This level of workmanship, finesse and pride in a task like this is what sets apart a true carpenter/ tradesman from a gang of slabbers who come on site and throw up boards as quick as someone can hand them to them.
Great, shorter video. As a Chartered Building Surveyor, I always find your knowledge, technical understanding and desire to pass on the information so important in an industry where I find ‘skills’ are just not that apparent and obvious and basic errors made. Keep it going, and I will ensure your videos are pasted on to the younger generation so they know ‘how it should be done. Well done mate 👍🏼
Thanks for your kind words, I want to share these videos as there is a dilution of skills in the UK and we are so far behind compared to Germany for example where the trades are practiced at a far higher level!!
Would have loved to see this velux install from the very begining, to have a better idea of the insulation fitting, and relative position of the structural timbers. Did I miss a video?
Great job Robin, your plasterboarding is way neater than mine! I’ve just come back from renovating my house in France including 3 weeks of finishing the plasterboarding. I think you have a big advantage in a new property of being able to lay everything out square and true whereas I was plasterboarding veluxes in an old roof no nothing true and in and around wooden beams which need loads of cutting in. One thing a builder told me about was to angle the reveals of the velux opening into the room, this lets a lot more light in than having them at 90 degrees, but does mean that there are more angles to deal with in the reveal. Usually ended up with having to box the reveal out with 3 pieces of plasterboard, one each at the top and bottom and then a square one in the middle.
Why not tape the velux window to the timber first to make a good air seal. Butting the plaster board up to the window grove does provide a great seal. I have three in the house and they were drafty on a stormy day. I had to retrofit sealant around the window plaster board interface.
I’ve always found that 12.5mm board doesn’t fit right in the velux grooves for the top and bottom board. It leaves a lip for the plasterer so I use 9 mm board for the top and bottom but still 12.5mm for the sides. Great content mate. Always love watching your vids
Hi Keith, That is so true... I find that I sometimes have to ease the top and bottom to make a good fit.... maybe we should talk with Velux!!!! Thank you for subscribing to my channel for over 3 years too!!!!
@@ukconstruction if you look closely at the Velux (and Keylite etc) brochures you’ll notice there’s actually a secondary angle where the plasterboard “turns in” to the top and bottom grooves. Basically, 30-50mm wide strip of plasterboard butts into the grooves square and THEN you transition to the plumb/seat cut pieces to create the splay. Bit more faffing but gives a good finish, just like the brochures!
Excellent Work very impressed. Please could you show us or direct me to one of your videos where you show how you insulate between the structural element of the roof and the Plum and level part of the Velux window i.e. the top of the window and the bottom ofthe window
Hi Robin You make DIY to your high standard look so easy. Well done. I have had a velux fitted to replace an old rotting velux. The builders had to cut into existing plaster reveal to get new velux in. now there are mainly small gaps around the whole four sides/ edges where the frame sits , but one part has a recess of 20mm deep. Could I use expanding foam for the 20mm recess part? Or might the expanding foam potentially lift the tiles above and just use polyfilla or even easifill 60 for other gaps? Thank you
Thanks for the instruction Robin Can I ask, is it best use square edge board when it’s been skimmed ? I think your garden room is the same ! On the few plasterboard jobs I’ve done I always buy tapered edge and get it skimmed should I be using square edge ?
Hi Dan, when you are skimming it really does not matter if you use square edge or tapered edge, the only thing to watch is running a tapered edge next to a corner where you need to fix a thin coat angle bead, this makes the bead sit too flush
Screw gun looks a guddon👍, I don't like to see squares used as a cutting edge I've seen the knife slip on more than one occasion I just pencil mark and cut freehand.
Are the window jambs wide enough to accommodate the build up of insulation, batten and plasterboard? Or have you made the trimmed opening wider than the window and packed it to allow for the build up ? Hope that makes sense 😂
Robin, excellent video. Question about angle beads. I understand you place corner beads at both sides but what about the spleyed side? Do you put a stop bead there? So 2 sides will be standard angle beads and the top and bottom of spleyed side would be stop beads?
ure work is beauty ful, mYbe wen I build my castle and most you can mKe the draw bridge and do all roof work .. lovely ill attempt to recreate ure velux boarding tomoz love the fold for st8 line and 25 battons as a floating support for other board nixe trick.. tata
This level of workmanship, finesse and pride in a task like this is what sets apart a true carpenter/ tradesman from a gang of slabbers who come on site and throw up boards as quick as someone can hand them to them.
That's because the lad's on site are getting around 2/3 pounds a metre on the walls and around 3/4 on the ceiling unfortunately
Great, shorter video. As a Chartered Building Surveyor, I always find your knowledge, technical understanding and desire to pass on the information so important in an industry where I find ‘skills’ are just not that apparent and obvious and basic errors made. Keep it going, and I will ensure your videos are pasted on to the younger generation so they know ‘how it should be done. Well done mate 👍🏼
Thanks for your kind words, I want to share these videos as there is a dilution of skills in the UK and we are so far behind compared to Germany for example where the trades are practiced at a far higher level!!
Would have loved to see this velux install from the very begining, to have a better idea of the insulation fitting, and relative position of the structural timbers. Did I miss a video?
