all right how's it going everyone this is Dominic aka dozer what I'm gonna show you in this video is how to make these wall panels 2 3 4 how to make these ceiling and these straddle trap panels alright that's so much about doing this video however this video is gonna be long so it's gonna have many parts all right so I got my lumber for my panels I got 6 1 by 4 by 8 and I got 8 1 by 3 bytes so right here we have the safe and sound Roxul safe and sound for panels of that for our tour for the ceiling cloud and 2 are for a straddle that's gonna go it's gonna straddle that line right there wall to ceiling alright 2 of those and then I got the oh oh see 7:03 2 inch thick those are 3 inch thick those are 2 inch thick and I'm gonna build all the panels for those and that right there is a shoe know there's two shoes holy two shoes yeah this place is a war zone right now sooo else we go over here sorry about the lighting but corner brackets I got 32 of those because I'm making eight panels stud finder various hooks for when I'm gonna hang them on the wall some chain when I'm gonna hang it up in that upper ceiling wall area you'll see that later staple staple guns real bits those are 80 pound hooks those 120 pound hooks way more than what I need that's go-go juice using the Makita drill alright so yeah let's do this I'm gonna start cutting and measuring alright so the rock soul is gonna have 15 quarter that way but join it up against the 47 inch piece of wood for the panels I have the wood here and it's 1 by 4 by 8 and it's one-inch but really it's not it's 3/4 of an inch thick the 4 inches is really three and a half inches and they are eight feet long but it's just that's really 3/4 inch thick but they call it 1 inch and that's really three and a half let's call it a four-inch okay so one buy for bait and I measure my 47 marks here you and I got a little arrows where I'm gonna be cutting for this one and I'll be cutting for this one and that's gonna be like just a little piece of waste all right and I'm using this tool to make my straight lines all the way across I don't have to do that but if you want to be finicky because you want to have straight cuts all right I'll show you how to do that you basically take your tool all right sorry about the lighting it butts right up against this flat slide it along and then you will use your pencil to mark right across there but this up against there come along to my 47 marks right there take my pencil mark all the way across where'd you set them for that side or you soon for that side now I do have a circular saw but I'm gonna be using my black & decker jigsaw for this just because I'm in the basement my circular saw is out in the shed and this will work I got a really nice blade on there it's really good for cutting wood okay it's a wood blade make sure using the right bleed for the right job all right so here's my homemade sawhorse the corner of my chair and this table and I'm gonna cut right there and for safety I recommend some eye protection as well as earplugs if you're gonna be using Saul's and such and any time I'm using high power equipment you know operating saws and chainsaws and things of that nature I like to kick back with one cold one of whatever right here I got some vanilla Java Porter but from Atwater brewery all right I'm gonna be drinking that while I do my thing so yeah safety first people all right so I got my wood cut for my safe and sound ceiling panels and such now for the OC 7:03 panels those are gonna be 32 and 6/8 and that's four there and then for the length these are fifty three and four eighths all right that's what I'm cutting for you got to be kind of strict on these because they're rigid fiberglass and you can't kind of squeeze them into lower tolerances but I'm cutting at length and at width okay pretty much exactly this stuff is kind of squishy you can squish it in this stuff's a little bit more firm all right that's got some nice firmness to it like a board okay I mean it's soft but it's just rigid fiberglass okay so you got to be more accurate on your cut with this as far as your Linkedin width this right here I cut it probably a hair short like 1/8 not even like 1/16 shorter than what it needed to be so it's gonna fit in there kind of tight I'll be able to just smush it in to the panel frame so I'm gonna go cut this now all right for these I got the 1 by 3 by eights and of course that's really 3/4 inch thick by two and a half inches wide all right and that's 2 inches thick so that's gonna be like a half inch of play in there all right and there you feet long and I got 8 pieces which is just enough lumber for my dimensions and I have a little leftover a quick note when cutting for your longer lumber and when you have a like a longer panel like that you always want to cut your longer lengths first all right well it depends on what you're cutting but for this situation if you don't cut your longer lengths first you're gonna screw yourself all right just trust me on this so I'm going to call my long lengths first my fifty two and three eighths where the it was and then I'm gonna cut my 32 and six eighths cuts otherwise I'll end up screwing myself with the