Renovating A 100-Year-Old House | Episode 8

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Join Jaime, Brett, and the Perkins Crew and follow along as they finish renovating a 100-year-old house on Main Street in Bryson City North Carolina... 120 Main Street.
We are picking up in the middle of this project, with the commercial storefront portion already finished over the last year.

This is a GREAT video, full of woodworking tips and tricks from the Perkins workshop.
On this episode, Jaime and the Guys build new custom porch posts! These are to replace to old round posts that were taken out in a previous episode. These new posts are made from kiln dried material so that they can be painted immediately, and they will be far less likely to check or crack in the future. Just FYI... most pressure treated posts tent to twist, crack, and bow as they dry over the years. This is not ideal for a painted finish with moldings on the top and bottom! These types of engineered posts are commercially available, but they are a special order product and typically take a couple of weeks to get. This project was done in one day!

This is a very interesting structure, with 140-year-old house that has a brick storefront that was built off of the front to the sidewalk on Main Street. Brett and Jaime decided to keep both portions of the building and make it a multi purpose property, even though it is very interesting looking.
The back part of the property will be turned into a short term rental and will be remodeled using local and re-purposed materials! Jaime and Brett have some cool tricks to make this property look awesome for a very small budget.

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[mr.smitty]

I could listen to Jaime teach all day. Really like his approach to everything he does.

[CountyLineCarvings]

Wow, very impressive to be working that machine again ! Thanks again for another epic video !

[rhondakennedy]

Everything you do is sweet with attention to detail. It's nice to see all the inner workings. I learn something every time. Be kind to one another. Stay safe. Love to all

[dannyhutt]

Loving your series, Jamie. Brilliant job on the replacement posts. But I thought you said in an earlier episode that the original 100 year old circular posts were in good condition. How come you didn't reuse the original posts? Keep up the good work!

[RobinPaul-cv]

You should invest in strait line rip saw. They are self feeding and would make quick work of rough sawn wood much faster then using a jointer for long lengths and safer. The long hard wood you were using skill saw against fence to cut strait line rip saw would work for that too. That is what furniture building companies use to process hard wood instead of track saw. They use cnc systems more now but smaller shops still use them. You could get used one they re sell them at auction because built like tanks last long time.

[dusty]

One your glue up, on something like that I use a three inch paint roller works great

[davegordon]

Dude I've had 2x4 with bark on all four sides. Building houses with saplings

[AVBros]

For those king sized glue ups I usually use Titebond II Extended Wood Glue so I have a long enough open time to tweak everything perfectly (it’s also type II waterproof). I think in the time period you’re restoring to in the south they used fluted square posts before the round wood columns got big. Hope this helps

[CovenGraphics]

great video!!! loved it!
Mill work is fussy but the pay off of seeing your efforts turn in to something beautiful is the most gratifying thing in the world after seeing your child succeed in life!

[brycehinton]

My wife's grandpa is the inventor of the shelix cutterhead. Just toured their factory a couple months ago. Pretty cool set up. Reminded me when I saw Byrd on the replacement knives box.

[robertcarullo]

You guys come up with some good knowledge. Very impressed at times.

[shanegillespie]

The post size looks appropriately scaled. My rule of thumb is an inch of width per foot of height. Haven't had a complaint yet.

[kd]

Awesome stuff as always. The attention to detail is great, and I especially love the sub-focus on fine woodworking. Hobbyist woodworking is what got me started before I took on my current renovation project. It's great to have a reminder of the really cool stuff coming at the end of all this mess.

[dianaandrade]

I love how you are so laid back in your videos and Erick it’s more educational but relaxes when he is with the guys 😂

[borys]

This was one of the better episodes I have watched mainly because I really enjoyed the woodworking lessons. I wish HD or Lowe’s sold KDAT boards. I learned my lesson the hard way when I put PT trim on my shed and redid both fascias. The boards were pretty wet when I threw them up so I knew I had to wait quite some time b4 I could actually paint them. Actually there still not painted and I put them up May of this year. Something else I noted but only after the fact once the boards were already installed, the height of the boards aren’t always the same. I have some lengths of board that r 1/8 of an inch higher then others and when ur scarfing a 15 ft. run using PT u just can’t help but to kick urself for missing that detail. Lesson learned and from here on out I’m going with KDAT/PT.

[llano]

Hey Jaime, can you video the process of making the crown molding? Probably too late to ask. I know your videos lag a little behind your actual progress. I’m new to woodworking and love using my router. It would be cool to learn the process of making molding that will sit at a 45. Thanks. Glad to see you recovering from your accident. I learn from you every video.

[gmpster]

Question: did you inspect/replace any of the cutters after your accident? It seems like that kind of damage would require chewing up something pretty hard that covers the full width of the cutter head.

[T.E.P.]

this is a super exciting build .... i'd like to watch all of them strung together in a 2 hour vid

[fintan]

What happened to the round columns I thought you were going to reuse? Did I miss something? 👍👍👍

[ykciR]

What machine at 3:02 is that? Is that a wood stretcher?? My boss told me to get one 6 years ago and I haven’t found one yet 😂