Before installing vertical siding, proper preparation requires installing horizontal pressure-treated wood strapping around the entire house to create a rain screen system, which is essential for Pacific Northwest homes with high rainfall. This strapping provides a secure attachment point for the siding and prevents water infiltration. Additionally, when working with pressure-treated lumber, galvanized nails or coated screws must be used, as standard fasteners can corrode and cause the siding to fail over time.
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we're almost finished the house (ep.125)
Added:So, we're officially on week three of putting up our sophets. This is one of the last areas we have to do. So, basically, it's this. And do you remember when we did this last year and then we didn't finish it?
>> We gave up.
>> Cuz you have to like basically roll on the roof to do that.
>> Yeah.
>> We'll have to finish that one. But once we're done that, then we can move on to siding.
>> I'm so excited. Like we still have the Claratory upstairs, but we're not going to focus on that. We just really want to do everything on the scaffolding.
>> Give the scaffolding back.
>> Yeah, cuz this is like a weekly rental.
Okay, first thing >> we got prep. As for all the finishing stuff, there's so much prep. I got these blockings. We just need to put them in.
So for this section, we are doing it this way.
>> Yes.
>> All this the cedar. And so this is why we're putting the blocking in so we have something to attach to.
>> Thank you for the good explanation. This is correct.
[music] All right.
Perfect.
>> I did this one earlier and then I did that corner back there earlier.
>> Didn't want to bore everyone.
>> We now need to get all of our cedar up there, which we haven't done yet. We haven't had to go up two story scaffolds, so this should be fun.
>> Hi. Uh just one piece at a time. Pass it up to me and then I'll place it down.
>> [music] >> We got a good amount up there.
>> Let's go drill some holes now, baby.
>> Let's go.
>> Are you excited? Cuz I'm excited.
>> There's been more exciting days, I got to admit. I love this cedar, but you know, we've spent a lot of time with her >> and I'm ready to part ways.
>> You're ready to part ways?
>> Yeah. I don't think we've invested any more time than we have in this than any other material in the home.
>> This is true. [music] >> We drove 16 hours to get it.
>> This is true.
>> And then painted it for 50 hours.
>> This is also true.
>> And then hung it up for 200 hours. I remember hanging up from these Oh my gosh.
>> You remember?
>> Yeah.
>> [music] >> We have two rows done and we're just doing a little corners. [music] So, we start over here in the corner by the fireplace. We put that piece in and then we go all the way all the way over here.
And we're just repeating that.
>> You want to get your little little high chair, >> sir? [laughter] >> This side or this side?
>> Sir, you barely can touch that. Okay.
>> But I can touch it, though.
>> You're only 2 in taller than me, so >> you need a high chair.
>> That was a pretty good one.
>> That was pretty good. [laughter] >> It was pretty good.
>> Wait, wait, wait, wait. What did you just say?
>> I need my high chair. Oh, now you needed it.
>> Yeah, I can't reach it. I'm too short.
Short came.
[laughter] Hi, Jack.
What are you doing?
[gasps] And then Benson's still at the front door. A Oh.
Oh, there's Benson.
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You guys want to see something really funny? Like two and a half years later.
This leftover what do you call it? Like >> let me see.
>> What do you call this again?
>> Mortar.
>> Yeah. This this leftover mortar. This used to go up to the old sophets. Do you see this?
>> Yeah.
>> We are like an eighth of an inch higher than the old sophet. [music] >> Dang. That's pretty good. That's how well we rebuilt it. Like it's kind of crazy.
>> That is crazy >> that we're that close.
>> Yeah, cuz we didn't cut this fireplace at all. This is all original, this fireplace here.
>> Yeah. So, it looks pretty darn good.
[music] Can you guys see it? Can you see the five o'clock true ship?
I think this one's a princess.
[music] [music] Looks great. I am so impressed. We got all this done today.
Look at that.
Basically, tomorrow we just have to finish the interior ones, which we do have to put through the table saw.
