Hi guys, we were repairing a floor and got wet from underneath it. The line busted, sprayed up on the floor and they wanted us to pull the carpet back and see if we could save it and put new floor in. So this is what it looks like to begin with. We got some big old soft spots right here and a couple over in here, but.
Usually the factory will pull this carpet over the top of the floor and then staple it from the sides, set the walls on top of it, so we’ll probably have to cut the carpet and then peel it back. Lots of fun.
Well, I was wrong. That’s another reason to not think of me as perfect. But they did have a tack strip and we pulled it up. So that we can cut and put in the old particleboard and put in plywood.
The damage is also in this area here, and they’re probably not going to get away with having to put in. Tile or linoleum.
So what they paid us to do is to replace this area because it got wet from underneath. That’s what we’re going to.
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Updated 1-12-23 Phil shows you one of the ways you can build a budget deck cover. We adjusted the original measurements by 3/4″ to save the customer on materials cost. ⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️00:00 Build a cover over the current deck you have00:40 Measuring for wider than the deck00:55 Want to do a wood layout after you buy … Read more
How to build a budget deck on your home, mobile home or building. We walk you through step-by-step how to build a diy deck.
This deck is 8×10 but you can change to fit the needs of your diy project.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 How to layout the deck 00:45 We’ll cut to frame up the deck and fastening it to the wall 01:06 Framed up wooden deck 01:46 Attaching the deck to Mobile home frame 03:00 Bracing up the wooden deck frame 03:20 How you could set the deck frame by yourself 03:30 Want to level/adjust the frame and the put 8″ lag bolts with washers 04:00 How they are going to secure the deck 04:15 Using an Electric Impact from Harbor Freight 05:00 Adding blocks and 4×4 to secure 06:05 Cut 4x4s to 36″
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Phil is retrofitting attic lights to LED. WOW it gets hot in the attic in summer.
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Transcription: This is another example of all the different things. Obviously, this is not in a mobile home’s attic. And if you go in a basement of a mobile home, there’s wheels anyway. We’re in, we’re retrofitting led from fluorescent changing fluorescence to LED and we’ll climb up in the attic. So we got into a discussion about how hot it was. This is actually not when we went up last time.
So it’s cooler because it’s earlier. But right now we’re shooting about 101.8 and we’re going to go back further into the gates. So we’ll get back with you in just a minute. Well, we’re deep into the belly of the beast and early part of the day. So now I’m reading about 102 and getting warmer all time I’ve been up in here for a later time later. I guess I’m losing my memory, but it has been a later in the day we were measuring way higher and I’ve been in attics and we’re over 140, which is dangerous.
So now we’re going to go ahead and cut down our odds of getting in trouble and head downstairs.
What Renters can do to your property and how to fix it. Walking through one of our rental properties after a tenant left and left EVERYTHING behind. Including masses of trash.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 In one of our rental assessing the damage 00:38 What people will do to avoid cleaning 01:05 Mobile home factory caused a problem with floors 01:50 Why is that such a bad habit 02:10 You have a gap that runs across the floor cause by railroading 02:25 How he does the floors and why. 02:35 Never want to run all materials with the floor joists 02:45 Popping a chalk line over where we need to replace the floor 03:15 This won’t get fixed in one day 03:27 What you deal with as a landlord 03:38 If you trash a car you have to pay for it 04:00 Rental property laws 04:15 A different tenant set the property on fire 05:00 On heck of a scam 05:30 Child was eventually charged with arson 05:50 Another renter and property 06:15 Woops that back fired 06:25 Every person who has lived here we’ve helped 06:40 Never had a landlord do any of that for me 06:55 No matter how nice you are…
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Hey guys, I guess you won’t see me in my best mood because this is actually one of my places that I used to be real nice.
But anyway, uh, we’re repairing the floor and a number of other things, probably I’ll take you through it, but, you know, you really would not understand at depth, how bad this place was. But one of these times I’ll take you all the way through whenever I step in and what people do and out of disrespect.
