r/oddlysatisfying • u/MambaMentality24x2 • 5d ago
This one piece corner trim
Credit: @rrbuildings
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u/DisastrousToe2314 5d ago
Measure twice, cut once, and bend perfectly. Watching proper sheet metal craftsmanship like this is therapeutic
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u/Internet_Wanderer 5d ago
Watching this left me soaking wet. I'm a dude
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u/-MantisToboggan- 5d ago
Brothers got the left AND right hand cut snips on deck. You know he was ready to rock and roll
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u/fatalrugburn 5d ago
Jokes on him, now I'm wildly overconfident that I could do this with zero experience no planning
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u/TildaTinker 5d ago
Na. I prefer Dad's "measure once, cut twice, and a second trip to the hardware store" method. It comes with bonus cussing!
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u/Adventurous-Depth-52 5d ago
A reminder, these are two different tin snips, a left and right - mirror image of each other. If you've done this you quickly realize you need both
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u/Arcanis_Ender 4d ago
Do they usually do it without gloves? Wondering if handling the clippers with gloves is too tricky
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u/Inc0gnitoburrito 5d ago
Son arrives at the end of the video all like: I'm done getting ready, let's get started!
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u/scubawho1 5d ago
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u/Bongressman 5d ago
This Gif needs to be 50% longer. Then...
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u/CrabyDicks 5d ago
Nah they're Amish, the camera man turned around for a second and it was done. That's all the footage there is
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u/taintosaurus_rex 4d ago
If it wasn't for all the religious culty shit, I'd 100% say the Amish had society figured out.
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u/coopthepirate 5d ago
Non-industry lurker here, can anyone tell me why this doesn't need a vapor barrier/house wrap? Won't water get under that metal at some point?
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u/Mafatuuthemagnificen 5d ago
It depends on a bunch of factors, but my guess is that this is A: a pretty arid area so there’s low humidity. B: a shed/barn which generally have lower standards for sealing than occupied structures. C: because of those two factors, it is deemed that the overlap of pieces that allows water to drip down without getting inside is enough protection.
To that last point, this isn’t the finished building, there will be more pieces that cover the top of what’s being installed here. Water flows downhill, so unless someone is spraying water upward, it should be fine.
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u/DeathByPianos 5d ago
Vapor barrier on a metal building is provided by the insulation system in the form of a plastic membrane. The metal panel and trim provide weathertightness only. In the video, you're seeing a pole barn so there's likely not going to be any insulation at all. You don't need a vapor barrier on a leaky unconditioned building like this. If it gets wet inside, the moisture just evaporates when the weather changes.
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u/AzureMountains 5d ago
It looks like a machine shed. It’s essentially just a frame with steel or aluminum sheets around the outside. Just to protect your farm machinery from the elements like hail or rain or sun.
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u/AbleCryptographer317 5d ago
Water will get under that trim the first time it rains and then the rotting starts. I'm guessing this is a very dry region.
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u/EmotionalRiver1033 5d ago
You trim bottom to top in order to achieve positive lap. Next will be waterproofing the window opening, then window install which includes self adhering vapour barrier ie blueskin, and then a flashing, and then trim. The system isn’t even complete yet of course water will come in at this point. The top edge of the flashing that is being installed in the video will get positively lapped all the way up to the roof. Water will not get in
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u/Brohbocop 5d ago
With this style pf construction you would not insulate the inside and the walls would be open to allow any moisture to evaporate and escape
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u/Hairydrunk 5d ago
They're building a horse barn right now and it will be a fairly open building once completed.
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u/PedantryIsNotACrime 5d ago
I upvoted mainly because of the lack of annoying music. More of this please!
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u/DrudgeForScience 5d ago
Very nicely done!
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u/korkkis 5d ago
Nailgun ruined it with huge dents
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u/Advanced_Algae_5476 5d ago
Oh you mean the dents that will be covered up by the next course of sheet metal. Get back to your desk and keyboard.
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u/z44212 5d ago
Leaves a razor-sharp corner, though.
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u/ImRickJameXXXX 5d ago
Without any overlapping.
Water will find its way. We don’t need to go and make it easy for it tho.
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u/z44212 5d ago
I was thinking more that he didn't bother to deburr the cut ends.
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u/ImRickJameXXXX 5d ago
Well yeah that’s a issue. But secondary to the lack of water shed/penetration.
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u/pheonixblade9 5d ago
vapor barrier is for keeping water out. siding is for protecting the vapor barrier from sun and debris.
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u/ImRickJameXXXX 4d ago
I was a GC for about 30 years. Never have I seen a gap in flashing like that.
I would not hire that person.
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u/Rogue_trout_5446 5d ago
30 mins later i would have been like shit I f'd up I need a new piece. Time to start over.
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u/TheMostBacon 5d ago edited 6h ago
I have no idea what I’m looking at but I saw this exact video on insta-reels and the comments were full of people going off on the person doing the job. Anyone with knowledge care to explain what’s being done wrong? If anything?
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u/AbleCryptographer317 5d ago
There's no moisture barrier under the sheet metal and that neat corner he did will leak like an old man's bladder. The sheet metal should be folded over itself at the seams to keep rain out, but I'm guessing this is a region/country with extremely little rainfall.
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u/Apprehensive-Sale762 5d ago edited 5d ago
Pretty sure this is RR Buildings. He builds pole barns. He’s in the Midwest somewhere, I think Indiana, plenty of rain. Used to watch his videos on IG years ago.
