You've just taken me back to 1985 joinery apprenticeship with that birdsmouth cut tip - spot on

Finally a video that doesn't rabbit on and just shows you simply

So refreshing to see some tradesmen that care about what they do. Very informative video. Thank you guys.

Carpenter of 40yrs, That folks is called experience and it cant be bought, job well done sir.

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Hi thank you for the comment I appreciate a man of your experience saying that Thanks for watching. 👍🏻

Top tradesman with top quality work and straight talking no fuss tutorial, love your content and many will learn from this.

We’ll explained, step by step , plus little tricks , really love this channel !!

Great work and attention to detail - that’s been the story so far. Glad I’ve been able to share this - thanks 👍🏻

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment Moaze glad you enjoyed this episode and thanks for watching 👍🏻

Brilliant. New to the channel and really enjoying the videos. Clear to see in a couple of minutes the craftsmanship, experience and knowledge. 👍

many thanks for doing this - so good to watch your skills ( and hopefully remember enough to learn some of them ! ) i randomly got this suggested in my feed and shall now go back to the beginning and watch your whole set of videos. so much better than the rubbish you get on the tv!

Watched alot of rafter and birdsmouth videos and this is by far the best. Well explained and so simple 👍👍👍👍👍

@mrabuilders6723

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Robert very kind of you to say so 👍🏻

Did an extension roof almost identical to this at the end of last summer, working for a mate who is a 35 year seasoned chippy (I'm a 15 year skilled labourer/handyman), and I wish I had seen this video beforehand! Your attention to detail and care over the design/layout elements is phenomenal, really impressive, and a level of experience & knowledge "input" (and clear years of loving your craft) that I wish my mate still had! Great video...I'm now "Subscribed"!!! 👍🏼💪🏼👊🏼😁

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers for the comment David and thank you for subscribing. We hope you now go through our other videos and enjoy those as well. Thanks for watching👍🏻

Another great video as always ! Love the detail and explanation of your process, amazing skill.

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Luke and thanks for watching. 👍🏻

I'm a retired joiner ..9yrs now..(wow!)....and it's been a pleasure watching you mate....a true tradesman....knowing exactly what to do...and making it look so easy...(I don't miss those cold Jan/Feb days at all)...absolutely loved your video...👍🏻

Used this way today to set out my rafters. Thanks for sharing this it really helped, 30 years as a joiner everyday we learn

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

That’s good to hear Dave glad it worked for you. 👍🏻

What an absolute pleasure to watch a true tradesman doing his work. The planning ahead and attention to detail to ensure that it works out perfectly is very impressive.

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers David and thanks for watching. 👍🏻

Pleasure to watch as always 👍🏼 looking forward to the next one already 🙌🏽

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Tom glad you enjoyed it thanks for watching

That was a truly cracking description of how to cut the wid correctly. This is the 2nd time I've watched this vlog.

I've been watching many projects on the KZread. This has to be the best channel out there. It is so delightful to watch a knowledgeable nice lad with eye to detail explaining every step. Even the weather has to surrender to him. Nice job mate!

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Hi T. That’s very kind of you to say we really appreciate that. We all really enjoy making these videos. Thanks for the support and watching our channel enjoy your weekend 👍🏻

@stephenhadley8599

Жыл бұрын

@@mrabuilders6723 CT by CF by

Pleasure watching you work,

me and my hubby been watching since the loft and we are enjoying watch ,keep up the good work kay n stu

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching both its very much appreciated and we are glad you are enjoying our channel. 👍🏻

Craftsman at work. Great video with detail. Catching up on all the other great content you have uploaded. Thank you.

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Pete appreciate the comment. Loads more to come. Thanks for watching.

Really been enjoying this build, looking forward to next 👍

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment 👍🏻

Nice to watch a proper tradesmen who takes pride on his work Going to subscribe to the channel after watching this vid

Always thoroughly enjoy your videos .

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment Snapper 👍🏻

That marking out detail is awesome thanks so much

Thanks, buddy, accurate and simply to do. This is what I was looking for.