But, uh, this had 3 16 foot trailers of trash and probably two trailer loads of furniture they left behind. They left everything behind. I had uh, the guy I bought the, buying the mobile home park from.
He said, Hey, Phil, you’ll find out that people will move because they have to clean. They can’t live there anymore. This is one of those cases they moved because they just couldn’t deal with DHS anymore and they anyway.
So what we’re dealing with is. Actually a problem that was inherited from design, uh, on the floor, the, the factory ran, long sheets lengthways. Instead of across, that’s really bad habit, because the particleboard and the plywood, uh. Runs their layers this way also. So inherently it’s weaker. And it will bow in between. It doesn’t help that it had water on it.
But if you’ll notice that there’s a little bit of a gap right there, uh, say a quarter inch, and it goes all the way across that particular area. But here where it got just a little bit of water, of course it’s much, much worse. So what we’re going to do is pop lines, and I’ll probably replace material. And guess what? I’m not going to be running the material lengthways, even if it’s only 16 inches wide, I’m going to run 16 inch butt cuts across it. That way, the strength.
Is running this direction across an area because that way. So you always you never want to do what they call railroading, which is to run your material lengthways with the floor joists. You want to go across the floor joists. So, you’re still on the strength of the floor joists, going this way and the plywood going this way. Weaving it. It’s making both of them stronger.
So that’s what we’re going to do.
James, if you can get that chalk-line let’s pop a line where I already made marks. There’s one over there James. Now we’ll uh, cut along that line and we’ll show you each step of the way. You know, I may actually be in different clothes beceause I might not do it all in one day, but this will be a continual thing, um, that I’ll. Probably take you more.
And more through what I deal with as a person who rents property. And I have my solution for the long haul on how to deal with people who do not take care of rentals. Uh, and I would like to point out to, there’s something I tell the renters all the time, it’s like, Hey, if you go and rent a car.
And you trash it, and you take it back to the owner and say, Hey, I need you to fix this car, that I trashed? What do you think the odds are they’re going to fix it without charging. It’s going to happen that you’re going to get charged. Somehow the rental property laws have got so messed up that it protects the renters. So much that now the owner has tremendous losses.
This particular house actually had somebody they were they couldn’t pay their rent. They were going to have to leave. So on the Friday they were going to have to leave that Thursday afternoon, the boy came home from school, 15-year old boy took towels into the bathroom floor, which was tile. Put them in a pile, then went and got gasoline poured it on the, the towel. Set it on fire and ran out the door and yelled, “Hey, my house is on fire, my house is on fire.” When everybody tried to come and help. Multiple people did. He refused to let them through the door. He’s like. Stop trespassing, trespassing. So the house is on fire. And he was stopping people from coming. So what they actually were doing is a is a pretty good little scheme.
You don’t have to set your house on fire to do it. But some tragedy is that they thought and did actually accomplish. That they would get church help and they would get a Red Cross, which they did. Red Cross was here before, within before the Fire Department arrived to the property. The Red cross was here. But guess what? The detectives were here, too. So that boy eventually got charged with arson before he was even an adult.
Uh, and he did a lot of damage in that bedroom. Which, uh, I have to go through the carpet. The carpet actually survived next to it.
Anyway, uh, I’ve had other people who were in the same situation. They were going to be evicted on Friday and on Wednesday said, you know what, you know, screw you, we’re going to. And they went and took a self tapping screw and door and drilled it into the water heater and then called the fire department and the fire department shows up said we can’t fix electrical. So we’re going to have to call the power company. The power company showed up and.
Said We don’t do anything. Inside the house, shut the power off. So they had to move that night. So I can go on and on and perhaps I will some other day, as I remember all the issues, but you know, none of these people who lived here or people that was they owe, every last one of them owed me for being here. More than just being here, me helping them after they were here.
I’ve never had a landlord that would loan me money. I’ve never had a landlord to help me fix my car. I’ve never and I rented guys I’ve rented for years. I’ve never, ever had a landlord like me. But I’m telling you, no matter how nice you are, these people, uh, there are people, and I don’t believe it’s everybody, but there are people. Who are just bad people. They pretend to be nice when they meet you, and after that, they’re going to take advantage. Um, I have a working solution for it. I work on it later, but there’s my opinion.
