We've Never Built a Roof Like This Before - GLASS HOUSE EP 3

Talk us through these beefy beams. What do we got here? Well, you kind of you kind of nailed it right there. We got two beefy [laughter] beams. >> [music] >> Two beefy beams. Five and a quarter by 11 and 7/8. [music] And these are going to support our roof, so Uh I'm going to cut them down to size out here. It's 282 and a 16th. That's our measurement. And uh so, going to measure these, cut them, take a tiny bit of weight off at least cuz these are freaking freaking heavy. Oh god. And 1 2 3 go. Ah, that's not bad. How you feeling? Is that good? Yeah. How you guys feel up there? Good? Pretty good. That wood doesn't feel like it's about to snap? What does not feel like it's about to snap. All right, it's not much. Through the middle. We got to be on the inside. This thing's almost as heavy as the damn beam. 1 2 3. Ah, don't fall. >> come down here. I'll come down here. Okay. Steve, lift from there. Can you lift from the bottom now? Oh, I'll I'll just get down there. I'll just get down there. Can you come up here? Look at that. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm pushing it up. I'm pushing it There we >> [clears throat] >> Woo. Oh. That seems okay. No, no, no. All right, go ahead. You know these things. Each model is a little different. >> [laughter] >> Did it fall or did it snap? It just made a noise? It didn't fall down at all? No, it's here. It's right here. No, I know, but it did it like Oh, I don't know. You got a little bit more to go up. Rolling, rolling, rolling. I'm so strong. Look at this. Steve, look, I'm lifting it with just two fingers. No way. [laughter] All right, I guess I should just get out of the way. You pushing yours on, Jose? All right, I'm right on the end. Yeah, why don't you why don't you put a screw in it? Up, pass me the grabber, the drill. down. Oh, are you sitting on it? >> I'm I'm not sitting I'm above it. Oh, okay. All right, let me go down there. I'll do that. Beam two, how we feeling? Very strong. Like ox. Warmed up. Jose, you ready? >> [laughter] >> Jose is the strongest one here. Russian bear. >> [laughter] >> You remember that infomercial from back in the day? No, I don't know what you're talking about. >> No, the Russian bear. No, what did he do? He No, it was like a big jacked Russian dude. He used to own like Creed and like before he came mainstream. Oh, really? >> It was like testosterone boosting lifting. They would be like a Russian bear. That sounds cool. Can I I don't know if you still get it. It might be banned by the FDA. It's supposed to make that noise. Don't worry. I can feel it like getting tighter when it does that, so it feels like something's going to happen. We're talking about our code names for the walkie-talkies. Steve is ghost cuz he's never on camera. He's behind the camera. I'm Cobra cuz that's awesome. Whoa. Somebody didn't eat their Wheaties this morning. How are you on the end? I'm holding it. I like just standing here and watching. Uh we can we can pull pull out the post a tiny bit. >> [snorts] >> Does it need to go more? Yep, a little bit. Need like a sledgehammer or something to knock it out? Well, this ladder's leaning up against it. I don't want to do that. Great point. There you go. I got it. I got it. I got it. And now you're past it. Huh. Let me go back up. Who's strong like bear? Like Russian bear. That's it. I should start training Max to be a powerlifter. He'll be like one of those kids on YouTube that's like in Russia that's like jacked and they're like eight. Yeah. They're crazy. >> [music] >> Nick, you ready to get right after it? I'm going to get right after it. Making a list of things to pick up for tomorrow. So far, a box of framing nails. All right, well, right rafter that. Get it? It's like after. Yeah. That's a good one. All right. Roof time. We're going to start out here by figuring out our rafters. And this isn't super complicated, but it's a little bit different in the way that you need to figure out your run, your rise, all of that stuff. And I'll show you why. So, with a normal A-frame roof, you're going to be measuring outside to outside because that's where your bird's [music] mouth is going to land. But, imagine this here. We're going to have bird's mouth on the outside. It's going to be going up. And then on the inside is going to be the bird's [music] mouth over here. So, really our run is