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#21 ·
Texas Wax said:
and the single plate-sill under the long header/window and double king studs with single trimmer-jacks ...and and and and ..... ?????????????????? :blink:

Aint gonna fall down or nothing ... apt title to thread.
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Comon man that thing ain't fallin noplace! That is so over built for our climate. We have carports built in the 40s with 16"oc 2x6" joist and 2x6" decking and the cars still park on them......
 
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#22 ·
Texas Wax said:
and the single plate-sill under the long header/window and double king studs with single trimmer-jacks ...and and and and ..... ?????????????????? :blink:

Aint gonna fall down or nothing ... apt title to thread.
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Man, I gotta stop working on this mini laptop. I had to click the pic like 4 times before it was big enough to see what you were talking about. :laughing:


And also, the plates don't match up. :blink: He's gonna have a hell of a time trying to put a roof on that. :whistling


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Seven-Delta-FortyOne said:
And also, the plates don't match up. :blink: He's gonna have a hell of a time trying to put a roof on that. :whistling


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We do that a lot.. The rafter nails to the rake wall and it make backing for drywall.
 
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Dirtywhiteboy said:
Comon man that thing ain't fallin noplace! That is so over built for our climate. We have carports built in the 40s with 16"oc 2x6" joist and 2x6" decking and the cars still park on them......
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Didn't mean that with sarcasm. Not gonna fall down and certianly not a textbook example of how to do it.

Kind of like how I built my first tree house at 13 years old. If the info on how to came out of 'nowhere' .... :laughing:
 
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That mini home is built heaver and better than most of the homes over here. It would short you guys out in what most of the people live in over here. The home I'm in now was built in the 50s and it's as most are a single wall home. The wall is ¾" thick:whistling so yea if I put a 1" nail in to hang something it will pop out the outside of the house. The homes sit on blocks that just sit on the ground, called tofu blocks. The vertical T&G boards you see on the inside are the same ones you will see on the outside ¾" thick. We are doubling this home up for insulating and drywall. So we have 90 to 100 year old homes that are single wall.:blink:
 

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Seven-Delta-FortyOne said:
Yea but it looks like the side wall top plate is about 6 inches below the rake wall. :blink:



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So the top of the rafter and the top of the rake will be at the same height. So cut the 2x8" raf seat cut put it on the side wall and nail it to the rake. I leave em (rake) a half inch low, better low than high.
 
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Oh I see ,, in the CAD drawing looks like 4x6 rafters?? Then that will not work. I bet there will be no 4x rafters or he will put the first one on the inside of the wall and nail the wall to it. In any case the rafter will not sit on the wall.
 
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This might help.

The GSL for the site is 105 psf.

Rafters are 3.5 x 6 but those that sit atop the gables are fatter so they overhang, which lets the sheathing and siding trim to them.

Siding is supposed to be white pine brainstorm and I hope he shingle-miters the corners like I told him to. Done well it really looks cool.

The rustic old camps in the area have buildings done that way.
 

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Oh I see it clearer now, there are 4x6 beams on top of the side walls. That should work fine then.
Where in Hawaii is this being built?? Island and what part? Does it have a permit?? Or maybe it doesn't need one??
 
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Dirtywhiteboy said:
Oh I see it clearer now, there are 4x6 beams on top of the side walls. That should work fine then.
Where in Hawaii is this being built?? Island and what part? Does it have a permit?? Or maybe it doesn't need one??
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That makes sense now. I didn't know there was a 4x6 top plate above the.......top plate.



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