amount of lumber I have just know that that's a situation you might run into so you need to be cautious when you're cutting your lumber so you don't screw up all right all right so I got all our lumber cut now there are a couple other pieces of them we're gonna be using four spacers behind the panels those are two by two which is sitting over there but that's far from now and right now I'm gonna first I'm going to start building those over there my ceiling clouds and my straddle panels and I'm gonna be using that wood there and I'm gonna be using corner brackets we use four packs each one has four I'm building four panels there's four corners all right so if there's four panels and there's four corners it's four times four equals what's sixteen so I have sixteen corner brackets all right one of the main important aspects when cutting your lumber for your panels all right is you need to add extra to the length all right if you're gonna be doing this kind of blood joint here all right you need to add your extra three quarters of an inch there and your extra three-quarters of an inch over there okay because as you can see it's gonna have to extend past the panel in order for this to butt up against it all right so three quarters plus three quarters of an inch if you're using the one inch thickness which is really three quarters inch you're going to need to add 1.5 just 3/4 plus 3/4 equals 1.5 inches so you'll need to add 1.5 inches to your length in this situation this stuff's really really compressible I'd only accounted for one of my 3/4 inches all right that means I cut this 3/4 minutes longer than my panel that's because I want to fit and they're tight all right now that's stuff over there you want to be pretty precise so that I cut a full 1.5 inches longer all my lengths okay so measure twice cut once you've all heard it most of you have you need to make sure you're doing this properly or you will screw yourself and then you're let's cure yourself because if you do end up up which a lot of you probably will you can always trim off whatever you don't so let's say if I this was a I could trim off this little piece right here okay if I wanted to but this stuff is going to compress in there so I'm not really worried about it on this one however on those like I said that rigid fiberglass you need to make sure you don't up or you will have to cut off like an inch possibly to get it to fit so I just thought I'd throw that in there so run with it okay so corner brackets now personally I always pre-drill my holes but with this soft way would you don't have to it's not really gonna split but it's just a habit and it produces a more quality job if you ask me and what you do for the corner bracket is you line it up you hold it here you drill your first hole alright while holding on to this bracket so I just hold on this and I drill into there and then I put my screw in there and it's ready alright I do the same thing for this side for this side and for the other side so I basically have it screwed on there alright I went ahead and drilled those in already but for demonstration I'm showing you this one alright once you do that it's already there you don't have to try and hold it by yourself it's already being held up so then all you got to do is use your drill and then drill the rest of your holes alright without even holding it this will just speed up your whole process if you're gonna be drilling depending on the kind of wood you're using personally I'm gonna do it like I said but with this kind of wood I could just screw it in but I'm gonna pre-drill now my drill bit isn't longer than three quarters of an inch but I could pretty much I this I'm only going in about that far okay so you don't want to drill all the way through your wood I mean you can if that's what you want to do but you don't have to so I'm only drilling as long as my screw is and I'm just I in it alright so there's another little note you might want to take so I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna go and I'm gonna hold the wood square and I'm gonna basically drill all the holes drill my holes over there over there and over there then I'm gonna switch over to my bit what this does is it prevents you from switching between bit and drill drill bit bit drill bit bit over and over just so you can screw a hole and then drill and then screw another one and then drill this is just a time-saving thing that you can do if you're gonna be drilling about the drill I'm using you're wondering it's a Makita all right it's got a little flashlight on it LED all right it came with two batteries the 18-volt lithium-ion all right it's got this charger plays music and stuff that's pretty awesome but it's hard as the batteries real fast I got this one right here charged I got that one course fully charged and when I got this thing I was like 270 when I was not him but if tech for Chrysler for like four years I had one I still have it it's outside I'm not using that one right now I'm using this one but uh it lasted for years it's still going and I used it multiple times I tore apart many vehicles the insides of many vehicles using just that one Makita so there's a lot of