not outside of post to outside of post. It's outside of post to inside of beam. That's another thing to kind of be aware of. It's not a huge difference, but we have 5 and 1/2 inch post and we have a 5 and 1/4 inch beam. So, we measure from outside of post to inside of post, then add a quarter inch, that's going to be our our run. >> [snorts] >> Now, we can put into our construction calculator that run, our rise, which we already know from setting our beams is 47 and a quarter. And that's going to give us our diagonal measurement. Our diagonal measurement here is 100 and [snorts] 89 and 3/4. So, that's really all the information that I need to start marking out this rafter. We'll test fit it and maybe make some adjustments. I don't know. We got a couple interesting things happening with this, so we'll see. We're just going to temporarily put this piece up there and test it. >> [snorts] >> All right, you're tight on your uh your bird's mouth. Let's check the bird's butt. Slide it Yeah, slide it all the way to the edge. Looks like we're overhanging by like quarter inch there. But, that's not bad. Overall though, that looks pretty good. That's pretty nice. I like it. It's dramatic. So, you can see with our 5 and 1/2 inch uh seat cut there, then it goes up about 2 inches, so our beam when we wrap that, it's going to look like it's say 14 inches. We've got it overhanging just the tiniest little bit here, but uh we'll also need to check uh our post, make sure they're perfectly in line. But, that looks pretty good, so let's uh we'll bring it down. We'll test it in the middle and then on the other end. And if it looks good, then we will uh go with it. Looks nice. Sitting really nice, beautiful. All right, looks like we've got to come in a little bit there. So, all right, we'll just we'll check plumb on this. It looks like from that side to this side, it looks like the beams are pinching in about 3/4 of an inch, so we'll just double check all of our posts. And I liked how it was sitting over there. So, we'll mimic that on this side and just check, does this post need to come in or is it this post? And uh and we should be good to go. Uh next up, we'll trace out that rafter pattern. We'll get them all cut and [music] then we can start installing. Let's get to it. [music] >> Whatever. >> All right, we've got our layout here. And I was a little I was a little worried. Huh? Good job. Second guess our guy. Well, I just you know, I didn't know. He I saw him going with the layout. And the important thing when you're doing a rafter layout is instead of going 16 in on center with your first one, you want 16 you really want it to be 15 and a quarter on your first one. So, when we start with a full sheet over here that's obviously going to line up with the end. We want the end of an 8-ft sheet to fall in the middle. So, [music] set your first one 15 and a quarter on layout [music] and then then we go to 16s. Great job, Jose. What? That's good. You got all our notches in. Now, we go up. Can't decide if you want it on the flat or on the side. It's no way to talk to your superior. There's a reason for everything I do. You just wouldn't understand. Yeah, I guess so. >> [laughter] >> Ooh, sorry. I kept getting caught on my arm. Every time you try to carry a piece of wood it's like falling on your arm. The notches were getting caught on my arm that time. It's like what do you What do you carry? What do you got to commit to like either holding it flat or upright, you know? And you do. You do. >> [laughter] >> I'm noncommittal. I'm sorry. I apologize. It's It's It's okay. But if we're going to have to work as a team Do we have to? We got to get our We don't have to, do we? Work as a team. Yeah, we don't have to do that. We can be nemeses. Nem- Nemeside. We'll get the other one on the other side and then we'll show you how we're going to do our fly rafters and you'll kind of see it start coming together a little bit. Um and why it's going to be so cool. All right. You got that one in? Yeah. Okay. Did you mark it at 14 and 1/2? Huh? We're coming back 14 and 1/2 off the uh Make sure that this overhang to the outside edge of the rafter is 14 and 1/2. I don't know because I have 15 and a quarter outside. It's um work with this inside this one, outside this one. If it's 15 and a quarter then it should be then it should be good. 14 and 1/2? Yeah. Outside? Yeah. Yeah, it's uh I'll just mark these for you. Oh, I'll mark when done. You got to mark that 14 and 1/2? Oh, you marked what? 15 and a quarter? >> 15 and a quarter outside. Oh, okay. Here you go. Ow. Jesus. So, we're getting our fascia here. You can see I've got Well, you might not be able to see it, but we've got the layout marked uh on our fascia board. And now, you're going to leave that You're going to leave that long. We're going to have it meet in the middle of that uh bay and then we'll put a scab in between it Okay. to uh mend them together. That way we don't have to try to get six nails into the end of one rafter tail, you know? There you go. