Install Solid Blocking for Seams

>> A little bubble there, that's okay. [laughter] Hold this. Thank you. So, this was it this bag that we were doing? I don't think you explained what we were doing. So, maybe you want to go out. >> Not yet. Not yet. So, may I explain it? Which Which bag was it? We're moving that. It's either one you're You're in front of two. YEAH. I GOT >> [laughter] SO, SEAN'S NOT EXPLAINING IT, BUT >> WELL, YEAH. WE'RE doing that. >> because it's longer than 20 ft. So, we're seaming them and we're doing the blocking. I was trying to talk loud. Well, we got to turn the music. With what we're doing uh with this long inlay, I played around with a lot of different combinations of things that we could do to avoid seams and I thought that the best option was to have a couple seams in this section. We won't have any seams anywhere else. I thought it was the best option. I thought it was the best option you know, balancing out the overall design, the looks of it and having a couple seams here. The thing that we have working in our favor right now is it's pretty cold out. So, we're going to do these tight. Uh we're not going to have much contraction at all. And with the Deckorators Surestone technology, uh expansion contraction is very minimal as it is. But, what I want to do is make sure that instead of just cutting this at a 45 and seaming it on one joist, we're doing solid blocking so that we can have a straight cut, butt together and we got a four screws right here. So, it's [snorts] locked in for justice. I know that people [snorts] are going to ask this, so I'm just going to ask it. >> Okay. Uh why don't you pocket screw them together? Uh I don't know, it's a good question. It's good It's a It's a valid question. I don't think I don't think butt to butt I don't think that's going to be enough resistance for whatever type of expansion and contraction it's going to want to do. I think um it'll be more effective to have the face screws right here. Yeah, we could pop two two pocket screws in there, but uh I'm pretty confident with this approach. Putting it We want to make sure that the seam is over one piece of wood so that, you know, we don't have to worry about the wood moving differently and busting up that seam. Uh I think this is going to be This is going to be good.