Can People Aged 70+ Build to Lock-Up?

Charles Christodoulou: “Yeah. I’m 72. I would just tackle it. Only if I had to. Five years ago didn’t bother me. Now, as you get older, once you hit 70, it’s all downhill, believe me. It’s not that – look, if your son’s, for example, got a friend who can help him put up the frame and then you need someone – say it’s a long stretch of wall and you need maybe one person – one person’s got to get up in the ladder and join it, someone has to hold it for you. That’s where you can need some help.“

(It’s more of a logistics problem than anything.)

Charles Christodoulou: “Yeah, but I’ll tell you a little trick. What they do, Steve, is when you lift up say a six-metre length piece of wall, before you lift it, you get a – we call them studs, the long piece of timber – you get a stud and you nail it towards the top so it pivots. So when you lift the wall up, this other timber loosely pivots will lift together with it and will form a 45-degree. And then what you do – with a concrete nail, you nail a small piece of timber about 300 long into the concrete and you rest that pivoted timber on it so it won’t fall back. That takes all the weight.“

(You basically tilt the wall or tilt the bit up to the wall.)

Charles Christodoulou: “Yes. And that will help you greatly. So, two people and then one person holds it and is leaning onto the concrete slab.“