Puyallup Piles Supercut || Dr Decks

[Music] hey guys dr dex here today we are at our newest project in puyallup washington and we brought our machine today our helical pile driver and our mini skid steer so we are going to spend some time uh driving some piles in the ground getting those set up for the deck which we won't actually build until the first of the year but we have a sprinkler system in the yard and we want to make sure that we don't destroy that and then also we are setting some piles for a patio cover which we have all the supplies for here and we're going to start building very soon maybe today or we'll definitely start on that tomorrow so if you like what you see today don't forget to click that subscribe button and hit the bell icon to be notified when we're putting out fresh content all right so this is what we're building this is the actual deck that we're going to build uh in this space but what we're focusing on this week there is a patio cover that's actually going to be 12 by 16 that's going to come we're going to shorten it a little bit to the corner of the house right here so it's gonna be 12 foot out projection there's beam at 10 feet and it's 16 feet wide so we have all the supplies on the truck for that and we just we're going to set all of our piles today though because we have the machine here and there's not a lot of space in the yard and on the street for our equipment so we're going to try to get all the piles set and hopefully the ground will oblige us so keep your fingers crossed and let's get going [Music] all right where's that it's a simpson and strong tie uh post to beam connection and we're going to use these on our post to beam connections and this part of it's going to be hidden but this part is going to be exposed and i had to see how much overhang i need to give i might have to pull my outside post in so that i make sure that this detail gets seen versus having to cut this at a 90 which i might have to do depending on where i want to put this outside post so a little bit of thinking right now to make sure that we get the right detail see this post over here on the house is all the way on the very corner of the house and we have another post coming out for a patio cover so i'm trying to decide do i want those two posts to be in a direct line if i do then i'll probably have to cut this and paint it because i won't be able to use this detail here but maybe i'll just pick up different brackets this side over here will work but i'm not so sure about [Music] this side over here so i'm gonna make a phone call and see if i can get a bracket that's a little different um i think it's gonna look better and more complementary to the deck if these two posts are in a direct line and they kind of coincide with one another and make a little bit of sense versus trying to pull this post in and then i have a cluster cluster mess to figure out on how to wrap it and all this other stuff so i think that's what i'm going with [Music] uh [Music] yeah i'm all right all kinds of fun this morning trying to tip my machine over we uh we didn't have the poundage i was looking for with our first pile so we added an extension to it and all of a sudden we hit mass pressure and then it started to twist i wasn't able to stop it fast enough it started to twist the machine over so kind of scary moment there let's do some more [Music] two we're dead but i can get this one in today and then the deck we're gonna do with concrete or footings or something else because the ground out here is just too hard too rocky well i've done a fence out here when i was real young and good thing i was young because it turned me old so we've got a trashed wire all right so had a little issue with the mini um or having issues issues i should say and it threw the mini sideways the pile did and the ground cable arced on the positive cable smoked the battery smoked the ground wire so now i'm heading off to the auto parts store to get new battery and ground wire to see if we can finish driving this pile in the ground so wish me luck maybe over the top it's not really not really doing it is it hey guys dr dex here today we are finishing up a patio cover that we started earlier in the week and we are almost finished installing some two by six tongue and groove fur on some glue lamps that we installed yesterday so basically what we did was we got our helical piles driven in the ground and then we came up with some 6x6 posts and then we have on top of that a 6 by 10 by 16 foot glue lamp beam and the reason i went with a glue lamp beam is i wanted a really cool architectural look and i didn't want any issues of spanning um the distance i wanted to kind of go heavy duty and then to go with that theme we took rafters and our raptors we made four by eight uh glue lambs as well and then on top of that we put two by six tongue and groove card decking which we just finished installing we have one little piece to install still uh you can kind of see there's some daylight getting through especially up in this corner over here and so we want to give that finished look all the way through and then once that's done uh it's still a little icy out so we're gonna thaw out the roof uh blow it off and then we'll put our underlayment down we have some trim boards to put up around it and then we can actually start tar paper which is actually the ice and water guard we're installing and then we can actually put our start putting our roofing on so that's what's going on today i hope you enjoy it and any comments you have leave them below [Music] so all right so we have all of our 2x6 tongue and