Went through and completely replaced the front porch for the customer. He did change his mind, so as always, we work to make the customer happy.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 Some joke about hands in his pockets–couldn’t make it out 00:19 We are lowering the deck down and completely re-doing it 00:29 Dug out an area to pour concrete 00:39 Stom coming so we had to hurry. We poured concrete 01:05 Framed in the deck, it is bigger than they had 01:17 Will have steps on both sides after done 01:48 Put even steps like the other side 02:20 The final product
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Hey guys, you see me with my hands in my pockets more this year it will be because I like my pockets??? The project we’ve got here, lowering that deck down so that whenever snow gets on there it doesn’t catch. We’re going to be 5 inches down. So that it will slip off the sides. It’s going to be low enough that we’re probably not going to put handrails off to the sides. And then the steps going to go on top of the concrete here that we’re going to pour. Which we’ve already dug out, you missed out on that. Little bit of sweat, when we got to that. So we’ll give you videos as we go along.
We had to get in a hurry because we’ve got a storm coming. So we did. Sorry we didn’t take you all the way through this. But to explain we had makes the concrete. Put it in. Finished it, to get some soup on top and get the rocks down. Rush finish on that, hopefully that’ll be as you can see, it’s green stuff they call green concrete. And this is, you know, older, gray. That’ll turn gray and it’ll be almost light gray tomorrow. Then we frame to a bigger the actually deck was smaller than is now. And we made it bigger so they could come out around the door. The step will be over that way. And then they can go in with the groceries. And then what I did over here was I split the steps. So it has three even distances. Later on.
Tomorrow, we’re going to fill all this in with solid wood. All that will be solid wood. And then we’ll do the same on this side tomorrow. We’ll see more tomorrow.
What we’ve done is made it with the steps are even like we did on the other side. This is how we supported it, because it’s less than five and a half inch. It’s as far as width support. We had to use 2 to 4 and then support them and we used materials we had here, and maybe more than what we needed.
And so we’ll fill this in with, with two by sixes and then we’ll come along and fill all this solid underneath, all the way around and it will hold up to heavy duty loads.
Hi guys. This is the final decision. He changed his mind and wanted to put some handrails up and we put some handrails up and filled in everything solid. Later on, whenever the moisture gets out of the boards, two months, three months. We’ll stain it and probably paint this too.
At the same time accent color all the steps are even. And now, when he puts a carport over here, he can get it from either vehicle. So job is accomplished, and everybody’s happy.
How to put in a safer porch, with wide landings and a shallow stair height.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 Helping an older couple with access to their tornado shelter 00:27 These steps are uneven and varying heights 00:40 With the differences, you are more likely to miss a step 01:30 First platform is framed in 02:11 How to put a porch in by yourself and keep it level 02:30 You can do increments of 3, 4, 5 then check it for square 04:30 Why I use 4x4s instead of blocks 05:25 Using cap blocks under our 4x4s 05:45 Back after putting in the 4x4s 05:55 Changed things up to make the customer safer 06:10 Much easier to cut your 4x4s and then put them up 06:25 Want to measure from block to top and add 28.5″ 06:37 Don’t do 42″ because it’s too high for comfort 07:18 We have made a frame 07:47 Handrail won’t go all the way so they can get off the stair either way 08:00 We put supports in the corners 08:25 Next we’ll put in the floor 08:35 End of the job
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Today. We’re going to try to help our older couple have a little more safe way to their tornado shelters. Usually when you go to a tornado shelter, you’re not doing it in a very casual manner. you’re like in a hurry. And this is kind of the detiorating pretty bad. And what I noticed is there’s a lot of different heights.
First of all, this one is like 8, 9 inches depending on where it is. This one is six and three quarters. That one is seven and this one is two and a half, 3, 3 inches. So what happens is when you’re in a hurry, you miss a step and then you fall down. That’s a bad thing. When you fall down, and you’re older, you don’t get up as well and things come off of you when you fall, like Bill Cosby said.
