scott brown here in today's exciting episode we're starting a new job
all right so this job involves a kitchen and eventually a bathroom a minor extension as well
but today is a demolition day see the main extension is on the same footprint as the balcony
but because it's going to be part of the house now we need to make the foundation a bit stronger
okay so here is the plan this is how the house is laid out currently
so we're standing out here on the balcony that's that deck and this is your little kitchen here so
the kitchen and the bedroom and the dining are all facing this external wall that we're gonna
eventually pull apart but the plan is to make all of this area look more like this
so this is the balcony and we're incorporating it into the house and making the kitchen go
where this bedroom was eventually we're gonna redo the bathroom as well
so the big job at the start is to redo the foundations the foundations that are currently
there are built to hold a balcony up but they're gonna end up holding beams and bifold doors and
a bunch of larger things up so we need to redo them yeah and action
so this uh flooring here we're going to try and keep obviously this part is damaged
but we're hoping that the rest of it isn't as damaged
oh we were hoping for native timber so far all pine so this is a tongue and groove product that
you can buy and it has the the grooves on the back which i think help prevent cutting
in this area around um nanita and kingsland people would buy
this kind of stuff to replace the native balconies because it's cheaper and then they'll just paint
it and then no one really knows you know it doesn't make a difference we were hoping that
maybe we could reuse the native timber for the inside for the polished floors but fine more pine
point i'm gonna keep going maybe we'll find some but it doesn't look like
so
you want to have an idea why we're redoing the foundation
this is the foundation there's some fence posts on top of a brick
but yeah you can see the foundation look at that little timber sitting on a series of
blocks
there you go there's your foundation
so hopefully all of this is making it clear why we are redoing the foundation
not the most solid
oh there you have it demolition day and now it's smoker
this time a good spot rich so special shout out to uh people on patreon who helped me decide what
merch to sell so it's the smoker time stuff and the van stuff so if you want to check that out
look in the description below and uh yeah so if you're wondering where uh pardo is he is still
right we fight him no he um pardo's just finishing a couple of little things at the mount eden job
not too far from here and then um he'll be joining us pretty soon exciting i like new jobs it's like
a fresh start what we're trying to do here is we're trying to keep that little lean-to roof
as you can see it's got posts going down to where we're gonna drill our holes so
rich is trying to think up a miracle here
tell you what i doubt the structural integrity of this uh this lean-to so we just put this brace
system here just to hold up the roof now this post that was there before
suddenly the pressure was off it and now look it's like it's been sliced in half and it's just been
it's just been sitting there this whole time sliced in half there's a little
skink or something running around around there wildlife crockey what we've got here is a seat
so yeah i think that was ready to go what do you think rich well it's been there for years i don't
know what this engineering and architecture stuff is about but clearly clearly that was
uh clearly this thing that hasn't moved yeah for decades yeah give it a tap see what happens
now if i look at the surface here to be fair it looks like there was some glue just put
it together glue it don't worry about it wow obviously still some pressure great construction
the old foundation we're sitting on blocks like this
and around about the exact same location we're going to put new timber piles going
all the way into the ground in some cases up to nearly a meter deep hey
um i've just measured in 60-ish from the end of the bearer in and that's half of the
width of our timber pile our timber power is 125 mil and we want the timber pile
we want the new bearer and the old bear to meet halfway on top of the new timber pile so
pretty much this end of the sparrow represents the middle of the pile which is exactly where
this pile is did i say pile enough times there's definitely some piles in there definitely yeah
but basically we want to get the measurement now from the center of this out to our line
and the plans have given us the center to center line the plans have given us a center the centre
measurement of 1475. 1475 from what will be the center of that post to the center of this post so
that will be our center line so it's nice nicely away from the deck here which is good not so good
under the laundry there i can't do much about that but yeah unless they're not right against the dip
boom
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