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- G'day, Knuckleheads, Uncle Knackers here
and welcome of episode 48 of my owner builder series.
We are so close to the end of this job,
just the deck and the driveway to go.
And what I'm doing here is that I'm marking out
the finished height for the front deck.
Now what I want is for the top of the board
to finish up just underneath the bottom of the sill
on our front door.
Now the timber's just arrived
smack on time, and I think I may have over ordered.
There seems to be a lot here, hmm.
So all the timber for the front deck has just turned up.
Now both of these packs, they're both Tonka,
which is the same material
as to what my front veranda posts are made of.
Therefore, they're organic to match.
Now, there's a little bit there
so guess what I'm doing this weekend.
Better get to it.
Now, I've gotta get back to this leveling up process.
Now when you do it, take your time,
because you gotta get this spot-on.
280.
Once you get the height you want on those two end posts,
you wanna string line through
and then mark all the intermediate posts
so they all finish up at the same height.
Once that's done, grab your saw and start your checkouts.
And just in case you're wondering,
I am going to be doing a more detailed
How To Build A Deck series, coming up shortly,
so stay tuned for that one.
(blows) After a fair bit of mucking around,
I've finally got these checkouts made.
Tonka is an extremely hard timber
and to get these checkouts just right
it's quite difficult.
But a bit of perseverance and it's worked out beautifully.
Now before I insert any beams onto these posts,
I wanna treat those cuts.
I'm using an LOSP product,
which is a Light Organic Solvent Preservative.
It is end sealer, you squirt it onto the cuts surface
and this product sucks into the timber
and helps preserve it.
Give it a good shake,
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and just squirt it on.
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And don't be shy with it, give it a good ol' squirt.
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Now, I'll let that dry before I insert those timbers
and I might even give it a second coat,
see how time permits, cheers.
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Just a few seconds ago,
this beam was a big six meter length.
I put it in place last night,
but there's a huge bow in it,
so I clamped it under pressure,
and I hoped that overnight
it would relieve some of that bow.
I came back today, put this beam in that checkout there,
but the pressure for this beam was pushing upwards
because I heard the roof creak.
So unfortunately, I've had to cut this beam
and now instead of one nice long length,
it's two pieces.
But anyway, that's what you have to do sometimes.
So as per usual,
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get your LOSP treatment. (light rattling)
and spray the ends.
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You don't want these joints rocking out.
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Beautiful.
Okay, get those remaining fascia beams on
and then attach them to the posts
using some galvanized cup head bolts.
Now I like to counter seek in the head of the bolt
because I think it gives it a nice industrial look.
Drill through the post and then bang in those bolts.
Beautiful.
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So after two days of hardcore floor sanding,
this is what has come off those floors.
A bin full of sawdust.
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Plus an extra three plastic bags.
Now that's not a bad effort.
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So there are the floor joists all done
and it looks pretty good.
Now to finish it off,
all we need to do is run a rod of noggins
right down the center
and that'll help stiffen up that floor
and then finally, just attach these hanging brackets
on either end of each floor joist.
Now there very simple to put on,
you can slide them underneath the joist,
just like this,
and then nail it to the joist
and to your fascia beam.
Now another great reason why I like to use these brackets
is that when you nail from the back of the fascia beam,
you're not putting any fixings
through the front of your fascia beam.
So that keeps the job looking nice and neat, I like it.
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Now here's a quick tip:
if you're doing a deck similar to this
and you're putting on a lot of those hanging brackets,
like I have, see if you can lay your hands
on one of these coil nailers.
It is simply a gun
that has a coil of nails in it,
which is fed up
through the top here.
Fencers use these because they're so fast.
I've got 40 brackets on this job
and each bracket has 20 nails in it.
So that's 800 nails and I did that in a bout 10 minutes.
Proof's in the pudding.
If you can get your hands on one,
do it, it'll save you a truckload of time.
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Now that all the sub floor work has been done,
we're now ready to start putting down some boards.
And I've got two drills set up.
I've got one here with a countersinking bit in the end,
I haven't tried those before,
so I'm interested to see how it goes.
Apparently when this drill bit goes down
and this section here hits the board
and stops spinning,
the depth is correct and the countersinking is spot-on.
So I'm interested to give that a crack.
And the second drill bit, or the second drill,
is a set up with a drill bit in the end
to insert my, whoop, not that,
my stainless steel screws.
Alrighty, less chat,
and more action, let's get into it.
Now I've got this template made up
so all I need to do is place it on the board
directly over the joist,
drill through those holes,
and that way all the holes should be the same
right along that board.
Well at least that's the theory.
Let's give it a go.
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Whew, gettin' there!
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When I countersink these holes,
it just leaves a bit of a burr,
so before I insert this screw,
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this stainless steel screw, (light scratching)
I just wanna take that burr off,
got a bit of a fan
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like that.
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Blow out the sawdust, (blows)
now we got a nice clean finish, all that burr's gone.
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Beautiful.
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All I need to do to finish the deck off
is to build these steps and we are done, you little beauty.
I have to say, it hasn't come out too bad, I'm happy.
So I hope you enjoyed and found that video useful
and as per usual, a big thumbs up is greatly appreciated,
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for more handy tips.
And make sure you stick around
because I've put a few more photos up
of the deck with a bit more detail.
Okay, I think this deck needs two things:
number one is a comfy old chair
and number two is an icy cold beer. (loudly claps)
That's my idea of total bliss.
Alright, well I'm off to find an old chair.
So 'til next time, I'm out of here, cheers.
So folks, just me again,
I've had a bit of an issue uploading those photos
of the deck to my iMovie program.
I've just recently updated my browser
and for some reason, there's a bit of a compatibility issue.
I hate technology, seriously.
But anyway, what I've done is I've uploaded all those photos
to my Pinterest page, so if you wanna take a squeeze
at that deck, I'll have a link to that Pinterest page
in the description box below,
so make sure you check it out, cheers.