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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I heard podcasts, hear more kiss podcasts, playlists and listen live.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
On the Free.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Now with the podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Great Day for Traders, construction and anyone. I feel for
anyone working on a roof today.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Concreteors, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Well they will never They'll never put a shirt on concrete.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
To say the same thing.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
I feel like, they love it.
Speaker 7 (00:41):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Get the rigs out.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And isn't it a little true that most of the
concreteors I've met are just slightly unhinged.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
In the best possible way. There's a there's a level. Yeah,
because remember Brad who we went to Vegas just a
little unginged.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
I love him.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
So yesterday I was on site at my house. We're
doing a build at the moment, and I asked Corey
to come and help me after the show because I
decided to try and do a couple of things myself.
Anyone who's done a build knows that the budget blows
out and there's a couple of ways you could try
and save some money. And one of them was like,
I could do the insulation, because it's not you don't
(01:24):
need a trade or anything. You just need to basically
cut it and shove it in the walls. I've seen
it done, isn't.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
It fiberglass and itchy?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And like you can do it If you don't insulate properly,
then things, Yeah, you've got to You've.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Got to do a good job, and which I know,
like I'm fastidious with those things. I make sure you
know and I read up about you know, all the things.
You can't have any air gaps and things like that.
But the itch is an issue. So Cory yesterday and
I re warned you before the show. I said that
the day before, I sent you a Texas it if
there's any chance after the show you can help me
out there, he said, great that afternoon, Yeah, an afternoon
(01:58):
before you had time to not wear short shorts and
a T shirt because I know. I actually took a
little video and I'll post a bit on Insta today.
This is this is Corey. Any short shorts and T
shirt while we're sweating up on the top level of
the house insulating summer.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I like your safety. You're not going to get it you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Doing a push style.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
So because I gave you, I went and got him
some some protective glasses and a mask breathing.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
That you want to be breathing.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Hows you itch today? How's your itched today?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's all gone. Really, I told you I was going
to go home and use that scrub because it's it's
a it's a fibers that obviously that's sit on your
skins scrub.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Because I'm still at you and I had full sleeves
and pants. I want my fishing shirt and everything.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's like it's like that skin scrub. It makes your
skin really soft and like cleanses it. I don't know
what it does, but yeah, it so just.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
It's not teaking's good face.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's expensive, but I don't care.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It got rid of my I was actually I bet
the kid up and one of the guys there goes
Juz you don well. I'm not feeling well. I feel
good at all.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Because you gave me about four hours worth yesterday. I
was there all day. I've been there pretty much all
day Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Monday. So I did before
Grand Final. I went and put in about five hours
on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Just understand the scope of work, Like how big is
this building? I mean, how much insulation are you putting it?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
It's a large house. But I'm doing like two floors, yeah,
two story house, and I'm doing all of the ceilings,
so the roof and then also the underfloor so you
don't hear people walking upstairs, and all of the walls internally.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Do that by yourself.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I didn't think enough.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I don't reckon you've thought at all, Go to the trades,
Go to the trains.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yesterday saw me absolutely wrecked and they were leaving at
like five point thirty the two because one of them
said to me, how are you feeling about your decision?
Very kindly but just looking at a defeated human, And
I was like, yeah, I said, I've made a terrible mistake,
but I'm in it now, so I'm going to finish this.
So I'm going back today. But my question is when
(04:22):
have you bitten off more than you can chew? Like
I does anyone try. If you've tried a bit of
DIY or something, you thought, yeah, I can do this,
I can save myself a couple of ground, I'll do
this easy. Maybe you've tried to put together your own shed.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I know you have a girlfriend that decided to build
her own mud brick house.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
She got up one wall.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And then the next week went to real estate dot com.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
So what if you tried to do and bitten off
more than you can choose? Thirty one oh six fives
out of But.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
When have you bitten off more than you can chew?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
And Alana is in from our news.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Hello, Well, I actually have kind of a similar story
to to kip I.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
It's a home runner.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
After years of living at home, my partner and I
finally finally bought a house and we were going to
move in in July.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Great reno will be done in winter.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Do I just gone?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
July? Just gone? We've pushed that out to maybe Christmas next.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Maybe Christmas, because it's like, I don't know, I just
I knew it would be difficult, and everyone said it
would be hard because we bought a fixer upper, Like
that's what you can afford when you're a first home
buy it right, And I'm really lucky. I have a
lot of trades in my life, but even with them,
it's like installation, like painting, picking a paint color. Oh
my gosh, there are fifty shades of white.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
I never thought white.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Half shades of the American. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
I so severely underestimated the emotional labor of this because
even like my cousin's a plumber, and he came in
and he kind of goes, you know, do you where
do you.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Want your taps? And I said, well, the like where,
like where? What height? How far away from the wall?
