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ain't gonna scare us away.

(Scott): This whole wall is decayed, gone.

Hopefully we can fix it.

- Yeah. I got creeped out for a little bit.

- Watch out! - What? What?

Now look at it. She's rock solid.

- It definitely was a free dock,

but it came with a price, 'cause we had to sail it

across that channel. Not fun on a windy day.

(Nikki): So Randy and Paul

are sittin' in a nice warm shop while we're out in the rain.

That's enough of this. You can't work.

You're getting soaked! I'm quittin'.

(upbeat folk music)

(Randy): I'm Randy Spracklin, third generation builder,

proud Newfoundlander.

My team and I are building on a giant cliff

in the Atlantic Ocean.

They don't call it a rock for nothing!

We fight the elements year-round to get the job done.

It might be tough for some, but not for us.

Because when this is your view, it's worth it.

(upbeat music)

(Randy): After a long winter,

it's summertime in Brigus.

e right now,

but you never know when the weather is gonna turn.

You gotta get it done in the short season we have,

'cause everybody wants to enjoy 'em.

Right now, I'm on my way to meet up with the homeowners.

It's a new project right up my alley.

Cory and Leo live in a hundred-plus-year-old house

in Bay Roberts, just outside of Brigus.

It's not the house they want renovated, it's the barn,

which is in really bad shape.

Looking at ain't gonna scare us away.n

This is the thing that we live for, and love doing.

I just needed to check on the condition

to see if we can actually turn it

into the entertaining area that they want it to be.

So you're trying to renovate your old shed?

- Yeah. That's the idea.

- What are you looking to do to it?

- I bought this place about five years ago,

and we just sold our house in St. John's

a couple months ago. - Okay, nice.

- So we're living out here permanently now,

and it's a small house. Much smaller

than what we had before, so we need more space.

We haven't had the time, or the money, or the energy

to deal with this, and it's getting bad.

We lost some of the roof last winter during Snowmageddon.

- A lot of people did. - And so it's been leaking

since then. You'll see I tacked up a couple

of tarps up there, which helped a little bit,

but, you know, it's just a temporary fix.

We wanna restore it.

But I don't wanna change the look of it at all.

Like, I wanna keep it as original as possible.

- Yeah. - The roof is sagging

in the middle. I love that it sags in the middle.

That's part of the history of it.

I don't want it to look like a new barn.

- That's our specialty, old historical places,

keeping history alive and renovatin' them.

You know, a lot of people would look at this and think

it's firewood, or just tear it down and build a new one.

We never look at it that way. It tells a story.

You got a little bit of history to the area.

And that's what we love about it.

- And finding a contractor who understands that,

like, was quite important to us. - Definitely.

- Why don't we have a look inside

and see what we're dealing with?

Finding homeowners that want to save an old structure

and keep an old barn like this alive,

it's pretty unique to Newfoundland.

The locals say the original owner was a merchant

who built two homes on the property for his daughters.

The barns like this was used for storing fishing nets

back in the day.

So why tear it down? We can fix it up.

This is keeping history alive, keeping the story,

and that's what we're all about.

- It's pretty twisted, you know?

(Randy): Definitely the way the logs are cut,

these old beams, it kind of tells us

that it's a hundred plus years old.

We learn a lot from it, how we can actually

take their ingenuity and put it in today's construction.

Tell me what you're trying to achieve.

What's your vision? - Well, we're flexible.

We just need extra space, really.

Some of it will be for hosting,

you know, for entertaining. We've got all sorts of furniture

in storage right now we can't fit into this house,

but it would fit nice into this space.

- But I can see where, you know, we gotta fix

the floor, 'cause that's rotted out.

And I'm sure you sills is gonna be gone,

which basically is the foundation.

All this stuff is doable, and it's fixable.

We fixed one not too long ago,

so I kinda know what we're getting into

and what to expect. But looking up through this hatch,

I see you got a lot of roof work, so I'm gonna

climb up the ladder and have a look.

So what's your vision up there?

(Cory): That'll be kind of like a sleeping loft

so that if we have extra guests in the summertime

we've got space there for them.

- Ooh! Nice space up here too.

- You made it up there.

- I can picture sleeping quarters up here.

Probably like a spiral staircase.

You know, climb up through the hole.

Yeah, so I see what you were, talking about outside

that the roof is kind of bowing.

So one more year, yeah, and you probably wouldn't

have much left.

- The other thing we talked about

was maybe adding windows on that side.

- Yeah, 'cause the sun rises on this side.

- We get excellent light from that direction.

