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[00:00:00]Your 100 grand out of pocket, is this even close to done?

[00:00:03]>> As soon as he walked in the door, his jaw dropped.

[00:00:06]>> There's good work here, and there's stupid work here.

[00:00:08]>> Yeah.

[00:00:09]>> $10 for the staples cost $10,000 worth of >> Huh.

[00:00:13]>> replacing your roof.

[00:00:14]>> Whole new roof, all new restructure, fix the electrical, all new plumbing, fixing the HVAC.

[00:00:21]>> You don't take money from people and then just walk away and leave them in a wreck. This is like worse than starting over.

[00:00:36]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> I'm from Liverpool and then we moved over here 3 years ago.

[00:01:03]>> Katherine and Cameron bought the house.

[00:01:05]She's from Liverpool. You know, they meet, they fall in love, they buy this house, bungalow, perfect house, 1962.

[00:01:11]Never been touched, by the way, until they want to do the dream reno.

[00:01:16]>> Nothing had been done to the house for 50 years. We just sort of had this vision of modernizing it and making it a a really nice home for us.

[00:01:25]>> They wanted to reconfigure the bathrooms and the bedrooms on the first floor and make the main living area completely open concept featuring coffered ceilings, a large fireplace, and glass railings on the basement stairs. So, that from the front of the house, you could see right through to the kitchen at the back.

[00:01:43]They moved to the basement and hired a contractor who said that for 80 grand, he would complete the reno of their dreams.

[00:01:49]>> It was somebody that we could trust because he was our friend's neighbor and, you know, I just naturally thought we were in safe hands, I think, yeah.

[00:01:58]>> Thanks.

[00:02:03]>> Right. I think I've heard way too many times that a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a mother's brother's cousin's sister's. You know, you get it, right? It's too many friends. Oh, they got to know what they're talking about. He came in and sounded good. And 20,000 for the living room and 15,000 for the bathroom. How much you had in pocket?

[00:02:20]>> Under $100,000.

[00:02:21]>> 100,000. You're very lucky.

[00:02:23]>> Well, plus plus >> Plus the lab doors and plus the windows plus the the kitchen. [music] >> We didn't get any proper references. We didn't actually go and see any of the work that he actually did.

[00:02:34]We just had a chat about it and, you know, went off what he told [music] us and, you know, trusted him.

[00:02:41]>> So, he's taken this wall out and replaced it with a beam. So, this is going to be a beam in here.

[00:02:46]>> That yep.

[00:02:47]>> This beam goes across. What's picking it up?

[00:02:50]>> I know they put some beams across that entranceway. I think it's sitting on top of there.

[00:02:55]>> Now, what I'm seeing is the kitchen over here.

[00:02:57]>> Yes.

[00:02:58]>> Originally, that door was over here, yes?

[00:03:00]>> Yeah.

[00:03:00]>> Once you move the door, it was a point load here. It was a point load here. Once you move that door, was that changed downstairs?

[00:03:09]>> No, nothing was changed downstairs.

[00:03:11]>> Think about that. Both sides of the door. Boom.

[00:03:14]Boom. There's the door. We're between my two arms. That's a point load. That's a point load. Move the door, point loads have changed.

[00:03:22]>> Yeah.

[00:03:22]>> This house is brick and block construction. So, the door headers will be supported by that block. If you move a door, only one side of it is properly supported. The point load on the other side is over the door structure below, which may not be able to support the weight.

[00:03:37]I don't even know yet. I got to check that. How many pot lights you have? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1,400. You have a whole lot of pot lights in your attic space.

[00:03:48]>> He told us that the proper trades would be brought in for the [music] electrical work and the plumbing work.

[00:03:53]>> These bulbs get really hot.

[00:03:55]How much insulation's above it? Is it proper? Is it fire-rated?

[00:03:59]>> And he said, "Well, the electrician that we were that we budgeted like 10,000 for, cuz you know, you've gone over that budget, um I'm going to save you 2,000 and I'm going to do it."

[00:04:09]And I'm like like like what?

[00:04:12]>> Let's move towards your bedroom just so I get the layout of what you're doing, what you're thinking.

[00:04:18]Couple of missed spots on drywall. Was this you or them?

[00:04:21]>> No, this is one of the later stages, you know, when the drywall went up and it didn't look right. I think it was only till we could sort of started getting to the finishing stages where we could see, you know, [music] like they the drywall going up and I started to have some real bad feelings about, you know, how it looked and it didn't look right to me.

[00:04:39]>> Let's do a quick look at your master bathroom. So, we did our plumbing, brought it up in the wall here.

[00:04:47]So, why do my pipes bang?

[00:04:50]>> Not not secured properly to the wall.

[00:04:52]>> Come on, give me a freaking break. It's a good thing you didn't drywall. It doesn't matter. I'm probably going to take all the drywall down anyways.

[00:04:56]>> Now, I'm starting to feel like, oh my god, what uh >> What have we done?

[00:05:00]>> What have What What have What haven't we noticed now that's been covered up that's behind the walls?

[00:05:05]>> What is this?

[00:05:07]>> Um we're supposed to have heated floors, so I don't know if that's for the floors or towel rack. But yeah, we want we asked for um >> Well, you have big dreams, eh?

[00:05:16]>> Yeah.

[00:05:16]>> Towel rack, I want stereo everywhere, I want a rain head, I WANT A BIG SHOWER. I LIKE what you want. You're not going to get that for the money you paid.

[00:05:25]>> It was a draining. Like that's all we talked about for months. And like we were We had a We had a conversation. We like went to the pub one night. I said, "We got anything else like to talk about?" Because that's all we talk about. It just took over our lives.

