My old boss used to go crazy every day when I would down tools 15 minutes before finish and clean up, tidy and organize my welding bench and work area. He considered that I was wasting his time and money... Needless to say, every morning I was far more productive for spending those 15 minutes the previous day. Not only that but it helps to wind down after a busy day and makes you feel better at the start of a new one. The bonus was that it irritated the crap out of one of the nastiest individuals that I have ever had the misfortune to meet = )
My cousin worked in logging and at the end of each day he would spend 5 minutes spraying down the outside of his machine. Get to the end of the week and he could spend 20 minutes giving the outside a good clean before heading home to his family, while all his colleagues end up spending a couple of hours getting their own machines clean. A small amount of time lost now for large amounts of time gained later!
People like that can only function on nervous energy. I have also worked for and with those types. They are usually chaotic characters who enjoy making life and the job at hand as hard as possible. They believe it's not working unless it's a flogging session. They are basically masochistic. Those types are to be avoided at all costs.
Good for you...and sounds like a very toxic old boss. I hope you no longer work for this man and that you have found your way to a healthier work place. Nice to hear your story. 🙏 🇨🇦☺
Sometimes the best way to go fast, is to go slow. I work slow, so I can ensure the work I am doing to good, so I can be mindful of things like... where to put my huge feet when I step.
I use the "go slow to go fast" method all the time whenever I'm feeling under pressure to complete something within a strict deadline. It sounds counter-intuitive, but I've found over the years that just slowing down and thinking before taking the next step helps reduce the stress of the situation and makes me focus on what's in front of me.
Slow steady and switched on is a lot easier than trying to fix things later. Maybe 30 yrs ago we were doing a small stepped flat roof, it was basically a huge box gutter at the bottom of a few pitched roofs ending at a gable ( sorry if it’s hard to picture) It maybe had 7 bays which dropped 75 mm to each next one, and all would be covered in lead…. I did the first one on my own, gave it a decent run… These new guys who started finished on the pitched roof and jumped in with me… they were going way to fast! I said a few times to step back and take a moment…. But I was in the minority.Sure the job was going super fast and it done in a day, leaded up over the next couple. Would you believe a few weeks later it pissed with rain every bay except mine, was backing up an inch of rain! It’s all covered in lead…. And there are windows looking at it…. Fix that fast you muppets :(
Absolutely. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Nothing more annoying than building stuff at break neck speed only to pull it all apart and rebuild it because of a missed detail.
"If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?" - I once apologized to a customer that the job was taking a bit longer than expected....he surprised me by responding with this quote, from coaching legend John Wooden.
Sharpening the saw, I’ve been build for about 30 years. I similar to you, am a soloist. I’ve found a massive amount of mental freedom in building organization systems, for everything. Long ago I came to understand a concept about “decision fatigue” or that we all can only make so many decisions in a day before we make bad decisions due to not having the bandwidth to see all the variables accurately. That bandwidth being eaten up by going out to you truck, van or trailer to search through a pile of tools to get a nail gun, to then go through another pile of fastener containers in a different part of the truck for a particular size nail that is now broken up from being in a pile, to load the gun with small chunks of nails to then realize the nail gun is damaged from being thrown into a pile of tools instead of a dedicated space. Then it dawns on you you spent a half hour doing absolutely nothing and now will have to figure out the best way through a completely preventable problem.
Good advice. I am not a carpenter by trade. I did just do a 7 month home renovation that only allowed 2 day of onsite work per week. I would spend the first 15-20 minutes of each day cleaning and reorganizing from the previous day as I was fresh and thinking about what I was going to do for the day and use the time to organize my setup for the days tasks. It made a huge improvement to do something as simple as placing the tools I would use most often for that day on my workbench in the order of my planned operations. I would also pair the tools to the hardware that would be used and have any other parts needed arranged in the same manner. Very effective use of time for an extremely productive day.
Job site organization is huge. Especially in commercial work. I do mostly tile/stone work and having the right tooks and having good placement for less moves is just huge. Some days ill do double of what everyone does just cause I travel light and have a specific way of doing it.
Time spent on organising and planning is never wasted. Always allow for a cleanup and tidyup at the end of each day or job to avoid the 'down tools' syndrome where stuff just gets shoved somewhere. There's no sin in laying out your task list in order, in a notebook and referring to it, rather than flitting from task to task working off memory. I'm doing an ongoing full house/yard reno, with an OCD other half...best rule I have is 'one job at a time'...took years to teach her that, but has saved us both a world of grief.
Scott, I read that book years ago. 7 habits of highly effective people. A constant work in progress and feels good when you "feel" the effectiveness happen. Indeed, sharpen the saw or blade. My father was an engineer and he demonstrated thought his actions that there is a right way and not as effective way to doing things. Take the time to figure out the effective way and the things that follow will be easier. Cheers from East Canada in the Atlantic Provinces....you are doing really great work....it certainly is "stretching" your carpentry skills which can only lead to a very sharp blade on your saw! 💯👍 ☺🇨🇦
Sometimes I think about a job for months until how I'm going to do it comes to me. I've been given a talking too more than once. However every time without exception I always come up with a great solution that works out perfectly. Obviously not for day to day jobs but ones with custom specifications. Not exactly your topic but throught I'd share.
