let's go around here in today's exciting episode
we are putting plasterboard on the wall to brace the wall we'll also show you
how we pack a wall when uh the packers are uneven welcome to another exciting episode
this wall is a kitchen wall and we want it to be nice and straight and if you watched the past
episodes you'll know that we got the outside mint so the weatherboards would be good we've made the
outside straight and the reason it isn't straight on the inside is because we've got different
thickness timber this old stuff here is the old 100 mil plus native framing and the new stuff
is machine gauge to 90 ml so you've got on average about a 10 mil difference and i'll just do a quick
run-through of how we're going to pack it and how we determine where we need to pack it so we've
just set up the laser 100 ml from our desired wall line then we measure like this you see that there
see it's like 110 ml and then we write that on the wall 10 mil that's that's how you work it out
with the laser very handy tool you can use the string line as well but laser is very effective
so this is how you cut an uneven packer you check the laser
for each point and then mark it onto the timber then you take it to the bench
so mark these measurements on the edge 12 mil 12 mil and same here
17. that's that's from there we've got a seven here as well then we play connect the dots but
of course these uh these timbers here they are not the straightest timbers so this is what we do
see we're tied to the bench there and then we've got a gap there and then we're tight again
if you think of the workbench as the straight wall we want to end up with
now this is the crooked stud that we're
packing
there you have it okay tapered the more you go down at the skin here it gets piece of wood
to match that crooked wall i'm planning to dedicate an exciting episode to the
makita 40 volt range but just as a sneak preview this saw has been fantastic it's
been great for ripping packers like this but yeah video video coming soon
how's that bracing sheet looking rich oh it's lovely you can see we've got 150ml
centers around the sides down to the 75s to 50ml spacings in the corner wow all up to code now uh
questions i get a lot about sheathing and why we don't put it on new zealand houses from what i
understand sheathing is used among other things as a bracing kind of element on houses overseas and
and the way we achieve bracing here in new zealand is with the plasterboard this here is braceline
it's called and it's indicated with the blue colors this here is jib standard which is the
white sheets now despite that not being blue in color and therefore bracing sheets it is still
a bracing element see how close these screws are 150 ml and then way up there on the corner
and way down here in this corner it's uh screwed more often and for the blue bracing in behind the
frame there's also hold down brackets these hold down brackets help anchor the studs at
either end of the bracing element to not only the bottom plate but also the joists below the screws
that are going down they're about 180 mil i think so these blue bracing sheets here are
going to go in that corner that uh we're packing and then the inspector comes back and checks
all of those and they make sure that we have done the bracing elements correctly there's one in the
laundry here too so the main reason we have all these new bracing elements is because we've opened
the space up so much so we need to make up for that by by putting blue plasterboard everywhere
does it feel good to be getting jib on rich rather than packing
i'm not coming back to pack any more walls for you spot you're done
finished it's the last one party looks happy to be cutting some jib
it's becoming a room now wow
now the important area is near the top of the cabinets yep and i think that's pretty
the bench zone that's pretty uh good yep as we say in the bush this was in cui
the racing inspector will be very happy
we um we have our second inspection for the week
today this afternoon and we're going to come and check all that bracing
for the bracing fixings before the plasterer covers the screw holes but in the meantime
we're going to get some ceiling battens up the ceiling isn't going to be plasterboard
hey Paerau hey
we passed our second inspection my surprise scott
i don't know
we finished the flooring in this corner too nailed it all off it's been very solid now and uh plaster
arrives on tuesday we've got a long weekend here in new zealand here in auckland in particular in
the next exciting episode we're going to rip apart the bathroom that's on the other side of this wall
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