13 Steps To Renovating DIY

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made it we survived that took us 15 minutes my god all right we're going to have some work to do on the back side of the channel after this is over probably have to eliminate a dozen attempts of the history hopefully it doesn't screw up our algorithm anyway okay guys well here we are that was painful cheers man all right so tonight is um live stream we're talking about 13 steps to having a successful renovation it's funny because i almost put on the title 13 steps to a successful live stream but anyway uh we're here we're ready to roll with the rules tonight are really simple um we have got everybody available to watch this but only members can chat and part of that's because uh our our new forum is up and it's been really frustrating to work with and there's a lot of questions that i've ended up missing we've made a bunch of tweaks over the last couple weeks we had to get past the holiday season and our tech guys have got it set up now so that when you put up a question it actually shows up in the forum so you know you posted it a so you don't have to ask three or four times and when i've read a question it actually notifies me that i've looked at the question and answered it which i didn't have before so i was losing my mind trying to stay on top of everything okay so yeah i bring it on i'll take it that was fun uh now we do have a new mic set up today we have new sound we have new audio we got new upstream we just uh it had a glitch getting started right it's like the black stallion lousy out of the gate but it runs real fast so we're going to go through this i've got like a mini presentation here for you actually because this is really good information and then we are going to jump into your questions and see if we can help save everybody from their impending doom right because diy renovations is diy which means do it yourself you don't want to move into the dyi which is do yourself in that's that's something we need to avoid all right so um let's just put on a renovation that we are going to have a massive renovation plan in the future and the first question you've got to ask yourself when you're thinking about the steps to a renovation you've got to organize your your horse before your cart okay you got to make sure that you've got everything figured out in the right order because some decisions affect previous decisions that already should have been made if that makes any sense right so you don't want to put your cart in front of the horse and have your horse push in the cart the whole renovation it'll drive you nuts right okay um so i'm just going to jump into this little presentation that i put together because it's spent half the afternoon doing it and then i'll jump in and join you in the chat and see if we can help you guys out so the first thing you need with a renovation is you need a vision all right you need an inspiration or you need some sort of a moment you got to have a plan right you need to know what your end is what it looks like whether you find it on pinterest or um a tv show or out of a magazine whatever it is like because not everybody is visual not everybody can just walk into an 1880 farm house that's been uninhabited for two years and covered in spiders and go i see paradise it doesn't happen i understand that um my mother had that gift and this is why i can just see something finished it's not me it's all her fault it's genetics god bless her but you guys need a vision so you need an inspiration you got to find that and you can get it on youtube you can get it off uh all kinds of places but have one okay and then you got to take that vision you got to personalize it right and that takes a little bit of planning so with that vision in mind then you've got to start working on a budget okay so you can identify whether or not your vision is realistic i tell this story we have a video on our other channel where we did that bathroom with the really big um white tiles and the borders the beige and the black squares and the corners and it has a walk-in shower and a freestanding tub it was a beautiful room but the lady that owned that house came to me with a picture out of a magazine said it was the style at home magazine she goes i want you to build me this i said aha we have a vision so i went out and i priced out the material list i called up the um the the people of style at home i got in touch with the designer from that bathroom and i had her send me the material list and it turned out that the bathroom was going to cost her 65 000 bucks and she goes can i get something close but here's my budget and so this is what happens right you have a vision and you think i want this until someone tells you how much it's going to cost and then you got to modify so good to have a vision then you got to modify for your own budget and you got to be realistic sometimes you can sacrifice the vision enough that it no longer is the vision anymore and maybe you need to wait another year or two until you dig in right make sure you get satisfied you get that because there's nothing worse than ripping out a mediocre kitchen and putting another mediocre kitchen in that's not a successful renovation you've got to you got to grow you've got to get something better than you had before or why'd you waste all the time and energy doing it right so first is the vision from there we can work out a budget budget is simple if it's a diy project it's basically just materials and purchases and appliances fixtures you put your list together you be realistic about it by going shopping okay so you don't just say i think a faucet's 100 bucks uh shower valve yeah three-way well probably 200 bucks don't guess all right because if you guess you're gonna get it all wrong and there are different price points that you can work with so when you're doing your budget try to do like two side by side a low end and a high-end budget so that when you're all done pricing it all out then maybe you can swap here and there make adjustments and find that happy place right okay once we got a budget we need to have a plan we need a permit not something i talk about too often on this show because you know you're all big boys and girls and you can get a permit if you feel like it but in a lot of cases you do need to get a building permit it's kind of necessary in some climates it's not necessary like i know alaska you don't need building permits i know that if you wanted to renovate something really quick and you live out in the country and the economy is really good and people are just buying houses site on scene you don't need a permit but in most situations in life you'll need a permit so feel free go down and get a permit and it is as simple as making a phone call all right now we want to make a permit and we have never done it before you contact the local building office they're more than happy to help give you the steps walk you through it talk you through it multiple visits if necessary they they just they have their own little structure they got to work in all right so you gotta you gotta fit into their funnel they don't get creative with how to make a permit they gotta funnel and you gotta get in there and you've gotta be a little less resistant to the system because they have um responsibilities and rules and codes and licenses and um all kinds of things they got to protect so they can't deviate from their system so it can be a little painful sometimes but it's okay they're there to help you get through it they're not your enemy all right so as long as you have that in mind that if you hit that wall of frustration it's just because it's new to you it's not because they're trying to be a pain in the butt all right most people that work for the city in the building office are actually quite good with customer service they've been trained it so if you go there knowing you're gonna have to mold yourself to their system you'll be fine expectations are part probably eighty to ninety percent of life if you know what the expectation is you can deal with it right i always said to my my friends when i was growing up said you know i don't care how difficult something is as long as i know the rules to the game i'll find a way to master it so this is what i'm talking about get yourself a permit get drawings do 3d get a get a designer if you need to right do whatever you need to do to satisfy your need to understand what that space is going to look like when it's finished because you can't start until you can see the finish i'll say that again you can't start your project until you know what it looks like finished you've got to know so that every step along the way every decision you make is going to be guided by the the final vision right does the tub is it in line with the tile does the tile come out three inches five inches one and a half all these questions you can't just kind of make it up as you go along you've got to have a plan because everything you do when you renovate affects the next thing so if you are prone to needing to have everything in 3d imaging and you got to have it all specked out by nasa mathematicians then do whatever it is to get done but don't start until you're confident you're going to get to the finish line and that is predetermined by the plan all right next thing you're going to do in order to have success is figure out how much of this project you're going to diy or how much you're going to hire out a contractor are you going to just get some subs trades like an electrician and a plumber you're going to get them to do the rough-in and you'll do the final there's questions here so different places you've got to use different license trades for different things okay not everything a licensed trade does needs a permit but it does need a licensed trade okay so that's important to know for instance our gas fire pit we just did a video on that my gas guy was able to run the line from the basement underground up to that fire pit and installed a huge five-foot fire burner no permit necessary because he's a licensed technician and he followed the rules it's his reputation on the line it's amazing to me that he can do that without a permit but i can't move a p-trap in a bathroom without getting a plumber in and get a permit figure that one out but the point is hey welcome sarah to the membership plan the point is this once you've identified what your budget is and you can figure out which projects you're willing to take on and then you know who you got a contract you will also be able to have that plan in in fixed and embedded now this year especially you're going to have to be careful if you're going to go with a mix if you're going to get trades call them now okay get booked get a commitment get a contract put a deposit down have something in writing that says they're coming to your house not just a phone call and a promise over the phone it's going to be tough to get people into the house this year okay it's going to be another year just like last year housing markets will be booming materials will be scarce supply chains will be messed up it's going to take a lot of organization this year and i might even recommend while we're talking about it scale down your expectations for renovations this year something simple go remodeling go a little lighter gauge right this is a great year to paint some stuff do new flooring and put off a major project till 2021 2022 just because the nature of the environment right i mean politically there's a lot more stability going on the world as soon as we get over the next few weeks it'll be it'll be nice at least you know know where everybody's heading right you may not agree with the direction but at least we're all going to be heading in the same direction and that'll help stabilize things but the covet is still going to be a problem this year and it's it is what it is folks right so manage your expectations you're not going to be able to just run out to the hardware store depending where you live and just get what you need and run home again like where i am right now we're in lockdown i have to order online it takes two weeks to get anything it's driving me nuts so just be really careful that you don't fight off more than you can chew this year a in your skill and your budget but b and your ability to finish it in the same calendar year not a year to be ripping off a roof and changing your roof design you might go to the store and find out they're out of plywood and you're screwed so just further you know just a heads-up warning there nothing to do with the talk today but i like to throw that in next step in a successful renovation is to do your demolition now before you do your demolition and part of your planning should include inspecting if you're going to be ripping things out and it's going to be permanent like you're going to go open concept while you're making your plan take time to cut a hole in the wall and confirm all the electrical and mechanical and things like that structural point load issues identify them all in the wall be as part of your plan don't make a plan assuming anything you need to know things before you have a plan and you won't have what's called unforeseens unforeseens means you didn't do your homework okay when i was in contracting i didn't have unforeseens i always did my homework and i gave my clients my prices my price if i missed something that's on me i'm the professional after all you know what i mean when's the last time you're woken up in the middle of a heart surgery and the doctor said oh by the way we found something peculiar i can't continue until you agree to give me more money like if he knows his business he knows his business right so if you're hiring a contractor make sure you've got your plan figured out and they've done due diligence to understand how your house works now demolition if you have a good plan in play and you know exactly then from the beginning when you're doing your demolition you know what to touch what not to touch there are times when you're removing things that if you if you were to cut three inches outside of a corner so that when you reinstate it's easier to tape the just a butt joint going to the corner instead of going right through the corner when you're doing your demolition you'd be surprised an inside corner takes a lot more work than a quick little flat tape joint on the side all right it's an extra couple days if it's the only taping you're doing really stop to think about your whole process how do i save time and time money and materials why am i using a