So true. In 18years the closest I I’ve come to “Nice fuse box” was on a commercial job “…well now the quote seems to make more sense” *building owner decided to do an unannounced visit and watch from a distance for awhile. I didn’t notice he had come in, quiet Sunday, AirPods and comfortable stool with your back to the rest of the world. Every so often I’ll send a picture of a SB that looks spot on to my missus but get “that’s nice but I don’t know what I’m looking at” lol
Electrical work on a house will always be low perception work for me since I've been doing it since I was a child and because of the rates registered sparkies charge and the markup they put on the already 2x (importer, wholesaler)marked up parts. All I'll ever pay for is sign off and inspection. At most. I think a 48v DC house with inverters everywhere sounds pretty good.
When I used to work as a painter I hated low percepch because it meant the homeowner felt I did absolutely nothing all day long because I was sanding the walls to prep for primer. So what you end up doing is sanding some of it, applying primer, sanding some of it, applying primer. That way the homeowner comes home and has the perception that work is being done, when in reality I'm actually getting less done, it's just that it looks like things are moving along faster.
I am an architect but I painted my own house. Gave me a whole new perspective on painting. The amount of sanding and prepping to get a descent result is insane.
Bruce is my father n law and john is my brother in law, I am also a builder here in nelson myself, and can confirm, Bruce is a good old school true kiwi man, nice, genuine, welcoming, and honest. classic Bruce humor that sq space plug, love it! haha.
Oh man music to my ears. I also find that “high percepch” days were always the “easier” activities, and “low percepch” activities were always the tasks that took true craftsman.
I find, in the end, it's faster to plumb all the external corners as you go. Much easier than when everything is connected, all the lintels in. If you're using metal cross bracing ( hoop iron/strapping) it's really easy to plumb the wall with the hoop iron, as you go. Bottom of the strapping is fixed under the bottom plate, which ever way you need to pull the wall, you put a roofing screw in an angle the opposite way, in the larger hole in the strapping. Then another screw the same way in the opposite strap. Both straps will be tight and the wall plumb. If you need to make adjustments later in just undo one screw and tighten the other, both straps will be tight again. Then when walls are all up nail the strapping fully off.
Absolutely dealt with this. I tore down and rebuilt my deck. The DEMO of the old deck was HI PERCEPCH. Laying out the new deck, putting in posts, replacing ledger board was all LOW PERCEPCH.
this is such a good way to think about the same problem in almost every industry. Its always fun when you need to communicate the low percepch tasks to the client in a positive way.
As a business owner with a tangential interest in carpentry I look forward to your videos each week. I love your content and really appreciate that you put actual effort into your ad segues 💛love and peace from Malaysia! If you or your buddy Paerau (who I know is a rock climbing dude) is in Malaysia needing a place to boulder, let me know and I'll work out a thing as my thanks!
I do this differently. I like to brace as i go. stand a corner plumb in both ways, and whatever you attach to those will be level Internal junctions you use a level as you connect it
If plum is off 1/13th of a degree, tapper from square will be 1/8 " top to bottom if floor is level. A good level will get you to within 2.5 mm or a 1/10 of an inch if you eye-sight is keen for an 8 foot rise.
Man oh man do I relate to this. I don't work in any of the trades - I'm a stay at home parent who tackles a lot of small things around the house as part of that deal. Almost all of these things are Low Percepch items for most people I talk to. Really resonated with me… your saying this. Cheers, Scott!
I did the same for a few years (I’m assuming you’re a man). The time I got with my daughter made it worth it, but man, the disrespect I got from women and other mums was crazy. I think I made the job look easy and they hated that.
I think whereI am from, we call it momentum or motivation, but also satisfaction.Whatever people call it... it is the small details that allow the project to move forward. They still need to get done. Onlookers (clients, owners, diyers, etc) don't understand that those small jobs are the reason why a project either gets finished or stalls out. The lack of understanding of what needs to happen before say hanging plasterboard is huge. Electrical, plumbing, nailers/deadwood, cover plates, insulation, airsealing... making sure all load-bearing points are properly transferred, etc. The second that plasterboard hits the walls, it becomes more difficult and expensive to repair. The small details is what takes time. They tend to create a lull in the timeline, where it seems like nothing is getting done, even though the project is on time or even ahead of schedule. Visually, if there is change, then the project is moving forward. Most people dont care about what is behind the walls as long as there are walls.