So what I want to do is make a wider platform so they can literally open the door and stand on the platform and then walk toward that. And I will do it instead of seven inches, which is the normal step height. I’m going to do it in five and a half inch. So I want this step, which actually has a lip in here to be five and a half inches down to the finish.
So it’ll be seven inches when that frame is built. That we’ll build and we’ll build it out six foot, four foot wide. That’s my plan. We were going to show you how we do it as we go along.
That’s what I decided to do, is do it even though I wasn’t going to I decided to go ahead and do a six foot area, and four foot wide. So, that when we put a 4×4 here and a 4×4 there. They can come out here and actually get themselves together and then come off of here. Well, I’m looking at now is we’ve made the frame with a every two foot a stud, which that’s in the center of two foot and there’s three screws per temporally fastened to there.
I don’t rely on that. What we’ll be doing next is, of course, when you put these up temporarily, I used to do this by myself, I’d fastened it up there in a temporary fashion and then put screw in hold it up. Screw it, hold it up, screw it and then check it again, then check it for square. Now, when you check the square, you can use a framing square that be accurate, buh on a smaller area.
But you can do any increment of three or four or five. Now, okay, that sounds really simple, but it’s not. So what you do, you go inside or outside. In this case, I’m going inside. I can go three foot, which is 36, not marked on this right there. And then four foot from the inside would be too far.
So let’s go. Hmmm, let’s do done down to 30. Maybe I can catch it this way. 30. 40, 40 inches. And it should be if it’s square, it should be exactly 50, but it’s three, four or five. Any increment of three, four, five. So three foot, four foot, five foot, it can be 30 foot, 40 foot, 50 foot. And that’s a long stretch. You have a lot of sag.
You can that’s not working out real well anyways. Three, four or five, three foot, four foot, five foot. This is not big enough to do that. You would use a frame and square and then you can pick this up by yourself and move it. It might be very difficult, but you can move. I’ve moved 16 by 16 foot deck, by myself doing 16 foot sections and then you can readjust their height on that.
But it’s three foot, four foot, five foot or six foot, eight foot, ten foot. It will do that every time. Be dead on square. What we’re going to put it in the 4x4s I use instead of using which I have brand new blocks. Instead of using pier pads or pier blocks that they have or it has the 4×4 goes exactly in. I don’t like those for, uh. The biggest reason is if if it’s not if it’s when the deck settles, you can’t hardly get a shim in there.
So you get trying to end up being creative. How to how to shim it. Then you got people that like, oh, I want in concrete. Okay, here’s what happens if the water settles around that top of that concrete and it rots off the wood right there, or it just rots out the wood right there because that’s what it does.
There are exceptions when you get to bigger and bigger wood that you can, but you’re going to you’re going to look at better to have the bracket on top of concrete if you’re going to do that. But in this case, we’re not hardly having any weight at all. We’re going to put half pads with our, what they call cap blocks, which is four inch by eight, four inches by eight inches wide by 16 inches long solid.
And this is an old one and I’ll put them underneath the 4x4s that will be supporting this. And I’ll show you a picture of that.
Hi guys, we’re back, a little further along with the 4x4s in the corners. I’ve got three screws in everything. You’re going to see me doing that all the time. I changed it up. I like the idea of being able to go through there to the walkway and them have handrails on both sides closed. So I changed it so I wouldn’t have to square off and then do a jog. So how do I get the 4x4s? It’s a lot easier to cut them before you put them up there.
And then trying to take a sawzall and not cut into the house. So what I normally do is I measure up from whenever we’re level with this support here.
Measure it from the block to the top. I’m going to add 28 and a half inches, which ends up being the height, which can be 30, 32. I don’t like the 42 that they use because when you sit down either in the house or on your deck, you can’t see over the handrails. It’s not comfortable when you sit in on your chair because ends up being the glass is up here.
