we're back down at st. Luke's timber and i'm going to take you through the next
phase of what we're doing with our trailer
we've got the floor down but as you can see there are still gaping holes where
the screws have gone in today we're going to plug those up i'll show you how
so
welcome to what could very easily be one of the most tedious parts of the entire
process of building a tiny house if there's any stage in the entire build
where you might want to call an extra hands to help you out
it's this one by one word of advice on that would be that you find people who
have never plug screw holes before however because chances are if you've
done it before
you'll never want to do it again alright so the plug hole cutter here is already
set up to cut a 10 mil plug so 18 mil plug is exactly the size that we need to
fill the holes that are currently in our trailer what I've got here is some off
cut wood of the tongue-and-groove floor that we actually used in our trailer
it's up to you whether or not you use the same wood or just depends on the
kind of look that you want so it's a good idea to actually wear a mask while
you're doing this the reason is there's actually quite a lot of natural toxicity
that's found in lawson cyprus it's that quality and also makes it a good word to
be using in our house as it helps to prevent rot and it's basically like a
natural treatment in the wood
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just like this where drilling out plugs now you want to try and drill them as
close to each other as possible just to maximize what you're getting out of the
wood
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obviously you want to stay safe and in control of the machine at all times
making sure your hands are always well clear of the drill bit just one here is
a really state machines to use
you don't want to go too fast when you're doing this because sometimes it
can actually cause the plugs to snap and break going nice and slow is the best
way
alright so now that that's done you'll end up with a whole lot of these plugs
so this point we've got two different options and it really just depends on
what equipment you're working with is to which option you take we eventually
drilled both sides of the wood and we've drilled it in a way that it's designed
that if we run a sore right through the center part here the plants will just
fall out we can collect them up and then we can move on to the next phase
if you don't have a saw or if you're not really feeling confident to do it that
way you can just take a chisel and just to break the plugs out just like that
so do that somewhere in the vicinity of a thousand times and you'll have enough
plugs for the job
now let's go check out the trailer so the next part like pretty much the whole
process is just incredibly repetitive the best way to actually approach all of
the tasks when it comes to this particular job is to think of it more
like a meditation just zone out think of something nice and hopefully you'll wake
up at the end of it and the whole damn trail is done so as you can see I've
spent the better part of the day pretty much plugging the whole trailer but i do
have a few here lift just to show you how it's been done so the tools that i'm
going to be using for this next part and nice and simple a hammer a chisel a
bottle of PVA glue and I'll plugs that by this time you will be all too
familiar with after cutting out a thousand of them
these here are screw holes and these plugs as you can see i just a little bit
too big to fit in really comfortably order hidden by themselves so the first
thing that we want to do is put a job of PVA glue inside the plughole just like
that so you then take your plug
place it over the hole and then gently with your hammer just happen into place
now if you have any of the glue that's come out just use your rag to wipe that
away so one of the things i would recommend with this is if you know where
your cabinetry is going to be in the house or if you have areas of the floor
that you know we're going to be covered up do those areas first just so that you
can get confident with it so for argument's sake let's say you're
hammering in the plugs and something goes wrong with one of them maybe the
wood splits or something like that so I'll hammer this one in poorly you can
see that this one here is in too far and the wood split which means that when we
come to send this later on
it's not going to leave a nice finish so the important thing is that we can get
the plug out of the wood without actually damaging the surrounding what
itself so what we do is we take the Chisholm and following the grain of the
wood just break the plug from that point we can go in and get the plug out
time to start again
so repeat that action a thousand or so times more and you'll be ready to move
on to the next phase which is sanding these down and then oiling the trailer
so you have a few plugs which is sticking out too high still to be sanded
down let me just show you how to deal with those so as you can see this one
for example is one which is still sticking up way too high now you want to
be using a really really sharp chisel for this
the other thing that you don't want to do is to break it off too low because
sometimes the wood will actually then chip off below your floorboards and
that's not what you want you want to make sure that it's still breaking off
above where the floorboards are sitting and there you have it
so at this point the plugs just need to be sanded down then the floors going to
be boiled then what we're going to do is we're actually gonna lay a protective
carpet over it so mel and i actually just raided the local inorganic
collection and we found some junk carpet that one of the neighbors was throwing
out so once the floors been sanded and oiled what I'm then actually going to do
is take that carpet
cut it out and lay it across the whole trailer just as protected throughout the
build process that's just a scrap bit of carpet will be thrown away again at the
end
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alright so now we finished and another floor what we're going to do is we're
going to apply the oil to the floor
what we're using is a mixture of fifty percent citrus turpentine and fifty
percent time loyal to apply it
we're just going to be using a rag now one of the things that's important to
remember about this is when you're finished using the rag not to actually
leave it like this what you want to do is you either want to leave it outside
open like this wash it off or immediately burner the reason for that
is that when the tongue wheel drives it can actually create heat now that hate
has been known to ignite the turpentine and turn these into little fire bombs so
it is just one thing to remember
love this look at how beautifully that comes up
and remember it's always a good idea to wear some gloves to make sure you stay
say
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