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Wheres the gig . Gmc. Proud to lend a helping hand to hometime. Miriam one thing we want to do is show some of the details going into the deck and the screen porch out back so well visit that part of the construction as things come together here. But lets focus right now on whats going on out front. As we start our porch roof, were going to be using the same material as were using on the rest of the house roof. The main element is this dimensional shingle. There are a few other things in this system that you should know about. The first is a leak barrier. This is going to go over the most vulnerable parts of the roof. And then well have our roof deck protection which is going to go over the rest of the sheathing. The guys are using an underlayment thats reinforced with fiberglass which is a lot lighter than conventional felts or tar papers so theres more roof protection on each roll. Heres what theyre using to cover the membrane and the underlayment. This is a fiberglass asphalt shingle and it has kind of a layered look to give it a more dimensional look up on the roof. This particular color blend is known as midnight blush, and the overall effect is going to be similar to traditional slate but at a much lower price. Each one is 17x40s so theyre going to on pretty fast. And even though the shingles are the most prominent element at this stage, there are a couple of other important ones we should talk about as well. Mike schrader is here with his crew to get us started here. Now i know the starter strip is pretty important at the beginning. You want to talk about how these guys get started . Mike schrader sure. The starter strip goes down first of course with the desired overhang of the shingles depending if theres gutters or extra fascia. Its a factory made starter. Its not made out of a shingle. The perforated produce comes bundled up in two and you break them in half along this edge. The sealant strip goes down at the bottom as to seal to the back side of the first course of shingles. All the edges are straight and square which makes it kind of nice. Youre not working with a handcut edge. Miriam as far as the layout with a roof like this, how do you go about laying it out . How do you go about putting them up and stuff. first of all what we do is we determine the exposure of the shingle. This is a designer shingle. It has a larger than normal exposure. In his case well snap our horizontal lines 8s per course. From that, well jump over to a vertical line. And this has a 10 wide path so you split that in half into a 5 offset or a step pattern to gain a stair style starting point. From that point, we use a full shingle and we can just follow them up and it moves pretty quick after the starting process. Miriam so the purpose of it going up at a diagonal is . mostly its a color blend. Shingles nowadays are blended. Theyre not solid colors. And if you dont run them up according to the manufacturers specifications, the colors will clash. They want to have it broke up a little bit so it doesnt clash on one side or in clumps. Theyre a good shingle. Rigid enough to work with. Really they dont flop around on you. Good shingle. Miriam and what about the ridge . How do you deal with the ridge . the ridge cap is a perforated product not made out of the shingles anymore. These are double thick shingle product. Gives it some extra life. And theyre perforated. Theres 3 per piece. And basically what you do is you fold them each way just to crack that perforation loose. Couple of times if theyre hot. And pull them apart like that. And when you apply them, of course you snap a line down one side of the ridge or the hip whichever youre applying them to so you can get a straight edge. And then theres 2 nails per side. And theres a sealant strip on the bottom so it will stick to the one that you laid it on top of so everything is sealed down. Everything is to prevent wind blow off of some sort. Miriam exactly. So what can somebody expect from a roof like this . very low maintenance. An asphalt roof especially with a designer shingle like this that is now considered a lifetime shingle, it shouldnt have any problems from leaking or shingles blowing off because of all the extra sealants thats on the bottom of these shingles right from the factory. This should be a problemfree roof for quite a while. Miriam well theyre getting a great start especially considering weve had some iffy here and there. So thanks so much for your help. We appreciate it. thank you. You bet. Miriam after roofing comes the siding, and for this home its a combination of lap siding and shingles but both are in the form of fiber cement. The shingles are actually 4 foot panels that give you the look of cedar but with a lot less maintenance. It can be prefinished in a variety of colors but the plan here is to paint it after installation. The next thing to go up on the house is going to be the stone out front. Now theyre using a natural material known as quartzitic sandstone. Its quarried in oklahoma. And this is a thin veneer format meaning its about an inch thick rather than the 3 to 4s of a full veneer. But the front porch, steps and sidewalk have to be poured before starting the stone. So thats being done today. The guys have already prepped the forms, gravel and rebar for a stamped concrete treatment which should be very interesting because theyre adding the color right on site. Bryan cipala were basically forming up our porch here in anticipation that the stone, thickness, mortar and elevations are all at one particular height for them. Miriam well the way they have these all set up, the concrete is going to come right over the rigid foam insulation so when they take off the forms, its going to create just the right spot for the stone veneer thats going to be going on later. basically the installation is serving as a void for the stone crew thats going to be coming in behind us. Well have a nice overhang about 21 2s around the perimeter of the step and the porch. Theyll come in behind us, insert their stone underneath that 2 overhang. Miriam now heres the color and texture that they are going for. The color is a blend of 4 different pigments that they put in a dissolving bag and then they put it this bag for shipping. So when the concrete truck arrives, they just take out the dissolving bag well just throw those in and well get it mixed up. Miriam toss it into the concrete truck. As it mixes, it works its way into the mix and you get the color that you want. So bryan. yes. Miriam i have a question. I know youre really busy but for people who may not be familiar with stamped concrete, do you want to kinda go through what happens when you do it . ahh, yeah. Basically the concrete will show up. Well be adding the color to the truck that well be mixing for anywhere between 8 to 10 minutes. And then well just start pouring out the concrete from the far end all the way to this end. The process is the same as traditional gray concrete. We will lay it down. Well smooth it out. Make sure it has a nice crisp look to it. Miriam its a little bit muddy out here today but the guys are glad that the truck is able to back right up to the porch. Its a lot easier than carrying all the concrete by buggy. I know with the aggregate that youre working with that could be varied. So what do you use for this treatment . this particular application we have a 61 2 bag dampable concrete mix. Basically they eliminate a lot of the aggregate rock and put in more sand. So you get kinda a more fine finish and a more crisp look with your stamp when you stamp it. Miriam its always a good idea to agitate the concrete a little bit to make sure theres no voids or air bubbles and make sure that the concrete fills every nook cranny. How do you finish the concrete before you spread the release agent and then apply the stamp . well well be finishing the concrete trowel finishing it to take out any imperfections, any voids. Making sure that the concrete is totally level so the impression of the stamp looks uniform as the stamp impression is being installed. Miriam i think well talk about concrete curing rather than drying thats because its a chemical process. Its what makes it hard. Sometimes it can take days even weeks for it to fully cure but it can get pretty hard to work with pretty quickly so these guys work as fast as they can. here we have a decorative edger from 7s from our outside form in, were going to have a nice 7 border going around the perimeter of the porch. The outside perimeter of the border is going to be stamped with roman slate. And on the inside of the porch, its going to be ashlar slate. So you have 2 different stamps going on but there is a visual there that kinda complements each other when it comes to the 2 different stamps in the area that youre stamping. Basically the border is there. It just kind of dressed the inside of the work up a little bit. Miriam and then this is kinda part 1. Youre going to do the porch and then the walk and the driveway youre going to come back for, right . that is correct. You know, if you could control a smaller portion of concrete when youre stamping it, you have a better end result. After we have it installed and have it finetuned in and finish, then well start placing our secondary color that well be broadcasting across the top of the concrete that we laid. It also provides us a bond breaker between the concrete and the stamp so the concrete doesnt stick to the stamp. Miriam how do you know when its actually ready to start stamping . ahh, its kinda an instinct thing. Sometimes in some situations we can stick our finger into the concrete to kinda see where its at. And then we kinda know when to start. Knowing where were going to finish at from an impression standpoint. You want to make sure that you have the consistent stamp throughout the concrete install so you have the same impression from where you start to where you finish. At that point, we will start installing our ashlar slate pattern on the top platform of the step. Well be using probably 3 to 4 stamps that kinda interlock with each other. They have different stones on each stamp and as you stamp the concrete, you want to turn the stamp to have a different layment of the stone. The stamp itself varies between a quarter inch to a half inch and you want to make sure you get that full depth of the stamp impressed into the concrete. Miriam so it needs to be soft enough to take the deepest impression. exactly. Soft enough to take the deepest impression but at the same time, too, it has to be soft enough where were still able to run the consistent stamp design through the duration of the pour. Miriam yet firm enough where youre not going to sink into it. that is correct. You want to stand on the stamps and we have a rubber whomper that we use to impress the stamp into the concrete. A whomper, yeah. Miriam it is . or a tamper. A whomper. Miriam i like that. So how long do you have to work on