do not build your own stairs.. (ep. 45)

0:10 it's it's our last demo and honestly it's a little complicated I think that's why we've been avoiding it yeah it's a lot of angles and things this is the OG staircase and ever since we've gotten it since day one we have been piling plywood on top of our staircase here because there's so many holes like look at that you just go right through and one layer rotted through so then we put another layer on and then it broke and then we put another layer on and then now we have this board here and if you come downstairs the stairs are slightly slanted yeah so we're going to have to rip all of this out and build brand new stairs which is kind of complicated they also aren't to code do you want to show them yeah so as you can see here this is a 2x10 and as you can see here they

0:56 decided to take 80% of the 2x10 and remove it it is definitely not good just rip the bottom off I think that's good and then work our way up go there you go wow wait that is an actual 2x4 holding the stairs together this house so definitely not to code oh and then they put this here to make it look like it was to code I honestly think this is more work yeah they just tried to fake it yeah yep you're good to go now Wow broke in half did I tell you I love demo I know see the spark back in

1:43 your eyes I know I just want to buy another house just so I can demo [Music] it not good not good came from off the far ran right up jumped in my arms I said you coming home [Music] me a new beginning life is just a gain your winning every time you look an open door so run out CH the sunlight nothing

2:30 to do you're the one heart beats for should we just install an elevator here instead yeah no staircase no staircase I actually kind of like it a lot it looks cool elevator right here yep we have a half staircase and then an elevator you come here and it has a door on this side and that side I like that idea probably a little bit more expensive than our $200 we spent on the wood but value add to the house watch out for all these nails wow this brings back memories now Nikki oh do a demo like this away from you yeah yeah that way good job really does bring back memories how do I look you look great

3:18 ready to go mhm I'm so excited is very moist no wonder you can smell it too look at that oh does not pass the stick test yeah and this is the plywood we put on top yeah so that manag to decompose and start to mold I don't know if you want to show this that's the whole the old owner fell through can you smell the smell it smells like the first day we walked into the house oh my gosh that's kind of crazy this

4:03 definitely feels like day one all over again yeah do you remember when we shoveled the carpet whoops yeah this feels exactly like that and we and we raed the plywood yeah so you might have been wondering where the freck drywall Dave went well he hurt his arm he couldn't really lift it so he's been at home for the last 2 months recovering and it's gotten good he can lift it up to here now but anyways I teamed up with bonus which is the sponsor of today's video to GI drywall Dave and my sister some socks my dad is like notorious for being very difficult to shop for every time I ask him will you want for Christmas or your birthday he just says nothing it's very

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5:35 to be a sock GI like me this holiday season be sure to go to bombas.com Jenna and use the code jenna2 new customers that use that code will get 20% off their first [Music] [Applause] [Music] order look like of so as you can see here they did not want to blast The Rock so what they did is they just cut this 2x8 and made it a 2x4 and they just slid it

6:21 in Works SM than not harder worse oh oo [Music] o the stairs this is uh this is built terribly yeah we're going to have some fixing to do here that's for

7:07 go I got it stuck on the railing that's okay doesn't really look good for the Neighbors I'll take it off before we leave hey it's gone I still think this is a perfect spot for an elevator I call the company they say they are coming in 2 days to install it yeah how much does it cost no permits nothing how much is it uh 250,000 [Laughter] or $250 in Wood yeah so I remember when we bought the house I was like there's something wrong with these stairs and I guess we found out what is wrong I think that's off like 8° that's a lot so over the 4T span it's about an inch lower than it should be so

7:56 we're going to fix that we got our handy dandy bottle jack which has paid for self 10 times already and we're just going to jack it up I took out the nails here if you guys can't tell it's impressive how much I have to lift this that looks great let staple this bad boy now so before we can build the stairs we need to build a wall cuz the wall that they had before was very poopy and rotten I mean that is one way to cut it was it asked to cut it like that it [Music]

8:46 works so we weren't expecting to find this concrete Under the Stairs it's really shoddy work yeah like you can put your whole hand under here so we brought our concrete drill and we're going to see how much we can remove of this [Music] this oh [Music] yeah is it stuck yeah remember like that drib it I hope it's not stuck like that drill bit you see still in there oh

9:44 stuck this is a solid one I know I don't know why this one in particular solid when everything else is like there you go but it it's stuck in the Rock oh no I feel like this is not very helpful how does that happen I got it out thank goodness so we just finished cleaning the whole area this is what we're working with it looks 10 times better like it still looks a bit rough to be honest but it's as good as it's going to get

