scott brown here
in today's exciting episode we are
building stairs
up to a deck that have no stringers it's
a series of decks on top of each other
enjoy
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i just finished marking the tops of the
posts i set them in yesterday with um
rapid set concrete
and now i'm going to cut them and we'll
get some bearers on and then we're
really going to get into the stairs
so our first one is going to be six by
two
reaching over the deck and using the
deck as support
and then going back to our new posts and
then after that again
six by two this one won't have to go all
the way in because it'd be resting on
this one and this one will be on the
middle one
and then fixed to the bearer and then
we've got the deck
so it's just 6x2 platforms all
stacked up on top of each other
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trimmed
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all right guys so now that we have bears
up there that are going to determine
the height of the deck we've got a point
to
work toward we know the deck's up there
and we know the stair
is going to start on this joist around
about here
so we're going to cut this decking away
hey buddy
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and if you know anything about the
building industry in new zealand you'll
know that getting 6x2 right now is like
mission impossible but thankfully
richard here
saved some hey richard i look into the
future
yeah yeah bit of a prophet what's the
character's name
from back to the future mata mcfly fly
come on mcfly so we've got all this that
was in the old workshop deck
area that used to be where the scarage
is
so we have more here as well and
hopefully we have enough
it's gonna be it's gonna be close
rich and i just uh double checked our
heights what you've got to work out when
you're doing stairs
is the difference in height from the top
of your stairs to the bottom of your
stairs
and then you divide it by an ideal riser
that's what we do so we just leveled out
now
from the top of this what will be a
joist
to the top of this joist on the deck and
that came to 655
millimeters divide that by 180
millimeters is like an ideal riser
and that comes to 3.6 so you can have
3.6 stairs
so you run up to four so 6
55 the height difference divided by
4 gives you a riser
of 163.75 we're gonna jump down and
start with the bottom one
hey rosie so this is the same height as
the riser 163.75
so we pop that on there
we want it to be exact oh you're pretty
much bang on but i know it's because
because well i'm gonna see it on the
laser eye guys you're good rich
so it's the underside of course it is
got a laser eye but a blunt brain
so that should be the same height as
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that
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so that's sitting level that's now one
nail
and that's roughly what it's going to
look like it's going to be lifted
slightly up to the level
have a little gap under there and then
you're gonna
have 165 i believe so we're
we're not perfect but we're pretty close
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what
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this stair platform is holding the
weight of all the other ones
so it's very important that it's strong
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you notice that these bolts aren't
centered yeah
one is offset from the other the idea is
you've got wood grain
through the post going like that and
you're increasing the chances of the
post splitting
if you put bolts all in the same line of
wood grain
offset it to spread that risk
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another day of grilled is it it's not
gross or soup
vegetable soup no sorry ham hock
delicious wow nutritious
winter favorite yep make it once
eat it like 10 times
i like to use the aeropress to make
coffee the downside of this aeroplast
it's got many upsides very portable
robust you can drop it and it's
generally fine and it makes really good
coffee the downside is you only make one
coffee at a time
but when you work with richard mills
that is that's of no concern yeah
richard doesn't have coffee not only
that you don't have any hot drinks of
any kind of
drinks no hot drinks not
environmentalists
no tea nothing coffee think of the
energy
that i'm saving by not boiling water
three times a day basically happy
so even when you're a kid no i think
like i have a memory of when i was very
little
having like a milo yeah like hot
chocolate is it that's basically
watermelo was that like a hot chocolate
yeah i don't know um yeah and i have
memories of that
like especially like camping some
freezing cold camping morning
yeah but um yeah and then i just kind of
went
hot drinks are for like old people and
clearly i'm very youthful so
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well
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first ah well it's the second deck part
and what i did there you might have
noticed is i put little packers
underneath i've just cut these ones here
the same thickness these are 22 mils i
don't know if you remember from the
start but
each riser had to be 162.5
170 something like that so this packer
brings it up to that level the pack is
going underneath this
in the same way that it is underneath
this one
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so
oh that's why we have safety glasses
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okay the time has come we don't have
that much framing so
it's great that we have this now the
issue with the last couple of pieces
they are all nailed together
they obviously formed a beam or
something
so now we're going to pull them apart
oh yeah you probably want to keep that a
secret it's just a bit dirty if i'm
honest
it's just embarrassing
all right it's waiting for this is the
point of the garage you see it's like i
have a lovely place to
oh would you want do you want the final
reveal to be on your instagram
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i don't know anything about cars what is
it it's a 1967 hr holden
which is general motors for you uh the
australian arm of general motors for you
is it really americans yeah um civilian
was like the arm of chrysler ford was
ford obviously and holden was general
motors
well we better cover that up again we're
about to make some sawdust
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so
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so
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i may have uh we might have enough we
might have enough
all right looking very promising we're
gonna have enough let's lay this thing
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out
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oh my god it's pretty much framed up
some few fixings to put on and then all
the decking to go on
but look at that
you walk up like that
and then you walk along to either the
sparkle
or to the garage
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that should be wide enough for this
there you go
perfection
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there you go i like to think i've done
the tricky part for richard uh he's just
got to do all the
the decking but that can be time
consuming as well i have to go and
do other work stuff and uh
i'm gonna leave that with him i mean it
is his house so he'll probably
enjoy having a hand in it i almost
forgot the other side
the whole point of the staircase in the
first place
is this sparkle so this is gonna go over
here
i've left the framing loose to um
continue that what's gonna happen is
rich is gonna dig a hole here put some
gravel and put a concrete slab
and that will allow the spa to sit on
and
the deck will then continue onto the
slab
so the spa is going to start over here
somewhere but this part of the deck will
be supported by the slab
that's why i've gone half on like this
so you can put some timber there if he
ever needs to get to the side of the spa
he doesn't have this
permanent structure in his way he just
has to take some decking boards off and
disassemble a little wii frame and then
you can service the spa it's a
once every five year kind of job rather
than
more frequent see it
that's how i frame upstairs that
don't have a stringer
see in the next one
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