- Perfect. Well, I'm gonna climb down

and get the plan going.

The shape that it's in now, it's definitely not gonna last

another winter. If we had a whole lot of snow onto it

and all that water hittin', it could collapse in on itself,

which I know they don't want and we don't want either,

so the quicker we can get it done, the better it is.

And our budget to save it is $60,000.

(upbeat music)

Now that I've seen the space,

I got a great idea what we're gonna do with it.

So I'm gonna go back, do some hand sketches,

and get this thing done before weather hits.

It can change any time.

And there's plenty to keep my crew busy in the meantime.

(Randy): Back in Brigus, up on the hill,

there's the never-ending Mitchell house.

We're about 65% of the way through

with this big renovation. We got it all drywalled,

we're working on the trim, and then on to the paint.

The hardwood floors got to arrive from the mainland

before we start all the big finishing touches.

s

there's my mom's new house in the woods.

(Paul): One, two, three!

- Finally, it looks like a house. We got the walls up,

and the roof is sheeted and shingled.

Oh, God! Don't go too close!

And we're waiting for cu

windows to arrive stom

so on the inside up as soon as possible.k

Like I said, we're busy.

(upbeat music)

(meowing)

- Well, boys, the adventures begin.

- Today is the first day we're at the barn,

so we got my father, we got Al, we got Nikki,

and we got Cody.

The barn looks like it might fall down,

but it's in pretty good shape.

So we basically have a box.

d for 100 years,

so probably sitting on some rot.

So we'll start at the bottom, and then we'll work our way

up to the roof. We'll keep the character

by giving it new purpose for Cory and Leo.

On

an entertaining space the main floor is gonna be

g with a large dining table, a vintage wood stove

to keep things warm.

On the sec

is gonna be a loft space, ond floor

, perfect for hanging out or a place to crash.

and really brightens which things up.eadroom

x during the day

or a place for guests to crash after partying downstairs.

And we have to replace the floor,

but that's a bit up in the air

on how we're gonna do it.

The idea with the floor,

either to go wood or concrete.

Starting to add it up and figuring it out.

As great as lumber is, it's still only got a lifespan

of 40, 50 years.

Concrete, it'll last forever.

So crunching these numbers, I'll speak to the homeowner,

see which way he wants to go.

I'm kinda going with concrete on this one a little bit.

(upbeat music)

I was just looking for the sill that act

ually is the foundation, trying to see how big it is, if it's gone.

sits on the sills. All the support of this barn

Sills So all the walls across th of the barn are restinge.

on top of these logs. If they go,

the whole building comes tumbling down.

We're trying to rip up the floor and expose

the floor joists to really get at the sills.

We gotta remove it all because in a little bit of bad shape,

and we're gonna put a whole brand new floor down.

I really expected rot, but not this much.

This is kinda... (whistling)

Like, this whole wall is kinda decayed, gone.

Big problem. Hopefully we can fix it,

and hopefully we can keep the shed up

while we're doing it. - Are we gonna jack it?

- There's a risk of actually collapsing it.

- It's only from these three over here, you can see,

that's buckled outside. - The old man, he wants

to jack it up, which is a risky thing,

because if we try to jack it, it could actually go...

collapse.

- No. Nah, no. - All right. No.

We're not gonna do that, Nikki.

(Nikki): I almost agrees with Randy.

- I'm kinda, keep her as it is,

and fix it as she is.

See who wins that battle.

Sounds easy. Not really.

We won't know until we... - Get into it.

- Yep.

(upbeat music)

So the sills are so rotted,

they need to be totally replaced.

(Randy): But to get the sills out from underneath,

turns out we do need to jack up the walls,

but no more than an inch.

Big risk. You know, when you're jacking up anything

like that, that old and there is still rot

in the building, you got a risk of that all falling down.

- Only a risk to them younger people, right?

Us older folks are after doing it a million times.

- Live and learn, I guess.

- You should smell that when you're cuttin' it.

It's like, totally... Like, that actually smells

like old lady perfume. And that's all you can smell

hitting your face, is old lady perfume.

I got a log cut to the height you asked for.

- We're gonna use this old log,

'cause we gotta take that brace out.

As you see, there's a little log in the back.

That's what's holding up this whole structure.

So we gotta take that out to remove the floor.

It's taking a whole lot of strain,

and taking a whole lot of weight.

So we gotta put in temporary posts

so we're able to remove this one little round stick.

- That stayed up.

- That one little stick was holding up

the whole structure.

They're only temporary right now,

but they're actually holding up the whole structure.

So it's very important to have them in place.

- We're gonna jack up this roof.