Love that method you use! so simple and as im a bricky doing roofs i need simple

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching 👍🏻

Wish I'd had sight of this video a year ago. Excellent guide. Thanks

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Plenty more to come Mozzer appreciate the comment. Thanks for watching 👍🏻

just building one of these an this is pure gold info! cheers dude!

Done many a roof and this explanation is one that anyone could use. Very well done 👍🏻👌🏻

@mrabuilders6723

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! 👍

@gdfggggg

11 ай бұрын

@mrabuilders6723 no, thank you.

Great video. I feel better able to get on with the job now. Perfect explanation. Hope you got a new blade...

Brilliant stuff !! Absolute gold dust ! Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Top job chaps. Pleasure to watch.

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Chris glad you enjoyed the video. 👍🏻

Lovely job Rich 👌🏼👍🏼

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Logan appreciate that thanks for watching 👍🏻

I think these builders who make vids of their work put the others to shame. Your skill, technique, quality control, site safety and cleanliness is there for all to see. Not just the end result but the hidden stuff that is so hard to see unless you are on top of every stage. One single mistake and all those that don't have the confidence to broadcast will pile in! The fact that you do this means you'll always be up at the top of the trade and customers can engage you with confidence. Thank God for KZread!

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Not quite sure what to reply to that comment other than thank you very much. We as a team really enjoy what we do and get a lot out of making videos for KZread especially when we receive comments like yours. We appreciate your time for commenting and thank you for watching. 👍🏻

That technique is gold, thanks. Theres nothing out there that explains how to find the angle of a lean too rafter especially in a way that is understandable. Gold !

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment Mike and I’m really glad you got something from our video. Just had a comment just saying ‘more working less talking’ so this is a nice follow up. Thanks for watching. 👍🏻

@Mike-fx4wk

Жыл бұрын

@@mrabuilders6723 Yh its a nonsense comment, this is a great video ill be watching your content from now on because of it

@markleeks1116

Жыл бұрын

Can use trig to find out most things

Great to see knowledge and experience result in some really good work

Thanks very much I learned a lot there, Brilliant explanation and really useful. Great work.

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching

Lean to, roof Mr A ! it’s leaning towards not leaning as well ! That’s enough of that. I am pleased to see that there is enough space beneath the sills to install your top flashing, I’ve come across several sets of drawings which ignore this, I think with the intention of getting a specific head height and tiling fall.

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Glad you approve, that’s the way it has got to be doesn’t it or it’s not right. Thanks for watching

Thank you, this is very helpful for those who cant afford to hire somebody.

Great work looking forward to the next video. Cheers 🍻

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Brian glad you enjoyed it and the next episode is already edited ready to go for next Sunday 👍🏻

What a FANTASTIC way to work out your birds mouths! You got a new SUB outta me within 5 minutes of this video! So appreciative of stuff like this! Just hope I can remember it when it matters 😂

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Hi and thank you for the comment. I’m pleased your with us just hope we can keep you with us now, we’ll certainly try our best. Thanks for watching.

@p4fizzle

Жыл бұрын

@@mrabuilders6723 Absolutely mate, look forward to any content you put out. All the best

Great work and well explained 👍🏼

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Mark appreciate the comment 👍🏻

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Ive said it before and ill say it again, outstanding and that's before Ive even watch it.👍

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers David very kind of you to say so. Thanks for watching

This channel deserves more Subs

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very kind of you to say so and we are glad you are enjoying the channel. There’s plenty more to come.

Hello mate the upper timber on the existing is the ledger, and the lower one near the eaves of the new build which has been bedded is the wall plate

Another great video lads 👏

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Chris. 👍🏻

Great work from a construction manager

Brilliant work..Great video..thanks

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Del 👍🏻

You have a good way about you, very entertaining , you know your stuff .👍

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Alec appreciate that thanks for watching

@alec1113

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome young fella , all the best .

Great trick with the rafters

Been waiting with anticipation for the new episode, better than watching Eastenders.