As my old granny use to say, if you want a happy life then get your house in order. It's not about the big stuff, it's about making sure the small areas of your life you deal with and revolve in are how you want them to be. Remove the chaos and clutter from your everyday life and you will be so much happier.
Timber engineer: If you still have the chance you might consider to reinforce the floor joist at the support where you have cut it out. You can achieve this by using screws at full height next to the cut-out, in the joist. This ensures that your floor joists won't crack in the corner (where they are likely to), and thus, you don't have to worry that the beam cracks along the middle, reducing the joist height to half.
I had this exact issue with an old 50s house i own where they notched half the height out of the joists to fit a steel beam for the new garage under in the 70s. Joists all split from the corner. Not to mention in anything engineering if you don't support the whole beam end you've effectively removed the unsupported portion from your overall strength and the hanging part is just dead weight.
A place for everything helps. I’ve got a small garage and space is a premium, I’m forever reorganising it to use the space more effectively. So much easier when tools are in the same place, makes it easier for cleanup too 😊
Before I was a gasfitting extraordinaire and weekend carpenter I was a chef. One principle that carries over is 'mis en plus' which is essentially everything in its place. Your van and tool belt are refined, extend that to all areas and you'll have a happy mind. I've been chipping away at my reno for an eternity, but one principle I've got is finishing the day with the garage sorted out, then I don't have the road block of not wanting to push things out of the way when I get a spare hour, or not being able to find the tool I need.
@@wildpat03 I will admit the spelling of 'mis' was on me, but I swear 'place' was autocorrected to plus!! I spent 7 years studying French (albeit not to a great standard) and 8 years in commercial kitchens (one year of which was in a french restaurant and no language other than french spoken!) I should know better! Thanks for pointing it out!
This. Before I rebuilt my van setup, I was using makeshit draws from other carpenter's old setups that had bugger all space for my gear. It would take me half a day to properly clean up my van because I'd just heave things in the back at the end of the day, and when I wanted to transport sheet goods, it was a pain in the ass because I'd have to set up 4x2s for it to sit on so it wouldn't get damaged or damage anything underneath. I spent a weekend at the yard with some ply, Triboard and some Strandfloor and built new draws with space for everything (that I had at the time) to go, space for the vacuum cleaner (that fell out of the back of the van one day and smashed the front of the hose garage off it), and space for more than enough sheet goods to be safely transported (turns out I can fit the mobile scaffold in there too). Now after about 3 months there is a bit of a mess in the van, but its all on top and out of the way of the things that I need to get to, and won't take me all that long to tidy up
@@samsboringchannel Bloody autocorrect is responsible for errors all over the place. It thinks that it's smart, even to the level of AI. But it's not. One of these days it will be responsible for nuclear missiles destroying the world.
Reminds me of the Abraham Lincoln Quote... “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” So True, the more time you spend in preparation getting the right tools and materials the quicker & smoother the job goes :)
Totally with you there Scott. My smallish garden workshop is a mess, so need to get it organised. But jobs for my family etc get in the way. So need to make time...
What we doing in Melbourne, we drop the floor down up to 50mm, new lvl framing, reinforce a new framing by installing a couple of new stumps, James Hardie 22mm compressed fibre cement which is more durable alternative to particle board and plywood and is resistant to damage from moisture. Tiler is doing floor screeding with a level. Water proofing, tiing. pluming.
Definitely agree with the sentiment of sharpen the saw there's nothing better than going into your shop with the intention to make something and everything is where it should be and not where it was left last time lol.
I forgot New Zealand is moving into fall while we in Canada moving towards our summer. Lucky and unlucky accident, now you know your plumbing is a mess. That is how I found out by the pipes freezing. Thank you for the video and have a great week.
I still saw a setting and sharpening kit from 40 years ago when we did sharpen saws. And, a few years later, when I got a circular saw, I had extra blades so I could use the batch savings with the saw sharpening company. Now, sadly, it's not cost-effective to sharpen rather than buy new. At least the metal is recyclable
Hi Scott, I would recommend putting a nice long threaded screw down through the joist behind the notch in the joist to stop them splitting at the notch. Advice from an engineer. Keep up the good work. Thanks
It looked to me like he was putting in joist hangers you can see him putting in a similar bracket at 06:00 ish. The knotch is probably not taking any load once these brackets are fixed.