Check my previous videos I have featured various stages of the install
Robin has the kind of skill that if he threw a deck of cards in the air, they would land suit and number sorted, pure magic to watch
Great job Robin, your plasterboarding is way neater than mine! I’ve just come back from renovating my house in France including 3 weeks of finishing the plasterboarding. I think you have a big advantage in a new property of being able to lay everything out square and true whereas I was plasterboarding veluxes in an old roof no nothing true and in and around wooden beams which need loads of cutting in.
One thing a builder told me about was to angle the reveals of the velux opening into the room, this lets a lot more light in than having them at 90 degrees, but does mean that there are more angles to deal with in the reveal. Usually ended up with having to box the reveal out with 3 pieces of plasterboard, one each at the top and bottom and then a square one in the middle.
Always informative when watching you work.
There's always a way. 👍🇭🇲
Why not tape the velux window to the timber first to make a good air seal. Butting the plaster board up to the window grove does provide a great seal. I have three in the house and they were drafty on a stormy day. I had to retrofit sealant around the window plaster board interface.
👏👏👏 Always a pleasure to see you work and your attention to detail.
Thank you so much 😀
09:20 that wee look direct at the camera when the board held in place, priceless!
I’ve always found that 12.5mm board doesn’t fit right in the velux grooves for the top and bottom board. It leaves a lip for the plasterer so I use 9 mm board for the top and bottom but still 12.5mm for the sides.
Great content mate. Always love watching your vids
Hi Keith, That is so true... I find that I sometimes have to ease the top and bottom to make a good fit.... maybe we should talk with Velux!!!! Thank you for subscribing to my channel for over 3 years too!!!!
@@ukconstruction if you look closely at the Velux (and Keylite etc) brochures you’ll notice there’s actually a secondary angle where the plasterboard “turns in” to the top and bottom grooves. Basically, 30-50mm wide strip of plasterboard butts into the grooves square and THEN you transition to the plumb/seat cut pieces to create the splay. Bit more faffing but gives a good finish, just like the brochures!
Excellent job Robin.Good goiing.
Attention to detail 👍
What can you say, Another masterclass !
Excellent Work very impressed. Please could you show us or direct me to one of your videos where you show how you insulate between the structural element of the roof and the Plum and level part of the Velux window i.e. the top of the window and the bottom ofthe window
Perfect timing. I've three of my own to do this week.
Perfect!
Hi Robin
You make DIY to your high standard look so easy. Well done.
I have had a velux fitted to replace an old rotting velux. The builders had to cut into existing plaster reveal to get new velux in. now there are mainly small gaps around the whole four sides/ edges where the frame sits , but one part has a recess of 20mm deep. Could I use expanding foam for the 20mm recess part? Or might the expanding foam potentially lift the tiles above and just use polyfilla or even easifill 60 for other gaps?
Thank you
Skills. Thank you, I have leant from that video.
Good morning Robin Clevite
Great Job you make it look easy which is the biggest compliment for all your work!
Thank you very much!
sometimes the clever stuff, is the simple stuff. very nice Robin pal, ill take this with me ,
True!! Cheers Jon
Thanks for the instruction Robin Can I ask, is it best use square edge board when it’s been skimmed ? I think your garden room is the same ! On the few plasterboard jobs I’ve done I always buy tapered edge and get it skimmed should I be using square edge ?
Hi Dan, when you are skimming it really does not matter if you use square edge or tapered edge, the only thing to watch is running a tapered edge next to a corner where you need to fix a thin coat angle bead, this makes the bead sit too flush
@@ukconstruction thanks Robin
excellent vid robin. have you ever done one involving setting out of a roof with velux windows?
Screw gun looks a guddon👍, I don't like to see squares used as a cutting edge I've seen the knife slip on more than one occasion I just pencil mark and cut freehand.
Nice robin , did you get your square into production and for general sale yet ?
Are the window jambs wide enough to accommodate the build up of insulation, batten and plasterboard? Or have you made the trimmed opening wider than the window and packed it to allow for the build up ? Hope that makes sense 😂
I often make the opening wide enough to accommodate a layer of PIR
Robin, excellent video. Question about angle beads. I understand you place corner beads at both sides but what about the spleyed side? Do you put a stop bead there? So 2 sides will be standard angle beads and the top and bottom of spleyed side would be stop beads?
Hi mate, you guessed correctly, we will use a normal thin coat angle bead where ever we can and then the thin coat stop bead on angles etc
Nice..! And nice camera -work..! 👍
Thank you so much 😀
Great content again 👌
Appreciate that
ure work is beauty ful, mYbe wen I build my castle and most you can mKe the draw bridge and do all roof work .. lovely ill attempt to recreate ure velux boarding tomoz love the fold for st8 line and 25 battons as a floating support for other board nixe trick.. tata
And what about the vapour barrier?
We use a vapour check plasterboard over the PIR
Hi can international students do diploma in carpentry in there and what are requirements
You will need to self fund your education but the answer is yes
Super Sunday...... x 2 videos.....👏👏👏
For you Conor!!!
Are you selling your decking tape yet I have a decking job coming up
Check my Amazon store
Cant you get it any tighter?!!!😅
man, rihht side is higher than left side
Two RC videos in one night! Spoilt 👍🏻
Slow down not finished the last video yet
Hi Mark, I am experimenting!!!