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Nice one Steve let’s hope we are on your screens for as long as they have been. 😁thanks for watching 👍🏻

Can’t wait any longer I’ve got to go the loo and make another cuppa. Be back in a mo! Na just thankful your posting these. Catch you later.🤪

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Moaze I hope it’s worth the wait for you. It’ll be on at 1630hrs 👍🏻

Just discovered you, very good video

Great video, over here most people machinery bolt down their wallplate, I noticed that in the UK you prefer to bed them down.

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Hi Dan. We do add the wall plate straps as well as required by building regs but the bedding on is mainly to get it bang on level and flat. If we bolted down into those light weight thermolite blocks they’d shatter. Thanks for the comment. 👍🏻

Great detailed explanation. I have 2 questions. 1. How do you add stepped dpc or cavity tray over the catnic openings for the weep vents? 2. Where the rafter bevel rests on the ledger board/bolted wall plate, in what instance would this become another birds mouth cut resting on top of the bolted plate?

Trying to get all the joints bang on is so dependent on so many variables ie the sole plate being dead level the outside wall being real parallel with the existing wall the nominal timber sizes being all the same size and square generally nowadays from my experience u can’t have all of them things falling in to place ( especially the timber sizes) so it’s always a compromise on a drawing it works perfectly but in reality it rarely does so u compensate as all chippies do on site and make it work but for me u still can’t beat traditional roof construction so great tutorial

Really good simple way ! thank you for the knowledge p.s its called a ledger board 😉

Very helpful, many thanks, 👍

Keep up the good work.

Hi, Its a nice video detailing the rafters size measurement and headplate. Please advise the size of screw/bolts used for the headplate. It is very important and starting step to fix the headplate securely. Thanks

Great to watch great information

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment Trevor much appreciated 👍🏻

Nicely explained 👍😎

Very interesting thank you looks amazing 🤩

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers for the comment thanks for watching.

Good video Do you just use nails to attached the rafter to the wall plate? What type of nails?

“ it’s what we do” good stuff. 👍

Great vids. Thanks for posting. I have a lean to on my old 1840's stone garage. The roof is slate tile and is laid directly on the stone. The lathes are rotten and it needs replacing So I want to add a bolted wall plate and rebuild using the process you outlined in this video. The stone where the bolted wall plate will be fixed is pretty wavy. I was thinking I could use packers where needed when bolting it to the stone would that work or would you advise something different?

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Hi Steve my first thought about the bolted wall plate would be to bolt on temporary in place and cut above and below with a grinder. Remove the plate and remove the face of the stone between these cuts with a breaker to form a flatter surface rather than packers and then fix using a two part resin you can push all thread into which you can buy from Screwfix. Hope this helps and thanks for watching 👍🏻

I love that roofing square

Lovely job!

Be interested to learn how you do your lead work. We have a first floor timber balcony against pebbledash with French doors underneath which leak when it rains.

Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing. The owners must be really attached to that house given what looks like a sizeable extension on the top already!

@mrabuilders6723

10 ай бұрын

Hi ya mate. This extension is a follow on to the loft conversion we did and is also covered on our channel. Thanks for watching. 👍🏻

@boejoss

10 ай бұрын

@mrabuilders6723 I realised after I replied it was a multi part series 🤦‍♂️ cracking work I'll take a look. Just hoping you're Wolves fans now!

@mrabuilders6723

10 ай бұрын

It’s probably best we don’t discuss football on the channel 😁⚽️👍🏻

Wow mint good video and good training thanks

Good system for cutting plumb/ bird's mouth 👍

Hi guys, do you do the tiling of the roof aswell, if so a detailed video on that would be great.👍👍

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Hi Kevin. We do indeed and that’ll be in a couple of episodes time. Thanks for watching. 👍🏻

Top notch lads... Top notch.

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Michael thanks for watching.

Nice job 👍

Good work🙂

Very good video 👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 What's the slope on that roof? Thanks 👍🏽

Here in Canada we call your bolted wall plate a ledger board 👏

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jim and thank you for the comment. I’ve heard that a few times on Canadian and American KZread channels I subscribe to. Thanks for watching

Great advice

What a nice chap! It'd be good to work with a tradesman like that.

