As a Canadian, I envy the quality of your lumber.....Your work is incredibly professional and the patience in your work truly glows in the finished product, Great job!
Where do you think Japan gets their lumber from? It is good old imported West cost Canadian lumber. They get the good stuff and the US gets the crap left over.
@@gary24752 That's what hurts the most as a Canadian....I cross the Michigan Border to purchase lumber that says "MADE IN CANADA" and I pay 40% less than I would purchasing in Canada lol Sad
As a Canadian woodworker that lived in Japan for 15 years, I have never seen any Canadians treat lumber as carefully as Japanese. In my experience, the lumber mills in Canada throw around the wood, mill them roughly with often dull but high powered tools, stack and dry the products carelessly, etc. In Japan, everything from limbing live trees to help them grow straight, using sharp tools, harvesting and debarking trees carefully, and stacking and treasuring each piece at lumber yards and stores makes a difference. Our raw materials are probably of similar quality, but the Japanese put a lot more work and care into theirs so their end products are often far superior. Keep in mind everything I'm saying is generalizations in my experience.
I recently lost an uncle who was a carpenter for like over 50 years. If there's anyone who could have appreciated this more than I ever could and would definitely have been him. Seeing you guys beautifully honour your craft and trade has helped me put the loss of a dearly loved uncle behind me. It has helped me mourn. Thank you Japanese Carpenters for doing so much to make the world a much more beautiful and elegant place. I know your ancestors would be very very proud of you. Fine craftsmanship touches everyone's hearts as I just rediscovered Never ever ever give up this beautiful skill and tradition. With deepest gratitude Josh from 🇨🇦 ♥♥♥♥♥🇯🇵
Hello there, My condolence for the loss of your beloved uncle. It seems he has instilled in you the love and appreciation of fine work. This way his spirit lives in you. I'm a 64 year old cabinet maker, and I agree with you wholeheartedly about the beautiful Japanese workmanship. They are taught respect from a tender age. I have some Japanese tools and they are a joy to work with. Greetings from France.
My uncle was a carpenter foe more than 40 years, but gave up the trade, could not compete with corporations. Unfortunately, no one told him of PPE at that time, now suffers a terrible tinnitus.
great work with terrific results. As a carpenter here in Canada, it's always interesting to see how things are done in other countries. Japanese carpenters are among the best.
Agreed. Also a carpenter in Canada, I’ve always wanted to have the opportunity to go spend a year working in Japan and learning their way of building. Maybe one day, but for now I’m super thankful I have TH-cam to at least get a taste of it
Brilliant. I was please to see they have actual carpenters like ours in Japan, ie ones who use power tools etc and not like all the other Japanese carpentry videos where they spend hours making highly complex beautifully crafted joints in 12inch by 12inch oak beams 😀. Great skills.
As a carpenter here in the UK, it is not only a joy but it also feels like a privilege to be able to watch this master at work, but I can't shake the feeling that of being like the proverbial "grasshopper" in comparison. 😔
Was in Japan recently and spent much of my time admiring the carpentry in the countless old buildings we visited. Kanazawa Castle with its exposed structural timbers and the scale model replica stand out as highlights.
I would be really interested in a video explaining all the notations and markings you use on the wood while you are working on a project such as this one. Fascinating aspect of the videos.
There are many ways to have done this but your method considers and accounts for future issues. That's the sign of a good renovation contractor - one who doesn't only fix the problem but accepts the fact that he/she has to go beyond what the builder did in the first place. If the building has settled there is likely no need to address the foundation. It appears to me that the framing is relatively heavy, so using cedar in place of more dense timbers and stripping the joists was a smart decision. With the residence being ''in use'' during your work, you did a wonderful job of allowing the occupants to stay while the work was done (jacking the floor and repositioning the outer sunken supports would have required them to vacate and cost them a lot more money). Bravo. Renovations, many if not most times, require more knowledge, skill and awareness than construction does.
What an outstanding job you have done here Shoyan. floor this well done in Australia would be in your dreams. I don't think there would be too many timber frame floors in Australia today, it is all pour a concrete slab & let's build. I envy the beauty & quality of your work my friend. Cheers, Don from South Australia.
