This Old House | Decking for Beginners (S41 E5) | FULL EPISODE

today on this old house first we're gonna do is locate the toilet i'm hoping it's gonna be in the middle of an open bay okay so that we have something clean to start with yo not good and our 1940s ranch gets a dutch colonial flare what happened to all this plumbing here i've never seen anything like this before there's already rot going on in that trunk so what have you found up here well a bit of a surprise it's really the classic plumber's lament nice how excited are you guys to see that extremely right you're gonna have to choke down some dust first though before you get to that part along the way money's in the detail that is beautiful [Music] hey there i'm kevin o'connor and welcome back to this old house here in westerly rhode island where we are working on a ranch house built in the 1940s and originally it was just a one-story house but we are adding about a thousand square feet with a second story up there it's going to be a gambrell shape we've got the side walls already lifted we've got the uh building sheath and the roof is up which means it's time to start working on the inside hey tummy hey guys hey kevin all right so uh inside works soon but a little work outside yeah the decks going on here and it's going to wrap around the front of the house there so we're getting ready to set the post and the post base on top of our footings that are set below the frost line so this is a pretty big improvement for us i mean there used to be an underground garage right here yeah that's all got filled in with a new foundation there you can see it yep we brought the grade up and so now this is basically at the first floor level right right so the plan first is we've got a we've got a guideline right here this joist has been cut 67 inches that's the inside dimension of our carrying beam right over there gotcha all right so this is a notch for our beam to set on we'll screw it from behind and that's our way of making a mechanical fastening system so that it doesn't lift and we've got the best help that money can buy catherine and ryan you guys ready to get some work done definitely all right so first thing we want to do is let's get a measurement out there ryan so we can get a line down you guys make sure that there's no stone in the way when we snap this line because we want to set our outside position on all of these so what have you got brian for a straight edge there anything inch and a quarter out down you're going to hold it tight against here and i want uh somebody which one of you guys want to hold the level here and make this plum and ryan's going to measure that down low it's plumb okay now you're gonna help to hold down tight so it doesn't move ryan you hook your tape on the inside we're gonna take the chalk line bring it down the other end and you're gonna hook it on the outside of that metal post base down there and we're going to run a line and snap it on the top of all these posts all right so i want to run my line down here right there and snap that's the outside of that base right there so that's for that one now we'll do this one yeah right there it looks like yep that's gonna be right there that's the outside of that one all right let's get the masonry drill and we can drill these holes set these posts all right roll up the line all right we're ready to drill our holes to put our masonry fasteners into the concrete i want to make sure that the face of the base is lined up with this line right here we're going to drill a hole right there about in the center go ahead and you want to drill the hole deep enough so that we can get these wedge anchors all the way down and just have the nut and the washer stick up just a little bit all right so we're going to take a little straight edge we put it on the ledger of the house and rest it there i take my level and i put it against this post this post is what we're going to get our length for our post that's going to support the beam okay all right you see the level if i hold the bubble in the center of the two lines it's level what i want to do is i want to drop it just a little so the bubble hits this line right here that puts a slight pitch down on the deck so the water will go away from the building not into the bed okay all right so now i want you to hold that tight i'm going to push against this just a little bit you ready i'm where i want to be now i'm going to mark right here underneath right there so that's the top of our beam on the outside so now what i want to do is i want to measure down from that line i'm going to measure down nine and a half inches that's the height of the beam so if i measure down nine and a half inches and i put a line right here that's the height of the post and that's the bottom of the beam down [Music] okay pull it pull it there you go nail it good all right all right so now we can plumb the rest of the post and fasten them and then we just drop the joist in all the way down there you got it there you go kath the next one's on you [Music] now you can watch this old house and ask this old house anytime anywhere download our new app to stream full episodes to your tablet your tv and your phone binge classic episodes catch up on recent renovations and get step-by-step help projects all around the house best of all it's free the most trusted home improvement information is now available on amazon fire tv roku apple tv ios and android devices download the thistle house streaming app today our house is in the dutch colonial style and that means that it has a gambrel roof there's an upper pitch which is shallow and then a lower pitch which is steep and typically there would have been a bell shape a curve right there at the end so we're going to actually add that it's going to be decorative only jeff you got to put on these tails i guess to our sheathing right here yeah so we have the extension of that rafter tail is going to come right down that plywood will continue down and right on to this sweep that we made that goes outboard of the building and it's not just for this part of the roof here you're going to run this the full length of this side other side on the side and then it returns it goes on the other side yeah so this will actually become roof but the side will be sidewall shingles so i'm thinking a lot of rafter tails 150 of them let me show you how we make them all right so on the ipad here you can see the drawing that shows that sweep for that roof that goes across here that's where we just were and then we're obviously going on all four sides you've got a little one up top as well yeah exactly so