This man built his own house 40 years ago and variance is only 6mm lmfao. Talk about being REALLY good at what you do. Watching him demo and rebuild you can see the years of experience at work - everything is done with such precision and skill while both acknowledging previous mistakes but still giving his younger self grace.
Shoyan-san is the very best, but I should like to know why Japanese wood always looks so straight and square. I think the answer is Japanese people take much pride in their work and are perfectionists.
I live in a small city in Nara Japan. Houses are built to last only about 40 years, at which point they become worthless and need to be demolished within the next 20 or so years. Then i come across a video like this and am confused as hell..
3:36 I am sure that anyone who has ever swung a hammer during the tear-down portion of the renovation, cheered out loud YEAH when you swung that big hammer and down came the door frame!!! 😆🤣😂😁😊 Nice!
Much changes as time goes by, I built my home 30+ years ago and find things that I would do differently every time I do repairs. New products and experience changes how we build. I very much like the new door, but I don't think I would like the small windows in a kitchen, it seems like it would get hot and stuffy during the summer without having good air flow. Thank you for sharing and have a wonderful week.
That is the best looking pine I have ever seen. You will never see lumber like that in the US. Every bit of our lumber is trash or it’s too expensive for any regular person to afford
Possibly this is a dumb question, but, is the younger gentleman in the video a family member or apprentice? I believe he has been in several other videos as well. As always, excellent video. Thank you for sharing your journeys with us.
12:52 in the US, they do what is called a blower door test. They close up the house, put a blower door in one door way, and turn on a fan to measure how much air escapes through the house to the outside. There is a product made that takes that concept a bit further - pressurizing the house and spraying a sealer that goes into the cracks the air escapes through and seals it. I don't recall what that product is called though. I saw it on Matt Risingers "Build" show.
9:40 were those pipes polybutelene? Polybutelene wasn't known at the time for what happened later, horizontal cracking on the axis of the pipe. Now, CPVC or PVC pipe has fallen out of favor. PEX is usually used now, either Uponor (A) or PEX B.
I love watching you work, because it shows that you built well (even on a very tight budget) all those years ago. So many houses where I live, you couldn't do this without demolishing the whole building, because they're nothing but plywood, OSB, and 100X48mm vertical studs and joists. Very cheap, and with hollow bones.
As I think you know, the main source of condensation was not the heat, but the propane stove. When propane burns, it becomes carbon dioxide and water in the form of steam. A vent hood above the stove might be helpful in reducing condensation, as well as smoke and the small amount of toxic gas such stoves produce.
Exceptional craftsmanship with such precision & care makes it extremely pleasant & satisfying to watch you Shoyan. The explanations make it so clear to understand your process & delight in the execution of each step in that process. It is ALWAYS SUCH A DELIGHT to watch the work that you perform. It is also an absolute joy to watch the care & precision in caring for your tools & your skill just by hand to sharpen your plane blades & chisels to a level that most people can only dream of. Thank you for a wonderful video. Cheers, Don from South Australia.
For the first time, I don’t agree at all with Shoyan design. 1 - There’s the raised floor in the kitchen but the door frame goes below the height of the floor. Very bizarre and not convenient. 2- The window is really to small. Personnally I would have kept the floor of the kitchen at ground level. Install vapor barrier /plywwod / Schluter type heated floor / then tiles.