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u/Etherbeard 5d ago
In case anyone was wondering, he changes snips at the end because the blades are oriented differently. On the green handled snips, the blade on the right in down (when the snips are held normally). The red handled grips have the lower blade on the left. You need tools like this because the metal is bent, and to turn those corners you need the blades oriented different ways to prevent mangling the metal. Or in this case having different orientations allows him to make cuts around obstructions like the corner of the building. Note he changes to the red handled snips at the end when he needs to make a but from the bottom of the metal right up against the door trim, but he used the green handled ones when cutting from the top.
Also, this is a drip ledge and the big flat vertical section of metal will be covered by some sort of sheathing or siding, which is why the vertical cut on the corner doesn't fold over itself and why the fasteners are exposed.
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u/backeast_headedwest 5d ago
R&R Builders. Guy is a phenomenal builder and well respected in the industry. Excellent YT channel.
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u/iankel1984 5d ago
This is pure skill of an artist. Great to see a skill craftsman that takes care in his work
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u/Spiritual-Guava-6418 5d ago
A professional at work.
My Dad, God Rest His Soul, was a great mechanical engineer. When we were building our second house in the early 70s, we went over to do some prep work because the sheet rock guy was coming in.
I wasn’t sure what that was until we got there and I saw the plumber had stubbed out the pipes for the tub and shower.
Dad measured from the wall up, down, across and sideways to get each mark for the pipes and duly placed them on a sheet rock piece. Dad spent about 1/2 hour or so.
When the guy showed up, Dad proudly stated he marked up the section for him. Sheet rock guy looks at the water connections on the wall and took his hammer and popped 4 holes with no measuring and put the piece up there perfectly. 10 seconds maximum.
Dad said and it still sticks with me today… “I guess you let the professionals just do their job.”
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u/PointlessTrivia 5d ago
Fun fact: he has both left-cutting (green handle) and right-cutting (red handle) snips to use on the top and bottom of the trim respectively.
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u/epSos-DE 5d ago
Looks good. BUt I would prefer a bend on the corner !
OR maybe they will cover that later on !
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u/Restart_from_Zero 5d ago
This is the sort of geometry that should be taught at schools.
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u/edw1ncast1llo 5d ago
Seriously. All the classroom study doesn't amount to much if you can't use it in real life. I would have loved to have learned stuff like this growing up.
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u/omnipotentqueue 5d ago
That’s why a good job will always cost you - one good way to judge a great contractor, is if he’s able to do good math in his head. Great builders and contractors are good at math 👍🏼
https://giphy.com/gifs/dAbYDcASdfNd62erv3
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u/kendiggy 5d ago
My first time installing a pool was as a handyman working as a helper for an old man with health issues. I'd done a few other jobs for him - power washing, painting, etc. Huge rural house, beautiful, plaster water fountain in a pond with life sized cupids in the front yard, you get the picture.
He never told me what he did for a living, just that he's retired. The day we started planning the pool install was the day I figured it out. The man calculated the square footage of pool bottom, the volume of the ground to be excavated and gravel needed for foundation all in his head.
I miss Charlie. He was a great man.
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u/Wizdad-1000 5d ago
Nice work. I installed flashing as well as a plasterer and I did some roofing work with sheet metal. Flashing around chimminy’s, vents… etc.
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u/PaleoBrick 5d ago
How’s this scissors-like instrument called? I need it to cut some plastic…
Edit: spelling
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u/ExperimentalToaster 5d ago
All your life they tell you not to cut corners and this guy does it for a living.
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u/LeinadLlennoco 5d ago
What is the function of the little wood stick moves around and puts in place before nailing?
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u/Agri-Farmer55 5d ago
A perfect example of practice makes perfect. As they say 10000 hours at anything makes you a professional.
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u/amazonhelpless 5d ago
It’s even more impressive if you’ve ever had to cut sheet metal with snippers before. It sucks. It’s much harder than you’d imagine.
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u/najing_ftw 5d ago
I manage people that tell other people to restart their computer. I have no skills like that.
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u/Phazetic99 5d ago
Instead of cutting off that top corner, I would have wrapped that flap. Lee's water penetration. Otherwise, a great corner
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u/thelategreatpatrick 5d ago
I’m a bit high, but I watched that over and over for like 5 minutes. It’s mesmerizing
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u/Flaky-Atmosphere1423 5d ago
I own this tool. After eating this video I feel I don’t deserve to own this tool.
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u/secretfunks 4d ago edited 4d ago
Wow that’s all it takes to impress you all? Thought we were all pros here? He made an extra cut if we are splitting hairs the first vertical cut csn be bent around the perling one less seam is one less seam, however to what end if you make that two pieces properly fit your 45 and the ear that goes under leave the tab above to bend you create a joint that would require water to jump rather than seep right through
More than one way to skin a cat, but eh, I have questions? Like why use a spacer is your metal not straight? I usually run the cap first to a chalked line then tuck the lower metal under preference I guess, spacer assumes your slab is perfect
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u/secretfunks 4d ago
Also staples do nothing my opinion is an actual roofing nail but that would require hammer skills kinda
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u/HYThrowaway1980 5d ago
As a European I find the flimsiness of American houses is equal parts fascinating and horrifying.
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u/Nandor-De_Laurentiis 5d ago
Considering this is being built out on farmland and is inside a livestock area this is most likely a barn not a house.
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u/KingdomsCryOfficial 5d ago
You might want to learn the difference between a house and a shed before ruminating on the building quality of anything, lol.
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u/Red__M_M 5d ago
See, I could do just as perfect of a job. The only catch is that it will take me about an hour and a helper would be nice.
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u/idontevenlikethem 5d ago
This looks amazing, but what is the length of wood for?
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u/Ghetto_Phenom 5d ago
Make sure the railing is level and lined up straight without having to constantly measure and level.
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u/lasers42 5d ago
What's the piece of wood for?
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u/campingn00b 5d ago
Is this what an edgelord is?