groove card decking is what i call it because i use it on a lot on car trailers and that kind of thing but it makes a really nice look from the underside of the roof so that's done we got to put up some trim on the sides of the cover and then we can start putting up some flashing some drip edge that's what they call it and then we'll start roofing this thing out [Music] [Music] all right we have all of our side trim on uh we have all of our drip edge on so now we are going to put some ice and water guard down over the top of all the two by six and then we can start running our perimeter shingles and then we've already built our books of the the shingles that we need to start staggering our shingles and we'll start roofing this cover up here pretty quick [Music] hey guys dr dex here and we are back from our little break so i had an epiphany uh during our break and it had to do with how i was gonna frame this deck so what i decided to do is because of the complexity of how we're gonna lay the boards and all the curves and circles and things we're doing we're gonna frame this deck on a 45 degree angle to the house which is not very orthodox it's not done a lot this way but i'm going to frame it 12 inches on center so that we can run our deck boards any direction we want basically we can put it at a 90 or 90 to the house or parallel or perpendicular to the house or whatever we want so that it makes sense when we go to put the boards in because we have a directional change inside the deck and it's also on a curve so that probably isn't clear on how that works but you'll see as we build this deck what i'm getting at so basically what i have is the deck 12 inches on center and we're framing it at a 45 because the deck boards on this section of the deck here are running this way and then the deck boards on this section of the deck are gonna run this way okay so it's kind of a complicated frame set but i think we're capable of of uh making it happen so right now i'm trying to justify elevation i have my stabila lar-350 set up it's not on right now but i've already kind of got some lines going on the house so i know where to cut some of the trim off we got to pull some siding off the house and then re-waterproof it with some g-tape leave room for some flashing then we can put our ledgers up then once our ledgers are up we kind of know where the beams need to go so you can see right here i have a beam going right here and a beam going right here so i can justify and even this beam here i can justify all those elevations if i want to by setting a ledger board on the house around here and around this corner so that's what i'm going to do to start the guys have been unloading the truck we have a bunch of treated lumber a bunch of framing materials that had to be unloaded so they're just getting that together and then we'll start setting some footings the ground is so incredibly hard here uh we had issues when we were digging our uh footings for the patio cover and i was gonna use helical piles but i had to abandon that idea because the piles just aren't driving into this hard ground it's really rocky so what we're gonna do is uh because now i know how hard the ground is and how rocky it is we're using precast footing blocks instead of using hand digging and pouring concrete or trying to use helical piles because i know that this is never going to settle the concrete is also in very good shape and it's at least four inches thick we did a couple test pilot holes in it to drill down and see to make sure that we could actually put some elevated post brackets in certain parts of the concrete slab to hold as a footing as well for part of the deck now if the concrete wasn't in good shape or i wasn't happy with how thick it was i would actually jackhammer through the concrete and pour a footing but we don't have to do that on this particular project so we're good to go so we're just going to continue on then with first of all getting the ledger up and then trying to figure out where some of these footings go and that's what the guys will be doing is they'll be digging those footings into the ground and setting those up once i get some lines justified [Music] so it's really breathing right now i'm i'm grateful to be undercover even though my guys are out creating lumber in it anyway um what i did was i took this saw it's a modified skill saw it's made by a company called kuzdy industries c-u-z d it's a flush cutting saw so i had to be able to get some trim out of the way because i need to be able to mount a ledger up against here so the only way that i know to do it quickly was to use this saw you can kind of see how gnarly it looks when it's stripped there's no guard on it right now but for me to be able to get this cut i needed i kind of had to but i ended up i was getting so many sparks i was trying to save my blade a little bit i raised it up but i raise it up a little too much and i have to re-cut this section over here and get it flush as well so that's what i'm gonna do right now so you guys can get the idea because we shot a video for instagram but uh youtube didn't catch it so i'm gonna flip the saw back over it's probably gonna spark quite a bit because i'm gonna get the saw a little bit closer to the concrete so i know that i'm gonna be trashing my blade a little unfortunately but like i said before how else is he gonna cut this unless you use either a sawzall oscillating tool which should take hours or something of that nature um and a sawzall would just be gnarly a gnarly mess and i'm not trying to cut all the way through the floor i just want to cut this piece of trim