Renovating a home while also living in it would be next-level chaos. From my renovation experience, thankfully, we allowed three months while no one lived there. The second part of the renovation while we were living there was an extension adding on two bedrooms, but as it was attached to the end of the house, it never affected our living for the rest of the house. Renovation is like an unboxing with hidden surprises and normally costs more $$ and time than you expect for all the surprises. The second house renovation was more straightforward, and the third house was a new build which was so much better as you are designing from start to finish so there were not many hidden surprises apart from some annoying council bits and pieces. Once you are organised with Garage and Carport it will go a lot smoother so worth the time spent. Making your own cabinets -- are you really sure about that. Personally, modern cabinetry pre-built seems the way to go.
Hey Scott, yep I get what you're saying about being setup and organised. I get frustrated when I'm not and finding the appropriate time to get organised sometimes feels a backward step. I'm trying to organise a side wall in my 2 car garage and organise the families stuff in tubs on shelves whilst trying to devote time to building a tool wall and make a space for creative learning of woodworking. Also picked up the book 'the 7 habits OHEP' Dad lent me this years ago, I should read it hey.. You and Jess are doing great, back to my day job, lunch is over!
Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. Every complaint I get about work I've done is when I was in a rush. Just need to slow down and do it right the first time.
Planning before doing and getting the decks cleared before going into action have been guiding principles for a few hundred years. Many people, if they think about it at all, think that it's only important for big projects. Not true. Even small jobs should be planned and it's always worth getting the workspace organised before you proceed. My employer in 1988 sent me on a Program Management course in 1988. Their definition of a Program was a mega-project than included many subsidiary projects. One of the recent programs we'd done was worth $800M for software development and hardware provision. That's mid 1980s dollars. It was an international course with people from many countries where English was not spoken. My team of 8 had 4 people who had very little English and we had 15 minutes to complete the first project. We took 10 minutes planning and 5 minutes execution and we got it done. Sign language was still effective in 1988.
In The Netherlands we almost always install a concrete floor (Lewis sheets underneath) in order to make the floor more stable for the tiles. It also makes the floor more waterproof.... Kind regards, Frans
This is an exciting episode: saving up to do this exact thing with our kitchen and bathroom floors in our old villa. Yup, gonna rip it up. Yup, gonna hire professionals. Thanks for showing me what to expect😊 👍🏾🌷👍🏾
There's lots of sayings around this topic my fav is "sometimes you have to stop chopping down trees to sharpen the axe" on the sayings topic also your tools dull incrementally so brings to mind its "like a frog in a pot" we don't notice subtle change so what seems like a step back is a massive leap forward. One reason I enjoy your channel is I am a typical Kiwi home renovator my reno's are shallow and good but not great you are sharpening my axe.
Believe it or not, that actually happened to me today as I was cutting decking. wanted to finish in a hurry but the timber was chipping a little. was tossing up for a minute but decided to get a new blade and boy after the first cut, which was like a hot knife in butter, I was so glad. I even beveled the ends that butt up to the finishing board to look like your deck :) I sharpened the saw
Did Ray talk with you about 'dovetail sheeting' for bathroom floors? 10/10 Dutch bathroom renovations in houses with wooden floors are done with dovetail sheeting. No leakage, no flexing of the floor etc. Surely he knows about them!
Did a bathroom reno from the frame up and put extra lvl’s in the floor and used scyon sheets. Everyone kept saying its over the top, but then positively acknowledged afterwards how rock solid the floor felt 🤪
Another way of saying "sharpening the saw" is "sweeping the sheds" (From the All Blacks). When I was young and helping my dad on his building sites a lot of my time helping him was "sweeping the sheds" - keeping everything clean and organised so that he could move around easily and work effectively. I don't work in construction now, but I still spend the time to sweep the sheds and colleagues are amazed at how effectively I can work when most of the time they see me I seem to be doing nothing productive. I don't get how people can accept working in a disorganized environment, thinking that's normal, and not wonder if they could do their job in a fraction of the time if they knew where everything was and also what they had!
Good on you scott for catching that simple thing. I wont touch houses that wont let me fix the framing. Sometimes failure can happen in less than a year
Hi both another lovely video as a carpenter myself I have always said to my self and drilled it in to my daily routine that if you have a work space = tidy work = tidy mind keep up the good work 👍
Ive seen diggers hanging from cranes and helicopters to slash easements. Its pretty crazy, i cant imagine what the easement looked like when they were laying piplines
Spent two days with my arm up recessed downright holes tidying up the wiring and getting a supply to an extractor fan. Knuckles a bit red. All but last one done. Too quick, used thin string tied to cable I was removing, it caught between two pieces of timber. Can't budge it. If I can't get a fish through tomorrow, I'll have to cut the ceiling plasterboard and 150mm of insulation. Should have pushed the inspection camera as far as it would go and used rope, not thin string
It is such a coincidence that you post this video at this moment. Working on a site now where the blade is dull, I have sharpened it a lot because I couldn’t take it anymore. No organization whatsoever in terms of tool placement, cleaning up worksite, waste management and just planning ahead. It is chaos every single week. Very tiring for me
It is an awesome book. Sharpen the saw really referred to improving your own abilities so you can be more effective, but it also applies as you say to organizing the workspace. If you want a book on improving the way you work try 'gemba kaizen' by masaaki imai. He outlines heaps of cool concepts including the one you talked about which in English we call 'a place for everything, and everything in its place'
The main reason for cleaning up before leaving your job site is the customer !! Most are working and any viewing of what's been achieved on a project is likely to take place at the end of the day. Cleanliness not only creates a good professional impression , but saves the customer for stepping on nails , wading through debris , falling down holes etc. Generally in my day , the youngest and least experienced got the broom. It also saves your tools from going walk about and will be good for your relationship. Not doing this is the equivalent to getting up in the morning and coming down to sink full of dirty dishes.
