and now we see Salut! well hello everyone from the Bergner backyard today's gonna be a

bit of a different video we're gonna be doing some home renovations in my parents home

home yeah we're gonna be building a new deck yeah because whatever we have over

here is just a slab of cement that was here when we bought the house yeah and

the people that build this they forgot to put any rebar or anything to

strengthen the the cement so everything is cracking everything is out of level

yeah we're gonna build a beautiful deck yes so the exciting part about this

project is that Jeff from home renovation DIY come to Brampton to fix this deck

we we've been binge-watching their channel they do it all and they explain

it in a way that any homeowner that is not very handy yeah Us!

I can do it you know there's no one greener than me camera this channel is

very informative and it's worth your while if you're gonna have any project

any renovation and you want to do it yourself and save some money basically

if you want to see the technical stuff of how to build a deck you can check out

Jeff's video here we're gonna be showing you the behind the scenes and then at

the end of it all we're gonna do a big reveal have a big barbecue are the time

Argentine styled barbecue the way we like it and show you the little staycation oasis

that is will have here so that is the plan we need to show you our shirts yeah DIY

okay the only thing is that me El Jefe I'm the boss right here. He's the boss.

they gotta be careful with their yeah coffee breaks it's nobody smokes or

nothing get better breaks a water break I gotto okay all of that. a but let's rewind a bit so I can

tell you how exactly we ended up with Jeff in our backyard it all started with

an email from home run vision DIY last December Jeff and his wife Michelle had

watched some of the video Sam and I filmed barbecuing with my dad in the

backyard and of course our concrete slab of the deck had made a bit of an

appearance their expertise saw a potential DIY project so they sent us an

email to see if we were interested in a collab their channel teaches homeowners

how to tackle home renovation projects big or small and they could envision a

backyard oasis perfect for staycation I told my parents about this email I had

received and it took them all of five seconds to say yes yes please

so here we are but now we'll let Jeff tell you the plan we originally were

just going to come down and do a really simple kind of pressure-treated lumber

you know resurfacing but we got lucky so a partner who's helped us out we're

putting in a Brazilian IPE deck which is a hard wood exterior product that's like

no maintenance we're gonna put a sealer on it and then we'll check back with you

in about ten years and see how it's doing really so really what it is is

it's a DIY project with really high-end amazing materials that have been

designed for DIY installation so we're gonna help Sam learn a few skills put

together a nice pergola some Sun Shade finally we're gonna see Samuel with a

hammer using some material and I've already pinched my hand and oh well

blood sweat and tears that's why I went here

so what did we get up to on the first day you asked well we were mostly

sorting the wood that had been delivered double-checking measurements getting to

know each other and also feasting this is a latin-american household so it

wasn't long before homemade empanadas and wine entered the picture so we

didn't get started on the build but we did some of the prep work and ate like

kings and queens we're getting nothing done

we're gonna have the best siesta ever

day 2 early morning and we have come to Home Depot to pick up some extra

supplies that we need wood lumber here we have them in the back doing their

numbers

nice we got a seven I needed seven of those shopping mission completed

look at all the stuff we got guys like he came to it was like 500 600 600 Canadian dollars unity

in there and this is going to allow us add an addition oh sorry we have to go

the other way oh so oh it's opening you open sesame'

now to load the truck out a little bit

you get a nice little trick it we're gonna nice a little fire security

since our concrete slab was on the smaller side of things Jeff decided to

build a deck extension so we spent the morning working on that

Sam and I were tasked with digging holes for the concrete blocks some of the

holes were neater than others but more on that in a second

Togo the project manager inspecting that everything's turning out okay I

think we need to show you guys holes Sam would you like to showcase the the hole

you dug tell us all about it this one that's like the size of a bathtub yeah

let me just say went a little overboard hey and you're not gonna show mine -

beautiful mines perfection right here guys versus fans all right guys so it is

day two we spent the morning at Home Depot sure did fine we dug six holes

uh-huh I did one thank you for starting the credit he's making mine about twice

as big as I need to be right yeah so we're just building a simple floating deck

day you have two box beams and then we're gonna put our floor joists on top

of that I call the floor joists just people can kind of understand right yep

and then we're gonna put our deck tiles on top of it and we're gonna have a

finished deck today that's that's incredible right just a few hours we can

have this side finish and then we'll be prepping this side for tomorrow

hopefully we can get all of our pergola posts in today yeah we'll see how we

hold up see how they hold up I'd be having too much fun to get any work done

this afternoon that we've got a good lunch coming up El Jefe he has arrived what

happened it is lunch time lunch time we got that we got all the

hard work done that's all it's time to chow down on some lunch we are having

its polenta as like a tomato sauce and that's why see spicy sausages we got to

meet oh and we've got some sausages oh it's bubbling so we have asado a

low-down what's it in English again Asado A La Olla or that I think it's a beef like a

