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Okay, it's finally time to get going with some overhangs and some wall sheathing and get this roof ready for the roof sheathing. We got Jamie back today. Finished the railings. Great job.
I know that was painful like getting stuck in the stairwell for days on end, but he did it. Good job. He can't even >> appreciate that. Sorry, Peanut Butter.
It's got me. Allan Burr, remember that?
>> No. Remember the commercial where the guy's got milk commercial?
>> Nope.
>> Oh, come on.
>> Okay. Alan Burr. He's on the phone. He won a thing. He knows the answer to the the question, but he can't say it cuz he got peanut butter stuck in his mouth.
>> Alan Mur. I don't know who that is, though.
>> As we're getting going here, our main goal is to make sure that our facial line here sights straight. Right now, this one's bowed out in the middle. At the same time, we need to make sure that our truss, the gable end truss is straight and plum. And on every one, we're going to add this stiffener that's just a 2x4 on edge to make sure that all of those boards that are running just flat up aren't like bowed in and out, which they usually are until you do that. So, I've got a very not scale drawing right there of this piece of wall sheeting that's going to go right here. And that'll basically get this truss in braced and perfectly plumbed.
And then we'll wrap around the corner and go and try to get this all sorted out. Jonno, help.
>> We're working on this basket a little bit, too. The uh little shelf here was completely rotten, and so they're going to do a advant shelf. Looks fun.
All right. What are you doing?
>> I'm trying to get this piece of wall sheathing measured. It's It's got a bunch of stuff on it.
>> What is this?
>> That's the sheet.
In other news, we need to get a bulldozer. Chris is out here with his machine moving this pile of dirt and it's insane. He can lose so much material so fast and it just looks awesome. Let's check it out.
Okay.
>> I don't know if I'm going to be uh >> Oh, that's really bad.
>> Strong enough to pull this here. If I do pull it, I can't read it. So, you read it.
>> Yeah, I can read it.
>> Yeah.
>> Is that enough?
>> Yeah.
It's pretty good.
>> All right.
>> That was pretty bad. It might be tempting to just start on roof sheathing and ignore all this stuff cuz it's boring and takes a lot of work. But really, this is the only logical sequence of events that I know to get everything straight.
Four, four. I'm showing pretty good here.
>> Okay. I mean, I'm tolerable.
>> All right. I'm going to put it back. So, that was about a half inch out. The reason we didn't get that right the first time is we didn't have people in position like where they are with the level and all this stuff. And really with the crane, we just want to set them as fast as we can. We can make adjustments later.
So, we're just working our way up this thing with sheathing now. And we're going to try to utilize this lift as much as we can just as a little less labor, a little less like intensive labor. Anyway, we're pausing to take a look at our drawings. Now, you can see right here, there is a gap between these two overhangs. And we're looking at it right here.
They're pretty much touching right now.
And that could be a problem. We could cut this one shorter and that one shorter, but what that means is that over here, we would want to have it match so it's the same on both sides, symmetrical. Well, this one's kind of got to line up with this gable overhang over here. So, if we cut this one short, it's going to like I don't know, go for a ways and then jog out to match that, >> which would look crazy. So, >> I don't like that. There's a lot of figuring we're trying to do really fast right now and we're going to do the whole house after we do this first one.
That's the problem. Yeah. Well, those two roofs that come together right now, if they both get a gutter, they can't even be within more than a foot of each other, like 14 in, and then the gutters would touch.
>> Maybe we should just make them touch and put a little cricket and and just shoot the water out.
I think that's a better option.
We'd have to cut them at like a foot.
Well, >> they'd be cut back really far.
>> Yeah.
>> So, to do like Jamie's talking and not have the gutters near each other, we'd probably have to cut a foot off of each one just about. And that would only leave like a foot overhang instead of two feet, which is what's up here.
>> We'll just have one single gutter that goes in between them, screwed to both sides.
Another crazy option we're kicking around right now, is to get up there and just cut the gable end overhang, which is all of those ladder things we put up there back to where it's only a 16-in overhang instead of 24 like it is right now. That would fix a lot of these other problems by just being less everywhere.
