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THIS IS A TOTAL TRANSFORMATION...DOOR TO WINDOW

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The video documents the comprehensive transformation of an exterior wall opening, converting it from a door into a window while simultaneously installing a new fireplace. The project begins with the removal of old materials, including a noisy and inefficient saw that is replaced by a modern, quieter electric model provided as a gift. The team then proceeds to install concrete lintels and angle lines to support the structure, followed by filling the gaps with expanding foam to ensure the area is solid and airtight. Throughout the process, they address various construction challenges, such as managing tight spaces between joists and ensuring proper bonding of blockwork to create a stable foundation for the new installation. A significant portion of the work involves precise bricklaying and block cutting to fit specific gaps, requiring careful measurement and adjustment to ensure the wall is level and symmetrical. The builders utilize scaffolding to reach high areas safely and efficiently, allowing them to lift heavy materials like lintels into place with greater ease than previous attempts. They also install a cavity tray across the opening, though they decide against adding vents since the exterior will be rendered over soon. Temporary measures are taken to seal off holes and gaps with mortar and insulation until the final rendering can be applied, which is expected to take up to two years. The project concludes with the successful installation of all components, resulting in a beautifully bonded and rock-solid structure that effectively seals out drafts and improves thermal efficiency. The team reflects on the complexity of the job, noting that it technically encompassed four distinct tasks: installing internal and external lintels, converting a door opening into a window, and constructing a new fireplace. After completing the cleanup and tidying up the site, they prepare to leave for upcoming events, including a festival in Sweden, leaving the transformed wall as a testament to their craftsmanship and dedication to high-quality building standards.
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I I've got a little fireplace done. >> These gaps are getting foamed, right? Oh, of course. >> Yeah. >> So, it's the day after. Yes, it's the day after. Celebrated Daisy's birthday. I've got the um K-pop demon hunter drip to show it. There we go. ready for this? We We give you the ins and outs before. Only thing we're going to do today before anything before the stuff goes in is you can just see that nib there. We're going to take that out and probably put like a a cut a block down and put that in there. Yeah, [sighs] not bad. So, I think first task obviously get everything out, then get the concrete link in first, then get the angle line in. or this may not be in any particular order, but get the concrete lint in. Get the angle line in and then all the beam filling. I think dad's picked up some expanding foam to put in the gaps. Other than that, see how this goes. And then we got a big big tidy up to do after. We brought a a relic from the past. Try and cut up this lintil, but we'll see if it works. I hate them. >> Noisy, smelly, and it won't start. >> That's you. What? What about the uh what about the saw? >> Right. Let's get this lentil out. Heat. Heat. That is going to be tough to get up there. Head in there. [snorts] Hey. Well, we'll get to that soon. >> Oh, she's got that thing going. That was actually a gift to us brand new from Tony to say thanks for going and spend two and a half months down there with them in Lamington back in 20 21 I think. 21 or 22. Yeah, very generous of him. But um we've got we've got better stuff now. electrics, especially that. None of this, none of this, none of the noise, none of the smell. It's just there's just no comparison. Probably lighter as well and probably just as compact on the side by side. Not muching it for length. But uh this the guard just for starters. Look at the adjustment on the guard. That one is very stiff. Yeah. Love it. And um the old spanner that you always lose on still saw the spanner on the evolution lives under there. And water suppression. Where's that? There's the water suppression, but that's um on off with the trigger. And you've also got a light cracking piece of kit that just look how bulky it is. Anyway, that's enough waffle. Ready to get this up. Move it forward until it's on the end. >> We're getting this out first. >> It doesn't really make any difference, does it? >> I suppose we need to be putting it up on frame there, don't we? >> Yeah. >> Get out. >> Two heads are always better than one. Left me headlight on. Right, let's get this out for you. So, is it going to move? It needs all those package top out first, doesn't it? really put your mask on there cuz you don't know what they are. I don't think I've brought your mask. What are they? >> I don't know. Can I get up, please? I'm just going to grab my mask. Okay. Might be worth lining those a up a little bit. Top out. Uhoh. It's still tight even though I've got all the packers out and it's it's it's not tight at that end. It's just uh just friction holding at the moment. Probably the last few joists. So, Alex has suggested we just get the still saw with the metal blade on and just chop it in half. Give us some wiggle room then. means if it drop it a little bit, but I think it's still going to be a pinch point there where that meshes. So, have to see Right. You should be able to manage that. You flip it on it front. That's it. You have to cut the rest of it. Now, I tell you what, I think this is the last time I'll ever use that. There's a few Right. Yeah, it was through. >> Did it get you >> in the eye? >> Yeah, right in the eye. >> Hopefully he bounced out. >> Are you through? >> Yeah. What are these safety specs? >> I think Chris was Tell me to get these. >> Right. Oh, of course. >> Yeah. >> It's