@Scott.browncarpentry. Hi Scott , I'm here in the sunny South of France , cleaning my house , as my friends from Motueka arrive tomorrow for an extended stay!
I noticed you wear the Howard Leights, have you ever thought about switching the factory cups to gel cups? Idk about you but having those gels cups make wearing eye protection so much better, it relieves the pinch the factory cups cause when wearing eye protection. Love your videos, huge fan!
Being slow but efficient is the fastest way to build. I'm 35 years as a carpenter and 20 as a builder, I see it all the time, other trades/ contractors , rushing to get the job done. Being inefficient and the job taking twice, three times as long.
When I got into doing Tile I would constantly remind myself not to sacrifice quality for speed and convenience. Eventually I just became fast at doing it right and work circles around the guys that told me I was wasting time by doing it the right way. Crazy lol.
Was just thinking, did you put an opening in that high deck. Seems like a place where you will have possums or something else you need to clear out later.
Another great book to help you think clearly is Zen & the Art of Motorcycle maintenance, an unusual combination of both philosophy and Science. My biggest takeaway from it was that it taught me WHEN to live in the moment rather than over think things. Mindfulness, before mindfulness became a thing. Like your recommendation Scott , it is by no means a new publication, but has stood the test of time.
Keep up the great work Scott! I m currently doing renovations in our house (duplex from the 1920s) it can be overwhelming all that needs to be done. One day at a time. Can't wait to see your cabinets!
63 years old, 40 years of construction, DIY, Reno. Doing a bathroom in my own house, while family on cruise. walk-in shower, curb build, table saw, eight thumb stitch fupaa, so yeah, it is what it is, like that. 36 years, tell wife now?. NO...
Hey Scott, can you put what project you're working on in the title of your videos? I nearly didn't watch the saw one and this one because the titles were so open-ended that I thought they were an aside from the renovation project.
I mean… Christchurch was destroyed in an earthquake well over ten years ago and it still looks like a war zone, maybe Kiwis are just slow at building everything.
My old boss used to go crazy every day when I would down tools 15 minutes before finish and clean up, tidy and organize my welding bench and work area. He considered that I was wasting his time and money... Needless to say, every morning I was far more productive for spending those 15 minutes the previous day. Not only that but it helps to wind down after a busy day and makes you feel better at the start of a new one. The bonus was that it irritated the crap out of one of the nastiest individuals that I have ever had the misfortune to meet = )
I have never understood bosses like that.
You don't measure what someone does by how busy they look, but by what they accomplish each day.
My cousin worked in logging and at the end of each day he would spend 5 minutes spraying down the outside of his machine. Get to the end of the week and he could spend 20 minutes giving the outside a good clean before heading home to his family, while all his colleagues end up spending a couple of hours getting their own machines clean.
A small amount of time lost now for large amounts of time gained later!
People like that can only function on nervous energy. I have also worked for and with those types. They are usually chaotic characters who enjoy making life and the job at hand as hard as possible. They believe it's not working unless it's a flogging session. They are basically masochistic. Those types are to be avoided at all costs.
@@TheToolnut their is calm and productive, and their is calm and doing F-all.
Good for you...and sounds like a very toxic old boss. I hope you no longer work for this man and that you have found your way to a healthier work place. Nice to hear your story. 🙏 🇨🇦☺
Sometimes the best way to go fast, is to go slow. I work slow, so I can ensure the work I am doing to good, so I can be mindful of things like... where to put my huge feet when I step.
I use the "go slow to go fast" method all the time whenever I'm feeling under pressure to complete something within a strict deadline. It sounds counter-intuitive, but I've found over the years that just slowing down and thinking before taking the next step helps reduce the stress of the situation and makes me focus on what's in front of me.
Slow steady and switched on is a lot easier than trying to fix things later.
Maybe 30 yrs ago we were doing a small stepped flat roof, it was basically a huge box gutter at the bottom of a few pitched roofs ending at a gable ( sorry if it’s hard to picture)
It maybe had 7 bays which dropped 75 mm to each next one, and all would be covered in lead…. I did the first one on my own, gave it a decent run…
These new guys who started finished on the pitched roof and jumped in with me… they were going way to fast! I said a few times to step back and take a moment…. But I was in the minority.Sure the job was going super fast and it done in a day, leaded up over the next couple.