"Percepch" also happens in software engineering and data science. There's a lot of "boring" work that doesn't get much (if any) attention or respect, but is required to make things work properly. Love that trick with the pencils on the level! As you showed with the bracing, details matter.
Diesel mechanic here, we say big parts win hearts, big bits are easy to remove or fit generally it's the fiddling around with all the little stuff that takes time!
We say "show work" Also plate levels are really nice. They have attachable standoffs that hold the level out about 40mm so you can level the wall, plate to plate, even with diagonal bracing installed
For sure, high VP (visual performance) days are great fun for everyone, best to have one of them before sending the fortnightly bill too! I knew of a cowboy builder who was obsessed with them though and he even got his guys to throw gib on the wall at the end of a week, only to pull it off on Monday and keep straightening! I’m a renovator myself so I spend a lot of time straightening walls which is not understood or seen work.
I installed Disco lighting in the uk and always got 4 lights flashing ASAp as to get the oh’s and ars because the rest of the job would take time unlike carpet fitters glory grabers😂
Landscaping. So much time in the ground, drainage, post footings, other building of retaining and pergolas etc. Then soil and turf, plants and mulch give the real high percepch!
We say it’s a big show day or little show day. Didn’t like the snapping of pencils, we use different coloured plastic packers for such jobs. Great videos!
1:00 yeah as an electrician no one seems to register any progress we make until the power points go on the wall. They dont even have to be working, ive thrown them on early just to keep the builder happy and get a progress payment Heck in my new job every bit of work is like this because no one can physically see a buried pipeline or the electrical current i push into it
I was told to flip the level and turn it round to use the other side when checking for plumb/level over longer distances, helps take the discrepancies out of your level. So in this case you’d need two more pencils on the other side! Guess if it’s a brand new level you should be good.
As a kitchen fitter most days are low percepch. I can spend a week doing prep before fitting a single cabinet and when I finally fit the doors the customer goes ooh. As for plumbing the corners of your structure, what's wrong with a plumb line? Not so good in windy conditions but the string doesn't care about bow in the studs. If it was good enough for the Romans.... I actually made a plumb bob in metalwork class at school and have my father's plumb line in my tool box. Rarely gets used mind.
Even though the frames were erected with great care and plumbed, wood is not a perfectly stable material. Even a few days exposure is enough to allow some of the sticks to expand or shrink. Then checking the plumb and level again you might find they were off.
1000% been through this at least once a week..... the small details that take time and are finniky and make the end product perfect are rarely seen or acknowledged.
Fitting a plots worth of windows and glazing them, high perscepch! The next day building and fitting a straight flight of solid oak, pre finished stairs (takes all day) low percepch
Working as a cabinet maker who can spend days not even on site giving the client visual progress is sometimes an art, doing a bit and then fitting in parts to 'keep the client happy' rather than dissappearing for 2 weeks and then fitting everything in a week sometimes doing things in steps lets them see the progress much easier
We have just been working with nelson builders at nelson girls college prep department with Mason awesome guy now we are painting Taylors laundry below this new build home your working on I see now cladding and a roof on , cheers , shaneno, nelson, 👍
Lol... Low perch... Retro fitting, a piece of 600mm bevelback weatherboard with a barge board, and kickout barge flashing, with a sensor light to refix, and butting into a internal corner with a 45 mitre joint and 7 degree angle, prime paint, then silcon the join.... Only to realise im... 50mm short.. lol
Last week I had a client tell his wife “Is that all he got done”. I installed a wire railing inside their home. This guy can’t screw in a lightbulb and had no idea what was involved in getting everything straight and plumb.
I'm a Project Manager for a contractor that specializes in building multi-family units (condos, apartments, etc). I have had to deal with the high/low percepch issue with THE ARCHITECT of all people. Not to mention the investors, leasing agents, insurance agents.... 🤷♂😆
Scott, I get the high vs. low percepch. Most of my woodworking furniture pieces are 'imperceptible percepch' up until the glue-up, and then BAM... table. Then my wife asks what I was fiddling with for the two weeks before, and I have to tell her, "Mortises and tenons don't cut themselves." My question for either you or the comment crowd is, since I've never witnessed American builders taking the degree of care with squareness and straightness as I just witnessed, is it a country-based thing, or have I just totally missed that part? Seems like here in the US, houses get framed up on Day 1, and sheathed out on Day 2... no apparent bracing.
