EXPOSING SOME AWFUL 80 S BUILDING PRACTICES

There's no way we can patch all that. That's all going to fall out as soon as we take that lint out. Can take this waste of space out. Anybody? >> Right. My dossier is back. [bell] He's turned up today. So, Alex should do the lint first. I think we should take the door out first. Reason being we take the door out first and get the block work done first and we can prop the off the block work. We did lint first. We've got nothing to prop the little have we >> right. Whichever. I'm just hoping that we can get all done in time. >> Getting the back the back concrete lint in as well, isn't it? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Cuz that's got to be built up for the lint, isn't it? No, not down. That's got to be built up. >> So, we can't just l anyway. We've got to build it. We've got to build the hope opening. So, we've got to take the doors out, >> right? Everything's got to be built first. There's so much to think about. So, right, let's get on time. I probably get this door out. Okay. that smell. >> Can't smell it. >> Smells sweet. >> Yes. Can you grab me mask, please? Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> screws from the Can't see anything. Looks like it's just foamed. >> Yeah. Just straight across. Right. Bottom frame next. Then I clean out the uh this chop the cyling rack better, won't it? packers. Get the hop. Just go straight through that. >> You might want to You might want to hold this as I cut it. >> Yeah. That's going to be heavy. Done for as dread would say. Now you chop it off. Back to me a bit. Right. Come on. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hey, [music] hey, hey. >> [music] [music] >> Is that out? Ready for the skit. Just getting these out now. Cute. Shame the job's done in a different top. Wouldn't have had to find any bricks. So that's uh that top one won't be hard to get out cuz the cut won't be right through, will it? >> No. Very soft motor though. And thinking about this in bed last night as as as a lot of tradesmen do. Just things just come to them when when they're a bit of peace and quiet instead of taking the ceiling down in there. We're not going to have much room to patch up this beam filling. So, um I'm thinking of taking the um the brick work up another two courses on the outside, [snorts] which I mean we just um rebuild it with two courses of blocks and just gives us more room to to attack all this beam filling and get it all done properly. Um, yeah, it's it's extra work on the outside, but it'll be quicker in the long run instead of we really struggled on the last show trying to trying to be fill from up in above the ceiling. So, we're better off just opening it up on this side. We're on the scaffold and everything's like nice height. So they this this this panel to come down now and then Oh, keeps getting me that bit. We've cut all that down. We didn't need to, have we? Should have been the same. Should have left that bit in. >> Ah, >> yeah. Just thinking we've done the inside wrong. We haven't done the inside wrong. We've done the outside wrong. That cut did not need to go all the way down to the bottom. left that panel bit working which is damn annoying but it's it's it's not a not a big deal. This should come down pretty quick now because the further down it gets further the closer you get to the cut. It's gone right through. >> Yeah, it's tough motor. >> The soft motors above. It's like it's that classic um what the uh the hard car is feeling like on the day and how much cement like putting in cuz that bit soft. Yeah. Annoying that should be should be left in but it's too late now. Look at it block work. >> Bless you. >> Thank you. [snorts] Right. Time to load out. Blocks came yesterday. I think it's six wide. It's definitely four high. I think we're going the same height as that one. I'll have to double check the customer. So, um, and it's double skin, don't forget, as well. So, that's that's half a pack. And then you've got the pillar this side to build up. Yeah. Let's get tidied up and loaded out. [music] There's a good hour and prep work that you never allow for when you're pricing a job. It never even comes into your head that you got to do all that. So, um, got our damp course down for the internal leaf. External leaf. The damp co is there below that. So, we're not putting another one in. So, it's straight onto that block work. Put these couple of pieces in that brick. All loaded out. We've moved as much stuff out as possible that we don't need in here now cuz obviously there's a it's going to become a window. So, we're going to be in and out that door then. Going to keep that to a minimum. So, not rushing working through the house. So yeah, we're ready to go. Just going to have a quick break. Line's up. Mix is on and we'll