The arm would be right on that 30 inch, 32, 28, 29 inch area. These people are a little shorter leaning over a little bit. So I made it where it’s not very high. We’re going to put a 2×6 on top of that.
So if you notice we’ve got all this put in place and I’ll show you the next part we’re going to put on, and I’ll show you each step as we go. So what we’ve done now is make a three foot by eight foot frame. We’ve supported it here on these areas were only 5.5” inches, the thickness of this I don’t put a block because they end up being so flimsy it wouldn’t do any good to have it in there. The other side. I don’t I don’t want to.
Lose this strength where I can as far as being on the ground and I don’t want them stepping off on a higher step. So I’ve put those two on blocks and these two not. We’re going to make the handrail go to here. That way they can go this direction if they want to, or downhill, if they want to. And if you notice, of course everything is leveled up, we put in supports around here so that when we cut the two bys that we’re going to put a 2×6 and put across here, we’ll have something to sit on.
It won’t just sit floating around. This areas on the outside because I want to keep a three foot width, you know, so that they would have more width here. People can get bigger. But anyway, there’s the next step. What we’re going to go do next is put in the floor and we’re going to put the handrails.
“OK, Yep. Sorry.”
The 2x6s are what we put on top. We put a 2×4 underneath that supports the 2×6 and it’s something in case they wanted to put stas in. Put one at about seven inches so nobody slips off and also if you put the balustrades in you can fasten it to that. We 45’d this, we fastened all of the flooring with three inch, three screws each.
And this is far, I can get real fancy. It costs a lot more money. But this is way more than what they expected. So you can do the same thing. We’re all Amerians not American’ts.
Walk through of the complete metal roof. This is the end of a big commercial roof.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 Walk through on the roof 00:15 Some of the penetrations we had 00:50 To the end of one side of the roof 01:30 The L-shaped part of the roof 02:24 Ground view of the roof
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Phil shows you how to install valley foam on a metal roof. Sorry about the sound quality, there is a transcript of what he’s saying.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 You’ll want to put valley foam in, especially in snowy climates 00:23 Don’t unroll it until you’re ready to do the total area 00:39 Take the screws out and slide it under the edge of the metal in your valleys 01:00 Pulling the cover for the sticky side 01:30 Try to keep the tape low or you will cut it
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Transcript: Probably would or should. There’s a lot of road noise, sorry. Should put valley foam in. Particularly when it snows, the water will go up that valley and go down underneath it, and will find a hole. This is valley foam. It comes in rolls as soon as you unroll this you need to prepare. It will continue to expand, and it expands to two and a half inches thick. So, it’s meant to grow to the odd the angles that you put these valleys on and fill these ribs up with foam. So, the trick is going to be take these screws out, about 16 inches back that you’ve already put in. The screws should be an inch or two away so that they don’t end up being in on the wrong side of the valley foam.
So, what you have got to do is take those screws out go to lift it up, and stick it underneath that edge. But uh, it’s a pain sometimes because you’ve got deep hooks on that edge, and slide it underneath there with the sticky side, which would be this side here and it turns into clear right there down underneath. And then you, we’ll show you how you can just pull it all off. As long as you keep it there. Under the roll there’s a little strip to help you could grab it, put that underneath there, and you want to keep it low or you’re going to end up cutting your, your peal off and you’ll have to reach under there and get it again. It’s kind of a pain, but just keep it low and ends up sticking like that. See that, I cut it so I have to reach under there and grab it anyway. Just keep peeling it up and then that will stay in place and you put your screws back in.
This shows you exactly how to install metal roof ridge caps. Phil walks you through each job step-by-step so you can work on your own roof.
How to DIY the metal ridge caps on a large metal roof. We will put the entire video together.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 Start of Ridge Cap 00:23 How to lap your Ridge Cap over-want to lap away from the drive way 01:00 Popping a line and adding your foam, goes above the line 01:40 Want to avoid the driving rain 03:42 Putting down the Ridge Cap 04:30 Why you want to tack each side of the ridge cap and then do the middle 05:00 Want to screw every other rib
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Your ridge cap can be a lot of different sizes a lot of different widths, you can get used to have a really wide and this is actually 12 inches across 12 and a quarter 12 and a half. So I’m gonna choose to go five and a half inches, both sides to pop my lines, and then we’re gonna put foam on those lines.
