything
into the concrete there but it's ready so we do do the same thing for renovations and it's usually
when we're doing like a new opening or where we have to add bracing you obviously fix the
bottom plates of all the framing that's like that holds it down but this is like additional
hold down strength particularly where there's openings and particularly with his bracing
so
you put the string line and you measure a certain amount
off the wall in this case we're going 20 mils the key is to make sure you're then 20 mils here
you're a great builder but you give awful directions
hi cool back
all right so what's just doing drilling oh what take this okay give it a go
now stick the nozzle in that hole you're doing a great job just hold it straight
out like this yeah push it down
it goes slow it's concrete
i might go home now thanks for coming here it's a day's work
you haven't changed your mind about the lentil have you ever yeah yeah
yeah you're putting it in h 1.2 that's why it's pink it takes the um roof trusses that
will be arriving next week i believe yeah so it's all pink because it's bore untreated
so that's what the beam is made of players
bolts bolts and more bolts basically the bolts have to go every 900 mil centers so we've gone
around the whole house used hundreds literally hundreds of bolts to hold everything down
and it's particularly important when you come to doorways or areas where there's a lot of lateral
pressure so a doorway is a closer example right right here there's going to be a doorway in here
so we put a bolt nice and close to the stud and we've got the same over there
that's a sliding door but you know if you've got a hinge door you don't want that pressure
moving the stud the pressure of the door so when you come up to the front door like this
it's got multiple studs so you don't really have any room for a bottom plate
we've come up with this little method for getting a bolt into the bottom plate
and um securing that bottom plate then the stud connects to it
and shouldn't move chris do you call it a reliever the understud what
okay now i'm confused i think whatever suits you yeah chris donnelly calls it a reliever yeah have
you heard that before i have but i've always gone with understood so and then other people were
saying uh king stud for the full-length one in the comments this is in america i think okay king stud
and jack stud they call it jack student yeah we call jack studs the the part under the window of
something yeah or above the window sometimes so yeah we're just chiseling out the reliever
hashtag understood so you've still got the king stud next to it where all the strength is
so
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