How to nail J Channel
HOW TO | J-Channel a Window (Perfectly Every Time)
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alright what's up YouTube we're gonna do
a Jake channel video today we're going
to show you how to avoid stuff like this
yes this is on my own job by some of my
higher paid employees so they're gonna
be watching this video as soon as it's
done as well okay thank you okay as you
just saw in that other video even some
good Jay Chandler's can have some bad
habits and that can that can cause that
kind of thing to happen a lot I'll show
you guys that see I don't even I don't
ever need to see that on my job site
you'll find out why weird stuff like
this is not necessary from whatever
anyhow so real quick you're probably not
gonna want to use tape measures and
stuff unless it's needed like for
example if I needed to get the side
piece right now a little hard to hold
this up cuz it's often so you can use
your tape measure for things like that
but people who take the tape out and
pull all their numbers beforehand
they're probably gonna be a little bit
slower and we can actually challenge
that towards the middle slash end of
this video I'm gonna do a channel
challenge okay so stay tuned find out
what that is
tools you'll need you're gonna need a
speed square for sure some snips I got I
got my favorite right here these are the
little Reds the right handers you can
carry left's on YouTube for a trick that
I'll show you towards probably on one of
these other sides of the window so you
just need a knife with a straight blade
in case once in a while
and sometimes like I had a knife all
these windows off right here these
little corners come over here bed but
you see I got I got this one pretty flat
by knife and this off these are brand
new windows but if you look really close
at this one right up in there you can
kind of see it's got this lip it's got
this lip on it hey
sometimes can mess with your dude
channel a little bit so you want to make
sure that first off you definitely want
your Windows flash correctly and then
you also want to make sure that they're
pretty clean sometimes if you're doing a
remodel on siding you're gonna have
nails sticking out and there's all kinds
of stuff I can get either way so let's
get started real quick so what we need
to do is we need to figure out our first
line okay so what this j-channel
is close to an inch I'm not actually
sure what it really is 7/8 maybe it's an
inch a little bit extra play so if you
want to come show them exactly where I'm
marking here so um I'll probably go
maybe about maybe about right there
inch and a half or so passed I'm gonna
come over here now I could mark this I
could work this with my pencil right and
just somewhere somewhere random where I
know I've got enough play for this piece
but really what I usually do is I'll
just come over here I'll make a mark
kind of like with my thumb and I'll just
go like that you know if you're into
efficiency pencil from the year okay so
now that I've got this cut I'm gonna
start with one one one side I usually
just start with my left okay so we're
gonna get that started what we're
actually doing here is we're gonna run
our run our snips down this edge for at
least an inch a little bit past and then
also down this edge and they do make a
good notching tool for this I've never
used but uh you know it's really
expensive it's like 40 bucks I can get
through that really quickly it's not
worth it for me to buy it so I'm never
gonna buy it if you guys are really fast
with it or whatever
let me know if it's but I don't I don't
think it's gonna come down to it after
you guys see this you might agree come
over on this side of the window here so
what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna line
that up right there okay and then I'm
gonna come over here and I'm gonna make
a mark okay and now I'm gonna cut that
much and if you've got excess like for
example if I didn't make a very good
mark right there and I had a piece that
was and I had a piece that was maybe
this long let's say twice the length I
probably would cut it down and take that
little bit off and you'll probably end
up seeing me have to do that somewhere
else because this cut can be a little
tough to make down a straight edge some
snips will get they'll get a little
rocked because of it so it'll start to
throw your your snips one way or another
so you don't want to have to come come
down here and you take this really big
long straight line you're better off
just cutting a little bit off we're
gonna bend this this way and and we're
just going to try to get to that line
we're gonna get the tip parsnips in
there and you can do that with pay your
snips just the tip tip that's right
Matthew Lord so you can use a bigger
snips like this too but I prefer when
I'm doing j-channel
definitely just to roll with some little
guys like this okay now when I put this
up here originally I put this side good
and then I marked this side okay so what
I'm gonna do just just to kind of
double-check my mark and I'm not gonna
take all day doing this is just a simple
little mental note you can take right so
you're gonna come over here and you're
gonna put this mark exactly where it
seems that you would want it right flush
with where your pencil mark okay now I'm
gonna come over here and I'm gonna check
this go ahead and show how that looks
and if it looks if it looks perfect
which it does then you can go ahead with
it okay so I'm just gonna put one nail
in the center you have to maintain
pressure just one nail on the center a
lot of people say not to drive this home
make sure it can be
so you don't want to overkill on nails
but you definitely want to put what you
do back nails coming in over here - all
right I don't like that I think it might
be the nails not like I said before you
want to make sure that there's some
nails that are clear so these Matt
probably had his Lackey out now if we