the concrete . from laying it to actually stamping it and finetuning it i would say we probably have a 3 hour window from start to finish. Miriam now bryan is going to let the release agent sit overnight and then come back and wash it off. Hes also going to put a sealer on it but hes going to wait on that and do that at the same time that he does the driveway. once the concrete is set up and hardened, well come the next day pull our forms. Then well do a light wash on it. After spraying it off, we proceed on to adding a little bit of dish soap to water to breakdown the release color. Finetune that in. Not scrubbing too hard but just enough to get the detail between the 2 colors. After that dries, well put a sealer on there and thats kinda the final product. Dean now most garage doors face toward the frt of the house. Great for access but not so great when that door opens and everybody in the neighborhood sees the mess youve got going. It can be a little embarrassing. All it takes is a little bit of organization. Now what we really like are these heavy duty cabinets that come in a lot of different sizes. Tall utility cabinets. Base cabinets. Different types of uppers. Even a workbench. So that helps to get some of the clutter up and out of the garage into those cabinets. Now another thing we like are these track systems. You get them up on the walls. You can take the tools you dont have in the cabinets spread them across the walls so when youre looking for something, you just pan the wall. Easy to find. These come with a lot of different hangers. Well first of all you have sort of your general purpose ones. These you can use for hanging hammers, ladders, all sorts of different things. This is kind of a unique one down here. You can see it holding a bicycle tire. These are for hoses. On this one, a ladder rack here. And this is a netted bag that will hold all your basketballs, volleyballs and baseballs. And believe me well just scratching the surface here. Now one thing thats really neat is this little locking feature. You get it into position up on the track. Then you turn it sideways like that. It locks it into place. In pulling a few of these elements, youve have the best looking garage in the whole neighborhood. Miriam well bryan and the guys were able to finish the porch using about a half load of concrete. For the driveway, its going to take more like 2 full loads. Theyve already got the first half of the driveway done and now theyre working on the second half. The basic steps are very similar to what we saw on the porch, but of course the driveway covers a lot more square footage. So besides the spreading, finishing and stamping, theres also the issue of control joints which you always see on large stretches of concrete. And thats to limit the visible impact of any cracks that are bound to occur because of changing weather conditions. there are 2 options you have when trying to prevent concrete from cracking. One option is to saw cut the joints in the next day. Today we decided to hand tool cut em in. Were controlling where the concrete should crack. Were able to chisel the joints after we stamp it to give it that look of chiseled edge stone. Were making the concrete look like roman slate. A piece of stone. So the edges of the control joint we want to chisel them to look like a piece of stone. Then well proceed on to applying the secondary color and then start stamping. For people to control this much concrete which is about 23 yards of concrete, you need all hands on deck to attend to the concrete and stay ahead of it. Miriam now i know this is a roman slate pattern which matches up with what you have on the edge around your porch right . that is correct. Along with us installing a nice concrete, we like to have areas of stamped color tiein with each other. So with the porch in the middle, we have an ashlar slate square pattern and around the perimeter, we have the roman slate which ties with the driveway. So well tiein all 3 pieces of concrete together so visually you can kinda see the concept that were trying to portray. Miriam okay, and then youll be back to do the walk. that is correct. Well be back to do the walk. We have our step and porch. That height is established. Our driveway height is established. Both of them have proper drainage. Now we have the sidewalk in the middle where we can meet the 2 together. Dean bryan still has a couple of steps left on the stamped concrete but once the driveway is set up, the masons got rolling on the sandstone veneer out front. Thats Jason Cavanaugh and chris davis working the trowels out there. They got all the preps done yesterday so they can really go to town today slathering on mud and putting stone in place. The color blend is known as deep forest which has some dark blues and grays. Sizes range from 6 to 24s long and 4 to 14s high. That means the guys can set it in a fairly random fashion so it looks more rustic and less formal. And using this thin veneer format, the masons will tell ya, it goes up really really fast. So jason, what youre using here is actually real stone, right . Jason cavanaugh yes it is. Its just the face of a real stone. This is a face and what they do with a normal stone is about 4s thick. And what they do is theyd cut the face off. And then its easy. You can stick it to any wall. Dean so the reason for this is its cheaper to ship. Its quicker to install. mmhm, quicker to install and you dont need a footing to put it on. You can put it in the middle of the wall. Just stick it right on there. Dean and so how does it go on . How does the installation differ from lets say installing regular thick 4 veneer stone. well a thick 4 veneer, you start at the footing and you put mud down and you keep stacking it. This you dont need to stack it. You stick it. You put some mud on the back of the stone. And it just. Give it a little wiggle and it just sticks right to the wall. Dean and thats sitting on top of a mesh. well, weve got the tar paper. And then this is our weep system which any water does get back there, it weeps down the tar paper. Comes out the weep system. Theres little holes under here so we want get to there. It comes out the holes and then we put our mesh on and we put a brown coat on and then the stone goes right on top of that. Dean okay. Then what do you do once it sets up . How do you strike the joints and stuff . well what i do is i grab my grout bag and i get some mud in there. And we put the mud in the joint first. You start from the back and let it come out the front. And then you let that dry for a couple of hours and come back with a stick and just tool it out. Dean just like decorating a cake pretty much. yes, pretty much. Dean once you strike that i mean it looks like you have no idea how thick that stone is. correct, yeah. Because all you see is the very face of it. Dean and talk to us a little bit about the corners. How do they create that total illusion that it isnt. well the corners. This is your full stone would be this and the face. Dean so if you were installing regular veneer stone, the whole piece of stone would be in there. it would, yes. The whole piece of stone would be this thick square right here. What they do is they take a saw and they just cut both sides out so when you put in on the wall it would look like a full stone. Dean now its just pretty incredible the way they do this now today. oh, yeah. And the labor is a lot cheaper with this kind of stone than a full stone. Dean as an exterior cladding, the sandstone weathers really well because of its high compression and low absorption qualities. Thats what you look for in any climate, especially ones with a lot of freeze and thaw cycles that put a lot more stress on building materials. Miriam things are really moving along quickly now. Bryan has finished up the stamped concrete. Jasons wrapped up the stone work and id say our last landscape is about 90 percent there. Now bryan did have a chance to put in the sidewalk. He sprayed off the release agent. Thats looking really good. Once he gets a sealer on there, well be able to call that done. And the masons finished off the stone work so now you can get a better feel for how the sizes and colors actually look up on the wall. One of the last major items for the front of the house is going in right now and that is a set of garage doors. These typically take a few hours to install. These are sectional doors with 4 panels each and the typical technique is to attach some hardware and hinges, assemble them in the opening, put up the tracks, attach the spring and then set up the opener. With the garage out front on this house the garage doors play a big role in the homes curb appeal, so the carriage style design and trim is going to be a big plus. Jim lundbergs has been our point person for this particular project, and theyre making really good progress, huh . Jim lundberg yes we are. Yes we are. Were almost done with the first door and well start working on the second one fairly quickly. Miriam excellent. Now this is what they call a carriage style door. correct. This is our carriage style wood door. Custom made. And the carriage style has a look of the doors want to open up like a carriage style doors. Miriam exactly. And the arch top . yep. Its a custom made that the builder wanted us to match the arch of the opening. And i think we did a pretty good job. Miriam yeah, i think so too. And this is cedar, right . yep. Western red cedar construction. Its a 4 layer constructed door. Theyre built by the amish in a Small Community in ohio. Each panel is individually constructed. Theres a lot of labor that goes into it. Yeah. But they are built in a factory so we can keep the cost down and make them affordable for everybody. The doors are insulated with an expanded polystyrene insulation. Rvalue of about 5 which is more than most wood doors. Miriam is this pretty heavy duty . yes. Its a heavy duty door. Heavy construction. So obviously the door is going to need springs and those kinds of things as well. So we use a heavy duty commercial grade hardware. First grade hinges. These obviously weigh a lot more than your standard door. So use a double roller, heavy duty hinges. Its a commercial grade hardware that we put on these doors. The track system theyre made according to the weight of the door. This one is heavier than most because the door is heavier so our track has got to be heavier as well. The spring is counterbalanced to the exact weight of the door so youll be able to open and close it just like any other door. Miriam now with a heavy duty door, youre going to need a heavy duty opener. correct. Miriam so youre going with a 3 4 . 