[00:05:39]>> I haven't even seen the whole place yet and I can tell there's problems with the basement. What about structure? So, possible number right off my head is minimum 150 grand right now.

[00:05:48]Minimum.

[00:05:50]>> [clears throat] >> To finish your house.

[00:05:51]>> Okay, can you sit down?

[00:05:53]>> And that's if I don't find any problems.

[00:05:59]Okay, so this is your main bathroom, right? Not the master.

[00:06:03]So, 4-ft cabinet you're saying?

[00:06:05]>> Yes.

[00:06:06]>> Okay. So, your tub's right here, your toilet's here. It's really close to the tub. That toilet tank is going to be right here. Right here.

[00:06:14]If your 4-ft cabinet goes to about here, is your toilet in the right spot?

[00:06:18]>> No.

[00:06:18]>> It's not centered, is it?

[00:06:19]>> No. No.

[00:06:21]>> Toilet's not in. Toilet flange is not in.

[00:06:24]>> It was a horrible job. We just thought, well, we have to cut these guys loose, otherwise, you know, what what do we do? Do we end up with, you know, living with a horrible job? Or, you know, and paying all paying all this money out. We paid all this money out for what?

[00:06:40]For what?

[00:06:40]>> We we've watched all these renovation shows before and we like to say, "How could someone be that stupid not do the research?" And then, we look at ourselves like 6 months later, it's like, "Oh god, we never Yeah, we fell in the same trap.

[00:06:52]>> We were just totally stupid and naive.

[00:06:54]We couldn't see whether we did a good job or anything. So, it's Yes, we were very stupid.

[00:07:02]>> I'm going to be ripping apart quite a few things to confirm structure's fine, and I may have to kick your butt out of the basement to fix [music] structure because it wasn't done right in the first place.

[00:07:14]>> Half our clothes are not even been unpacked. Like, all our like books, all our stuff that's like from the UK is still all out in the boxes. Our life has been on hold for 15 months.

[00:07:26]>> Thank you, sir.

[00:07:26]>> Yes, you're a lifesaver. Thank you.

[00:07:29]>> Here's like a candy. Okay.

[00:07:31]When did you pull that old floor up?

[00:07:33]>> Oh, we did that. [music] >> You pulled up this floor?

[00:07:35]>> Yes, it was in the master bedroom. So, when they let the contractors go, we got to um >> Okay.

[00:07:41]>> get rid of some anger. so we pulled the floor up.

[00:07:45]>> [music] >> I'm never going to encourage you to live downstairs because in order to do this you've got to change HVAC ductwork as you move the doors so too and so I can tell there are two new runs over there.

[00:07:57]>> Yeah.

[00:07:57]>> In order to do all this they've either gone through the floor or they do it from downstairs.

[00:08:08]>> The homeowners have been living in the basement >> Yeah.

[00:08:10]>> 15 months and uh they did move duct lines, they did move plumbing, and they did move all kinds of things.

[00:08:15]>> Without going to the basement?

[00:08:16]>> Yes.

[00:08:18]Which means >> [laughter] >> Uh they fitted in where they could which means it's probably wrong everywhere.

[00:08:23]>> Uh let's just hope they didn't cut any floor joists. So we need to confirm all this. So let's start by doing a few things. Let's get rid of this stuff into the bin.

[00:08:30]>> Yeah.

[00:08:36]>> That door used to be over here.

[00:08:38]>> Okay.

[00:08:39]>> So what being over here we had weight displacement over top of the doors.

[00:08:43]As soon as they moved the door and they didn't move the basement door.

[00:08:45]>> Oh man.

[00:08:46]>> So I need to confirm structure.

[00:08:51]We're going to keep the garage as our storage of equipment so let's get the fireplace out there. I want someone walk around with a pen and pad and tell me everything that's in that garage. I see toilets, I see a the stove. Let's find out what we don't need to go get.

[00:09:05]>> 1 2 3 4 >> We got the heavy hitters.

[00:09:11]>> [music] >> I'd like to knock of the drywall here.

[00:09:17]All right, let's be careful of any of the plastic cuz we're going to see just I want the drywall down so we'll cut the edges.

[00:09:25]Oh, beautiful.

[00:09:26]>> That's definitely an LVL there.

[00:09:28]>> This will visually show us how this is tied in, where it's carried overload here, and what they've done in this area.

[00:09:38]Here's what I'm seeing. Come on in here.

[00:09:40]>> Okay.

[00:09:41]>> I think it ends right there.

[00:09:43]>> Yeah, you're right.

[00:09:44]>> My worry is if they're using this as load is what is carried downstairs on What What's under this wall?

[00:09:56]That's the problem. The ductwork is right in their way.

[00:09:59]>> Yeah.

[00:09:59]>> So, I do have a structure problem here.

[00:10:02]One, the opening upstairs should be approximately here. This means it's over top of ductwork. Two, the other side should be over here.

[00:10:11]>> Right. It's picked up right there, right? You can see it there?

[00:10:14]>> Yes.

[00:10:14]>> So, this is the only side that it's being properly picked up.

[00:10:17]>> Yes. That door structure supports about 25% of the weight of the roof. So, if it's not built properly, the floor will eventually sag and the entire wall could collapse.

[00:10:28]>> Awesome.

[00:10:34]>> [music] >> I'm almost tall enough.

[00:10:51]>> All right.

[00:10:52]>> All right, thank you, sir.

[00:10:53]>> You sure?

[00:10:56]>> Heavy stuff. Heavy stuff.

[00:11:00]>> Heavy stuff.

