Smoko times is a great time to talk over the job and natter to your wok mate. I use to work in a big engineering workshop and quite often you never got to see the sandblaster guy the paint as they were up the other end of the shop floor. I worked in the machine shop as a fitter and turner. Love your work Scott you have inspired me to do some repairs around the home.
Nice one boys. As a plumber Scott next bathroom just cut the pvc drain pipes out of the way and duct tape the ends, same as the water pipes buy push on copper caps. Saves you blokes tripping over them and trying to work around something we will renew anyway
I was taught never put plastic down a drainage pipe in case it got away. Use paper instead. Paper eventually rots, so no blockages. Also I use duct tape and push on caps as well. Love ya work.
With Ryan's ru-vid.comUgkxy_pn55PK60wAV3X_C_RoLS_67mNonoCE plan, I was like one taken by the hand and led step by step from start to finish. Thank you very much Ryan!
Nz plumber here, I’ve come across floor joists butchered up for shower wastes before. Never works out well in the long run. Acrylic shower bases are usually the first to go. Great starting point for a new renovation though
If you start seeing car shock absorbers (attached to a diagonal brace) in the walls of a timber house in NZ, don't freak out, it's for earthquake energy absorption.
same world over. Back in the day when indoor plumbing arrived it was a hack and whack job to install it, then codes arrived to sturdy everything back up.
Is it possible for Scott Brown to make a poor or uninteresting Video? I Think Not! Always a treat to watch your various jobs, and definitely enjoy the very tasteful background music! Cheers Mate from the states! 👍👍👍👍👍😁✌🏻
your page gives me life . at time doing carpentry work can feel anything BUT glamorous. but your editing style and persoanlity remind me that it is a beautiful and rewarding thing. much love
Always amazed and entertained by the level of craftsmanship and detail the team provides. Thank you agin for my weekly "Scott Brown here, and in this exciting episode..."
I always find it funny what a high bar builders have to get over in terms of inspections but plumbers can just come a long and hack through any inconvenient joist and 🦗
I doubt that licensed plumber did that....more like a well intention DIY job done cheap & not a good one at that! Proper skilled trades do things properly. Decent trades do not want to have to come back & fix something they did wrong. Bodgers do bodge jobs & create more headaches than they fix, then they typically are gone with the tail lights of the truck, never to be seen again. I reckon half of the work I take on here in Canada involves removing something which was done the wrong way, usually fairly recently. In the case of showers & bathrooms, they always leak, squeak, crack & reek...You gotta have substantial, overkill framing under there for tile because it is HEAVY. Then you have to remember that a bath tub on top will add another 120lbs of water then a 250lb person & it absolutely must not move a single mm....EVER...!
Scott could you please put a note on the screen as to what material you are using in a particular shoot. Like what was that board the guys were nailing down and do you use stainless screws in the bathroom area.
I don’t see any water proofing under that shower tray ? Not sure what your code is in New Zealand though but in Australia we waterproof the whole bathroom
I'll be dealing with tile around a window in my shower area soon...here's hoping you're doing that and beat me to it so I can see any tips or tricks @Scott Brown Carpentry
I envy those construction techniques you guys have in NZ. In Europe everything takes aaaages cuz of traditional building techniques (bricks, cement all that crap). I like my shower plate to have a minimum slope, like 3-4mm on 1m in direction of this hole... don't know this word in EN... you know, so water would escape a lil bit better.
Kimli L - it's not about the window being see through, it's about being able to waterproof the inside of the opening so that water does not work it's way into the wall cavity. Otherwise you end up with rot like what was at the side of the old shower pan. I have see windows in showers before, but they are normally set higher in the wall above where they would be subject to direct water spray.
*_Serious Question_* for any tradies who uses those big Demo bags. How do you empty them? Are they picked up? What? I have a demo coming up and really need a good solution for rubbish.
Scott how big is that bathroom? I'm looking at a reno for my bathroom and that's exactly what I had in mind. Will be following the new video's closely!
By the way, did you know you can use your smartphone as a torpedo level? It's built in. Look on web for details for your device. Plenty of apps do this. Pixel phones don't need an app.
watched all your videos!! GREAT!!!! but just trying to clear one thing. do you always glue TILE UNDERLAY? I only use nails. i remember JAMES HARDIE recommend nail only.. trade to trade talk, try to improve myself
Nail only for timber floor otherwise "When fixing tile and slate underlay over particle board/plywood/ composite flooring substrates adhesive must be used in addition to nails."
How do you sort out contracts or agreements for these renovations. You would seem to need an awful lot of "wiggle room" for the wee surprises that seem to be endemic to old timber framed houses!?
A construction contract provides a legal binding agreement for the owner and builder that stipulates the executed works will receive the specific amount. It will also stipulate on how variations will be distributed. There are several types of contracts used in the industry. The most common one used is a fixed price.
Does it never get cold or hot there? I remember you mentioning before insulation isn't popular there but it blows my mind every time I see inside your guys' exterior walls. Must just have so much noise in these houses, and if it does get cold or hot they must be power hogs to heat or cool.