I would assume it is because nails have a higher shear strength than screws, although you could use a structural screw and get both strength and easy removal but those are also more expensive.
Gold! But you don’t have to be a tradie to suffer from this phenomenon. I can spend the entire day in the garden, doing the edges, mowing the lawns, weeding beds, pruning etc and maybe even cleaning out the gutters for good measure. No comment. But if the washing hasn’t been folded from the basket, and the dishwasher isn’t unpacked, you’ll get the comment, “oh, so not much done today then?”. 😂😂😂
Back in the late seventies, in the heady days of Lotus 123 anyone remember? I spent three days imputing data with no visible results, my boss, who didn’t even know how to turn on the computer, thought I was doing nothing. Then, on day four, I ran the program and he was so impressed I got a raise! In less than a week I had completed the work that used to take nearly a month previously, and also, it meant that in the future there would be ongoing savings. So yes, I totally understand the concept. On another occasion, my boss asked for a half inch square grid for a planning meeting. I asked how big? He said, the bigger the better. I prepared a floppy disk and took it to the Gurber plotter which had an twelve foot bed, I installed the disc, loaded a roll of paper and pressed start. I ran twenty feet off which took about a half hour to print and handed him the roll. He said, “you smart ass bastard!” Later he took me to lunch…..
I think building anything has low and high perceph moments. Especially client work. I build software for a living and we have the same issue. The styling/finish work makes people see it as real and "done". The stuff behind the scenes to power it is not appreciated by the clients, but is by other software devs. I imagine it's similar in construction. My father in law loves doing finish carpentry work because "you get credit for that".
Nailing braces 🤮 get those purlin screws out. Then they can be moved as the tumber will shrink/expand over time and you can re-plumb the walls if need be.
Yeah, sometimes it takes me a few hours to build the cases and the client is so trilled I’ve done it so quickly and then it takes me a day to do the fillers and the small bits and I can sense they think Ive slowed down even if I am getting payed for the entire project not hourly 😂
Security and data tech, frankly if most of our stuff is obvious, things have gone wrong... thinking on it, drainlayers are surely similar. I know sparks are.
Hello Scott! I wanted to ask you to please introduce the Spanish audio option for the videos, it is something very simple and for the South American community that we follow we can enjoy without losing details of the explanations or following a subtitle that distracts us from the content of the video. For example, the famous Blacktail Studio channel has already added this option in several languages and gained many more followers! Thank you for your channel, you are a flash of originality in a sea of common and repeated things. gracias de verdad!
We call it "VP" Big VP today boys the production manager is going to be stoked, didn't make too much VP today he'll be asking questions. Visual Progress is everything
I'm no engineer, but with a huge beam needing 3 studs to hold it up and the house is on piles, shouldn't there be a pile directly under the support of that beam?
Not necessary if the bearers and joists are sized to carry the span load, interestingly I recently watched a video explaining this exact scenario, video is called "Sizing timber. Part 1 - Terminology" UA-cam channel is "Matt the Chippie Trainer" if you are interested
G,day from Australia. You MAY have a point. Firstly it could be certified by a structural engineer. If not in Australia AS 1684.2 part 6.3.2.3 specified jamb studs at the side of openings. This depends on length and allows for deflection. Over 3.6, 4.8 need two. Also note mechanical fasteners were used (screws not plates which are better). 🪚🤪p.s you can off set load bearing points by the thickness of the member only e.g 48mm (I not sure).
As an electrician, every day is low percepch day! Nice fuse box…said no one, ever.
Nice fuse box!