[00:11:01]>> Teamwork.

[00:11:04]>> Nice.

[00:11:06]>> There's the two 2 by 12s, and unfortunately, what they didn't do was sandwich them together. They kept them independent. And it would appear we have a bow from the weight load of this beam.

[00:11:16]See how I can move that?

[00:11:18]Now, keep them independent and you have not a proper structure underneath it. If I can grab that, move it with my hands, they're independent.

[00:11:26]And I have a hell of a bow in there.

[00:11:29]So, that's picking up load of the ceiling.

[00:11:32]This flat ceiling, the knee wall comes up off on to on top of that. It's picking up load of this ceiling and puts a lot of weight right over top of the den door, which is why it's bending down.

[00:11:46]Electrical needs to be confirmed, structure needs to be confirmed, plumbing needs to be confirmed, HVAC needs to be confirmed. So, guess what I have to do?

[00:11:53]Pull the basement ceiling down.

[00:11:55]>> Oh, right. Yeah.

[00:11:56]>> you can't be here anymore.

[00:11:57]>> Okay.

[00:11:58]>> Do you have a place to stay?

[00:11:59]>> Yes, we do. Just feeling you know, completely disheveled and foolish, really.

[00:12:10]>> I'm going to move them out of the house.

[00:12:11]We're going to drop the ceiling in the basement. We need to pull the ceiling in the family room right across to the fireplace. We need to pull the ceiling in the home office, in the storage room here, and in the kitchen laundry room downstairs.

[00:12:25]We got to drop this ceiling, so we're going to do the standard thing we do when we don't want to tie into the walls. You're going to measure about 4 in off of the crown molding, okay?

[00:12:34]>> [music] >> Did you guys do this?

[00:12:48]>> No.

[00:12:49]>> You didn't do that? Wow, so they have a disconnect.

[00:13:05]Okay, here's something I saw right away that is actually totally bugging me.

[00:13:09]Look at what they cut.

[00:13:11]>> The sill.

[00:13:11]>> They cut the sill.

[00:13:13]The weather's going to get in here and break the wall.

[00:13:15]>> going to be trouble.

[00:13:16]>> Well, let's come up with a game plan on what we should do with this. We'll check the structure on the inside, what they've done. I'm going to pull a lot of drywall. So, this is one part.

[00:13:27]All new windows right around. This is the new master bath. I don't see any lintel whatsoever.

[00:13:33]>> This is a all masonry home, so you've got block being supported by nothing.

[00:13:37]>> Unless they're not putting brick above the window, you got to put a piece of steel in.

[00:13:40]>> tell us? Who installed the windows?

[00:13:42]>> Not Trimble.

[00:13:43]>> Who did the brick?

[00:13:45]>> Not me.

[00:13:51]>> [music] >> We got to lose the drywall. I want to fix any vapor barrier issues. I want to fix any nailing edge issues.

[00:13:59]>> And you can see we have holes here. The whole [music] side of the beam isn't tucked in properly. Well, that's the attic right there. Vapor barrier isn't doing its job.

[00:14:07]>> So, you got all this insulation from the attic coming right through. How do I fix stuff like this with drywall up? How am I going to fill this properly without it cracking? I mean, stuff like this, these gaps here.

[00:14:23]>> You know what? You could probably handle that.

[00:14:33]>> Okay, I tried. I tried very hard not to take everything down.

[00:14:38]Damon comes in, he ends up gutting the whole place. I mean, all the drywall. He ends up moving in the direction that he has to go. Why?

[00:14:46]We have structural issues, HVAC, electrical, plumbing.

[00:14:50]That means everything, right? And once he's pulled it all down, I bring in Jim, the engineer, and sure enough, he freaks me out because I don't have a proper beam above that door.

[00:15:00]>> Originally, the weight of the roof was properly transferred down to the foundation. When they moved that door, the contractor only used one beam to support that weight, which is nowhere near enough. Now, I got to add two more to get three LVLs to pick up the weight load of the roof.

[00:15:15]>> Let's talk about the beam.

[00:15:16]>> What I would have done in the first place is gone right to the outside wall.

[00:15:19]>> Yes, but absolutely, especially when you go downstairs.

[00:15:21]>> Duct work.

[00:15:21]>> When you see the duct work and the fact that they can't get proper bearing. Went downstairs, they've got good bearing here. It's on a block wall. There's some cracking, it's a little loose, but there is blocking. So so they they they had some idea that you had to transfer the load through blocking, but I think wherever they had a challenge and they couldn't do it, they didn't.

[00:15:39]>> I've had everyone in here today, and I mean everyone, to come up with a game plan on how we're going to attack this to put it all back together again.

[00:15:45]First, take it apart, fix it, put it all back together. Let's do it.

[00:15:50]>> Thank you.

[00:15:58]>> Okay, Damon, this is [music] where most of my work will be actually for this project. I have my drain from the kitchen, as well as I have a vent, which is continuation of this vent, and that's all that is there.

[00:16:09]>> That is there, yeah. Those two need to be reconnected. That's half the battle for me. However, this [music] drain >> Yeah.

[00:16:15]>> and this from It's from the kitchen, and I need to connect it somewhere. And I need to remove this wall.

[00:16:20]>> Yeah, the only access I had The only [music] place where I can hook this up is once this comes out and this wall is opened up, I'm going to have access [music] to the drain from the sink.

[00:16:30]>> Oh, so you need the cabinet removed.

[00:16:32]>> need the cabinet [music] removed, and I need that wall open.

[00:16:39]>> [music] [music] [music] >> So I bring in Steve in just to take a look at the roof to see what he thinks.