I must renovate my cabin in Nagano,, Japan and this video really helps a lot! Not so many Japanese DIY videos are translated in English so you really help a lot of foreigners that haven’t become fluent yet. Thank you so much. I can not really renovate a Japanese house watching foreign videos so your work is of enormous value! Thanks again and please continue.
a master at work! I like to lay floorboards in a more random pattern to differentiate the appearance from manufactured flooring but the way you did it takes less time so also good
I've seen fine furniture made from worse materials. Thing is he probably has such pride and professionality in his work he spends an extra minute and pics the best pieces when he's at the store.
You, too, can pay through the nose for lumber if you want and get the same stuff. But why would you when standard lumber is perfectly sufficient? It's not like you'll ever see it.
Sugi or Hinoki, which one is cedar? Thanks, nice job, Will the floor have any coating? I know the timber in Japanese houses is raw to allow moisture to be absorbed and expelled during the hot summers.
As the proportion of the room is determinated by tatamis (3636x3636mm, 2727x3636mm, etc)... Is there a standard width or lenght for the wood floor pieces? Thank you!
Standard modern building practices as far as I'm concerned but the original post and beam superstructure is interesting. I'd like to know when the building was made
Hi everyone, i have a question someone may can answer. "Why the airspace under the floor?" Hope someone can explain. Thank you and keep up the beautiful craftmanship.
I think that's the 'false' ceiling of the floor beneath.. when he uses the hammering plank he says the it needs to span two joists so he doesn't 'fall through' by accident.
Listen, I learned Japanese, English, and a little bit of Korean and French. I hope to study in Japan and write me on it日本語と英語、そして韓国語とフランス語を少し習ったので、日本で勉強して記事を書きたいと思っています。
Hello, Love these videos please keep them coming. Superb craftsmanship. What is the tool called that you use to chap in the final board against the wall?
Search hammer pulling ledge and you will find a similar variant from wolfcraft. I know I've used other ones at work but can't find anything else when I searched. Usually I just use pull bar and my hammer
I do not understand why you are installing additional joists on top of the old ones. What are you gaining? Isn't this going to raise the level of the new floor to old by 1 1/2"? Won"t this be a tripping hazard?
I'd imagine he's trying to match the height of the floor in the adjoining hallway (and probably more importantly, from the top of the stairs) specifically to avoid a tripping hazard.
@@jonnenne No at this point new and existing are different. If you look at 3:26 you will see one level of sleepers is even with the existing floor. He installs an additional sleeper on top of those which appears to be about 1 1/2" thick which you can see at 5:34. Then you have the flooring that is about 1 1/8" thick. The floor levels are different as you can plainly see at 11:40. Look at frame 10:47 and tell me they are even.
I'll throw in my 2 yen, as a person who lives in Japan and who has DIY:ed a lot on my houses here. I'm a bit conflicted... Yes, master craftsmen, but houses shouldn't be built so that floors start to lean after only 20 years. Also, the work of electricians and plumbers here resembles that of a 5-year old. If it's hidden under floors, in walls, etc, they don't give two shits about making it "neat".
Nice work, but I am somewhat bemused that the floor is a 40 year old house has developed a 30mm fall from one side of the room to the other! Plainly not all Japanese are master craftsmen!!
here in the US we put down a layer of support lumber then do the flooring on top it kinda makes me feel like I could do this instead and spend a lot less depending on the wood I use for the flooring. Up here in alaska I can get some really big pieces of rough cut spruce that very light in color that would be a really cool floor material.
Normal wood floors installed on a subfloor are 3/4" thick (1.9 cm). The floor in this video is 1 3/16" thick (3 cm). A subfloor will create a substantially stiffer floor, for much cheaper.
So obvious this house was built by a Japanese person or crew underneath the floor is spotless an American house would have dead raccoons all kinds of shit lmao 🤣 😂
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As a Canadian, I envy the quality of your lumber.....Your work is incredibly professional and the patience in your work truly glows in the finished product, Great job!
Right? I'm seeing clear wood and solid *inch thick* flooring?!
Where do you think Japan gets their lumber from? It is good old imported West cost Canadian lumber. They get the good stuff and the US gets the crap left over.