sledgehammer i haven't got the water off yet should i be cutting the wall in half i haven't looked and the power's on all these kinds of questions right be smart all right turn the power off to things disconnect the plumbing drain the lines minimize your risk of having additional damage caused by the demolition it's one of the most common areas that people make big mistakes they're doing the demolition and they get that tv attitude they're just in here swinging sledgehammers like morons relax it's surgery uninstall what's there take it apart casually take your time clean as you go get your stuff out of your way don't make a big mountain of crap in the middle of the floor it slows you down and it's dangerous all right play safe once you've got your demo done that includes cleaning up all right dirt free dust free materials free i want everything out of that room you want a clean empty slate to work with okay use a shop vac um sweeping compounds you really want to start with a clean house here all right in a lot of older homes especially because there's there's stuff in the dust that's actually quite dangerous so get rid of it all right then we're moving on to structure okay now from here on in every time i give you a step what i'm going to suggest is complete the step before you move to the next step there's a certain percentage of people out there like me i like to move ahead get ahead of myself i'll get that later you know always leave something behind and you just keep plowing forward you really gotta discipline yourself to finish a step so when you go into structure finish all your structure don't say okay well we'll get that corner later all right don't do stuff like that it makes the whole project actually quite difficult to complete so if you're going to be touching your structure finish your structure if you don't know anything about structure get a structural engineer into the house have them do a walk through with you explain what's going on so you understand it you don't have to pay them to do drawings and stuff if you don't want to but it would be good idea to have them come out couple hundred bucks spend an hour in the job site explain to you how your house operates where the point loads how your trusses work do you need a wall do you not need a wall if i wanted to throw in a beam for extra strength what's entitled that does it have to be steel or wood or can it be a lvl get all that information from these people and then if you feel wow i really don't know what i'm doing then pay them a thousand bucks they'll do drawings they'll give you a process all right so that you can set it up and be successful structural engineers need a different title because when you say engineer the first thing people think is oh my god it's going to cost me 10 000. it's just a guy who's been trained to use a stamp who knows the math that's all they're not painful they actually are very cost effective and in more times than not they will save you money and save you time and aggravation and you'll make your job site safe which is always a good thing now from structure once we have the structure done we move on to mechanical mechanical is hvac right heat and cooling systems plumbing and electrical i'm going to throw in there the idea of running a sound system you also want to throw in there the idea of if you're going to do wired doorbells incorporate that as well welcome miss tina michelle to the membership program uh anything else that's mechanical be like chimneys flues for exhaust anything like that and here's the rule when you're working with this stuff start with the one system that's the most difficult to find room for that's the hvac they have big ducks big pipes okay run all your hvac first because you want to give it a clean sleep and then you run your plumbing because plumbing has rules with with slope right there has to be certain slope for water to go downhill in the right direction and venting has to be in certain locations so you want to do all this in a certain order so that you're not causing a problem for the next trade guy remember electricians can run a wire just about any bloody place they have to if they got to go four miles out of the way to go up six inches doesn't matter they make wire long enough to do the job so the point is if anybody's going to be inconvenienced it's the electrician because wire is very easy to find an alternative route plumbing an hvac kind of stuck with it so do it in the right order and you won't be disappointed so if you're going to do your own electrical on your house and you haven't had the plumber in yet don't do the electrical let the plumber come and do his thing first okay just trust me because what they'll do if they run into problems is they're going to just cut your wire out of the way or they're going to do their plumbing in a way that's really inconvenient they're going to just back charge you for having done something dumb and gotten in the way and those things you can avoid now all of the mechanical we're talking about the ruffin when we're talking meccano we have a rough-in and we have a finish so all of these trades you end up getting in there twice now hvac guys usually only get in there once and at the very end of the job they'll come back and turn everything on right because they don't want their hvac machines running while you're in construction so it's off so they don't even have it tested yet so generally everybody has a start date and a return date okay so one remember is before we do the next phase everybody's got all the roughing done all of your roughing inspections are done to satisfy your permit okay so the hvac has been checked out the plumbing has been checked out when you have a building permit there's usually a plumbing inspector and then there's a building inspector and a lot of times there are two different people so make sure you've made all your phone calls got all your inspections done got them to sign off not just they were there but they actually signed off and said yes you can go ahead get your electrical safety inspector in there get signed off all right once you've got all that then it's time to drywall now drywall is uh we use a phrase in our business we call it it's time to close because we're closing we're covering everything up once we install the drywall we can't see nothing which is why you need your plan right you're going to make sure that your hot and cold water supply lines are on the right side you got to make sure all your drains are in the right location it's not just that it's done but it's done right so make sure that you check if you hire somebody that your plan for your sink drain for instance is in the right location not just on the wall but on the height off the floor you have wall mount vanities you've got vanities with legs you want to have the plumbing coming through the wall not the floor whenever possible you've got all kinds of scenarios with doors and drawers and and depths and allowances make sure you're communicating the expectation of the plumber what he's got to do because if you have your plan in front of you you can say and this type of vanity requires this kind of access and if there's a problem he's got to fix it but if you don't tell him he's just going to do a standard kind of installation it may not be called pathetic and you got to get him to do it twice all right and if you're doing it yourself same thing know what you're putting in don't go wait until the very end say okay the bathroom's ready honey let's go shop for a vanity big mistake because there are so many different options out there and so many different rough-in applications depending on the style of vanity you buy you might find yourself opening up the wall and doing it all over again because you could only find one vanity you're both happy with and it requires the plumbing to move maddening now once you've closed we're moving on to the flooring and the tile right closed means you've done drywall three coats sanded primed prime check painted the ceilings probably first cut and roll on the walls and i usually recommend to leave the second cut until the very end because there's usually enough moving around and dings and stuff going on there's going to be minor bits of wall damage that you can patch and repair and get a first coat of paint on after the primer and then you can paint the second coat all together when you're done building but flooring you really want to get in after you've done all of that right up to the first coat of paint you want to minimize the amount of painting and dirt and dust that's in that building so having all that done and sanded and cleaned and finished up and vacuumed out have a nice clean house when you put in your floors okay one of the mistakes a lot of people do when they're doing renovations is they get to the flooring too fast they're excited and they haven't cleaned properly okay and then every time you take a step on the do on the floor the air moves and it pushes the dirt out and you get this dust cloud of debris from underneath the floor if you've ever seen a laminate floor job where they were cutting with a saw in the basement and they installed the laminate floor the basement is covered in that fine dust while they're working and then every time you take a step it kicks out again that's a formaldehyde dust it is not nice to breathe in so listen try to do all your cutting outside when you get to the flooring if you can or use products like the the vinyl plank it's just a utility knife you cut it and you snap it if you're not sure about this stuff just go to our home page about anything and just search the topic you want and the youtube um uh algorithm out there will actually formulate a list of all the different videos that touch your subject matter okay it's a great way to research now when we're doing our flooring we want to do our flooring we want to finish it you don't do half your flooring you don't want to do part of the floor you want to just get it done finish what you start that's a whole system so when all the floors are in the only thing that should be left at that point and it's really up to you is you've got all the finished carpentry on the baseboards and casings i know there's a big debate here's the debate in a nutshell if you have a professional tool for cutting floor jams okay door jam sorry around around the casing and the door jamb and the casing it's it's a jam saw okay it's about 400 bucks usually only the pros own this tool you've never even seen it on my channel if you have a jam saw you can do all of the carpentry in the entire house first then install your floors and then you just put on a little bit of shoe mold okay and it's a really fast way to do it because then when you're doing your painting process all your trims are painted all the walls have got one coat you've got your cut line all sorted out it's so quick and easy after the floors go in it's just a quick shoe mold and a little touch-up paint done right but a lot of people like to put in all the flooring and then do all their trim and these are people who don't own a jam saw most of you are in that group if you don't own a professional jam tool for cutting out around the doors but install your flooring you might want to consider installing your flooring before all of your doors if you install the doors afterwards and then all the trim afterwards you've also got to use site protection okay cover your floors rim board is probably a great idea there's also heavy construction paper you can put out there and you can tape all the joints what you want to do is manage your site so that you don't have dirt and screws and debris underneath whatever you're using to cover your floor so seal it up tighter than a drum and then you can protect your floor from damage while you're working but the more work you're going to do the better the protection i've seen guys use tarps and plywood on top of it i'm not a fan of tarps because it's really easy to lose nails and screws in it but the cardboard or ram board is really nice product you'll see that in hdtv all the time because money is not an issue but it's take care of your site and it'll take care of you nothing worse than finishing a job pulling everything off and finding this great big scratch in the middle of the living room i mean oh my god how maddening is that right now you've got your flooring down now it's time for your final paint okay now it's time for you to inspect your walls for damage grab your 45 patch patch patch sand a little primer brush on your first coat and then you've got your first coat all finished you can cut and roll the entire house all right using a tarp and it is really quick and simple and satisfactory it feels great to get the second now you're at substantial completion here all right substantial completion means that everything's functioning like if you go to the bathroom you can take a shower you can use the toilet you can use the sink the fan operates the power is on everything's working okay there's still one stage left and so after you've got all your fixtures on you still have one thing left that's called the punch list all right so what i'm going to suggest for diyers out there are doing your own renovations when you're done before you invite everybody over to the house and say look what i did take a day off go empty your mind right get into a little personal coma come back out and then go and walk through your house and you be the pickiest person in the world on your own job and you make a list we call this the punch list now in construction we usually let the homeowner do their own punch list and the reason we do that is because everybody is different and so they'll they'll tolerate all kinds of mistakes and they'll only highlight the things that actually bother them and that's what gets fixed i know it's rude but that's how most people operate so if you go and you go be the pickiest person you can imagine and you go this could be better that could be better make your whole punch list okay then maybe you can invite someone over who's a friend of yours and say hey can you help me out with this punch list what do you think of this is that necessary is that necessary but there's nothing worse than doing a whole renovation having people come in and go well that's that's all right you know and because they're looking at all the things that they wouldn't have never allowed to pass right anyway um here we go when you're done get a ginger ale yeah no kidding jeff because the chat makes me laugh every time all right there's my chat and take it for what it's worth um renovating isn't