Repairing and Remodeling A REALLY Old House pt. 1

Oh my gosh! We're at a new project today with our friend Ben. This is his guest house but he's going to turn it into an office and that's exciting. I'm all about offices as you may have seen on our channel. It's going to be great. So Jamie's here with the crew. This is a house built around 1910 and it actually used to belong to the property where Jono used to live next door but now it belongs to Ben and we are going to gut the outside, totally redo the siding, the windows, maybe the roof and we're going to start right now. Let's do it. We're doing it man. You're late. It's already happening. Don't you hear all that? These cedar shakes are going to be some good kindling for sure. That's the first thing I said to him. I go, this would make the best kindling in the whole entire world. I'm going to pack all the stuff over my truck. Did you see that? I did. That's kind of like a joist hanger. That's a closet. I love, I love this though. When you see stuff like, I ain't never seen that before. Somebody used a shelf bracket there for a nice girder we'll call it but check out these rafter tails the way they're cut right there. Oh wow. I mean they're cut almost down to nothing. I think they were trying to get the height of this a little bit up maybe and a little bit of rot right here. We're gonna have to deal with this here. I don't want to get into it right just yet right but I think there's a little bit of a leak going on that we've got to remedy. I think the windows are fine. I don't know what's wrong with these. I would vote to keep the open soffits but I like the open soffits. I mean that's the reason. I like the look. Yeah that's okay. Yeah no it's a cool look definitely. Kind of like it gives it a cottage kind of feel. Yeah. Get out of there. Jamie never played baseball. He did great, he did great. I was left-handed. This is gonna get deleted. We're uncovering a past remodel potentially here the way these boards are cut. I think this window originally was like a double window. That's in the bathroom now. That's shower. Oh you know they probably didn't have a shower. They probably didn't have a toilet. I bet they didn't have a bathroom back in the day. So this thing has been resided for sure because that's definitely a remodel and there was two layers of felt over this. So we're just, this is so cool for me to put it all together of what happened to this house over the years. What do you think this is? You think these were bowed so bad that they cut them out to make them go straight? I think you're 100% right. It's a relief cut because the board was so... Wanked. Yeah, no. That means something different somewhere else is what I heard in the comments. Dude, the guys overseas love it. They're like, I love you guys use the word wank so freely. We had no idea until someone told us in the comments. But yeah, there's another one. Yeah. That's a good woodworking technique there, relief cut. We should do that. Why don't we do that on the finished wood we use? Phillips heads. That's modern day right there. The plot thickens. I need to take a leak. Oh, we're just going back and forth. We're going to have a portage on in about three hours. Are you on that? Are you filming that? Right there. Right here? Something I'm just now discovering is that the foundation wall around the deck is the crawl space foundation. I've only seen this in a few houses and they've been older houses and so there's no separation. If you put open decking like that has like little spaces between the decking boards, that is open space that leads into your crawl space area. Water could just drip right in there. Water, insects. Well, at least the vents have screens on them. You can't control the airflow. So in the wintertime, you close your vents, right? If you have manual vents like this. And in the summer, you open them and let the air blow through. Well, an open deck is going to be like always open kind of thing. So I'm not sure what to do. This has an old deck that's tongue and groove boards and it's flat. So it's not sloped like the other decks I've seen that have been tongue and groove. So I don't know what to do with this yet. We need to figure it out. I think it might be more fun destroying houses than building them. Think your ladder is long enough? Well, I like at least six feet sticking above the roof. Yeah. So we're going to get our first look at what the roof is looking like here and I haven't told you, but we're going to build a little cantilevered cover roof thing on the front door. I think that's a great idea. Yeah. For keeping weather out. Yeah. That in appearance, it's going to, it's going to check the boxes. We got to figure out, I guess we're going to keep this concrete step. I don't think there's anything really wrong with it other than it's not flashed to the house and it's like touching the siding and stuff. So we have to figure that out. A little mossy up here. It looks like some shingles have been replaced over the years. So most of this roof has no gravel left on the shingles. It's like just tar paper basically. And so yeah, a hundred percent needs replaced like 25 years ago. Yeah. I'm surprised it doesn't leak now. I know. That's incredible. We need to bust