3 4 horse opener. Is a solid rail construction. Belt drive. And its a state of the art opener. Completely silent. Its got an electric eye in the actual opener so when you walk in the garage, your lights will turn on automatically. You could go with a chain drive. Theyre just noisier. So the belt drives have proven over the winters and they work very well. Miriam i think these really complement the house the aesthetically i think, dont you . yeah. I was very pleased when i saw it. I think that they really pop from the outside and it really, really looks good. Typical installation time on a door like this, generally speaking, its going to take 2 to 3 times longer than a regular door because these are put in the way we use to put in doors 30 years ago. So its a little different. A lot more care is taken. Its not a builder door. Its made for a custom home. Miriam building a house, its a good idea to have all the exterior elements done before you put in trees, shrubs and sod so you dont have workers in there tearing things up with ladders and tools. Its also a good idea to have all the landscaping done before you seal up stamped concrete. The sod is done so bryan is back with the sealer and the driveway and the sidewalk here look really good. Thank you. Miriam what exactly ar using for the sealer . were using a acrylic sealer. Its 100 percent soluble. It kinda stands up against our minnesota winters when it comes to the salt and sand. Miriam this is 2 coats, right . that is correct. We power washed the over broadcast of the secondary color. And then we applied a curing compound to the concrete for curing purposes. The second application is fofor the sheen to kinda interlock the colors with each other. Miriam and what about maintenance . i would say, applications with just foot traffic like the sidewalk and front porch, i would probably recommend sealing it probably every 2 years. As for the driveway just the wear and tear of surface tags, i would say probably every year. Miriam well i have to tell ya, it turned out absolutely gorgeous. Really, really nice work. thank you. Miriam thanks for helping us out. thank you. Miriam theres still some work to do inside, but as far as the exterior goes, this home is pretty much done including the materials that we wanted to show you the slatestyle roof. The sandstone veneer. The garage doors with the arched trim. And the stamped concrete that we just saw bryan sealing up. Now what you see from the street is a great example of what people mean when they talk about curb appeal. I hope you enjoyed seeing it all come together. For dean and the guys, im miriam johnson. Thanks for watching. Dean visit hometime at pbs. Org. Weve got more details about our projects. Tips on owning and maintaining a home. And a great glossary of building and remodeling terms. Stop by and see us at pbs. Org. Man. What we need is some elbow grease. Yeah, you can. Are you kidding me . Gmc. Proud to lend a helping hand to hometime. Phillips greetings from the american woodshop. Im Scott Phillips and heres what we have going on in the woodshop today. Were going to make beautiful, inlaid decorative boxes. We have a special guest that will share her technique with us. Suzy will show us how to inlay beautiful accents in hardwood floors. And ill give you some wonderful bandsaw tips so stay right there. Announcer the american woodshop with Scott Phillips is brought to you by. Delta the heart of woodworking for over 85 years. 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Were here with one of the finest scrollsaw artists ever cheryl gustafson. And, cheryl, how long have you been doing this beautiful work . Gustafson since 2002. Phillips now, whats this pattern . Gustafson that is a log cabin quilt design. Phillips oh, its beautiful. I love the way you paint with wood. You have over a dozen pieces of wood in there and all that starts out as solid wood that you cut out on your scroll saw. Look at these patterns. Now, this one right here whats the orangecolor wood there . Gustafson that is padauk. Phillips okay and theres purpleheart. And whats the red . Gustafson the red is bloodwood. Phillips bloodwood. So she paints with wood, and all this is done on the scroll saw. Now, the boxes are beautiful, too. Look at this star pattern here. Describe how you came up with this design. Gustafson well, its a quilt design made with stripped stars, but, to me they look like flowers so i decided to put it in like a flower. Phillips and the boxes well, those are made by your woodworking engineer husband. And you can tell hes an engineer because look at that joint work. That mitered corner right there its perfect. Well, quite some time ago, suzy and i bought this from cheryl and tom. And this is called the mariners star. And it says suzy, put special memories in here to help navigate life. Love eternally, scott. The only problem is all thats my stuff. [ laughs ] well, now, lets learn your tips. Lets head to the scroll saw. Gustafson okay. I would love to show you. Phillips now, this mariners stars tricky. Now, here are her tips. She comes up with the pattern, and then you create this on the scroll saw, right . Gustafson right. Phillips okay. How thick is this wood . Gustafson i use 1 2 inch thick and, then, when i have it done i can resaw it and ill end up with three designs, actually from one glueup. Phillips and its easier to actually glue that into your piece then and let that cure and then resaw that off. And, then, you can do that again and again. Three times. Okay, so, now what shes done describe what we see here. Gustafson to save on cutting and piecing and getting everything lined up right i glued two pieces of wood for each point together first my two colors. Phillips mmhmm. So, that saves time, and it makes a tighter joint. Now, the cutting technique is describe the blade for us. Gustafson i use a blade that is a reversetooth so the bottom doesnt get tearout. And its eight teeth per inch precision ground. Phillips oh, boy. That makes all the difference, doesnt it . Gustafson yes, it does. It does. Phillips and, then, this case the table is set square to the blade. On suzys, well tilt that down to a fourdegree angle but now lets see your cutting technique because thats whats different for everybody. Gustafson i am going to cut a little bit oversized because ill do my final touchingup on the discsander saw. [ whirring ] phillips and you notice when she finished that cut she didnt break out of the cut. You cut out of the cut. Gustafson right. Phillips and thats perfect. And its lightfingered pressure down to the table, so lets show this to the folks here. Gustafson it didnt matter that im a little bit outside of my line because my final shaping will be on the disc sander. Phillips okay. Gustafson so if youre not wonderful on the scroll saw, you can still do this inlay. Phillips lets see a few more cuts here and then well go to the disc sander and trim this up. And, also, the speed setting here its dialed down a little bit from full speed, and i like to start the blades full speed and if its not behaving well, i dial it down just a hair and that makes a big difference. Okay. Lets check that out. Gustafson okay. Well, see if this is squared. Phillips okay. Now, lets hold that to camera so the folks can see it. Okay. So, boy, thats pretty close. Gustafson pretty close. I got to fix a little bit at the point yet. Phillips and, again she cut this oversized. Now, make sure that the table is square to the 6inch disc, too. Gustafson right. Thats very important. Otherwise, the top of your piece will fit and the bottom will have a gap which you dont want. Okay. Thats good. Perfect fit. Phillips okay, now, thats a perfect fit. And, then, come down here, cheryl so we can see how these kind of stack together as youre forming a star. Gustafson i leave the dark side on the left normally each time. And ill put two together like that. And then i sand them all. Then i touch them on the edge of the sander to make sure its perfect. And then ill glue my next ones on like that and just go around. Phillips okay. Well thats all straightforward. And the other thing she does she doesnt have scrap. She uses all the pieces, then, to go and fill in the mariners star. Thanks for sharing your scrollsaw tips with us. Gustafson youre welcome. Phillips now, cheryl and her work can be seen all over america so check it out personally. Suzy this is my pattern im cutting out a fleurdelis and our oak flooring with the ribbon, mahogany. This is the opposite of the way its gonna be turning out, but this is my practice piece. Phillips now, what she means, right down here this is a diamond pattern, straightgrain wood here quarter cut. And were going to inlay now ill let you peel the doublestick tape off here some ribbon mahogany. Now, while she gets that peeled off, lets talk about blade selection. Now, this is the blade were using. Its nice and fine its a number 5, 12 teeth per inch. See this widerblade precision though . Thats what cheryl liked for straighter cuts. This thinner, finer blade with widerset teeth will cut those curves and tight corners a little bit better than a wider blade. Now, blade selections key to success in scrollsaw work. Okay, though. Suzy okay, scott, ive got the last piece of the doublestick tape off. And, then, next, were gonna fix this to our workpiece for the doublestack cut. And were gonna be doing it this way cause the flooring is coming into this shape at a 90degree angle. So, we want it this way, and ill fix it down here. And then well just kind of. Phillips lay the pattern on so point of the fleurdelis is on the very center seam of the Wood Flooring thats bonded together. That has temporarybond spray adhesive on it. And i used this filter in the background so i didnt spray the adhesive all over the place. And the key to using doublesided tape like this is you need to put it under a little bit of clamping pressure here so that it stays together when you want it to. Suzy right. I dont want it to come apart till im ready for it to come apart. Phillips okay. And you want to put it on all four corners just like that. And, then, suzy, this is done, and where do you like to drill the fine pilot hole to pierce the blade through . Suzy i like to do it right down here in the bottom of this curve cut. And thats gonna be the least noticeable. So, you help me hold that. Phillips okay, so clear of the bench there. And you like to do it square because that way the blade goes through better. Suzy yep. Make sure ive got a clearness. Phillips yep. Youre clear there. [ drill whirring ] suzy okay. The pilot hole is done. Now its time to thread the blade through there. Okay, scott. Phillips okay. Now, i have it unplugged. Whenever you touch a bit or a blade, it should be unplugged. Suzy absolutely. Phillips and the other thing, as shes piercing that through give us your tips. Suzy right. Ive got it pierced through there, and i want it going this direction cause i will go in a clockwise motion. So its smart just to have it lined up there. And ill take this block of wood thats supporting this out. And then we can get to work on tensioning the blade. cause that really is the most important step. And, you know, you might have to hold this down a little bit so we can get that blade in there and tighten that. Then we can start