So, I think we'll ask John. It was a lot of work to get those up there, but it wouldn't all be wasted. We'd still be way ahead having all of those cross pieces put in and just chopping back the outside.
>> Yep. Also, we have a few places where the overhang actually sticks out past the structure. Like right there, sticking out sticks out past this post on the porch right there. So, we're trying to think on that as well. Are you ready to think real hard for us? Just a second.
>> Okay.
>> So, these overhangs done.
>> Yeah. Okay. Didn't even start yet.
>> Oh.
>> All right. So, do you want 16inch overhang or bigger? Cuz no matter what we pick, it's going to be some work.
>> You know, just whatever you like.
>> Yeah. Um, >> well, if if it's going to be work whichever way we go, then then maybe 16 is the best.
>> Especially gives us the most room right up in there.
>> Yeah.
>> And we'll check the 16 actually does leave enough room for two gutters. Two 6 in gutters is a foot. And even that, they're touching.
>> Mhm.
>> Which is going to look not good.
>> There's also a spot right here where the overhang tails come out lower than the beam. You can see that beam right there.
And we're looking for a flat set. So, that's going to be something weird.
Maybe we pack down the bottom of that beam. But if we do that, then we got to pack down all the rest of the beams around that whole thing. So, >> well, luckily your siding and your windows, there's no problem. These are all tall enough.
>> Yeah, with the 9 ft walls, it gets the sophets up out of the windows >> above all your headers there cuz that could be a problem. I think we've come to the conclusion here. We're going to leave the twoft overhangs for several reasons. And I'm glad John was here. We hate making decisions for other people.
We're going to be gone. We don't have to live with the house once it's done.
>> Understand?
>> You know what I mean?
>> I understand.
>> So, you know, if you look at your overhangs later and you're like, "Ah, I wish they wouldn't have told me 16 in."
Too late. So, if you're wondering about other benefits of having the bigger overhangs, it is a good way to shade out the windows in the summer months when the sun is like directly overhead and so you don't get as much solar heat gain.
But in the winter when the sun is like at a shallower angle here it'd be like straight out over that mountain in the winter uh further south you would get the sun coming in the windows because it's coming in at a shallower angle and not hitting the roof. So you'd get solar heating in the winter still. I think that's called passive solar heating.
Well, >> it's a thing. Also, not to kick a dead horse here, but if you're going to go more than two feet on an overhang, sometimes that is a bad idea because most of our materials are four feet wide in one direction, eight foot in the other that you would put on the bottom of the set. So, if you're more than 2 feet, then you can only get three pieces out of one sheet good instead of four, right?
>> So, that's a good reason to stay just under 24. If 24 is about what you want, you know, you get full use out of the sheet good or whatever it is you're going to put on the bottom of it. It's even worse if you rip it. Yeah. Then you'd only get one piece instead of two.
>> That'd be a little wasteful.
Now that we've got the overhang depth figured out, we're going to go ahead and straighten one overhang here. We're going to do that by bracing the truss that the overhang is butdding into, which looks like this triple thing right here. It's bow as well. Jamie's going to brace the top cuz it's good where it's at. Then we're going to push on this with the machine. get it straight and brace it there. I got to say a lot of times we won't do this with the braces.
We'll do it with roof sheathing and as we go up we will pry the overhang straight and then tack the roof sheathing down and that'll hold it straight. But in this situation where we only have this wide and the roof sheathing is going to run up this valley that we're going to frame later. We don't have that option quite as easily.
So this one we're just going to brace like this. A lot of the rest of them we won't do like that. About 3 in, 2 in, 1 in. Keep coming. Keep coming.
Touch. Who?
>> That might be it right there.
>> Yeah, that's it.
>> Jamie, that's good. If you want to screw off those uh ladder pieces, >> I would love to screw off.
>> Okay, >> this piece.
Take it away. Let's see what happens.
>> It stayed.
>> Stay.
