hi I'm Bob Vila welcome home again to our addition project here in Newton Massachusetts today's an exciting day we're doing all of our work indoors and we'll be doing finished carpentry we're gonna be tripping out a patio door we're gonna be building bookshelves back in the workshop and then bringing them here and installing them in place and most exciting we've created a very very wide window seat that goes under those windows at the rear of the addition stick around it's great to have you home again Sears presents Bob Vilas home again okay we're getting started with Bob Riley and his helper Mark McCulloch here and we're gonna be installing these bookcases now the architects design is pretty clever because it helps to separate this whole dining area in the addition from the the family room TV watching area and of course we'll have a step here and they off they set it off-center we've got a six-foot unit over on this side that marks fitting in and then a three footer here how's it look that's good nothing like a new construction yeah really yeah so it's level is it plumber is the wall well a piece is nice and level the wall is out of plumb and as you can see what we have is a gap at the bottom and so what we're going to do is set the scribes and take off that much material all the way through this yeah so even though it's brand-new work very often to fit finish cabinet work up against new walls you have to scribe with a simple subscriber a compass $0.25 used to be a 25-cent gadget about the backside gonna do the same thing to the back making sure we get all the high spots off so it'll go up against the wall okay yeah the high spots are the problem there's always little high spots in the plaster right that are gonna be keeping it from fitting in perfectly and on this side it might be blocked by the trim of the window but on this side it's totally visible into the room yes you'll see that for sure how much do you have to cut off it's about a good strong eighth of an inch so what tool are you gonna use it's I think we can get that with the belt sander oh really that's what the soft pine okay there it is okay well while we finished doing all of this I want you to take a look at how we assemble these bookcases back in the workshop all right up against the fence and push so we've taken a 4x8 sheet we've cut it into two pieces right one is three by eight four and women's five by four right so it's manageable basically it's what we're trying to do is make it manageable as well as maximize the use of the plywood right this is the cabinet that we're going to be building which is four feet high and in three feet wide right so which is nice we know we got a full foot cheat sheet of plywood we want to utilize the full sheet basically the cabinet's got one two three four pieces right the top is different the top is a little different right and their shelves in the shelves and these are the sizes of the pieces we have right here we've already laid it out the key to this particular cabinet is it on this corner over here is a finished corner in that dining area right call and that's out in the open so we don't want it but it together we wanted mitered together exactly so the first thing we want to do is we're gonna get that miter cut first right all right the tablets change that saw blade okay okay so this will be the side that's the sign and now we've got to make the back panel right okay now that we've got everything ripped we're going to replace the blade and put in a dado blade so that we can plow out where the bottom shelf is going to be going okay now with that dado cut we just have to do the other side in the back and we're ready to assemble great okay the secret of getting these pieces joined and having a real sturdy bookcase is to use biscuits right you're gonna biscuit this 45 together and we want to mark both pieces where we're going to be coming into it okay now we'll get the glue on it that's the bottom right here and we'll put the bottom shelf in first let's see well slip this and I want to put these biscuits in okay okay where's that melt good all right I'll set here so we just need the other side on now go ahead let's do the other side don't you you don't need to put biscuits on this side no this is the side that has the words buttered that's right scribes right this is gonna be scribed so how is this being fastened say I'm just going to glue it okay that's a face frame isn't it dress it up and tighten if you've got a flush on your outside okay it's flush on this side again this here I can scribe into the wall we're attaching the bookcase to the wall using 2 inch drywall screws with a grommet and the grommet really dresses it up because you're not gonna try to cover up any of this although the bookshelf will be painted but it makes a difference when you put a little touches like that you ready for the top yeah toss that now this is worth this detail with the quarter inch strip the reveal really comes in very nicely because when you create this shadow line effect across it and now are you gonna be attaching this with smaller screws I presume oh definitely these are inch in 5a to going to be sure not to let it poke through the top yeah we're using this product up here that's called Moonville and the color goes through it so that you can take a router bit as we did and put an edge on it like that it's a thermoplastic and it's got some wonderful properties and that you can use it in kerb situations and bends but you don't want it it's you don't want to put hot on it however if it gets scratched you can sand it right out nice job mark if you look over here we've got our shelves in place this one is complete and we've gotta take a break for messages don't go away I'm gonna be trimming the doors over here in just a minute okay you got it yeah all right these boxes that we've made are actually the window seats that we'll be installing a little bit later on in the show right now let's take a look at this edition because although it's only 16 feet wide and it's divided and stepped down it's a fair amount of volume and one interesting thing about the space is that the design lines up with the axis of the front door of the old part of the house so that you walk through the traffic pattern is straight through this little opening that we've left in between the bookcases now let's get together with mark McCullough who has begun the process of trimming out these patio doors what we have here is a 5-footer right mark yes so it's a five foot sliding bypass patio door