They’re insulating as they renovate. They didn’t have insulation here in 1920 (other than the occasional wall you find stuffed with newspaper or something, but that hardly counts). Auckland is very mild and typically in nz/Australia rooms are heated individually, central heating is very uncommon.
why do you use compressed in half the bathroom and ply with tile underlay on it for the other half. timber flooring in a bathroom is never a good idea but we might be taught differently in aus
Nice find on the old drain, haha, but not too unusual to discover unfortunately. I’ve discovered the same in my old house. Had to strengthen the floor on the bathroom from underneath by doubling the runners and cross brace each in order to stiffen the floor again. The owner should be thrilled having you renovating! I’ve been watching most episodes now, and you show really really good craftsmanship. Most of what you do is done similar here in Norway, you have some techniques I’ll most certainly will adapt.
@@brendonwalters4963 ah, okay. That explains why they’re happy to crawl under floors with no worries. I’ve been to Aus a few times and seen a few red backs and Sydney funnel webs, and a large huntsman but wasn’t sure what NZ had if anything.
G,day Scott and the team from Sydney, Australia. * wet area flooring (not using the FC sheeting v particle/chipboard)? * would be interested in the floor and wall waterproofing system (minimum around taps/drains/joints). 🌏🇭🇲💦
1:20 Hey Scott, you got any more info on the recessed outlet? looking at redoing my laundry soon and want something exactly like this but have not been able to find anything that is not USA. i'm just over the water here in Aus so that should do me just fine!
Hey Scott, since you had the floor totally stripped and the floor joist also. Why didn't you install the new joist at a level so you wouldn't hat to build that ramp to enter the washroom later on in the project?
Or are you talking about the shower area? It has to be like this so water can drain.. I haven’t even watched the video yet but this is common sense that water has to drain away and that it has to be connected to existing floor levels
@@hsfest I’m talking about the bathroom floor. The shower has it’s own pan. Perhaps there wasn’t a possibility to put the floor even lower so the tiled floor matches the timber one later.
I'm a Tile Guy from California & I am appalled by that Tile work giving a hard time to The Homie Chef Paerau! I'm going over there right now & start swinging!
Usual bathroom crap. The joist cut out is par for the course I am sure they teach plumbers that all over the World. I have even seen a main bearer cut to a third with a 4 inch pipe through it. Well you have to get falls. Years ago in the UK it was quite common to glue tiles to the wood. No cement boards back then. The walls were often ply in wet areas as well tiled straight over so like your old bathroom all glued to wood. The new layout has to be better than the old that was crazy.
Another exciting episode for sure! Always impressed with you and your teams craftsmanship, top notch all the way! Thank you for posting! Looking forward to your next video :^)
Do enjoy old houses, have recently started a job where the client wanted their timber window frames fixed and polycarbonate sheeting replaced. They were hoping to re use the old timber, which would be an easy job however they were all rotted out, 1 day job turned into a 4 day job.
Hey Scott, do you guys get any nasty critters under your crawl spaces down there? I know Australia has some really dangerous snakes & spiders which can lurk in dark, dank, cool places like that so what's the nasties like in NZ?...
No nasties here in NZ. There is the odd White-Tail Spider, a recent import from Australia, but otherwise nothing. You can stick your fingers anywhere and be confident you won’t get stung, or bitten.
@@tutekohe1361 Lucky! Here in Canada we have medium sized things which will let you have it when cornered in the dark like raccoons, skunks, porcupines, all of which are "physically" active & also carry rabies. They are a problem mostly because they break in destructively, then shew up stuff while making the place stink with urine & feces. Red squirrels are the real housebreakers & chewers... We do have a couple of snakes but the poisonous ones are extremely rare. Insects are the most unpleasant. Black flies eat chunks of you in spring, mosquitoes are a horrid, itchy menace, especially in the dark like a crawl space. Wasps have to be the most common & unpleasant... Their stings seem to have become a lot more potent in the last few years. A sunny roof space is almost guaranteed to have a nest waiting for you. The underground varieties are very aggressive & their stings swell up like a tennis ball. Bang a fence post in one of those & you will know it! These nests are also difficult to kill off, surviving being sprayed, burned, smoked & washed out. The best way I used before in the UK is a powder called Cymag which produces cyanide gas. A spoon full in the hole then a turf placed on top in the evening does the trick but I have never seen it here in Canada.
Do you New Zealand "carpenters" ever do concrete floors or decks (if so how big an area could you tackle), or is it exclusively a commercial/specalist contractor thing?
No Scott no... There is not a drop of plaster on those walls my friend. You have tape and jointed with surprise tape and jointing compound... The cheap way used on most new builds here in the uk . Personally I would by fully plastered/skimmed car more dhrable . More cost though.
Anyone else use the Makira DRT50 and find the standard 1/4in collett is way too tight for standard 1/4in bits? Just bought one and it's damn near impossible to get bits in and out.