Would you believe a few weeks later it pissed with rain every bay except mine, was backing up an inch of rain! It’s all covered in lead…. And there are windows looking at it…. Fix that fast you muppets :(
Absolutely. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Nothing more annoying than building stuff at break neck speed only to pull it all apart and rebuild it because of a missed detail.
"If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?" - I once apologized to a customer that the job was taking a bit longer than expected....he surprised me by responding with this quote, from coaching legend John Wooden.
Sharpening the saw, I’ve been build for about 30 years. I similar to you, am a soloist. I’ve found a massive amount of mental freedom in building organization systems, for everything. Long ago I came to understand a concept about “decision fatigue” or that we all can only make so many decisions in a day before we make bad decisions due to not having the bandwidth to see all the variables accurately. That bandwidth being eaten up by going out to you truck, van or trailer to search through a pile of tools to get a nail gun, to then go through another pile of fastener containers in a different part of the truck for a particular size nail that is now broken up from being in a pile, to load the gun with small chunks of nails to then realize the nail gun is damaged from being thrown into a pile of tools instead of a dedicated space. Then it dawns on you you spent a half hour doing absolutely nothing and now will have to figure out the best way through a completely preventable problem.
😂 very relatable
7:15 How has no one reacted to Jess? This moment of pure frustration and "please help" speaks to my soul.
Good advice. I am not a carpenter by trade. I did just do a 7 month home renovation that only allowed 2 day of onsite work per week. I would spend the first 15-20 minutes of each day cleaning and reorganizing from the previous day as I was fresh and thinking about what I was going to do for the day and use the time to organize my setup for the days tasks. It made a huge improvement to do something as simple as placing the tools I would use most often for that day on my workbench in the order of my planned operations. I would also pair the tools to the hardware that would be used and have any other parts needed arranged in the same manner. Very effective use of time for an extremely productive day.
Job site organization is huge. Especially in commercial work. I do mostly tile/stone work and having the right tooks and having good placement for less moves is just huge. Some days ill do double of what everyone does just cause I travel light and have a specific way of doing it.
Time spent on organising and planning is never wasted. Always allow for a cleanup and tidyup at the end of each day or job to avoid the 'down tools' syndrome where stuff just gets shoved somewhere. There's no sin in laying out your task list in order, in a notebook and referring to it, rather than flitting from task to task working off memory. I'm doing an ongoing full house/yard reno, with an OCD other half...best rule I have is 'one job at a time'...took years to teach her that, but has saved us both a world of grief.
Scott, I read that book years ago. 7 habits of highly effective people. A constant work in progress and feels good when you "feel" the effectiveness happen. Indeed, sharpen the saw or blade. My father was an engineer and he demonstrated thought his actions that there is a right way and not as effective way to doing things. Take the time to figure out the effective way and the things that follow will be easier. Cheers from East Canada in the Atlantic Provinces....you are doing really great work....it certainly is "stretching" your carpentry skills which can only lead to a very sharp blade on your saw! 💯👍 ☺🇨🇦
Sometimes I think about a job for months until how I'm going to do it comes to me. I've been given a talking too more than once. However every time without exception I always come up with a great solution that works out perfectly.
Obviously not for day to day jobs but ones with custom specifications.
Not exactly your topic but throught I'd share.
As my old granny use to say, if you want a happy life then get your house in order. It's not about the big stuff, it's about making sure the small areas of your life you deal with and revolve in are how you want them to be. Remove the chaos and clutter from your everyday life and you will be so much happier.
Thanks for bringing back "Scott Brown Here" Scott. It's a great piece of personal branding and just feels right! Cheers.
Timber engineer: If you still have the chance you might consider to reinforce the floor joist at the support where you have cut it out. You can achieve this by using screws at full height next to the cut-out, in the joist. This ensures that your floor joists won't crack in the corner (where they are likely to), and thus, you don't have to worry that the beam cracks along the middle, reducing the joist height to half.
Brilliant piece of advice, thanks Scott ! = )
Great tip. Can’t say I’ve really run into the situation but if I did I would probably think of sistering it with ply, a screw is way more simple.
6:05
I had this exact issue with an old 50s house i own where they notched half the height out of the joists to fit a steel beam for the new garage under in the 70s. Joists all split from the corner. Not to mention in anything engineering if you don't support the whole beam end you've effectively removed the unsupported portion from your overall strength and the hanging part is just dead weight.
Or put a short joist hanger under it.
A place for everything and everything in it's place!
"Scott Brown Here" is back!
A place for everything helps.
I’ve got a small garage and space is a premium, I’m forever reorganising it to use the space more effectively.