have that same issue should be a little
less severe
it's a lot better now when I said was
we're gonna have a piece coming around
here so this is already gonna get nailed
here so I don't need to put nails really
realistically I could just leave this
one nail in there but I like to also
you're gonna have utility strip getting
nailed into here as well
undersell trip so that's also gonna re
secure this bottom piece you really
don't have to go crazy on the bottom
pieces okay now one trick I didn't show
you so it looks like about forty nine
right to my thing you probably want two
or three extra inches so there's a lot
faster in the second time but for
anybody who's beginner come see that you
want just a little more than an inch up
there okay and probably a little closer
to two inches down here all right now
we're gonna have to put a 45 on this I'm
going to do I'm going to do this because
I don't know fast doing me being
right-handed or what but I like to do
this side first okay so we got to put a
45 degree angle on this now so what a
lot of people are going to struggle with
this they're gonna do this they're gonna
fumble their speed square around a whole
bunch right so I don't really have a
good way yet to remember this other than
putting this this flat part on this part
is really uh isn't always going to give
you the correct 45 degree angle but I
mean maybe if you think about it if you
were to like stab yourself let's be
square right you probably want to stab
yourself in this way can almost stab
yourself this way not the sharp side but
the blunt side your stabbed yourself
with the blunt side that would be
correct every time so if I was to do
this like okay imma stab myself at the
blunt side boom that's correct for that
one now I've never thought of it that
way but if it helped somebody not fumble
with their sweet square you're welcome
so what I'm doing here
now we left our self a little bit of
playwright an inch or two so what I'm
going to do is this this length right
here okay that's roughly an inch how to
put my tape on it this really does not
matter so don't don't get too crazy with
now I'm just showing you guys here so
that's that's about an inch it's
actually an inch and an eighth you can
go into the corner or whatever you just
want a little bit of stuff or a little
bit of room to flap that down and get a
male in there okay so we've marked our
45 now and again if you pay attention to
that you'll usually not run you'll
usually not run out of space up here
okay now I'm gonna make this 45 I'm
gonna show you guys a trick to avoid a
lot of times your corners will be just a
little bit short from touching anybody
who's done j-channel
well know what I'm talking about this is
kind of a little bit of an example now
not really it's kind of actually a
pretty decent corner but sometimes if
you've got like like a square right
there where that's kind of open
forty-five you're gonna start right here
as if you're about to cut as if you're
about to cut straight right well I want
you to go inside of that cut a little
bit okay now you're and you're gonna
push back through so you see do you see
what I did with my line there how I
started directly on the line and then I
walked inside of it what that's gonna do
is it's gonna make your angle just a
little bit longer and you won't you
won't run short and then I usually just
kind of put my finger there and go as
straight as I can at that and then I put
my thumb deep in here and I always open
this up if you open this up it won't get
caught it won't get caught on the back
corner and then you just take this off
and there's really no part to this this
part will just get in the way if it's on
okay if that's on you won't be able to
fold this around to the inside so take
it off and I always take it off back to
this point where like I said you can
really stretch that corner and be able
to get right up inside of there
so we're just gonna go ahead and put
this on right now and you see I've got
got plenty up there I can go ahead and
mark this out okay I've got plenty of
space up there more than an inch and
what I'm gonna do down here so I'm gonna
hold this tight okay and you're just
gonna mark this line here I see that all
right so then we're gonna pull this down
when you cut this just you don't have
this you don't got to go up straight in
the line okay you can actually cut that
loose there because you don't want this
to get in your way all right all right
so that should fit you want to make sure
you remember to cut this before you
please go up okay so we remember same
thing this there's really only I didn't
explain this earlier there's really only
two when you're doing 40 or a window
you're gonna have only two things you're
gonna have this cut here which we did on
these bottoms and you're gonna have 45
degree cuts like the one I just did it's
pretty much the only two things you need
to know I basically taught you dang near
everything you need to know for you to
be able to figure it out already that's
how simple this process is okay really
what we're just showing at this point is
uh how to finish out the process so that
there's no guessing for you guys so
we're gonna get in there we're gonna cut
right on that line sometimes it can get
a little curvy in here and that might
mess with your stuff a little you can
push that back down alright so we're
gonna put this here we're gonna make
sure that fits good you see how that
window or how that turned out
okay and now I gave you guys a little
bit extra on that point remember how I
took a little bit out so once in a while
that can get a little long this one I
would say is not long but if you wanted
to you could always come through and nip
off a little bit of that corner and
that's gonna look a lot better with a
little bit of a nip corner than you'll
ever then anybody would ever say with a
corner like that
pretending that this was all flush here
that that would be a lot worse than