[00:17:08]Sure enough, what do we find? The morons here decided to use a two a two and a half inch staple gun to put up there baffles in between the rafters to give us that air span and blow them right through the roof.

[00:17:18]>> How do you do that? How do you fire from underneath not even looking at 2-in a freaking staple isn't going through the roof.

[00:17:25]>> I mean basically if it's a $10,000 roof it's a $10,000 fix.

[00:17:29]>> Okay, so today we're just going to pull out the rest of the roof shingles up and then get the paper down, yes?

[00:17:33]>> Yeah, exactly.

[00:17:36]If it was just a few staples here and there you know we could have removed a few areas but we've got a huge mixture of roof vents up here that has to be corrected and we have some moldy and distorted plywood that should be corrected, too. So, you know, based on all the little individual fixes that we have to do, we're left with just doing the whole roof.

[00:17:52]>> [music] [music] >> We're resheeting the roof.

[00:18:05]This is a piece of the 4x4 3/8 plywood that came off. As you can see, you know, it's quite flexible. Doesn't have a lot of rigidity to it. A lot of signs of previous water leakage.

[00:18:17]Part of the reason why it's coming off.

[00:18:20]This is a piece of what's going on and it's significantly more rigid. It's 5/8 of an inch thick, which is a full quarter inch thicker than the original sheathing.

[00:18:30]Plus it's Bluewood so we got the mold resistance and such to it. So, if we're going to be changing parts we might as well sheet the roof with proper plywood.

[00:18:42]>> [music] >> This was in the attic.

[00:18:46]>> Hampers?

[00:18:46]>> Hampers I think is the type of fish. Oh, it's really old. That's on the key thing. Hanging up on the wall.

[00:18:53]>> [music] >> It's the truth. You really need to research and and you know, find somebody that that's been in business a [music] long, long time and and really check out his work thoroughly.

[00:19:09]>> [music] >> Oh my god.

[00:19:14]>> Katherine?

[00:19:14]>> Hey, how you doing?

[00:19:15]>> See you again, Cameron?

[00:19:17]>> Nice to see you, mate.

[00:19:17]>> I'm going to into my homes.

[00:19:19]>> god.

[00:19:20]Wow.

[00:19:20]>> Once we started pulling things down, Damien made the call to do it all. And I'll explain.

[00:19:25]Some of the drywall was good. I like the double screws that they did, but a lot of the drywall, one, there was no [music] tuck tape on the plastic. So, that's an absolute no, because if we can get any bleeding of cool air coming in, especially with bad insulation, we don't want that.

[00:19:38]>> Mhm.

[00:19:38]>> Uh two, a lot of the joints came over structure. So, instead of having our joints right on the studs, they came over in between [music] the studs. So, there's no backing and it's always going to crack. It's never going to be good.

[00:19:50]So, I bring in my engineer.

[00:19:52]And my engineer says, "Well, we already know that this load right here, it's two 2 by 12s, which is actually in the plans, is incorrect. Is one, we want to see some plywood in between it. We want to glue and we want it tagged." See how I can squeeze that?

[00:20:07]>> Yeah. We are trying to ask questions and trying to figure out, you know, is is this what what's happening here? You know, >> Right.

[00:20:15]>> Right. And we were just kept being assured that it was.

[00:20:18]>> I have blue tarp hanging on the back door.

[00:20:20]>> Uh-huh.

[00:20:21]>> That's because some came in. You know all those baffles that were on this side and up here? They put the baffles in to allow that air flow from the soffit. They stapled them with about 2 and 1/2 inch staples. So, what did that do?

[00:20:34]>> Go right through the >> Go right through the roof.

[00:20:35]>> Go right through the roof.

[00:20:36]>> So, let's make this really simple terms.

[00:20:38]$10 worth of staples cost $10,000 worth of >> Huh!

[00:20:41]>> [gasps] >> replacing your roof.

[00:20:44]>> Oh my god.

[00:20:47]>> This is what I would have done in the first place is moved you out of the house so I could do all this. But when I look over here, what do I see?

[00:20:56]>> Oh my god, it's not even attached.

[00:21:00]>> So, now, all this wonderful work, you don't even have proper heat upstairs. So, there's there's one, yes?

[00:21:08]>> And you know how long it's been like that for?

[00:21:10]>> Since they opened it and did it.

[00:21:15]Hot water heater, totally in the wrong spot. I would have said something about that. It is electric. It should have been gas. Should have been up in the corner. Things that I'm going to talk about.

[00:21:23]This is their structure on the one side of the band door, which is probably okay. Yet, the one is over top of this duct work here and it's an absolute no-no. It's actually right about here.

[00:21:32]>> resting on the duct?

[00:21:34]>> It's resting on nothing.

[00:21:36]In in in terms, it's resting on nothing.

[00:21:38]When you bring in someone that doesn't know what they're doing, all they do is contaminate, contaminate, contaminate, and screw things up. Follow me.

[00:21:46]>> Oh my god.

[00:21:47]>> We treated these guys really well.

[00:21:50]Um we were very, very nice to them. We gave them all our money. We put our faith into them.

[00:21:55]And what Mike touched on is they they maybe cared then, but they certainly didn't care once they got their money and left us in this state.

[00:22:04]>> We thought we were really protected because he had Yes, I have uh insurance.

[00:22:09]Yes, I'm a licensed contractor. Um yes, I'm going to take out permits on your house. There's going to be inspections.

[00:22:15]And we thought, well, we're being protected.

[00:22:18]>> You don't take money from people and then just walk away and leave them in a wreck. You don't do that to people, especially after they treated you so so good.

