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i want to show you something for uh you
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uh young carpenters and remodelers Uh
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you might not have seen anything like
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this before So this let me show you
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where we are First of all we're in an
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entrance hall This is a simple coat
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closet Here's the front door Um this is
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going to be a box for a fiber internet
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connection It was the only easy way to
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get the fiber optic cable from way
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across the gar garage into the house And
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it's actually a perfect location because
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it's very centrally located So the modem
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is going to do a really good job here
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Okay Instead of framing this out of 2x4s
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and trying to drywall that that little
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recess I decided to build a box out of
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3/4 inch plywood This entire area here
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on top of this closet is a big void
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space because it's a big vated ceiling
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in this room So I was really lucky that
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there was this huge space to be able to
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do this And of course I cut out the
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drywall There's a wall stud here and
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then there was a wall stud here So I
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just made the box fit between them So
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it's about 24 in wide 16 in high and a
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foot deep All right And I uh went ahead
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and what you're seeing here is I just
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put the corner bead on and coated it
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with Durabondon 20 which is a dry
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setting joint compound It sets up very
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quickly I did that about a half an hour
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ago So it's going to be ready to wet
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sand here very shortly And then here's
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the real trick So I took some of the
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excess and I coated the side walls of
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the plywood and filled in the grain with
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the Durabond And it's very sticky And
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when I coat all of the plywood which I'm
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going to do uh it will look just like
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drywall when it's finished All right so
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when you're on the ground once it's
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painted yellow again you're going to
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think that this was made with drywall
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But guess what it only took me 40
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minutes to make the box All right from
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scratch And I had the box installed in
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about 10 minutes Uh another half hour to
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uh put in the electric and the fiber
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optic uh cable and conduit Uh and the
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whole point I'm trying to make is if you
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know what you're doing you could do a
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job like this start to finish in one day
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The key is to use the dry setting joint
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compound that sets up very very rapidly
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and it allows you to put multiple coats
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on in just a couple of hours All right
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so I hope that was helpful Hope you
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learned a little trick here that uh use
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plywall You don't always have to use
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drywall You don't always have to use