Yep. 5 minute of excitement on a big 3 year job when the lights come on, that’s it haha
@@Tonksyyy_ haha better than them not though I guess
So true. In 18years the closest I I’ve come to “Nice fuse box” was on a commercial job “…well now the quote seems to make more sense” *building owner decided to do an unannounced visit and watch from a distance for awhile. I didn’t notice he had come in, quiet Sunday, AirPods and comfortable stool with your back to the rest of the world. Every so often I’ll send a picture of a SB that looks spot on to my missus but get “that’s nice but I don’t know what I’m looking at” lol
Electrical work on a house will always be low perception work for me since I've been doing it since I was a child and because of the rates registered sparkies charge and the markup they put on the already 2x (importer, wholesaler)marked up parts. All I'll ever pay for is sign off and inspection. At most. I think a 48v DC house with inverters everywhere sounds pretty good.
When I used to work as a painter I hated low percepch because it meant the homeowner felt I did absolutely nothing all day long because I was sanding the walls to prep for primer. So what you end up doing is sanding some of it, applying primer, sanding some of it, applying primer. That way the homeowner comes home and has the perception that work is being done, when in reality I'm actually getting less done, it's just that it looks like things are moving along faster.
I am an architect but I painted my own house. Gave me a whole new perspective on painting. The amount of sanding and prepping to get a descent result is insane.
The world of useless consumers just needs to learn. Tell them all!
Bruce is my father n law and john is my brother in law, I am also a builder here in nelson myself, and can confirm, Bruce is a good old school true kiwi man, nice, genuine, welcoming, and honest. classic Bruce humor that sq space plug, love it! haha.
Such a smooth segue to the sponsor!
Oh man music to my ears. I also find that “high percepch” days were always the “easier” activities, and “low percepch” activities were always the tasks that took true craftsman.
Facts!
I find, in the end, it's faster to plumb all the external corners as you go. Much easier than when everything is connected, all the lintels in. If you're using metal cross bracing ( hoop iron/strapping) it's really easy to plumb the wall with the hoop iron, as you go. Bottom of the strapping is fixed under the bottom plate, which ever way you need to pull the wall, you put a roofing screw in an angle the opposite way, in the larger hole in the strapping. Then another screw the same way in the opposite strap. Both straps will be tight and the wall plumb. If you need to make adjustments later in just undo one screw and tighten the other, both straps will be tight again. Then when walls are all up nail the strapping fully off.
We used to make walls plum with lasers. Dot top to bottom. Easy peasy.
9:31 Scott i know u work so hard on ur videography and my word has it paid off, this shot alone is so breathtaking wow.
Absolutely dealt with this. I tore down and rebuilt my deck. The DEMO of the old deck was HI PERCEPCH. Laying out the new deck, putting in posts, replacing ledger board was all LOW PERCEPCH.
Bunch of guys I used to work with call it "VP" - visual progress.
That’s what we call it.
The multiple camera angles when the beam was being lifted 👍👍
Thank you Scott, for "Dodger block" tip! Last week, it help me to straitened foundation blocks for our shed.
this is such a good way to think about the same problem in almost every industry. Its always fun when you need to communicate the low percepch tasks to the client in a positive way.
Lovely dog. Dogs always have low percepch days. They bring us all this love and loyalty and fun and we carry on as if they’re not there!😉
As a business owner with a tangential interest in carpentry I look forward to your videos each week. I love your content and really appreciate that you put actual effort into your ad segues 💛love and peace from Malaysia! If you or your buddy Paerau (who I know is a rock climbing dude) is in Malaysia needing a place to boulder, let me know and I'll work out a thing as my thanks!
Great to learn about your percepch days!! Every career appears to have its own lingo, language 😁. Keep the good work up SBC!
I do this differently. I like to brace as i go. stand a corner plumb in both ways, and whatever you attach to those will be level
Internal junctions you use a level as you connect it
If plum is off 1/13th of a degree, tapper from square will be 1/8 " top to bottom if floor is level. A good level will get you to within 2.5 mm or a 1/10 of an inch if you eye-sight is keen for an 8 foot rise.
Man oh man do I relate to this. I don't work in any of the trades - I'm a stay at home parent who tackles a lot of small things around the house as part of that deal. Almost all of these things are Low Percepch items for most people I talk to. Really resonated with me… your saying this. Cheers, Scott!
I did the same for a few years (I’m assuming you’re a man). The time I got with my daughter made it worth it, but man, the disrespect I got from women and other mums was crazy. I think I made the job look easy and they hated that.
@@Pat.Mustard Man oh man...
I think whereI am from, we call it momentum or motivation, but also satisfaction.Whatever people call it... it is the small details that allow the project to move forward. They still need to get done.
