Cabin in the Woods 46: Interior Trim Install - Best Window Trim Method

left hand yep so the nice thing is the same guy that has done all the wood the wood workers shop up in michigan they uh that's the name of it the woodworker shop they made all of our door frames they prepped them so all i got to do is assemble them i'm just trying to figure out which one goes where so this is a left hand so i'm just the left hand's a 36 i just want to make sure i use all the right pieces in the right places [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay that's all the side casings for all my doors now i can cut the individual tops which are varying widths i feel like i've been just doing nothing but processing wood cutting prepping but i think i'm almost to the point where everything is going to be cut and i'm going to be able to start doing some installation which is awesome but first i got to get all these uh these walk door casings i'm gonna go ahead and craig jig them and install them get them glued up and prepped that way they're ready to go and then i'm gonna go start i think putting together some more window boxes so pretty exciting so so rob how many btus is the uh the boiler and is that what like is that oversized for this size or is that exactly how do you guys do that it's probably pretty close and that's doing domestic hot water and everything yeah this thing if it's heating but you want to take a shower that shuts the heating off you know obviously you're not going to shower that long yeah the heating the water the hot water okay okay that's kind of cool i did not know that and you typically sure it's like putting way too big of a furnace that barely runs yeah sometimes it's better to have it run more than not yes right i mean it sounds stupid but it only saves you money when it's running yeah i mean that's when it's efficient and the longer it runs you know yeah that's that's one thing that i know like air conditioners a lot of times you'll look at the square footage and go one bigger for some reason i don't know everybody's always like i'll go one bigger on an air conditioner is that right or no no because then the because what you want to do with air conditioning is take humidity out of there if you size it too big it cools the air down but never but it doesn't get the humidity out you know it turns into a comfort everybody wants it not to run but they want to be comfortable but in order for it to work right it needs to run okay that makes pretty good sense huh i just learned something it's the same as all the new furnaces you know they reach their efficiency once they run you know maybe five minutes or you know what i mean okay at a certain point they read squares they're getting the maximum efficiency okay so when we're out there i thought this boiler was running more than it needed to because it like didn't seem actually you know what we found out was the flute of the chimney was wide open oh really so yeah and we went over to the work and that's a 14 inch hole that air is just going right out there yeah yeah and as soon as we shut that off i swear i swear it ran way less probably did because it was you know when you open the door and bring air in yeah no knobs yeah no knobs were on or you could hear the wind just going sucking right up that chimney yeah huh greg i'm working here dude i still have oh sliver i still have one of these big windows to cut up and assemble however when i was doing my measurements i think i set it i was a little bit off on my box depth so everything was six and five sixteenths but there was one of those corners was six and uh like three sixteenths and another corner in one of these big boxes was like six and three eighths so i'm not sure if there's just a little bit of issue with the framing lumber if the window isn't set all the way in on the opening i'm not sure so i'll have to do a little bit of custom work i guess i'll probably just use the track saw and make sure it's exactly it might just be a little cocked on the box but you're never going to see an eighth of an inch so greg i'm ready my guy all right sounds good love you bye well after a couple long days of doing things like making all these windows up doors up and just overall cutting a lot of trim material between the windows doors greg has been doing base trim got a lot of stuff prepped i built the the actual walk doors or in the bathrooms and the mud room and just a lot of prep work i do believe that the next time we come back because today's friday we're going to leave for the day but when we get back here we've got a lot of material to install and that is when it's going to really really start taking shape i'm hoping the handrails show up from the stainer so they're they're not stained but he is going to put a finish on them and we can finish the handrails upstairs the staircase rails and hang the rest of the door so if you're interested in seeing how we do the handrails how we hang our doors and just overall finish out with the trims stay tuned and we might just roll right into that here we go so it's time to start installing doors and i had to start by assembling the jams so these jams came knocked down the doors the hardware everything is a piece that i have to put together which is super easy because the woodworkers shop up in michigan the same people that did all the pine the stairs the rails they also manufacture the doors for us and everything is just perfect the biggest problem was that i'm not perfect i made a mistake and that mistake was this