They're going to be little bitty strips, but it looks good.
>> It looks really good.
It just looks finished, you know, like a house.
>> I know. It's going to look good from the the kitchen. Do you guys want to see how much cedar we have left? So, we have our stack that we have painted, I don't know, like a week and a half ago.
>> Mhm. Mhm. And then [laughter] this is it. Literally, there's nothing left. These are just like leftover pieces. Like a lot of them are good here. We'll use them all. But it's astonishing to see this pile just gone.
>> The patio ate them.
>> Yeah, >> the patio took all of the stuff.
>> It's crazy.
Anyways, we're going to start the morning off with some table saw and a lot of detailed work.
[music] I got my little stick. My little hitting stick, >> sir.
[laughter] >> I got a bigger one.
>> Okay, you got the bigger stick. Okay.
Okay, I take that back.
Okay, we'll cut the other one.
[music] So Nick, this past week and all [music] morning, he has been working on all the drawings for all of our um trims that go around windows and just the flashing stuff that we [music] need in order to start the siding next week. So he's just running back drawing [music] a new diagram for the company that's making it. It's so complicated. So, I'm just gonna get our next piece ready.
[music] Perfect.
>> Officially done the roof.
>> Yay.
[applause] >> I think we can move on to the next one.
>> Yeah, let's do it.
>> It is freaking toasty up here. I got my bucket hat. Nick has his bucket hat.
>> It's my favorite hat. I did make it. A lot of people were asking if I made it.
Yes, I made it for Nick a few years ago.
>> Jenna's made me a couple things actually.
>> Yeah.
>> The famous vest.
>> The hedgehog.
>> The hedgehog vest >> in the desert.
>> Mhm.
>> Two of my favorite things. Then she made me this hat.
>> Yeah.
>> What else did you make me?
>> I made you coasters.
>> You did make the coasters.
>> Yeah. But I don't think many other things. It took a long time. That vest.
The vest was like that was an investment.
>> I think I think I spent um 50 hours maybe making his vest. Maybe 60. It was a lot cuz I redid it like once. But that was >> Yeah, you had to redo it.
>> I remember that.
>> I remember that.
>> That was the pre-house when I had infinite time. Nick is just working on one of our last downspouts. And while he does that, I want to show you this.
It is completely done. This is the top of our chimney now.
It is so pretty. Look at that.
So now when it rains, we should not have any issues with it leaking. The old tarp we had there was the culprit for I think all of our leaks or at least that's what all the masonry people that came by and looked at it said it was. So hopefully this winter now no more water in the house.
>> [music] >> How's your side?
>> Doesn't fit.
>> But it fit earlier.
>> So I said it fit, but it was really bowed.
>> It was like Yeah.
>> How much off?
>> Like you got to cut a quarter inch.
>> Quarter inch off.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay.
>> The only thing that's nice about being under here is it's not too hot. It's hot out there, but it's [music] cool under here.
Perfect.
>> Good.
>> Yep. [music] [music] [music] >> You did it.
>> We did it.
[applause] >> This roof is done. Now, let's go finish the small roof over there. It >> is done.
the not so fun section. The section we have been dreading to do done. But pretty much last thing we need to do for this section.
This right here. Not much left.
This is our final piece on this section of the roof. We're doing it just like Jenna's earlier idea. Slide [music] it in. And it >> last week when we did on the balcony.
>> Yeah.
>> Looks like a professional did it >> honestly.
>> Amazing.
>> Wow.
>> What a reveal.
>> So this morning we are going to be working on the work. We left two weeks ago and working on the sophets in the front of the house. We did not finish up all the baby pieces on the inside of the house here. All of this. And it basically goes around the tire side of this house.
And in order for us to do in order for us to do the siding next week, this all has to be perfectly done.
[music] >> You ready?
>> I am so ready.
This one will be fun to put in.
Is there a side that's better or a side that's worse? This side's pretty nice.
Okay.
[music] Unfortunately, I had to go to the dentist.
Got another cavity.