@@gary24752 That's what hurts the most as a Canadian....I cross the Michigan Border to purchase lumber that says "MADE IN CANADA" and I pay 40% less than I would purchasing in Canada lol Sad
As a Canadian woodworker that lived in Japan for 15 years, I have never seen any Canadians treat lumber as carefully as Japanese. In my experience, the lumber mills in Canada throw around the wood, mill them roughly with often dull but high powered tools, stack and dry the products carelessly, etc.
In Japan, everything from limbing live trees to help them grow straight, using sharp tools, harvesting and debarking trees carefully, and stacking and treasuring each piece at lumber yards and stores makes a difference.
Our raw materials are probably of similar quality, but the Japanese put a lot more work and care into theirs so their end products are often far superior. Keep in mind everything I'm saying is generalizations in my experience.
@@DerekBlais thank You Derek, that sounds about right
I would give anything to be his apprentice for 2 years. He is a master.
The quality of wood and craftsmanship is outrageous!
I recently lost an uncle who was a carpenter for like over 50 years. If there's anyone who could have appreciated this more than I ever could and would definitely have been him. Seeing you guys beautifully honour your craft and trade has helped me put the loss of a dearly loved uncle behind me. It has helped me mourn. Thank you Japanese Carpenters for doing so much to make the world a much more beautiful and elegant place. I know your ancestors would be very very proud of you. Fine craftsmanship touches everyone's hearts as I just rediscovered Never ever ever give up this beautiful skill and tradition. With deepest gratitude Josh from 🇨🇦 ♥♥♥♥♥🇯🇵
Hello there,
My condolence for the loss of your beloved uncle. It seems he has instilled in you the love and appreciation of fine work. This way his spirit lives in you. I'm a 64 year old cabinet maker, and I agree with you wholeheartedly about the beautiful Japanese workmanship. They are taught respect from a tender age. I have some Japanese tools and they are a joy to work with.
Greetings from France.
My uncle was a carpenter foe more than 40 years, but gave up the trade, could not compete with corporations. Unfortunately, no one told him of PPE at that time, now suffers a terrible tinnitus.
The real samurai carpenter. I really enjoy these videos. Great work, guys.
This video seem more like a furniture build than just laying flooring. Fantastic craftsmanship!
I would love anything made by this artisan - floors, a house, a piece of furniture, anything. He does everything so solidly.
love that part about taking off your shoes as soon as the new floor 'appears' and you work on it, he.
great work with terrific results. As a carpenter here in Canada, it's always interesting to see how things are done in other countries. Japanese carpenters are among the best.
Agreed. Also a carpenter in Canada, I’ve always wanted to have the opportunity to go spend a year working in Japan and learning their way of building. Maybe one day, but for now I’m super thankful I have TH-cam to at least get a taste of it
Brilliant. I was please to see they have actual carpenters like ours in Japan, ie ones who use power tools etc and not like all the other Japanese carpentry videos where they spend hours making highly complex beautifully crafted joints in 12inch by 12inch oak beams 😀. Great skills.
absolutely stunning job (never seen that king of project joists crossed)
As a carpenter here in the UK, it is not only a joy but it also feels like a privilege to be able to watch this master at work, but I can't shake the feeling that of being like the proverbial "grasshopper" in comparison. 😔
Was in Japan recently and spent much of my time admiring the carpentry in the countless old buildings we visited.
Kanazawa Castle with its exposed structural timbers and the scale model replica stand out as highlights.
I have been trying to properly CG model floor in homes for years. This video has been instrumental in teaching me how to do it properly. ty
Great video by a great craftsman. I like the method you used to level the floor joists.
I would be really interested in a video explaining all the notations and markings you use on the wood while you are working on a project such as this one. Fascinating aspect of the videos.
Lovely work! The wood you’re using is phenomenal.
There are many ways to have done this but your method considers and accounts for future issues. That's the sign of a good renovation contractor - one who doesn't only fix the problem but accepts the fact that he/she has to go beyond what the builder did in the first place. If the building has settled there is likely no need to address the foundation. It appears to me that the framing is relatively heavy, so using cedar in place of more dense timbers and stripping the joists was a smart decision. With the residence being ''in use'' during your work, you did a wonderful job of allowing the occupants to stay while the work was done (jacking the floor and repositioning the outer sunken supports would have required them to vacate and cost them a lot more money). Bravo. Renovations, many if not most times, require more knowledge, skill and awareness than construction does.