difficult if you have a plan but without one you're just driving down the highway at 180 miles an hour and you don't even know if you're on the right side heading into traffic or driving away from it all right now we're at that point where i'm gonna say goodbye to the notes okay and then we're ready to take your uh questions now i'm not allowed to have that on the table either i'll just play with it the whole day no clicking pen tonight imagine that eh all right well melanie i'm glad you appreciated that because you know what sometimes we just need a reminder that there is a process now that's my process everybody has their own little thing but for me the biggest part of a good renovation really comes down to planning and i find most people don't do enough of that all right so i got a question here matt that's the super chat i didn't even know if we were supposed to be taking those tonight but i guess i can't ignore it can i all right i don't have the ability to turn super chat off so i guess if you're watching you're not a member and you want a super chat a question that's fine i'll have to answer you i would be rude not to um but let's uh let's get into the questions with the members as soon as we can um so we got jeff i'm listening while insulating my attached garage do i need a vapor retarder like certainteed membrane in washington state without garage heaters no if you're not heating it you don't have a vapor issue all you're doing with insulating is slowing down the temperature variations that are going to happen and make it more comfortable now if you're using a paper faced insulation then you don't need a vapor barrier if you're intending to cover the walls with drywall you don't need a vapor barrier but if you're only insulating then i would put in the plastic just so that you have good air quality in that garage all right that's just personal experience if you're doing fiberglass or mineral wall it doesn't really matter you're going to want to have something in there so every time you slam the door you don't get crap falling out of the ceiling onto your head right i mean that's really the bottom line so oh ahmed wants to know if you can drill this joist for hvac i'm going to answer your question in the forum today i don't like four inch holes i don't even like three inch holes especially in dimensional lumber most floor joists are only 10 inches wide which means nine and a quarter and so unless you have brand new engineered floor joists where you can drill a hole in the particle board then i don't recommend doing it dimensional number is just too prone to splitting and cracking so try to avoid it at all because the only other way you can get around it and we've done this before is an engineer structural engineer we'll we'll we'll make a schematic for us and we'll add three quarter plywood with construction adhesive and structural screws on each side of the joist and then drill a hole that can be done but like if you want to drill holes in your thing that's holding the roof over your head go right ahead no one can stop you but i would recommend getting a structural engineer in there just to make sure that you're not to create an environment where your house is going to collapse all right ah here we go i'm going to try to read we have rental property we're on the fence about whether to renovate or just sell should one hire someone to do the design of the new space or can do myself and what program to use yeah see that's a million dollar question right there's a lot of software out there i mean houzz has one hdtv even has their own software now you're gonna find with the software that it is really detailed some of the best software ever worked with in my life was um at a company i used to work for but they had they had they had the specs for every appliance and every faucet and every electrical fixture that they sold in their computer system and it was incredible but the degree that those systems work really is to the degree that you're willing to sit down and input the information so if you're not familiar with the program sometimes it's nice just to hire a designer to come over measure off and have them input it and and play around sometimes paying someone for a few hours of work so that you can you know go through a design option on the software is a good thing i don't expect everybody to become software experts but there are good two-dimensional software programs out there for layout and space and sometimes that's just not enough you need to see it 3d so the more information you want before you start the more you got to pay but knowing where you're going is important um for me personally the whole renovator cell this is not the right year to renovate just saying unless you do a lot of work and you've got contractors that you know i'll put you this way if you don't have relationship this year you're not going to be able to start one it's the wrong year to start a relationship with the contractor they're going to be busy they're going to be booked okay if you're not making phone calls now for something you're doing six months forget about it not gonna happen all right it's going to be another one of those years just like last year we're just going to consider it that's the standard course it's easier to adjust that expectation if people actually start answering the phone again but that's pretty much where we are okay matt i'm on trevor at the top of the screen here could i quickly review the process of how to frame a 12 inch tall by 24 inch wide niche and a shower yeah you cut lumber so that you leave that space plus a half inch all the way around and then you insert schluter half inch kerdi-board on all of those sides it's really that simple um you'd probably maybe have to watch that video again uh okay here we go the hvac question i was wondering if you're gonna get back in there uh your filter is only being two-thirds used when you replace them so does that mean it's sticking out of the machine because oh you're using 25 25 1. well i'm going to suggest you buy a 16 25 one that's a very standard filter and it'll probably all go in and save you some money if you want to know those numbers actually relate to the actual dimension in inches so you can use a tape measure and you can measure the rise on that filter box and then the width and the length and then you just go buy what you need so it's going to be that simple but if you have a piece of filter sticking out just go buy the 16s all right 16 25 ones you'll be just fine okay so don is saying thanks for helping him uh take on things at the home yeah my channel's giving him confidence oh he's just giving me love howell michigan cheers to the hell of michigan and cheers to you don happy to help man uh sandy rose uh jeff tina michelle is a good question could you put the list have 13 steps in the comments section or somewhere um yeah matt maybe you can go and pick up that piece of paper and uh i'll put it in i'll put it in the video description for future reference that's awesome um scott's got a split entry space under the stairs and it's not finished okay u-shaped got it main water line comes in there should i put in green board i want to put in easy flooring like self sticking carpet squares thoughts okay so you got the main water line coming in there my first thought is you need to protect that water line from accidental damage if you're gonna start using this space and you're putting in carpet squares i'm thinking you're gonna have critters going under there i'm talking like little people right um they really don't pay too much attention to copper water supply lines or cpvc and it they're not impervious to damage so if you're going to be using a space like that then maybe just make a little box and some sort of a wooden cover so you can cover your water supply line or even a tower right throw a couple screws in it uh something like that may not be a bad idea just so you can protect yourself if you screw it to the wall though if you have an emergency you can't unscrew it fast enough so slide it in place all right and that would be my answer there i wouldn't use your green drywall for instance your water supply in your house is not a source of moisture it's a source of water but the rest of the room isn't going to be affected by it so you can use any drywall you want um mike wants to know about laminate floor damage how can i replace one board that is damaged yeah i got a secret for that mike i wonder if i can even demonstrate that okay so let's pretend that this table matt is this whole table in the view to about here okay and over to here all right let's say that this is a laminate board all right i'm going to use these little decks and we're going to call that the end okay so from here to here what i do is i take my skill saw and i set the depth of the blade to the depth of the laminate all right and i'll drop the skill saw in the middle of the board over here and drive it right to the other side and i go about a quarter to three eighths of an inch shy of the joint all right and then what i do is i take a chisel oh sorry i cut two lines you want to cut like about one inch out of the board so two lines all the way down the same and you take a chisel and you finish those cuts right to the joint all right and you're throwing a screw in the middle of it just a half an inch down and you just lift out that cutout piece all right from there you should be able to use that chisel manipulate both sides of that flooring because now that it's just one tongue and groove you can manipulate them out and then all you do is you take the next piece of flooring that you're replacing with because laminate is brilliant in this one regard every board's the same length and you know when you've got your locking tongue and groove right if you take a knife or a table saw and you just remove the extra groove okay so you can lock in the one tongue and you can just lay it in place then when you're laying it in place use an actual um high density fiber glue and put it on all three sides set that panel back down throw some weight on it maybe a couple of weights from the gym or a couple gallons of paint and you can let it dry overnight and it'll be good as new and no one will ever know that you replaced it alright so hopefully that helped it might made a little bit of sense but uh that's a great idea for a video man you got a pen on you i just wrote it down thank you buddy because i would love to do something like that we're going to do a series of um uh quick simple repairs right so that's that'd be good put that one in the list okay where are we um you've got one oh yeah i was already there oh um okay avi's got a question uh for a shower niche you have red guard and going straight over the drywall with it for the shower niche do i need anything extra on those joints edges of the niche yeah you know it really wouldn't hurt um exposed drywall and red guard aren't really a great mix so you might want to actually tape like with drywall tape tape the edges if you've got exposed drywall as soon as you put paper tape there then you've got a surface that's really easy to seal up okay so definitely recommend that um forrest gump i love the name all right where did he go whoa i'm gonna get dizzy here we go forrest gump says i've replaced a lot of wiring in my house where the old ac comes through the wall do i just cut it off and leave the ends exposed or put wire nuts on dead cables well if it's a dead cable then you should remove it okay um where the old ac comes through the wall usually it's filled with silicone that's not going to stop you from yanking that wire out of the way uh do yourself a favor keep it as clean as you can yeah if you don't need it rip it out it's just the end of the day the the less fuss that you leave in behind the walls you're not just doing yourself a favor because it'll look clean today but you're doing someone a favor down the road is going to renovate you don't have to stop and take stock and test every wire and understand where everything run is going do do you do all of humanity a favor guys when you're doing wiring if you've got a dead circuit or a deadline somewhere just remove the whole thing back to the beginning all right it'll save you from confusion and the possibility of making a circuit live that you don't want live because you can get confused and then all of a sudden you've got this live power just laying around the floor and man that would really hurt all right how easy it or difficult to redesign my hvac ducts in the basement okay well i don't know all depends on your basement your layout you have one trunk line and a bunch of ducks coming off of it um redesigning is simple because it wasn't really much of a science to begin with right they got a box that moves a lot of air and then they have five or six inch pipes that move a little bit air and they usually have one pipe for about every 300 square feet of living space and it should come off the side or the top the top is usually better because heat rises so that's usually how they make it work if you want to redesign it and move it from one location to the next so that you can save boxing then feel free to do that we actually do a video where i uh drop an hvac line down an interior wall just to bring the heat right to the floor there's tips and tricks in that video that if you search on the youtube home page you'll be able to use that and and relocate all your ducks john has a question thanks jeff for all the tips and tricks giving me the confidence to raise a sunken living room and install new hardwood on one level well i just hope you have enough sealing room for that but that's cool happy to help man uh raising a sunken living room is simple right because when you think about it a floor is just floor joists and plywood so if you want to get rid of a sunken living room just add some new lumber treat them like floor joists and put plywood on it piece of cake nothing to it uh north of 60 joined the membership program welcome cheers to the diy crew matt wants to know if i have any tips and tricks for working with glass subway tile for backsplash best way of cutting without chipping do i need a finished edge yeah the best way to cut glass is with a wetsuit and the best way to have a great look when you're finished is use oversized electrical plates okay they they have like uh king plates or or oversized plates or whatever they're gonna call them in your electrical area so you're gonna have a standard size which doesn't leave a lot of mercy if you have a cut and you get that shattered look right and it deflects the light