Oh gosh, I know it's bad. I The thing is I brush my teeth twice a day and floss every single day. It's not like I don't take good care of my teeth. I just have unfortunate luck lately. But good news is it's warm out. I got my cute summer clothes on from Carheart.
I love these purple shorts. They're my new favorite.
>> You got to show them your new shirt.
That's it.
>> Oh, it's recording. [laughter] I can't see the light. It's like too bright outside. But I got a new shirt.
It's breezy.
Hopefully, it won't be stinky anymore.
>> Specifically, this area of the house is extremely difficult for these sophets because it's not one piece. It's like one and a quarter and it has to butt up to the window here and it's it's got to go out for our siding here. And so these pieces along this wall just because of these windows. 10 out of 10 difficulty.
Every time you walk on these, it feels like an earthquake.
>> I'm sorry. I'm a heavy guy. [laughter] >> It's okay. Wa.
And we also have down spouts.
It's a difficult one. So, these are the two pieces we're putting together. I put a couple of dabs of glue down to help hold it. And then we're also going to use our little baby nailer. We We listened to you guys and we got some other nails. So, we you're using Boss Stitch brand nails now. So, hopefully it works a bit better. Okay. Now, let's just take this whole board.
>> Mhm.
>> And then, uh, we'll just kind of move it a little bit there so it's not resting on the metal anywhere. And then we're going to put it on the groove. So, 90° up and on the groove.
Cool. And this is kind of like the scary part.
>> You're going to try to shoot through it.
>> I'm going to try and shoot through it.
Yeah.
>> Did it work?
>> Yeah.
>> Wow.
>> So, just hold it still. I'm just going to make it a little stronger cuz it is going through like solid material here.
Beautiful.
[music] [music] This is our second double piece.
>> Much easier this one.
>> Yeah, it's a lot smaller.
>> It's very small.
My body [music] ta we are done with our sophets for this side of the house. Now we can just go around and then do all the backside stuff.
This is the whole backside. Now, >> we'll finish it today though.
>> We have to no more.
[music] >> So, this piece, it was under a bit of an angle. We messed up building the roof in comparison to the door wall.
>> Look [laughter] at this. Like there to there.
>> It's a bit embarrassing. It's at our front entrance. It's just one of those things where uh you know, maybe Shane does it wrong. I don't know.
>> No, we we free. We had to do a free hand.
>> We like picked the angle.
>> We freehanded it. And this is what happens when you freehand it.
>> Close enough. So, we're just going to We track saw this and now we're just going to throw it in.
Cool. All right.
>> Good enough.
>> Good enough. That's it. Mistake sort of fixed. I guess that's good enough. Good enough, household.
So, this is another part of our sophets we did last November.
Again, didn't finish it because it got a little complicated over here by our heat pump stuff, these things, and we just didn't want to deal with it, so we just left it.
>> But now we're finally here to deal with all of our problems. Right, Jen?
>> Yep.
>> You ready to deal with our problems?
>> Well, no one else was going to do it.
No, [laughter] >> we left it for us still.
>> I know.
>> Not the next person that comes in.
>> No. You ready to fix our problems, Jen?
>> Yeah. It's not that bad. Nick did spend some time >> fixing this up, tiden it up a bit, >> making a little tighter.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. You ready?
>> Yep.
[music] >> [music] [music] >> done.
Garage finally done.
Okay, you ready [clears throat] for the last one?
>> I know. I was going to say, but we're not done.
>> Up on that cliff.
Let's go climb the cliff. Last one over here. You excited to go outside? Yes.
I'll let you outside now.
Oh, [laughter] wow. I got a I got a chair to lounge here and watch you do it.
>> Wow. [laughter] It's the dream.
The working dream.
>> Jack's here, too.
>> Is Jack going to monitor me as well? and pissing.
>> Make sure I'm doing a good job.
>> Everyone, the whole crew is here. This last one, >> it's a lot of eyeballs, a lot of pressure.
>> If you're hot, why are you in the sun?