We're gonna try Scott's theory and see if it works.

And then when it don't work, Randy's gonna laugh,

and we're gonna figure out a different way.

- You think this is the first ceiling

I ever jacked up?

- I knows the last time I jacked a ceiling

what happened, so make sure it's level.

- Yeah, it could tip out on you.

- And it gives you a big fright. - All right. Grab her, Cody.

Steady.

(suspenseful music)

- Listen.

I just listen for any, like, creaks and cracks.

Okay, we just gotta be careful.

It's like my fear.

Don't want her coming crashing down.

- Sprackli

joking around. n, don't go

(Nikki): You're starting to stress me out and get nervous

now though, honestly.

- Watch out, watch out! - What, what?!

(Randy): In Bay Roberts, we're switching out

the rotted sills holding up this hundred-year-old barn.

We're using old logs as temporary posts

to support the centre of the structure.

- You're starting to stress me out and get nervous now,

though, honestly. (Randy): With an old barn,

nothing is level.

So when we raised the one side just a smidge,

a post in the middle shifted and fell.

- Watch out, watch out! - What, what?!

- It fell the other way. Be gentle. Jesus.

(Randy):

He gotta do it his way. My dad?

When he gets his mind there's no changing it.

- We'll jack 'til she falls down.

- You're on your own, Scott.

- Nikki, it's not going nowhere.

- Go a little bit more.

Jack

fell down. ing it up, it could have

Wewith a shed that wasy differenton the ground,ding here

picking up the pieces, trying to salvage

to build again. He got lucky.

- No. I've done many.

He was just too young to remember.

(laughing)

- I'll be able to pull that off with my hand.

(Randy): Rig

we're removing four layers ht now,

to get at them sills. thPlus we wanted to seele

the bottom of the studs to see if they're rotted out.

(Scott): I'm finding a lot of rot in the sill.

Everything that's rotten, we're gonna replace.

And this is one of the better ones.

The solution is to cut out all the rot

and replace it with some new 6 by 6 sills.

(upbeat music)

- I like the restoration,

but this stuff is catty.

It's getting into jacking stuff up,

so yeah, I got creeped out for a little bit.

But... Now look at it. She's solid. Rock solid.

(Randy): Now that we got the floor taken out,

you can really appreciate and see

how they took these sticks right from the floor,

right to the roof.

This is one piece.

It'll last so long because you chopped down the tree,

and the tree was probably like a hundred plus years old.

You can see all the rings. The tighter the rings,

the older the tree is.

So on a new piece of lumber, as you see,

the grains is a lot wider. This is maybe a 20-year-old tree

opposed to this is like a 100-year-old tree.

This is definitely stronger and gonna last longer

because it's tighter. That's why I love the old stuff.

So we kinda take that, put it in today's building,

and we make places that last this long.

(upbeat music)

s I have on the go,

I'll always take on a new challenge.

Back in Brigus, I got a call from Justin,

who I did some work for in the past.

He got a challenging new project for me.

We renovated their house about five years ago,

and now they want us back to build a dock on land

with a ramp to a floating dock.

(Justin): We bought this house probably five years ago.

It had a nice little waterfront lot.

We're big boaters, big sailors.

(Randy): They parked their big sailboat out in the channel

out next to Molly's Island,

and to go back and forth, they need a place

to park their little dingy.

This is

a land and sea job. On land, we're building a 10 by 10 dock

to sit and enjoy the ocean views.

Then we have to haul over a 10 by 20 floating dock

that was washed ashore in a bad storm.

And we gotta anchor it to the ocean floor

using 5 by 5 concrete blocks

that are 3500 pounds each.

And finally, we'll connect them both

.

Not a problem, I hope.

To start the land dock, we actually gotta dig trenches

for a big concrete foundation, basically,

and then put wood on top of it that's bolted to the concrete.

We before we geteds the floating dock hooked up

because that is the ramp connecting the land dock

to the floating dock to make it as a whole.

(beeping)

It's definitely a fun little project.

Growing up next to the ocean all my life,

and looking at the wharves and the boats,

all that kind of stuff, so to be able to go over

and build one not too far away from where I grew up

excites me for sure. I wish I owned it.

(upbeat music)

While the concrete sets at the Ladha dock,

we're back in Bay Roberts where we started renovating

this century-old barn.

On the inside, the old floor is demoed,

and we fixed up some of the support beams.

It's a good start, but there's a way to go yet.

I got Al

here today. and I got the old man

TheDefinitely wasn't builttry to put to today's code.oists.