What a joy to see work done,lovingly, intelligently, and properly.
My deepest respects Sir.
Greetings from France.
Really good job.It’s great to see someone who knows what they are doing!
fascinating craftsmanship
Beautiful Craftsmanship, You are a Master of your Craft !!!
Knowledge, experience, care and respect, tradesmanship. Excellent video, thank you.
Thanks for sharing ..... wonderful work and skill .... brilliant technique that shows planning and preparation is everything 😊👍🙏
Japanese craftsman do great work!
Great flooring renovation video
I must thank the algorythm, I love japanese carpentry, I'm going to check the other videos :)
What an outstanding job you have done here Shoyan. floor this well done in Australia would be in your dreams. I don't think there would be too many timber frame floors in Australia today, it is all pour a concrete slab & let's build. I envy the beauty & quality of your work my friend. Cheers, Don from South Australia.
I must renovate my cabin in Nagano,, Japan and this video really helps a lot! Not so many Japanese DIY videos are translated in English so you really help a lot of foreigners that haven’t become fluent yet. Thank you so much.
I can not really renovate a Japanese house watching foreign videos so your work is of enormous value! Thanks again and please continue.
Thank you for sharing this, beutiful work, materials and craftmanship.
So beautiful.
Be safe with that circ saw brother. Seeing your hand in front of it whilst ripping that timber had me on edge!
I'm going barefoot on my next job. In all seriousness though, amazing work. Thank you for the lesson. Beautiful as always.
That was incredible!
a master at work! I like to lay floorboards in a more random pattern to differentiate the appearance from manufactured flooring but the way you did it takes less time so also good
i would love to work on old Japanese architecture, so different from the wall's and floors i build today.
This man is awesome 👌
Thankyou for creating a video with English voiceover.
It is a pleasure to see the good presition and quality of the work, I wish more could build like this.
Another beautiful floor!
Lot of respect, great work!
No North American method can top this. Great work sir!
Just look at the quality of joists he is using compared to the garbage they sell you in the US.
Thank You for sharing.
I've seen fine furniture made from worse materials. Thing is he probably has such pride and professionality in his work he spends an extra minute and pics the best pieces when he's at the store.
You, too, can pay through the nose for lumber if you want and get the same stuff. But why would you when standard lumber is perfectly sufficient? It's not like you'll ever see it.
beau travail ! merci !
Thankyou for the subtitles.
Aha! You have an English language channel!!!.. I only just discovered it after months of watching your other channel!
glad i came across this vid. thank yoou for sharing!
Sugi or Hinoki, which one is cedar? Thanks, nice job, Will the floor have any coating? I know the timber in Japanese houses is raw to allow moisture to be absorbed and expelled during the hot summers.
Amazing craftsman 🐐
Strong work
Great work
Great video
Beautiful work thank you for sharing your skills 👍 arigato
Bravo Very good
Thank you 🙏
As the proportion of the room is determinated by tatamis (3636x3636mm, 2727x3636mm, etc)... Is there a standard width or lenght for the wood floor pieces? Thank you!
Is there a finish that will be applied to the floor boards?
I often see him using the driver bit as a countersink. Is it a special bit with a built-in countersink or just a normal bit used in a non-normal way?
lovely. hello from scotland
Not a good job I really enjoy watching you you are very very talented keep up that the good work
I was surprised to see glue used across the grain.
Confidence with the materials stability?
Just the cost of the wood in Australia would stun you.
Well done!
Thanks master, oss
Standard modern building practices as far as I'm concerned but the original post and beam superstructure is interesting. I'd like to know when the building was made
@@cmmartti I think the whole country is pretty prone to earthquakes. Like us here in NZ
Hi, please share what kind (model) of the tool belt are you using? Arigato gozaimasu!
Hi everyone, i have a question someone may can answer. "Why the airspace under the floor?" Hope someone can explain. Thank you and keep up the beautiful craftmanship.
