Redwood Deck Boards for our Straw Bale House! New Compressor!
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- čas přidán 1. 10. 2021
- In this video I finally get down to installing the 2x6 redwood planks on the back deck of our #strawbalehouse using the #camodeckscrews I drove 134 miles to get.
I also show off our new, very quiet #Quip All compressor which is replacing our 10 year old Porter Cable pancake compressor. I bought it through #CPO Outlet and it was on sale for $104.
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Attention to detail is the key to building a good looking, long lasting project. You killed it. You are a great example to all these fly by night, slap it together carpenters and it shows in every thing you build.
134 miles for deck screws...thats dedication!!! ;)
That was frustration with Amazon! Like I can just wait another week for them to get their shit together.
Bill this is a lot of fine woodworking and this deck is definitely looking like a high caliber build. Excellent work
Thanks Don! I thought of you this morning as Chloe is I ran across a baby Gila Monster! Only about 10 inches long. The adults we've seen were all about 18-24 inches in length.
@@theupsideofdownsizing Your welcome Bill. I Would have loved to seen that one!
Wow- your attention to detail sure pays off, the deck looks beautiful!
Love the look of the new deck. Just in time for the cooler weather. Thanks as always for the great video.
Redwood make a beautiful deck. Goodjob!
WOW! Beautiful work! Now I have compressor envy too!
For a little over $100 you too could own one. Yvonne was so surprised because I was looking at compressors for a few weeks, and the budget was looking like $250.....then I decided on this little guy. I love it. I almost bought a real quiet one from Home Depot. Really nice. $239. But the kicker was, it weighed in at 71lbs! This little guy weights 32lbs.
Love the woodwork. You take your time in doing things. Keep it up!!!
Awesome job done on the deck. Love the new compressor. Stay safe and keep up the good work!
Everything is turning out great . Deck is cool .
Haha - Not building a piano. Well it looks almost as beautiful as a piano. Glad we found your channel!
Thank you🙏
The deck came out great! Thanks for sharing.
Great vid and progress...
Looks good.❤️👍
With the timber you had Bill it came out very good looks ok to me really nice love the new compressor wow so quiet to
That deck sure looks awesome.
Love the attention to detail. If only the monkeys building homes now had such a great work ethic. 👍🏼
But they get it done a whole lot faster.... but we're still having fun and enjoying the process.
Great job, looks amazing and thank you for sharing.
It's really beautiful
Looking very nice.
Nice work on the deck. Enjoyed the video.
Thanks for watching!
Clever with the spreader idea. What won’t clamps do? 😀
Deck looks awesome. It’s a pleasure to see the kind of work product you turn out.
Ps - love that quiet compressor. I agree with someone else who said he has compressor envy!
Thanks for watching and your comments. Funny, until it became necessary to get a new compre, I had no idea that these quiet options even existed.
That's a quiet compressor. I was surprised.
After years of racket and editing compressor noise out of videos this thing is a pleasure.
@@theupsideofdownsizing sure sounds like it.
Great result! Along with what you said about not needing so much precision, wood changes dimension across its grain with changes in humidity. My impression is the humidity changes quite a bit where you are - between dry and wet season. So you should at least leave room for that. As well, you want water to drain off the deck boards everywhere.
Thanks for watching and your comments. Those boards started off with an 1/8" gap but by the time they're fully dry, it'll be closer to 1/4 - 3/8". I made the mistake once of using a 16 penny nail as a spacer for deck boards. They were 5/4 pressure treated and when they fully dried omg the gap was enormous! Last time I made that mistake.
Yaaa, finally caught up with the videos, I've been watching them at work (nightshift) shhhh. Now my comments and tips will be relevant and not 12 months behind.
I work maintenance at a 700 room resort hotel in sevierville TN and enjoy all kinds of alternative building techniques, I actually built an ICF house back home in Australia and I'm enjoying your build videos.
Deck looks gr8 👍🙂🇦🇺🇺🇲
Thanks very much. Have you seen our neighbor Derek "Handeeman" and his ICF build? I help him a little and it's a very interesting building method. And effective too. I was in his house a couple of days ago and with minimal AC it was pleasantly cool.
@@theupsideofdownsizing yep, he's on my watch list 👍
Looks great! I made a headboard out of redwood and it ambers real nice over time… it kind of looks like aromatic cedar with the white sap wood .
Decks are built to 1/8th inch tolerance. Those boards will move in the heat/cool cycles there. :)
I noticed from our other deck that after the boards are fully dried, those gaps are going to increase to about 1/4". The camo tool has a built-in 1/8" gapping tool.
