Finding work.

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:01]Well, hello folks off YouTube. My name's Ian. Welcome to me channel.

[00:00:07]I'm the ongoing saga of the garden upgrade.

[00:00:13]I'm sort of pretty much done in here of things today. I've got to mend the door.

[00:00:17]I've got to paint the top.

[00:00:19]I've got to got a lot of block paving to go all the way up there. Or I could just fill it in with sand and cement.

[00:00:34]>> [sighs] >> As I know the video, I've got an idea about that. I've got to try make [music] something to make me life easier.

[00:00:40]But this video, well when I put these lights up at uh Christmas I noticed I've got a bit of rotten wood up there.

[00:01:00]Let's go over there.

[00:01:02]Yeah. So all the way across here it's just some skirting board I found and uh it it it it's it's rotten.

[00:01:13]And here where I pieced it totally rotted and disappeared.

[00:01:20]And the underlying wood is also started to rot.

[00:01:24]And that we cannot have.

[00:01:28]So we need to uh sort this out.

[00:01:32]For that, we need to go for a little walk.

[00:01:37]Like I said, we don't have to walk far.

[00:01:39]I just live around that corner there. Yeah, that that house.

[00:01:44]So we was out here yesterday morning and we was taking the baby for a walk in the pram.

[00:01:51]And I got to uh I got to where that white van is.

[00:01:57]Where I saw these these lot They're building a a dormer on the house. Like a bedroom sticking out. To do that, they had to take all the fascia off the front.

[00:02:10]And they threw it there.

[00:02:12]It was there.

[00:02:15]Safety crocs.

[00:02:24]Yeah. So, what I said, it was there.

[00:02:27]It's now here.

[00:02:30]What does it look like?

[00:02:32]It looks like this. Fascia board.

[00:02:36]And I was thinking, I could use that.

[00:02:39]That big lip.

[00:02:41]I could fit over the edge of here, rip that off, put that in its place.

[00:02:56]Like that.

[00:02:59]And then, it won't rot.

[00:03:02]Huh.

[00:03:04]Damn.

[00:03:08]Look at the size of this garage roof, which means the main garage is that big inside.

[00:03:16]You wouldn't believe that, would you?

[00:03:18]All right.

[00:03:21]I'm going to get all this stuff off and uh figure out Unfortunately, that one got a big chunk out the middle, but I'm sure I can I can I can fix it.

[00:03:35]I can.

[00:03:36]Well, that top ripped off, we can see we've got a little bit more rot. A lot more rot, to be honest. And that's just That's just rotted off.

[00:03:49]Uh what's this?

[00:03:51]That's a big piece of 60 60 angle iron.

[00:03:56]That was to make still is to make uh a bench folder.

[00:04:05]Hm, one day when I'm retired when I've done every other job.

[00:04:10]So hm I think I need to get these rotten bits off.

[00:04:23]That don't seem too bad.

[00:04:25]Oh, so that's screwed to this.

[00:04:29]That was screwed to that with these hex head long screws.

[00:04:38]Oh, that's heavy.

[00:04:41]Like that.

[00:04:43]So go on.

[00:04:48]You can't make an omelette without breaking an egg.

[00:04:52]Let's get breaking some eggs.

[00:04:54]A feather.

[00:04:56]That means that angel been nearby.

[00:05:01]Right.

[00:05:03]Stop procrastinating.

[00:05:06]Look at all that space I've got under there.

[00:05:09]All of it.

[00:05:11]That's That's [snorts] amazing.

[00:05:15]Huh.

[00:05:17]Well, don't you just love how a little job gets turned.

[00:05:21]So I've managed to extract all but one of these long bolts.

[00:05:34]That's That's That's That's a I'll tell you what I'll do.

[00:05:41]Get a pair of mole grips, clip it on the end, pull it out. You know what happened?

[00:05:46]As you can see, uh snapped off.

[00:05:50]So, I'll give it a little bit of pondering and I thought, really?

[00:05:55]>> [snorts] >> I can get a angle grinder slitting disc in that in that slit there.

[00:06:08]I can cut through that and uh take this board off.

[00:06:14]What do you reckon?

[00:06:20]Maybe.

[00:06:22]Maybe not.

[00:06:24]Give it a try, yeah?

[00:06:28]Wouldn't like shark scrapper me picking me up.

[00:07:01]Well, that worked there.

[00:07:03]I'll work further along.

[00:07:08]There we go.

[00:07:11]Ah.

[00:07:24]If you listen quietly, you can hear the birds tweeting.

[00:07:28]Beautiful and peaceful.

[00:07:30]You know, it's a Saturday night. It's uh uh 10 to 7.

[00:07:39]Oh.

[00:07:40]Peaceful.

[00:07:42]Have now.

[00:07:46]Just listen to that beautiful birdsong.

[00:07:52]Beautiful.

[00:08:05]Oh, I got to get this lot over there.

[00:08:19]Well, that's uh got rid of the most of it.

[00:08:23]As you can see, still quite a gap there.

[00:08:28]I don't know why I didn't fill that in years ago.

[00:08:31]Anyway, in the I've got some flashing, which I can uh put all the way along there and uh seal that gap up.

[00:08:48]Then, probably put a another piece across the top.

[00:08:58]Mhm.

[00:09:00]And put that plastic over.

[00:09:03]That's the plan. But, at the moment, got to tell you, I'm I'm I'm I'm running out of steam now.

[00:09:12]You know, been at it for a for a while.

[00:09:16]So, there's only one thing to do, isn't there? There's only one thing to do when you're running out of steam.

[00:09:24]Put some steam back in you.

[00:09:38]I'm going to call that tonight.

[00:09:42]Half a day's work in front of me tomorrow.

[00:09:45]We'll get it sorted. We've got a whole week of beautiful sunny weather going.

[00:09:49]In fact, a mini heatwave.

[00:09:53]Ideal for getting these outside jobs done before I go back in there.

[00:10:00]Sort the shed out.

[00:10:02]See you all in the next one.