And I thought, isn't that what you two?
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Like?
Speaker 5 (06:11):
What you're here for?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
There's so many things, Rochelle out of Corona Downs. What
did you try and do yourself?
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Chelle build a tiny house on wheels, like from scratch? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
My daughter and I were facing homelessness in twenty twenty
two because there was no rentals available after the Lismo flood.
So yeah, I bought bought one, Michelle. I was putting
it together. I had all the materials, and there was
(06:38):
this countdown to when we actually had to move out
of a unit, and I had to put the call
out on Facebook saying hey, could anyone help me? And
thankfully a builder said, look, I'm about to stand my
crew down for a week because we're in between bills,
and yeah, if you need a crew, just pay my
wages bills. So it took a trady and his three
(07:00):
apprentices a week. Wow, you were going.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
To knock it up on a weekend.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Try it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Just out of west Ipswich cold. What do you learn
when you try to do a reno?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Mate, I have learned an awful lot over the last
eight years.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Is it just one rehno? Or have you done a few?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's one reno. I bought a house. It's an old,
old minor's house, and I've worked some time. I've studied
sometimes some of that as well, but took this challenge on.
I've moved walls, I've done driver I've done plumbing, timing,
I've learned a whole lot of YouTube and Google and
(07:47):
what doesn't work, you pull it apart and redo it.
It's a work in progress and I'm too invested now,
so I've got a diction.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
You've got to keep.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
How much?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
How much have you had to pull apart and redo?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Some of the tail and went a bit Stewis I
pull tiles off the week.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
You did your own.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I had a hand to do some work, so I
pulled the dining room sealing down and did it properly.
I pulled drive all off at the bathroom and he
lived the plumbing so it was center of the bathtub.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Not excuse me, Chris Tell me this, How much money
have you spent?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I have no idea, like much more than it would
have cost you thousands. I am cheating Bunnings.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I know how sad is the second or third trip
to Bunnings in a day, And you're like.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Oh, you're agad exactly going for a two dollars either
men come out five hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Done that, Well, we've got one hundred dollars to spend
at Galactic Donuts for you, Chris
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Just what I'm
I heard podcasts, hear more kiss podcasts, playlists and listen live.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
On the Free.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Now with the podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Great Day for Traders, construction and anyone. I feel for
anyone working on a roof today.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Concreteors, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Well they will never They'll never put a shirt on concrete.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
To say the same thing.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
I feel like, they love it.
Speaker 7 (00:41):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Get the rigs out.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And isn't it a little true that most of the
concreteors I've met are just slightly unhinged.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
In the best possible way. There's a there's a level. Yeah,
because remember Brad who we went to Vegas just a
little unginged.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
I love him.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
So yesterday I was on site at my house. We're
doing a build at the moment, and I asked Corey
to come and help me after the show because I
decided to try and do a couple of things myself.
Anyone who's done a build knows that the budget blows
out and there's a couple of ways you could try
and save some money. And one of them was like,
I could do the insulation, because it's not you don't
(01:24):
need a trade or anything. You just need to basically
cut it and shove it in the walls. I've seen
it done, isn't.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
It fiberglass and itchy?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And like you can do it If you don't insulate properly,
then things, Yeah, you've got to You've.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Got to do a good job, and which I know,
like I'm fastidious with those things. I make sure you
know and I read up about you know, all the things.
You can't have any air gaps and things like that.
But the itch is an issue. So Cory yesterday and
I re warned you before the show. I said that
the day before, I sent you a Texas it if
there's any chance after the show you can help me
out there, he said, great that afternoon, Yeah, an afternoon
(01:58):
before you had time to not wear short shorts and
a T shirt because I know. I actually took a
little video and I'll post a bit on Insta today.