Onlookers (clients, owners, diyers, etc) don't understand that those small jobs are the reason why a project either gets finished or stalls out.
The lack of understanding of what needs to happen before say hanging plasterboard is huge. Electrical, plumbing, nailers/deadwood, cover plates, insulation, airsealing... making sure all load-bearing points are properly transferred, etc. The second that plasterboard hits the walls, it becomes more difficult and expensive to repair. The small details is what takes time. They tend to create a lull in the timeline, where it seems like nothing is getting done, even though the project is on time or even ahead of schedule. Visually, if there is change, then the project is moving forward. Most people dont care about what is behind the walls as long as there are walls.
Hey Scott - here in Aus we call it ‘VP’ - great visual progress. Love the channel keep it up
Fabulous episode. I've learned a lot and now have a much deeper appreciation of builders and carpenters. Thanks for turning low percepsch into high!
Love the story about how you met Bruce, and how everything turned out fine ❤
"Percepch" also happens in software engineering and data science. There's a lot of "boring" work that doesn't get much (if any) attention or respect, but is required to make things work properly. Love that trick with the pencils on the level! As you showed with the bracing, details matter.
Diesel mechanic here, we say big parts win hearts, big bits are easy to remove or fit generally it's the fiddling around with all the little stuff that takes time!
As a landscaper i know what you mean, its gotta get bad before it gets better.
We say "show work"
Also plate levels are really nice. They have attachable standoffs that hold the level out about 40mm so you can level the wall, plate to plate, even with diagonal bracing installed
love this channel . Saturday morning with a cup of tea . I miss the 'Flying Dutchman' Ray's wry wit
For sure, high VP (visual performance) days are great fun for everyone, best to have one of them before sending the fortnightly bill too! I knew of a cowboy builder who was obsessed with them though and he even got his guys to throw gib on the wall at the end of a week, only to pull it off on Monday and keep straightening! I’m a renovator myself so I spend a lot of time straightening walls which is not understood or seen work.
I installed Disco lighting in the uk and always got 4 lights flashing ASAp as to get the oh’s and ars because the rest of the job would take time unlike carpet fitters glory grabers😂
Wall looks straight from over here in Perth, WA Scott : )
Love every sponsor segue Scott 😂 that’s how to do it properly
Landscaping. So much time in the ground, drainage, post footings, other building of retaining and pergolas etc. Then soil and turf, plants and mulch give the real high percepch!
I have a Stabila plate level, (7'-14') it's the balls for leveling plates and plumbing walls, 👍💪🔨🇮🇪
Stabila offers the long levels with metal tabs at both ends like you did with the pencils. We tend to get those for our 180cm levels here.
They actually make a level specifically for that issue with bowing studs. Its the Stabila 106t plate level, we use on and its a life saver. 😅
We say it’s a big show day or little show day. Didn’t like the snapping of pencils, we use different coloured plastic packers for such jobs. Great videos!
1:00 yeah as an electrician no one seems to register any progress we make until the power points go on the wall. They dont even have to be working, ive thrown them on early just to keep the builder happy and get a progress payment
Heck in my new job every bit of work is like this because no one can physically see a buried pipeline or the electrical current i push into it
I was told to flip the level and turn it round to use the other side when checking for plumb/level over longer distances, helps take the discrepancies out of your level.
So in this case you’d need two more pencils on the other side!
Guess if it’s a brand new level you should be good.
Always know it as VP, good bit of Visual Progress always keeps the Karen’s happy 👌
As a kitchen fitter most days are low percepch. I can spend a week doing prep before fitting a single cabinet and when I finally fit the doors the customer goes ooh.
As for plumbing the corners of your structure, what's wrong with a plumb line? Not so good in windy conditions but the string doesn't care about bow in the studs. If it was good enough for the Romans....
I actually made a plumb bob in metalwork class at school and have my father's plumb line in my tool box. Rarely gets used mind.
Thank you and have a great week.
Love it ! As a tailor much of my work is low perception 😂😂😂😂
Even though the frames were erected with great care and plumbed, wood is not a perfectly stable material. Even a few days exposure is enough to allow some of the sticks to expand or shrink. Then checking the plumb and level again you might find they were off.
