scott brown here this is a piece of rimu heavy native timber here in new zealand my house is
built out of the stuff the framing the floorboards and we need more of it for our renovation so if
you look into the floor here underneath the carpet it's actually really nice remo
all plained and smooth so we're going to need more of that we're moving walls around we're
changing things we're lifting up carpet so the issue with remo though is that it
is a protected species it grows slowly so you can't just buy meters and meters of it anymore
so we are going to have to come up with another way and in this exciting episode
i'm going to turn a scrap piece of remo like this into a beautiful floorboard
remember a couple of episodes back when i pulled up that strange cupboard thing
that was like an entryway into the garage well it turns out that timber that i pulled
out of there is remo and remo is nice timber you just gotta tidy it up a bit
my friend ray has access to a workshop that has big machinery so like band saws thicknesses
that kind of thing so i'm hoping there's something there that will allow me to rip that stud
down to the same dimensions as the flooring that's throughout my house
all right so we just took the rimu in there and we're going to try and try and rip it
along with some other timber that uh ray has hi ray hi scott how you doing how are you
might be the reaper oh no staple maybe oh look there's a middle oh i said it now
is it working yeah it is driverless that's working are you kidding me replace the full replacement
yeah
there you go what was remo framing around the entrance to my garage there just rough sawn
rough stuff well like that basically here look at this piece here i'm
definitely gonna need to sand it but look at this look at the grain on that
so my plan my idea is to get the tongue and groove router bits that i have
and put a tongue and a groove on the sides and then i can patch the floorboards in
there where i need to and we're definitely going to need to patch the full board so
what do you reckon i'm so stoked how it came out honestly you never know
when you look at that rough saw and stuff i mean look at that actually can't believe it
yeah this is amazing i'm really surprised at how it came out from what was a couple of
pretty crappy looking pieces if i'm honest yeah that's the before that just shows the
limits of my imagination because i couldn't have foreseen that that would turn into this
so you said you're going to route right away um
on the edge here it needs a tongue on one side and a groove on the other side groovy
these are yuckers i'm not a fan of yuccas we have them all around the house they're kind of on the
perimeter of the house out the front and they just keep growing back and there's a few through here
at one stage we couldn't even walk into that part of the garden because the yuccas were like
they're very sharp we got the chaps and everything bruce uh when you've been cut with a chainsaw once
and you ever want to be cut with a chainsaw again you've been cutting the chainsaw
i had overalls on yeah i didn't even feel it because the chainsaw was so sharp oh my
god the next thing i thought why have i got this warm feeling in my leg not nice not nice at all
the size of the thing eh feels like
i imagine chopping a giant pineapple would be like there's just so much moisture coming out of there
it's kind of crazy that yucca there's a fast growing tree and you see how soft
it is compared to that rimu which is a slow going tree the difference in trees is insane
and i guess the pine that we use to build houses these days that pink stuff
that's probably somewhere in between i know arborist don't quote me on that
but i find it interesting that trees can vary so much look at this
look at this beauty what do you call this chess multi-grain sourdough
yeah locally baked fresh from this morning apparently it's backed by a guy called johann
toaster ten dollars from kmart had it for five years so brewster he has been helping us a lot
since we moved into this house he let me borrow the trailer the scaffold that we
used on the garage was his just really nice guy he's friends with gaston that was the connection
the only problem with this toaster is it's not big enough
for these big pieces so i have to flip it like that and then go down again
avocado on toast and peanut butter locally made picks peanut butter
just upload one more thing that i need to do with these floorboards after smoking
you can't just cut it square and flatten and then just bump the timber together it won't really work
you need something to stop the timber from going up and down on the floor
so you interlock it with a tongue on one side and a groove on the other so i need to do that
if i'm going to use it at my house here so let's see how we can put a tongue and a groove on this
all right so i bought this cordless hikoki half inch router a while ago
i really like it it's a good router you know if you're going to move a lot of wood
you need to do so with a big bit one of the big bits that i bought recently is this one here
and i did that with this renovation in mind i didn't think i was going to make
tongaru floorboards i thought i'd be able to get secondhand ones easier but i knew i'd probably
be cutting a floorboard you know to make it fit somewhere and then losing the tongue or the groove
so let's open this up you've got to be super careful with this stuff
as my friend gaston found out the hard way when we were using
the very same model of router so let's hope that's not famous last words coming from me here
all right so this cuts the careful the plastic is so rigid surely there should
be some foam oh there is some foam gently does it oh my god
man they really hold that in there huh
there we go so there's your half inch shank we'll set it up so we can cut a groove and set it up so
we can cut a tongue i bought this half inch router a while ago now at least a year and i've used it
a couple of times and typically there's not much that sets tools apart all the cordless ranges are
quite good you know if you get one impact driver it's almost going to be as good as the other
impact drivers from the other companies but this particular router sets itself apart by being the
only cordless router with a half inch shank and just to be clear i paid for this this isn't an ad
but you can also get a power adapter and turn it into a power router as well so i think that's
pretty sweet i think the way it works is there's a nut on the top there you can loosen that nut and
then just below the nut there's all these packers can you see them little shims and i guess you take
out shims or you add shims to make this gap bigger and that gives you the ability to adjust your tone
groove depth i'm just going to leave it how it is and see what happens basically trial and error
trees
good
always wear a mask when cutting the stuff like a
lot of timber in new zealand it's not good to breathe in
look look i think it works i think there's a lot of sawdust there might be an outside job
from now on i haven't got it perfect i locked it together just before and one's a little bit
higher than the other but look at that you see how that works not even holding one of them
i also need to do a better job at centering it but you get the idea right tangu floorboards
made out of studs that were just framing up this weird entrance to this carriage wow
yes god it's so dusty in here how's bunnings it's good i've got a bunch of um things for
my plants i've got a fungus gnat problem oh no yeah actually if anyone knows what to do
about that apart from adding pumice perlite into my soil and um core brigitte i don't
i actually don't even know what that is called brigade and my i'm gonna put some worm castings
on it as well actually one of the someone who watches the videos sent in a bunch of
information about worm farms which is very helpful so if that was you thank you yeah
i don't think i can
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watching this exciting episode and uh with a minor tweak here and there i think we have a winner
the tempo was a bit more warped than i thought you probably noticed that but uh
i think we can make this work we also have a demo plan as well and a lot of walls are coming out so
we should have access to a lot more remo studs um if you're local if you're on the top of the south
island anywhere of new zealand let me know where you would get this kind of flooring from because
if i can't make enough of it i'm gonna need to try and find some recycled floorboards from
somewhere i've tried so far and i haven't had much luck see you in the next exciting episode
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