checking the tension. And you may have to check it a couple times. Okay, scott, lets get that plugged in. Phillips very good. And powers on down here. Good. Suzy and ive got my guard, and well get that in place. And then we will be ready to go. Phillips okay. Now, lets turn on that light. Suzy thank you. Phillips there you go. And, then, get the blower in place to keep the sawdust off your pattern line. Suzy yep. Phillips okay . Now, one key thing to keep in mind this is like a cork in the bottle. If you look at this piece right here you can see how one piece locks into the other. Now, thats at a 4 1 2degree angle tilted down to the left. And that was a little bit too much of an angle. And this is a 4degree angle which is a perfect flush fit which is what we want. That means the tables been tilted to the left and locked at 4 degrees. And so, by doing that, the inlay will be flush with the surface of the wood of the floor. So its time to get on to cutting, suzy. Here are your safety glasses. Suzy thank you. Phillips okay. Suzy time for the fun stuff. Phillips okay, now, how do you select your speed . Suzy well, i usually put it pretty high either 7 or 8, max it out. And then i can always dial it back down if thats a little too fast. Phillips so you start high and then take it down if youre having problems with the cut. Now, lets see those cuts. Suzy all right, we ready . Everythings plugged in. Got my speed set. Just want to keep finger pressure down. And just follow the line or just right outside of that pattern. And just have fun with it. Phillips so, when you come down to a point there at the end, tell us how you like to do that. Suzy well, i just take my time, and once i get down here i just put a little bit of pressure on the blade and then make the turn. Just keep going right along. Dont forget to keep this steady pressure down on the table. And just follow your pattern. And a pattern like this is a freeform pattern. So if i go a little bit outside the lines, im not too worried about it. On some of the points on this, ill actually go a little wider cause i like them a little rounded off. And, then, just when you get in a deep coat like this you really just want to take your time. And its really just that easy and its a lot of fun. Just take your time, dont force the blade, and youll come out with a great pattern that is unique to you. One more curve, and ive got it. All right. Phillips okay. Its unplugged, so you can touch that blade now. Suzy yeah if you want to touch it now. Phillips there you go. Suzy place this up against this block and then well see how it all comes together. Phillips okay. Again, this is called a stack cut, or pad cut as some people call it. And the moment of truth. You peel the pattern off. Suzy oh. Got that. Phillips you go ahead and get that. And if you do a light coat you can peel the pattern right off without taking your fingernail off here. Suzy definitely. And it goes quick. [ hums ] phillips okay. So, lets see if truly we have the perfect fit here. Suzy do you doubt . Phillips never. Suzy never. Phillips okay, go ahead. Get that in there. Suzy shweet shweet, shweet. Phillips okay. Its got to go all the way down. And it does. That is excellent. Suzy perfect fit. Yay phillips how about that . Suzy how about that . Phillips okay. So, that will be a perfect floor accent. Now, to do this glueup, what i do is i take the floorboards individual boards here and i just use a good wood glue in that groove and press it together, and i let that cure out for an hour. Once thats cured, its over to the table saw. And heres how that goes. Once the glueup is cured out, i just make 45degree cuts ive already done one there by using the miter gauge set at 45degree angle here and locked in place. And the key is having a good 80toothed plywood blade on here because now what i can do is flip this over, bring this point up to the stop on the jig lower the fence, or the guard here, make that cut. Now, watch what happens. [ whirring ] all the way through. Turn it off. With the saw and the blade stopped, raise that paw, and theres the first part of the diamond. Thats half of it. And theres a groove. Theres the tongue. Those will mate together. I just need to make this identical to this piece. And to do that, i slide the miter gauge all the way back. And now, with the good face up. And i dont get any tearout with that good plywood blade. I make a mating cut. And thats all there is to cutting the perfect diamond. Okay. Take your time. Secure that workpiece to the fence. And that is, as they say, that. Turn it off. Let that come to a stop. I wont touch that scrap till that stops. And we just glue those pieces together, and thats how we end up with what suzy is going to inlay in the floor. The final step of this process is to trim it out very quickly and efficiently and press the corners down and the miters together. I used 1 2inch white mahogany. And to cut that to miters, i use a precision miter gauge with a miter fence and stop on the band saw. Thats the easiest way to do it. I use thick viscosity super glue to bond the trim to the diamond. And now, in 15 seconds time that trim is there to stay. Suzy will get a finish on it and its off to boxes at the band saw. Suzy get to work ive got mine done. Phillips and here is another fleurdelis. Cheryl made the lid. And then i wanted to design a brandnew style of box. These are plugs that are inlaid. I call this a horn box because you have two horns coming off the front of that. Something a little bit different. And thats what were going to make and surround this mariners star that cheryl made. Now, this glueup right here the round one, is all done now and applied to the top of a cherry lid 5 1 2 inches square. And to make this into multiple pieces what ill do is bring that up. Use a heavyduty push block, a 1 2inch fourtooth blade with a grain resaw fence. And as long as i hold that tight to the fence everythings under control. Now, were cutting through exotics. We need good dust collection here. We dont want to breathe that fine dust. And Hearing Protection on. The fence is locked. And once i start to make that cut i have one job to do hold that piece securely to the table and against the fence. And when we do that, everything will turn out just fine. See, ill capture that. Now, lets go ahead and saw that right off. Take your time here. This is not a race. Let that blade do its job. Now, my fingers are never in the plane of the blade. As i finish that cut im all the way through now, i turn it off. I dont try to move that workpiece until that blade stops. Thats very important. That looks good. Right there is a perfect very smooth cut. Thats good. Thatll become the lid to another box. And theres a mariners star inlaid in that cherry. Next, i use the exact same setup to resaw the walnut and maple boards for the project. Heres i ended up with those beautiful 1 2thick boards. Now, two walnut, one maple. And earlier, i planed this down to a 1 2inch finished thickness. And its really important to take light cuts on the planer to reduce tearout and shatter. [ saw buzzing ] after i have the workpieces ripped to the right widths i check the lid to make sure its perfectly square. If its not, Everything Else will be off. And it is. And what i can do now is use a swing stop on this precisionmitergauge system right here so that when i bring the workpiece up to the blade when its off and bring the swing stop over, that gives me the perfect spacing to cut out the plywood bottom, which is identical to the lid. And i make sure that one shoulder is absolutely square, and then i can bring that up against the stop. Its already been ripped to the precise width again, matching the lid. And ill just go ahead and trim that plate. Turn on the dust collection. [ machinery whirring ] okay, now notice when i turn off that saw that scrap piece is there. Let that blade come to a complete stop and then remove the scrap. And the rest of the process goes like this. I trim the walnut pieces so theyre square on one end going up the stop, cut those to the precise same length as the plywood bottom. And then i move out the swing stop 1 inch to accommodate the 1 2inchthick walls and cut the maple front and back. From there its over to the Assembly Table. There are six basic parts to this box the top, the bottom, the front and back, and the two sides. The two sides and the very bottom get pockets. Now, im using a micropocket jig. Thats 1 4inch bit with the stop set for 1 2inchthick stop. And on this piece, you can see the pockets that are drilled in the bottom and plugged. Well, thats what im going to do. Im going to select the worst grain when its both good, so its all good. No measuring required. Get it flushed to the edge of the jig and drill a pocket. And so, ill drill four pockets. Ill speed that up a bit. Just like that in the plywood and four pockets in the walnut workpieces. And then ill show you how to assemble the box. Its just that simple. This is such a great tool to use for things like this. Cant beat it. Once i have the 12 pockets drilled you can see how that assembly comes together. Im using an Assembly Table where i have a front vise here. Thats called a clamp vise. I can clamp this down from the Assembly Table to secure the workpieces. I start the 3 4inch screws, back it out. And these are so delicate. Im just getting a pilot going right there. And once theyre set i take that apart and drive it home by hand because this is a fragile workpiece and that gives me the accuracy i need. Now i can put these two pieces together in the same way using the pocket jig right here to draw it all tight. And once i have that assembled i put the bottom in and pocketscrew that in place. Okay. In each of the pockets im going to use two drops of goodwood glue and maple plugs that are precut to fit right in there. And once theyre all plugged i take it over to the belt sander sand those plugs flush and then its on to finishing. To put the horns on, and thats what holds the lid up on the front edge, i like to use an activator and cyanoacrylate adhesive. And i just hold it in place. You want to keep your fingers moving for just such emergencies. You dont want them to bond to the lid. Glue those in place. Okay. I predrilled a pilot hole for the brass brad that becomes the pivot left and right. Tapped home. And there we have a very elegant box. And thats all there is to it. Now, outside to do a bit of spray finish, then well get a look at the finished project. So, this is the pocketjoint box. Walnutmaple accents with cheryls mariners star on the top. Beautiful scrollsaw work. Speaking of scrollsaw work, lets go check out the inlay that suzy made earlier see how that looks in the new floor. The moment of truth okay, were using floorconstruction adhesive. Its like a contractors adhesive and comes in a big bucket. Have this troweled out. You want a tooth trowel. And i already have it on the backside of what suzy cut out. So, suzy, go ahead and ease it in there. Easy does it. If we get a little squeeze out or get it on the floor water on a rag will get it right off as long as you get it right away. You want to make it flush. Pressed it in. Suzy ooh it looks great the perfect accent. I love it. Phillips okay. Now, youre a pro, suzy. Thats just beautiful. Suzy thank you. Phillips great way to dress up a floor like this. Now, fleurdelis, well, its not just for the inside. Lets take a look at the garden gate. Okay. To bond those scrollsaw accents to a fence just use clear silicone, and youre in business. Suzy looks great. Itll be there forever. I love it. Left and right fleurdelis. Reminds me of home in louisiana. Phillips okay. Well, now, on to next week. Whats up . Suzy turning columns and indoor accents. Its gonna be good. Phillips interiordesign accents out of wood. So, thanks for being with us today. Hope you join us next time and stay well and get busy in that woodshop. Suzy see you phillips okay. Boy, what a beautiful day. Suzy mmhmm. Announcer delta the heart of woodworking for over 85 years. 