Now, it lasted a hundred years, but we want it to last

another hundred, so we're gonna beef it up and make sure

it lasts.

- So, what we're doi

here today, we're putting some ng

to these actual floor joists We'rthat's here now, add

because we're actually trying to get this little floor

up to code in this old shed.

And we wanna remove this beam going through the middle.

They wanna have an open concept.

(upbeat music)

And she didn't come down.

(Randy): A b

of the renovation ig part

i That means cutting outoor the first part of the ceiling

at the front of the barn.

- The whole floor is tipping up,

so we're gonna remove this whole section,

for the new staircase. So we're gonna have a little rail here

and then our stairs are gonna wind up and come in right here.

So we gotta remove all this first.

( but we don't always un this co see eye to eye. father,

We're like oil and water. We don't always mix.

So while he's on the inside, I'll tap into the original well,

which is as old as the barn.

This is the well that everybody would use

back in the day. People still use 'em.

You used rock walls to build up the sides

and feed the water right to the house.

Let's see how much water is in the baby.

(Scott): Measure it. See what it's gonna be.

- Five and-a-half feet of water. So you're good.

I'd use this well. Perfect for drinking, for using.

Way better than town water.

I thought I was gonna have to run the water

from the main house to the barn.

So it was great news that we found this old well.

I gotta di

next to the well g a trench

The water level in the well from t is now higher barn.

than where I'm digging, so all the water from that well

is coming out in my ditch.

Oops. I sprung a leak.

Off to get a pump.

A little bit of a pain. I wasn't expecting, you know,

to dig this and have all the water going out.

So now I gotta get a pump to start draining out the well

to drain the water level below the ditch.

So that way then I can actually work, and not have

a swimming pool.

- Here we go. - She's going down!

But actually, the well is really good.

We can hardly pump it fast enough that's coming in.

So I have to stick a hole in the side of that well

and dig out the line.

I really love working with It's pretty cool.res.

Like, I'm hittin' something.

But sometimes it's not.

- That water level we were talking about inside the well?

Well I kinda... I struck it,

and now all the water in the well is coming

out in this hole. As you see,

my boots are only so high.

A lot of water. It won't go down.

(Randy): Me, my dad, and Al are at the barn

trying to turn an old well into a new water line,

which is a struggle.

Th

in the old rock wall of the well e plan is find an opening

and run a water line to access the fresh water.

It feels like I'm through, You just can't take a drill,

or I can't fit in the well.

Ah...

Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. Uh-oh!

Am I in there now, Al?

I'm through. I found the hole!

Give me that pipe. I sticks that in there.

No, I'm still... oh, wait now.

(Scott): You're in, you're in. Don't go too deep!

- Ha-ha! Victory!

It was a little bit of a struggle

trying to get that pipe through the rocks,

but I made that hole, I got the pipe in,

and now there's water inside the barn.

(upbeat music)

The next part there now, I'm gonna fill

that ditch back up, and then I'm gonna start running

the electrical conduit.

It'll be a little bit easier this time

to put power in the barn.

While I'm doing that, my dad and Al are inside

finishing the floor joists to create the loft

on the second floor.

The key to working with my old man

is he was doing his own thing on the inside

and I was outside digging, so, you know,

I was in my element, he was in his.

Perfect. It was a win-win!

(upbeat music)

Back down on the harbour,

it's a big day for the Ladha family

and their new floating dock.

But before we can install this thing,

we gotta get it to their property first.

The homeowners are involved in this process.

They're sailors, so they love the water,

so this wind, they don't mind that at all.

They love sailin'. So I'm just here to get it

in the water safely, and then they're gonna tie it on

and haul it over. Better them than me.

- Funny story, my brother gets a text

from Dave Mitchell, a friend of ours,

and he said, "I hear you's doing a floating dock."

Word travels fast in Brigus.

And he said, "Well, don't build one,

'cause I have one to give you!"

That floating dock Dave had

on the other side of Brigus Harbour,

where there's a commercial fishing dock and everything.

But after what we call Snowmageddon,

which was a, you know, once in a hundred year snowstorm

and literally a hurricane,

picked up that dock and launched it on a beach.

So we're gonna have to get

some equipment in and lift it up, and then once it gets floating,

then myself, and my brother, and some friends

will get some smaller boats and tow it around.

- It definitely was a free dock, but it came with a price,

because we had to get the excavator in,

we had to get it in the water, and then we had to sail it

across that channel. Not fun on a windy day.

(Justin): I've towed a lot of stuff in a lot of different

kind of boats but, uh, I've never actually towed

a big floating dock.