Why you do that to you?
Get out of the sun. [laughter] You're crazy.
Hey Okay. All right.
I think we're ready.
>> You're ready?
>> I think we're ready for the final piece.
Baby, [snorts] watch me like drop it.
>> No, no, no, no.
>> Done.
>> I think we are done.
>> Oh, thank goodness.
>> That was That was a trek. That was a mission. Yeah, [sighs and gasps] >> that was a lot of sophets and a lot of windows.
Hey, look, Joe, >> Joe, what's he doing here?
So, I have good news. We are officially done installing all of our sophets for now. Um, [laughter] we do technically have more we have to do underneath our patio. There's a whole patio under there we have to do. End our CL story, but those don't involve our scaffolding and we really just want to get rid of this cuz it costs money every single day. So, we're going to move on to the siding.
But before we can do that, we do have some prep. So, this this is a sample of our siding. It's going to go vertically like this. Isn't it pretty?
>> [laughter] >> But the problem is this is our rain screen rain screen. It's it's a Pacific Northwest thing. If you get a lot of rain, you need this on your house now.
And uh unfortunately, this doesn't work to attach to for our vertical siding.
So, we do have to put more strapping horizontally around the entire house in order to attach this. So, we got all this pressuret treated wood we got to put on. Now, are you ready to do something different?
>> I am so excited. [laughter] Today, we're going to start off very easy. This is our first little small wall we're going to do.
>> Okay.
>> Just to work us into things.
>> Okay.
>> And then we're going to do the big wall.
>> Luckily, it's all windows on the back, so there's not much back there.
>> No. This is going to be our main lift today. And then maybe the back of the house if we get to it.
>> Yeah, >> that'd be cool.
>> Yeah, it works nicer.
>> It works nicer. Cool. So, >> beauty. So, what we did is we threw the laser onto this corner. That way, when we kind of like match our siding, it'll be a lot easier.
>> Yeah.
>> If it's all perfectly straight.
>> That's so true.
>> So, there we go.
>> It's so speedy.
>> [music] >> Well, Jen, I think we're uh well underway.
>> Speedy.
>> Speedy. Starting. Starting.
>> Okay.
>> Gentle. Gentle. Gentle.
>> Nick just put a laser down over here.
>> Don't kick the laser.
>> I'm trying. Every time you walk on here, it >> was very bouncy.
>> As long as you don't shake it, let you have it, which is great.
>> Thank you.
>> But we're officially done the first wall. Now we're going to do this wall.
>> Yes.
Unfortunately, our siding does go lower than this gap holding. So, the rest will be installed from down there. First one, sir.
>> Helpful.
>> What happened?
>> It died.
>> You kept going though.
>> I know.
I think it's okay.
>> Sir.
Sir, what is that?
>> It's It's fine.
>> No, it's [laughter] not.
>> No one will see.
>> Everyone watching the video just saw >> Oh, that's okay. [laughter] Perfect. No one saw nothing. Jen, also fun fact, you guys, if you're nailing into pressuret treated or screwing into pressuret treated lumber, make sure you have the right nails. For nails, you need galvanized nails. And for screws, you need special screws, >> like coated screws.
>> Coated screws.
>> Otherwise, otherwise, the pressure treater actually eats away at the screws >> or nails.
>> Or nails if you don't have the right ones. So, it'll just eventually fall off.
>> Just imagine one day you wake up, all your siding is just [laughter] on the floor, >> right? Cuz it just ate itself away.
Like, >> just eats it away.
>> [music] [music] >> Woohoo!
Before we start today, I just have to show you the boys out here. They basically live on this patio.
Ever since we, you know, did this all last week, they [laughter] they are the number one users. Nick and I are still out here like every evening just relaxing, but during the day, just them out here sanning. But I have one more update before we get started on the strapping outside. our refrigerant guy, he came by this morning. He set up our AC, he set up our heat. Everything works in the house, so now we can turn our AC on um when some heat waves come this summer. But uh [laughter] Nick was really excited about our thermostat, so I'm just going to get him to show you guys. [laughter] >> You guys want to see my thermostat?