out of the way which is what i've successfully done with this saw i just want to make sure that i get this down enough to where i can get the maximum amount of thickness uh installed under this ledger because it's not going to be real thick right here we're going to have to notch some joists and things like that so all that being said here we go and uh prepare for some fireworks there is a guard on one side of this so you can use this lever to pull back and it exposes the blade on both sides that's kind of what i need to do right now is kind of get this thing flush all right so now oh cut through another nail great now i've got a much lower area more equal area i just had to get rid of some extra material there and now i can waterproof this with some g-tape and then i'll be able to stick my ledger right to it and then i'll flash it later so just a cool tool that you may not use every day might be worth looking into if you need to do that style of cutting repetitively or you know every so often so works good for that all right [Music] great earthquake strap right here right here so those are always fun i'll expose those in a minute and unfortunately they're never very concealed well the ciders they just go right over the top of them and they're you know quarter to three eighths of an inch sticking out and i mean if you look at this right here you can kind of see how curved out this is um which a lot of people don't really care or bothers them but it bothers me uh it's just something i constantly am dealing with when you're trying to do quality work and you stumble upon these things you just gotta work around them so i'm gonna notch the back side of my ledger board so that it sits tight up against the house and then i'll get around these chunks of metal i would like to figure out where i have to open this up if at all so that when a 2x4 or 2x6 comes across here i can chisel away enough of this post so i can continue the board all the way through all the way out to that um that post out there i'd like to run a 16-footer okay [Music] hey guys how's it going dr dex here uh today we are framing a deck we got all of our beams set yesterday and now we're rolling some joists we spent most of the day yesterday framing the the lower part of the deck the skeleton of the beams the reason that took a while is because i decided to frame this deck on a 45 degree angle to the house and the reason we're doing that we're running the joists 12 inches on center the reason that we're doing that is because i have a double pattern in this deck the decking is actually going to be running parallel and perpendicular to the house and there's a curved surface border that breaks those two patterns in the deck so by running the joists 12 inches on center on a 45 degree angle to the house that allows us to create these cool patterns in the deck with less complications in the framing even though the framing is complicated it's less complicated and it'll be easier when we're trying to make the breaks where the two sets of boards come together and there's a curve that breaks these two sets of boards that are kind of going like this right and then we're not doing a straight or an angle break we're doing a curve okay there's a lot of math and a lot of ingenuity and a lot of genius incredible talent that goes into thinking about how to design this just kidding man it is a lot of work though it's a lot of work and we're just getting to that point now where we've took the time to get all the beams to the proper level we've cut them all in we've added all the brackets and you can see that by looking at our video of how that's done so um follow along and see how we do we got a ton of blocking to do as well on this deck so and i'll explain to you what we're doing as we do it or if you missed the video then i'll we'll do a back track on it and i'll explain to you after it's installed just like these beams not a lot going on but all of a sudden it went from just a set of beams to joists and going to be doing some curves and some other stuff as well so follow along all right let's do this or pick a line where we're going to put our first board when you're putting in fasteners i could put these are four inch timberlocks so they're really heavy duty i'm using them because i'm trying to grab a decent amount of meat through this ledger or room excuse me through this rim joist into this joist here and some like if i if i run them just however i want you'll notice they're gonna they're gonna poke out so sometimes when i'm just laying stuff out i'll just put a screw on top like this and it just shows me where the penetration is going to be through both boards so now i'm going to leave that sitting up there and i'm going to use it as a guide at what angle i should put my screw in when i'm driving it okay so i'm pretty happy with the placement so now i'm going to take it okay you might want to come up top look at that and now i don't have anything poking out and i've got great penetration i'm going to put three of these in but i'm going to leave this screw up here i can kind of tell from my other screws where my entry point should be but i like to leave that up there just so i can kind of figure out my angle and actually you know as a professional i know it seems like a really simple tip but i do this on every job every job we build i'm doing this at least twice or three or four times on every single project i build just so i'm not blowing out screws so quick tip for you hope it helps all right so we're moving right along with our joists and our framing we had a notch over the top of a cement uh concrete step