1000% been through this at least once a week..... the small details that take time and are finniky and make the end product perfect are rarely seen or acknowledged.
We call it VP visual progress. The hardest day on your knees putting bolts on or playing with a rimu floor.
Such precision. Respect
Working in software development, so much is crucial but low persepch. Can definitely relate!
Awesome work!!
Fitting a plots worth of windows and glazing them, high perscepch!
The next day building and fitting a straight flight of solid oak, pre finished stairs (takes all day) low percepch
Cabinetry and woodworking is like that. you plan and prep alot and then towards the end you get to see alot of results quick.
You guys really need to get the stabila plate level of you're doing that day in day out. Will help loads
That segway was brilliant haha 😂
Working as a cabinet maker who can spend days not even on site giving the client visual progress is sometimes an art, doing a bit and then fitting in parts to 'keep the client happy' rather than dissappearing for 2 weeks and then fitting everything in a week sometimes doing things in steps lets them see the progress much easier
We have just been working with nelson builders at nelson girls college prep department with Mason awesome guy now we are painting Taylors laundry below this new build home your working on I see now cladding and a roof on , cheers , shaneno, nelson, 👍
When you were up on the ladder reefing on that wall I'm pretty sure I heard the site safety inspector crying in the corner.
Shut up Toby.
Plate to Plate! Get the Stabby plate to plate! It's expensive, but saves you so much time.
Customers would say "wow that went fast" when I framed and sheathed and I would say "now it's going to get a lot slower".
3:56 nicely done!
Lol... Low perch...
Retro fitting, a piece of 600mm bevelback weatherboard with a barge board, and kickout barge flashing, with a sensor light to refix, and butting into a internal corner with a 45 mitre joint and 7 degree angle, prime paint, then silcon the join....
Only to realise im... 50mm short.. lol
It’s nice to know that halfway around the world in another hemisphere there’s a bunch of dudes also figuring out how to get it plumb.
Last week I had a client tell his wife “Is that all he got done”. I installed a wire railing inside their home. This guy can’t screw in a lightbulb and had no idea what was involved in getting everything straight and plumb.
I'm a Project Manager for a contractor that specializes in building multi-family units (condos, apartments, etc). I have had to deal with the high/low percepch issue with THE ARCHITECT of all people. Not to mention the investors, leasing agents, insurance agents.... 🤷♂😆
With that music playing in the background, I was expecting Fred Dibner to make a cameo appearance to help lift the joist into place 😂
Scott, I get the high vs. low percepch. Most of my woodworking furniture pieces are 'imperceptible percepch' up until the glue-up, and then BAM... table. Then my wife asks what I was fiddling with for the two weeks before, and I have to tell her, "Mortises and tenons don't cut themselves."
My question for either you or the comment crowd is, since I've never witnessed American builders taking the degree of care with squareness and straightness as I just witnessed, is it a country-based thing, or have I just totally missed that part? Seems like here in the US, houses get framed up on Day 1, and sheathed out on Day 2... no apparent bracing.
Just curious why you wouldn’t screw on the bracing struts, make them easier to remove later?
I would assume it is because nails have a higher shear strength than screws, although you could use a structural screw and get both strength and easy removal but those are also more expensive.
@@olliewatson408 more fun for some apprentice to Denail later, nails are cheap, fast . Some use bugles or 14 g hex heads.
Bruce setting up the Squarespace sponsor was 😙👌
As a Toolmaker in Aus i feel your pain, but our Dodeger are a lot smaller
We call this VP. Visual progress. My old boss would try and do VP before the owners came on site.
Managing expectations was a useful expression I was told
Gold! But you don’t have to be a tradie to suffer from this phenomenon. I can spend the entire day in the garden, doing the edges, mowing the lawns, weeding beds, pruning etc and maybe even cleaning out the gutters for good measure. No comment. But if the washing hasn’t been folded from the basket, and the dishwasher isn’t unpacked, you’ll get the comment, “oh, so not much done today then?”. 😂😂😂
You can push or pull a brace mate!
You can already tell John and Bruce are related. John has his father shorts.
On ya Bruce!
Hey it’s cam from blacktail studios.
It’s best to keep your braces off of the corners enough that you can put a straight edge up at any time.
Looks straight to me!