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, nice. I was just cutting some stuff over here and I hear F this, F that, what the F? And uh that's how I know there's some really good work being done over here. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11, yeah, 11. And then this more for 12 and then our overhang. Allow me to double check. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 shorter bay overhang cut. Okay. Good to go. Why don't you put it on and then pass it down? All right, I got to take I got to take it off to put it on. Nice job. >> Locked in for justice. >> Really a beautiful thing. Beautiful, beautiful thing. All right, so you guys will nail it off. I'll be your cut guy. And I'll I won't disappear. I'll be here. If I disappear, I'll be right back. >> [laughter] >> Should we have a walkie-talkie up on the roof? Maybe. What are our code names, Cobra? Uh yeah, I'm Cobra. Uh you get to pick whatever you want. I'd say maybe like uh Badger. Jose's Badger. All right, I'll be Starfox. Starfox? Okay. Yeah. All right. We got Badger and [music] Starfox. All right, Starfox. Badger, you guys ready? All right. All right, so what I'll do is um >> [laughter] >> I like Badger. He's small but feisty. There you go. Yeah. I like honey badger, but that's probably too long. All right, so I'll hand them up to you from in front so that you can pull it up and throw it on. One thing that's very important for all things construction make sure you have your trash pile like right in your walking path. Um very important because you need to be you need to be mentally sharp and that's going to keep you sharp. If not, you'll fall. Jose, make sure we got a spacer in between the sheets. Make sure we got a spacer. We need a spacer. I'm spacing out, dude. Wait, right there, man. Where? We got a spacer? We need a spacer. Need this? I need a spacer. It's spacing. When you're laying out your sheathing, um you can just use a nail as your spacer. Yeah, so. Allow for some uh expansion contraction in your uh ply. And uh yeah, we're getting on to our second row and from here it's pretty much smooth sailing. We uh you know, run our full sheet on our first row. We have a cut on that end. This side we'll start with a half sheet and then run and uh alternate that so we're staggering our seams. And this is what really locks it in for justice. Once uh once we get all this sheeted up then we'll take down our uh our bracing and it's going to open it up nicely. [music] >> All our rips are the same size. That's a good sign. Uh and all of our cut pieces at the edge these are all 26 [music] and a quarter and I think these are 74 and a quarter. So, that's always a good sign. Great job. Uh Roof on three. 1 2 3 roof. Sounds like we're a pack of dogs. All right, so in real time a lot has happened because it has snowed as you can see. So, we missed a couple of days of work. And uh Shawn is now sick. So, you got me for this outro, but we got our shingles up on the roof. Everything is good and locked in. I'm not going to go up there and show you. So, you're going to have to wait and see what it looks like from the top once there's no snow on the roof, but uh we're moving along here. We're doing our best with this weather delay, but uh Oh, that's bright. Okay. But yeah, there's the roof. So, make sure you hit subscribe, like, stay tuned, do all the things, give us a comment. Since Shawn is sick, tell him to feel better and tune back in next week where we're going to get to some excavating for the patio and uh work around this weather cuz it is cold in New Jersey and you never know what you're going to get. Sometimes you get snow. So, until next time this has been Premier Outdoor Living. Can you see all those buzzards in that tree? Look at all of them. They look crazy.