It's 15,000 pounds.

I wasn't sure we were gonna have enough horsepower

with two small inflatables

and a 15-horsepower engine to do it.

At the end of the day, it's a good story,

and the dock ended up where it was supposed to be.

(Randy): So phase two done.

Now, we just need to get a dive crew to chain the dock

to the bottom of the ocean floor.

Easy, right?

(upbeat music)

Between the Ladha dock and the barn,

we're keeping real busy right now.

But on top of that, the brand new house

that me and my dad are building for my mom

got shut down over the winter.

So any chance we get, someone's up there working on it

no matter what. (Nikki): Ready?

- Today, Al's up there with Nikki

and one of our summer hands, Hunter.

,

with a mix of Newfoundland character

and modern touches.

(Nikki): Take your time.

-

a built-in garage, It has two bedrooms,

It's a perfect size for Mom and us when we visit.

We got all the f

and the walls done, raming

The custom windows have just arrived from the mainland.

,

but Nikki's in charge of getting them installed.

- Ti

p towards me, Hunter. So Randy and Paul are sittin' in a nice warm shop

building stuff, while we're out in the rain.

(relaxed music)

- Hey Paul, you dry? You want a coffee?

- Always.

- And if this wet rain keeps up,

there definitely won't be all these windows in today.

(relaxed music)

- Man, no creamer. Like...

The struggle's real.

Nikki, uh, she's stepping up as the rookie.

But she got a new rookie, so she's kinda,

she's kinda like the teacher now.

- Randy trusts

to send me with the newbie. me a little bit

- EvI'd still like to beke, poout there today,t,

but this is an important key that gotta be done.

If we don't get a plan, we don't have a project to build,

and everybody likes payday,

so that's another thing I gotta be doing.

but with the rain and the wet, the caulking won't stick.

You can't tape the windows. The tape won't stick.

Ahh! Rainin'! Piss pouring rain!

It's enough of this. You can't work, you're getting soaked!

Running down your back and everything!

I'm quittin'. I'm calling it a day.

If the boss wants the windows in,

he's gonna have to come over and put 'em in.

See how he's sat back in the shop nice and dry?

Time for him to come over now and endure some rain.

We're going home, boys! Enough of that!

(Randy): At my mom's new house in Brigus,

Nikki's having a rough old go in the rain

getting the windows in. - Good enough for a duck.

That's true, or what?

If this was a nice calm day, there's no reason why

we couldn't have all these windows in today.

But with the rain and the wet, the caulking won't stick

to the house wrap. You can't tape the windows.

The tape won't stick. So you're better off calling it,

and coming back another time and going at it.

- If I can predict, Nikki's in there

definitely swearing on me.

My ears are definitely burning right now.

(laughing) Any minute at all,

she's gonna barge in through the door.

"I'm off today 'cause I'm wet!"

(Nikki): Where you at? (Paul): What's up?

- Do you have all the windows in?

- We got five in out of 15.

- Five? - Five.

(Paul): How many windows did we... you and me,

put in that day out the rain? It's just two.

- Peace out. - Hey, hey, hey!

Come back here, now. Don't run away.

- But all jokes aside, I am comfortable enough

to do windows. Like, I knew what had to be prepared

and how to do that. I knew about the caulking,

I knew about levelling them all off the bottom.

Like, I was comfortable to do the windows,

it's just the weather wasn't cooperatin' with us.

(Randy): Okay, so you're coming in Saturday?

- No, I'm not coming in Saturday!

What do you say about that? (clicking tongue)

(Randy): Nikki'll get it done another day.

She's not a quitter.

(upbeat music)

The tides have turned, which is perfect,

because we got a lot of people on site

to finish up the Ladha job.

Today, it's all about connecting the docks,

and we got some deadly weather to do it.

The floating dock will be anchored to the ocean floor

by a diver.

My team is building the land dock.

Then we'll lift and install the metal ramp

to join them together.

So, uh, it's gonna be a big day.

(upbeat music)

Uh, I think they got her.

We lifted the two concrete anchors in the water.

They're ready for the divers. The idea of the divers,

they gotta move them out, put them in place,

hook up the chains to the floating dock

so it don't move.

- WSo that's what this wholent. We use set-up is for. gear.

Unlike scuba guys, which have a limited

amount of time because of the tank they wear

on their back, we have the air from the surface,

so you don't run out of air when you're down there.

We have

with an orange lift bag, to float the blocks

pull them over into position, e cut the rope,

so then the dock is held in place,

and won't be able to move.

(Randy): But all the sand down in the water

makes visibility poor,

so it's a tough old time for these divers.

