Will This Change The Way We Build? THE GLASS HOUSE EP 2

What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the vlog. In this video, we're going to be framing out the entire deck for this sick backyard transformation. We're also using a new product, the Prowood True Frame Joist. So, we'll show you how we frame this thing and we'll give you a full review of this new product. Make sure you hit subscribe. Let's go. >> Hello. Over. >> Loud and clear. Over. >> Did you call me? >> Repeat. Over. >> Did you call me? Over. >> Come to you. Over. Or call me. Over. >> I said did you call me? My thing was ringing, but I might have just hit the button for the ring the ring the ring thing. The ring uh uh uh feature over. >> Oh no, this started ringing randomly, too. Kind of scared me. Over, but I did not call you. Over. >> All right. Uh over. What should my code name be? It can't be Eagle One cuz that's the code name for the drone. Yeah, it's got to be something a little unorthodox. Cover is actually really cool. Cobra's cool. Can >> all future correspondents refer to me as Cobra. Over. >> Mobile command center. Cobra. Over. I hear you. >> 104. Over. >> 24/19. Over. >> I think you just made up that that number. Nice. Walkie-talkies are awesome. I can't believe we forgot that we had these for so long. All right. Well, uh I guess we'll get back to work. All right. Again, we're using a little bit of a different pile here. We had uh Supreme Deck store did the installation on this one and uh slightly different pile head. So, this one here, we have these holes in the pile head right there. And we're just going to set them with uh with a big screw there. Self drilling. And uh goes in pretty easy. Better to do this with a drill than an impact. Are you finding that to be the case? Oh, yeah. After the first one, cuz impact will just keep going. The drill, if you set the truck, it'll >> Yeah. Stop. >> Stop. >> Beautiful. So, that's going to give us um some lateral stability and it's going to give us our our uplift protection, obviously. So, uh getting all those set and we're uh we're going to shim them all. And the other thing that we need to do is before we set them all, this bracket is made for a 6x6, not a triple beam. So, we just need to pack this out on one side and uh make sure it's nice and tight and then we can lag it in. But you can also see we put our tape on here and you can see what a great job it's doing at keeping water out from in between those pies. That is something to consider. We're kind of making it standard practice now to just tape everything. We don't see a lot of rot in the tops of joist when we do demo or go back to stuff, but you know, we still want the joist to be black so that they disappear uh with our fasteners and everything. You don't see the framing. So, um painting it, taping it. We're just going to make it standard practice to just tape all of our joists. And uh they do require it with this true frame joist system because it goes through a planing process. So even though the treatment of this really goes deep, it's a little hard to see on this one, but um even though the treatment does penetrate like into the core of the wood, um they recommend any cut edges like a planing uh situation here to be uh protected with tape. So uh something to think about. And you can see you can see what the tape's doing on top of our laminated beams. It's keeping all that water out, which is great. >> There's this house >> How are we looking here? This one. This one's good. Okay. So, we got pieces of fascia and pieces of decking. plenty of options. We've got this shimmed up. Now, what we can do is take this guy, slam that in there. That's how we like to pack it out. And you can see now we've got it nice and tight here, and we've got it uh spaced out here. We'll send our legs through both sides, and we'll be good to go. That's really the last thing that we need to do. get these drilled in, which we have most of them done. Now, shim up what is necessary. We're checking that with our laser. And then uh once we get that, we will set these with our lag screws. So, that's the last thing I'll show you and we'll be good to go after that. >> What the hell? Another busted bit. >> I know everybody's gonna say it's cuz you're using an impact. You got to use a drill. You always use an impact for this. That's never happened. Two in a row. Got to be some sort of weird fluke. All right. No breakage there. We're good. We've run all the beams long so we can lay our joist. Make sure everything is coming out square. And then we'll cut off the excess later. uh once we have determined that everything is in the right spot and good to go and we're almost ready to go to the next phase. So, we'll get all these done and check back. Who's ready to frame? Ready to frame? They're ready to frame. Ready to frame. All right. So, um here's the game plan for today. I want to make this our tightest frame we've ever done. tight. So, uh, here's the game plan. What I want to do is we'll, uh, this is going to be freestanding, obviously, so we'll, um, set it up kind of in sections. It's going to be a little bit a little bit weird with, um, we're going to leave this section kind of out cuz that's just going to be like a, um, floating platform where you're going to step up onto the deck there. So, what I want to do to make sure that this thing is like super straight is we'll mark out our layout on our rim joist. We'll set it up on that last beam. And then before we get started, I want to lay out our layout on all the beams so that we nail it off, we push it into place, and we can uh toenail it into the beam on layout as we go. And that way we don't have to go back at the end and like as we're doing blocking like move everything. All the blocking should be cut exactly at the same measurement. Um, you know, it'll just be a lot easier and then everything will be super straight. So, that's our plan and we're sticking to it. This might be crazy, too. But, uh, you know, I love pocket screws. I think maybe we cut all our blocking and we and we we pocket screw it in. >> No. >> No. It's stupid. It >> is insane. >> That is insane. >> It's insane. >> Yeah. If this was like we came out here every day for like a year. >> That is kind of crazy. All right. All right. Forget that. I just love pocket screws. I do. All right. So, uh, we'll start off laying all this stuff out. Uh, we'll mark all the beams so that, uh, the install should go pretty quick, but we'll have it all prepped and and ready to go. Who's ready? >> That would be so funny to go. >> All right. Ready? Hands in. >> Something. >> What are we saying? On three. >> Framing. >> Framing on three. 