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Installing a Window Seat

Bob meets with Ryley as he installs a two-section window seat with a built-in reveal for baseboard heating. With a few measurements and a bit of scribing, Ryley fits the seat to the walls.
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Installing a Window Seat

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" He's going to -- this stuff. Reveal the bottom kind of because the baseboard. Heat we'll go directly on the front of -- could be environment. You have to allow can't -- And got a feeling fitting this is going to be a little problematic when. In part what. As you can pull out is that that. Rhetoric is now. Now you left enough room so that we can trim it outright bribe him with a an excess on the safe side it. We can describing while. And here we're taking the angle using a framing square and taking the -- of that been too long. And continuing it along face in this. And wearing down there. All right let's put back out. And cutting -- going to be a little bit complicated -- right -- as they have second thought not again have gone to basically got a box here to cut through and then. The face in this. I'm finishing -- and lead the body of the window seats made out of birch plywood is this going to take a nice coat of paint but still you don't wanna you don't wanna. -- And that cuts the grain on the face of the plywood. So that when you're cutting through with your. Circular saw. You don't have to worry about lifting the grain in getting that choppy edge. We're going to cut this that they I was grown queen of -- not plugged in yes you know it's not. And -- hollow ground planer blade. It's gonna true that you could get a nice smooth cut on that plywood. There's the teeth on this are not set so that right there are kind of going in the same direction are not flared up against -- away from each other right that's going to keep doing your burned down. Okay. -- And this is one of these new extension cords that has the ground fault that erupted built into it. And if you're working a wet area. Nice and clean it all right let's set it back up. -- outfit the home. -- Good good good that. How we're going to join together. Glad they're using drywall screws on the end vacations require OK and same thing to attach it to the wall. Ryley he just drove the screws directly into the studs behind the sheet rocked the drywall. But what happens. We really haven't got there would rock back here we don't want that has its its. Record wants to be right now rescinded and keep that there exactly there's a gap and should fill that gap him. Otherwise the whole front face of it would be pulled back. -- all right now this is a little heavy. And it's all. Don't want peace pregnant and -- here solid week. -- what he's growing and it's. But what. He got it. All right. Beautiful five -- Which is what makes it having and that's forever how are you gonna attach this really attacked Steve again with the drywall screws. Can -- today. And we're just gonna fill this hole with an -- from the --"

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