April 10, 2020
A little collection of short films about remodeling and construction with some side trips along the way.
Short Films for Builders and Remodelers
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Belt, suspenders, rainscreen, and redundancy make this wall awesome for cold climate construction
This dronezone driveby is the fourth in a series on a gut rehab and substantial addition to a 100…
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An #oldschool approach to decorative concrete surfaces
UPDATE: 11/09/2017 — added a video to this page which expands on the story below.
We live in Guayaquil and I drive the Ruta a la…
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Some original bones and mashed up meat make a door whose secret is safe
This is a story about how a simple request can become a gruesome mess.
Such extreme surgery may hurl away many carpenters…
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One of those "If I help, will it save me money?" jobs. But not in a bad way.
Just outside of Missoula, Montana is a trout creek that offers blue-ribbon fishing. I’m not going to say which…
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A hidden funnel between inside and out dumps water into the wall
Last on #demotime, we took down two walls with two kids. There was some water damage in the back wall—where the soap dish had…
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Not much to say here. I shot the time lapse on my iPad while I was shooting video segments on my DSLR.
I added music for fun and then had even more fun cutting in to detail shots into the wide…
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This old school training film shows some familiar and unfamiliar construction methods once used down under.
Thanks to the National Film Board of Australia the methods used to construct brick…
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A film on the many aspects of woodworking that go into building things with wood—including a pre-robot look at technology displacing workers
Examples of rough carpentry includes building …
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