10:55 [Music] we can turn this into a rock climbing wall that you act we don't have stairs you just rock climb up every time very accessible for everyone I think it could [Music] work Nikki says he has lots to say building stairs is not very easy Jen um so we just squared them out and the next step is to calculate how much up we go and then how much inwards we go aka the stairs you're so annoying grade eight math really remember how they teach you all like the fractions I don't remember learning how to build stairs in grade eight well maybe your math teacher wasn't as good

11:42 mine was pretty good he asked me Nick you're going to build stairs at one point in your life I'm going to teach you I'm going to teach you how to build stairs so when you actually do build stairs it's going to be great you had a good teacher I he actually cared he knew you were going to build stairs one day I know right smart guy okay so we have our run and our rise and now we need to turn that into steps so that's likely DHL I love the sun especially on these winter days but the problem is you can't see anything when I'm filming the sun do I sense oh you can see my breath here do I sense anger oh yeah I can really see it there wow

12:27 that's an extra cold spot so we just read the structural plans and we just realized that this whole wall right here is another plywood wall AKA a sheer wall so we have to plywood this wall up before we can actually build the stairs annoying but this is what you get when you build pretty much a glass house we're in the clouds look at that bad have you ever seen a sheer wall like this no I know

13:15 [Music] right so I've been keeping this warm the whole time we got our epoxy pretty [Music] like K Nikki show everyone what you just spilled I didn't spill anything I built

14:00 H this is 3 days of work this is 3 days of work this looks like we did nothing over the last couple days it's [Music] hilarious are you ready to see how hard my butt was kicked you know what you did great oh that's actually not bad look at that that was probably the hardest thing I've ever cut I think you just over complicated in your head it's telling me supposedly like 51° okay you know what Nick stop questioning yourself the

14:47 resulting angle that you want is 51° 36 36 37° what the heck that was hard you didn't mess up though no but that was [Music] tough test number two wow

15:34 [Music] better still no [Music] unfortunately the piece we just worked so hard to get perfectly fitted in there is a/ inch Too [Music] Short

16:36 this is the hardest thing we've ever done and it looks stupid easy right it looks so easy that's insane it's just squares it looks so easy good morning everyone after spending one whole day yesterday trying to figure out just one side of the stairs we should have the hang of it now where we can completely finished all of the stairs today I found my angle I didn't record us cutting any of these pieces I honestly just got a little bored with filming it so now we're going to install our first [Music]

17:34 you hit a nail how is that even possible but it's actually quite a bit higher for some reason oh no I measured twice [Music] too well now it's super easy we just uh glue them together attach them together [Music] hey Nikki you're almost as good as me that's so

18:36 [Music] these are some pretty nice steps if you ask me better that before yeah good job I don't want to set us up for failure here but I do think this set of stairs should be a lot easier than that set of stairs you got it yep all of it 100% of the [Music] weight it's getting mad handled by the sheet of plywood a good okay so I just finished calculating and I measured out my whole Stringer do you want to know how I did it yeah I took a

19:23 piece of paper yeah I measured my run my rise and then I just used it as a template kind like the whole way down cuz it's perfectly [Music] Square my shoulder I know buff I know wow this is nice wood good one B

20:35 [Music] to start the day off we need to plywood this wall before we can actually get the satisfaction of putting in our perfect staircases in you ready yeah let's do it [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

21:24 ready so this is the Showcase of our steps we have this being supported using some nice 2x6s but then this one is just anchored into the concrete so with the rock here there's not much you can do what do you think Jen no comment okay now for the scariest part of this whole Renault we got to see the stairs fit go get the stairs we didn't measure them yet we didn't test any we just cut three took 3 hours you ready Jen are you ready I mean I must say so far hey I mean is good that doesn't look too

22:10 bad so it's good I think it wow so how did you cut that so perfectly I have no idea it's a hard task okay we're on the final stretch all we have to do is now C the stairs put them on glue them

22:56 staple and then the stairs are done it should be pretty fast too right this is the easiest [Music] [Applause] [Music] part okay you ready for the next one oh carg go nice want me to hold it uh no [Music] so impressed look at that it was rough at the start

24:23 down so our stairs are only out a fraction of a hair cool is nice Jen we did it we have stairs again do you want to be the first person to walk on them completed fully