So much easier when tools are in the same place, makes it easier for cleanup too 😊
Before I was a gasfitting extraordinaire and weekend carpenter I was a chef. One principle that carries over is 'mis en plus' which is essentially everything in its place. Your van and tool belt are refined, extend that to all areas and you'll have a happy mind. I've been chipping away at my reno for an eternity, but one principle I've got is finishing the day with the garage sorted out, then I don't have the road block of not wanting to push things out of the way when I get a spare hour, or not being able to find the tool I need.
Good call, with just a friendly observation. It's "mise en place".
@@wildpat03 I will admit the spelling of 'mis' was on me, but I swear 'place' was autocorrected to plus!! I spent 7 years studying French (albeit not to a great standard) and 8 years in commercial kitchens (one year of which was in a french restaurant and no language other than french spoken!) I should know better! Thanks for pointing it out!
This. Before I rebuilt my van setup, I was using makeshit draws from other carpenter's old setups that had bugger all space for my gear. It would take me half a day to properly clean up my van because I'd just heave things in the back at the end of the day, and when I wanted to transport sheet goods, it was a pain in the ass because I'd have to set up 4x2s for it to sit on so it wouldn't get damaged or damage anything underneath. I spent a weekend at the yard with some ply, Triboard and some Strandfloor and built new draws with space for everything (that I had at the time) to go, space for the vacuum cleaner (that fell out of the back of the van one day and smashed the front of the hose garage off it), and space for more than enough sheet goods to be safely transported (turns out I can fit the mobile scaffold in there too). Now after about 3 months there is a bit of a mess in the van, but its all on top and out of the way of the things that I need to get to, and won't take me all that long to tidy up
@@samsboringchannel Bloody autocorrect is responsible for errors all over the place. It thinks that it's smart, even to the level of AI. But it's not. One of these days it will be responsible for nuclear missiles destroying the world.
Reminds me of the Abraham Lincoln Quote... “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
So True, the more time you spend in preparation getting the right tools and materials the quicker & smoother the job goes :)
Hundreds of episodes and always a useful nugget of advice! Love the way you work 👏🏼
As a finish/general carpenter, I say the saying, "slow and steady wins the race" rather frequently.
LOL’d at “sharpening the saw”….I repair several table saws a week because so few builders ever pause to sort their blades…
So good to really see what goes into a renovation. It will be worth it!! All the best for getting organised Scott.😎
I like the pre-emptive not gluing bathroom floor down explaination..youve done this youtube thing a while now scott
"Sharpening the saw". always good advice.
Yes good to be Organised thanks for van fit out ideas glad got the van organised keep up the good work
Totally with you there Scott.
My smallish garden workshop is a mess, so need to get it organised. But jobs for my family etc get in the way. So need to make time...
TH-cam has some great organisation ideas for small spaces. 😊
Most important job during a project is to clean and organize at the end of every day.
You may need to consider getting rid of the dux quest piping. Do a search for it online - and you will see why. You may have insurance issues with it.
What we doing in Melbourne, we drop the floor down up to 50mm, new lvl framing, reinforce a new framing by installing a couple of new stumps, James Hardie 22mm compressed fibre cement which is more durable alternative to particle board and plywood and is resistant to damage from moisture. Tiler is doing floor screeding with a level. Water proofing, tiing. pluming.
Definitely agree with the sentiment of sharpen the saw there's nothing better than going into your shop with the intention to make something and everything is where it should be and not where it was left last time lol.
Loving the old school Scotland top!
Love your top Scott 🏴
I forgot New Zealand is moving into fall while we in Canada moving towards our summer. Lucky and unlucky accident, now you know your plumbing is a mess. That is how I found out by the pipes freezing. Thank you for the video and have a great week.
Your so luckily Scott I remember being taught how to use a file to sharpen the saw blade, 40 plus years ago
Aaahhhhh ... That explains the Scotland rugby shirt 😊
Sharpening the saw is easily one of the most important pieces I schedule into my days! 🙂💜
I still saw a setting and sharpening kit from 40 years ago when we did sharpen saws. And, a few years later, when I got a circular saw, I had extra blades so I could use the batch savings with the saw sharpening company. Now, sadly, it's not cost-effective to sharpen rather than buy new. At least the metal is recyclable
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
This has served me well, you eventually get to a very high rate of speed due to muscle memory and economy of movement.
Hi Scott, I would recommend putting a nice long threaded screw down through the joist behind the notch in the joist to stop them splitting at the notch. Advice from an engineer. Keep up the good work. Thanks
It looked to me like he was putting in joist hangers you can see him putting in a similar bracket at 06:00 ish.
The knotch is probably not taking any load once these brackets are fixed.
Classic Scotland jersey!
Renovating a home while also living in it would be next-level chaos. From my renovation experience, thankfully, we allowed three months while no one lived there. The second part of the renovation while we were living there was an extension adding on two bedrooms, but as it was attached to the end of the house, it never affected our living for the rest of the house. Renovation is like an unboxing with hidden surprises and normally costs more $$ and time than you expect for all the surprises. The second house renovation was more straightforward, and the third house was a new build which was so much better as you are designing from start to finish so there were not many hidden surprises apart from some annoying council bits and pieces. Once you are organised with Garage and Carport it will go a lot smoother so worth the time spent. Making your own cabinets -- are you really sure about that. Personally, modern cabinetry pre-built seems the way to go.