and we're getting around that right now we have one of our joists that we notched that's a little too high and we've already installed it so i'm going to come back with a flush cut saw and i'm going to cut a little bit off the bottom to kind of get it to drop so that it's in the same plane as the rest of these joists and then we'll lock these down with some simpson ml24z's and anchor them right to the concrete and then those will be sturdy we've got two and three quarters inches of support so about half the joist we had to take out any more than that and i probably would have busted this concrete out so that's where we're at and then after that we'll take a break and then we're going to start framing on the outside curve of the deck all right so i'm coming through and um taking these ml24z simpson strong tie brackets they're 90 degree angle brackets and um i'm attaching them with some simpson one and a half inch sds screws into our what used to be a 2x6 joist and then i'm taking these redhead concrete anchors they're a half inch by an inch and a half i mean quarter inch by an inch and a half and so by putting those guys in put one in here it really makes it solid otherwise there's not a you can block these but by doing this and going into the concrete we ensure that it's very strong so getting that done you got a little bit on this side but it's a little over on this side we had to find a way to get around this post to create our circumference or our our radius for this curved deck and so what we did was we framed up a box from our pivot point around here now i've done this before in the past but technically if this works then this piece right here we already have it pre-marked okay this piece right here should mimic these and then we should be able to swivel it around and continue marking out the deck on the radius so let's see if we're right this could be right it could be wrong i don't know this is kind of ghetto uh the last one i built was a lot more intricate but look at that okay i didn't pre-make these these i mean i did pre-make these marks with a compass but not with this thing installed not with our handy dandy dr dex jig available uh today only for 89.95 online for a set of plans okay so watch this so let's let's see how good we are all right so oh i think it's sticking it's look at that okay here's my next mark made with a compass wow it doesn't get any better than that folks hey guys dr dex here today we are framing away on our current deck project we got a lot of joyce ran yesterday but we still have to finish up a bunch of surface blocking for some borders that we're doing surface borders all right so um what we got going on right now is i'm actually doing a really important part of this project which is adding the flashing underneath the house if you don't use proper flashing on your deck you're going to regret it 20 years down the line if not sooner flashing keeps water from deviating between the ledger and the house so come on over here what i've done is i've g-taped all of our solid blocking because we like to use waterproof membrane tape uh we'll shoot a little segment over here uh and explain why we do that i'm sure a lot of you may or may not have seen us install gtape on our decks there's a definitive reason why we do that and it's evident if you i can look over right now and see all the water that's pooling up on the tape if the water wasn't pooling up on the tape or if there was no tape installed then it would completely just saturate the boards and eventually rot them out because we have decking laying right on top of the flat blocking so we have to protect it somehow so that's what this is all about right here this protects all of our flat blocking okay and then what this is this is two inch by three inch l flashing it goes up three inches underneath the house and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to actually tape the top of this metal if we get any screws through here through the metal i want to make sure that those screws are sealed and that they don't leak that's why i do it so i never understood the premise of using l metal for flashing and then putting nails or screws through it it never made sense to me because i knew that there was something's always going to leak or get wet so what i decided to do is i started taping the top of my metal flashing as a preventative measure to keep any moisture out because g-tape or self-sealing membranes like g-tape when your nail or screw pierces the tape it seals it back up unless you're pulling the screw out and running it back in and out at different angles then you got an issue but if you're doing just one clean install it's going to seal that tape or the tape's going to seal the screw and then it won't have a possibility for a leak now i know that this deck is under cover it's probably not going to see much moisture but there's a spigot right here for a faucet which means there's going to be a hose right here which means there's going to be water leaking here all the time so that water if i don't do something to keep that water from reaching behind here then we're going to have problems in the future when the water leaks and it erodes this and rots the side of the house out so i'm just doing my due diligence i tore the siding off this house i tore this house apart to install my ledger board i'm doing my due diligence as a registered and licensed contractor to make sure that this has no issues in the future so that's what this flashing is all about twenty dollars of ten fifteen twenty dollars in flashing can save you thousands of dollars in the future it is a very