Tim Sala exactly the reason im a carpenter

Same mate! I’m sick of being inside looking at a screen all day...I just have to find a way to make some extra money on top of the 1st year mature age wages haha

Yeah, i went for work experience, alot harder than I expected, you need a lot of skill and fitness to be a carpenter. Fun job tho. Im doin a vet course at school

I am an Aussie carpenter myself and I would recommend stay with your office job and learn carpentry from KZfaq and carpentry books. Make it your hobby not career. Most of us became carpenters because we struggled with how the education system is structured around reading, writing and listening endlessly. Our brains are wired where we look at what we have to do, then we use our hands, and do it for our selves, the skill is now somewhat acquired. If you have the basics of becoming a carpenter then watching videos is actually 50% of the job done.

@@par3064 what’s wrong with carpentry as a career?

Good shit mate!

countries are different in England its mostly brick instead of timber frame

squeaky floors happens bc of use of nails and not screws better builders get their chippies to use screws.

I'm not a chippy by profession, but love air nailers. Can't beat the speed, no batteries, no gas cartridge replacement. The only negative is, you need a compressor! There are areas where something more portable works better, so they're all good. I guess it depends on what you do and where you work.

@@joekool5005 I’m a carpenter, and until a couple years ago, I would have agreed with you but the Metabo cordless framing nailer that came out recently definitely converted me. It’s almost as fast as a pneumatic nailer, and the time in hassle saved not having to deal with hoses and compressors really can’t be understated. It’s a game changer, and it’s what I run almost exclusively when I frame now.

James Lee haha we wrapped that one up about ago but I might have to pull me finger out an make another

@@Jack_martin are you an Irish lad?

Ulbrich9 heaps down Melbourne where I am, if ya need some just hit me up

Yeah I'm in Mlebourne too, can confirm there's heaps of work here atm

Can you work in metric ? The bigger question is can you handle the heat. Oz is a bitch in summer...lol

Heaps of construction work in Australia, particularly in Melbourne. Come down!

@OFCnoChill even with covid is it not slowing down ?

Navdeep Singh ebay

Navdeep Singh the peoples tool co

hahaha not that good, but we do mostly stick build!

Yeah

If you can read and interpret plans, especially roof spans and roof angles then you’re already doing a lot better than most apprentices out there.

@@waltermatthau8329 Thanks mate, encouraging words at this time for me being unemployed. Was worried how much being mature age would affect me, even with 2yrs behind.

@@Kyzik244 nah its more that tight asses don't want to pay the mature wages.

@@MrDeano-eu9rg Yeah you're right about that. Anyway, comment from a year ago but i'm not in the construction industry. Did play around in commercial for 4 days when i was a bit dumber. "residential is cutt-throat" . Yeah.. as if $22 minus have to pay own tax isn't cutt-throat. Got clowned. No learning really, treated as if meant to be a professional on dog wage. Going back to white collar in future, maybe physio etc.

@@Kyzik244 yea fair enough but those gronks in commercial don't know shit anyway. Residential is more fun and you can still make plenty.

The people tool co

Best advice mate show initiative go driving around looking for work sites hand out resumes and show that you're really keen on it keep hands out of pockets and dont play on your phone

@@nickpurser4334 thanks for the advise mate, definitely taking notes on that. Much appreciated 👍🏻

@@mickerrr8001 learn how to read a tape and practice your cuts. Learn all the names of things ,ie noggins, studs, plates, ribbon plates, junctions, lintels ect.

It’s not hard just start out as a laborer and work your ass off show up to work every day early once you get a flow from 3 house builds if you like it buy tools your own tools I hate it when people borrow my shit. It’s not hard

@@kickyourfaceandlaugh607 pretty hard to find a carpenter that will take a labourer is the thing.

St Bernard x Kelpie haha

Willo load bearing walls, not all of our internals are engineered to hold weight so they sit 35/45 lower

@@Jack_martin thank you. I was looking at the framing standard after my comment. Didn't see where it asked for double top plates? I'm confused now how the ceiling joists attach if the walls have different heights? Extremal being 35/45mm higher. Ceiling joists sit on top? Thanks again legend

That information about when double top plates are required is in the span tables, not the framing code itself, you have to work out RLW and FLW. Also I suggest you go to TAFE and learn how coupled, non-coupled and trussed roof systems work.

Look to be 45s mate

@@thenotoriousjetta3674 yeah think your right actually. Thanks.👍

Hey mate, I am a Queensland chippy. Go get your white card for safety on a construction site, Steel toe boots, fluro work shirt, long pants and just drive around to construction sites asking for work. If it is a small domestic site ask for the lead chippy or builder and if it is a high rise commercial site then ask for the site foreman. Find some places then go there 7am in the morning and be willing to offer them a day of free Labour to try you out. Best of luck 👍🏾

Not about the money my guy

Haha was 0 when we left but always subject to change

we do level walls mate.

Haha if it wasn’t on a 20 min you tube video it mustn happen haha

You can do that once frames are erected and braced off

Muhammad Mehdi haha we plumb our walls when there all stood mate not as we go

And I’d sack you Muhammad Mehdi for not knowing the difference between the word ‘plumb’ and the word ‘level’. Just wow!....That’s all I can say.

You obviously don't build houses

@@davesmith3289 what makes you say that? He's right concrete nails should go in straight, its easy on new slabs.

@@MrDeano-eu9rg because the concrete nails are a temporary means to keep the frame standing. The real tie down bolts are installed after all the frames are stood, plumbed and braced.

@@TheBoufhead yess true but that doesn't happen straight away and they are meant to hold it in place temporarily. If they aren't straight they're useless as ya can't skew them.

@@MrDeano-eu9rg "You can't skew them" why would you want to skew the nail or skew nail the frame? It's a bent concrete nail. Maybe 1 of every 25 in standing frames happens, it's temporary and doesn't effect the finished structural integrity of the frame. The nail bent, the frame stayed stood, it doesn't matter.

Generally if we need a ladder while we're standing we will do it then, if we can reach the plates to pin them we just come back through after

Tom G basements aren’t common in Australia

Most framers still run them flat out mate

@@Jack_martin nah man, not in Melbourne anyway. I'm an all-rounder and I've never even seen one on site but I guess if it works for ya all g.

Also double top plate laps the corners different to the lower top plate. Makes the corner stronger

@@braydenkyte935 you can stand walls with the top plate over lapped at the corner and nail them on a ladder after you stand the walls.

@@southtexasframer4899 aye that’s actually not a bad idea, never thought of that, would save a lot of time circling the house putting ripping plates

Ya need work?

If any vacancy i,am skilled professionally carpenter i need work and have a 20 years experience about carpentery

And i like it bild houses

Cause they wobble like all fuck it’s like trying to stand on one leg on a motorcycle 😂

I feel attacked hahah