[00:22:27]I do feel very angry. Very angry.

[00:22:33]>> [music] >> the loft.

[00:22:37]Grab our off cuts from the LVLs. Get a post in here. Post to the basement.

[00:22:45]>> [music] [music] >> Like, what the hell did they do here?

[00:23:00][music] This was their way of supporting. That's what they've done here. Two pieces of 2 by 2 by 3.

[00:23:07]This is where they picked up that beam. Imagine that, eh? Two 2 by 3's, they have a 2 by 8 that ties into no structure. It's literally sitting right on top of the duct work. You can see it clearly here, which is holding up that beam.

[00:23:21]Isn't that stupid? I mean, that's stupid.

[00:23:24]To fix the structure, we are rebuilding the wall and installing two LVL's sistered together. These will extend over the outside structured wall so that the weighted load is transferred to the foundation properly. Carl, grab that side.

[00:23:39]Okay, so let me get my side in first, Carl. And I want it face to this side, okay, guys?

[00:23:43]>> I got you, bud.

[00:23:47]>> That's it right there. [music] Beautiful. Okay, and get a second jack on this side, please. Secure that now.

[00:23:55]This just took a long time just to do this side cuz we had to correct the floor. We had to correct all kinds of things to get the beam in place. To be perfect. It looks good. It's The weight is now displaced right directly over the outside wall.

[00:24:08]Tomorrow, we're going to continue with the roof cuz we want to make sure we protect the inside. We're also going to fix the beam over the door and get the other two laminated beams in place.

[00:24:16]Martin's going to be getting all the plumbing in place. We've moved the hot water heater already, so he's going to be attaching all the drains. Frank and his guys are fixing up all the electrical, HVAC. We got Brian and Gary repairing all the duct work, proper air returns, getting them in place, and getting it ready to close in. Alex is coming in tomorrow to suck out all the blown-in insulation on this side. I'm going to leave the batt insulation.

[00:24:39]That's not an issue, but I need the drywall the ceiling so he can come back in and add the blown-in.

[00:24:45]We're going to have a whole bunch of people running around here.

[00:24:48]Where is it [music] in here?

[00:24:53]>> You're blocking >> You want me to read that for you?

[00:24:54]>> You're blocking the light.

[00:24:55]>> the light.

[00:24:56]>> I'm sure that's the problem, boys.

[00:24:58]>> [laughter] >> All right, you made it.

[00:25:00]>> You both like, "No, sure, you're blocking my light."

[00:25:02]>> Okay, listen, you young punks.

[00:25:03]>> Just wait till you're over 40.

[00:25:07]>> [music] >> As the job went along, we sort of came to the obvious to to see that I think he was sort of way out of his depth as far as uh the work that uh needed to be done [music] here.

[00:25:20]>> I want to cut this right from here.

[00:25:23]>> Okay.

[00:25:23]>> Okay, and the soffit [music] straight to the Pull it all down right to the 17-ft mark so we can clearly see what's in here.

[00:25:32]>> [music] >> I think we got a great opportunity here, buddy.

[00:25:37]There's our beam. We now [music] easily add two more to the outside here.

[00:25:41]>> Yeah, we're definitely going from the outside.

[00:25:44]>> You can see the block wall that's up there. And what I want to do is that would be the most further inside beam. I want three of them, so I want I want three of them attached, laminated. So, I want to stay on the outside and keep on an exterior structure. This is my exterior structure. Up, guys, let's go.

[00:26:01]Terry, stick it in first.

[00:26:06]Okay.

[00:26:08]>> And it can be pushed my way.

[00:26:11]Okay.

[00:26:11]>> I need this.

[00:26:12]>> Okay. Oh, it's tight.

[00:26:14]>> Nice.

[00:26:18]>> Is it in?

[00:26:19]>> That's it.

[00:26:20]>> We're going to have to crowbar that as high as we can and then nail it, okay?

[00:26:24]>> Even more. Oh, right there.

[00:26:26]>> There, there.

[00:26:27]>> Don't turn that around. I've I've got my feet off the ground here.

[00:26:31]Okay.

[00:26:33]>> Where there's a will, there's a way.

[00:26:34]>> It's in.

[00:26:35]One more.

[00:26:37]Then we're down in the structure, then we're going to continue on with the electrical, continue on with the plumbing on the inside, all the new windows go in place, we're going to drywall all the ceilings. That way because we're going to fix the plastic drywall the ceilings and this way we can get up into the attic because Alex has already sucked out the blown in and we can add in more. Then we'll start the walls. Once this is drywalled, we'll be back to when I first walked in the house.

[00:27:03]Try not to scrape the glue off as you go up. There we go. Look at that.

[00:27:06]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:27:29]>> Hey, man. I like the way you did the bulkhead here.

[00:27:33]And I can see you dropped down with uh the blue wood down and you changed the right?

[00:27:37]>> remember everything was off. Before we did the bulkhead, we had the laminate to the 2 by 12s that were laminated to the old rafters. And the reason we had to do that, if you were to put up an 8-ft level against the white ones, not the blue, it rocked and it went up and down like a toilet seat right across. This will show that we're nice and true on the blue. And you can see the small areas to the big areas to the difference and by looking at it down in the angle, they were all over the place. No different than the other side. So, now we're going to mimic the bulkhead that's here right across that side right to the fireplace.

[00:28:15]Frank, for electrical, as long as since we've sucked it all out, I can get them to come in and butter the top of all the pot lights before we add more insulation. So, if you're fine with the pot lights, I'm fine with the pot lights.

[00:28:27]>> Okay.