get cracking. Right. Oh, right. Alex is just getting the mix knocked up and bringing it round to load up the two spotboards. We're ready to get rock and roll once that door's out the way. Of course, that door definitely doesn't fit anymore. Right, let's get me line set up. [music] I tell you what, I wish we were um Do you want to hop in? Just pass some batteries out. I wish we were rebuilding the back of the house to be honest because look at that. There's where the sun is and it's like 10° cooler here than is on the front. Very nice. See? So, I've just spoke to the customer and it told him we're going to take some more out of that. Take it up another two courses. We can fix all the beam filling properly and we can put two course blocks straight back in. >> It'll work then. It's just um I just there's no way we can patch all that. That's all going to fall out as soon as we take that lintil out. And there's no way of catching it. >> Cats can do that. So the plan is to get this all framed out and then get the get it boarded up tonight temporarily. Then tomorrow the block work will have gone off so we can push the concrete lint over that we forgot to take in before we built the wall. And it needs it needs 300 cutting off it. >> Yes. >> And we need to bring the wheels to wheel it round. So yeah. >> Yeah. We found the wheels. I put them in the house so they wouldn't just leave them out and we left them in the house. >> And I looked at them twice and thought, "Don't forget them wheels, but don't forget to put them in the van." >> I like how you pointed. >> So I did. >> Yeah, that's what I'm just showing what I did in the kitchen. >> I'll superimpose a picture of the wheels. I'll put the There's the wheels. >> So, um yeah, I've got three pieces to go in. Yeah, I've got the uh line set up so I'm not messing around plumbing. Nice plum line straight down from the window and putting a screw tie in every course and two tie wires in every course. So that's going to be rock solid. And then Alex is following up with the internal tooththing in as he goes and bonding onto that. Nice solid job. Not going as fast as I'd hoped, but this it's it's deceiving how much work is in it. And I don't want to rush it and do it. I want to do it properly. That's a big old lump of lint. That said, it's a shame you couldn't just push it over. That'd be great if we could do that. Might be a bit too much weight on it. Anyway, um I'm going to get the patches changed over. I'm going to finish my little bit here once I've got me more mortal. [music] Right, bit of a progress update. I finally got that part leveled up. Nice. >> So, I've just got this part to do now, the pillar. And dad is currently set up over there. He's taking out another two course of brick. Look at this work of art. >> There's no way we're going to be patching that above our heads off a hop up >> through a hole in the ceiling. So >> although it's extra work, >> we can do the get the thing done properly. And we've also got this block exposed. We can take the cavity tray up to a flat piece of wall. >> Put nail it straight into that. >> We'll take all these out and we'll put pieces of block in. seal it all up. >> Nice proper job. Obviously once the um concrete lintle's in. >> So we've um once Alex's got that bit up, I need to hop down for me and get organized boarding this hole up with the uh% >> OSB uh which is I was I asked for 19 mil, but that I think that's 22 mil maybe thicker. It's heavy stuff that lightweight stuff for boarding up, but that's what arrived. So, um, yeah, >> I might put a screw through them. I don't think it needs it, but >> yeah, I will actually to keep them holding together. We've got some long screws, some I've got to pick some 150 mil screws for trying to keep these in position, but um, like I say, it's plan B now. So, we're taking everything out up to the block work. Block work sits on the joists sort of. Once we've propped them, they will have to put a few wedges and stuff in there. Maybe a bit of slate. >> So, none of this drops. Basically, it while [clears throat] Alex is sorting that little bit out. I've got plenty to do here. Sorting this lot out, making it safe. Look at that blood. >> So, I've currently done these two these two acros have been moved while this is um This is held up on here at the moment. So, I've just got these three seven bricks to take out and relocate this to about here. Yeah, basically where it is, but higher up. Like I said, the the um our cavity only comes to here cuz the lint only comes to here. So, we have plenty out there. We might take a couple extra out there just for the tray with it being up so high. So, I'm going to get these out and I'm going to start packing up these joists so this none of this block work falls. >> You have to stop talking soon. Bonnie's