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Their wide selection includes bellawood prefinished, bamboo, laminate and vinyl plank flooring. Lumber liquidators is proud to sponsor this old house. Norm well, the exterior work on our cambridge project house is nearly complete and weve done a lot of work over the last few months. A brandnew roof on the entire house. Copper gutters with beautiful copper downspouts. And we spent a fair amount of time working on the Brick Foundation repointing it and stabilizing it. Also, all brandnew windows. Now, the house needed a paint job so it took a couple weeks to prep it and now you see the final colors. An offwhite trim, black window sash, and a yellow body. Now, the combination of those colors would be quite common in sweden so it goes right along with our homeowners scandinavian theme and its just a hint of whats going on inside, which is what kevin and tom are working on. The design aesthetic for this house is going to be a lot of white on white. Were going to have white walls with white ceilings. In the kitchen, were going to have white cabinets, and theres even going to be white tile backsplash. So the thinking is, well lets warm it up in a couple key areas with some wood. So the island countertop is going to be wood, a hood over the stove is going to be trimmed out in wood, and were thinking why not put some wood on the ceiling so its not all just plaster and to me, tommy it looks like you picked a bay window for the first spot to get that treatment. Right, the bay windows on the first floor are going to have this right here. This is actually Southern Yellow Pine with a sixinch face and its tongue and groove. All right . Now the trick to this is this is an old house. The bay is actually pretty crooked, all right . But the architect wants the boards on the ceiling to go in this direction and they want it to be tight to the ceiling and to the wall without any space because theres not going to be any molding. Looking for that nice, sleek look so what am i thinking, some scribing of that board maybe . Well, we could scribe it but i have to get both ends tight, and, like i said its out of square its out of everythings off. So what im going to do is im actually going to cut a notch right across the top on each side and then we can take the board and slide it into that groove. The painter will then come back, touchup the wall, because he has to do some touchups anyway. So what im going to use is this piece of 1 x 3 material. Its 3 4 of an inch thick, the same thickness as our ceiling. Im going to just tack it up here against the strapping. What well do is well use this as our guide to run our saw. Okay. So now im just going to follow along this with my oscillating saw. For our ceiling, we need a total of six boards that have to be all one piece, no joints, and we have to look for any imperfections to make sure we dont have any of those up there. Try to avoid the knots if we can. Lets see what weve got here. 85 7 8. You got it. Were going to clear that knot, so. All right, mark that. See if we can get a length on that one. The center of my light is right there so i want to be from this edge 43 1 4. Kevin got it. Okay, so now its center of the light right here, 2 3 16 we will be. 13 inches out from the edge. All right, now this is our first board that will go against the outside wall over the window. Well match up our tongue and groove joints make it tight. Make them even. Okay. Now i want to take those measurements that i took for the light thats in the middle of the ceiling there and i want to transfer those measurements from here out. That was 13 inches . Yep. And 43 1 4. So, easier to cut the hole for the light down here than up on the ceiling right . Absolutely. 43 1 4. Now ill set my compass in the center mark draw a circle. And well cut that out with our jigsaw. All right, lets see how we did. Place this end in our groove. Now i slide it over just about halfway. Now its in on both sides. Push it in. There it goes. Look at that, tommy. Perfect fit. Once in a while, you get lucky. Tom i rip down the board wider than we need for our last piece. Follow the wall with our scribes. I set my table saw on an angle and as i cut it, im going to weave the line on. Now well let the painters touch up the wall and put the finish on the ceiling. The entire third floor is dedicated to a master suite with a bedroom, a closet and a master bath that is really starting to shape up. We have got the floor tile down, this really vibrant blue and on the wall, weve got this sort of offwhite subway tile, sort of a wainscot here, but all the way up the walls in the shower, and its still going up, thanks to mark ferrante. Mark, i love this tile. How are you . Great. So what are we working with . Were working with an 8 x 24 glazed ceramic. See the lines in it . I do, very subtle. Done with an inkjet printer. Seriously . Glaze and all. So the glaze replaces the ink . Yeah. I like that, very cool. So weve got it going up on the vanity wall all the way up . All the way up to the ceiling, except right here. Whats going right there . Well, were going to put this excuse me. Oh, there we go. An enamel mosaic. So, same tile thats down on the floor going up there. But, if you notice look how thin it is compared to the field tile. And how do you handle that . So i have to pad out these walls here. Okay, we have some more backer board to go up . Yes, we do. Im going to glue it with some thinset. So weve got a 1 2inch notch there, 1 4inch . Its. Yeah, its a 1 2inch notch. 1 2inch notch. Here we go, so just right on the edge. Yep. I also marked the board so i can put some screws in it. Now were skimming the board with thinset. Look at that, kevin. Oh, yeah. Flush, perfectly flush. Thats great. Okay, heres number two. All right, you thinset ill lay the tiling. Okay. Thats it for the feature strip. And then whats next . Now were going to set the tile up top. So you can put the thinset right onto the plaster no need for a backer board . Right, not a wet area. Heres another one for an angle cut. Yep, were just going to take it from the bottom first, mark it. And we take the top measurement, its 12 5 8. Connect the dots and well cut it with a wet saw. Thats a nice fit, huh . Real nice fit. Okay, there you go, mark. Final piece. Nice. And another perfect fit. That is a greatlooking wall. Yes, it is. All right, and when do we grout . 24 hours from now. Nice. All right, well, all the finishes are coming together, mark. Thank you. Youre welcome. Well, our homeowners want to get a lot of use out of this deck up here on the third floor and, well, you cant blame them because, i mean, its essentially an extension of the master bedroom so weve gone to Great Lengths to make this nice space. We actually tore off the old deck and then we lowered this one down so that there was just a small step from the master bedroom new door, new windows, and now its sort of just sunk in here like a little crows nest. Were got these two walls up so all we have to do is install the railing but first, weve got to get the decking down and, tommy, we are using a cellular pvc on the decking. Weve actually used pvc before. We use it a lot outside on trim work. Fantastic product. Right, but this is the first time weve actually put it down as a deck board. Oftentimes, were either using hardwood or composite where theres some wood flour in it, so pvc this is a first for us. Its the first. Cellular pvc is great because it works like wood reacts like wood in some ways, but it doesnt rot like wood. Love the sounds of that. All right, so were just screwing this down, tommy . Yep, screw it down right above the tongue. Using a stainless steel screw here . Stainless steel trim screws. So pretty much fastening the same way as we would if it were wood. Well, if it was wood and we were using screws wed have to predrill it first or wed have to use nails. And it goes right in there no splitting. Were actually going to glue the last two pieces in, so let me show you. Heres a piece right here thats going to go in. Thats our next piece. Thatll be glued down . Were going to glue that one down. Our last piece will have to be cut on an angle and well tilt it into position, and thatll be glued down. Okay. Now once we get the first piece in we have to work fast get the second one get that in right away. Okay, theres one. All right, now weve got to tilt that second one in. A little tricky. Tongues in. Okay. Nice thing is just if we were tapping this on a piece of wood wed probably dent the wood. All right, now before we even put the roof sheathing on, we had to put this 4 x 4 in because we needed to attach it to the roof structure below. It has to be real strong. We also had to make sure that we flashed it because we dont want any water to enter the building. But its not the finished look. We want to actually dress that up, and we want the railing system to be as maintenancefree as the deck, so were back to pvc. Right, this is a pvc railing system that requires no maintenance and that will slide right over that 4 x 4. All right, okay. Now, what i did, we need a post on each side, but i didnt want a full post, so i decided to cut a post in half using one side against the house, putting it on a 2 x 4, making that really strong. Down here, you could see that i have a pressuretreated 2 x 4 screwed to the wall, and now were ready to install our railing system. Premade railing, what is this some sort of a kit . Well, it is a kit. All the holes are predrilled for the spacing of your balusters. All you need to do is cut the length and center the railing into that. Nice. Now weve got to drop it down onto our brackets. Nice. Its in. Okay, good. All right, so we need a second railing section and then the kit obviously comes with a top cap . Right, it comes with a top railing, but were not going to use that because the homeowner wants something different, so im going to customize a cap that goes