always the top falls off. We get that replaced and get the um get ready for getting the comp. That was hard. We weren't expecting to be easy. Um, what time is it? It's only 9:00, isn't it? >> Yeah, I was trying to get this concrete in before break. >> 10 to 9. It's even earlier. Yeah. Right. Sun's just on me shoulder, but it's on its way out. So, it's going to go very comfortable soon. So, we're going to get this thing up onto the scaffold here and then up onto the wall. But, we need to fix this first. So, you go and get the gobo and I'll I'll clean this work off. Let it go down. Right. Ready? >> Yeah. We're on. Right. Let's get that patched up. Oh, this. >> Yeah. We're going to get the whole like get the lint on again. Then get everything patched up before putting the angle line on. >> Everything's been done from this side. Yeah. Feels like a shovel lift now. [snorts] >> [snorts] >> Don't just hop inside. I'll just fix that. [snorts] When we fix him, >> just take the snots off and flush it up. Okay. Okay, should be all right. Yeah, normally you don't really want to put your beds on too quick and let them sit when you put the bruise like this on. Uh longer the better. We're going to put a uh two tie eyes in each pillar just to [snorts] braces cuz the uh metal little lintle is bedded. We can stick it in the bed and then we'll to this back in. I might take those two off. Bring the brick work over to the lint and take the block work back over there. So it's it's bonded. Yeah. You don't want you don't want the uh the block work stacking up. We'll actually bond it. Yeah. I'll probably bring this out. Take that back in. Yeah. Yeah, it's going to be big beds cuz it's the gauge is funny on here. So, the other good thing about doing this the day after, we've got the solid wall to stand when we're lifting in. So, we can go forward and it's banged on level with our scaffold. So, it's probably as as good as we can get it really. Take it right to the end. I'll put two in. That's it. Need all the help we can get. M careful. We can go up onto the there first. I don't think I pressed the record for that, but take it out. >> Yeah. Should we take it out and put it back in again? Yeah, it went in. It was out of level. So, we packed it up at Alex's end. So, we have got one bang on now. So, it's uh basically don't know what to do. I don't know whether to put a piece under the joist and put a full block in there. It's probably favorite in it. Instead of putting a thin piece all the way across and then another piece on top. >> Yeah. >> We cut full blocks from there and then patch them in between. >> Is it a full blocks? It's >> easy. Oh yeah. 2 250 that gap. >> 250. So it's still a tiny piece, isn't it? >> Yeah. >> So what do we do then? >> Maybe just put the small piece all the way across instead of trying to cut like a slither to go. >> Yeah. Keep the piece as big as possible. >> Yeah. >> So what's these pieces going to be then? >> Averaging about the gap is 75. >> So 65 then common bricks would have been handy. We could use them really, but >> the common brick. >> Yeah. Don't really want um these brick underneath holding the floor. Yeah. 75. I'd rather cut them down. Some fiber lights. >> A quick break then. >> Yeah. Get cooking. >> Here we go. Get this cut this on charge. Right. Got a couple of pieces in. I've added them. And then Alex is doing the the piece the beam filling pieces for me. Uh he's got through a few and school boy error. We didn't put the saw on to charge during break time. And most annoying, not annoying, but most unfortunate is um Tom at Evolution Tools sent us a couple of spare batteries. So we had a backup. The eights and the five are out of stock. So he sent us two fours. But um between him sending it down to the dispatch and dispatch sent it out to us, they only put one battery in. So we nearly had our backups ready today, but we didn't. We still got a four in the van, but we didn't bring the other four with us. So we've got three fours, but only one in the van. So just one of them things. So they they sending another one out today. Hey Al, if we'd have brought the battery we got yesterday, we've got a four in the van. Uh anyway, there you go. The beam filling is getting done while we're at it. I'm doing that. This is where we sealed tight. These gaps are getting foamed. So everything's basically solid and airtight. And then once all this is done, we can get the cavity tray up across up across here onto this block work. I might just multi-tool this lot off because it's sticking out so much. Those aren't too bad. But yeah, we we'll sort something out. Going to chop that off. Block work back to there and then to this back over cuz I don't want to take any more out of this. Yeah. So, at the moment, I'm just working my way along here. Mhm. vehicle. >> [music] >> came on the scene. I was on radio show and her first song that we ever played was called She just heard around that time I was pregnant with my play on my god listening to Lord, especially the people, but I think I took that to keep the >> [snorts] >> Just >> I don't believe in using that for fixing anything. All that's doing is sealing. >> Yeah. >> Well, that's a bit better than when we opened it up. It's going to be quieter. It's going to be warmer. It's going to be less drafty. That's just pure to um fill the gaps up. I've worked out ceiling joist. No, floor joist. Ceiling joist. Floor joist. Ceiling joist. Can't show you the gaps now cuz they you can't see inside. But yeah, basically we're ready to go now. We can put our tray up here later after dinner when all this is gone off a little bit. We can chop it off out the way. >> So, we're actually at the point where we usually have with lentil jobs now. L's ready to go in for lunch. >> Yeah, that's true. >> Yeah, made up with that. That's a That was a bruise that went in quite easy. >> I don't mind putting concrete in. They always seem to go a bit easier than steels or angle irons. If it's concrete, it's easier. >> This helps having this scaffold to slide along and