on. >> Oh, yeah. From the grave. Yeah. Bonnie's had a dad today. I think it's 9th of July. >> Thank you. Banana anybody? Let's talk about these joists. >> That one's not too bad. That one is wo That one is a bit I don't know. I think what I think I might I think I'm going to put screw these together just to give them a bit of um strength, whatever. But um like I say, we're going to beam fill them as well. It's going to have um a solid piece of block in there, same as they all are. So, I'm packing these up tight so the blocks can't fall. And once they're packed tight, I can take this waste of space out. Doesn't take much. the old one YouTube tube. What that is? Bit of plaster there. And then this packing up is going to fall down as we take the lintle out. But then we'll just repack it onto the um onto the new block. So that's packed. Those three are done. So, I'm just I'm working my way along here while it's just getting that finished. So, just getting I I had this thing in my head where I think I'm how long something's going to take and that's that's why I'm so bad at cuz I'm never right. I honestly thought we'd have this all done today. But, like I say, the there's a lot of extra work been added on which is it's just it needs to be right. Can't walk away and leave it as it is. So, um, right, let's get this last right. >> I'm finally done. Took me ages, but >> I'll just show you my bit first and then I'll hand you into Alex. That really shows up how wonky these joists are now. Now you can just see the joist on their own. The, um, the bad brick work kind of took your eye off the bad joinery. So, um, stop saying so. Um, yeah, it's all clear. That is ready for that lintil to come out. on. There's nothing loose that's going to drop from above it. All the block work above is now packed down onto the joist which is packed down onto the acros. So, we can take that out, put our concrete lint in tomorrow, and then brick up underneath. So, it'll be the concrete lintil, a course of well, there won't be a course of bricks, so we haven't got any concrete bricks. We'll cut some coing fiber lights and then we'll we'll fill these holes completely. >> Got some thermal lights. Yeah. You want to use any of them? You'd be easier. >> They're only 3 in. Not yet. >> They're only 75 mil block them. They're not 100. Don't you can't even get them anymore. Probably special order anyway. Yeah. Um so it'll be a concrete lint a piece underneath underneath the joists. And then these holes filled in. And we'll probably just fill that in with um I'll put a couple of screws in them just to secure them. Stop them twisting anymore. And um probably just stuff insulation in between them. >> There's gonna be some open piece. There's gonna be an open piece on top of this concrete, isn't there? >> Yeah. Yeah. So, that's ready to come out in the morning. I just need to patch this little corner up. So, we've got a nice solid seating for the limple. that uh that split there, that's going to have to be changed in the morning, isn't it? Maybe take the split and the brick off and put a piece of block in instead. But we can't do that now cuz that's currently holding the lint up. >> Maybe bring a piece of concrete uh block back. >> What? >> We bring a concrete block back for that. >> Yeah. >> Just a piece, isn't it? So, >> so it is Alice. >> Yeah. Took me long enough. There you go. If that's pillars up. Obviously, we've left that part blank cuz seeing concrete in pour on it later. But there you go. That's a doorway moved over that way and turned into a window. Beautiful. So, what's left now is to tidy up, clean up, and get gone. Get ready for tomorrow. Right, we're complete. We are ready for tomorrow. Alex is all done. Loads of tie wires in there. And it's all stripped out. And I've got the seating ready for the little tomorrow. Bit of fetal on the back, but we can't touch that yet cuz it's currently holding the lintle in place. But yeah, um that shouldn't be too much of a job to get that out in the morning. Yeah, it's going to be heavy, but probably not as heavy as the concrete one that's going to replace it. Yeah. So, um that's it really. Tidy up and head home for our little birthday party with Daisy. So, I'll leave Alex to tidy up around here and I'll go around sort the mixture out to the front. But, um yeah, the sun's around now. We're um it's going to be on us very soon. But it's still not ridiculously hot. We're very lucky. We're up northwest 4 be on the west coast near the sea. So it's quite breezy, quite cool. Right. Anyway, shut up and go and get tidied up. I'm going to do a generic sign out here for dad to use at any point because when it's big jobs like this, we always forget to do a sign out [clears throat] and then the video just ends quite abruptly. 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