And I’ll show you that.
But one of the things that comes up with the ridge cap is when you lap it over. If he pulled his driveway he’s pulling up this way, you don’t want that lap to be very visible. So like a vinyl siding. So you’re trying to make this side lap over that and you don’t see it as anything but uniform.
So that’s what we did. On this one, the traffic is all over there, and the laps are visible from this direction Not that. So that’s what you need to keep in mind, and we’ll show you what we’re gonna do is really pop their lines measured five and a half from each way on the peak.
And this is where the foam closure is gonna go. And it will go above the linethe foam closure is meant to go over.that line It has sticky stuff to hold it in place. And you can get it without being sticky. If you want to put it in after the fact. After you put the ridge on, it’s kind of hard to deal with that right now also have a closure that breathes like a vent if you had a vent up here, they can breathe in and out and still keep the water out.
So what we’re trying to do is make sure that the water doesn’t get in by driving rain So it has a male female connection there. And then recall above our chalk line be so hot that this stuff would slide down the roof. There was nothing that would as a rule, I don’t get to get to terrible far ahead. Unless I think the weather’s gonna be clear.
Because wind could make a mess and blow your stuff on I am a gambler. when it comes to this gonna put right over that they won’t be able to see the ridge cap. Although I can make a decorative end There you go. We’ll break away to show you how we put down the ridge cap This is a 12 inch you can change the angles the pitch when you order.
Basically relying on my foam to kind of push me where I need to be. It’s telling me Hey, I need to be a little bit.past I’m gonna screw through into the rib I don’t usually bother with this because I am going to put rake over that don’t need another thing to be in the way and I go to the other end.
You try to work it from that side. You’ll end up twisting around on it and it’ll be a battle he’ll take it back and back and forth apart so I don’t do that. And then I do it every other rib from there believe me I’ve never had one blow off.
If you scratch this stuff, they got like a nail polish bottle in the color that you have to ask your supplier don’t like these screws them but here I am using these have kinda got a self drilling tip on them and they wobble a lot There you go, we just decide what direction you want screw off every other one.
And your ridge cap is on no water is going to blow up over and get up in the peak and then leak down whatever screw it wants to on the bottom. Every time somebody says hey, I got a metal roof but my roof is leaking.
So we’re at you know, and generally is hit by a roof vent that’s not been sealed in years because I figured once I got a shingle or a metal roof, they don’t ever have to do any maintenance but you do.
But the classic one is where they decide not to put the closure in and therefore the wind drives that water up and goes over that and then goes down the metal through whatever hole it finds.
So it’s good to put the closure even though it’s got a shingle roof below it.
Phil walks you through how to seal penetrations and look super pro doing it.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 Put tape around the flange 00:25 When you pull tape off magically square 00:52 Any kind of caulking will shrink 01:36 How to get tar off you 01:55 And you look like a pro
Transcript: What we’ve done now is put tape around the flange about an inch and half to two inches away where you can get the elasticool or tar to bind to the metal. And then I make sure that I cover up any nail holes that might have been there. And spread it out, try to feather it out near the tape. And that way.
When we pull the tape off, it looks like you did a perfectly good square. Even though you might have gotten over into the tape quite a bit. It’s what I’ve been doing for years and years. And I know there’s people that say you should use this, but I’m telling you this works and works good, easy to maintain, inexpensive and any kind of caulking shrinks. It really shrinks. When we pull this tape off it will have square edges. We’ll show you tearing the tape off later.
I’m cleaning this and I’m going to try not to get the poo on me.
“And how can you get tar off if you get in a place that.”
Any kind of oil-based product oil, wd40, gasoline is kind of hard on your skin, but any kind of oil will get it off. After that it’s a hot bath. There you go.
“That does look really cool.”
It’s looks from the ground like you know what you’re doing.