brands out there but this is the brand I use alright cuz it works for me and I had no problems with them other people may have a different experience I'm using liquid nails and I am just gonna be putting a DAB right there just a small dab don't mind that whole I kind of I don't know if the that was all about but don't put a DAB here it's a little slide and then it's gonna made up there alright someone go ahead do that now for those you yes there are some that may not know how to use this thing all right it's basically a caulking gun in order to use it you got a first cut off the tip here with a razor which already did to the size that you want all right for your bead cuz only comes out its gonna be the size of the hole right but before you can even use this you got a puncture the seal in there okay so that's what this little thing on the front is for you just stick it inside here Ram it in there and it punctures the seal because if you just cut the tip off and you put it in here and start trying to use it you're gonna get nowhere you got a pump well you might explode the thing I don't know but you need to make sure that you puncture it then you stick it and go in and go to work alright alright so there's how much wood glue I'm using very small amount for the situation you probably wanna do it on your carpet but I'm not worried about it because I didn't go off to the edges so it's not gonna when I make these together it's gonna flatten it out it shouldn't come past this edge here and it shouldn't come past the edge here if it does I'll just catch it with my finger something I'm really worried about the carpet plus I can get always cleaning off the carpet if I have to but I'm not going to get it on the carpet so you might wanna put some plastic on here or something like that or do it on some concrete but that's all I'm gonna use no need a lot and now I'm just gonna go ahead and do it to the rest and put her together all right so we got a full panel complete here this is one of the ceiling clouds panels it's gonna be high hanging above me all right a couple of ideas other ideas they do have plans for frameless ones you can make ones that are frameless I'm using the internal corner brackets and these corner brackets are actually pretty beefed up all right but they're real cheap there are two dollars for a pack of four at Lowe's I mean sorry at Big Lots yeah Big Lots baby so another thing that I could have done all right since these are really small and light is I could have just used wood glue and drilled a hole from here into here and I could have used one or two screws right there two screws over there two screws over there there and there with some wood glue would work just fine as a matter of fact let's one this small I could get by with just using one screw and some wood glue right there and over there and over there however I wanted them to be pretty sturdy alright in case I ever move or a case I want to move them and that's why I'm using the corner brackets alright just another little idea for you alright now if you're pressed for time I'm gonna show you like I said this is soft white wood I don't really need to drill and I'm going to show you that right now there's our even faster way if you're not being too finicky about stuff now you're gonna want to make sure you line this up perfectly alright that's not extending past your thing alright it's gonna be flush so do this at your own risk look like it is laying it up fill it in make sure you get the center all right that one over here I have a magnetizer the magnetizes might snap on this is a snap-on Phillips bit all right if you're using a cheap one it might strip out but if you get a high quality Mac or snap-on you no worry about that kind of but I do have a magnetizer that magnetizes the bit boom now you put my wig glue on and then put my other screws in screw those in good to go I can make one of these in probably three or four minutes all right so when I made my super chunk corner traps I had some waste basically it got cut off the ends but I'm actually gonna use it to make a panel as you can see I'm sticking them in here all right it's gonna line them up in there and you can use them to make part of your panel I got some more over there and I'm gonna use two also all right so just to show you another way to speed up your whole process you can use an assembly line approach and that is where you line them all up you put your hardware on there and you basically screw them in you don't even need the drill like I said depending on the type of wood and you basically screw them all in I'm gonna drill all right but you don't have to so yeah boom all right those are your end caps then I got to do is two of those will go on the sides and then those oats you will go on to the other sides simple as that alright so there's my four panels done already two of them are going to be the ceiling cloud and two of them are gonna be my straddle traps basically straddling the ceiling the wall connection and then the other two are going to be above this mixing area on the ceiling so I'm gonna continue on and build these other ones those should probably take me yeah 30 minutes probably less you