There's four of us that live here.
We moved into the flat about six months ago.
As a flat, we all enjoy sports.
We also socialize a lot.
This is where we're always hosting the fellows.
I guess it's about having the spot to actually do that.
We've had to turn the lounge-- what was
the lounge-- into Hack's room.
Or the fact that we've got the garage out there.
It's absolutely begging for a makeover
where we can entertain.
There's no seating.
There's no lighting.
Power and TV would be great.
Maybe some carpet.
Definitely some storage.
We've got a lot of stuff that doesn't really fit anywhere.
A place to hang up our tools.
At the end of the day, I think we just
want a lad pad, somewhere to socialize,
and hang fishing rods up.
Gidday, mate.
Hey, how are you?
Give us a hand unloading, eh?
Yeah, sure thing.
Brilliant.
OK, boys.
Just walked past your shed, I love it.
I reckon we can turn this little pad
into something quite special.
There's a couple of big things we need to build down there.
One is a roll-out bar sort of come barbecue area.
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Now you guys love your footy and your sports,
and you want a TV on the wall.
So instead of just having an ugly TV
sitting up there, what we'll do is build a cabinet
that the TV goes in.
We can fold a lid down, and then you
can have a dart board on that as well.
Yeah.
Now then, to get the rest of your garage in shape,
we're going to put some lining up.
We're going to put some new garage carpeting down,
going to put a tool bench in there, some seating,
bit of storage.
I hope you've got your shoes on, because I'm
going to knock your socks off.
All right.
So what we've gotta put on your walls is this 13mm ply.
It's actually a hardwood.
It's going to look great in here.
It's not too light.
It creates that little boy zone.
And then on this back wall, we'll
do a bit of a feature wall with our rough sawn timber
on the back there.
So you guys can do a little route around the edge of that,
and then give it a stain, and we'll cut it and throw it up.
Shall we get in to it.
Crack on, dude.
Gidday there Stan.
Hey, boys.
Nice one, thank you.
What on earth's going on here with the dance party, mate?
Well what I thought I'd do is use the old Stabila laser
level, just to see how far out your floor is before we
start attaching the boards.
Your floor's actually 40 mil out of level.
So what I've done is actually ripped 40 mil to nothing
off this first board.
So that's set us up level for the rest of the job.
So we're just about ready to attach this, mates.
So if you grab yourself a battery drill.
Start down that end, and we'll start screwing them up,
and then we'll just work our way up.
And we'll cut our last board to suit, ay?
Sounds good to me.
One of the biggest jobs we've got to do today,
mate, is build a cabinet that's the full height.
You've got a 2 metre stud in there.
Yeah.
We'll put your TV up the top.
I think we'll build a big bar leaner raleway
sleeper that will sit on there.
Love it.
Then we'll also have a fold down lid
that we'll put some nice little T-hinges sitting there.
And then the dart board will be on the face of that,
and then that'll flip up, and your TV will be in behind that.
We're going to make the main frame out of plywood.
OK.
And we're going to clad it with just this rough sawn timber.
What I need you to do first, though, is measure up your TV,
and then we can start assembling the frame for the plywood
and start chopping the hole out.
All right?
Sounds good.
Ok mate, just screw this last side on.
Now, let's grab this sheet and throw it on.
All right, mate, we'll start down your end,
and we'll just work our way along and screw the sheet on.
Gidday boys, here's the door.
There it is.
OK, Henry, we've got a big job on today
making our roll-out barbecue bar leaner, that I've designed.
And we've got this beautiful Gasmate barbecue
that we're going to drop into the top.
What we've going to do is build our frame,
attach our exterior ply clay, and then put our skaff planks
on our top, and then we'll cut a whole and drop that barbie in.
Aw, wicked.
Put that screw in, and just a wee little tip.
When you're doing a mitre like this,
it's actually better to have it slightly off,
so as that pulls it in, it pulls the mitre in nice and tight.
All right.
Right, time to throw on our ply cladding mate.
Brilliant, let's do it.
There's going to be a couple 180's on this dart board.
Yeah, I'll tell you what, when I play you again, I'll be --
Oh, here we go.
-- wiping the floor with you.
Don't bring up the past here.
Just chuck it in here, mate.
Yup.
Hey we might be getting the hang of this?
It certainly feels like it, mate.
Perfect.
Lovin' it.
We have a hinge door here, mate.
Lovely.
There you go.
Think I'm almost done here.
Here we go.
Square.
It goes there.
Whoa!
We've had such a wicked day.
I mean, it's been full on.
We've just seen a full transformation of the garage,
and we're just stoked.
It's pretty awesome stuff.
The dart board's a massive one for me.
I've been playing Henry at darts.
I've always had the better of him,
so I'm looking forward to getting in there
and having a couple of good games against him.
Getting the lining on the walls has really
added a warm feel to it.
We've got the workbench, the tools on the wall,
we've got the dart board, the TV.
Now we've got a spot for all the fishing rods, the reels,
the diving gear, the spear guns.
It just tidies everything up.
The barbecue bar leaner combo, it's just come out mint.
And this isn't any barbecue, this
is what I like to call the holy grail of grilling.
It's a ripper.
And I'm just pretty stoked.
I can't wait to get down there and give it a crack.
Woo!
What really surprised me how easy a lot of the things
we attempted down there were.
I mean, there's not a lot of handymen around me
at the moment, and I'm really proud of the boys.
Thanks, mate.
Inside of all of us, we wanted a man pad.
We wanted a club room.
But I think we got even more than what we actually
bargained for.
The fact that we knocked it all out in a day
really shows that there's more projects that we
can continue to do, as well.
Which is going to be a lot of fun.
This is just the beginning, I think.