right over the railing and right over the wall. Oh, so its one uniform look i get it, all right. Well, you know what, already looks good. Down here on the first floor the plasterers have covered up all of the blue board with their final coat of plaster, and now that its dried, norm, you are off to the races putting down our new wood floor. You guys dont waste any time. Well, kevin, were on a tight schedule. Weve got to keep this job moving. So what are we putting down . Well, this is solid maple, tongue and groove, prefinished with a very durable finish. And look how light color that wood is. I dont think weve ever put a floor down thats this light although we did just put that Southern Yellow Pine accent up on the ceiling, so i guess this is a good compliment. Yeah, and its also a good choice of wood, because maple is very hard. Itll be durable. Thats what they use in bowling alleys. So, solid wood floor were going to staple or nail it down, pretty standard practice. The one thing that catches my eye, though is that you guys have started right in the middle here which is not that standard. Well, kevin, this is an old house and its probably a little bit out of square, so if we were to start at this outside wall and start coming across, its okay in this room but as it goes into that room, it could skew off, and tom felt if youre sitting at the island here and you look down that wall and you see a wedge, its not going to look very good. Yeah. So were starting on the wall, bringing a Straight Line right through this room. If its off a little on the outside wall, the cabinets are going to cover it up. Good, okay. So weve got the rosin paper down for a release, and weve got radiant heat down below as well. Right, thats what these lines are for. We do not want to put a staple through the tubing. And i guess well start laying this out . Yeah, lay some pieces out and make sure the joints are staggered. And the idea is to drive these in using the mallet that comes with our nailer getting the joints together at the end and as tight as possible before we nail it. Okay, we nail these about every 12 to 16 inches, and im using an 1 1 2 inch staple. Now, we started installing the floor along this wall, so when we nailed it it just went up against the baseboard, it didnt move. But out here theres nothing to stop the floor from moving when you nail it so we installed this temporary cleat and now its time to take that off. Now, with the temporary cleats removed we can start to lay the floor, and we want to go with the tongue forward so we can nail through that tongue. However, we have groove against groove, so what i did is i ripped up some splines made out of some scrap maple flooring and theyll just fit in the groove, and what they do is they actually create another tongue and well do that down the line. Ive got one here with some glue on it. Ill just stick that in. Norm a few staples in the spline, and then well continue laying the floor just as we did before. All right, well, im running the floor a little bit over this vent. Ill trim it out when we finish laying the entire floor. But, you know, weve got enough of this down now that were starting to get a sense of how it feels in this house. Its prefinished, its nice and bright so its going to reflect a lot of light. Kevin and this is the final look so we dont get a Second Chance to go over this floor. No sanders coming on after this or polyurethane so weve got to protect it cause its a busy job site, and tommy actually picked up a big roll of this cardboard and as soon as the floors down well put this over it and make sure it doesnt get scratched up. All right. course, the first thing is we got to finish the floor. Lets get going. Kevin tommy i like to see it. You have been busy up here, huh . Yes, i have. Got the second length of railing put together. Not too bad, huh . No, these go together real easy. And this is just going to sit on this tab down here . Yep. You in . Yep, let me just cinch it up. Okay, there you go. Okay, im all set on this end, thanks. All right, thats nice and tight. Our balusters are in place. Now, this is the cap. We made it out of cellular pvc and its nice and wide to cover our shingles on each side. Now, for the railing cap on the other side, weve made this piece. Now, it looks nice and thick but its actually two pieces glued together. On this one, we made a dado in the middle to accept our balusters and a place for our posts, so when we drop this on, it will hold everything into position. Beautiful, and we can screw right up from the bottom of the balusters into this, and how do we fasten the corners, tommy . In the corner here i have to cut a couple of grooves for a domino to put into there and then well glue it into place. All right, so lets take this out of the way so i can get the machine in there. Now, i have two Reference Points that ive marked on the top cap here that will match the end of the railing cap thats going here. All i do is line em up and cut it. Okay, lets bring that one in. Let me glue up the end first. The epoxy that were using is actually a twopart epoxy and this is a fastset so it takes about five minutes for it to set up. I slide in the domino into the wet glue. Now weve got to pry it into place here. Ill get mine started. Yep. All right, ive got it by. You down all the way . Yep. All right, im in. Push the middle in over the post. There you go. All right, now ill just screw that down to the post. These screws are designed for the cellular pvc. It comes with a tip. When it drives it into the cellular pvc it makes a hole that we fill with a pvc button. After we get all these edges sanded up, its going to look like one twoinch piece of wood. Which is pretty good considering its really two pieces of oneinch stock. Right. All right, so i heard something about the homeowner not liking the yellow thats on the house for the shingles here, about maybe too much sunlight being reflected back in the bedroom . Right, but they really like this gray primer thats on the shingles so i thought what we would do is we would actually use this weathering stain. Its gray, and over time itll age out to a nice patina. Is that what they mean by weathering stain . Yeah. So let me show you what its going to look like. Oh, all right, so, not that different from the actual primer color. Exactly. All right, well, whatever makes the homeowner happy, right . Thats right. You know, theres going to be a lot of nice places in this house, but my guess is is that this roof deck here is probably going to be their favorite. I think youre right. Well, until next time, im kevin oconnor. And im tom silva. For this old house. Kevin coming up next time on this old house. And, tommy youve got a little bit of a modern riff on the wainscot. What are we working on . Well, we started right here when we made the doors out of mdf. We then apply these thin strips of 1 4inch mdf so that we end up right on the seam of the door. Oh, very clever, so well never see it, actually, once this is closed and all painted up. Exactly, so all were going to do is tack this in place. Norm thats next time on this old house. One pair of overalls a few cans of paint. Add a dash of doing and mix together. Thats a recipe for a kitchen you cant wait to cook in. 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[ knocking ] im jim anderson and im a stainedglass artist. When i first started doing this stuff it was the 70s, and for a long time, stained glass was still in churches, people hadnt thought about it in residential buildings. But when i was in it in the 70s, we were more experimenting with color and texture and glass and light and all these theories and it was just a whole new world. It was just it was litup artwork. These look good. They look perfect. Not too much not too little. I had bought a building on the south end and i started making stainedglass windows, started putting them in my house, and i happened to be right in boston at this sort of monumental rush of all those people coming back into the city. I remember the first window i ever made in stained glass and when it illuminated, boom and it lights up. Or, like when youre in the house during the day, boom and color just pours through your hallways or lights up your stairwells. What i love about it is there is so much to learn from this medium constantly cause its not just about stainedglass windows. Like, a stainedglass window is attractive, but when you put it in a house, it can become like a screen to another room. It gives you an introduction to other spaces, it brings you into someones front door. It gives you a feeling. Its like a marriage of art and architecture and its so permanent. Its like it becomes part of a city part of a street scene. Its for the whole community so if you did your front doors in stained glass everybody gets to enjoy it when they walk by at night. Everybody gets to appreciate it. I would say its like jewelry on a woman. Its like embellishment on a house. Its like. The creme de la creme. Its the final piece before you put your furniture in. Its like. Perfect. Kevin today on ask this old house. Mulch is an important part of any garden, but if you put down too much it can be a problem. Ill show you the right way to mulch your garden. A griller like you weve gotta get rid of this propane tank and switch you to natural gas. This thing is great, richard. How about a dog . Are you ready . Ill make sure that this barbecue never runs out of gas. Its a red cone, its made of foam rubber. What is it . This kind of says, i dont wanna listen to anything youre saying kevin thats next on ask this old house. Do it yourself doesnt have to mean do it alone. At the home depots howto community you can watch videos read tips, and get advice from fellow doers. Were proud to support ask this old house and doers everywhere. Angies list, providing reviews of local roofers, plumbers dentists, and more written by people just like you, helping you find help when you need it. Angies list is a proud sponsor of ask this old house. [ grunting ] man what we need is some elbow grease. [ laughs ] yeah, you can are you kidding me . Gmc lending ask this old house a helping hand since 2002. Greg, i really like the house and i love that all the plants are starting to flower. That means its spring and spring is time to mulch. Yeah, actually roger, every year about this time in the springtime we order about three or four yards from our local garden center, throw the mulch right on top of what we got. Three to four yards of mulch is a lot, and putting it on top of each other, it builds up over time and too much mulch is bad. An inch or two is perfect. Thatll allow water and air to get down in the roots. But take a look at this azalea. These branches are buried in mulch and you cant even see the main trunk of the plant. You take and scrape all this off and lookit, easily im getting four to six inches of old mulch off of the plant. Now the branches are up in the air and you can see the main