i don't know that i can hold that on this ladder i feel like i'm gonna fall
this does not feel safe can you reach the ceiling
bye
scott brown here the only reason this is the intro
is because i know the rest of the episode is going to look like this
in today's exciting episode we're putting this room back together
if you've watched the last few exciting episodes we've been pulling the room apart
i'd like to say that we're going to make it warm again but it was never warm so
we're going to make it warm now bit of insulation we've got a bit of packers and ripping and stuff
like that to do so if you want to see how i do that well enjoy this exciting episode
now that i've done all the messy stuff we can start putting this insulation on the wall
we've got a few different types of insulation so i'd love to just
be able to get one type of insulation and that's it but i have to get several types
back in 1962 when they built my house there's no insulation to put in the walls
all the ceiling or the floor so i never constructed it in a way that allowed for it
i had to put the one i need first on the bottom right
i know what you're thinking man that scott really is a smooth operating professional
i think i'm going to come up with some sort of storage system here in the
carport because i can barely move around in that garage at the moment you know it's only a few
barrels of bats a few sheets of german out of control so that'll be a future exciting episode
so for the internal walls in between the bedrooms i've got this stuff here polyester mammoth
nova hush it's a 100 polyester acoustic blanket insulation now the reason i chose polyester
is basically i wanted an acoustic blanket and this is what was available 90 mil acoustic
blanket is compressed at the moment i think it'll probably puff up over time and fill that
wall space up now i'm a little bit anxious this stuff can be hard to cut so in the past
i've tried to use regular knives and polyester can be difficult this is a bit thinner than the
other sections that we've used before no it's way easier on that villa restoration job we did
at the start of last year we had some sections there that we had to put in and they were like
that thick and they were dense and honestly there was like no easy way to cut it i think
we ended up using a grinder and sacrificing the grinder blades total mission so i bought this
anticipating that this might be the same but as you just saw there this probably wasn't necessary
do you guys you just said as you just saw there so you put this in there like that
so i always encourage clients to do this to put this installation between rooms
you don't legally have to do it it's not part of building consent but
it improves the privacy between bedrooms otherwise you've just got jib hollow space and then jib
it's not like a perfect sound wall either if you're going for like a
like if this was a recording studio you'd probably go to greater lengths to get better sound control
but it stopped you from hearing your snoring guests right yeah exactly oh rather it stops
our guests from hearing you snore why don't you have a go at cutting the insulation
all right so you just put a bit of pressure on the level but always oh careful so try and think about
where that knife's gonna go if you slip i won't necessarily put this in the video uh where would
you stand i would stand to yeah to that side of it yeah it's hard because i'm not really big enough
let the knife do the cutting if you know what i mean don't press it extra hard how do you get
the first cut started just glide along the top so you're just cutting the top fibers unless
you score it first yeah and you do it like three or four times until it goes all the way through
it's much less satisfying than i thought it would be i remember in school we made soft toys
and cushions so in class it was probably the same stuff almost certainly it feels the same stuff
feels like the stuffing now titties i'm making a mess of this do you maybe want to finish it
okay before we jump into a time-lapse of this whole wall being filled with insulation
let's try it with the insulation saw
that seems more clunky than using the blade seems more likely to have an accident if i'm
honest yeah okay i'll go back to the blade this is probably meant for the more dense rigid insulation
one more one more to go
so
it doesn't work this way jess
you can rip it but only across the way and scissors seem to be helping but it's still slow
it's jess back over again yeah what's that
hey can't hide the truth scott you can put a polyester over it but you can't hide it
we did it yes we did it it's dark outside but we did it it's dinner time it's dinner time it's
mainly dark outside because it's winter what is it like five o'clock it's been overcast and rainy
for days this is one of the worst winters i remember it sounds so much better we've
got the insulation and the two partition walls let's cut to tomorrow where the sun is shining
smoker time jess you looking forward to your coffee
so jess and i uh figure out what to do with the installation and we've got the acoustic
insulation as you just saw we also need external wall insulation and ceiling insulation i'll talk
about the external wall in the next episode but the ceiling i kind of need your help a little bit
i've got the long black with a little dollop of cream here that's how i play the game so the issue
is our ceiling is 90 mil thick the joyster so you can get a bit of insulation in there but where the
ceiling and the wall meet we've got rafters coming down closing off that space and that space needs a
little bit of a gap for ventilation so that limits the amount of insulation you can then put on top
of the 90 ml joists so i'm gonna put a insulation in that 90 ml frame
i could get up to like uh 2.8 but then i'm limited in terms of what i can put over the top where it
meets this feet what do you think skillium what polyester glass wool what would you do
that was a great cheese scone hey jess it's very nice grape escape if you're in the nelson tasman
district lava pun huh oh great escape that is quite good actually yeah speaking of ceiling
insulation and ceilings in general we need to put some new interior lighting on the ceiling
all right so if you're wondering what kind of ceiling we have here well this is a soft board and
it's super common in these old new zealand houses particularly from like the 40s to the 60s but it's
funny though they had plasterboard on the walls but soft water on the ceiling so it's basically
just like mulched up wood fibers and a bit of glue and you can see that when you look at it up close
it's kind of like mdf right where you put sheets up and you can't really plaster over the joint so
you just put like a molding in this case you put half round timber molding in your nail over the
join so now i've taken those moldings off i can have a look at how straight things are it's not
the worst stuff in the world either it's got quite good acoustic value and thermal value as well
in the last exciting episode i went up there and i cleaned all that ceiling
because you know i was just going to pull it all down but now i'm playing with the idea of covering
over it it's not that bad and i think with the jib glued up and screwed all the way to the baton
it might be okay now if you think i'm being a bit loosey-goosey about this and putting jib
board over an old product like pinex well it's actually on the brand's website and brands is
like the government organization for building um they recommend leaving it there because of its
acoustic values if it's in good condition that's the key and uh this stuff is in great condition
i might actually go around and put some extra screws on this stuff before i do that as well
i'm going for it i'm doing it
no the end just still learning is it in the center now okay interesting so simple
so you just pull it you pluck it basically like that
that's hot
all right jesus popped out so i haven't got an extra pair of hands so i'm gonna have to improvise
it always helps when you have to shoot the right way to begin with
i don't have the drill
so
there we go oh my god
all right what are you out with something hungry you know lift this sheet with me
okay yeah it's gonna be that long but i'll look at that from my end i don't know that i can hold that
on this ladder i feel like i'm gonna fall okay how about you get a bit higher it does not feel
safe can you reach the ceiling yeah no i need to work on my core okay i'm gonna go to the other end
thank you juice
this is a um it's a japanese rasp and i think it's designed so the dust all goes out the bottom there
it's got like a little tray it's a tajima tby d80 180 a rasp funny name i have a raspy voice
i bought it off amazon
okay i've got to pick a few things up but um and there's more possible to do as you as you
can obviously see but we'll do that in the next exciting episode um thank you for the
birthday wishes by the way in the last exciting episode i mentioned that it was my birthday and
jess and i had a really good weekend we went to uh we actually had some sunshine for a change
and we went to maple wolf that's where those intro shots came from and we also went to the brook bird
sanctuary which is like this place where they have all the native birds and it was really cool
as i mentioned before about the installation let me know what you guys think what would you
put in that ceiling to maximize the r value but also keep the thickness minimal that's the goal
thanks for watching this exciting episode and i'll see you in the next one oh and i'll put
the videos up next to here previous video you can watch it and subscribe as well for future videos
all right bye didn't tell him that it was my birthday too a couple of weeks ago
oh yeah it was jess's birthday a few weeks ago she feels left out