Building a House Ep 1 - Flicking Out a Slab/ Marking Walls
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- This is the first episode of a new series where I will be working on these two houses from start to finish. the goal for this series is to cover everything carpentry related, from framing the entire house, to doing the lock up, fix, fit off, decks and pergolas
In this video I go through the entire process of marking out a concrete slab. We typically call this process flicking out, as we are flicking chalk lines showing us exactly where out timber walls will go.
Thanks for watching episode one of this series! Sorry that it started on such a long video, but I’ve had a few people ask me to do a video on how to flick out a slab, so I wanted to leave as much information in the video as I could so you can learn from it!
Episode 2 should be coming out this Sunday at 6am, and it should hopefully be a bit shorter!
I’m also cringing watching back this footage as I noticed a pretty bad mistake at the start of the video (before we jumped down to the back) I want to see if anyone picks up on it 😂
Thanks for watching 🤙🏾
Longer the video, the better I'd say!
Oh mate feel for you, your mate held the tape on the close line at 14:54, and then moved it to the further line for the 4 m measurement which made the slab look out of square! Been there! Do I win a prize for figuring it out? :D
Thanks Dave, enjoyed that a lot. Have shared it with some owner builders as I recon there is a lot to learn from this video. Especially with how far out the slab was in areas.
Interesting to watch. Watching from Ontario Canada 🎉
Good job mate.
It may have taken a bit longer than it should have, but now the rest should go smoothly with you being the next trade- and everyone working off your frame.
As a builder, I like to be on site with my chippies when they mark out the slab or sub-floor.
I do sometimes make rooms bigger or smaller to suit the slab but only minimally.
No one ever complains if their house is bigger.
I just need to make sure it doesn’t change anything else- floor joists or trusses.
Every job is different so you just need to adapt sometimes unfortunately.
I’ve never been this early to one of your vids 🎉
If I could add a suggestion, instead of flicking both sides of that first internal parting wall. Use some ramset pins and run string lines first so you can check it still but move lines by adding and moving pins. You guys went back n fourth quite a bit over same lines which becomes confusing. Great work, got there in the end
You are great carpenter or architect 👍
Hey dave, good to see younger generation having a go! Dont have time to watch the entire video but i hope you're stick framing! Just a bit of advice, if you're setting out on a stepped slab for brick its a good idea to level up from the base of the step and measure from that plumb point as that is where the crack head concreters are doing their set out. You will find where their errors are quicker and more accurately that way.
Great advice
I hope you’re charging the Builder higher than usual.
The Builder’s Concreter should’ve triple-checked the set-out for the formwork-from the plans.
Bro... why were the profiles/ hurdles removed before this set-out occurred? When I set-out a slab I also have the critical grid lines marked already on the profile/ hurdle and its easy to transfer to the finished slab and then remove... WTF? Did the builder remove them? If so why? If not who did? And why didn't the supervisor/ builder mark up the slab with critical points before removing.. Doesn't make sense... YPC I don't envy you... with this one. After you get through this xxxx and start the build will be awesome.
I also want to thank you for your vids, keep going... I love to see how other people do things. You have a great team... good lads.
Hehe, one last edit... We all see you dealing with shenanigans to get the result... besides the out of in line and square, you are able to achieve the layout, even if there needs to be reinforcing of the minimum overhang of frames... we see this all the time and the Builder need to step up and take responsibility to ensure the NCC minimum requirements are met.
Message to the builder who is obviously choosing mates or price over the minimum Australian Standard... Sort your xxxx out... you need to do better. And a word of warning to you Dave... if they are accepting below australian standards and NCC reg's, they'll potentially when it suits them burn you.
What are profiles and hurdles?
@@BillLegge a piece or timber with reference points on it to work off of.
Usually a surveyor will place the first one or two.
You’ll have them spread out throughout the site. They delineate the boundaries of the building and grid lines.
Very important to get them in the right place.
@BillLegge I thought the same thing- string your grid from profiles and measure off your RL’s
Sometimes we leave strings up over critical formwork to check it under hydraulic load once poured.
Formwork moves around too much to work backwards like this and having bottom plates hanging off the edge of the slab is just shite
Not having a go- you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do @davedoescarpentry, props for persisting!
@@BillLegge they are timber boards on post around the perimeter of a building site. you mark out footings, slabs and all sorts of thing on them and then run string lines off them to transfer that information to the actual building area... you normally leave these up so they can be checked back too at any stage..
The profiles are irrelevant now . The slab has been poured and Dave has to work with what he is presented with .
Nice
Use the surveyors pins and call the slab man after
Hey i am also a carpenter. Can you make. More videos about wall marking and tjis will be very helpful for me. Thank you
Wow you managed to upload right as I booted up my computer after coming home from site 😆
Timed it perfectly 👌🏾
Like 2 🍻🍻🍻
Dave I enjoy your videos and the explanations you give. What does the tick direction represent when you are marking out? I have just watched episode 2 b4 this one and see that you mark at 450mm for the studs and you also tick off from that mark. Do you then put the stud centred on the tick? Americans videos do 16 on centre but come back 3/4 so as to have the studs on centre. I am confused.
You seem like a competent and hard working fellow - I'd guess your business is successful?
Laser line visable on that? Could be an option?
Hey Dave, can you tell me how the tools you bought from your combo kit video are holding up? I am looking at buying some tools, have any of them broken/becoming worn out? I have been advised against buying AEG because apparently their tools only just survive their warranty and only consider buying Dewalt, Milwaukee and Makita but Milwaukee doesn't look like it lasts too long either and isn't as durable - what are your thoughts?
It’s only a small thing but usually you can tell how many fucks were given in the forming of the slab by how neat of a job they did stripping the formwork.
Could tell right away this one wasn’t great
That flicking on the wet slab made me feel sick
no surveyor hurdles or a few main outer walls
not a fan of time and cost cutting
its funny, when your an Agi driver, concreters make out like they are the backbone of the construction industry. perfect in every way... but as a carpenter (i have done both) yep they are just shit with no idea, and just want to know what time the pub opens
That slab looks like dogs Brekky fmd
shower hard up on dropped wall
drafty or concretor 90mm error
now a waterproof tray issues - building is a drama fest
Took abit too long to flick a slab 🤣
Yeah this one definitely took a bit longer. Usually we can flick a slab out in 30mins, but we had to spend a bit of time making everything work with this slab, and finding out what points we can go off
Good reason for why it took a bit longer. Concreter needs a thong over the head over that job. Good work Dave
@@DaveDoesCarpentrysounds like going to the Lower part of the slab is a big taking point from this. I like to start by checking parallel. 3,4,5 then work forward or back. Which is what you did so good job. I Still want to learn more about this haha
If only the concreter took a bit more time
Great video, good to see some real world problem solving