>> You're gold.
>> We only got to do this 20 more times.
>> So, I was trying to think about this. My uncle's brother, his name is Trey.
>> Okay.
>> The whole thing came about cuz he wanted to buy a belt.
>> Okay. So, I was trying to I said, "My uncle's brother." And they looked at me like I had four heads.
They were like, "Wouldn't your uncle's brother be your dad?" And I So, I drew my familyish tree. Here's me, little little Max down here.
>> Okay.
>> Mom, dad, my mom's sister, Angie.
>> Okay.
>> Is married to Chris.
>> Okay.
>> And it's Chris's brother, Trey.
>> Okay.
>> In Haywood County terms, what do I call Trey?
>> Uncle.
>> I would call him your uncle. If I called Trey my uncle, that would be half of Haywood County.
I'm trying to my uncle's brother. My uncle, Dude, if I called everybody in Hwood County my uncle, my family tree would be that big. The other side here needs to get bowed out a little bit. And it's also super bowed up in the middle. I don't know if you can see that looking up. it. It uh it has a major up bow in the middle. So, I think if you take a sawzaw or I can do it and just cut underneath a couple of those middle ladder pieces, it'll let it drop down flat. I did that over there on a couple.
>> Yep. No, it it Yeah, it needs it.
>> Jamie's going to go up there. No offense, but Jamie said he can saw all way faster than you, Ray.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> That's what he said. He told me to tell you that.
>> Sounds like Max earlier. Yes, I cut I cut this morning because there was only one cut guy and like three other guys.
>> I said, "No offense, Max, >> but I I can cut faster, so I'm going to cut." And then it was really offensive that I said it like that.
>> Hey, no offense.
>> Respectfully, Max, respectfully.
>> Yeah, respectfully. Oh, that's so much better.
>> Yeah, that's pretty much it.
>> You need more.
>> All right, let go and let me look at it.
That's pretty good.
Hopefully, this is the most time it's going to take for any of these gable ends, but we just got to do it. It's like a pet peeve thing. If you go look at a house in your builder and the sopets and fascia are all crooked and up and down, it just looks like it just looks terrible.
>> Looks like you didn't try or you didn't know what you're doing.
>> All right. And I hate it.
Hey, let's go ahead and put the sheathing on the face of this gable end.
>> All right, >> that'll signify this one is done.
So Jamie and I are going to start making this connection while they're doing the sheathing. First thing we're going to check, do we need to adjust the length of this based on that overhang? Oh, that looks good.
>> A little wiggly.
>> Probably need a brace. You should probably brace it first.
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What are we going to do next? Well, you guys can do the next layer of subfacia.
It's a 2x6 nailed on that 2x4 both ways.
Okay.
>> So, if you cut a 12 pitch on the top, you could let this side run long. And really, you could let that side run long, too.
>> Flush on top.
>> All right.
>> All the way down.
>> All right.
>> Shoot it on.
>> We can do it.
>> Actually, why don't you just leave it a square end on that top one that goes to the peak because you could lap it over the sub subfascia and screw it together and actually strengthen that joint right there.
>> Oh, yeah. That is a 90° since it's 12 pitch.
>> Yep.
Max, he can't reach the gun or the drill. There he got it. So, this overhang has the opposite problem. It actually sags in the middle. So, I'm going to put some shims underneath our cross pieces in the middle. See if I can get it running flat and then we'll deal with the in and out and pull it up.
Can you side up this and tell me when I've got enough shim under it?
>> That's why I cut three right there.
>> Start with that.
>> More.
>> More.
>> I'm going to add another shim on this one.
Oh, that's good. Okay.
>> So, that needs to go out.
>> Yeah, if I tow it up from the bottom right there.
>> I can do that.
>> Yeah, it should do it.
>> All right, folks. Hang on for an upside down tow camera view here. It's probably going to make everybody dizzy and hate me.
>> Whoa. Yeah, that went a pretty good.
>> Okay, sweet.