flanked by a couple of dead lights they don't open but they let lots of light into the room and the width is well you've got extension jams on here how big are these about four inches or so four and a quarter and what we have here is a situation where we've got a carrying beam above and that's why we have the width of the of the framing here now you've already put them in and I know that when they insulated the house they put fiberglass into these pockets from the outside and we've got drywall there but that doesn't mean that this is all on an even plane right right what's the first step in trimming this out well the first step would be we put our two side casings on okay now we'll carry the header okay and the casing stock is typically milled so that you've got this central portion of it plowed out and by doing that you're sure that you always get a nice tight fit against the extension jams and if something is irregular or sticks out too much in the middle this won't hit it all right before we put the header piece on let's notice that it's also milled the same way but we've had a bed molding made which fits over the top of the header like this to create this profile which matches the rest of the 1935 interior trim in this house ready mark yes okay what's next mark now we'll cut the mullions to the two lengths now a mullion is a pocket in between different window elements or window and door elements and the stress the trim is called the mul strip there's Molly and strip that's what this is okay now we're ready for the moldings and this is our bed molding which lays flat on top of the casing butts right into the wall should you nail that in from the top or through the face I'm gonna nail it down from the top I think it'll be sturdier yeah yeah yeah and this one of course goes right here and you've got to cut just right good go for it okay I think I'm gonna nail it from around at the other side we have to break through some messages don't go away hi I'm Bob Vila next time on home again we're doing lots of finished carpentry working with pine my favorite we'll be showing you how to build a beautiful set of bookshelves that act as a divider between the dining area and the family room also in the workshop we're building a window seat that gets installed at the far end of the room and we'll be showing you how to trim out a set of patio doors don't miss it that's next time on home again there you go I think we're gonna have to do a little bit of trimming right yeah all is definitely well we built these window seats in two sections because they're big they take up the whole width of the addition about 15 and a half feet and I think it's gonna be a very successful little add to the design here because in the wintertime you can just picture a kid sitting here looking at the squirrels scurrying about out there let's see shall we get the other one in place yeah that's right against the wall all right maybe this is the outside part these are built with this reveal at the bottom kind of because the baseboard heating will go directly on the front of it should it be that far in got a feeling fitting this is gonna be a little problematic can you pull that out just a bit yeah another wrench or so good now you've left enough room so that we can trim it out right right if we put the in excess on the face of it so that we can scribe it into the wall and and here we're taking the angle using the framing square we're taking the line of that bit of wall and continuing it along the face of this and then squaring down there okay that's what we take all right let's pull it back out and cutting this is gonna be a little bit complicated isn't it but right well we use a circular stock it's not again eyes going it's basically you got a box here to cut through and then the face of this right and the the body of the window seats made out of birch plywood because it's gonna take a nice coat of paint but still you don't want to you don't want to squirt well you don't want to mess it up with your saw when you cut it that's right so we'll score the whole thing with that utility knife and that cuts the grain on the face of the plywood so that when you're cutting through it with your circular saw you don't have to worry about lifting the grain and getting that choppy edge that's the bottom side nobody's gonna see that now what kind of a blade do we have in the in the power saw we're gonna cut this with a hollow ground cleaner blade it's not plugged in yet no it's not and a hollow ground planer blade is gonna show you there's gonna get a nice smooth cut on that plywood the teeth on this are not set so then right they're all kind of going in the same direction they're not flair two against each other away from each other right that's gonna keep the yabbering down okay plug it in for you okay and this is one of these new extension cords that has a ground fault interrupter built into it case you're working in a wet area all right and see how it fits yeah now how are we gonna join them together we're gonna use the drywall screws probably I think inch and 3/4 okay it's same thing to attach it to the wall Riley if you just drove the screws directly into the studs behind the sheetrock the drywall what would happen well we would have it it would rock back yeah we don't want that because it's regular wants to be right now the shims are gonna keep it there there exactly because there's a gap and we have to fill that gap in otherwise the whole front face of it would be pulled back all right now this is a little heavy and it's all it's all one piece and then one piece I'll saw it over you got it all right beautiful five four oak which is what makes it heavy and that's forever how are you gonna attach this we're gonna attach these again with the drywall screws attention 5 8 and we're just gonna fill this hole with an oak plug put a little glue on it and that will sand down right boy this is pretty you got a break for some messages and don't go away the secret to having a heavy lid like this work and not break is to put in a piano hinge a six-foot length of it which will really do the job we're out of time come home again next week when we'll be installing a brand new furnace for the edition also will be visiting Paul's cabinet shop where we'll learn about panel saws and all the different tools they use to create those beautiful vanities in this case our bathroom vanity and when we install it here we'll show you how to fit in the countertop till then I'm Bob Vila it's great to have you home again you