stem right there. Yeah. So we need to strip some mulch off of this bed. And also, look over here. Your window well, the mulch is already up to the top. If you put any more mulch on top of that if it rains, the waters going to come down and go where . Into my window and into my basement. We dont want that to happen. No, we dont. So were going to strip the mulch out of this bed, but before that, were going to come out, were going to cut a nice, fresh edge right along the bed. Okay. Lets get to work. This is the tool were going to use to cut the edge with. Its called an edger, it has a halfmoon steel shape to it. Its got a little pad for your feet so you can really stomp on it, and it has a steel handle that wont break. So what were going to do is were going to line it up, jump on it and pick up the piece of soil, and we can see theres a little bit of grass in there. What happens is people will flick this up into the bed and this grass will just grow and become a problem. And theyve also added soil to the bed, so they have to put more mulch on top of that. So what were going to do is were going to clear that all out along with the excess mulch so why dont you start down that end edging and well meet in the middle. Excellent. Always watch the line, now. Youre trying to make a nice clean edge on this but youre trying to make a nice, smooth one, too. There, see how we have a nice curve coming down here and it lines up really nice . Yeah. Roger all right that looks pretty good. Lets get all this edging and all the excess mulch out of this bed. Excellent. Roger, how do you know that youve gone deep enough . Well, when you start seeing the topsoil which is this brown area here, and you start picking up all these little roots that means youve gone deep enough. Yeah, take and scoop all that stuff out of the edge. Just dont disturb that nice cut we made there, okay . I want to see that when youre done. Okay. What i want to do is get all the heavy stuff off the bed using the rake then im going to get down with my claw and just clean out around the plants themselves. All right, roger this wheelbarrow looks full. What should i do with all this now . Take it around back, put it in your compost pile. Then it will break down and turn into compost. Greg all right, excellent. Roger, do you want to dig down a little bit to make it so that the water stays in there for the shrubs . No, you dont want to create a ring. These roots have actually come out into the soil all the way, and thats where you want the water and thats whatll happen. With an inch or two of mulch itll let the water go down and the roots will be fine. Okay, makes sense. Wow, roger what a difference. I guess i did have a lot of mulch here. This bed is all ready to put new mulch in, but before we do that, i want to take a look at this cherry over here. If you look at it, it has what we call a mulch volcano around it. When mulch gets piled up around the trunk of a tree every season, it starts to resemble a volcano. The mulch will actually smother the primary root system and a secondary root system will grow into the mulch. These roots can girdle the trunk and ultimately strangle the tree. Weve got to remove this mulch to make your tree healthy again. Were going to take these cultivators and dig very carefully around the trunk of the tree, removing the excess mulch. Okay. So, roger, do you think were going to have to replant these hostas . No, i think theyll be fine once we remulch this bed. What i want to do is get all the stuff out of here so we can take a look at the roots. Okay. Roger all right look right here. This is the root flare right here and heres a primary root coming off it. Everything above that is secondary root growth, and were going to cut it out. And when i work in the dirt like this, i dont use a brandnew pair of hand pruners cause ill ruin em. And cut that one out and then ill take and cut that one out. And then i might as well get rid of this one. Now, this is the real culprit. You can see its actually already wrapping around the trunk. Im going to cut it here and then were going to do a little more excavation and see if we can find any more. There we go. Excellent, now i dont have to worry about these growing back or will they . Well, you know, were going to put a lot less mulch in here so the chances are they wont have a place to grow but well keep an eye on it, maybe check it in five or ten years. Okay. All right, lets get this stuff cleaned out. One thing you did right, you dumped the mulch on the driveway. So many times, homeowners will dump it on their lawn and then by the time they move the mulch, the lawns dead underneath so congratulations. Thank you. Heres another thing homeowners do wrong. They try to use a pointed shovel like this to do mulch. Now, thats hard to dig in and you dont get a lot of mulch with it. Look what you get. So this is my tool for mulch. This is called an ensilage fork. It has ten tines and theyre pointed. Its used by farmers to move manure around. I use it to move mulch around, cause i can take this and in about four scoops i can fill the wheelbarrow. So if you bring that over there well get started mulching. Great. Now, another thing that happens people try to dump the mulch into the bed and two things can happen. Number one, you can crush this nice edge that we made. Number two, you dump too much mulch in and you end up piling it up again. So what i like to do is actually take it out of the wheelbarrow set it in place, and then spread it out using little piles instead of big piles. You get that rake, you can start raking out these piles and, remember, i only want it an inch or two thick. No thicker than that. Okay. Roger, how close do i want to go to these shrubs . Roger now, around the plants, you dont have to push it all the way up under the plants. You want to just take and bring it to the drip line. You can do this by hand or you can do it with a rake but that way there we arent getting mulch up against the branches or the trunk of anything. Now, greg, along the edge we dont want to build the mulch up. If its built up like this you cant keep it trimmed and the grass will grow in there. If you keep it down like we have there its airspace, the grass cant grow in, and then you can just take your string trimmer and go right along the edge and keep that nice and neat, so take that little bit of mulch out of there. Okay. Roger now remember this plant . These branches were absolutely buried in mulch. Now you can see the main trunk here and the branches are all lifted up out of the mulch. Greg will that make that plant flower more . Absolutely, going forward, it will flower more. Its a much happier plant. All right, lets finish up with this tree. You want to give me a scoop in here . Now what were going to do is im going to take and just spread it really thin but were not going to get any up against the trunk of the tree. We want to let that breathe. Were just going to put our inch coating out here where the roots are. Can i help you spread it a little bit here . Thank you, i appreciate that. Its looking good. Much better than before. I love this brown mulch, too. This is my favorite. Hostas are tough. They should be fine. Greg okay. You got one more for me on the other side . Sure. Well, i think were good. Yeah, roger, it was a lot more work than i thought it was going to be but i know the plants are healthier and it looks a lot more cleaner for sure. Roger it looks great. Hey, and one tip, next year, instead of ordering four yards of mulch, why dont you order just two . Not a bad idea. Thanks again for your help, roger. I really appreciate it. Youre welcome. Tom all right, guys here we go. Its coneshaped, its red it has two circles on the top. Its soft, and, oh, yeah the giveaway theres two of em. What is it . Kevin thats not a giveaway these are for your lawn art. What, like flamingoes . You dont have flamingoes, do you . I did, i got rid of em. I ate em. Thats so cheesy not much meat on em. These are for your gnomes in the front yard guhnomes. No, gnomes. Guhnomes. Gnomes you know they go out at night chasing down the pixie dust and they lose a hat. These are replacement hats huh . And they come in one color cause you only see the red guhnome hat right . Yeah, thats the right answer, yeah . Guhno, thats not the right answer. Look, our Healthcare Program is pretty barebones. No professionals involved at all. Now we can do exams ourselves. Sit down up there. Where are you going to put those . Let me check your reflexes. Ooh hey, that works, huh . Oh not so bad. Oh oh no let me give you an eye test. Okay, good youre all set. Lose some weight will ya . On the job site, i have to use these a lot. These are foam plugs for your ears to protect you against the noise from machinery. But what people dont realize is i really use these [loudly] so i dont have to listen to anybody you know what im saying . But they dont understand cause they cant see these so, what you do is you take these foam ones the big ones and you stick em in your ear now this kind of says, i dont want to listen to anything youre saying, shut up you look like a guhnome. Give me that thats not it at all. And guhnomes. Whered that come from . I dont know. All right, you guys all know that i have a boat and you always want to be safe on the water. You never know whats going to happen. I could be riding along and i could hit a rock. Hes guhnoing down. Now, i i got a hole and the waters coming in. You take these foam plugs, you squeeze em, and you push em in the hole and hopefully that will stop enough water so the pumps can keep up and i can get back to the dock safely. Thats what you might use them for but i would rather use them to check richards guhnoggin. [australian accent] gday man this is our backyard. We love it out here, and we spend every single day during the summer out here. But my favorite area in the backyard is right over here. I absolutely love to grill. This is where i hang out most of my time out here. I cook chicken ribs, burgers, steak, everything you think of. The problem with this grill is that im constantly running out of gas. I fill these tanks up every two weeks and i still run out of gas. I want to be able to cook out here all summer long and not have to worry about filling up those tanks of gas. Hey, darren . Hey, good morning. Richard look at you, you are a grillaholic. Youre actually doing your breakfast, too . Every chance i get im cooking on a grill. Look at that. What strikes your fancy . Ive got some sausage, some pancakes. You know what, i think ill hold off and get a little work done first. Its time for someone like you to get rid of these propane tanks. I think were going to switch you from propane to natural gas. All right. You already cook with it you already heat with it inside. Were going to run a new gas line inside here but we do have to doublecheck we have enough capacity at the meter. Oh, okay. I know where that is. All right. All right, so were at the front of