Peruvian cooked in a pot yeah there is no English word for it

after lunch it was time for some fun with power tools

the love and the Crescent Wrench here

okay no hospital chess no how do you like using power tools it's fun does all

the work

who's a good-looking boy Oh Togi is I'm so good-looking it's me they're

talking about me voila to meet our crooked concrete slab

yeah he's like no worries guys I'm coming I got it I've got a solution

what's going on oh geez

got rich muscle here that's it we're killing Samuel well so we're gonna give

them a break you know so anybody who's a friend you know fans of Samuel and

Audrey you've seen you've seen Daniel on the show yeah sometimes I appear here

there is the ultimate storyteller okay yeah so you want to try out some of

these tools and toys and have some fun and drill some holes that's it I'll let you be like a nice

materials maybe we'll find oil who knows we'll get lucky

you're so strong you actually listen stop the drill bit from moving they send you sheriff in town let's go

So Samuel you're fired. I'm fired. Wow. I've never seen so much strength before in my life.

is a three so two questions for you guys yes what did we get up to yesterday what

did we accomplish and what's happening today I was like the floating deck

yesterday it's easy yeah we got our yeah we were like

digging digging holes we were all enjoying that we were all enjoying that

we out that was like a really fun group you sprained your wrist it sprained my

wrist yes lately strange no recovering you're

working hard yeah that's good you're feeling better and today we're building

a pergola yeah ooh fancy not just any pergola this is a pergola

that's nine feet tall we're gonna have Sun sails stretched out in between I

mean gorgeous it's gonna be gorgeous yeah all right so uh weather - yeah so

now we have to put up these hundred pounds posts everywhere hard hat day

hard hat day yeah okay well let's get at it

El Jefe has arrived to participate in Day 3 of a build has a ride after he's a

share of work somewhere else somebody has to work to pay the bill

right

the man in the yellow hat do you have a status update for us

that's update those guys are doing some serious measurements over here it's

doing some grunt work trying to give them basically the the deck tiles to

work with mmm-hmm well we are making very good progress guys this is what we

finished yesterday voila this is what we've been working on

today looking good coming together and I think we're gonna be taking another food

break soon yeah

today has been a bit of a heavy lifting day I don't quite have the same muscle

power as these boys so if I'm mostly helping in the kitchen we had a nice

lasagna for lunch now we're gonna do a picada

for dinner a bit of a mid-afternoon snack because it's been a long day today

we started at 9:00 and I think we're gonna be working until the Sun Goes Down

it might be a 12-hour day to be honest so yeah I'm gonna make sure everyone is

well fed and hydrated it is the end of day three everyone is hungry so today we

are doing a piccata we're going to introduce like a big snack we've got

lots of deli meats cheeses chips peanut spreads pickles olives it's gonna be

good I'm tired everyone but the deck is looking good we are making progress I

think we just need one more day guys one more day

like me when I see my card and I have the five in one at my back pocket guys I

need to show you how ridiculous the dog Togo is look at where he has decided to

position himself right in the middle of the action of course oh well I've had an

easy day Jeff has been working his tail off no you only have one hand yeah thank

you anyways we've made - Jeff is a major industry

chipped in with Togo approved sleeping on every inch of this deck well yeah

we've almost completed the the second section of the deck right now yeah one

more holiday we should be good one more one more day okay guys we've got the

barbecue yet to come so stay tuned for that right some more work and then we

got some good food good morning right in there we're up bright and early today

there is the potential of rain there's the Sun this the sun's out right now a

four day four and the deck is looking fantastic yeah you guys have made

tremendous progress yeah well we're getting there we're getting there how's

your wrist this morning my wrist it's it's a little better well we'll try to

finish off the floor before the rain gets here mmhmm yeah at least it'll be

functional then it's gonna be great that's the nice step you know make it

functional yeah and then we'll make it pretty

then we'll make it birdie all right we'll check in with you later

mr. inspector is at work early in the morning inspecting that everyone arrived

yes everyone is here yeah Togo oh my this has been so much fun guys so much fun for me

with rain on the forecast day four was a short work day we made a bit of progress

on the deck but then called it a day and went out for sushi we didn't film that

looking good good morning guys Day 5 still going strong so today should be

the final day well tomorrow we're gonna have to seal the wood it's been raining

so we can't really do that right now but we are on our way to Home Depot yeah we

need some like I think it is some kind of like bolts and some screws and we're

also picking up some some covers for the bottom of our patio furniture yes I'll

scratch them yeah because it's metal and we don't want to scratch that beautiful

new wood so yeah we're gonna do a little errand at Home Depot and then we'll give

you guys an update as to what's going on in the backyard and guys today is a big

the main event we're having the barbecue we're having the asado so let's go

so what do we have well I think we're gonna go with this we have I think we

need close to 20 of these and this is a package 48 what does this do what's this

is for these are for the round legs for the patio furniture the chairs the

tables so we don't scratch the wood yes you are these can be custom cut and we

have like rectangle strips and there's a 2-pack in each of them so we figure four

of these should be enough yeah it says heavy duty so hopefully you can handle

some rain we can handle some rain exactly all right and now we need to

find some more supplies they gave us a little list so let's continue

that's the daily soundtrack Togo

the big job that afternoon was getting the pergola beams up the boys did the

heavy lifting and once that was done we installed the sails the team chose white

and blue for my dad a little homage to the Argentine flag

and now for the final day of the deck build day six was all about the