having a little bit of a nip corner just
so you guys know so we're gonna up here
if we can reach it go ahead and feel for
it and that's good now so we just got an
early sign off again we will have
another one wrapping around on top so we
don't exactly have to waste our time
putting a nail really close over there
okay
you don't gotta overkill on these
probably probably to two or three nails
for a window this size down the edge
depends on sometimes your insides will
try to push out here because the
pressure of the corner you just put this
up here make sure that's in there good
see how that moved it a little nice
little judgment you don't destroy this
all right you really don't what you want
is you want this little flap to hold
this corner from trying to move outwards
too much you still want these to have a
little play but nothing serious I would
say tighter is almost better but you
don't wanna breathe on the dang thing
and let it crack okay which by the way
it is cold out and I didn't talk about
it yet but sometimes when it's cold out
if you're getting ready to cut a 45 it
it can crack the j-channel really easily
so I've seen people try to grind 45s and
stuff and all this in the winter it's
ridiculous if you have a decent pair of
snips you can most likely get through it
without it cracking if it is cracking
you just have to give it a blow and you
don't need to sit there for three
minutes blowing on one piece of Jay do
like a just like a scuba dive one I'll
demonstrate an embarrassing way that's
really almost all you have to do okay
and then you'll be able to go about your
40 your 45s which would realistically be
that way you should be able to go about
that just fine okay so now before we get
to this Airport so on we just have to
first thing we gotta do is we gotta put
that speed square on give ourself a
little more than an inch always start by
making that angle first some people try
to put this piece up here and go
got enough here and I got enough here
and when they try to make marks here and
here like no just put your 45 on already
and go after it okay and remember I'll
show you guys again for anybody who
might not have caught it we're gonna
start right there and we're gonna we're
gonna eat into that line a little okay
and then we also want to eat into that
back too
we're going straight at it we're gonna
get our thumb in there and we're gonna
open that that little mouth right there
okay we're gonna open that up a little
bit extra we're hoping that a little
extra because that's gonna allow our
corner to sit as close as we can get it
just a little with this little gap here
needs to sit as close into this little
calf here as possible and it looks like
this wind already got moved over a
smidge it's okay but for example if this
window was moved over you see this right
here come come shining on here
that move that that window got moved in
so you can kind of see a little bit of
that I'm gonna show you guys what would
happen if I went ahead and write this
right now so you can see what what flies
and what doesn't so this is pretty much
as tight as I do we get that get square
with it down level and everything you
can probably see the silver behind their
silver taping in here okay so that
probably would not be all right so what
I can do for that is you can take your
knife and I got a weird I got this
double blade but the one broke off
otherwise I'd have two straight blades
in this because I'm doing siding and it
would help me get at both sides here but
you can just push that into there see
the knife on the other side would be a
lot better right now and then put this
into here you don't want to overdo it
okay and then you could you could just
score this a couple times and this could
come off just snip some diffic
there we go all right so then you can
fix stuff with the knife all right
just trying to show you guys all things
here so I need to put this on here make
our mark here now we're gonna start to
get a little more experienced oK we've
done one side of a window we know we're
doing okay so we're gonna go in here
we're gonna cut this out we're not gonna
waste too much time on it go radar angle
there now we're gonna put this on well
we forgot a step didn't we forgot to cut
that that's alright we're gonna go ahead
and get this off anyway let me show you
why look at this come check this out
I got right-handed snips take a little
bit off that oh she's good right
could I use greens for that side if you
wanted to keep greens in your other hand
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and then this one is kind of a little
nippy I can just this one's gonna have
two flats down on it okay so you're
gonna need that you know closer to three
inches on both sides so I'll just cut
one forty two and a half we're gonna
start with one one of these angles okay
and like I said leave ourselves an inch
and a quarter so put our first 45 don't
be afraid I'll say it every freaking
time take out a little bit of the back
of that that 45 go as straight as you
can at this don't spend all day trying
to make it straight we've got our 145 on
three go right here now you might have
to get up here with me Ben so what we're
doing is we're gonna secure this on
there again you'll get caught right here
you have to actually kind of force this
one in get in the habit of doing that
all right and then we have to come over
to here we got a drop drop that one in
also so I had kind of a bad cut right
here get off
okay so what we're going to do here this
one's easy
alright this is a simple one we just
mark we just mark that with a pencil
alright so we've got our mark right now
this side is gonna be the one that gets
a little bit trickier right so we want
to make sure you always want to
double-check everything so we want to
make sure that this is exactly where
it's gonna sit why I push my fingers
inside of here
inside of this J channel I'll make sure
that's correct