different and you can see it from the side if you go with the oversized electrical plates all your cuts will look perfect design your backsplash so that you're not finishing with a cut okay on the outside corners and if you have an interior corner that's a great place for a cut because you're usually going to put a bead of silicone on there anyway and that covers a multitude of sin all right um christopher wants to know my wife has concerns living near a natural gas well benzene okay what measure would you take to filter air better or protect the air envelope inside wow okay well you know if it's really a concern move i don't really know um your air quality is going to be related to how much air you have coming into your house so how good is your house seal so you could do an air blower door test and find out if your house is actually sealed up pretty good if not you can seal it up better you can do take measures to get less air coming in passively into your house so that only air that's being filtered comes into your house that's probably the best you can do but um oh my i don't know if you can filter out gas if it's leaking into your house so you might want to consider it's like it's like the guy that moved next to a swamp and he was tighter getting you know bit by mosquitoes so we've tried every different way to fight the mosquitoes and at the end of the day all he had to do was move like it's a thought um love your channel sometimes practical just means being practical right love your channel i'm two months into my first home purchase and i'm 70 done with finishing my basement okay wow hope that works out well for you i usually suggest you wait a year before you do a major project when you buy a new house but um uh you did it all by yourself oh cheers um well thanks man now i'm i'm i'm glad that worked out well i hope it's not a brand new home if the house has been around for a few years at least you're able to diagnose what the problems are with it where are we heading to matt beautiful brad whitaker has a question i'll stay there any tips for laying down linoleum without glue yeah buy the new um linoleum flooring and it actually they make a no adhesive necessary version of it it's a very heavy mat right this stuff is brilliant you can just lay it in place throw on some trims around the room stick a toilet on it and it's never going anywhere telling you right now as long as that's in contact with osb or plywood there's so much friction with that underside of that limit it works amazing you'll never even know it's a floating floor okay so don't even think twice there's no trick roll it up like a scroll okay to put it into the room and then unroll it and then just adjust it a little bit until your one edge is perfect trim around your door trim around your door and keep on rolling and trimming as you go all right that's that's that's the best way to install this stuff it works like a charm and if you over cut somewhere and you make a nasty mess and a big gash all right you can always buy what's called the um like seam binder glue for for linoleum floors they used to use it like they do the whole basement two thousand square feet and they'd have multiple rolls and they'd have a huge seam right down the middle of the room they'd have a seam binder with a semi-gloss finish on it and you can still buy that stuff you can fix your cuts so that it doesn't trap dirt and that stuff is brilliant other than that just use a sharp knife and always cut away from yourself cheers all right another super chat travis is uh jeff i'm looking to buy a large log cabin home to live in possibly in tennessee or colorado do you have any thoughts on log cabins design maintenance or what to look out for you know um wow no not really uh i love the look and the thought the idea of having eight inches of wood it's a great insulator right so they they're very effective they just you've gotta like living inside a log cabin too uh i know lots of people who've taken log cabins and they've modified them over time so the interior space is so small it's not even funny but you know i get the peel i mean it's beautiful right functionality wise solid as rock so i got nothing bad to say about it i think it's probably a better construction style than the way that we're building homes now it's just it uses a lot of material so if that doesn't bother you doesn't bother me so cheers to you all right now john wants to know oh we've already done that one other question my bad my apologies we're having tef and go technical difficulties tonight and my lips don't work today what finish trim or profiles do you remember recommend for a bathroom bathtub tile okay you want to know about finish trim or profiles or for bathroom tile you know for bathroom tile if you're doing a diy tub i love a tile that has a contour on the edges because it helps to hide lippage because most people don't install their drywall and make sure all their walls are perfectly plumb and square and level and true and all that jazz right they just put it on and then tile what's there so if you buy of something with a beveled edge like we used in our kitchen in the farmhouse it covers a multitude of sin that kitchen wall has got a huge bow on it and it goes the other way too but because it's all beveled tile the light's bouncing in every different direction even though there's a ton of lipids you can't see any of it because when you have a good beveled tile and you're not using much of a grout line you can actually polish the grout joints in and the grout joints are so consistent all the lippage disappears so it's a great way to cover a multitude of sins in the tile world that's why subway tiles were so popular back in the first were used because they were all beveled you couldn't make a mistake with that have you tried you really had to go out of your way to mess that up all right um sarah has a question here i'm tiling over my mom's laminate backsplash she'd like me to do the wall behind her stove which is wallboard should i use the same mortar there too or use tile adhesive in that area okay so i'm assuming sarah you're watching our tile over tile video and you're using the ultra ultralight cement and you're using the primer my suggestion if because you've already got the cement if there's enough there to finish the job i'll guarantee you have enough primer to finish the job i would just finish it all the same way that's really my honest opinion on that a because if you're going to have two different surfaces there's going to be the depth of laminate over the drywall you can actually just put the same trowel on the wall and then back butter the tile add a little bit extra cement so that your finish nice and flush okay so i would keep using the cement if you switch to the adhesive you might have to use so much adhesive to build out to make it flush that it's not holding the tile very well and it could cause you some issues and they're going to dry at different rates too so if you use the cement the next day you're ready to go with your grout no worries if you end up using too much adhesive to get it flush you might have to wait three or four days depending on the size your tile for it to finish drying and that could cause you problems if you don't have the patience to to know or wait or whatever right so stick with one material when in doubt cement always works adhesive can run into trouble if it gets too wet during the grout process or the washing process if it hasn't finished curing so cement is always safe and if you got more in the bag i'd stick there okay oh all right matt so shay has a question she owns a condo on the third floor and made of wood very common i can feel the holes in the kitchen near the fridge okay how would you go about fixing it or would you get a contractor okay shea thanks for the question i'm a little confused i'm gonna need you to follow up so you own a condo third floor i get it it's made of wood i need to know what kind of flooring you have in that kitchen and what you mean by i can feel the holes in the kitchen near the fridge was this renovated and did they have like um holes in the floor where plumbing was coming through before and is it the holes translating and the new flooring um we'll get back to that question if you can give us an answer we'll just uh keep following matt if you can keep an eye out for shay's answer there would be great thanks bud okay so lewis wants to know what the proper way to do stub out for pex water supply lines the proper way ah okay so i don't know if you've seen this or not but um pex water supply lines have these uh round plastic brackets and you can actually hook onto the pecs and it locks from both different all three different sides right left right and back to the right left again and what it does is it creates a perfect 90 degrees over four or five inches and you can buy them and they're usually made of plastic or metal and they've got a little bracket on them you can use that to screw to the wall if you use those brackets then you have your water line coming out of the wall parallel to the perpendicular to the wall sorry but also screwed in place and it's guaranteed not to kink that to me is a perfect assembly for bringing pecs out of the wall your other option is put on an angle right put it on a fitting t like a 90 fitting and then add a couple clamps both of those are acceptable there's other options out there you can get as creative as you want but generally that dollar plastic bracket is is just a great way to do it and it keeps it from moving around right so that when you're finished everything can be cut and snug and slid on your cover plates and your shut off valves and nothing's being jiggly everybody gets nervous when the plumbing is moving in out of the wall right so those brackets are great um barbara wants to know um for mr furnace return air i'm going to assume that's a typo my furnace returner is there any reason why i shouldn't put an opening in the duct near the basement floor i think would help draw the hot air down okay so you have a furnace return air shouldn't put an opening in the duct near the basement okay so every return air has a big big trunk and it's racing along the ceiling and then it comes down and then enters the furnace at the bottom of the furnace i get this now if you put an opening at right at the base there you're going to be disrupting the balance and the pressure in the system okay i would hesitate doing that if if you want to have cold air return to the floor i would suggest you add a duct to that cold air return duct further away from the furnace somewhere and then bring it to the floor at least six feet okay and here's why you you when you're operating your furnace and your fan is blowing it creates a suction and if the suction can be satisfied by that hole just right next to it by the most part then you're not going to be pulling cold air out of all the other rooms and when you're pushing air into a room you really want to have the cold air being pulled out of the room at the same time which is why the furnace always starts first before the heat having a nice balanced pressure makes the system work well and if you change the way that the pressure works on that system what you're going to end up doing is you're going to be trying to push air into a room that's already full of air okay and if it's not being pulled out by the suction on the cold air and you're trying to push it in it's like blowing up a balloon you can only get so much air in there before your lungs are ready to explode right so just use that as your concept you're blowing your balloon you're blowing a balloon it's just not getting any bigger and you know you can't heat a space like that so if you upset the balance by changing the the pressure it may not be a good idea so maybe move six feet away from the furnace and drop a new line down so that at least your trunk line is being pulled consistently from the fan and all the lines coming off of it are getting the same kind of respect all right um ryan's got a painting question and listen when i'm answering these questions like i'm not an hvac tech okay i'm just shooting off at the mouth with years of experience and what i have learned if i don't have an answer i will tell you i'm an idiot and i have no idea if you're in the chat and you're an hvac tech feel free to jump in and say oh hey by the way yeah that was good or bad or indifferent or otherwise but i'm open to being corrected because the more i'm corrected the more i learn anyway ryan's painting question any tricks to help paint fully cover laugh and plaster textured wall think one quarter inch knuckle prints first room took two coats and three rounds of touch up and there are still spots with old paint okay so when you're painting and you've got serious texture right you really have to use a different nap roller all right the more texture the thicker the fuzz on the paint roller needs to be right and you want to slow down and you want to back roll so you want to apply it in one direction and then kind of back roll it and take it off in the other direction the best advice that i've got for painting with that kind of situation is paint the entire room with plaster paint the entire room in a flat oil use use like an odorless zinzer as a primer this is one of the only times you need primer like the whole world's obsessed with primer in the paint like they're selling you something they're full of crap there's no such thing as primer in paint it's a marketing tool but on plaster you actually need a primer you need a flat oil that will seal up that wall and then it has to be something that will bond to modern tech which is a water base with acrylic and if you can't make that transition your paint will peel so a good flat oil like an odorless zinzer comes in a green label can all over north america you can't miss it that's going to be your answer you prime it with that and then because you're dealing with oil paint you got to let that dry overnight okay the next day when you paint you apply a coat of paint now you got to give it about two or three hours turn a fan on open windows if it's in the winter time and you can't give it a full six hours or a day let that paint cure let it dry fully remember once you put the oil on it's like a vapor barrier so your new water-based paint is attached to it it's happy to be there they're all best friends but it can't dry except back into the room the wall is not absorbing moisture anymore so if you're only applying water-based paints on drywall products half of the drying is going into the wall the other