>> Wow.
>> I just set it cold.
It works. It's so glorious. We tested our ducting too and it's just like >> you can also control it on your phone.
>> Really?
>> Yeah.
>> Wait, wait. Show them the iPad.
>> Show them the iPad.
>> Show them the iPad.
>> I should show them the iPad. So these iPads, they're actually part of our home automation system. I 3D printed this and this custom to this iPad Air. And then you go slides right on there.
>> Dang. Just like magic.
>> It looks so good.
>> And then and then we have our little dashboard here. And it's got everything you need. You can control the lights, see the cameras, interior temperature.
We even got little plant moisture.
>> Mhm.
>> Soil moisture sensors.
>> We got Frank over here.
>> He's He's okay.
>> We got Audrey. She's doing a bit better.
>> Yeah.
>> So, >> and you designed it, too.
>> I designed it all from scratch. And we're going to have three of these around the house. This is just one.
>> It's really cool. I actually go here and I check to make sure they're plants. I'm like, "Do they need to be watered?" Yes.
Okay, I'll go water it. It's actually been really convenient.
>> It's so nice. The best part is it's got like a little garage door button. You can control the garage door from here.
So convenient. Oh, also forgot you can control our climate from here, too. Or the wall over there.
>> Everywhere.
>> Everywhere.
>> Control everything. [laughter] Nick has been working on that iPad for, I think, a couple weeks now, designing this, you know, 3D print to the dashboard to just everything, even getting the charger so it like slim fit on the wall. And uh he was a little worried that it'd be kind of too boring to share with you guys, but I think it's so cool. Like, I love it.
And it's like super easy to use. It's not fully done yet. There's still some things he's tweaking with, but Nick's doing some really cool things for the house behind the scenes that you you just haven't seen yet. So, this is our last wall that we need to strap.
Obviously, we still have the garage, but we're just focusing on anything that has the the scaffolding right now. So, we're going to try to get as much of this done today. I don't think we're going to finish it all because we have some issues with this wall. So basically this with our siding on top will cover the edge of our window there. You can see.
So uh we got to fix something here.
Something's got to be altered so that doesn't happen.
[music] >> [music] >> this top section.
It's okay. It's just that bottom section there that we'll have to fix. So, these ones we can just kind of nail in.
[music] So, we had to make some funny adjustments in our framing when the metal landed on top of it. So, there's this little hump where our insulation is. For that reason, I'm going to have to suck in a bit more there. And then we'll have to notch some of our pieces.
It's going to be a little bit of work.
>> Mhm.
>> But it'll be fun.
>> We should be able to fix the bottom there. It's just that we >> just that section.
>> Oh, was there like strapping too? I don't know.
>> There was strapping or there was something?
>> Yeah, I remember. There was a block of something.
>> There's something.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> It's okay. We'll fix it. No problem.
[music] [music] [music] So, we got 90 pieces of uh our pressuret treated wood and we went through every single piece. We're probably short, only three or four that we'll probably do next week once we work on the siding.
But I'll show you the one prettier thing we did this week.
>> What do you mean? You don't want to show them all the strapping that we did?
>> I don't know. Is it really that exciting to get a tour of this? Like, I don't even think you guys would have noticed if we just put this on and didn't tell you, [laughter] >> right?
>> I know.
>> I don't I don't know.
>> Huh?
Wow.
And we're done. We're done. The sophets or at least everything that we planned to do for the time being before we started the siding, it's all ready. Um yeah, there's nothing left to do. We are now officially prepared for our siding now next week, especially now that we got all these on. We're kind of I was kind of surprised that we actually finished all this this week.
>> Yeah, >> it looks great.
>> I'm so excited to make the house look pretty again.
>> I know. I'm I'm really curious to see how long it's going to take to do the siding, but you finally get to see it next week.
[music] >> [music] >> Come on.
[music] Hey.
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