now I make sure this one's where it's
gonna sit you don't want to over push
either because these J channels are
naturally gonna want to sit out a little
more than you push it we need to make a
mark on that side up there out there we
need to make a market where we feel the
top is gonna be and we're talking about
the top of this J channel right here
that's what I'm marking you can mark
again at the top here but I always
usually mark a little lower just so it
reminds me to give give myself an angle
here because again we don't want this
part blocking our corners from touching
alright and you really want a sharp
pencil for something like this and you
need to have a shot mine too because
you're just gonna make a little mark
right there now you have to do some
compensation in your cutting that's why
I said so this is where my 45 is going
to be okay if you can't if you can't
tell by what I was doing my 45 is gonna
go this direction alright so I just need
like I said about two inches extra or so
one inch maybe I always do let make it a
little easier to work with you won't
have a giant 6 inch flap trying to flap
around go in and okay makes it real nice
and clean now this this part is very
important because when you when you make
this cut you have to imagine this line
here rolled all the way all the way
through nice and straight - as far as
the point where your snips are going to
go so
we're getting ready to snip on that now
we need to be paying attention to the
direction we're going we actually don't
want to go on that outside of every
angle like I said because this this mark
is going to give you almost that exact
mark already so if you're gonna do
anything it should be either touching
this mark exactly back here or just just
a touch inwards of it all right
so we're going to make this 45 from
right on that point see if you guys can
see that okay right on that point and
we're gonna run it to the back of this
okay
now we're just gonna run our snips
straight at it again just like we always
have open this thing nice and wide
take out the take out the back someone
ought to suffer I'm trying to get her
neck and then that should fit just just
fine now we're gonna go up here and now
it's not got the easy one
we're gonna go angle here and then right
to that mark and usually I'll leave a
little bit of that pencil line because
it's better to be long and short again I
would rather have to hit nip that off
one little time then to uh and for it to
be short at the corners not exactly
touching okay so now I'm just gonna come
over here and do the same thing you guys
pretty crisp same thing here pretty
crisp little pencil marks for me doing
some extra stuff for you guys might be
able to get them off oh I'll just make
it dirtier whatever my fingers do well
wash that off a little later though but
you guys I really wanted to make some
extra marks for you guys to really
understand that because this is the part
that everybody's gonna screw up and I
can't tell you how many minutes I wasted
trying or not knowing what I was doing
and trying to figure this out for myself
a long long time ago cuz I never had a
teacher to teach me this kind of thing
and it's a big reason why I'm making
this video okay and all the videos on my
channel really you know so my my guys
can come watch this video if you're an
employer your employees can come watch
this video if this does
my fiancée save you teaching time save
the mono she's not bad all right along
that twenty eight minutes
twenty eight that's how long the video
is right now not gonna say much just cuz
this is gonna turn this into a challenge
now because J channel on window
shouldn't take home it shouldn't take
fifteen you should be putting up you
know windows because regardless of size
windows are usually just they're just
four sides right windows or small
windows big windows throw the same side
so it cuts the length of the side or the
bottom doesn't really matter so we I
think we can do a window challenge for J
channel and let's see just like I did
for my one square challenge and roofing
and you know let's kind of get an idea
here of the best and the fastest ways to
do this because you know a lot of this
stuff I figured out by myself very
little teaching and I've taken a few of
these tricks that you'll probably see me
do what I may have already done a little
bit of I've taken them from either
employees or just I don't know some boss
has taught me some stuff but I've taken
a little bit from what I've had and this
is what I've come up with and I just
love seeing what other people come up
with and how they were taught how
they've learned so let's go ahead and
start this let's see who else is out
there
I didn't mention earlier but on the
bottom because I didn't do this you talk
one's gonna be longer don't forget that
so if you're using this trick make it a
little longer
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this would be the case suppose since I'm
a roofer single nails like this
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I know if I said it yet but
the speed does not count without falling
so I don't want to hear anybody talking
about it I had somebody when I was
making I told them I was better than
them cuz I knew I was like this I still
beat em I like underside which side had
a little law there's this thing in here
I don't know if you'd see it silicon on
that window no but otherwise
that corner turned out a little pencil
mark there
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that's how it should be how long that
take little under 10 minutes under 10
minutes that's what you should expect
for a window around 10 10 minutes or so
so plan for that if you're ever bidding
on siding and if you want to hold your
guys to a standard I mean that's that's
a regular work paste right there I feel
thank you guys for watching I hope you
learned something by e
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