half goes into the room until the paint's dry and then the wall board slowly releases the moisture back into the room over time with relative humidity so your painting process changes you can't just do a first coat in 30 minutes zip around the room and do another coat because now you're adding wet on wet and you're going to go through a lot of paint when you do that because you're not getting good coverage you just keep putting it on and taking it off and putting it on taking it off it's going to drive you crazy all right so let it dry fully and then paint again slow down your process and be a lot more successful where am i matt can i use this laminate trick on hardwood um yes anything that has a tongue and a groove the same cutting process works okay just cut one inch out of the middle so you've got some room wiggle room for your fingers you can make it two or three inches wide if the board's wide enough i mean i've done this on two and a quarter inch hardwood flooring before you can modify anything especially if you have a multi-tool okay tongues and grooves are a system for installation and if they're in your way you can remove them and then rely on the adhesive as the installation system if that makes any sense they're not a prerequisite they don't have to be there it's just it's just that's how it's all locked together but if you don't want to lie on it you can change your in installation system and go to adhesive and rely on it instead of the tongue and groove okay where are we button welcome robert hernandez to the membership program uh forrest gump wants to know about remove old wires behind an unbroken plaster wall yeah you can't i know like i hear i am preaching hey rip it all out but um if you've got old plaster balls that are not opening until you open it you don't have access don't don't make it a don't make it a mission in life there's no law you're not you're not breaking any rules okay but be as diligent as you can with removing old taking out junk it's just be good to your neighbors right yes always that one guy you open up the ceiling and the whole renovation is in the floor from above and it pours out on your head right if you knew the name of that guy in that moment you would be in his door in his face right we all know it so don't be that guy all right be kind all right trevor wants to know jeff have you ever used expansion connections on pecs what are your thoughts is it true these connections help with the drop in flow associated with using pecs okay two issues there altogether hey um expandable pecs or openorpex is amazing okay it's a great technology and i'm looking at it for the new year but to the best of my knowledge it's still too expensive to buy all the tools to be able to do this system okay it's really for professional trades now um i keep my eyes out and if i ever see anybody start renting this thing on a regular basis and it makes sense i'm going to suggest it but for now it's really it's a tool cost it's like the jam saw 400 bucks just so i can cut the wood around a door really when we used to do tile i used to do contract tile guys i mean i used to do um three five six hundred square feet a day and our job was made incredibly easy with that tool it was necessary the first thing we'd do we'd go in we'd lay out the tile we know the thickness we'd cut all the doors then we'd clean up we never had another problem for the rest of the install it was done six seven doors just got it done takes three minutes but the average person isn't buying that tool same with the supernorpex okay still too specialized with technology now as far as the drop in flow associated with using pegs i always get a kick out of this because i don't know if this is a mythology mythology or if this is a real question whoever said there's a drop in flow like is this just talk we all just accepted this because i know one thing when you talk about a shower right the smallest hole in the shower system is not the pecs it's the cartridge in the shower that's got the smallest hole in it it's really tiny and so if you want to talk about where's the drop in the flow sometimes it's just the whole i went from an old system to a new system and understand that all new shower systems are being designed to save and conserve water all right they're not designed to let that water come through the system they've got filter screens and reducers and air and filters infiltration systems and they're trying all the things they can do to make you feel like you're having a shower from the 1980s but in reality they're giving you a third of the water that you used to get so be careful with that because i don't think pex has got a problem i'll tell you what right now if you've got your pecs and you've got it capped and you got your pressure on if you want to know what your flow is like okay take your pex cutter while your water is on and cut it off and see how long it takes to fill a pail of water and see if the person that's with you watching you do that can get to the main shutoff in time and turn it off before you flood out your house because that'll tell you how much flow you got i'm thinking you're going to be pretty surprised if you've ever cut a water line that made of pex you know how much flow there is i don't think that's your issue now shae i see shae matt's got his hand up yeah just real quick uh we're five minutes past that hour mark okay just so you know and uh we're doing a four hour show we did doing two hours no we're doing two hour show today yeah we're gonna run a little late because we sure got started late all right you know i'm gonna get all the sleep i need when i'm dead all right so um so okay let's get to kyle kyle's got a question his master bath has water lines coming through the floor and drain through the exterior wall can the water lines be moved into the wall um okay you're in the midwest here's the deal water lines if you have freezing temperatures you want to have them on the inside of a vapor barrier system if you're using one i like interior walls for water water supply supply for the following reason if you ever get a mouse in that house and it eats a tunnel in your insulation that's all it takes for the cold air to then be blowing right on the water supply all it takes is a good uh what's your scale maybe minus 15 maybe minus 10 kind of weather if you get nice like that your plumbing be frozen in the morning guaranteed and you can thank your local rodent so you're taking a risk by going to an exterior wall no matter what because you can't control all of the factors that are at play there so if you're going to do it use a an air barrier on the wall where you're running your plumbing it's right so the drafts can't blow fearlessly at your waterline and that'll help to minimize or mitigate your risk but i would always prefer to go interior just me i'd sooner build a box in a corner of a living room and run my plumbing in it before i tried to shove it inside of a stud ball cavity and but it's got to be on the warm side of the room regardless right never insulate some plumbing except from the outside okay let's go back to shae the shea has linoleum floors their peel and stick covers the kitchen floor my condo okay i can feel holes or dips in the floor when we walk near the fridge okay so shea here's the deal the hole that you might be feeling it may not be an actual hole through the whole floor there's a lot of guys out there who cut corners when they're doing um flooring and instead of buying the proper subfloor which is incredibly smooth linoleum floors like for sheet goods we have a rule it's got to be a certain grade and it's got to be flawless right it's going to be like a sheet of glass almost and we staple it down and we use a special compound and we fill staple holes and nooks and crannies and gaps because we want to have it sanded and perfectly flat because sheet good linoleum that gets put on with adhesive translates those depths and those bumps now if they used standard plywood there's going to be a bunch of little holes in it or sometimes it's like eye shaped holes okay and those are just there's laminated layers of plywood and the knot from the tree popped out and it was glued down now it's just left the impression like a dimple all right it's about um about a sixteenth of an inch thick but over time when you walk you're putting pressure on the flooring and it starts to translate that's what it calls where now you can see these dents in the floor and they're always trapping dirt if it's a peel and stick then you can peel it off and they do sell a floor patching compound at the local building store or your your local box store convenience store for construction and you can just take a putty knife and fill it in and wait till it's dry and then you can install a brand new tile again okay and that will just basically it's like a little miniature floor leveling system just for imprints and dents and that'll solve your problem so cheers you're you're back in the running um [Laughter] encyclopedia of building knowledge really eh yeah six pages thick ball come on really all right um abby has a question he's got a water softener system that came with the house well that's a good thing i'm not sure if it works the salt tub is empty i don't want to break anything but would love to try it any ideas how to proceed well if the cell tub is empty you're not softening nothing so i'd put some salt in there first off um if you're not sure if it's working what you can do is you can contact a local plumbing company that specializes in water purification systems and you can look through your your your phone book or online google it but there'll be somebody that advertises will come up and do a free water test or free water analysis okay and they'll be able to tell you um if your water is hard or soft that's a simple sliding scale it's not trickery uh and then from there you can decide if it's good enough the way it is or if you think it's necessary to pay for an improvement they can give you all kinds of options it really all depends on how good and how safe you want your water to be where do you live are you on a well are you in a city are you in an old industrialized city with really old water lines sometimes it pays to put good money into the filtration of your water system so that you can have confidence that you're not poisoning yourself to death um and that's not slight to anybody who's going through hell with their water supply it's just the truth got to be practical okay water it can leave the treatment center clean and end up in your glass poisonous so if you're concerned get it tested my god it's so easy to do i mean it's not like we got like when you turn 40 and you got to go see the doctor and he's got to do the rubber glove it's just a water test guys go get it done take care of your families my god all right now let's go to the next one uh we got a question here what is the deal with installing the drain in your garage in ottawa i don't know what the deal is building a new house and the builder told me they won't do it can it be diy later purpose is to wash cars in the wintertime wow okay um i'm going to suggest that's not a good plan hey you've got to have water supply in your garage in ottawa in the winter time and it's cold here like did you go out for a walk this morning it was what -16 if you have a garage and you want to have it turned into a car wash in this climate you have to insulate the walls the ceiling the floors and then put in plumbing and then where's your drain going to go it's got to go back into the house so you got to bust through the foundation of the wall of the house in order to put that drain in there's no building code for it if you want it and your builder won't do it and you really really want it then go pay for an engineer to drop the specs to build that system okay because if the builder isn't going to do it then you've got to give an engine report so he's off the hook but i guess it could be done but you got a lot of systems to overcome there and i don't know if you're going to be really satisfied trying to save that 12 a week at the gas station drive-through car wash it's going to cost you tens of thousands to put that car wash in there really is up to you rodney i only have one question tonight okay rodney it's your turn man here we go please confirm the underlay underpad for vinyl plank flora under corner website is the one you recommend in your video okay so yes it is one of the ones i would use okay perfectly happy with that the first underlay i did in my kitchen came from the corner people it was the green one now the product might change the color might change the supplier might change but there is a certain level of quality in an underpad for vinyl and laminate floors that has an awesome sound transmission sound transmission ability to dampen the sound and reduce impact noise and it's really dense okay so like you you know when you touch it it's like it kind of just it slaps you in the face dense so there's also another one out there um goodfellow goodfellow makes one there's a there's there's a couple of other underpads if you google for flooring supply wholesalers in your area and you give them a call and say hey what do you got for an underpad for under my laminate floors in a condominium then they're going to have two or three choices for you all of those will work one of them is felt don't use it but as long as it's a dense foam you're fine to go with that the point is is that that dense foam does not interrupt with the locking system on the joints and it gives you a great performance bam okay where are we matt roy roy has got a question when working with pecs is it preferable crimping or clamping okay um yeah this is my own fault when we started this channel i did videos on both right we weren't sure who our audience was or where we wanted to land now guys they both work i'll just say that i've used them both over my career they both work they both last a long time it's not a concern the the solid rings have a much lower failure rate immediately after installation okay the clamps they don't always grab just right and so what you'll find is if you don't do pressure test and and really like i mean for a while like a couple of hours of pressure testing you aren't going to identify which one is going to pop off on you you won't know until two months down the road after the project's finished they start using the place and then there's a wet corner because there's a little drip that little drip becomes a big problem so that's where we ran into problems with the crimps okay so the solid ring