scott brown here in today's exciting episode we turn this stair here
into to this welcome to another exciting episode
all right the aim of the game here today to get rid of the stair that i'm sitting on and this hand
rail the only um the only reason the sand rail is here is because it was an ex-state house
and it was a requirement for state houses because some people
with disabilities may be living in a state house that isn't a requirement for the existing owners
and um you might have noticed here that we've got this graphic decking up here now i'll talk
about that in a sec but it doesn't match this just painted pine stringer so that's got to go as well
so we've got to find a way to re-support all of that and still have a stair now the grappa decking
yes um let's have a look at the back door to see what was there before
so this is pine decking 90 by i don't know 32 maybe oh yeah 32 there you go
anyway that stuff was painted at the front just like the stringer we pulled that off last week and
we put the griper down and luckily the framing underneath the deck was good we could just put
the grappler straight on we're gonna do the same here eventually as well but uh this just gives
you an idea of what was around there and i am gonna replace i'm gonna replace that as well
that's the aim for today replace this with a that looks a lot more like that
oh rain rain it's a good thing we have this marquee otherwise totally rained off every day
so
keeps raining but we got the steer out we just got to figure out
how to build the new one so basically the easiest way to think about it is
what is your height from the deck where your top platform is to the driveway here
you divide it by how many rises there's gonna be one riser there one riser there and that means one
big tread so basically i just need the measurement from the top of the deck to the driveway and then
i divided by two two rises that's what you do that's all you do for a stair it's really simple
all right
there's your 325 from there to there and then each stair height will be 162.5
which is a nice air gap under there
all right i've just been thinking about the solution to this problem
and as often with renovations you can't think about the solution
until you've moved what was there before the house has been relocated so all these joists and posts
are new so you've got a bearer there running that way and luckily you have a bearer there
running that way as well so what i'm thinking is adding a six by two and then cantilever that out
out here and as long as i've gone in at least twice as much as i'm coming out that will be
strong i'll have a six by two out here and then we'll all rest on these little things here the
cantilever will be strong enough but on its own but just as in addition i'll use that underneath
and that might do it let's see how we go right see yeah painting looks good yeah doing a great job
auckland
so i want to get this top of this frame uh 20 ml lower than the finished step height
so it needs to be level and it needs to be 182.5 millimeters from there
there you go so that's it all framed up
and it's still just floating there off the cantilevered boards that i screwed in there
so what's that like 80 kilos plus the tool belt
so i still want to put little sticks there just to take that bounce out
and now we attach with the bolt that should take any
remaining spring out of the step i feel like there's a joke there somewhere
when they make um when they make cell phones the port where you charge your cell phone
this one here like the you know like the usbc or whatever your phone is they basically have robots
in the factory that plug and unplug into the into the port over and over again now that's
basically to test whether your phone is going to put up with you know the amount of times
you put a charger into it over its lifetime now why am i talking about cell phones well
i'm trying to use this as an example to justify the amount of fixings that i put on this step
oh hi paul oh what's up
so so there you go there a lot of stainless steel fixings so let's calculate it 365 days in a year
two people living in the house so they're likely to stand on that four times a day
so in a year 1460 times this will be stood on
in one year and that's why i over engineer it check out the decking we're using
this is like a bitumen kind of damp proof course we call it
chucking that on so when all these blocks come up to it and the sand and everything it's not
rubbing against the timber all day every day the timber store has a chance to dry
out on the other side because it's not embedded in dirt and better than gravel
so one thing i like to do with the miters is i like to put glue on them
it's not just to hold them together you know that they could come apart over time it's outside
after all but my main reason is to seal the edges seal that raw cut
because if you don't a mitered edge like this kind of acts like a wick when it comes to moisture
always remember no pencil marks to this welcome to another exciting episode so this wait
to this welcome to another exciting episode i don't know if that worked but here we go the step
so rather than the two small steps we have one big step pad is just working on the facing now
we're going to bring the facing all the way down to here and that will break up the
garapa boards and the um pine cladding and if you're wondering this is grappa and it's
pre-stained and the only reason we have any is because it's been under the house for years
because about four years ago they built that deck so the stuff we're using is literally
leftovers from that beautiful weather we use spax stainless screws if you're wondering as well
i think they're t25 bits or t30 bits thanks for watching catch you in the next sunny episode
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