Oh, that's laser straight. That's awesome. So, I got this string line pulled now, and I'm basically going to use this straight board as a reference to figure out where I need to cut these off or add to them or whatever to keep coming down straight all the way to the front. Now, I can get a sight on it. So, I just pulled that string line. There's the marks to show it. I need to add an inch right here before I put the 2 by6 on to plane out with that section. But, I don't have anything an inch thick here.
here. So, what I'm going to do is cut a/2 inch off of this in that one. Add a 2x4, then the 2x6, and hopefully if all my figurines correct, that would make this all straight. We'll find out 1/2 in.
I'm going to get a point on this one. I don't really trust just measuring out off of something else cuz there's nothing really good to reference. Yeah.
So, slide down the ridge a couple feet.
>> Couple feet. or whatever you can reach.
>> I can't reach it.
>> We're just trying to get all this straight. And really, I think the straightest, nicest houses are probably built with two guys in a string line.
>> I just don't I don't understand what it's going to >> Whoops.
Yo, Check out our finished intersection here between our fascia coming down and running into our flat. We had to cut this bevel on the angle. So, it's a 1212 bevel on a 1012 angle going across there. And I think we're actually going to chop it vertical for now in case we end up wrapping the set back to the house flat there or something. I marked it there, but then I don't know. I'm afraid to cut it.
>> Jamie's got another special cut down here we're going to check out.
>> Oh, yeah. Here it is.
Basically, our board that ran up to the ridge like we did over there was short and instead of trying to fix it, we just notched this board around it.
>> That is the same as fixing it. Okay. I think it'll be good to to lap the joint just like that.
>> Oh, yeah. That's why I did it this lap.
And when you do it at an angle, you get more surface area. It's like a scarf joint. We'll see if it fits before you do any more bragging here.
>> All right.
>> No, it's okay.
>> Wow. Nice.
>> It did fit.
We're a green light on getting the sheathing on this side. And basically, we're just taking one sheet at a time, getting it up there, taking a measurement for the next one, coming back down, cutting it. And that's still faster, I think, than setting up a bunch of scaffold and walk boards and safer cuz they're inside this cage. The zip system is nice, though, cuz once we're done and we've got the seams taped, we don't have to get back up there and do any kind of house wrap and deal with doing that.
So, you're wearing the new ground controls here, the new Danner work boot.
That's actually surprising. It's hard to get you to change anything.
>> Well, I've been wearing these every day for 2 weeks and uh they feel super comfortable, lightweight, and I've even used them to mow grass. Okay.
>> And I walk like 5 miles every Friday when I mow grass. So, I've been doing that and it's super great. Boom.
>> We're wrapping around the corner here from our gable and we're going to clip off all of these. Make sure they're in a straight line before we install our subfacasia board. And we'll just go one 2x6 here. There is one weird thing though is that this is framing on framing. This trust tail running down over where there's going to be wall sheathing or should be wall sheathing.
And either we have to like put this facial board on and then cut the sheathing perfectly around all that and air seal it or we just chop it off and then put the wall sheathing on and nail it back on. Which I'm voting for that. I think >> I think that's a better solution. And I'm not going to say I like it, but it's a better result.
>> So, you like it?
>> I do like it. Let's cut it off.
>> Yeah. We were sitting here staring at that like usually we have don't have that situation, I guess, is what I'm trying to say.
>> We're going to use that for just a second before we saw it off since he's got the line on it.
>> Mhm.
>> To get these straight. We've never had very good success having straight rafter tail ends or trust tail ends just right out the gate. So, we usually order them just a little long and then chop them straight.
>> Okay, I like that. Right there.
>> Like that. Okay, let me hit it again to get this line plum, which means straight up and down. We could torpedo it like that. Or if you want to do it the speed square, you could line that up up top and go 40°. Is a 1012. Both of them should be a plum line.
>> We need to maybe nib off these, too, cuz we're going to sheave all the way up in there. Oh, yeah.
>> It's going to be a little bit of a deal.
>> All right. So, we need a saw, too.
>> Uh, yeah.