is the best the the other one it's like it's like a pinch clamp it works but you really got to pressure test your lines abundantly before you close okay like we talked today the process before you hang drywall pressure test for hours find something when you're wiring your house your plumbing's done turn the water on pressurize the lines right maybe for a whole couple of days while you're doing your electrical make sure that sucker works before you close it up and or you can just go with the solid rings and you don't have to think about it if you put the solid ring in the right place and you fully close that clamp you don't think it's done finished don't have to don't even have to test it if you ask me but i would suggest you test it anyway but i'm just saying there's a lot more peace of mind with that other product now where can i buy soundproofing materials in canada uh your recommended website does not ship to canada i'm looking for mlv resilient channel stud clips with rubber leg in your video okay so if you want some good resilient channel clips then you need to google for a um a commercial drywall and soundproof material supplier in your area all right in ottawa there is one in the south end of town oh i can't remember my brain's almost fried uh something brothers moren brothers yeah the moran brothers all right um anybody can walk in off the street over there they've got a showroom you just walk in okay and they've got a box there and they've got those clips and you can buy all your soundproofing products they don't carry mass loaded vinyl that's a product that's not even in this country now what we do have is we have a different product oh boy maddie i'm gonna get myself in trouble here now gotta remember the other product now it's a green board they just started carrying it at home depot in canada okay sonapan boom boom sonopan is the name now sonapan is a fabulous product i've used it for years but they had a distribution nightmare issue to deal with they just couldn't get their product out of eastern ontario you know no matter what they did there was just no market for it but finally it looks like they're getting covered by home depot and maybe even lowe's more across the board in canada it's an amazing product it absolutely outperforms mass loaded vinyl yeah it's better it's also half an inch thick and it comes in four by eight sheets it's a rigid board easy to work with doesn't make dust when you're installing it you can screw it to floor joists and then just screw your drywall right over top bam how would you like me now so we're probably gonna have to do a video with using that stuff from our next project um i would endorse it but you know hey i don't get paid to do things like that so i just tell you the truth it's great stuff and it'll solve your problem so s-o-n-o-p-a-n uh call your local home depot ask if they got it if they don't it's part of their supply chain they should be able to special order it for you it's worth it all right just order it like you would drywall measure off this total square footage get an extra sheet if you're doing a large space in case you're cutting around stuff but yeah definitely worth it right no so cheers scott that'll uh that'll save your bacon it's easier to work with it's lighter and it probably costs the same or maybe even a little less so feel free to go that way you can put that stuff on all right then your resilient clips you don't even need the rubber you can buy cheap clips get the 50 cent clips instead of the three dollar ones because since it's been disengaged from the wood there's no direct transfer you can throw a couple screws in that and then attach your drywall you're going to get an amazing um uh sound rating on that i don't even know what it is i bet they have that information on the website go ahead and check it out i'm sure they've got some information on their other their sound transfer classification scott is this the same scott yeah buying a 1920 farmhouse with added room in 2002 wall leans a half inch to the bottom i'm gonna guess to five inches over eight feet between new and old room okay poor level or square wall or foundation issues possible you're asking me i'm going to put a wager that somebody had a concrete patio on the back of the house and they first had a patio and then somebody went and said you know what let's put a roof over that patio and then someone said you know let's let's make it a screened-in porch and they walled it in and then someone said you know what let's make this a three-season room and then somebody said you know what let's just uh let's just make this an addition and all they did was put windows in and call it a day well you can't build an addition on a patio concrete foundation because it's not structural concrete there's no footings and so yeah things are going to change based on soil conditions there's a lot more weight going on there so that's probably what you got there are tens of thousands of additions all right that are diy and there's more dyi they've done themselves in all right um so be real hesitant with that when you're buying a house always check was there a permit pulled for this project i know it's like a broken record right um but it's worth the tasks because you're gonna incorporate or you know you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna be getting somebody else's crap right there's no way to fix that because whatever you put in there is still on a bad foundation that's disappointing i know you can fix it for a season but uh yeah have fun with that maybe the best thing to do is just create a new uh subfloor sleeper system so you can go from zero to hero and then put in some plywood at least have a level floor for a while until it moves again but uh you're pretty much guaranteed to more of the same over time so you can fix it for 5 10 20 years but it'll just keep on moving all right matt where are we north of 60 do you need underlay for vinyl if it's already built into the vinyl yeah no none of it's really good um to be honest with you i haven't seen any really good built-in underlays on vinyl yet i've seen really poor attempts to call themselves underlay on vinyl but none of them have a really good qualification for sound transfer all right if you're not sure what to do i'm going to give a shout out here to floor and decor there are building stores all over the all over the country they got some really cool displays over there and they have a like a golf ball on a string and they got three different kinds of of underlay under the same kind of flooring and you just do a little test and you can hear the difference it's like night and day all right just go to the store invest five minutes pop into the store say jeff sent me i'm going to do the golf ball test i want to know and you will be amazed at the difference in a quality underlay versus the crap they're trying to pass off as an underlay all right so if you're going to spend good money on flooring don't spend even better money because as an underlay unless the underlay is of good quality just saying right okay it's like buying a car it's got an amazing engine and it's got no windshield like how fast did you really want to drive uh shay sent us some love cheers ah cheers i'm so there you go so i probably hit the nail on the head i bet you've got that um the eye kind of hole right it's a little more oval and you were like that's the hole in my floor so that's probably it very cool you can do that shae i know you can do it and uh you're gonna be just fine all right so james got a question i got i also have a drain in my garage floor though not sure if it even goes anywhere because i've never put water down it looks like a doi project from the previous owner and it might be james you might just have somebody who put a hole in their floor and put a drain cover on it don't forget most garages um the foundation of the house is poured to the point where there's an interior foundation wall and an exterior garage wall and they just back fill it with clear stone the clear stone yeah so the thought is can i just drain it into you know a little bit of water going in there isn't going to hurt anything okay but that system is not designed to evacuate that water so you'll end up filling it up to the point especially if you're washing your car every week because you're like taking care of your baby you know if you put too much water down there now it's sitting against the foundation on the interior of the house and it's going to work its way through underneath the wall because they pour the footing and then they attach a wall there's a weak spot and so now you're introducing water that's not designed to be there and if it's a newer house you're going to have a completely waterproof foundation and you're going to be the source of your own problem if you put a drain in a garage run it to the weeping tile at least right it doesn't have to come back into the house but yeah if you james if you got one of those it's probably just you know hey uh i come in with my car it's got some snow on it um it's not too bad and the garage usually a little warmer so the snow melts and then it's nice to have the water drain somewhere so i can see people doing that and over time a little bit of water going in a hole in a garage floor will not cause a problem all things are relative and humidity especially is relative the stone can get wet and it'll transfer the moisture to the rest of the stone all the concrete concrete is exposed to air it moves it's not a big issue but if you're going to go past that line of passive or occasional into regular water and gallons and gallons you're going to run into trouble i'm lost where are we dude okay is it true that new construction is easier to maintain versus old construction i have a 1950s house but everything is a pain to restore laughing plaster etc maintain it's easier to renovate i don't know if it's a maintenance question like if it's a 1950s house it's already gone 70 years so it is a pain dealing with laughing plaster but you know we really have we we've we've compromised longevity for convenience with our building techniques we've really gone from like a thousand years ago they built things to last a thousand years okay 200 years ago they built things the last 200 years now we build things the last 50 to 100. it's a little it's a little unnerving now for for most of the people on the planet they all think that things about to go up in a great big fireball anyway so who cares how long your house lasts right but yeah it's true um i would say that uh the the further we get away along in technology we're using technology to make things easier and faster and more convenient we're not necessarily making them better that made any sense so aspects of it yeah our technology has made construction better but sometimes you know like at the end of the day how good is drywall it's kind of like really not a great product in a lot of weather okay let's move on i could just rant about stuff like that all day long um darius wants to know if i recommend attic foil with holes to keep heat in and stop heat loss in the winter and trap heat in the house in the summer wow okay so i'm not exactly familiar with your product areas i'm assuming you wow yeah that seems really backwards so in an attic what we want to do is we want to have fresh air we want to have enough air going into an attic that we're actually exchanging the air in the attic so that as it heats up it's it's removed okay so in the winter time the the air that escapes our insulation envelope of the building let's call it a flat and then you have a a t or sorry a frame roof so we have installation barrier all the all the heat that does eventually escape okay it's gone already because it's outside of the insulation barrier so whether it's in the attic or outside of the attic it doesn't make a difference it's already left the insulation barrier so there's no damage there now in the summertime the heat that gets so that building up in the attic is from the sun from the temperature outside so having fresh air is really important we don't want to keep any heat in there i don't know the value of foil i know that there is a certain value for foil in in southern climates with a lot of sun for reflecting a certain type of rays from the sun it's not really my technology my expertise is not there i would suggest maybe check out the channel by matt rizinger he might have information down there on that because he's from texas and he's always playing around with the newest technology in building if you have a particular product you're thinking about then research them on google and go through all their technology and all their claims to fame and then you can make an intelligent decision there but when it comes down to it if you're doing it yourself you got to make your own decision you're your own best advocate right if you're going to be working with a contractor and you guys have a difference of opinion on something then he's going to be able to back it up with more than i think so or i've always done it this way because there's a lot of guys out there who've done it this way their whole life who do it wrong so don't take i've always done it this way as an excuse for them being lazy and not doing research all right but that's not something that we use in our building up here so i'm a little unfamiliar sorry i can't help you more than that okay all right so we got a 12 by eight ducks in my basement workshop 12 by eight yeah okay that's the trunk if i hit my head on those one more time can i replace a smaller round ducting no no if you have a 12 by 8 it's because there's a volume of air passing the only thing you can do with a 12 by 8 all right is change it to a 24 by 4. so you can go with a much wider skinnier duct and get more head space all right and changing to round robe ain't going to help you up because it's it's the volume it'll actually make the bottom even lower but you can go with a flatter duckline they do not have any of that product in the box stores so you're gonna have to go to professional duck supply and i would probably suggest that you contact somebody in the professional ducting world who can maybe even contract that for you or at least point you in the right direction if you bring in your current duck size and you go to the supplier they might on a not busy day take the time to help you um discuss what the transition is or they might even have a caller for the transition i'm not exactly sure but the product does exist i've seen it installed on a few occasions i just never have sourced that out