then you're at knee height up onto there and then up onto there. And the fact that we built all the block work yesterday as well is a massive help cuz you're on something as solid as you got wobble and crack. So yeah, basically it's it's a standard lint job from dinner time from after dinner in it. Apart from two course a block instead of brick workers to patch up. >> Yeah, that's getting tooththed out that that's going to get I take that out and brick that up. Basically, it's just block bonded. Just going to be block bonded at each end. And then while I'm sorting that out, Alex can have a tidy up. It's a bit of a bump right now. See after dinner in just after 12. So, it's it needs cut. It needs firms cutting off it. But instead of doing that, we're just doing put it over size. We're going to let the cavity tray sail pass by about 100 mil and that's it. No upstand. The reason being because it's being rendered, we're not putting any wheat vents in. We've just done the extension at BC when it's been rendered and we just rendered over all the vents. There's no point having a cavity tray in with render really. Although we will put one in and then if any water does get onto the tray, it will run off at the ends into the cavity and harmlessly away down the cavity and away from the one away from well away from the window opening. As you can see, well away over a foot each side. So we'll just take the tray into there. Just past what you after. >> What are you looking for? I'm I'll get I'm getting ready. We need something to prop this with. I don't know what cuz all the blocks wet. We've got one little tiny nail there holding the whole thing back. [music] >> [music] >> Okay, we've got a 290 which is Thank you, Alex. Thank you very much. So, cuz it's the last bit I film it. And um we've we've managed to get the acros out cuz it's it's all it's a bit warm, so everything's gone off very quick. So, everything's solid, especially the uh the concrete rental. That was done this morning, obviously. And this the uh it's going off quicker than I can point this propped in the middle. So, it's going nowhere. Trays in all the usual gobbins. We just haven't put an upstand or or vents in because it's getting rendered. >> Yeah. All the holes that we had. All the holes that we had, we filled them back up with mortar or insulation for now cuz obviously it's not getting rendered for a while. So, we've weatherproofed it and odds are it's going to stay jointed up. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I've done a I think I've shown it in the video. Every everything that we've changed has been siliconed and sealed up temporary cuz it could be up to two years before it gets rendered. There's a lot of work to do. The whole roof coming off and getting redone. That's our next job when we come back off holidays up there when Alex is back. I'll be back week before Alex, but I can't be doing that on me. And we'll get Malcolm lined up to get that that lined up. So, um, let's get this last piece in. Don't have any seagulls considering by the coast. >> They're all in uh in homes miles away from the city like we did. >> Yeah. Oh yeah. Mland. >> Yeah, >> that stupid woman fed them. Ow. Ow. I have a name like a bucket shelf. Maybe two pocket shelfs. need that. >> I've got to fill that on the top. at all. >> It's not much at all. What? Heat. Heat. CLOSE THERE. There you go. Patched. Just this to come out now, which I'll sort out now. And then that whole film done. Alex is finished in there. Never been here. Did the fireplace while he's off this morning as well. big old job that big old. Sorry, Michael. There you go. Bit bit bond slightly bonded bonded nonetheless. Not a straight joint. Beautifully bonded and rock solid. So, it's just just turned 3:00, so it's tidy up time. Half it's done already, as I've already shown you. So, time to drop all this and chew on it into the van. Here's my boy. Might as well put the camera on. Got enough time lapse to tidy up. [music] You go first. Heat. Don't push up tight. Okay. down touch. That'll do. There we are. Is that thermalite going into it to the >> That's thermalite. That's all thermalite there. >> Is it? >> Yeah. What's stuck in that there now? >> Plaster. >> All right. Just put one in the corner there. That's a brick, sir. You know, just >> go into the block there. That's the piece. >> Come in an angle into the brick from there. Go on a steep angle. Get get yourself going now. I need to buy a bag of these. >> There's a box in the van in the garage. Come on. Put your boots against that. I'll do again >> much. No. Here we go. So, it doesn't look centralized because of the way the blocks are, but I've looked up the cross joints. Obviously, we double check with all the measurements. It is right. There we go. Once all that's rendered now that's nice and symmetrical instead of being like that and it's now a window. But yeah, tell you it doesn't look like a lot now it's done. But it was uh technically four jobs in one because if I turn this light on, obviously we had an inside lentil, an outside lentil, bricking up a door into a window, and then I I've got a little fireplace door done. But yeah, there we go. That's all sealed up. Nice. Well, that is us done here for a little bit at least. We're back to do more, but I'm off now until I come back from Sweden. I've got a a Go Fest tomorrow and then Sweden on my birthday. Lovely stuff. So, for now, thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed, be sure to give a thumbs up. If you're new to the channel, you want to see more, hit subscribe and tap on that bell if you always know when we upload. and any form of interaction you guys do massive help with the channel. So liking, subscribing, uh hyping the uh cheers or whatever, whatever, all all that stuff, all the interaction, it's a massive help. It helps boost the channel. So we greatly appreciate all the support you guys give. All right, this has been brick clean with Steve and Alex with two big lintils and a and a door brick up [music] and see you soon. I know.