important step it's often overlooked on uh do-it-yourselfers so if you're a diy-er and you're thinking about should i use flashing should i not should i use tape should i not man do yourself a favor or the future owner of that home a favor by trying to keep it as dry as possible so that you don't have any issues i've torn decks off walls before i've torn decks off sides of houses i've had to rebuild the whole lower cavity of a wall before it was rotting so bad all the way to the interior sheetrock we actually had to go in and tear the sheetrock out and rebuild the wall have it re-sheet rocked and reside the outside new plywood the whole nine yards man it was completely devastated so that's a severe case but i have seen very bad cases i'd say 60 70 of the time there's some form of dry rot in the wall a lot of times it has to be around a downspout or a gutter or something of that nature so take an extra hour out of your build time and properly flash your decks okay good morning so right now i'm uh taking a uh 2 by 12 and right now we have trace where the uh curved surface border is going and we need something to uh mount the deck boards to so we're using the 2x12 of course like i was saying and i'm taking a board right here and as long as my board covers all four points of the line which it doesn't right there i will take a pencil go underneath trace it from here here flip it over cut on both sides and then once you get at the end boom and you put your four inch timber lock right there and then that's how we are going to install the uh circle on this deck [Music] you know you get on a mission and you're trying to find something and everything's so disorganized you just lose it well i just had that moment where i just gave up and said you know what i gotta find this part and the deeper i dig into my trailer the messier it is and i'm just taking a minute to reorganize some stuff because it's just like i'm having a breakdown over here so uh i just need a minute okay to find some things and put some stuff away and then i'll be good all right so we have all of our blocking done yay uh all the g-tape is laid so now we have to add some support for some skirting and for our stairs and for the curved skirting on the other side of the deck and we need to do that before we start installing deck boards we're anxious we want to get started we have a whole pile of decking setting over here we can't start until all that's done plus i have to run the low voltage wire for our bench lighting and for our stair lighting so i'm going to get going on that while the guys are starting on the skirting i have a quick tip for you if you're ever measuring curves a rolling tape measure comes in really handy we keep one in our trailer all the time and then when i need to see what distance i have instead of trying to take a tape measure and hold it against something curved and try to figure it out this is a lot more accurate and quicker than trying to do it that way so for all those of you that are into this or that need to measure something on a radius get yourself a rolling tape measure and they spin like this and then when you're done you just hit the reset button and you can just go again and again and again so uh just something that we and this one's collapsible so it compact stores compactly so kind of a cool little tool [Music] hey guys dr dex here today we have just finished uh framing most of this deck up and we are ready to start laying down some deck boards so today we have basically all of our deckings framed it's all g-taped we've identified our screw lines and our cut lines on the deck and so now we're going to start installing the deck boards and hopefully get around to maybe making some cuts today so stay tuned and see how we do and if you have any questions leave them below [Music] all right so we're finally laying decking we got all of our framing done we're running the fusion lock uh five shot by fasten master it's a hidden clip system we're running on a 45 degree angle ran out of cliffs ah well you get five clips and then and then you gotta go again so uh you know you get used to it everybody is always asking me isn't that a pain can't you load more clips no it's designed to load five at a time that how it that's how it runs optimally okay so you just load five more clips and go you just put the clips in your pocket but what we're doing we frame this deck on a 45 and then we're just putting the fasteners in and we're in the middle of the joist so far so good we haven't had one misfire so uh this is working out well for us so we'll uh i'll let you know on a subsequent video how long it takes us to lay this part of the deck all right [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so we uh got the first part of the deck laid changed my directions though i decided to run this section this way i'm gonna run this section this way but everything looks good um i got the first line cut in so you can kind of see it we cut it shallow and we're going to go through and slip something underneath and then cut these out so we're not hacking up the g-tape too bad everything looks really good so we didn't start laying this until after launch so it was like one o'clock so it took us about three hours to drop this we still have a cortex plugs to put in but the field looks good nice and solid feels good we'll kind of get this cleaned up tomorrow and then i got a square line right up against the post and i found out that running up against the post allows me to finish on a full board here and allows me to finish on a full board there and i took some measurements of distances with these