Yes! “Scott Brown here” returns with an absolute first class example of the genre. Normal service resumed. Phew.
Hey Scott, yep I get what you're saying about being setup and organised. I get frustrated when I'm not and finding the appropriate time to get organised sometimes feels a backward step. I'm trying to organise a side wall in my 2 car garage and organise the families stuff in tubs on shelves whilst trying to devote time to building a tool wall and make a space for creative learning of woodworking. Also picked up the book 'the 7 habits OHEP' Dad lent me this years ago, I should read it hey.. You and Jess are doing great, back to my day job, lunch is over!
Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. Every complaint I get about work I've done is when I was in a rush. Just need to slow down and do it right the first time.
For me it was "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance". It made me question why and most importantly HOW you do something.
love the classic scotland shirt :)
Planning before doing and getting the decks cleared before going into action have been guiding principles for a few hundred years. Many people, if they think about it at all, think that it's only important for big projects. Not true. Even small jobs should be planned and it's always worth getting the workspace organised before you proceed. My employer in 1988 sent me on a Program Management course in 1988. Their definition of a Program was a mega-project than included many subsidiary projects. One of the recent programs we'd done was worth $800M for software development and hardware provision. That's mid 1980s dollars. It was an international course with people from many countries where English was not spoken. My team of 8 had 4 people who had very little English and we had 15 minutes to complete the first project. We took 10 minutes planning and 5 minutes execution and we got it done. Sign language was still effective in 1988.
In The Netherlands we almost always install a concrete floor (Lewis sheets underneath) in order to make the floor more stable for the tiles. It also makes the floor more waterproof.... Kind regards, Frans
This is an exciting episode: saving up to do this exact thing with our kitchen and bathroom floors in our old villa. Yup, gonna rip it up. Yup, gonna hire professionals.
Thanks for showing me what to expect😊
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Yewwwww heck yeah Scott! all the love bro
Great advice , Scott ...
Thanks for sharing your work and insight to life in NZ....
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There's lots of sayings around this topic my fav is "sometimes you have to stop chopping down trees to sharpen the axe" on the sayings topic also your tools dull incrementally so brings to mind its "like a frog in a pot" we don't notice subtle change so what seems like a step back is a massive leap forward.
One reason I enjoy your channel is I am a typical Kiwi home renovator my reno's are shallow and good but not great you are sharpening my axe.
Believe it or not, that actually happened to me today as I was cutting decking. wanted to finish in a hurry but the timber was chipping a little. was tossing up for a minute but decided to get a new blade and boy after the first cut, which was like a hot knife in butter, I was so glad. I even beveled the ends that butt up to the finishing board to look like your deck :) I sharpened the saw
Did Ray talk with you about 'dovetail sheeting' for bathroom floors? 10/10 Dutch bathroom renovations in houses with wooden floors are done with dovetail sheeting. No leakage, no flexing of the floor etc. Surely he knows about them!
Exceptional as always
Love the Scotland top, Scott!
All the best from Ayrshire.
Love that book to. My take away from the book was, start with the end in mind. Love the journey the both of you are sharing.
Sweet top you got there, was in Murrayfield this evening 😀
I'm a system's person. I love "sharpening the saw"
Loving the shirt 🎉🎉
As a Scot loving it .
Taking time makes the job a whole lot easier
Thank U Scott 4 ur videos. They R a relief in this day of chaos.
Did a bathroom reno from the frame up and put extra lvl’s in the floor and used scyon sheets. Everyone kept saying its over the top, but then positively acknowledged afterwards how rock solid the floor felt 🤪
I just did this same thing reframing my bathroom floor!! But to top it off my water shut off valve broke when I tried to shut the water off 😂
Another way of saying "sharpening the saw" is "sweeping the sheds" (From the All Blacks). When I was young and helping my dad on his building sites a lot of my time helping him was "sweeping the sheds" - keeping everything clean and organised so that he could move around easily and work effectively.
I don't work in construction now, but I still spend the time to sweep the sheds and colleagues are amazed at how effectively I can work when most of the time they see me I seem to be doing nothing productive. I don't get how people can accept working in a disorganized environment, thinking that's normal, and not wonder if they could do their job in a fraction of the time if they knew where everything was and also what they had!
Good on you scott for catching that simple thing. I wont touch houses that wont let me fix the framing. Sometimes failure can happen in less than a year
Read the book years ago! Excellent!
Always look forward to your new content. Cant wait to watch the next episode. Learn alot from your videos. Thanks Scott
Mate that shirt is a classic, the equivalent of the All Blacks Steinlager
Great episode Scott!
Hi both another lovely video as a carpenter myself I have always said to my self and drilled it in to my daily routine that if you have a work space = tidy work = tidy mind keep up the good work 👍
Scotland jersey looks good on you!