even more tails than i thought and what are they made of they're looking like some sort of a build up here yeah so we needed 14 inches in width so we went with a laminated material it's a finger jointed lumber and you can see that finger joint there so back in the day we would cut this with a jigsaw on site and 150 of them take a couple days to make all those so now we can take that autocad file send it to a cnc machine that cnc machine will make a repeatable pattern every single time and we've got 150 of them it'll take two hours to do it so you've got these big 14 inch wide planks that are just running through the machine the router's dropping down tracing it cuts it off moves to the next and we're off to the races so kevin we've got the ledger already on the building here that's our horizontal line and that's a positive stop for these rafter tails and then we've got it laid out so that it it's right on the studs on the inside of the house so we're gonna face screw this with a six inch screw and then we'll just follow along and toenail into there okay so we're gonna end up with two layers of 3 8 plywood because remember we have that curve we've got to get this plywood to bend with the curve so we're going to line up our bottom use your square to line that up to sean all right i'm good on the outside and on the face okay we're gonna nail the bottom first got my square there okay now we gotta press that center in and a nail will suck it right down okay then we can nail the top okay come right over to me come right over yep all right so next we have our fascia trim and we've dadoed out a slot to accept our soffit nice so that soffit will lock into here and then the fascia comes right along drip edge will be here and there'll be roof shingles here another flashing there and then siding will come down onto that right that's a pretty sweet detail really gives us that dutch colonial look i like that system yeah all right let's get it going want to tackle all your home improvement projects with confidence join this old house insider a new streaming service from this old house the iconic emmy-winning series that inspired a generation of home enthusiasts stream over 1 000 episodes of this old house and ask this old house commercial free watch it all in the this old house app and join live online q a's with our experts best of all you can try insider free for seven days to join go to this old housemembership.com so the budget on this landscaping project is small but there's a few things i want to talk to the homeowners about they need a formal walkway to the front door and steps from the parking area to the back of the house in westerly there is one material to consider here in westerly granite was a very large part of the economy for over a century john kedouri is our local historian you want to tell us a little bit about the granite industry in westerly well wesley was well known as a granite center for a good 100 years from 1850 to 1950 actually at any one time there were over 100 companies operating in the westerly area but what made westerly granite so valuable is that it's a very hard it's an igneous rock made from molten lava that hardened under great pressure right and therefore is very strong and so therefore you can see fine detail when the master carver works with it and it lasts for years so what did they use the granite for what are some of the famous buildings and monuments that have used westerly granite well locally uh christ episcopal church here in westerly the town hall in westerly is all made out of westerly red granite but around the country the second division memorial on the south lawn of the white house in washington d.c the library of congress building in washington dc the antietam monument in in maryland site of the civil war a massive uh monument even out into utah and colorado 42 states and we're still looking in those other eight states right westerly granite monuments how big was it in the economy here well in the 1900 census 57 percent of the population had some direct contact with the granite industry if they weren't stone cutters or quarry workers they maybe handled the oxen that hauled the stone the problem is that between the great depression and world war ii a lot of the talent had been lost and so by the time the war was over two or three the quarries closed but the granite is still here it's not depleted the granite is here but in westerly it's not as close to the surface as it is if you go up to barry vermont there the beds are much closer to the surface and they've calculated that they have enough granite to last another thousand years really yeah the beds are close to the surface easy to get at okay but for years and years it did fuel the town and the economy okay you can imagine the cost right no one's willing to pay for it right it's just it's just too much yeah [Music] jeff looks like class is in session huh we got another window install lesson so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to create a pitch in this windowsill so that water will roll out so we're going to use a clapboard so the clapboard's a little thicker on the back and a little thinner on the front so we're going to put it in so that it's flush to the front and again the high side is on the inboard side that way we're pitched out all right so we're just using regular roofing nails to fasten this clapboard to the sill okay so now we have our pitch so we want to waterproof this system so that the water that comes in will work its way out so we have a flashing tape here that we're going to put in and this is self adhered so we're going to remove half the paper on one side and you don't want it to stick to itself okay so we're going to go about halfway in we'll start it in the middle and work our way right to the outside and then run it up the sides so now we're going to peel off this side go ahead ryan yeah with your hand yep keep going all the way into the corner try to get a nice tight seal into that corner okay so a critical step here in the corner we're just going to make a little slice in that corner and lap that over that's why we put that first little piece in there check this out catherine ready so the next thing we're going to do is we're going to soft flash all the way around the opening so we'll pre-cut those pieces you don't want to take all the release paper off at the same time because it once it sticks to itself so we're going to go about two inches to the outboard side and the rest will be to the inboard side go ahead now finish that try to keep it even all the way down okay there you go just nice and smooth while he guides it down