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How to measure and cut the metal on a valley for metal roof.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 One of the tricky parts of doing a valley 00:48 Want to find the angle 01:06 Take a squared off piece, generally 36″ 01:37 Keep it square with the piece you’re measuring from 01:48 Other side even with the line you popped 02:05 Measure where you will lap, not the edge 02:30 When you get your angle, that will tell you where to pop a line to keep square 02:50 Measure up the roof 03:22 Cutting once you have your measurements 04:20 Here’s where your angle comes in, go 38 1/4 up 05:10 How to cut if you work by yourself 06:10 Pop your line to cut the metal roofing 06:35 Types of snipes you can use 07:05 Trick for cutting metal roofing 08:35 Trick when placing your metal-run it along the rib 09:20 Want to screw into your 2 ft centers, keeps metal on even during high winds 10:00 Stay 2-3″ up because will put in valley foam 10:25 Now you know the valley angle, you should be able to pop your lines 10:35 Check at first then you know your angles 11:00 Metal roof valley going down need to determine the angle
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Doing a valley is getting the angles righthand I’ll show you how I do it. And of course, there’s other ways to do it. This is what I’m seeing some of them ever since before. And I’ve helped a lot already got started.
But it’s basically what I do is I take you’re going to be any color and this works. I wait for traffic and airplane traffic here. So what I’m trying to do is find the angle for this. So what I’m going to do is take a squared off, piece generally wanted to be around 36 inches or, or more than the mark it might notice that I’m kind of cautious on this roof because it’s best Be careful if you’re going to get on my recommendation to get on it.when it’s wet Alright, not that great.
So they don’t have this. So as straight as possible, then you want this point right here, which is not the lip, but actually decided the rib. To me, even with that line, if you popped. Get that you can take a pencil and mark it quite often I just take a tape measure and the classic mistake, which I’ve done bunches of times, as you measure on this,side I was thinking oh yeah, this is what I gotta do. But you don’t, because it laps over, it’s got to go down to the bottom of the other side.
So that won’t change the angle. This is 38 and a quarter angle. So I know that whatever the length of this is, I need whenever it’s square to cross I need to go 38 and a quarter up on this side and then pop a line or mark a line with a straight edge a then cut across, which I’ll show you that.
So what we’re doing next is getting this out of the way so I don’t fall off the roof. Measuring up the roof 243 All right, we’ll take it to the next level, we start measuring up that one angle, we’re gonna go down 243 although you can mark right here, if you can find it down on the side and 243.
So what I’m gonna do is measure from this end 39 three quarters and do the same over here. That way we have this point that was the same to me. We could pop a line across. We’re gonna do. We didn’t know that it’s 38 and a quarter up on that angle because we took that squared piece, which would be the same as going up there and 38 and a quarter, but we’re gonna go over here. In that point that we measured from here, you could do 243 over there.
Same thing, just a little shorter. We pulled that way. Then I go 38 and a quarter up on that. Shadow made a mark here. And it’s got to go to that 243 mark over there. So what I normally do when I work by myself, God bless your soul if you do work by yourself. Gotcha.
And I take my chalk line got to work in chuckling I thought I did. Remember it’s not to that marks to the one on the side. And they kind of hold a little bit on the loose, so it will pop down it. There’s the angle. These are us straights yellow handles but you can use green or red.
They just have stronger strength to turn left with green. I think it’s strong strength to turn right with red where straights a stronger going straight, but we can go left or right just they’re not as good.
Now one of the tricks that i was showing people earlier is I lift up on one side hold down the other side kind of encourage it to tear and then I use the snips to tell him where to tear turns a little bit sideways so I don’t have to interfere with where the metal folds up. Either cutting your hand or just getting in the way of working. There we go.
That’s how that part is done. I’ll show you some more as we go along. What I been doing is putting it on the rib taking care not to scratch existing metal and trying to sliding as close as I can.to the edge Already got some screws on to two-foot centers.