myself so i'm not sure the purchasing situation but like in ottawa we have a place called boone plumbing and they do plumbing and hvac supply for the commercial side as well and in commercial applications you'll see this sometimes but lots of old houses that have only got seven foot ceilings have gone to that kind of ducting so that you can have an actual head room space right because we do have code requirements for 78 inches of clearance in doorways and stuff and sometimes those ducts have to be made flat and wide in order to accommodate that so the technology does exist it is on the shelf you might be lucky and get a solution that isn't painful at all to do all right cheers um what's the proper way to do a water supply stub out i've already done that question phone died don't know if it was answered here's the secret just go back to the youtube channel and watch the video again all right next question uh all my basement doors are anywhere from one and a quarter to one and three quarter off the carpeting off the floor yeah wood doors are not solid can i add to the bottom of the doors and make it look okay all right scott now here we go here's a brilliant question so you've got carpet in the basement and all your doors have got gaps underneath them of one and a quarter to one and three quarters the question you need to ask yourself is when they renovated that basement and all these doors and all these rooms do you have cold air return in each of those rooms okay if you don't have cold air return in each of those rooms we have the same issue you can't push air in if you can't have the air pulled out so those doors might be cut like in the old days remember the old houses the red bricks the victorian century homes they all had something in common at the bottom of the stairs right by the front door there's a great big steel grate and that was the cold air return and what those houses used was cold every turn ducked in the basement but the staircase was the cold air system and every door in every room was cut about an inch and a half to two inches off the floor to allow the air to be pushed out when it was blown into the room and so that was the negative passive kind of pressure release the staircase and the gaps under the doors and as soon as you change that you you disturb the balance of your heating system and all kinds of people who remodeled their house and older houses right and they didn't have cold air in the bedroom and so they put in a new door and they got nice and flush it looks great but now they're freezing to death in their bedroom because they can't push heat into a room because the air can't escape so think twice about aesthetics over function all right you might not like the look but it might be required because you don't have cold air return i don't see too many people putting cold air return in every room in a basement so usually there's only one and it's usually in the mechanical room and so every door in that basement has got to have gap underneath there to allow for about a four inch round duct worth of cold air pipe now if you flatten that out it really quickly becomes 30 inches by inch inch and a half okay that's kind of standard so be careful you don't fix one problem and create another one travis peyton jeff i'm looking to buy a large log cabin home to live in didn't we already go through that so why are we here that's the highlighted question you got to read oh i want wha we're back at seven o'clock is anybody watching the show anymore matt yeah we got 420 people okay wow maybe we can get more current with the questions yeah let's just stay down here in the in the current area all right because the people who are at the beginning of the show might not be here anymore so i'm not answering them anything um you know if you want your answer you gotta you gotta stay watch what what is the preferred sequence for installing trim now listen folks have you asked a question a while ago we're answering questions uh they've been typed in the last two minutes so feel free to put your question in again it's just a lot easier for us to stay current in this chat than be bouncing all over the place looking for really good questions um it's really not a concern about the quality of the question right if it's a question it needs to be answered because like the last guy was going to change his doors for aesthetics and he might have been wrecking the whole balance of his heating and cooling system so he could have ended up creating a whole mold environment in his basement just because he wanted his doors to look better so it's it's potentially you know what one thing one question you might think is silly or dumb it could be really important all right so feel free to ask them okay here we go what is the preferred sequence for installing trim for example fastening caulking all right the preferred sequence is paint all your trim first okay now you've got options you can use adhesive plus a couple of brad nails so you can reduce the amount of holes you got to fill right you want to glue wood trim to wood trim on the on the miter joints if you've got to expose fresh wood touching expose fresh wood glue it once you're done that then you all your gaps right and then and then when you're when you're all done with all that then you give it one more finished coat of paint all right filling the holes and doing a little sanding is necessary if you're doing holes i like using 45 minute drywall compound because it gets done quick and hurry but there is a product on the market called dap and it goes on pink and it dries white and if you put a little bit more than you need you can sand it back to flush and then you got to prime it and then it takes two coats it's a bit of a pain but it will work but it always flashes so it takes a lot of prep work right you got to prime it and paint it and paint it that's why i use the 45 because on a nail hole 45 minute mud i sand it i can hit it with paint one time and i never see it again except um in february uh late in the afternoon but i you know you got to learn how to live with it february late in the afternoons allows you for everything in the house don't ever sell your house february late in the afternoon people walk through the house all these scenes are disastrous it's beautiful the rest of the year but the way that sun sits so low in the sky just everything that you've ever done looks like junk all right the chicken is asking me we have we have a member called the chicken how cool is that i have a 100 year old home and live on a flood plain it's the only option to protect the basement from water a french drain or will a sump pump help too okay [Applause] um your basement needs a sump pump if you have a french drain it's going to be going to a sump pump so a sump pump is part of your solution depending on the severity of the situation you're dealing with and your drainage and your soil conditions and all that other kind of jazz you might find that a sump pump is enough to solve your problem if it's not and you still have water coming through your walls or over your window sills then adding the french drain and putting that waterproof membrane right up to your sill plate is going to be necessary only you can answer that question but you got to start with a sump pump because that's installed so that groundwater that's building up okay can be evacuated so that it never puts pressure on your concrete slab and starts cracking and pushing through so getting that water not in direct contact with your slab is really important for the environment in the air because most likely it's not sealed right it doesn't have a barrier's tool so that's what i'm going to suggest 100 year old home it's all about maintenance it's a cellar it's not a storage room okay you can maintain that really well the other suggestion for 100 year old basements is to spray paint the odorless zinzer on the ceiling floor joists and and beams okay you vapor proof the entire floor to stop the transfer of high humidity in the basement into the rest of the house it'll slow down the development of rot in all your floor joist package and it'll slow down the constant caving in of the floor as well that's just that's a cheap way to give you some really good protection so between the two of those things you should be just fine ahmed wants to know to maximize soundproofing in his basement you mentioned to get rid of ceiling heating can i run my ducks in the walls or should i get rid of duct taping altogether yeah that was a video it was kind of tongue-in-cheek people took me a little too serious on that one um depending on what you're doing in your room right like if you're creating the cone of silence then you can get rid of the ducks in your room in the ceiling and you can go with electric floor heat and that way you can heat it but you can't air condition in the summer time very well so you got to be real careful so we got was that a super chat that i missed there okay so we're taking care of that next question yep yep okay or go back to it i don't think we did no it's similar but not the same okay james uh is it a bad idea to install a vent fan in my roof to evacuate the hot air in the attic during the summer i have soffits and ridge vents but would it benefit me to get it out any faster ah brilliant question um generally the rule is if every other soffit allows fresh air into your attic and you protect it so that it's not filled up with insulation then you have enough air okay if if you have that and you have a ridge vent you have enough air transfer there that you're exchanging it you should be just fine i don't think investing in any more is really a big concern one thing you might want to do is check your soffit and make sure that they're all drilled out i don't know how old your house is or but if you were to uh if you had a way to check if you take off your your your um your fascia no sorry take off your soffit your aluminum and have a look and see is it open is it um is it uh is it a little trough and it's got the mesh stapled on there um is it behind the soffit when you take off your aluminum cover are there three holes drilled in a solid wood and the next piece doesn't have holes and if that's the case then make sure all of your soffits have holes drilled into them it's clearly depends on the age of the home honestly if you became a member you'd be able to send me pictures of what you're dealing with and i could advise you better but here's the deal the heat in the attic really only relates to the lifespan of your shingle it's really the only thing that's affected so you have good ventilation to have better ventilation means you don't change your shingles as often so if you buy a new 50 or architectural shingle on the market and you're in the south and you got a lot of heat you're only going to get 25 years out of it understand that you're buying a 25 year roof okay if you switch over to metal you can get 50 but it's twice as expensive so right you're kind of six and one half dozen the other if you identify the fact that you've got poor circulation and you you don't have enough soffit ventilation going on and you could improve it you might say well listen i'm changing my roof every 15 years well then that's a sure sign that you don't have good ventilation but only if you've got a good quality shingle again so there is some uh there are some guys out there who can actually come and test and take the temperature reading in your attic and there are charts out there that'll tell you um at what point you're gone too far so feel free to go and do that kind of research but to take anecdotal evidence going wow it's really hot up here maybe we should put in some more ventilation might not be the best plant all right ace wants to know should i insulate my ducting if i insulated the crawl space too i'm in seattle i got bubble wrap but i have to do an air barrier with which seems like a pain okay so you've got a crawl space and you've insulated the crawl space and then you've got a heat duct running to a room in that extension of the house and you want to know should i insulate that heat duct no the answer is you should be adding heat to the crawl space treat it like a room have heat on one side and a cold air returned on the other so you're actually exchanging the air in that space all right if you have any failure in that system and you're you're exchanging air it keeps it dry first of all but it'll keep it warm so that your other pipe isn't freezing up right if you run hot air through a cold room you're gonna have a problem insulating it isn't the solution because if it's too cold that your hot air is getting cold that means a you maybe you don't have enough insulation but insulation only works with a heat source so you got to blow in hot air and if you blow in hot air then you're also making the floor worm and it kills the draft in that room and it'll make everything a lot more environmentally friendly but all the heat that's in that room is going to it's going to rise because you're insulated so your your your crawl space and your living space that's one space separated by a floor but the heat passes through it okay and so heat is a lot a lot more um uh it it wants to rise more than it wants to go out the insulated wall okay so it's going to pass through the floor and then eventually end up in the other room anyway so it becomes part of the warming system of that room and you're going to find it's a massive benefit to keep that crawl space heated even if it's not 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flooring or do i have to use a special one made for that okay mark i know what you're talking about different companies have got different requirements right everybody's got their warranty oh here's our specifications for warranty so last year home depot had life-proof flooring you're not allowed to use an underpad no warranty if you break the law fire and it was just like who do you think you are like you're gonna say no underpad with your product because you haven't taken the time to research what the best way to install your product is like that's just ignorant um sure enough everybody i'd say go get an underpad for lifeproof if you're going to use it you need it you need the sound deadening or otherwise it's just a really poor install and you're going to be unhappy you need to you need to be able to separate the floor from the plywood in case there's dirt or chunks or because it doesn't translate oh but and they ran into all kinds of problems because they didn't take my advice so now what do they got lifeproof now has a recommended