[00:28:32]>> I haven't seen ductwork like this in years.

[00:28:34]>> That's good.

[00:28:35]>> That's someone who cared about what they did. They went from round and went up and over the beam and they created a boxing that came over. Like this is custom fitting to get this these two lines that that very important. One upstairs, one downstairs.

[00:28:48]And then you see a piece of crap on the return air that they had.

[00:28:51]>> Do you see that?

[00:28:52]>> Yeah, and that was closed up that way.

[00:28:53]I'll be enough and just sitting in the center of the floor. Like what Who's thinking there?

[00:28:58]>> Hey, you're wearing pink.

[00:28:59]>> Yeah.

[00:29:00]>> For the day.

[00:29:01]>> Salmon, actually.

[00:29:02]>> Salmon?

[00:29:02]>> Salmon.

[00:29:03]>> I don't know.

[00:29:04]>> Salmon.

[00:29:04]>> Yeah, it's not pink, it's salmon.

[00:29:06]>> Salmon wins all the matches.

[00:29:07]>> I don't know, it brings out the color of your eyes. Looks pink to me.

[00:29:10]>> Looks pink to me.

[00:29:12]>> All right, now we're putting in a new air conditioning and this is a new coil.

[00:29:15]>> New coil that my guy is putting in right now.

[00:29:16]>> So you do a new air conditioning, you do a new coil.

[00:29:19]>> New coil, new line set.

[00:29:20]>> Now for plumbing purposes, you've ran new PEX.

[00:29:23]>> Yeah, I pretty much got rid of most of the copper in the basement and ran new lines. So all the PEX lines have been, you know, redone and and I got the new setup with the laundry sink.

[00:29:32]>> What about your drainage? Is this your drainage?

[00:29:34]>> I've got a drain there and I also have a vent which will be feeding a fresh my laundry sink, yeah.

[00:29:40]>> And we're going to tie into the floor here?

[00:29:41]>> And I'm going to tie into the floor, correct, yeah.

[00:29:52]>> So none of these windows were actually screwed in?

[00:29:54]>> I found one out of 12.

[00:29:56]>> You're kidding.

[00:29:58]>> You know what? It's a sad thing, yeah.

[00:30:01]In the garbage. In the garbage. Look at that. It's like The idea was to donate this window.

[00:30:06]That's why Look Look how it's coming out. Look, a little bit of pushing, no screws. This is my work No screws. These windows were supposed to be saved and donated, but the way they were installed, they just measured them tight to the brick.

[00:30:17]No screws whatsoever.

[00:30:19]And they just foamed insulation around the perimeter. What would this have [music] cost the windows that were installed already? This one here This one here is $800 right here in the garbage. Look at it right here. This could have been for charity somewhere.

[00:30:29]$800 in the garbage.

[00:30:30]>> That is freaking unbelievable.

[00:30:32]>> there's a dollar sign on here and 800.

[00:30:34]>> And you do that for every window going around the place?

[00:30:38]>> We're talking 20,000 windows we're going to throw out here?

[00:30:40]>> Oh yeah, easily.

[00:30:42]Look what else with the foam was holding on.

[00:30:43]>> They were filming me with my phone.

[00:30:45]>> OH, JEEZ.

[00:30:47]>> YOUR FOAM IS keeping this all together, not only the window, your brick.

[00:30:50]>> Oh my gosh. I'm going to take these bricks off, but here's what I'm Here's what I'm worried about.

[00:30:57]It keeps going.

[00:30:59]>> Come on. I don't know.

[00:31:00]>> Look at this.

[00:31:02]Oh my god, that is super, super dangerous. You guys aren't selling windows to the area.

[00:31:07]>> think we're going to do this week by the the looks of this.

[00:31:10]>> I got to get my bricklayer in today.

[00:31:13]>> [music] >> How many windows have you had to re-brick?

[00:31:24]>> We re-bricked the sides of one and we put in sills in all of them, which is probably about five or six of them so far.

[00:31:30]>> What about lintels?

[00:31:32]>> Two of the windows definitely had no lintels in them. This is a all masonry home, so you've got block being supported by nothing on the top, which is supposed to be supporting the roof.

[00:31:41]And >> So, we were right. When we looked, the block was pushing down on the window.

[00:31:44]There was no lintels.

[00:31:45]>> Right.

[00:31:47]This is a steel lintel or angle iron.

[00:31:50]And it's meant to go over the window.

[00:31:53]When we installed this angle iron, we did get it It's actually up under the block.

[00:31:59]And so, the steel itself is helping support the block now.

[00:32:02]And now, we're going to slick mortar in under the block as well.

[00:32:08]So, we know that that's well supported.

[00:32:15]>> For a job that supposedly passed inspection, we have spent over 3 months fixing all of the problems. The structure, the electrical, the plumbing, the HVAC, roof, and windows, not to mention almost 120 sheets of drywall.

[00:32:29]That's an awful lot of people, an awful lot of money to get back to this to start to finish it.

[00:32:45]>> What we're going to do in here is some Caesarstone slabs on the three walls, and bench and riser, and then a jam across the bottom.

[00:32:54]With our digital camera method, it's going to give me, when I process it, a drawing of all the dots. So, it'll show me the shape of the wall, and our stone will be cut precisely to follow any variances on the ceiling. I can actually locate this cutout and have that cut and ready to go when the piece comes in.

[00:33:11]>> [music] >> We want to make sure that the piece we're bringing in is exact fit for the walls.

[00:33:21]So, that installers can lift it, put it in place. Saves us time, and saves us material.

[00:33:26]And it fits in right snug.