Ive seen diggers hanging from cranes and helicopters to slash easements. Its pretty crazy, i cant imagine what the easement looked like when they were laying piplines
Spent two days with my arm up recessed downright holes tidying up the wiring and getting a supply to an extractor fan. Knuckles a bit red. All but last one done. Too quick, used thin string tied to cable I was removing, it caught between two pieces of timber. Can't budge it. If I can't get a fish through tomorrow, I'll have to cut the ceiling plasterboard and 150mm of insulation. Should have pushed the inspection camera as far as it would go and used rope, not thin string
It is such a coincidence that you post this video at this moment. Working on a site now where the blade is dull, I have sharpened it a lot because I couldn’t take it anymore. No organization whatsoever in terms of tool placement, cleaning up worksite, waste management and just planning ahead. It is chaos every single week. Very tiring for me
Nice work Scott.
Loving the rugby top 👍
Nice shirt! 🏴😎
Damnnnn just checked if u uploaded. Love the series man!
It is an awesome book. Sharpen the saw really referred to improving your own abilities so you can be more effective, but it also applies as you say to organizing the workspace. If you want a book on improving the way you work try 'gemba kaizen' by masaaki imai. He outlines heaps of cool concepts including the one you talked about which in English we call 'a place for everything, and everything in its place'
GREAT SCOTT, still pumping out good mahi and excellent content
Important lesson in carpentry. Learning how to fix your own plumbing😅😅😅
The main reason for cleaning up before leaving your job site is the customer !! Most are working and any viewing of what's been achieved on a project is likely to take place at the end of the day.
Cleanliness not only creates a good professional impression , but saves the customer for stepping on nails , wading through debris , falling down holes etc. Generally in my day , the youngest and least experienced got the broom. It also saves your tools from going walk about and will be good for your relationship.
Not doing this is the equivalent to getting up in the morning and coming down to sink full of dirty dishes.
@Scott.browncarpentry. Hi Scott , I'm here in the sunny South of France , cleaning my house , as my friends from Motueka arrive tomorrow for an extended stay!
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast 🤟
I noticed you wear the Howard Leights, have you ever thought about switching the factory cups to gel cups? Idk about you but having those gels cups make wearing eye protection so much better, it relieves the pinch the factory cups cause when wearing eye protection.
Love your videos, huge fan!
First I’ve heard of them tbh, thanks! I’ll try them out
Being slow but efficient is the fastest way to build. I'm 35 years as a carpenter and 20 as a builder, I see it all the time, other trades/ contractors , rushing to get the job done. Being inefficient and the job taking twice, three times as long.
Nice Scottish rugby top 👍 I thought that wearing anything other than an All Blacks top down your neck of the woods would be a bit risky...
Scotland is well respected here. An England or France top on the other hand...
Scott is right on; I could talk for hours on this topic. (I get paid by the hour)
When I got into doing Tile I would constantly remind myself not to sacrifice quality for speed and convenience. Eventually I just became fast at doing it right and work circles around the guys that told me I was wasting time by doing it the right way. Crazy lol.
very nice retro ruby shirt but I'm surprised you went out in public dressed like that seeing where you live!
Scott just casually hanging out at the beach with his wood for the title sequence. 🤣
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Spot on
Was just thinking, did you put an opening in that high deck. Seems like a place where you will have possums or something else you need to clear out later.
Love the rugby shirt!
Another great book to help you think clearly is Zen & the Art of Motorcycle maintenance, an unusual combination of both philosophy and Science. My biggest takeaway from it was that it taught me WHEN to live in the moment rather than over think things. Mindfulness, before mindfulness became a thing. Like your recommendation Scott , it is by no means a new publication, but has stood the test of time.
Nice bit of Scottish representation there Scott!
Caught my eye, also. A Scottish rugby shirt in NZ! What are you doing, Scott?
Shame about the hillside, its a landslide wating to happen now
Keep up the great work Scott! I m currently doing renovations in our house (duplex from the 1920s) it can be overwhelming all that needs to be done. One day at a time. Can't wait to see your cabinets!
what is the makita saw that you could cut along the frame line with? Absolute game changer for reno's!
63 years old, 40 years of construction, DIY, Reno. Doing a bathroom in my own house, while family on cruise. walk-in shower, curb build, table saw, eight thumb stitch fupaa, so yeah, it is what it is, like that. 36 years, tell wife now?. NO...
Hi Scott just a heads up that some of your tool links in the description are not working. Another great video!!
Hey Scott, can you put what project you're working on in the title of your videos? I nearly didn't watch the saw one and this one because the titles were so open-ended that I thought they were an aside from the renovation project.
My old ceo gave us all a copy of that book. Maybe I should actually read it!
I mean… Christchurch was destroyed in an earthquake well over ten years ago and it still looks like a war zone, maybe Kiwis are just slow at building everything.