Those are some sweet looking boards !!! So excited for our tiny home to be delivered so I can start doing everything on it..weather and the road has been delaying it unfortunately. I hope you guys have a great weekend 😀
They are beautiful cedar. Love how red they were when wet. Ingenuity on the clamp spreader. Work with what you got.
Those boards will age beautifully! Lol,... Not building a piano. My old boss would say, "close enough for government work."
..our catch phrases were both of those or ,, "can't see it from my house" ..
We used a variation on that...."looks good from my house"🤣
My dad and I say that, too (“close enough for government work”)
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Didn't realize you guys are an az. Do you guys like the area you're in? It's beautiful there! If that's redwood (?) you're working with, it sure does tend to bow...
We like it a lot, especially from October through May.....perfect weather. Summer? I don't mind the heat but Yvonne.... that's a different story. Yes, it's redwood. With the supply chain craziness as far as lumber is concerned, who knows if this is typical or a result of the overall madness.
I understand that you want the boards to look neat and tidy. The weather is still warm, but it's not the high heat of summer.
Are you worried about expansion? I am not saying its a mistake, or that it's a problem necessarily. You mentioned spacing, but they looked fairly tight. Me, I'd have used 1/8" spacers for a bit of expansion.
I've not done this kind of project, so I am just making a positive contribution. I think it looks very good. Can't wait to see this rail kit. 👍
The camo tool sets the boards 1/8" apart and after they dry out,
(Shrinkage), the gap will eventually be between 1/4 and 3/8". This was the same way on our front deck.
I built a deck on e using 5/4 pressure treated deck boards. Used a 16 penny nail as a spacer between boards. When that deck was done drying out, a woman wearing high heel shoes was in danger of breaking an ankle those gaps were so big. I won't make that mistake again.
Finished the railing today, working on the video.
Looks like some knee pads would do you some good
Never liked them. They bunch up my jeans on the backside 9f my knees and I find them uncomfortable. Wood is at least soft. When I'm setting tile.... that is a whole nother story.
Man that board would have been perfect if you where building a dome or an arch... But on a deck, very disappointing I must say. I get your frustration. But the finished deck was very nice despite the warped boards. And very nice fit on the two end boards as well.
Two questions for you. The first one is if you will build a stair on the side of the deck, so you can go up and down. I think the deck probably will look nicer without one. But having it will probably make getting around much easier and faster. =S
The second one. With a lip on the wood surrounding the deck, and with all the duckboards mounted flush to each other. Will the deck not collect a lot of sand. And with the lip it will make sweeping the deck that much harder? Or you might already thought of this and not just gotten to that part in the build yet. =)
Any way, another great video, looking forward to the next one.
The boards are set about 1/8 of an inch apart and, after a few months of drying the gaps will probably open up to 1/4-3/8". The edge is set behind the railing (next video) so sweeping right off the edge wouldn't be so convenient anyways. The stuff will fall through the gaps on the boards. We will have 2 stairs one on either side right next to the house. It'll be more convenient and a time saver.
@@theupsideofdownsizing nice. Guess I should, by this time, stop being surprised by you having al the bases covered. ;)
Are the boards screwed on both sides? That deck looks fantastic
Yes, the camo tool sets a 2-3/8" screw on both sides of the board.
@@theupsideofdownsizing That's awesome, thanks
will there be a roof over the deck?
No roof. Yvonne wanted a shade sail but I vetoed that because our friends Derek and Hannah have a shade sail over their deck. That idea has been used already in our circle. We're thinking of a pergola over the front deck however. That idea is still "available".
... plan and prepare for your project before starting ... a tool to help with keeping this type of installation straight(er) ,, is called a 'bowjack' ,, maybe that's what you refered to.. not uncommon to have deck and/or siding material crowned like that ...with sun,, rain and weather outdoor woods will not stay consistant ... as you said "it's an outside deck ,, not a piano...
..and spacing will grow over time..a year from now they might be 1/2" ,, due to shrinkage from sun temps ..
Yes, that's the tool I was referring to. Our cedar front deck gaps have of course increased as the wood dries....only to be expected. The worst is with pressure treated 5/4 deck boards. I would install those flush on top of each other and 6 months later there'd be a half inch gap. Cedar isn't that drastic, and I hope this redwood won't be either. As far as planning a project front to end before beginning work..... you're talking to the wrong guy. 😉
..that's why the decking materials have gone to synthetics like 'treks'..no expansion or shrinkage ..