door opening this was supposed to be uh and i just grabbed the wrong jam also so i'm gonna roll but anyway this jam was supposed to be a 32 inch door and um i framed it finished it as a 36 inch door so when i went to go put the doors together opened up the packaging i was like wait what is this 32 inch door for i thought they were all 36s and then i realized my mistake so i had greg remove all of the pine that we already installed we furred out the wall put new pine back you're never going to know that it was a mistake other than the fact that i just told you so i'm gonna go put this door frame back and grab the 32 and we'll go ahead and install it all right we're back and we got the correct jam i went ahead and i glued and screwed these together let them set up overnight so they're nice and solid and what i'll do is i'll get this set in here [Music] now the other thing i did was had these custom made at uh five and i think five and a sixteenth that was the dimension with three quarter on each side was five inches but i always add a sixteenth to make sure that you uh you'd rather be a hair big than small on something like this so what i'm gonna do is i'm just gonna set this i'm to rough set this in the opening and then i like to just take a little level that i can confirm if it's level or not see this doorway tells me this is telling me that this side needs to go up just a hair about an eighth of an inch or this side is gonna have to come down an eighth of an inch now i don't want that eighth of an inch gap so i'm actually going to go ahead and cut this jam down just an eighth of an inch all right so when installing a door that's the first thing that i always try to make sure you want everything to be level and plumb and square but we're going to start with making sure that this jam set when it sits in the opening that it's level and i did already assemble the hinges put them on they're just some cheap hinges i'm sure we will replace them all right so now that we're level this is where this is going to go the next thing i'm going to do is make sure i always start on my hinge side so i'm going to take my 7d this is my 78 inch which is perfect for doing doors and i'm just going to push it tight against this jam so i know there's a lot of different ways to do things but i like to push it tight because the better connection i can have on one side especially where my hinges are i feel like that is going to be a stronger door than having it shimmed off and having fasteners you know the depth of a fastener being wasted in the shim so if i push this thing all the way tight against this jamb just as it sits it's perfectly plumb so it's right where i'm going to want it that's how i do it i know some people want to put a shim there i'm not going to put a shim there i'm going to literally where it's touching my jam like the actual frame the rough frame i'm going to put a 15 gauge nail temporarily right where the hinge is right in the middle and i'm going to put my hearing protection on because that's loud and i'm going to grab my eye protection now i'm sure there's people out there that are like oh man you got to shim that jam and you know what you can shim it if you want to but just putting a 15 gauge nail in this is just temporary because what i can do is as i install this i can actually take shims in from both sides push them in it'll wedge that 15 gauge out and then i can put more nails in as i go so this is just a temporary hold to make sure that things are good and i can already tell that it it did suck it in just slightly here when i put that nail in which is okay because now i can take a take two shims right above that nail i just go slightly above it and boom i just snugged that right up to my level i could go maybe a hair more you see what i did there it's just hard to hold a loose jam with the shims you could you could uh put your shims on and level or sorry plum i guess the shims up before you even put the door in but i just think there's no substitute for the actual product so i just throw ahead i go ahead and throw the actual jam in here and then i use the shims okay so that is looking really good from top to bottom there is a bow in on this hinge so what i'm going to do is get my bottom right where i like it that is pretty darn good we're also going to make sure that we're sitting good on inside and outside and that we are plumb going this way which obviously a lot of this will have to do with how your wall is and i'm perfect i did use a laser to frame all these walls i'm going to line this right up with the hinge so i have a good fastener right on the hinge now we just have to bring this middle out got lucky on that one now like i said these are 15 gauge nails i could use some screws but this is all just a temporary hold to make sure that i like everything now this here looks like i could i got a little bit of a innie right down here so what i'm going to do is go ahead and do one more set of shims right where that spot is to try to take that out and that's looking good now the reason you want this thing to be plumbed up is that when you open the door you don't want a ghost door you don't want it to open or close on its own you want it to be perfectly plumb so that it just stays where you leave it all right now the next thing we're going to do or i'm going to do is i'm going to go ahead and set my door on it i'm not even going to mess with this side at the moment so for hanging the door by yourself you just gotta get a little creative it's uh it's not that big