- It all went pretty well. We had a good day for it,

light air. So we're happy with it.

- And with the sun still shining,

p the land dock.

And then this project is done.

(upbeat music)

Back in Bay Roberts, I'm back at the barn.

So today w

We gotta start the roof. e're here.

We're bracing up all It's Althe roof trussesold man.

because we gotta get this beam out of the way.

This gotta go out of the way, dig down, pour concrete floor.

Then we start on the inside, make this a living space.

The original roof trusses are resting

on the original studs that frame up the building.

The weight of a hundred years of snow, rain and wind

has put a big bow in the centre.

That roof ain't gonna last another winter.

It almost ain't lasting another fall.

So we gotta get it done.

We're puttin' new wood alongside the existing trusses,

getting rid of these collar ties and puttin' them up higher

so we're gaining a little bit more headroom.

And then we're puttin' a ridge pole in.

It goes from one end of the shed to the other end

and sits in the middle of the peak

and carries all the roof load.

That way then you don't have these big old

collar ties down in the way,

which is holding up the roof there now.

This rope has lasted a long time.

- No way. - Yeah.

- Yes. - Just the rope?

- Just the rope. (Al): So don't cut the rope.

- Shut the front door. (all laughing)

- I sa

y with the dipping roof, keep that bend, keep the look.

It happened over the years, and it's settling.

So when you try to take that settling away,

you got a risk of actually having the whole

building collapse. The old man,

he wants to kinda shore it up, make it all straight,

so that's a battle. We'll see what happens.

- For me, I think we can take that bow out,

or partly out. We'll never get it straight.

It's a 150 plus year old building.

It's never gonna be perfect.

But I'm gonna try to get it as straight as I can.

- Could be in your way on this side.

- Funny, any other time he'd be a little bit nervous

about doing something risky. Risk of losing the building?

Jack it up. I'm kinda like, save it!

I gotta run

Hopefully, the old man won't collapse that shed or barn.

Stay safe!

- Is there no bend on it?

(Cody): It doesn't bend, no.

- So we gotta drop down a little bit there anyway.

- The problem, is we got a straight ridge beam,

and we got a very bowed roof.

So what we gotta do is, I think we're gonna have to cut it

and jack it in order to get it in there.

The last thing Randy said was,

"Don't try to take the bows out."

But Randy's not here.

(upbeat music)

Two different opinions. Yeah, I've been at this

a little longer than Randy, so yeah,

I think I know what I'm doing.

What we done, we put in some temporary bracing

on each joist.

Cut a big hole right down the middle

because she was too tight,

and then we're gonna run our beam through it.

Plan one is we're

try to set the beam from below gonna

If that don't work, up we're going to plan two,e.

and we're going on the roof and slip our beam down.

So we'll see what happens.

- Come back.

You gonna go...?

- No.

I th

come back more. ink we've just gotta

Anback towards me?t - Okay, you wanna try that?

I'll push with the hammer.

Ready? - Yeah.

It's running a little tight.

(struggling grunts)

I got her caught.

(struggling grunts) Keep goin'.

There she goes. Al

She's tight. That's it. l right.

(Al): That it? (upbeat music)

I'm just jacking up about three inches.

That's as straight as we're gonna get it.

(Cody): Did it work? - It works.

- You make it sound so easy! (laughing)

(Scott): It worked. We got a little tiny bow in our ridge

but not bad. I wonder what Randy's gonna say.

(chuckling) (Cody): Dad's right.

- No, that's never gonna happen. - No.

- Never gonna happen. Yeah.

(Randy): Back in Bay Roberts, I'm checking in on the old man

to see how far he got with the roof.

How you make out?

Did you get the bend out of the roof?

(Scott): Come out pretty decent if I do say so myself,

which I will.

- Never fell down anyway. Did you jack it up?

- Jack it up? Of course we jacked it up!

As soon as you left, we ran and got the jacks.

- Oh, I'll have to get up there and have a look.

- Take a look. - I'll inspect it!

- Don'

t fall over the ladder. - Easy on the ladder. - That's what you gets

for sitting in that truck all day.

- I know. Oh...

Jeez, the old man was right.

- Holy... Did anyone hear it?

Anyone hear that? (laughing)

(upbeat music)

n tied up at the barn

in Bay Roberts, Nikki and Hunter are back

finishing the windows at my mom's place.

- Oh, I gotta go up.

So today, we're continuing off from the other day

when we got rained out.

Vertically challenged. Vertically challenged.

Today is a great day to install windows.

You got a little breeze. It's not too hot.

