Build Update: Cascading Corners || Dr Decks

[Music] [Music] hey guys dr. Dex here yesterday we installed our stair treads and our bench boards we have this cascading set of stairs that flares off into a bench it's kind of a cool design I like to do that on some of my projects whenever I get the elevation opportunities and the clients down I'll go from a set of stairs and then wherever the right height stair is I'll try to turn that into an area that turns into a bench so it's like multi-purpose this place has a killer view so why not take advantage of that so now that we have all the boards installed and trimmed and sanded and filed and ready to rock we're going to create some cascading corners and I'm going to get into that a little bit and what we do is we take a piece of PVC decking and we cut a V groove in it like this then we heat this up and then we glue these two seams and we put it together with activator and it kind of locks it in for a nice tight finish and then we put all over corners like that so it's it's kind of like a mitered corner but it'll never separate and that's why I'm down to do it I used to hate building lighters and then what we do is we butt join between this piece and our next piece of trim so all the expansion and contraction is taken up right here instead of right here which always falls apart and never looks good so we've kind of come up with a way to address that so we're going to be getting into that today there's quite a few steps to make these pieces and we have several different angles so I have to figure out each sections of angles and how we're gonna make those parts so hey let's get over this table saw and chop saw stand and let's figure some things out all right so what I'm doing right now is I'm using a heat gun and I'm warming up the the seam for the PVC is gonna go and I'm right now I'm just making a template or just testing a piece before I cut up my good decking you'll know when this is ready when it just kind of falls like that that looks pretty good I was concerned I had a little bit of a well you can kind of see it on this side get a little bit what's kind of cool about these parts is you get two sides you get two chances to figure out which sides up so I always take the better the two sides obviously and put that up where you're gonna see it so that's what our goal is that's what we're making and I'm going to show you how I do that [Music] [Applause] [Music] I just got to go a little bit higher you can see that little v-notch in there I want to get rid of that so it's really temperamental if you it's nice to have a dedicated saw so that when you're doing this if the guys need to rip something I have to completely change this out and it's very time-consuming to get the right piece so I'm trying to make all my parts now so that I can free up the table saw so the guys can use it now it's almost too much this side looks good this will be up we're going to use it [Music] nothing really matters without 30 legs [Applause] ten seconds is all you need and she's locked yeah - p10 they have it's made by a company called fastcap and it's a 2 B 2 p10 super glue and activator and it works really good on PVC Mamma Mia all right so I've got one made so Phil and Andi can get crack-a-lackin' yeah man that's amazing stuff so I got to grab a weight I've got it got on my rasp right here gonna do a little DEET so strong that is drop it no problem all right [Music] [Music] [Music] this is a digital protractor by stabile a-- and what it does is it allows me to figure out my angle what my angles are for doing all these custom fascia and stuff so what's cool is um it has a backlight which you can't really see there you go I don't you can see that or not good they could do but it also has a half-point setting so what I'm doing is I'm just gonna run in this I only I only need to worry about this length right here I don't have to worry about way over here so I'd get a different reading if I did that so I'm just gonna read from there to here like that right and then I take a hit the half button and it gives me the half point fifty eight point one so 58 point one I have to take half of 58 degrees and that will be what I gotta cut each what I would cut each piece as a template so half of 58 is 29 so step one is like 29 degrees each each piece is 29 degrees so now I'm gonna check the second step and see it's a way it's a different degree again so this one's 54 and 1/2 degrees they the same they're close these are templates I'm making templates I'm checking my my degrees and I'm trying to check the angle before I make my parts to make sure that I'm on point and obviously I'm not I mean obviously that ain't right so I don't have a square on me either all right J and batting a thousand today so I've been running back and forth to the chop saw quite a bit trying to get this that's that's really that's almost a 90 so these two are these C set of measurements are wrong I'm a child I know really some fun all right so I just cut this piece of material now this decking that we used is over four dollars a running foot so this is a three foot piece of material maybe two foot so it's eight to twelve dollars then I notice there's these little scratches in here that I didn't do I don't even know how they got in there may come from shipping so I'm going to show you guys how to get rid of those so you don't little twelve bucks all right so just grab your handy Metabo HPT go green heat gun any any heat gun will do really any heat gun use a a brand red blue yellow whatever but green freeze the one I use this one goes up is adjustable Digital goes up to 1,200 degrees I crank her hot because I'm used to this okay so it's slowly climbing to 1,200 but anywhere in the thousand to twelve hundred degree range okay so I want you getting close on this so I'm just gonna start waving my wand back and forth and then there's couple more right here right here [Applause] you don't want to spend too much time in any particular spot but I just saved myself 12 bucks so the thing I was about to do is really dangerous and not recommend it on on a table saw so I'm not gonna be stupid and do it okay I'm gonna be safe but yes so instead I'm gonna make a jig which I usually have this part that slides in this groove right here on the saw it slides right here and then it's 90 degrees to here so you can make safe cuts with wider pieces of material well I don't have that it's gone got them walked away or something I don't know so so I got to come up with a way to make it happen so I'm gonna make my own right now I've got some plywood pieces of plywood and stuff and matter of fact that's how I'm gonna do it I'm gonna steal some plywood and make this happen [Music] [Music] [Applause] it looks like a signpost will work for food oh fudge I need this flush dummy I made all these corners for all these different parts of the deck and I just realized right now that I made him out of five and a half inch of material instead of seven and a half inch material because I'm not used to using seven and a half inch material on these decks I totally beat with my last hour and a half because I made everything out of five and a half instead of seven and a half got a lot of practice in though hey guys thanks for watching I really appreciate it if you like what you saw please click that subscribe button and if you want to be notified every time we put out new content click that Bell icon as well thanks for watching and have a great day [Music]

Channel: drdecks

Views: 27,535

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Keywords: Dr decks, drdecks, deck building, custom decks, the rebel carpenter, pacific northwest, carpentry, decks, deck, cascading corners

Id: MIJMCHWttjY

Length: 13min 5sec (785 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 17 2019