[00:33:34]>> We had to hang on to this for a year, so we were able to store it properly inside. It's all going to go in today, and uh they've got their kitchen in a year later now.

[00:33:47]We've got another week. We're going to finish the plumbing, get the cabinets in. We've got the countertop guys doing the backsplash today. We're going to be working on the stone at the fireplace, the mantle, keeping the place clean, finish off the electrical, [music] little bits of trim.

[00:34:01]What I like is the sound system is going in, which tells me it's almost done.

[00:34:09]>> This is a pretty simple installation as far as stone goes. It's a it's a man-made product that uh it's just a veneer stone, which will give this whole surface a non-combustible area right up to the mantle, and they can have their TV above that.

[00:34:32]>> [music] >> Yeah, it looks good in here.

[00:34:38]>> [music] >> Uh the tolerance on glass is plus or minus an eighth of an inch. So, I've had glass come out quarter inch small. It's just you deal with what you get.

[00:34:51]And that's perfect.

[00:34:53]Slow, slow, slow.

[00:34:56]There you go.

[00:34:58]This is the spacer to center the glass so in the channel.

[00:35:01]This gets dropped in afterwards and it's a wedge. So, when we tighten this thing up, it tightens the glass up inside the shoe. And these run every 14 in on center.

[00:35:11]By time this is all complete and fastened down, the engineering requirement is 250 lb lateral load for every 3 ft. So, you'll be able to push on this as hard as you want. It's going to go nowhere.

[00:35:23]And that's perfect. The advantage of something like this for this room is that it's not enclosing the space. So, you still have an It's not a very big room. So, the glass is a minor barrier instead of having pickets and something that you can actually define the space.

[00:35:36]This keeps it more open.

[00:35:38]So, for here, it's a great application.

[00:36:01]>> Look at that fridge.

[00:36:02]>> Very cool.

[00:36:03]>> That's it. I'm not letting them home.

[00:36:04]I'm taking them home.

[00:36:05]>> [laughter] >> I'm going to buy them another house.

[00:36:10]>> Just to give you an idea of the cost on this project.

[00:36:14]Window and doors, $29,000.

[00:36:18]Roof and aluminum, $19,500.

[00:36:22]Plumbing, electrical, HVAC, glass railing, custom bookshelves. I can keep going and there's a huge list here.

[00:36:31]Total job, $203,550 and that doesn't include us.

[00:36:38]>> Super excited. I mean, it's uh I've been waiting for this day for God knows how long. So, I'm super excited to walk in my house in a few minutes.

[00:36:49]>> [music] >> Can't wait to, you know, have our friends and family over and entertain and I'm sure there'll be a lot of great memories uh to come.

[00:37:01]>> [music] >> Hello. Long time no see.

[00:37:12]>> Hey. How are you?

[00:37:13]>> I'm so sorry. I've been like forever.

[00:37:17]>> I don't get to tell you that.

[00:37:19]>> Nice to see you.

[00:37:20]We're done. We're finally done. I tried to get you home on a a one holiday and now I'm getting you home on another one, Valentine's. But, what a sweet day to bring you home.

[00:37:28]>> Yes, thank you so much.

[00:37:29]>> Best uh Valentine's present ever.

[00:37:30][music] Thank you.

[00:37:31]>> He's got a lot to beat next year.

[00:37:33]>> [laughter] >> New roof, see that?

[00:37:35]>> Wow.

[00:37:35]>> Okay, you remember they shot all those staples through the roof?

[00:37:37]>> Yeah.

[00:37:38]>> I bring in Steve Graves, he pulls off all the shingles. We pulled the whole roof sheathing. It was only 3/8, so we put down 5/8.

[00:37:46]Bluewood, all resheathed, new shingles, new eavestroughs, new downspouts, new everything. All the windows and doors.

[00:37:54]>> Wow, that's great.

[00:37:55]>> You can see that we've done a whole new sill underneath the big window. That's a brand new window, the way it should have been done in the first place.

[00:38:02]There's other things we fixed on the outside, too. I mean, so [music] much brickwork had to be done. And when the windows came out, the bricks fell out.

[00:38:09]Just the brick guy alone was $7,000.

[00:38:11]Just the brick guy.

[00:38:12]>> Oh my god.

[00:38:13]>> Wow. Just the brick guy. Come on.

[00:38:16]So, we did put up temporary drywall just for somewhat of an appealing finish so that way you can do what you need to do down here, but you need to drop this cuz we did all new electrical upstairs because it's a lot of things they did were not right. You ready to come home?

[00:38:28]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:38:29]>> Yes, I've been counting down the minutes. Well, sorry, the weeks, then it was days, then it was hours. So, I'm actually super excited.

[00:38:35]>> Ladies first, it is Valentine's.

[00:38:37]Let's walk up and we're going to walk and look. It's all we're going to do.

[00:38:39]>> Good.

[00:38:45]>> The fireplace.

[00:38:47]>> Oh my god, look at [music] the >> I do not recognize this place.

[00:38:50]>> Oh my god.

[00:38:52]Oh my god.

[00:38:54]>> Wow.

[00:38:54]>> Oh my god.

[00:38:57]Oh my god.

[00:38:59]>> [laughter] >> Just walking upstairs [music] and seeing um, you know, we wanted to have like an open concept and [music] for the guys to be able to create that and give that to us and they just did it absolutely phenomenal job.

[00:39:13]>> Thank you.

[00:39:15]I think my heart [music] stopped beating cuz like I was I guess what we've lived there for for so long and I just wasn't expecting [music] like just to be wowed.