Great video pal. What make is the tool belt please??

As some one with no experience, I'd loved to know how you got the hight of your ledger and why 9x2 over say 7x2. But great for beginners. Thanks for your time.

Great work lads. How you finding the Perkins tool belt? I bought the Diamond Back but like the look of that one

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Cheers. I really like it but still moving tools in and out of it to get it exactly right. Thanks for watching. 👍🏻

You make it look simple

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Hi Andrew thanks for the comment. I’ve been doing it a long time so if I can’t do something like this now it’s time to give it up 😂👍🏻 thanks for watching

what a great video💯💥👍

what did u use to bolt the wall plate on the house ,thanks

First of all thank you for passing on knowledge to us young lads, im a carpentry apprentice myself and love watching these. Probably a long shot but im doing my apprenticeship at a local hospital and really struggling to get any roofing evidence that i need to qualify, would you ever entertain having a labourer/ chippys mate with you on one of your projects?

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Hi Lennon I’m really pleased to see that young lads are still taking up the trades and not aiming for the next Mr Beast. Unfortunately our roofs come as part of the extensions/lofts we do so I wouldn’t be able to pin point when the next one is as yet. I’d be more than happy to help you out otherwise. All the best with your apprenticeship mate and thanks for watching. 👍🏻

@ShatteredDream

Жыл бұрын

@@mrabuilders6723 Cheers for getting back to me. No thats fine mate, in all honesty i knew it was a long shot but i thought it was worth a go. Due to the nature of my job its hard to get evidence for things like fitting a staircase, doing cut roofs etc.

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

What I suggest Lennon is keep and eye on our content so you know when we are doing a job you need evidence for in the future and give us another poke and we can see if we can get you some evidence mate no probs. Cheers Lennon

@ShatteredDream

Жыл бұрын

@@mrabuilders6723 Brilliant mate cheers

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Send us a list a list of things that you need evidence for to our email that's in our bio please mate, I'll take a look and when we've got a job that's on that list I'll get in touch and you can join us for the day. How's that mate?

would your method for obtaing plumb cut on common rafter work with a hip rafter allowing for height above plate ... many thks mr A ...LOVE YOUR WORK.

@mrabuilders6723

Ай бұрын

Hi and thanks for the comment. I’ve only ever used this method to get the plumb cut of a common rafter and therefore the degree pitch of the roof. I then use my roofing square set to the degree pitch on the hip scale to do the hip cut. However, it would be worth a go as long as you have got your height above plate off the common rafter first, transferred it onto your hip using the same batten screwed to the top. Don’t forgot to cut you wall plate corner off first to 45 degrees so you can get a full bearing of your seat cut. Hope that makes sense 👍🏻

Thankyou for sharing

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure Ollie plenty more to come. Thanks for watching 👍🏻

Hi. great work indeed! May I know what is the size of the extension in length and width?

Great job

Would you use joists hanger to on the plum cut?

It’s a wall ledger. What bolts have you used? I seen done with concrete through bolts most of time, but was thinking of using resin anchors next time, any thoughts?

@mrabuilders6723

Жыл бұрын

Hi. I have always used through bolts as I find them very easy to install and you know when they have a good bite into the substructure. However, the concrete bolts that screw straight into the brick/block are very good also. Thanks for watching 👍🏻

Top of rafters should also be birdsmouthed to stop horizontal stresses

Dont you put a cavity tray in the house wall above where the roof joins?

Are building control makes us sit the ledger under the spare's with bird mouths top and bottom

Awesome. Subscribed right away . What are those pants ? Im looking for a good set of work pants. We mostly see caarhart here in Canada and they are too bulky for alot of work I do

@mrabuilders6723

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the sub and welcome to the channel. They are Dewalt trousers and are a lot slimmer fitting than normal work trousers. I have the shorts as well and they are the same fit

awesome tips :)