>> Yeah. So, these buted into that girder over there when we set them. So, that is why I mean, we couldn't shove them that way further.
>> No option for adjustment, but that's not that's not off much.
>> Okay.
Can't talk. Um, there you go.
I guess so much sawdust I can barely see what I'm doing.
>> It seems like we're being lazy, but really it's faster.
>> It's way faster.
>> Oh, yeah. Way faster.
>> I'm sure we're going to get called lazy, but I mean, I'm fine with that.
>> It's okay.
>> All right, I'll grab it. Yeah.
>> One, two, three.
>> Should go tight to the corner. Yeah.
>> Oh, nope. Not yet.
>> Not yet.
>> Can you come my way?
>> All right. I'm top here.
>> Okay. That should be all the help I need. Dang it off a little bit there.
Oh, I forgot I got to cut those.
>> We even talked about that.
>> Sounds all right here.
>> Yeah, I was supposed to do that.
M.
>> All right, let me do that fast.
>> You pull these out of here. You just going to rip it off?
>> I'll probably just I'm probably just punch it through.
>> Okay.
Wow, that's fun.
She's free.
Uh, how are we going to get up there?
>> I don't know. I really have no clue.
>> Oh, man.
>> Hope you sleep good tonight, though.
>> No, I'm probably not.
>> So, I'm just going to butt the wall here. We don't have to rip this bevel on it, but Jamie wants to do it, which it's not a bad idea.
Flush.
>> Fresh.
>> Fresh.
and Ray.
>> Pretty good. You want to shoot it?
>> You got this, Ray.
>> Holy cow.
Now that we got the sheathing on and the fascia on, I'm going to tack our little outrigger back on here, our tail.
And that should be perfect.
>> Look at that.
>> Look at that. Well, look at that. Well, would you I'm going to put some screws in it.
We're going to get these last couple pieces of wall sheathing cut here. And they're cut on a 1012 roof pitch, which is this angle. And what we're doing is getting the bottom number which is square to this long point. And then we need that 1012 pitch. And Ray knew the answer right away. To get it, what we did is measured back 3 ft, which is 31 12ths. And then we measured up 310, which is 30 in. Made a little tick mark right there. And we're just going to run across our tick mark here and our tick mark there. Should give us the correct 1012 pitch on our cut.
>> Yep.
>> Good job, Ray.
So the problem is if you do it with something like a speed square, you can see the 50° that's correct. It's hard to project that out far enough, straight enough to be accurate. That's the problem with marking it like that.
That's good.
>> Somebody's drill. Y freebie. Check it out. Perfect 1012 angle. Fit like a charm.
So nice.
All right, we got another wall surface done here with the sheathing. So, we got two gable ends done, which doesn't look like much on this project, but on a regular house with two gable ends, that would have been it. So, it's all how you look at it.
A lot of walls.
>> Yeah. A lot of sheets.
We did reach one major milestone on the project today, and that's I finished an entire 5 lbs of peanuts over the last month. I've been eating these, and we're down to the bottom today. So, we did accomplish something at least.
>> It took a month.
>> Took about a month, but I I ate 5 lbs of peanuts, so that was awesome.
All right, today's the big day. We get emails, letters, and talk to people all the time who say they want to start a YouTube channel or join our crew. Well, now you can actually have a shot to do that. Last week, we announced Measure Twice, the new channel we've been working behind the scenes on with Hacksman and the Stud Pack. Today, we're announcing its first series, The Cut.
So, this is a multi-round head-to-head competition series where the audience helps us decide who walks out with their very own YouTube show. And this is not a guest spot, not a one-off, a contracted series on our new Measure Twice channel, plus $10,000 in cash and prizes. The top three contestants come see all of us, Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia, for a live in-person battle to decide who makes the cut. So, if you've ever thought about becoming a creator, now's your chance. Applications are now live and close on June 9th. Head on over to measure twice. Media and apply and find out more. We've also got a link in the video description below the video.
Thanks for building with us today. We'll see you on the next one.
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