underlay i'm telling you right now if you make your decisions based on what the box stores products are and their warranty claims you're really ill-informed all right let's put some value on the warranties first of all all right if a company like lifeproof says here's a warranty on this floor don't use an underlay and so use your wildest imagination you get a flood is your floor warrantied no there's no warranty if you fled even though it's waterproof there's no warranty if your house catches on fire no warranty um your kid plays with a chainsaw no warranty what on earth could possibly be the scenario that you have a warranty claim against lifeproof flooring that the presence or no presence of the underlay could possibly affect it and the only thing is is the joint going to separate right that's the only thing you could and i'm telling you right now you can take a hammer to two planks on a good underlay you'll never separate that joint a good quality underlay is a very dense foam all right it's not very thick and it's very dense and if anybody out there is like well we can't do it no we can't have an underlay i'm telling you right now take that thinking and throw it in the garbage go and try it yourself go get yourself a little piece of underlay grab some flooring and see what effort it takes to split that apart watch that video that i did where i showed the demonstration of the best vinyl floors on the market i wasn't trying to say that the one i got from the corner is the best i'm trying to say that there's a certain type of quality out there that's not being delivered in the box stores all right and that was the point of the video i don't care where you buy your vinyl floor you can support us by shopping through our affiliates or you can buy something local get it faster and maybe even cheaper the point is make sure you're buying good quality don't pay for crap that you're not getting any benefit from just because it's the most expensive thing in the box right i'm going to come up with this new slogan matthew you ready for this think outside the box store [Laughter] right like can we all just stop and go there's a hundred options for everything on that shelf that other people are selling and maybe just maybe i'm being ripped off by not being educated just saying i'm ranting again but oh god it drives me nuts okay sometimes i feel like jesus driving all the money changers out of the temple right okay um well there's a reference and you're not going to hear every day all right oh uh we have the element penguin this is so creative you guys are going to have to come up with some of the craziest names so when i do my live show i just start slaying myself in laughter how should i join two parts of baseboard trim along a wall at a 45 or a 90. hmm first question you're going to ask yourself is how good is your saw right and how good is your wall um because when you put two pieces of wood cut 90 against each other and you push against the wall if you if you test it first right is it flush there's your answer uh all walls have comings and goings and moving and so the wood is coming different directions you're going to find that if you're going to 45 or even a 22 and a half it doesn't have to be 45 it gives you the little bit of room so that you can you can pull them apart if there's discrepancies just a hair and then you can use filler and sand it clean okay generally speaking it's more effective but depending on the quality of carpentry you're doing i would say that the majority of new home construction is going in butt joint with glue all right and that works fine if you butt jointed and glue it and you just sand that joint after the glue is dried up you're going to have a nice smooth transition no one's ever going to see it seven minutes seven minutes to go all right matt's got me on a timer here i got to finish a quarter after all right all right well we still got 400 people watching so there's only 296 thumbs up there's 400 people watching all right challenge if you're watching this video right now hit the thumbs up button like that is just wrong yeah yeah hit it smash it bam bam bam bam all right um john hey jeff i have a metal lifetime roof okay good for you bet it's not gonna last a lifetime um unless you're really old snow never piles up more than one inch okay how can i protect doorways from clearing right on someone's head oh well dude yeah john they got some great technology out there um it's for the the slide right so they've got little brackets and they screw to the roof and if it's not enough you can even add a thin rail okay um the other thing you can do is just put an eavestrough and uh just drop in a heating cable right there at the end and it'll just melt it all and drain it away so there's a couple options but if you contact the guys that installed your roof like honestly they should have tried to upsell you on that already right but there's just snow breaks and what it does is it just it keeps it from sliding down it'll bunch up it'll melt it'll drip and all that and it's always inconvenient right and so if you're if your snow isn't gathering and it's metal then the sun depending on the temperature where you live can really make it just rain all the time on you get an eavesdrop and solve it caitlyn we have a schluter pan with hardy backer walls with red guard is it better for a double two by four curb or should we order a schluter curb love the videos ah okay caitlin experience talking are you ready for this by the schluter curb i don't care what kind of wood you introduce to your shower area okay it is more prone to swell for a lot of different reasons and then create cracks in your waterproofing system okay even from even from leaks from a sink next to the curb getting underneath your tile listen to me carefully do not play around with anything that can expand and contract when it comes to your waterproofing system use only materials that will not expand and contract as a part of a waterproofing system and the discussion right now yeah good order the damn curb um if and if it takes too long to get it if you've got a floor in the corner you can get it from them and if they don't you can do your google search for your flooring supplies um wholesaler and different wholesalers or schluter distributors some tile companies or schluter distributors they might have it in stock or they can get it really quick for you um but yeah don't don't move forward without it okay even if you got to take a whole week off the project trust me on this last thing you want to do is introduce something that can expand cause cracks make a leak and then all that investment all that energy for nothing so don't do it okay uh part of jeff unfiltered all right think outside the box stewart can i place the electrical and plumbing outlets from my refrigerator okay hold on let me slow down i gotta think here now can i place the electrical and plumbing from my refrigerator inside an old unused chimney as long as it has substrate to be attached to okay so first of all plumbing and electrical really the only thing you've got to do with plumbing is make sure that you're not subjecting it to freezing temperatures and you want to keep it from moving around if it's copper you don't want it vibrating so you need clips all right electrical needs to be uh attached to something every five feet or so according to code so but you can use a chimney as a chase and it's completely acceptable to staple at each end as it comes in and out i can't see that being a problem [Music] not sure refrigerate inside an old chimney okay yeah i mean it just becomes like a great big conduit pipe really is what happens so i can't see that being a problem the only issue i might have is chimneys and stone stones very abrasive and so make sure that your your your lines aren't like um tight on the edge because there's always going to be movement and vibration and that's just a fact of life things have like a a frequency they're always moving when when water and electrical is moving there's always vibration and so you could end up cutting through the lines which is something you want to be careful of so if you're going in and out of a chimney uh maybe something as simple as just um putting a piece of unused underpad at the edge and taping it on or something okay but be careful with that have you ever done a video of basic tools everyone should have yes i did it's in the tool library of our live videos they're power tools so i haven't done hand tools yet but we should get to that matt write that one down it's definitely time for some basic hand tools kind of yeah love that idea thank you for that cheers that's so rude of me to say cheers not have a sec okay where are we whatever happened to the house fire walk-through video oh litigation we had to take it down yeah the you know the people that had the fire we just weren't keen about having that video up so we took it in it's a that's that's that's too bad if any no to anybody who lives in the ottawa area if your house burns to the ground please call me i'd love to come by and film there's a lot we can learn from something like that um it's kind of like giving your body away to science after you're dead but i mean seriously i would jump at the opportunity to film an actual post-disaster event so leave that in the back of your mind and do it what you want all right uh is that good are we there 1920s home has no sheathing only the studs are connected to the wood siding okay i'm at the stage of adding insulation i'm in zone three oh man zone three is is one south and then it's going north so one is like miami two is the rest of florida three is like georgia i'm thinking okay so um so deborah if i have that right i'm a little tired slide back up there so i can read through that question a little bit more whoa i'm getting vertigo okay so you got no sheathing yeah the the the siding on that house is probably going to be in two layers i'm guessing there's going to be a first layer siding and then a second layer of siding that's very standard 1920s they might have been cheating there might only be one layer of siding it is also the sheathing okay that siding was actually installed to add stability so things didn't twist it okay so that's what it's doing matt please where's the question leave it there thank you um and and blah blah blah connect with what's signing something okay what kind of installation should you get zone three installation it should be like fiberglass with like a paper backing on it all right but you do have to be very careful installing it because it's very easy to leave gaps okay so um but that's what you need you don't need a barrier in zone three if i'm right about zone three being around georgia all right think of it this way the way you answer this question is with vapor barrier you don't need it until you go far enough north that you have heat on more time during the year than air conditioning that's kind of the basic answer to the question okay and there's gonna be building code rules and different zones in different cities and states so really pay attention that maybe do a quick google search but you know what we should have here matt i would love to have a a chart on the wall with like all the different zones on it just for reference to help deal with these questions that'd be a great that'd be a great tool for me all right um okay so yeah tina's going tina michelle says i gotta go to floor and decor again they're gonna be putting new flooring in the house uh cheap laminate floating floors they have right 12 years old that's just that's not fair there is really good quality floors that'll last 30 to 50 years out there for the same price as laminate if you spend an extra buck a square foot so don't buy the 10 to 12 year stuff folks um you know last time we were down in florida and i think i'm going to end it the questions there yeah no more questions almost 400 likes yeah come on guys we can do more than that we need six more give me six more likes we'll go over 400 i'll tell you a story so we were in down in florida and we stayed there last year for a couple months which was like the most amazing break we've ever had and i love the hospitality of floridians guys are awesome and for a guy like me going down there and not wearing a parka wow how cool was that there we go see all i can do is ask matt all right so give me 10 more 10 more likes [Laughter] after you do this i love it all right so we're down there in florida and we rented this place so it was a beautiful facility it had a great layout it was two stories it was like um literally six houses on a sandy walkway to the beach it was beautiful these folks renovated that house did a great job with the decoration the decor the layout but they used laminate floor everywhere and all of the cabinetry the kitchens the bath everything was installed on top of this laminate floor and i'm just i'm looking at this i'm like this is only two years old i knew and i could already see all the damage around the doors the gaps the cupping the problems the sagging the the discoloration in the bathroom because right up to the shower door and i'm like why in god's green earth are people installing a flooring that's guaranteed to have to be ripped out within five to ten years and your whole kitchen all your bathrooms are installed on top of it blew my mind somebody needed a show like this back in the day that they made those plans because they just bought the wrong stuff it was pretty but really you don't use pretty wallpaper on the floor either for obvious reasons so anyway we need to insert a commercial so jeff can get a new drink was that you matt that must be michelle chiming in all right um no no no no no i'm done i gotta drive home soon one was you're not driving me home i'm a big boy all right so let's go down to the very bottom guys that's it for me today lots of love and uh thanks for joining us we're gonna do this again next tuesday next tuesday we will answer everybody's questions um awesome to hang out with the members tonight i hope we got to everybody if we didn't answer your question today then please jump into the forum it's actually working now my apologies for all of the hiccups um cheers to all of you for joining us tonight it was a blast and appreciate your patience while we worked out our technical difficulties all right we will see you soon and until then stay safe and take care of each other cheers finito

Channel: Home RenoVision DIY

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Length: 124min 25sec (7465 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 19 2021