deck boards that were already installed and that's how i figured out okay if i start my first board right here then i will be able to finish on full boards which keeps me from having to do pie wedges and things like that which i don't mind doing but they get a little tricky this one's glued you can see the spline it's glued together with some 2p10 and activator and then i have to do another one over here but anyway so that's what's cracking guys alright so um besides that i guess that's all i got for you we have this compass that we use to figure out this cut line here but then i'm going to abandon it after that because i'm going to actually use the boards over there as a template if you try to make the entire circle perfect with a compass your deck boards aren't going to fit so just a little word to the wise i can i can manipulate this section no problem but if i try to manipulate the whole thing big problem it just it just doesn't work as well so a little tip from you got our frontal area ready to go this is all getting bordered as well so these boards are all getting cut back and as well as at the house so there's a dark hickory boarder that chases the entire deck and there's a dark hickory boarder that chases this circle as well so all right man that's all i got for you tonight heading to olympia for an estimate so i had to cut out a little earlier today guys aren't complaining though all right over now [Music] hey guys dr dex here today we are laying deck boards we got part of our deck laid the other day i was extremely ill yesterday so we didn't come to work so now you get to catch us finishing up the second part of this deck all right so today we have part part of our deck down and we ran the frame on a 45 degree angle so that i could run these deck boards this direction and then we have a circle partition in this deck and then on the part where the deck parts on the circle we're changing the decking direction to run it perpendicular to this this decking so that's what the guys are doing right now it just took us a minute to get to this point because i had to do some inlay work where the hot tub is and it was a little bit of a challenge to get those boards just perfect so that all the gaps are revealed the same way proper everything looks good [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so the guys have laid the decking from basically the middle of the deck towards the house they finished that i've been working around notching these posts and trying to figure out a couple other things and i'm close i just have this last piece that i'm trying to button up and then they can start running full length boards again all the way out to finish the outside of the deck as well so while they're working on that i'm going to start cutting some lines in and starting to get some shape to the surface borders so we can install those once the decking's laid [Music] hey guys dr dex here happy day today uh we did a little bit of deck board bending this morning we had to add one additional step to our lower stair area on our current deck build so we had to do a little bit of deck board vending this morning uh just button that up now we're going to be leaving the shop and heading out to the job site uh yeah all right so the other day we were able to get our staircase framed up we don't have any of the bottom supports in we're going to work on that today but we basically framed these stairs we made our stair jacks i call them jacks other people call them stringers whatever you want to call them or staircase support we use two by six instead of cutting out of a two by twelve i just felt as a stronger more reliable way to build this type of a staircase then we use pvc one by decking material for our rims to make our curved rims so we have a curved mounting piece on the back of the staircase and then we have a piece in the front of each of the stair jacks stringers that holds everything together so now that we have that done we're gonna frame in some two by fours and we're gonna dig some holes and pour some concrete to support the bottom of our staircase [Applause] so [Music] so now we're going to create the base for our staircase and what we're doing is we're digging holes every other gap inside of our staircase and then we're going to put a 2x4 in between the two stair stringers lock that together we're going to have a four by four mount into that two by four as well that's going in concrete so the guys are digging the holes right now for the concrete and then we're going to mount the 4x4 to the 2x4 like this put it into the frame and then attach it with some four inch timber lock and that's what's going to hold up this entire curved staircase and every single stringer or jack i call them stair jack but i get a lot of flack for that because nobody seems to know what a stair jack is everybody calls them stair stringers so every stair stringer will have support by by digging and pouring seven holes so that's really my main goal today is to get that locked down and finished up uh we got a real late start today it's like noon so we're gonna try to get that done and then i'm not sure we might get uh start working on some benches or something like that because i kind of need this frame to dry out a little bit so we can tape it up and i didn't bring my torch today to dry out the lumber so i don't think it's gonna dry out too much oh i see some blue sky well it's a couple miles that way though so i don't know if you look straight up uh unfortunately we're in the shade all day as well uh even when the sun's out we don't get a lot of sun in the backyard so we just gotta deal