of a deal i'm going to uh just use some lumber to kind of set it on and bring it up to height and then i'll throw some shims on it after that and that will help get me right about where i want to be make sure my hinges aren't going to be in my way is that gonna stay because my bag of screws is about three feet that way i don't want that to fall on me but i think it's going to stay [Applause] you know i did a review of or at least some sort of a video i do believe of this milwaukee installation driver and it's a great little tool man it's a 12 volt or it's an m12 so it's a lot smaller than normal and just the way it operates it's great and specifically for tasks like this i don't want an impact drill i don't want it to impact in because you you risk potentially stripping out a fastener a lot easier with an impact then uh and when i'm when i say strip out i don't mean the actual head because it seems that impacts are usually a lot better at not stripping the heads but actually stripping out the wood material so you can set the clutch on this so that it just goes in and snugs it tight and it doesn't over tighten it but anyway now we have um now we have this done i'll go ahead get that piece of wood out of there and i'm just going to kind of bring it closed temporarily knowing that it's not perfect yet now what i'm going to do is the same sort of thing i'm going to start shimming up this strike side where it strikes the latch so what i like to do is i like to take one shim okay and it doesn't matter what shim it is but up at the top right this is the actual frame of the door you're not going to change that that's the dimension and the reveal of uh on the sides so over here i'm kind of stuck with this reveal it's about the thickness of this shim i'm going to take the same shim and i'm going to come over here and i'm going to put it up at the top so up at the top i can't change this dimension short of cutting down my frame and redoing it but i'm not going to do that i'm going to go ahead and run my shim in i'm going to mark where it feels snug and then i'm going to run down this whole jamb making sure that i have the exact same reveal going down the rest of the door like that and that's kind of the basic install of the frame i can make sure that my reveals are all consistent and any discrepancies between those reveals now is my time to adjust them with shims [Music] everything is where it's going to be i'm going to go ahead and assemble my casing which i've actually already done pre-assembled it and i'm going to install that that's going to lock this jam in even more without having to over frame here now i will go ahead and probably put some screws right here but i'm going to make sure everything is good before i do that there we go so what i'm doing is we've got screws in the jam around the perimeter and what those screws are doing and i'll show you a little closer those screws are going to secure the side of our box so that we can make sure that it stays perfect where we want it versus nailing flat to the wall and these screws we can push in and out to make sure that they're exactly where the edge of the window is so when the box goes in and we nail the jam extensions to the frame of the window box it doesn't suck in and get all you know i guess wavy it'll be held nice and tight so i'm just adjusting those in and out to exactly where we want them see how that went in there nice and snug so that's secured now by those screws and when i nail and fasten in my box it should be nice and secure also i better put my isotunes in because that is pretty loud so i got these pre-made uh window boxes with casing already installed but how do i get it to be perfectly squared up and lined up with the window let me show you so what i'm going to do is i built these window boxes to be flush with the outside edge of this window so to get that to line up perfectly what i'm going to do is take some screws and i'm going to screw right through the window frame and i'm going to line them up so that the heads are in line in a plane with the outside edge of that window i'm gonna go around the perimeter doing that basically depending on the window size here i'm gonna do three along each side [Applause] all right so now that i've got those screws maybe it makes sense instead of using a shim that you can't adjust after you put this box in since it covers everything up or pre-assembling all the shims and getting them perfect this is way easier you set the screws into the depth that you want use the head of the screw like a shim and i don't know if this is going to go in on the first try sometimes i got to adjust some screw heads and it's okay if it's a little bit tight feels like this no that one's good that one's good look at that you can see the reveal is going to be nice and clean if you do the job right all the way around it's important though you have to do a couple different steps before you even get to this point your windows have to be installed perfectly level plumb and square you have to cut your boxes to the exact dimension of the outside of the window frame and you have to make sure that when you install your casing that your 45s are perfect and that everything is square so that when it goes in it's exactly like it should be and you're never going to be able to install trim as cleanly and efficiently one piece at a time by doing it as a unit it's stronger it's glued and screwed together with those kreg jigs and now it's perfect and those those screw heads are providing support