[00:39:23]>> I can't believe >> Words just escape me. Wow.

[00:39:26]>> That's why I'm going to let you look first.

[00:39:28]>> Oh my god.

[00:39:29]>> Walk around.

[00:39:30]>> Oh my god.

[00:39:32]>> Oh, I didn't see the floors.

[00:39:33]>> I know, the floors are incredible.

[00:39:36]>> Wow, they look amazing. Look at the sh- Look at the shelving units, too, inside there. Built-in.

[00:39:41]I love the stone. That the stone looks incredible.

[00:39:44]>> Now, you picked the cabinets. [music] >> Yeah.

[00:39:47]>> Right? Which I kind of like. I didn't like them at first, but I kind of like it now because it's working. You picked [music] the floor.

[00:39:53]>> Yep.

[00:39:53]>> Yep.

[00:39:54]>> And I didn't like it. But I kind of like it now.

[00:39:56]>> Okay.

[00:39:57]>> So, you do have some color coordination.

[00:39:59]There is no purple, there are some roses that I did get you. [music] Happy Valentine's.

[00:40:02]>> very much.

[00:40:03]>> Uh so, happy Valentine's.

[00:40:05]>> Yeah.

[00:40:06]>> But then I added the countertops, the quartz, the backsplash, all new taps, [music] new everything, new lighting, and after you know, cuz we had the glass theory by accident, guys picked different lights, but it all went together. [music] >> Wow, it just looks absolutely incredible.

[00:40:20]>> Stunning.

[00:40:21]>> I just um I'm lost for words. I just can't I just can't believe it.

[00:40:26]>> For structure, was 2 [music] weeks alone in structure. Just to fix the structure.

[00:40:32]There was one beam >> [music] >> over top of this door. I had to rip all this out and put in three beams right back to point load, back to the basement foundation. Structuring over that door.

[00:40:44]That beam was supported was properly placed. Everything all new structure holding that beam in place. I can't believe that that was allowed to be done the way they did it.

[00:40:52]>> I feel incredibly lucky. Um I mean, it not only does it look incredible, but it's it's what's behind the walls and the incredible amount of work that Mike and the crew did um structurally to make sure that the home was sound and and uh you know, we don't have to worry about it now.

[00:41:12]>> Wow.

[00:41:13]Now, it looks like a nice big bedroom, doesn't it? It does.

[00:41:16]>> My closets, my walking closets.

[00:41:17]>> Let's take a look at your closet.

[00:41:21]>> Wow.

[00:41:22]>> I'd like I'd like to say this is my walking closet.

[00:41:25]>> I knew it.

[00:41:26]>> Yeah.

[00:41:26]>> It's my first ever walking closet. It's perfect.

[00:41:33]>> Oh, wow.

[00:41:35]Oh my god.

[00:41:37]Oh, wow. Oh, look at the floor.

[00:41:40]>> Wow. It's perfect. The size of the shower, wow.

[00:41:43]>> Wow. Oh my god, it looks incredible.

[00:41:45]>> Well, my guys are really talented. They care and they come in here and they put it together. Now, this is put together with love. This is a whole lot of people that care. Dominic, [music] the window guy, you know, he didn't have to change the windows, he did. My plumber, he just kept going to make sure it was right.

[00:41:59]Frank and his guys, right down to Craig the [music] painter, my flooring guy that did all the flooring, the tiles.

[00:42:05]And there's so many different people [music] that put a part of themselves in here. When you look at this, it's perfection.

[00:42:12]>> Mhm. Yeah.

[00:42:12]>> My unfortunately I lost [clears throat] my father last Christmas and he never got to see [music] the house completed.

[00:42:19]So for me there's a it's extra special today because I know >> [music] >> he'd be very happy and and proud and thanking Mike and the and the crew.

[00:42:30]>> How about the the dishwasher?

[00:42:32]>> Yeah, that's wild. I don't even know how to open it.

[00:42:36]I don't know.

[00:42:37]>> I don't know either.

[00:42:38]>> It's supposed to be a lever or something.

[00:42:40]>> No, no, no. There's a real slick way of opening [music] this.

[00:42:43]I don't know.

[00:42:44]>> [laughter] >> It's absolutely brilliant. It's [music] it's it's more than I could have ever dreamed of. You know, I just can't believe this is our house and I can't thank them enough. I mean they they've just been so great and kind to us and just unbelievable. Unbelievable.

[00:43:02]>> We've been on the on the move for so long.

[00:43:05]>> for 2 years now. We just want to >> living out of boxes. We just want to >> live in the dream.

[00:43:09]>> live at home.

[00:43:11]Okay. Well, it's no longer my house, it's yours.

[00:43:13]>> Thank you so much.

[00:43:14]>> [laughter] >> You're welcome.

[00:43:17]>> Thank you so much.

[00:43:18]>> Thank you.

[00:43:19]>> So much.

[00:43:19]>> Happy Valentine's.

[00:43:20]>> Happy Valentine's Day.

[00:43:22]>> Mike, thank you very much.

[00:43:25]>> There's a lot to look at here.

[00:43:27]>> [laughter] >> What is this?

[00:43:33]>> Hey Mom.

[00:43:34]>> It's Valentine's Day.

[00:43:35]>> He's a 41 years old.

[00:43:38]And he's my baby.

[00:43:39]>> Look what she did.

[00:43:41]>> It's funny.

[00:43:41]>> Doesn't matter if they're 1 month to 4 years or 41, they're still children. And I just love him.

[00:43:47]>> I have to do a good job, okay? SO NO PROBLEM.

[00:43:50]>> I'M SURE SHE WILL.

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