I think that's the 'false' ceiling of the floor beneath.. when he uses the hammering plank he says the it needs to span two joists so he doesn't 'fall through' by accident.
It’s the structure of the second floor, there’s living below where he’s working
Listen, I learned Japanese, English, and a little bit of Korean and French. I hope to study in Japan and write me on it日本語と英語、そして韓国語とフランス語を少し習ったので、日本で勉強して記事を書きたいと思っています。
Sangat bagus
I know you did not build the house, but why is there so much wasted space above the 1st floor ceiling?
Nice idol 🥰🥰🥰
What type of wood is the old floor and that large beam? How old is it? In the UK that would almost certainly have to be a steel beam.
Here in Finland these are built of pine almost exclusively. My parents house has similar structures from 1700s.
Hello,
Love these videos please keep them coming. Superb craftsmanship.
What is the tool called that you use to chap in the final board against the wall?
Search hammer pulling ledge and you will find a similar variant from wolfcraft.
I know I've used other ones at work but can't find anything else when I searched.
Usually I just use pull bar and my hammer
3:42 why does it use two layers of framing?
Thank you for sharing. How does the floor account for expansion and contraction? Is there a gap to allow for expansion around the room?
That was my question. The wedges seem to remove any room for expansion as well as the screws being set diagonally creating horizontal tension.
what kind of wall finish is on the walls? is it a clay plaster?
I wonder how he finish the floor... sanding and coating?
I do not understand why you are installing additional joists on top of the old ones. What are you gaining? Isn't this going to raise the level of the new floor to old by 1 1/2"? Won"t this be a tripping hazard?
I'd imagine he's trying to match the height of the floor in the adjoining hallway (and probably more importantly, from the top of the stairs) specifically to avoid a tripping hazard.
The floor is leveled with those
@@jonnenne No at this point new and existing are different. If you look at 3:26 you will see one level of sleepers is even with the existing floor. He installs an additional sleeper on top of those which appears to be about 1 1/2" thick which you can see at 5:34. Then you have the flooring that is about 1 1/8" thick. The floor levels are different as you can plainly see at 11:40. Look at frame 10:47 and tell me they are even.
@@cmmartti It is adding a lot of unnecessary weight to the structure as well.
I'll throw in my 2 yen, as a person who lives in Japan and who has DIY:ed a lot on my houses here. I'm a bit conflicted... Yes, master craftsmen, but houses shouldn't be built so that floors start to lean after only 20 years. Also, the work of electricians and plumbers here resembles that of a 5-year old. If it's hidden under floors, in walls, etc, they don't give two shits about making it "neat".
A craftsman.
I'm a human who is more than 40 years old. It's true, we get creaky.
Nice work, but I am somewhat bemused that the floor is a 40 year old house has developed a 30mm fall from one side of the room to the other! Plainly not all Japanese are master craftsmen!!
Japan has many earthquakes this makes the foundation to shift a lot.
here in the US we put down a layer of support lumber then do the flooring on top it kinda makes me feel like I could do this instead and spend a lot less depending on the wood I use for the flooring. Up here in alaska I can get some really big pieces of rough cut spruce that very light in color that would be a really cool floor material.
You need use real wood that has some thickness for the method in the video.
Normal wood floors installed on a subfloor are 3/4" thick (1.9 cm). The floor in this video is 1 3/16" thick (3 cm). A subfloor will create a substantially stiffer floor, for much cheaper.
Is this Clayplaster on the walls?
skills
I'v kinda mis the Japanese langauge, though it is easier to follow the good instructions and hints. It is a masterclass in carpentery
отличная работа.!
Where do you buy that clamp tool he uses
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Those shims under the floor joists are kind of like shock absorbers, right? They reduce impact noises from one floor to another.
They are used to level the new floor, there's no noise reduction....
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Do you mean to say “joints”?
Joist
Respectfully as possible. That’s a total bodge.
interesting... thats big empty space between floors
Looks more than 3 cm out of whack.
So obvious this house was built by a Japanese person or crew underneath the floor is spotless an American house would have dead raccoons all kinds of shit lmao 🤣 😂