I’ve seen it wider but I’ve never had a roof off center. I had a tornado warning. That’s it. The match tree damage. Trees either make a dent or sometimes in the country from the impact to foot center. I’ve never had a problem, so I’m not going to fix it. They want to stay in.
Now, whenever you’re screwing this off, you don’t want to get real close to the edge like stay about two or three inches up. Reason is we’re going to put in Valley foam afterwards. And I’ll show you how that’s done later, but you just do the same thing. You don’t have to measure every time now you know what that angle is, unless somehow changes back and forth.
We should have a straight valley where you pop the land on the sides and put it straight. So that angle B 38 and a quarter all the way up on this one.
We will check every one of them whenever I first started out, so I encourage you to be careful. But you can do it yourself. Just be careful. You got your friends. Again, watch the wind. You can take both of you off the roof. It gets to be too windy, just stop but it live another day.
Like better to be a live dog than a dead lion alright guys we did valley where you’re coming up.
This is going down and getting enabled. So what we had to do was determine that angle also. point this is gonna keep it straight to our line down below. And it’s showing. So that would be how you would get your angle. on the long side you have to cut it down
How to cut for penetrations in a metal roof. We are putting the metal directly over the shingles. Your shingles act as both barrier and insulation, and save a massive amount on your labor costs. Doesn’t matter if you are DIYing the project or paying someone. We all only have so much time.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️ 00:00 You will usually need to cut the metal for roof penetrations 00:17 How you need to measure it 00:49 Marking the metal 01:45 Tip to cut out the penetration 03:30 We have all the tools, but try to give you ways to do the job with simple tools too 03:57 How to seal the flange over the metal ridges 05:00 Fasten from the middle and move out to keep it spread out 07:15 Why I don’t use sealant
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Okay, guys, there’s another delema that you run into is having to cut the penetrations for the roof. In this case it doesn’t fallout anywhere on. It’s going to go right over the top.
What I’m going to do again is to lap over, going to measure to show 4″ to 14. Then measured from the top need 13, which I can actually write there, make a mark and 23. That’s the area that I’m going to cut it and then I’ll show you how I cut. One of the ways that I can cut.
Okay, the 13 and the 4″. Let’s see a 4″ and a 14, actually. A four right there, right beside the rib. 14 right there, and then there’s a mark right here here, so we can… See the mark is right here. All right, so we have a square here, that we’re going to cut out.
Now, you can get snips and then cut it. But a lot of times it ends up being a real nuisance. Usually I use a sharper screwdriver than this, let’s see what happens. Using the hammer. To drive that edge through. We’re hitting that screwdriver. A lot of times it won’t go all the way through one side, from one direction. So you go…. There’s your hole.
So I have four different kinds of cutters at the Shears. I have the dual wheel, that spins different directions. I have nibblers, I have all kinds of cutters. You can use a saw and turn the saw blade backwards.
All of them have a risk of stuff getting in your eye. So this is not an old man. You, me? I’m old now, so you can do this without. Any special tools. We’re putting the vent over a hole that was cut. If you noticed the vent is much, the flange is much bigger than the ribs. So, what I do is I get the center of where that rib is going to be might no fall exactly in the center of the vent. And then I cut so that there’s a v, and then I can fasten these down. And these on the outside edge when it’s close like that I’ll let it get mashed down and fold it over.
But I’m going to do it on the top. Also. All right, and then when you fasten, you want to make sure you start in the middle, work your way out. That way. Everything’s so I’m spreading myself out. I’m going to go to the top.
You see how that vent, that v that I cut in that vent flange that’s around that metal to wrap down around. That way I can seal it all up, and it will have a good tight fit before you can get to sealing it. I don’t recommend using a screw gun for a hammer.
I’m going to tell you something about sealant before I even show you how I do it. A lot of people, you’ve got some really high engineered and expensive silicones that come in tubes and they work, okay. Anything that comes in a tube, is going to shrink and that’s why I quit using it. Because I got a ton of leaks and keep going back, because it shrinks after it dries. A little bit here and there. So I don’t do that anymore. No matter that companies are encouraging you to buy their thing.
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