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Installing a Mahogany Windowsill

In this episode, Bob and Chris Vila are installing a Mahogany windowsill. It has been precut with a cleat and bevel to make the installation easier. The sills are large enough to be shelves, a nice characteristic of older construction techniques. Bob helps carpenter Abel Lopez of Two Trees Development install a piece of pre-primed Poplar molding to the floor edge with a butane-powered finish nailer and a wood adhesive. To aid in the construction timeline many trim pieces in this job are precut and pre-primed from the lumberyard. In the closet, Lopez is attaching shelving and trim as a closet organizer. As a nod to mid-century home design, Birch colored, hollow-core, flush sliding closet doors are added. They are easy to install and don't require the framing of a standard door or the complex installation of a pocket door.
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Installing a Mahogany Windowsill

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" Stuff like this is really exciting this is mahogany and it's got. The cleat already applied to it with a bevel cut into it and Christian is gonna fasten this one down the regarding cut. Thank you gotta bring in one side first and then fit it down. -- the wall on this left side of that perfectly square guess what it's an old building and then we're just fastening down into question. But to get mahogany like this really adds a nice touch is all the windowsills in the loft. We'll have natural finish on it as far as I now and then Abel over here at this other foreigners is. Using an adhesive like a liquid nails through that kind of a product. On what is essentially also milled. Baseboard and if you look at this profile you can see what I mean this stuff is -- but it all comes preprimed. And it's got this kind of very urban looking almost industrial looking profile to it theories that are not able. And it -- So here. The adhesive does a lot of work but then he's got one of these new nail guns. That uses butane. And a battery. And sometimes jams a little bit carried out. This is also up. Pre primed stock from other -- are right this is the top shelf that before you do that what else were you putting up. OK go to. When you. OK I got home. Good enough room to clear. I would -- give -- a real good sanding so that your paint job is first bridge. All right so we're using flush doors. Hey you kind of a mid century look if you ask me that they're very popular again. And these are probably need -- should think they're hollow core. Bob and we're hanging them so that they are basically your sliding bypass situation. The lot easier than a pocket door pocket door situation. If you really problematic when you've got I think coming track got. Then tighten it up and then the only problem I see is. But you don't want to really have to look at. The working Angeles this is not -- himself. Covered over I think we've got a piece already -- And the idea is. To attach it. Are there -- pre drilled it on a drill press that so that he can use these four inch screws. And drive it straight into the bottom of the -- That's the eighteen volt cordless. The Santa. And fasten one last screw them. And we're out of here."

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