your house. You can see the gas line that comes in from the street right here. Theres a shutoff valve right here that they can lock if you dont pay your bill. Gas comes up through this thing called a meter bar right here. Now, these are called out in numbers. Theres a five light a ten light, a fifteen light back when houses used to have gas lights in them. Now, you have electrical lights, right . Yeah, electric. So the number thats more important to me is the meter number right here and that tells me youve got plenty of capacity. Next i want to check what youve already got connected to this meter inside. Okay. All right, darren, i think we got good news for you. Ive mapped out all your appliances right here, and i now know that we have about 400,000 btus of capacity coming through this main line from the meter right outside. If you total up your gas furnace the water heater your gas dryer a fireplace right above us here, and a heater that you have above the garage it totals about 275,000 btus. Weve got enough capacity. Great news. All right . So the new gas grill wants to go right over here. Heres where your patio is right here. So we need a place to be able to tie in to supply the gas lines so right here is a 3 4inch gas line which goes to that unit heater upstairs. It allows us to tap in right here, and because the gas grill is relatively close its only about nine feet and nine feet we can actually run this smaller size black steel pipe. This is a steel pipe thats been cut and threaded and well be able to run this right along here to outside. Now, this is not a doityourself project. You need to be a licensed gas fitter, which i am so what i did is i brought along my best righthand person, my son evan. Evan, why dont you shut off that gas line, okay . All right, so we need to run our new gas line from right here to the gas grill location. Now, there was a day that we would have cut and thread every single one of these pieces of pipe individually, but now we can buy them in precut lengths sixfoot, fivefoot, fourfoot, threefoot and then every single increment down in halfinch increments actually down to one inch. Heres all our parts and pieces. Were going to build it like an erector set. So now, with the gas off i can actually disconnect this drip cap right here. Might be a little hiss. All right. Oh, i can smell it. Well, actually, youre not actually smelling the gas. Youre actually smelling mercaptan something they add to the gas so you can detect a leak with your nose. Now, all of our connections are going to have pipe joint compound applied to the threads. Thats really important. We dont want any leaks. Heres our new tee. Im going to reuse this old drip piece. And one more set of threads right here. So well use the same connection method all through our gas piping. Apply the pipe joint compound and tighten up these threads with two wrenches. To support the pipe, im going to use threaded rod with galvanized hangars. Now we can actually take our first measurement, and you see we need to allow for the threaded piece so thats a 4 1 2inch piece, evan. All right, cool. Going well. Just grab me that wrench too, will ya . All right, so you can push that in. I like to install a shutoff valve called a gas cutoff both inside and outside for safety. All right, darren, before we run any more pipe inside ive got to figure out where im actually piping to so ive got to drill a hole through your house. Now, i have measured about four times from a Reference Point that tells me that right about here should be perfect for this way and im looking at 27 is what i think would be perfect so you feeling lucky . Im feeling lucky. Okay. All right, so there is our hole. Hey, right where i want it to be. Thats pretty good. So now im going to stick this piece of pipe through as a gunner. Lets take a measurement. What do you got . 60. Nice. Exactly 60 . Yep. Ooh, boy. Perfect. So its a Good Practice to install this tfitting right here with this leg right here with a cap. Its called a drip and thats to have a place to catch any rust or any water that might be in the gas so it could settle here and not block the pipe. All right, so ive got most of the connections done out here. Heres a secondary shut off outside and this is actually a tester. Im going to actually pump up all that new piping to about three pounds of pressure and close it off right there and see if it holds. Inside i like to be double sure theres no leaks and do a soap test. If theres any leak, a big bubble will show up. Looks like were good. All right, its been about 40 minutes and our dial is right where it should be right at three. If there had been a leak that dial would have dropped and dropped and dropped and finally gone to zero. So now we can break this off. Im going to install this fitting right here. Its pretty ingenious. Its actually a snap connector for your hose on your grill. Pull this back the hose engages and locks in. Its only going to let gas come in if the hose is engaged. Thats good for safety. Absolutely. To make sure this steel pipe doesnt rust, its Good Practice and code to spray paint it with a rustproof paint. So what do you think . Your new gas grill designed to burn with natural gas this time. It has a hose in the back right here, and that is a connection made to snap right into here. All right, so just need to turn the gas back on and well be cooking. Good deal. Well, the gas is back on and you didnt waste a minute getting this thing fired up. Were up to, what, almost 600 . Well, its almost lunch time. How bout a hot dog . Hot dog . Well, you know what . Ive been eyeing that pool. Why dont you cook me a hot dog and send it to me out by the pool . Thank you very much, richard. All right. Mustard and relish. So, richard, he got himself a brand new grill, one that was set up to work with natural gas. You couldnt convert the old grill . Most gas appliances, you can switch from propane to natural and natural to propane. What you have to do is change a thing called the orifice. If this was the tube coming down to the burner, down inside, theres this little, tiny part right here and this has the smallest of holes. Theyre different between natural and propane, so these have to be switched. But this guy was really hot for a brandnew grill, so he went out and got one, natural. Now, you needed a 60inch length and you had a pipe that was 60 inches. I got really lucky. What do you do if its 59 . Well, you build it 48 and the coupling and then ten and a half, so there was always two choices we had. One is to build it the way i did it there or the other was to bring 21 footlong pieces of pipe, cut em on site, thread em using a thing called a power drive and a pipe die and we would cut these threads. Ive seen it done many times on the job site. Its messy its timeconsuming, and its expensive. It is expensive. Im really excited about a new connection method. Instead of having to cut these threads, this requires no threads. I measure the pipe where i want it, i cut it and heres the raw end and now what i want to do is to use this compression connection right here. You look inside, see that little yellow oring in there, the seal . That makes a seal thats tight against the outside of the pipe. Theres barbed tabs right here. Theyre going to squeeze down over the pipe. So what you do is you want to prep this pipe. You use this deburring tool, and youd spin it so it just took the edge off here. See the sander in here . Kevin oh, yeah. So that would sand the outside until it looks like this and once you do, you bring it in like this. Tommy, just grab that tool. This is a special tool that uses incredibly strong jaws. Go ahead. [ whirring ] that connections made and itll never leak. I love that. Isnt that something . Tom thats fast. All right. Well, richard, youre always bringing us something new. Try to. So, until next time, im kevin oconnor. Im rich trethewey. Im tom silva. And im roger cook. For ask this old house. Did i see that guy making pancakes on a grill . Yeah, thats right. They must have been frozen. Can you cook pancakes on propane . Kevin next time on ask this old house. Im going to make some repairs to this cracked stone walkway. Are we going to have to rip up the whole thing . No, were just going to replace a few pieces. Im going to show you how to use one of my favorite tools in my tool belt, my trusty hand plane. A yellow semicircle made of plastic. What is it . One pair of overalls a few cans of paint. Add a dash of doing and mix together. Thats a recipe for a kitchen you cant wait to cook in. The home depot is proud to support ask this old house and doers everywhere. Angies list, providing reviews of local roofers, plumbers dentists, and more written by people just like you, helping you find help when you need it. Angies list is a proud sponsor of ask this old house. [ grunting ] man what we need is some elbow grease. [ laughs ] yeah, you can are you kidding me . Gmc lending ask this old house a helping hand since 2002. Kevin ask this old house has much more to show you. To see entire episodes any time, just go to video. Pbs. Org. And like us on facebook. This old house magazine the companion to the television series, provides advice from our experts that youve come to know. 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When i first went to school, i was doing a dual major in Environmental Science and fine art. I was feeling a little torn between the two and feeling like i really had to make a decision so i remember talking to someone who introduced me to Landscape Architecture, and it was like an epiphany. The rest is history. So whenever i design a landscape i try to think of a series of spaces back there, thats the entryway, thats your entry experience. Right here, this is the first garden room, the outdoor room right in front of the front door. And then theres a connection to the wooded area beyond, through this walkway here. A Landscape Architect is a designer of the landscape meaning everything from the building face, out. It could include connections to the house terraces, open areas garden rooms, pergolas, walks, driveway alignment. You approach by car what do you see when you approach a site, what are your viewsheds . And then plants, of course. I love plants. I like taking very simple, expected materials that you see here in the new england landscape, and were talking granite, bluestone fieldstone. And knitting these materials with maybe something a little bit more unexpected stainless steel, corten or Something Like that. Thats what makes a beautiful design. You know the stuff that you dont see is sometimes the most critical. The engineering of the soils and where the water goes and how to make sure that, you know walls are installed correctly and will stand the test of time. It is a balance between the art of having things look seamless and elegant and have usable spaces but also melding that with sound construction and sound design from an engineering standpoint. Be more pbs. Pbs online