It's not cold.

Oh, yeah. Let 'er run.

When it's raining, it'll just start to droop down

and be messy, and it won't hold.

And this is your seal around the window,

so you really gotta make sure you got a good grip on that,

because that's what's saving the water from gettin' inside.

So I'm feeling pretty confident we're ready

to put these windows in. Everything should go in

pretty smooth. I'm feeling pretty confident

we'll get these in, for sure.

- Are you gonna be able to lift that up and hold it?

- Ah, can you get it? Line it up a little bit.

What's on the go

How come it's not going in? ?

Right on the money. Look at you!

And we're perfectly plum. You're good to go.

So I just heard from Paul. He's on his way over.

He's got a couple hours to spare.

I'm sure when he gets here, I'll get the...

"I gotta save the day" speech.

He's not coming 'cause I called him.

He's coming 'cause he got free time, and he wants

to give us a hand.

He wants to try to get more windows in, is what it is.

He got Randy's blood. The more you can get in, the better.

(Paul): She kind of gets a little bit mad

when I comes, 'cause she's thinking I'm stomping

on her parade, like I gotta come in and be the hero

and save the day. (laughing)

(Nikki): We even checked this morning, and that'd be me.

Paul had extra time, which actually,

as much as it irks me...

- ...it worked out good that he had extra time,

'cause as soon as he showed up,

there was a mistake and he caught it.

- I didn't fill this in, but yes,

I sees what you're saying.

- A nub, nub, nub.

- Like make

knee wall? it a little

and we furred 'em up less than it should be.

When we framed the house, we had a window

and door schedule, and now all the window sizes

have changed since we framed it.

So we gotta take it apart, because like Paul said,

if you keep stacking board, on top of board,

on top of board, you can't get insulation in,

and there will be a cold spot in this room all the time.

It was the crew's mistake, because we had 'em

measured ready to go to put in place.

But it's like they say, "Check twice, cut once."

I should have checked a second time.

But it just boils me that of course Paul come

and caught my mistake, which I should have caught.

I look up to Paul a lot.

And I respect everything he got to say,

and sometimes that's what hurts, me because I takes it to heart.

One of these days, I would like to be the carpenter he is.

We got a good relationship.

We has our moments. It's not very often.

But I'm just stubborn and hates when he comes

and does the, "I told you so" moment,

and he gets me every time.

But he didn't give me the talk. I thought for sure

I was gettin' the talk.

Paul's worked for his title, and he deserves every bit of it.

So he can come and throw his weight around,

and he knows what he's talking about.

I got total respect for that.

Just when I thought I was gettin'

decent by meself.

Wah-wah...

(upbeat music)

(Randy): With the good weather hanging on,

it's a perfect day to dig out a floor.

So I got Nikki and Cody helping me at the barn.

- So we've got a lot of luggin and sluggin.

We got a lot of stones we gotta get outta here.

- We're here today to try to dig out the floor,

make it all level.

- The student becomes the teacher today.

She's in trying to teach Cody how, you know,

to use the level and stuff.

- Where's Spracklin?

I don't know if it's 'cause it's cold,

I can't see a number. All I can see is white.

(Randy): So it's five and a quarter.

- Lemme see. I couldn't ge

a god blessed thing. t

- She's supposed to be How are you adjustin' it?

- This knob in the front.

And it's the big one... Ah, rookie!

(Randy laughing) - How'd you even do that?!

- Ah!

Okay, five and a quarter.

Step over to that corner over there now,

see if I can, uh, pipe this right.

(Randy): We're digging down the floor today

to get ready to put a little bit of stone

so we can bring in the concrete in the next couple of days.

- Oh, wow.

We're four six and a half.

So write that on the wall right next to you,

four-six-and-a-half.

- So we gotta dig it out, 'cause we wanna gain

a little bit of head room and make it nice and flat.

So, how you guys make out?

- So we got some great shot. Our lowest point over here

is five one. Up here we're four... six?

- Four-six-and-a-half.

- So we got seven inches between there and this point.

So basically from this point we gotta right back,

get all this fill outta here to get that point

the whole way around. - Yeah.

- Okay. Mint. So we can get our guns and start working.

- You got this. Let's get 'er.

(upbeat music)

(Randy): We got the two machines, we got the mini dump.

(chuckling)

We got the little mini excavator.

We're go

to get the machine in nna try

Hopefully, I don't take the side off her today,

but we'll see what happens.

- Ohh!

- You made it! - I made it, baby!

(laughing)

I'm in! - You actually made it!

