Saturday, November 15, 2025
Builder has Truss Issues
Ken is going to show us how to set a truss roof when you are by yourself. What could possibly go wrong? Well, first off, he's setting trusses alone. If there was any day to call your idiot brother-in-law, this would be the day, if just to have someone available to call the paramedics. Also, he's not wearing a hard hat, and he turned his back on the unsecured truss.
Luckily, the paramedics were not needed in this incident -or else the video would not have been uploaded. And the garage was eventually completed, and not by one man alone. (via Boing Boing)
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As a person that has built a fair few houses, and always by myself, as in single handedly, I can attest that the guy in the video lacks some smarts.
Be it a roof or just standing wall frames on the second floor (you call it the first floor, I think, even though you know how to number most other things properly) ... it is important to insure no tigers can kill you.
The best way is to erect a defence system, such as tacking any element that can swing, fall, lift, or levitate, with a sturdy 90mm nail ... we went metric here in 1976, we went with decimalation (how spell that) in 1966, gave women the vote in 1893, and I lost my virginity in 1971, although that is really irrelevant to this story.
Once, to carry on boring you all, I was cladding a two stroey house with corrugated steel, and the house was a gull wing design (plans drawn by yours truly) so the top most wall sheet had a V cut into the middle, the sheet was 7 metres long (about 327 feet, I think) and I walked one end up the first ladder and screwed in a pivot fastener, then walked back down, picked up the other end of the sheet, walked that up the second ladder, the aim being to tack it up in place and then secure the whole thing.
But with the V cut taking a whole lot of rigidity out of the sheet, the first attempt had it buckling in the middle, and once that happened the 7 metre sheet became rubbish.
By the time my determination had ruined and thrown away 3 sheets I was wiping tears of frustration from my (younger) face and eventually gave in and phoned my son, got him to skip work for the afternoon and come and help me.
When finished and I had lived in that house for a year, I sold it for $500k to a guy that owned a pizza chain ... this was back in 2004.
That same house sold again a few months ago for $2.2 million dollars.
The 2025 median house price in that city (Auckland NZ) is $782,000, how sad do you think I am now ?
Oh, that was supposed to point out that that was the only time I needed help.
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