1 2 3. Framing. All right. So, we got our we got our first rim here. This is the confusing part because we're coming right to this door and then we're going to have a lower platform here because the doors are at two different drastically different heights. So, um that's kind of how it was before and it's a good solution here. So, we're coming to the end of this and what we want to do is mark out our layout here. Yeah, that's that's our our first one. But then we'll do >> Oh, yeah. One more. >> So then we'll do a 5 and 1/2 uh blocking. 5 and 1/2 blocking. And so to here. All right. So that's that's like our blocking detail. Now we'll we'll go off of that. >> One foot on the center. Just make sure that stays right there. >> Sean, like actually say what you're doing. Don't just be mumbling. >> Don't just be mumbling. Okay. >> So we've got our uh Say it like you're talking to Jose. >> Okay. End joist. Uh here's our blocking 5 and 1/2. Here's our first joist. So yeah, that's going to be for our border. And now we'll go 1 foot. We get that question a lot. What's your spacing on your joist? Decorators is rated for 16 on center, but we always do 12. It's just you can get longer spans, but it also it just makes the deck feel a little bit more solid, which is good for just a couple extra joists. So where do we end up here? You know, sometimes sometimes you're good, sometimes you're lucky. I think I'm both. This worked out perfectly. We had uh we just started over on that side with our border detail and our final joist. Where does it land? Right at the edge. Perfect. So, that's uh that's what we're going to do here is get this done. We'll mark both sides of it just because we're marking our layout on all of our beams and everything. So, we want to make sure that we are uh good to go there. I can just go like this. Like that. And then slide it over inch and a half mark right there. And then there's our layout for our rim joist. Now what we need to do is let's get our collapsible square. And we need to get our perimeter marked on all of these beams and then we'll pick up that layout and uh and we'll go with that. All right. That signifies this marker right here. So, we'll pull off that square off of the house and that way we can uh pull our our layout in both directions. So, with that, we'll uh also get a string line. I'll grab that. Got one right here. Scrap one. >> You think it's going to take a long time though? >> Interesting choice, but >> I mean, it was right there. Got this little knot in it. Let's just go string. >> Steve, you watch Flowers last night? >> No. >> Oh, you should have watched that game. >> I watched it. You watched it. >> Three goals in under a minute. I watched that part of it. Then I >> You watch that part of it? >> I did watch part >> because he said he was trying to watch more Flyers games. >> Ah, Steve. Flyers guy. Fly guy. >> I've been trying to get into it. I don't know. I don't know. I just I can't. >> You were able to get into baseball but not into hockey. >> Yeah. >> Hockey is a lot more active. >> Yeah, hockey is so much more fun. >> Hockey is so much more action. I'll totally agree with that. I think my brain runs at the speed of a hockey game all day. It's too much for me. You know what I So like the baseball's like shutting it down. >> It's meditation. >> Baseball is like meditation and basketball is like smooth jazz. >> Okay. >> You know what I mean? Hockeyy's just too much like brute force. >> It's like metal. >> It's like metal and my brain's on metal all day. >> Are you locked in mentally? >> I am beyond locked in. >> All right. Perfect. This is complicated. >> I'm screaming for help inside the vault of my own mind. >> That was like that was way too accurate. I finally put words to how I feel. All right, let's uh >> All right. Yeah, we look good. We look good. And we >> do look good. >> And the framing looks good, too. So, >> and we feel good. >> We feel good. Right here is our uh footing for our pergola, our structure. And we need the post to bear right down on that. And right now, we're like directly in the middle of it. So, uh we'll make an adjustment on this. And I'm not sure yet if we want to. Maybe we'll just joist it on both sides so we can um really lock it in. I mean, we'll block all the way around it no matter what, but uh I think we'll just we'll move this over a couple inches. So, um don't nail this one off. The second one. Okay. One, two, three. All right. Hey, good job, guys. Good job, everybody. >> All right. So, uh, we realized as we laid this out, we've got this footing right here for our structure, and we're going to sandwich that in between two joists. So, that's also going to dictate the edge of this deck. So, essentially on the outside of that footing back there, we're going to have a 2 by and that's going to go all the way out here. And that's what we want cuz that's going to dictate where this deck comes out and terminates. And we'll cut all of these right here. Everything from here over, this is all going to be cut at the same length. So, we just need to get this dialed in because we do have a little bit of play with these footings. Uh, being that we can use offset brackets. They're pretty dialed in, but we just want to make