we never do slabs either, it was just a question.

 

They are railing brackets for the second floor. They are two pieces. A bracket and a pole. Made of aluminum so no rust and light weight. Attaches to a stud and top plate, we use the structural screws all 3 of them. Brackets extend out to work around the second floor brick-siding can't. Railings start 11" up so technically (if we used it) the toe board would be at correct height. We just put them on every 8' and slide 1 2x4 in before we lift the walls. Add the mid rail from up top. Engineered safety and up here it's a very big concern for railings on the second floor, or first if it's a walkout.
For the cost of them, one fine would off set it so it seems like a smart decision.

 

are those wall panels?, or did you guys build all that?

 

Started this guy today. Not until 10 am thanks to a cold forklift not starting. Hour away from main floor done. Back half of the house is ready, all braced and leveled. Hoping to get some walls stood tomorrow. A lot of porch stuff to get ready. Ceiling joists galore

2.5 days in.

And a better picture of what the railing system looks like.

 

are those wall panels?, or did you guys build all that?

This is all on site built. We don't generally build a lot of wall panels for single houses. We will if the time is there to keep busy. We do usually build our own panels for anything multi.

 

7 day house. Could and should of been done in 6. Lost half day because of no backfill and waiting on trusses. 2600sq plus 700sq garage 300sq of covered porch.

Picked up another pallet of nails. Burning through them like no tomorrow.

 

Wow..that's moving! How many on the crew?

 

That IS movin! We just finished a 3000 sqft side by side in 6 1/2 days with a half exposure, two- two car garages, basement stairs, and a bunch of cathedral ceilings with 8 guys. I think thats the fastest we've ever gone

 

we did a few 3,500 sq. ft. in 8 days each with 4 guys. easy roofs make all the difference.

 

Wow..that's moving! How many on the crew?

7 when everyone shows up This one had 9,10, and 12, ceilings. 15' vaulted great room. Trusses were terribly laid out. Designer should be taken out back. Think almost 50 different trusses

We generally do. 2500-3000 sq a week with normal 2 story homes.

 

Wow that's a crew. We have 2 guys and a forklift and we could frame that in 3 weeks +/-. I am really glad you said 7...lol!

 

we do quality. but we do it fast.

 

Just a nightmare.
Waiting on steel for the front wall. Waiting on steel for 3rd floor walls.

 

we're always waiting on steel. job we're starting next week was supposed to start a month ago, but steel.

 

Engineering as we go it seems. These buildings are 14" tji floors. 4'6 cantilever balconies. Skewed cantilevers on 2 corners. Cantilever on another corner. 3 story highwalls. Enough hangers to make you cry. 1500$ of simpson structural screws per building for cantilevers. 4' over hangs.
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Finished rendering

 

First time working for that builder I bet.

It sucks to be waiting on things that aren't under your control.

 

Yup.. the house im super on.. lost 3 months more due to delays... that we had no control of.

 

First time these have been built. That's the issue. There was a pita factor for the price. But it's creeping up on that amount fast then it should be.

 

I spy some ICF... i would rather frame it though.
Skewed hangers suck ass

 

We got to go help a new client out on one of his houses. We will be starting a"small" house for him soon so he wanted to see what we can do. It was just a small deck and some punch list stuff, brackets on the post and beam, doug fir ceiling, hardwood flooring and some other stuff

Its a pretty nice house. It will be interesting to frame a house for him. He currently has his own framers but has gotten so busy, he hired us. He does VERY high end custom homes, usually with alot of post and beam. He said he has one job with seven guys that has been in the frame stage for just under a year!

Oh, here is a dormer i framed seeing as this is the random "framing" pics

 

Waiting on special order steel posts for the front to put the front wall in.

 

just started this 7,000+ sq. ft. addition. the masons screwed up, and the steel guys screwed up. and guess who's job it is to fix it all? what else is new. gotta cut 250+ studs to custom sizes to frame the outside basement walls. I'm sure once the floor is poured and we frame the inside walls those will all have to be cut to size too.

 

snapped this pic before lunch today. after lunch we got up all the 12'6" walls. all the walls in the picture are 9'9". so yes, we've had to cut every single stud on this job so far. plus we lost a few days to rain and a few other days to pull off to go to other jobs. and we're not allowed to work there on Saturdays. very slow going job for us. we're used to flying.

 

Keep us posted. Big azz addition.

I don't think I've ever done any basement framing where I had precuts.

 

The plan called for 9ft precuts in half the basement, but the foundation is 1" 5/8ths too high (can only use single plate on the 2nd floor where it ties into the house to match the existing floor instead of 2 plates). guess it's too hard for the masons to cut a small hole in the side of the house to make sure they get it right.

 

Steel arrived!!!

 

Mucho plywoodo to installo off the genie lifto

 

we looked into renting one of those genie lifts and they want $1,200 a week. yikes.

 

Not sure about your situation but in my experience the cost of the machine will often offset the cost of jerry rigging some scaffold or something... plus its legal.. Definitely outweighs the cost and consequences of safety fines for questionable scaffold or staging set ups :whistling

 

we just sheet with one guy on an extension ladder and the cut guy on the inside. we mostly do residential framing so OSHA never shows. we looked into getting it for an upcoming commercial job right on the highway since last time we worked there OSHA showed.

 

we looked into renting one of those genie lifts and they want $1,200 a week. yikes.

Shop around that's crazy pricing. A 45' is under 500 a week. That's a 65' and it's 700 weekly.

 

yeah, we need to. only got that price from the place we got our Lull from. which we're paying $2,600 a month for.