This is this is Corey. Any short shorts and T
shirt while we're sweating up on the top level of
the house insulating summer.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I like your safety. You're not going to get it you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Doing a push style.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
So because I gave you, I went and got him
some some protective glasses and a mask breathing.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
That you want to be breathing.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Hows you itch today? How's your itched today?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's all gone. Really, I told you I was going
to go home and use that scrub because it's it's
a it's a fibers that obviously that's sit on your
skins scrub.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Because I'm still at you and I had full sleeves
and pants. I want my fishing shirt and everything.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's like it's like that skin scrub. It makes your
skin really soft and like cleanses it. I don't know
what it does, but yeah, it so just.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
It's not teaking's good face.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's expensive, but I don't care.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It got rid of my I was actually I bet
the kid up and one of the guys there goes
Juz you don well. I'm not feeling well. I feel
good at all.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Because you gave me about four hours worth yesterday. I
was there all day. I've been there pretty much all
day Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Monday. So I did before
Grand Final. I went and put in about five hours
on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Just understand the scope of work, Like how big is
this building? I mean, how much insulation are you putting it?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
It's a large house. But I'm doing like two floors, yeah,
two story house, and I'm doing all of the ceilings,
so the roof and then also the underfloor so you
don't hear people walking upstairs, and all of the walls internally.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Do that by yourself.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I didn't think enough.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I don't reckon you've thought at all, Go to the trades,
Go to the trains.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yesterday saw me absolutely wrecked and they were leaving at
like five point thirty the two because one of them
said to me, how are you feeling about your decision?
Very kindly but just looking at a defeated human, And
I was like, yeah, I said, I've made a terrible mistake,
but I'm in it now, so I'm going to finish this.
So I'm going back today. But my question is when
(04:22):
have you bitten off more than you can chew? Like
I does anyone try. If you've tried a bit of
DIY or something, you thought, yeah, I can do this,
I can save myself a couple of ground, I'll do
this easy. Maybe you've tried to put together your own shed.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I know you have a girlfriend that decided to build
her own mud brick house.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
She got up one wall.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And then the next week went to real estate dot com.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
So what if you tried to do and bitten off
more than you can choose? Thirty one oh six fives
out of But.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
When have you bitten off more than you can chew?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
And Alana is in from our news.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Hello, Well, I actually have kind of a similar story
to to kip I.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
It's a home runner.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
After years of living at home, my partner and I
finally finally bought a house and we were going to
move in in July.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Great reno will be done in winter.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Do I just gone?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
July? Just gone? We've pushed that out to maybe Christmas next.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Maybe Christmas, because it's like, I don't know, I just
I knew it would be difficult, and everyone said it
would be hard because we bought a fixer upper, Like
that's what you can afford when you're a first home
buy it right, And I'm really lucky. I have a
lot of trades in my life, but even with them,
it's like installation, like painting, picking a paint color. Oh
my gosh, there are fifty shades of white.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
I never thought white.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Half shades of the American. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
I so severely underestimated the emotional labor of this because
even like my cousin's a plumber, and he came in
and he kind of goes, you know, do you where
do you.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Want your taps? And I said, well, the like where,
like where? What height? How far away from the wall?
And I thought, isn't that what you two?
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Like?
Speaker 5 (06:11):
What you're here for?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
There's so many things, Rochelle out of Corona Downs. What
did you try and do yourself?
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Chelle build a tiny house on wheels, like from scratch? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
My daughter and I were facing homelessness in twenty twenty
two because there was no rentals available after the Lismo flood.
So yeah, I bought bought one, Michelle. I was putting
it together. I had all the materials, and there was
(06:38):
this countdown to when we actually had to move out
of a unit, and I had to put the call
out on Facebook saying hey, could anyone help me? And
thankfully a builder said, look, I'm about to stand my
crew down for a week because we're in between bills,
and yeah, if you need a crew, just pay my
wages bills. So it took a trady and his three
(07:00):
apprentices a week. Wow, you were going.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
To knock it up on a weekend.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Try it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Just out of west Ipswich cold. What do you learn
when you try to do a reno?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Mate, I have learned an awful lot over the last
eight years.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Is it just one rehno? Or have you done a few?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's one reno. I bought a house. It's an old,
old minor's house, and I've worked some time. I've studied
sometimes some of that as well, but took this challenge on.
I've moved walls, I've done driver I've done plumbing, timing,
I've learned a whole lot of YouTube and Google and
(07:47):
what doesn't work, you pull it apart and redo it.
It's a work in progress and I'm too invested now,
so I've got a diction.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
You've got to keep.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
How much?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
How much have you had to pull apart and redo?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Some of the tail and went a bit Stewis I
pull tiles off the week.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
You did your own.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I had a hand to do some work, so I
pulled the dining room sealing down and did it properly.
I pulled drive all off at the bathroom and he
lived the plumbing so it was center of the bathtub.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Not excuse me, Chris Tell me this, How much money
have you spent?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I have no idea, like much more than it would
have cost you thousands. I am cheating Bunnings.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I know how sad is the second or third trip
to Bunnings in a day, And you're like.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Oh, you're agad exactly going for a two dollars either
men come out five hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Done that, Well, we've got one hundred dollars to spend
at Galactic Donuts for you, Chris
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Just what I'm
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