with it for lunch [Music] these are stair supports we're basically for every two jacks we're making one support that'll hold up both jacks and we're putting it in concrete to make it really solid so we don't have a solid base we're not pouring a complete foundation for the staircase so we're just putting these posts in concrete uh about every 16 inches and it supports two jacks and then we skip one and then we do another one so that's what we're doing right now [Music] so so [Music] hey guys dr dex here today we are trying to button up this set of curved stairs we actually got some post wraps done yesterday we started installing our inlight lighting on the staircase okay so as you can see between the last time i saw you guys uh we got the first insight or the outside tread of each staircase installed and also the alternate colored fascia riser kicker whatever you want to call it install i cut the inside treads to length or very close to but i did not actually install them because i had to be able to get into each of these joist bays and hook up all the lighting which actually took a minute some of the upper deck holes that we had to drill were tough but we got it done we have 16 lights installed there's four sets of lights on this staircase that will illuminate at night and give the client a really great path down to the yard so the way i laid these out was usually when i do lights i like to have something close to the edge of my staircase because usually a lot of people have a tendency to use the edges of the stairs so i try to take a body width and then because we're on a curve it changes how the staircase flares and how the lights go in a direct line so what i did was i took a level and i drew a straight line and i took a a protractor and i use it on each side of the curve and i found an equal distance angle and then i marked each tread so it could have a nice straight line of lights that was also square to the curve so maybe we'll get go into that in depth in another video about how i did that but for today uh that's how we were able to uh get these installed now that all the lights are installed and they're hooked up and they're working properly i really like this brand of inlight one cool feature i don't know if you guys know but i've teamed up with them and they actually put my logo on their black bezel so on every one of these little lights there's a dr dex logo which i'm really proud of and you can't really see it too much so if you're a competing company or you just don't want dr deck's logo on your stuff you're not really going to see it but it's a nice accent that we really like to show off so we always take the silver bezels or we order them all straight black and then they come like this these are the hive 22 rvs lights by inlight and we're also going to use another type called a fusion that we're going to put in the wall that they're building right now behind me so we'll hopefully get this staircase finished we'll get the wall going austin is uh caulking up all of the azac paint pro trim and that's all been corked and then we'll probably get started on a curved bench over here as well so a lot going on today if you have any questions or comments leave them below and i'll try to answer them in a timely fashion [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's a little handy way to use a square some fancy ones have better notches than this one do like uh jason's martinez but i'm trying to mark out the center line here so that way all my cortex screws are down the center of the board so you can use the square by finding my center mark here and then putting my pencil on the notch slowly going down trying to keep it straight and there you go [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey guys dr dex here today we are just finishing up our current deck build thank you for following along and watching our videos and all your comments and questions we really appreciate it we're going to give you an overview of what's going on the only thing left we have to do is mount this bench and then add some more lighting some more in light light so i've got it pre-wired and ready to go we're just going to mount this baby up uh the curve bench is finished up we got that done yesterday uh started framing up on this bench here today and we just finished putting all the decking on it and actually wrapping it so now all i have to do is find my locating holes which i have done and i will mount this bench permanently to the deck and then i just have to run some wires for this bench and then some out to the wall we're going to highlight this wall some really cool lighting so you'll be able to check that out let me know what you think about that [Music] just wanted to make sure that that slime is energized properly and it is so now i can run this finish my bench lighting then all i have left to do is the wall [Music] [Music] do all right guys that's a wrap we are done here your prescription has been filled thank you for watching we really appreciate it if you like what you saw please don't forget to click that subscribe button and hit that bell icon to be notified when we're putting out new content always comment below and i'll try to get back to you at a timely fashion and don't forget to like our videos thanks for watching have a great day [Music] you

Channel: drdecks

Views: 2,476

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: Dr decks, drdecks, deck building, custom decks, pacific northwest, carpentry, decks, deck, deck board bending

Id: g2IdNh6s_GA

Length: 56min 57sec (3417 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 27 2021