this up brick by brick. It's fun to think about knocking the whole thing down, but it would totally go through the whole roof and through the floor and end up in the crawl space. So let me get a hammer. Big hammer. Well, I got this hammer. Watch this. Oh, nope. Nothing. I thought it, I thought it would just pop right off. I think it's the concrete cap holding it together. I can see the whole concrete cap moving. Oh, I hear it. There we go. Look at that. There's a piece of wood in there. Huh? Yeah. It's just a little stopper. You know, just start loosening things up here. Doesn't feel great. Trying not to break each brick into a thousand pieces, but that might happen. Opting for a little bigger hammer here. The wooden handled framing hammer was like rattling my arm bones to like all the way up to my teeth. Every time I hit the, this should work a lot easier. Give her a shot. Oh yeah. Much softer on the hands. I can feel the whole roof shaking by the way. Yeah, I can too. I'm trying not to like turn all these into just dust, but that's what's happening. Got this chimney broken down to below the roof level now. And I'm just checking out the framing. It's pretty rotten on both sides here where the masonry was in contact with the side of that brick, just wicking moisture for a long time. And the flashing was just this, I don't know, just tar or something smeared against the side. So that wasn't very good either. And so it's a good thing they're getting rid of this because it was a pretty good leak right there. It's actually still soaking wet right there and it hasn't rained in days and days. So we have one side of these shingles kind of torn off and as much as we love this old sort of board look, Jamie's thinking maybe we should cover the whole thing with a layer of zip panels just so that if we hit nails in these gaps as we're re-shingling it doesn't go in the gaps and also to cover stuff like that and like that and that and that and that. What do you think? Well, I think it'd be way better in the end result if we did that. We could spend a lot of time patching every broken and damaged or you know boards like that have giant knot holes in them and they're kind of splitty. Yeah, a little bit. So yeah, I want to cover this whole thing with a layer of brand new sheathing zip system and then it'll just be really nice. 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Hey just think of it like that game in the mall where you put the quarters in and it moves back and forth and you try to get the quarters to fall off and then you get them. Just play that except with these shingles all right. Nope you didn't get it. You just lost another quarter. Arlo's wife is playing tennis right over here. What's the score Jan? Love 40. Evidently we're yelling at Jan and she didn't even know it was us. Arlo by the way has been gone because he had a spot of melanoma on his ear. He had to get it uh skin grafted. Is that right? So yeah this is not a good job to do right after having surgery on your ear. These boards are in pretty good shape but a lot of them feel loose like they didn't like that one. Didn't feel real snug and there's no nail. I think they're just nailing like alternately or one at each side. Yeah there's two in that one. Two in that one. So I think we need to shoot all this off with like our siding nailer or something before we put the sheathing on it so that we can shoot the sheathing anywhere. Oh I see. Yeah and that was part of the reason we wanted to get all the tar paper off so we could see where the rafters were. Oh okay. So it wasn't all for nothing. It seemed like it was all for nothing. It sucked like it was all for nothing. It did. Alan did it for like four minutes. You did it for like an hour and a half. Nice job. I was like oh now we got to pick them all up but Jono's got most of them. A little bit. I saved you guys some. Thanks. Oh sorry Ray. Freaking boxed me out right there. That was a nice box out. That's what I tell my kids on the basketball team. I'm like don't be afraid to get your butt right on them. They're like that's weird. Nah I got cancer. Hey you didn't lose. No we didn't lose. Didn't play. That's a win. That is. I know I went skiing. Oh that was shower time. Come on Eric you can get in. Come on man. I really can't fit. Jono where's your hand at? There's a knob. Let me out of here. How much did you rent this place for? Uh 500 a month. Okay. Yeah. That's a pretty good deal for around here though. For what it was too. I mean. Joke's on you. He didn't complain about the thin windows and all the stuff so it was cool. It was good with it. It's not that it was bad. It's right in town. It's a nice location. Yeah well when we were remodeling that house we had to live here and my wife didn't like that very much. Not a lot of space for things. No. And two big dogs. What's next buddy? What? It wasn't even glued together or anything. It was just laying there. It's Tuesday morning. We're back on site and I think there's some weather moving in maybe faster than we thought and we have no roof on this place so I think it's time to start doing that. Also we did have a big discussion whether enclosing this space made sense because you could add an extra eight by eight of room here but the ceiling