just stay a little ahead of him there you go get it all down push tight can't overdo it all right now the last piece across the top now this one we're going to stick to the top first we got to make two little slices here then we'll fold it under okay to sean we'll take a couple cuts right in the corner there corner corner okay so fold that under nice and tight so next thing we're going to do is we're going to apply a bead of caulk around three sides of the window okay so we're not going to caulk the bottom because again back to that water migration we want to give a gap for that water to get out from underneath so before we put the window in we're going to put in a composite shim that's going to lift our window up off this sill about a quarter of an inch so that way again if any water gets into this system it comes down and it's got a path to escape that's the reason why we didn't caulk that bottom flange because we don't want to trap water in we want to give it a path to escape okay so next thing we're ready for a window we're going to put the bottom in first okay good now make sure that flange gets up into the caulking bit okay all right now ryan i want you to use your fingertips to put inside the between the window and the rough opening so that you roughly get it in the center okay so you feel the reveal is that about even just about yeah okay now the next thing i'm gonna do is level the sill and i'm gonna do that from the inside so i'm gonna switch places with ryan ryan you come out and help to sean with the window okay catherine we've got it centered in the opening so the first thing we're going to start with is leveling the sill and that looks like it is right on ryan i want you to put a roofing nail in the bottom corner of each side okay good now the other one okay so now the next step is critical we want to make sure that the window is square so you can see right now that this window is three pieces so it can rack from side to side so the way we're going to measure for square is you're going to hook your tape on the corner of the outside of the window and measure to the opposite corner and then we're going to compare it to the other side okay so i want an exact measurement 69 and a half so let's hook here see we're hooking right on the bar outside corner what do you got for a measurement 69 and a half okay so the window is square all right so i wanna see you put a nail in each side of the top in that top hole okay so the next thing we want to do is we want to make sure our reveal is correct up the sides okay so you see that the double hung rides along this rail all right and this reveal is a little open in the middle and then this side looks pretty good so we want to shim this closed a little bit before we nail off that flange okay so we're just going to wedge a shim in between there and close up that gap okay you guys in the center of this window i want you to put a nail in each hole on each side okay so now you guys can finish off nailing that window and then slide it over pretty good yeah nice job all right then flatten that out a lot of framing went on this week and also the rough plumbing began josh jordan our plumber came and started the master bathroom group right here so you can see the large pipe is a three inch pipe is for a toilet you can see the master toilet comes here and it runs inside the joist bay right here simple and it turns and goes down inside this internal petition which means we could drill through this top plate and run this vertical down to the basement pretty straight forward now on this first floor it's a wide open plane you got a living room right here you got a dining room right here and you have a bathroom group right here and there's no petitions not like the petitions we had to run the master bath drain down so you also have all kinds of glass and you got an outside wall right here that you really would want to drill through the structure right here i'm glad you're the plumber josh on this one how are you going to get it done well first thing we're going to do is locate the toilet i'm hoping it's going to be in the middle of an open bay okay so that we have something clean to start with uh so we're going to do first is go out go up and uh drill a pilot hole all right i'll wait here all right oh yo not good of course josh come on down so look at this now if we try to put the toilet exactly where it's drawn look where it comes exactly onto this double joist right here so look at the pipe would take up this much we can't cut that structure out boy of course so we're gonna have to find a way to move this toilet one way or another josh yeah uh unfortunately a lot of times that does happen with framing in houses uh so what we generally do is talk to the general contractor speaking of the devil what do we got here we're right exactly on the joystick jeff never fails so we have a couple options i mean we really want to go upstairs and see if there's any leeway on where we put that toilet try to get the toilet the pipe to one side or the other right ideally we'd go that way but if i remember correctly there's the bedroom walls there so we might have to look at going this way so let's go on up all right so this is the kid's bath and the toilet sits right here in this alcove right so we're looking for 12 and a half off the back wall so right there is exactly where we don't want to be right so which side do we go to this side or that side well if we go this side that means we have to move this entire bedroom wall that way you don't want to do that so if we went to this side all we have to do is pad this little sectional wall back we can advance that toilet into the room we'll make up a little bit here before you ride that another one great yeah and we're gonna put our sectional wall perfect so that our new roughing is 12 and a half from the center of that rough and nobody will ever know [Music] thanks for watching this whole house has got a video for just about every home improvement project so be sure to check out the others and if you like what you see click on the subscribe button make sure that you get our newest videos right in your feed

Channel: This Old House

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Rating: 4.930975 out of 5

Keywords: This Old House, Ask This Old House, DIY, Home Improvement, DIY Ideas, Renovation, Renovation Ideas, How To Fix, How To Install, How To Build, Decking, Framing, Kevin O'Connor, Jeff Sweenor, Tom Silva, TOH Generation Next, Richard Trethewey, Jenn Nawada, Landscaping, Plumbing

Id: oDibIbBr0hY

Length: 24min 1sec (1441 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 30 2021