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Pocket Door Installation

Gilson Novaes from Gilson Interiors uses a bullet-nail gun to install a steel plate directly to the concrete floor for the partition wall that will hold a pair of pocket doors. When open, these doors will create a five-foot opening and give the apartment a great-room feel in the main living space. The standard prefab pocket doorframes are screwed to the steel framing and leveled. The advantage of using the prefab doors is that the framing serves is both wall and door framing, eliminating the need for second wall to hold the drywall. Bob also looks at the advantages and versatility of steel studs.

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Pocket Door Installation

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" Riots -- great -- this is the steel plate for part of the partitioning here we've got -- and with us. Now what is it you're shooting there the -- is -- end -- that goes right into the concrete sure little and I was told that in the gun and shoots right and then hold its track all right you one more ago there. Yes. So lot easier than taking a masonry nail lower. Our crew and all that revving up -- it still involves a little license and of course are protectionist good idea. Yet. All right and what what we're doing here though is basically creating. This. Division between the living room and the dining room I -- the bedroom. What was -- was a single door and now we're gonna put an end to pocket doors which will create. What a five foot opening right yeah five feet. All right and steel studs will be. Put in place just temporarily he's cut it just the right Lexus open so that he can bring in the sections of the pocket door from the Greek patents -- continue to pick this up at any hardware I mean -- lumber yards. Sometimes you have to order that they don't necessarily stock and right. Is that what goes -- Yup that's next. And so now we're attaching wood to metal. The collection. There. But this basically will be the nailer for the wallboard right. -- logo right upon that. No reported loose screws that hold the two met together right along the bottom for -- please. The advantage of the metal studs is that you can do all sorts of different things than your cutting notches here right right show -- do not to just rolled. -- capable Stewart. Because we're running a length of TV cable across the top of our framework. Let's face it committed OK and then you look at that goes right up there. And essentially. We've pretty much got. That's all there yeah. Well -- that's good skills and so the big advantage of buying a prefab frame like this is that your pocket doors will go right in there right in here. And you don't have to double up the walls. As if you were starting from scratch -- really have still one thin. Single service which is an almost sisal -- wall they're normal size of walker nice job thank you."

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