underneath this window so when i fasten it in it's not going to go anywhere so hopefully that helped be a little tight okay oh yeah look at that okay all right now go up as high as you can on your side you start pushing it in you you gotta get up with me there you go keep going in you're you're behind me there you go yeah uh-huh okay how did it go ah not too shabby that is workable that actually fits in there look at that the glue just comes right off that actually fits in there really nice dude all right cool cool one that good work buddy nice thing about having all this wood siding is you don't really have to worry about hitting a stud you're going to get solid wood no matter what nice thing is if you look close enough that's kind of a good and a bad thing i suppose but if you look close enough in some of these cracks you can see where we gun nailed the piece on which tells us right where the stud is so good and bad obviously because you can see that little thing but you got to look close it's not like they're blatantly obvious cool this room is done trim and ready to be cleaned up [Music] now that is what i'm talking about [Applause] so so oh my gosh i did 45. why why'd i do that all right to finish the last piece of base trim up here on the mezzanine what i've got is a uh it's like a nosing i guess and this was supplied to us to use to cap off the top of this floor where it transitions to the edge of the mezzanine and i'm worried about it staying down but i'm i'm assured by i'm assured by the supplier that with the proper sealant which they told me what to buy i've got it somewhere if i seal that to this floor once that cures it's not going anywhere so we're going to go ahead and give it a try give it a nice clean look but before i put this on i'm going to finish the last piece of base trim but i need to know where this is going to be so that i can measure it 37 and a quarter all right and since this piece comes to the edge and uh you're gonna be able to see the edge of it i'm gonna go ahead and put a double 45 on it to bring it around so that it returns back to the wall what we decided to do was run this nosing all the way to the wall notch out my base so that's going to actually sit right on top of that nosing and then i'm going to cut this little 45 return that's going to sit in here just to kind of wrap around the grain and the reason i got to do that it's not really just for the aesthetic of you know wrapping my trim but you see how these base have this uh i think you'd call that like a dado out of the back if you just run it straight you're gonna see that little gap so i have to do something to close it up i'll just do a nice little 45 return and that'll clean it up real nice so i'm going to go ahead and get this i got to cut it down just a little bit for this thickness that i notched out of this board and then i'll go ahead and glue it up this time i'll use some quick and thick really because this this doesn't require as much pressure or clamping pressure to get it to stick or bond so i should be able to hold it for a little bit and then it should stay pretty good and uh secure so since i can't really nail this piece here what i've done is just i glued it quick and thick it's going to be nice and then i put some painters tape just to hold this in nice and tight and that will allow that to cure but the end result will be something like that that's where that's going to go that's going to go and then this guy is going to just slide right underneath there so i didn't want it to be super super tight but obviously i want it to look nice and clean and this is going to get fastened now what we've got is some power grab ultimate and honestly this is what they told me to use with this product it was one of the most expensive caulks at the hardware store where i got it like nine bucks a tube or 10 bucks or something so hopefully it's good all right so we're approaching the end of the day and my goal was to get all the trim done so that i could start working on the railing i've got a little bit of time left today and what i want to do is just start figuring out how i'm going to do this railing and i say that because i don't know exactly how i'm going to do it i know the overall look that we're after and i got the pieces to the puzzle but still got to figure out what i'm going to do so i cut this first piece and i cut it tight because this post was leaning in just ever so slightly and i'm using my uh ldm my laser distance measure to really accurately get the dimensions for these columns so you don't get more accurate than one of these things it's up to i do believe a 30 second and it's always spot on so that's what i like to use and especially in something like this that you've got to measure between two things now the top is not too hard because you can you know pull your tape out stick it into the one side and go across the top and get a pretty accurate and get a pretty accurate measurement but especially when you're coming down here and you're looking for this dimension it's just as easy as boom six foot five and a quarter and uh i'm gonna try to lay things out and see how this goes and tomorrow we're gonna go ahead and start building these rails so we're gonna get out of here today uh that's that basically wraps up all the trim work so we'll finish this thing up with handrails stone and maybe a couple other punch list items

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Length: 30min 57sec (1857 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 30 2021