sure of that. So, so we're going to get this set. And first one that I want to do is going to be on the this side cuz that that we need to run continuously out here. That makes sense. It's looking good though, man. It's coming together. Sure is. Let's um just just let's grab a scrap and uh screw it together first. Keep them in plane. Here you go. Right here. We got one. Yeah. It probably needs like 50 more nails, Jose. off square that we cut. So, we can just run a string line back from there. It'll be touching like right at our edge there. And uh we'll get this lined up. Here's a little strategy for you, though. This is going to be our perimeter. So, here is where we're going to cut our beam. Um I always like to nail it. If you're going to to nail it, nail it in from this side. So if this does happen, it doesn't interfere with your perimeter. All right, that's good. Looks really nice and straight, which I like. So, uh, should be good. All right, so now that we have this, we'll double check all of our marks cuz we messed them up over there somehow. and we'll pull off uh our layout taking into account that we need to offset these uh pieces. All right. These ones on the end are all lined up. They're all in the W. But if you go like this to where the drill is, those ones are all lined up on an angle. Those ones are all lined up. >> Yeah. I think we should set our posts first for the roof. We'll set these three and then we'll have like a little bit of wiggle room and we'll make sure that this is right where we need it cuz what we're going to do is we're going to have the post here. The post is going to be anchored to the footing go all the way up and then we'll put a concealed hanger on the side of that and it'll sit on that footing as well. So, we kind of need the post so that we can do the beam so we can get these joists. So, we'll just go into setting posts. I think that's I think that's the way to go right now. All right. All right. So, that's what we'll do next. Um I just got to figure out our heights because we're having uh a shed roof design here. So, I need to make sure that we have the height dialed in for our You know what? We should just run them long. Run them long in >> cut them in the air. Yeah. Hey, Nick. Do you know what you need to do to build a fire deck? Uh, paint it red. >> Stop, drop, and block it. >> That sounds like if you want to make a break dance platform So, we got a lot of our blocking in. Um, we've got it over the beam. You can see uh that's required by code wherever you have a canal lever uh on your deck. So um this is like kind of a half can lever cuz it is tied into these post but um it's really it really is a can lever. So we have blocking over that and we have it over that beam in the center the far one. And what that's going to do over top of the beam is it's going to it's going to make sure that everything gets pulled into plum. So, especially where they were connected and we spliced over that beam, they were kind of kicked in different directions. So, that straightens them out. And then anything over 8 ft, we need midspan blocking. So, that's what we have here. That's going to tighten everything up in the middle so that it makes it a lot more rigid, the whole structure, but it also straightens out all of our joy space. So, you can see they're looking really, really nice and straight, which I just like. I like it to look nice and clean. and and straight cuz that's just what we do around here, you know. So, a lot of blocking. A lot of it going in here. And it's looking good. It's looking really good. That's it for our frame. We got everything blocked in, locked in for justice. Wanted to give you my final thoughts on the Prowood True Frame joist. Uh I think it's a total game changer. It's a great intermediate point between regular treated and some alternative framing uh solutions out there. But the fact that everything is completely consistent at 9 in and it's kiln dried, I think those are the two biggest things. Um, number one being kil and dried, it's a lot lighter. So carrying it around so much easier and that just is better for job site morale. It's easier to handle. It's just a much better product to work with. And then the fact that it's all mil down to 9 in consistently. We don't have to go and measure each piece, uh, stack them according to size, and then make sure that we're staying consistent with that gradient to ensure that we have a flat deck and still have quite a few, uh, crowns and bumps and all that kind of stuff that we have to plane out afterwards. This, it went down like a dream. Made it go so much faster, and the final product is a lot uh, more consistent and just better. Nick, you want to hand me that 6ft level? Let's do the level test on it. just to show you. And we haven't done anything to this. Like, normally we would frame all this out. Then we would spend a couple hours going around with uh a sixoot level planing stuff down and try to get it as good as possible. And that's after all the steps that we've already taken to minimize any issues. But I mean, try to get a good pretty damn good. This thing is super flat. It definitely made the process go faster and I think the final product is superior. So, uh it's something that we're going to continue to use in the future for sure. And if you're building decks, I'd look into it cuz I think it's a great solution. Next step on this, we're going to have to tape it and all that stuff before we move on to decking. But that's it for this video. Next video, we're going to be getting our rafters up in the air. Uh get the roof sheath. We've got some interesting angles and all that stuff to figure out. We're going to have it projecting on all four sides so there's a consistent overhang and uh it's going to look pretty sick. So, make sure you hit subscribe. If you're enjoying the content or you're new here, please consider hitting subscribe. And until next time, this has been Premier Outdoor Living.