[META]

Are you placing butt plates over studs on layout, throwing an odd stud at the union, or none of the above?

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[Mcjarod]

Are you placing butt plates over studs on layout, throwing an odd stud at the union, or none of the above?

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Yes, and for this particular house the joists are 16” OC so it’s continuous layout from the basement walls up, and any plate breaks are done in the middle of a stud

 

[Warren]

I also will generally get ahead of my crew laying out the exterior walls first, then waiting until those are almost complete to start layout on the interior. I have seen other crews that layout all of the walls first, but I think they just get in the way. Every job is different. I try to think ahead and sometimes that involves doing things differently than we did on other jobs. On a large house, you have more leeway on the order of things. On a few occasions, we have waited on the attached garage walls until we have most of the existing house under roof. This allows mechanicals to begin and provides us with some rain work.

 

[Mcjarod]

Are you placing butt plates over studs on layout, throwing an odd stud at the union, or none of the above?

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I also will generally get ahead of my crew laying out the exterior walls first, then waiting until those are almost complete to start layout on the interior. I have seen other crews that layout all of the walls first, but I think they just get in the way. Every job is different. I try to think ahead and sometimes that involves doing things differently than we did on other jobs. On a large house, you have more leeway on the order of things. On a few occasions, we have waited on the attached garage walls until we have most of the existing house under roof. This allows mechanicals to begin and provides us with some rain work.

I did the exteriors first just like that! That’s reassuring to me hahah, I then labeled all the walls in place so another guy could be framing the interiors on the garage slab while we framed and stood exteriors, so one a corner of exteriors were stood they could toss in all the connecting interiors immediately

 

[griz]

I didn't see where he said he's in MI. But yes, we don't have nail inspections. We have framing inspections and that covers the nails. You guys have inspectors that just inspect nails?

Roof nail inspection, shear nail inspection & dry wall nail inspection.

Framing insp is generally when structure is weather tight.

Shear insp is needed before siding is installed, roof nail prior to dry in...

 

[griz]

Im missing something why an 8" saw to cut plates?????

 

[Mcjarod]

Im missing something why an 8" saw to cut plates?????

My saw has 3” cut capacity. When cutting top and bottom plates for wall prior to layout I cut both plates in one go with a single mark

makes them 100% identical in length, and the saw is the same size as a 7-1/4

It’s honestly been my favorite tool mod I’ve done

 

[hdavis]

Im missing something why an 8" saw to cut plates?????

He's cutting 2 stacked in a single pass, so a 3" cut depth or 3 1/4 for PT bottom plate s 2 1/2" saw cut.

 

[hdavis]

Pic of the mod?

 

[Mcjarod]

This is the best I can do for now

 

[Mordekyle]

Tell us more about the mod


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[Mcjarod]

Tell us more about the mod


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I installed an 8” blade on my 7-1/4 makita rear handle cordless saw, I had to remove the guard, and file the inside of the blade housing near the front where it bumps in a bit. Once I got it filed enough to fit the blade on, I ran the saw while shaking it a little bit to get it to wobble side to side and actually shave some of the inside with the blade itself, there was only a tiny bit that needed to be taken down by the saw, but the magnesium is nice and soft and didn’t even dull the blade. I can get about 3-1/8 cut depth, 9/16 more than originally.

 

[griz]

I get the reason/want for the mod,but if there is ever an accident using that saw, your comp ins will eat you alive. OSHA will also take a chunk of coin from you....and please no one try and tell me OSHA doesnt care about small residential guys...

 

[hdavis]

I get the reason/want for the mod,but if there is ever an accident using that saw, your comp ins will eat you alive. OSHA will also take a chunk of coin from you....and please no one try and tell me OSHA doesnt care about small residential guys...

I seem to remember one getting nailed for cords and cord ends and almost pit out of business because of the fines. Maybe Ninja.

 

[Warren]

I get the reason/want for the mod,but if there is ever an accident using that saw, your comp ins will eat you alive. OSHA will also take a chunk of coin from you....and please no one try and tell me OSHA doesnt care about small residential guys...

They most certainly do!!

I got hit for a 15k fine about 2 years ago.

 

[Pounder]

I get the reason/want for the mod,but if there is ever an accident using that saw, your comp ins will eat you alive. OSHA will also take a chunk of coin from you....and please no one try and tell me OSHA doesnt care about small residential guys...

I had CAL OSHA, EDD, and the state license board show up at my job a while back. They inspected the job site, interviewed my employees, checked that all of them were listed as being on my payroll, inspected my truck. OSHA nailed me for a saw cord that had tape on it, and 3 or 4 paperwork violations. Total fines were around $6500. The agent who was on the site reduced the fine to $640 because I was cooperative and had everything corrected within 2 business days.

Tape on a cord, or a missing ground, is worth $1800. Makes new cords cheap as dirt.

It was all touched off because a neighbor that was angry about the addition called the license board and told them I had a crew of illegal's working on the project.

 

[Mcjarod]

I had CAL OSHA, EDD, and the state license board show up at my job a while back. They inspected the job site, interviewed my employees, checked that all of them were listed as being on my payroll, inspected my truck. OSHA nailed me for a saw cord that had tape on it, and 3 or 4 paperwork violations. Total fines were around $6500. The agent who was on the site reduced the fine to $640 because I was cooperative and had everything corrected within 2 business days.

Tape on a cord, or a missing ground, is worth $1800. Makes new cords cheap as dirt.

It was all touched off because a neighbor that was angry about the addition called the license board and told them I had a crew of illegal's working on the project.

gotta love cranky neighbors, I’ve had osha come by, they seemed most concerned about fall protection, they didn’t notice the tennis shoes a few guys had, or anything regarding tools thankfully

 

[Warren]

Can you go into more detail on this. I find it hard to believe Osha would be so lax where you are. They ALWAYS find violations, and fines are generally in the thousands or tens of thousands. Doesn't sound like you got fined.

 

[Mcjarod]

Can you go into more detail on this. I find it hard to believe Osha would be so lax where you are. They ALWAYS find violations, and fines are generally in the thousands or tens of thousands. Doesn't sound like you got fined.

They fined us for fall protection. They guy was pretty chill actually, it was a similar scenario where the neighbors actually called them because we didn’t have masks on

 

[Warren]

That was ours as well. Among the most serious of their violations. Bet your fine was pretty big.