(Randy): All these rocks that we're taking from the shed

we're bringing them up here,

making a nice little flat area.

The homeowners are picturing like a fire pit,

a few chairs around it.

That mini dump is a great help today.

Can you imagine like buckets or a wheelbarrow

having to come up this hill and dump it?

Look what we got here now, and we're only halfway done.

It's small but mighty. It might

n't move that fast, but hey, if we don't have to use your legs and muscles

trying to get up over that hill,

it can go as slow as it wants. Nine more loads.

- I'm gonna say six... after that one. Wanna bet?

And you gotta have the same amount every load.

Don't go gettin' less and less to try to win for yourself.

(laughing) - I'm gonna say ten.

- I'll bet you lunch on Friday that we got it in six loads.

(Randy): All right. (Cody): Gonna be good.

- So what's gonna happen if we go over by one

and under by one?

(Cody): Then you buy me lunch. - Oh yes, boy!

- Look at rookie getting in on it!

(Randy): We're digging out the floor at the barn,

getting it ready for concrete. For a little fun,

.

We betted a feed trying to figure out

how many bucket loads had to come out,

or dump truck loads. Nikki betted six.

I betted... - What was your bet?

- Nine. - Nine.

So how are we doing for grades then?

(Randy): Some places are lower than other,

but we're in good shape. So I'll get this out of the way,

ready for concrete.

- Another ten feet and we'll be there.

(upbeat folk music)

- That's six. - Six is the winning number.

- Winner, winner, chicken feed dinner.

I think ther

another load there, though. e was still

- I Lunch on Friday!ing to fu- I know... load.

- Awesome. Who's the rookie here?

- I said you were the teacher today,

so you had to teach Cody how many loads.

I was just testing ya.

Cody... (Nikki): You better get up

that hill, Cody, and don't tip over!

(laughing)

Awesome. Thank you!

(upbeat music)

(Randy): Back in Brigus, the Ladhas' new floating dock

is all done.

And the family's already puttin' it to good use.

(Justin): This summer wi

the dock has been wonderful. th

They've become avid fisher people. The kids are loving it.

They fish for crabs and sculpin.

And of course, we use They'vinflatable dinghies, it.

the kayak.

We've spent a lot of time just sitting down around it,

to be honest.

I thought

just be very functional it would

but it's become a focal point to brof the property. out,

I approve of Randy's work. Yep.

We'll have him back for sure. (laughing)

Maybe a boathouse in the future,

but don't tell Randy yet.

(upbeat music)

(Randy): After a long day's work,

we love to come have a game of softball.

I jointed this league before I actually

sponsored the league,

so that's how come I'm on the Firemen,

and I never ended up on Newfound that I sponsored.

- Truly the best ones are on this team though, huh?

- Of course. (laughing)

(Nikki): We totally want him on our team though.

We need him on our team. - It's 'cause they always lose.

Even though it is my team, they always lose.

(Scott): We haven't won a game against these guys, right?

- We haven't won many games, Scott.

- No, that's true. That's true.

(Randy): Tonight is a big showdown.

Me and the old man are going head to head.

e

is ten plus. vel

My (Randy): She's number one .. in everybody's heart.

- You're out! (crowd cheering)

- But we're gonna win today. Today's the big day.

Nottin' better than beatin' the boss.

And having Scott on our team is like two up for us.

- Safe! - Safe.

(Nikki): Grady comes out and watches

pretty much every game. Wears the Newfound jersey,

but roots for Dad.

Sometimes if Dad's not around, he'll root for Pop.

(crowd gasping)

(indistinct chattering)

My first time ever catching the ball,

who'd I catch? The boss!

It was a win in my eyes.

All I had to do was catch him. Gold! It was awesome.

- I did the walk of shame. - Highlight of the day.

- About time you got one! - I know, right?

- We've yet to win a game against them,

so it would have been nice to haul out the win.

Better luck next time for us.

(cheering)

We'll try to scout him for next year.

You coming with us? Coming over to losers' lounge?

- Ahh... I can't really...

In my future, no. I think Firemen

is definitely the place to be.

(Nikki): Get over it. (Randy laughing)

(Randy): Next time on Rock Solid Builds...

Big day today. We're about to cut the roof.

(Paul): Cody, clean-up aisle one.

- That roof wood is gone beyond repair.

- We need to get this project wrapped up.

- We're very close, but there still always can be a hiccup.

(Nikki): Oh, my God. That's not light.

- I think we're ready to see it inside.

- You think? - Absolutely. After you.

Oh

, guys(Deana): I love it. - Wow. What a difference, guys.

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