Back in the late seventies, in the heady days of Lotus 123 anyone remember? I spent three days imputing data with no visible results, my boss, who didn’t even know how to turn on the computer, thought I was doing nothing. Then, on day four, I ran the program and he was so impressed I got a raise! In less than a week I had completed the work that used to take nearly a month previously, and also, it meant that in the future there would be ongoing savings. So yes, I totally understand the concept.
On another occasion, my boss asked for a half inch square grid for a planning meeting. I asked how big? He said, the bigger the better. I prepared a floppy disk and took it to the Gurber plotter which had an twelve foot bed, I installed the disc, loaded a roll of paper and pressed start. I ran twenty feet off which took about a half hour to print and handed him the roll. He said, “you smart ass bastard!”
Later he took me to lunch…..
Yes smarter not harder
Damn, discouraged my creepy Nelson tourism plans :P
@9:40 .. looked super safe haha
VP (Visual Production) is what the people love
The reason why it's so difficult to fill baseboard holes and calk is because actually putting the baseboard in is ridiculously high percepch.
I think building anything has low and high perceph moments. Especially client work. I build software for a living and we have the same issue. The styling/finish work makes people see it as real and "done". The stuff behind the scenes to power it is not appreciated by the clients, but is by other software devs. I imagine it's similar in construction.
My father in law loves doing finish carpentry work because "you get credit for that".
Ohh .. Ohh .. Bruce might be taking Jess's Square Space intro job 🤣
Nailing braces 🤮 get those purlin screws out. Then they can be moved as the tumber will shrink/expand over time and you can re-plumb the walls if need be.
Bruce made me not skip the sponsor message😂
I'm with you Scott, bracing and straightening frames is not my favorite.
Hero days, when high vis progress is made. Details are only seen later, if at all
Yeah, sometimes it takes me a few hours to build the cases and the client is so trilled I’ve done it so quickly and then it takes me a day to do the fillers and the small bits and I can sense they think Ive slowed down even if I am getting payed for the entire project not hourly 😂
Security and data tech, frankly if most of our stuff is obvious, things have gone wrong... thinking on it, drainlayers are surely similar. I know sparks are.
Hello Scott! I wanted to ask you to please introduce the Spanish audio option for the videos, it is something very simple and for the South American community that we follow we can enjoy without losing details of the explanations or following a subtitle that distracts us from the content of the video. For example, the famous Blacktail Studio channel has already added this option in several languages and gained many more followers! Thank you for your channel, you are a flash of originality in a sea of common and repeated things. gracias de verdad!
High quality work when they passing out parrot dogs at the end of the day!
We call it "VP"
Big VP today boys the production manager is going to be stoked, didn't make too much VP today he'll be asking questions.
Visual Progress is everything
... to the clueless. Such as the 'Production Manager'
So much building work is crap these days because of this financially perceived analysis and management.
Mind, big VP days feel great!
floor and ceiling Interior Trim. difficult to translate these word (trim) from my language. is low percepch day
Bruce did the most kiwi thing I have ever known! Friendliest nation ever!
Its not dickhead.
Hi mate I’m relocating to nz from uk. Will my paslode use the same gas as nz paslode or isn’t it worth me bringing over thank you
4:10 - That's a lot of ants, isn't it? Have they nested in the beam?
Would codes have allowed a metal beam to be used, instead of the large wooden beam, if you had prefered?
Where's the tall guy with the dad jokes, Everybody loves Raymond 😄
I'm no engineer, but with a huge beam needing 3 studs to hold it up and the house is on piles, shouldn't there be a pile directly under the support of that beam?
Not necessary if the bearers and joists are sized to carry the span load, interestingly I recently watched a video explaining this exact scenario, video is called "Sizing timber. Part 1 - Terminology" UA-cam channel is "Matt the Chippie Trainer" if you are interested
G,day from Australia.
You MAY have a point.
Firstly it could be certified by a structural engineer.
If not in Australia AS 1684.2 part 6.3.2.3 specified jamb studs at the side of openings. This depends on length and allows for deflection. Over 3.6, 4.8 need two. Also note mechanical fasteners were used (screws not plates which are better).
🪚🤪p.s you can off set load bearing points by the thickness of the member only e.g 48mm (I not sure).