height right here is not even high enough to get a full height door so we can't really push the wall to here and if we only push it out to maybe here then you don't really have any usable extra space in that room so I don't think it's worth it is the is the answer. We're going to cover the whole roof with zip board and then seam seal the joints on it but first we have to fix the problems that are existing here real fast like these rafter tails that are rotten off have to get fixed. I think we're going to double up a secondary rafter that runs out and becomes the tail and then we'll just use an oscillating tool to cut those off flush. Yeah. This board that got cracked off here has got to get replaced and a few other things need done before we can get this thing going. Is that your box? Did you hit that tree limb? Oh my gosh. It's not a box anymore. Oh my gosh. You know I saw that tree limb pulling in yesterday I was like I don't know if my truck will fit under that. Mine doesn't. We should cut that thing off. That's a hazard for tall vehicles. That would make me so happy. I'll let you do it if you want. When I lived in that house I used to have to mow around that thing and if you weren't watching out you'd get side checked. Dang it. She's a goner. I paid 25 bucks for that one. Yeah wow that's a good deal. It's gonna cost me 500 to replace it. Oh we'll find you one don't you worry about that. I was kind of bummed about that. I didn't realize how much stuff I had until I had to take it out of there. Dang it. Paddles and mountain bike shoes and helmets and step stool and back massager. I had everything. Yeah I brought the saw so Jono's gonna if he wants to unless he wants me to do it we're gonna go ahead and shoot down all of these planks to the rafters again with this coil nailer because it holds a bunch of nails the ring shank they're galvanized I think it'll hold well. We're also having to lay down on this thing and look everywhere and make sure there's no nails sticking proud because from standing up it looks like it's great and then you lay down and there's like 50 nails sticking up just slightly so we're doing that on every surface as well to get prepped for the zip board installation. Yeah shoot it. Should we chalk lines? I think you can see between every plank so I don't think we need to just keep an eye as you're going up the line you know you're staying on it. This board needs replaced because it'll be seen from the underside on the overhang and I think what we can do is just cut it and then flip it to where the bad part is on the inside and it'll get covered by our zip panel and it won't matter. Dude that's next level. Yeah I was like how are we going to get a piece that fits just right? Use the same piece. Yep that's gonna be a lot better. Another problem area here and it looks like the people that installed this flashing knew it was a problem area but for some reason the flashing they installed did not work or they installed it after the damage was way too far so we do have to cut these pieces probably there replace them because this is visible on the ceiling that there's a big I was just gonna say are you unscrewing it? Yeah it's screwed on. Genius. So it's just drywall screws. Here's a quick little tip for you I want to see where this surface planes out and runs into this surface so we can get a measurement on this board. I'm just gonna take my square here place it on the surface I wish to transcribe and then I just kind of keep it pressed down tight to the board that I'm going to and kind of just rub the end it on there and it may be a little bit crude but you get the idea it actually works pretty nice. Jason just reloaded the coil nailer and so far he's done 1200 nails in this roof surface that clip will take it up to about 1500 nails we just added to the decking that was existing and that has made an amazing difference on how it feels already it really feels like a lot more of a solid roof. Ray's coming behind me because as I'm putting these down it's sucking the boards down so the existing nails that are there are kind of actually prouting up oh so he's having to go back and actually pound in all the old nails. Jamie and I are going to determine the point at which these boards are going to change pitch and the easiest way to do that is what he's doing right here we've cut the miter cut already he's just going to slide it back and forth until both the boards kind of contact the bottom of this sheathing layer evenly yep I think that's good it's right there I originally thought it was right there you know just by looking you would think it's there so you would think now we can measure from that point to the long point on the top cut and get our board the right length yep and even though these boards are wider than our actual boards we're just using it to find the angle yep and my angle's open right there at the point just a little bit yep so I need to add just a tiny bit to the point of my cuts we should be good all right perfect here we go uh we need a number no it's good number right there I'll go to the top all right and get you the long point up there all right so we're going long point of a 6 12 to the short point of unknown angle right there 67 7 8 6 7 7 8 67 7 8 all right