I thought it would be cool to be able to come to one place and view everyones framing, so post away.:thumbsup:
Random Framing Pics Thread.
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What do you mean? I cannot distinguish between the knocking in my head and the opportunity knocking. :whistling
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I mean that it doesn't take for you to know someone to just walk in and say hi.
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Don't think i posted these yet.
Anyway, i have kept in contact with the guy who let me hang around at that big custom cottage a few years ago and do some framing. I posted a pic of another house of his i saw this summer. This one is just a production house. This guy does top notch work, i was there watching him layout the second floor, snapped lines, in 55' was within a 1/16". :thumbsup:
Learned a few things looking around. He showed me something about rake walls that i never thought of before. How he does them, is lays out a bunch of studs on the deck to extend above the profile of the gable truss provided by the truss mnf. Then, measures up on each shoulder the wall height and slips the truss under the studs, nail the truss to the end studs, mark layout on the truss, zip down the truss and cut the studs below the top chord. Sheet the wall, overhangs etc. The advantage to that is that you have a nailing edge at the wall for drywall. You have a gable truss, so you might as well use it. Would save some serious time instead of getting exact stud measurements. Although i do like having a top plate on my rake walls.. Ill give it a shot one day and see whats up.
Anyway, i have kept in contact with the guy who let me hang around at that big custom cottage a few years ago and do some framing. I posted a pic of another house of his i saw this summer. This one is just a production house. This guy does top notch work, i was there watching him layout the second floor, snapped lines, in 55' was within a 1/16". :thumbsup:
Learned a few things looking around. He showed me something about rake walls that i never thought of before. How he does them, is lays out a bunch of studs on the deck to extend above the profile of the gable truss provided by the truss mnf. Then, measures up on each shoulder the wall height and slips the truss under the studs, nail the truss to the end studs, mark layout on the truss, zip down the truss and cut the studs below the top chord. Sheet the wall, overhangs etc. The advantage to that is that you have a nailing edge at the wall for drywall. You have a gable truss, so you might as well use it. Would save some serious time instead of getting exact stud measurements. Although i do like having a top plate on my rake walls.. Ill give it a shot one day and see whats up.
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This is the same house completed up the street. Looks pretty sweet. What you may notice is on that right side of the big gable that little soffit return about 2' up from the normal eaves. They did this so that they could put a hip in the valley and make it look regular... Looks dumb, but what is even dumber is what they did on the framed one in my previous post. They just put a hip to nowhere, starts 2' at the top....tapers to nothing...kinda funny
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So, you basically are nailing the gable truss to the inside of the rake wall? Sounds like a waste of wood and money to me. I would either set the ge truss on top of a standard stud wall or frame a regular rake wall, using a common for a pattern if need be, and order my trusses without ge's. Then just a 2X4 jailer for backing.
Remind me later to give you some tips on rake walls.
Or not rake the wall and use the gable truss where it should be used?:blink:
What I meant about putting it on a standard stud wall. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Sorry I failed to comprehend :drink:
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I just found this thread I am going to need to look through it some more but I noticed that on quite a few pictures where the walls were stood before sheeting them. I haven't seen this before, why do you do it this way? We have always sheeted the walls before standing them.
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Gear up for war. :whistling
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Some guys like to work harder.
Easier to lift/straighten in wind prone areas.
Have a sheeting crew come and do it later, this should end up lapping the sheets between floors.
This can get into a discussion (re: argument) like paper vs. mesh tape, or titanium vs. steel hammers...
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Hah yeah wasn't meant to start a fight. Makes sense though. I think I'll stick to sheeting first though.Brutus said:
It's fine. A lot of these guys are old and stuck in their ways
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