I am fearful of grabbing just the top plate on heavy walls. I feel better lagging into a stud about a foot down from the top.

 

It's all right. The sheathing is stapled in to the plates so it won't come of that easy. That wall like fuller framer posted we've done those with lugs through the top plate lots. The studs have A35's on them as well as the nails and the sheathing tying it all in

 

I always just router a small hole in the wall and sling both plates. On that specific part I always put in 5 or 6 hand spikes careful not to over drive.

I've never had a problem with up to a 44'x9' wall

 

A few progress pics of my house. I'm working solo on this.

Trusses for the main house are next week.

 

Ive never seen the parallel knee walls run to bottom of subfloor. Is that common in Alberta? Here we just rim board and squash blocks. Your way would eliminate the hinge point but you lose the double plate lock on the corners


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Nice simple one we are building. Trusses set Tuesday. Roof framing and sheeting done by lunch today. Our roofer started on shingles today. Supposed to be 65 this weekend..in December in Ohio!!

 

I like that boom truck you have Jt , would be very handy

 

I bought it for installing screw piles and standing trusses for quonsets but it works for this stuff too

 

I have done the wall built up to the bottom of the subfloor quite often. Just put some extra glue and nail the subfloor on top of the studs. works super well on two story homes as well. Electrition and plumbers love it.

 

I have done the wall built up to the bottom of the subfloor quite often. Just put some extra glue and nail the sheats on top of the studs. works super well on two story homes as also. Electrition and plumbers love it.

I did this on my last build as well, made more sense being the knee wall also had major LVL header in it with two levels of parallam posts bearing on it.

 

Put up some trusses today

 

But why no house wrap first....

 

I've worked on framing hundreds of homes never once put any house wrap on anything. The lathers did that. Now there are times we added paper behind shutter backing or some small pieces so the lather can tie into it. But that's it.

 

In my area it's common practice for framers to put it on...and it makes a lot of sense. Not only is it a better practice in most circumstances(safer and more efficient), the house is more protected during the building stage.

 

Best pic I could find quick. We put house wrap behind anything that is a continuous exterior wall, such as where roof overhangs terminate into a wall we put a 3' x 3' piece there. Also our soffit backing and covered entry's and decks.

 

So they leave the bottom chord short so you can do that?


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It just gets tucked right underneath the top chord.

 

Unless something very profitable comes up I'll be siding it myself, but there was a couple reasons I left the paper off.

1. It rarely snows this time if year.
2.The paper might have blown off. It is windy here.
3. It rarely gets above freezing this time if year, so any precipitation just falls off
4.I have a man lift on site so I can paper without much hassle. Plus I can paper into the soffit without a seam.


I've seen builders insulate and drywall without paper installed on it in the winter.

That's crazy but realistically I'd bet everything was fine.

 

All the plates and dbl studs, corners etc. are sealed with acoustiseal

 

Half our walls are engineered with shear. The nailing schedule is absolute. How do you get nailing inspection if you're putting the wrap on the walls before you stand them?

 

Here's the last tract home I framed many years ago. This is ready for stucco. That's all the shear it gets.

 

@Californiadecks, the context was Canada, and where these points were not involved. In your circumstance, I agree it would not be best practice. When I am the guy putting housewrap on, I do all I can on the ground...it's an absolute waste of time and safety not too...being I don't need nail inspection for sheer issues and wind is not a major issue.

Now, if it can't go on for the reasons you listed, fine, don't.

Where's that clear see through Tyvek we need...;-)

 

This is Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. YES we have shear walls and shear wall nailing inspections, maybe you need to look at some more drawings








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Does he have any shear walls?


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Well, I assume he would have listed that in his reasons for not installing wrap now. Being he was using OSB for exterior, I pretty much assumed sheer inspection was a minimal issue.

 

Well, I assume he would have listed that in his reasons for not installing wrap now. Being he was using OSB for exterior, I pretty much assumed sheer inspection was a minimal issue.

If its all OSB, then likely no shear walls


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We almost always install the wrap. Tyvek has a commercial wrap that we are using now to help with the wind issues. I agree that having it install after all walls are up is better, but sometimes that is not realistic.

 

The home I just finished framing had its Tyvek on for more than a month and had 30-40 mph winds. Thats probably low for some of you guys, I didn't have much of an issue but did need to make sure it was stapled well. The lower grade watershed wrap material would certainly have frayed some.

 

The only real additional cuts I usually end having are corners, most other issues can be overcome by simply offsetting the material...and taping the seams... The last couple homes I did had 2# foam in the walls, air flow wasn't an issue and wrap served mostly as watershed.

 

No one around here uses regular ply for shear walls. We are the king of seismic as well. If I was in a wet climate I might revisit that. But strength isn't why you pick ply over OSB. If that was the case they wouldn't use it for TJI's.

 

Yes yes, of course it is, and yeah I know earthquakes, lived through one of the largest recorded, while living in Chile in 2011.

Now enters grade, and thickness in this discussion. I've always considered my area's comparable osb less sheer rated than our plywood. Maybe I am mistaken.

 

A few more from today.

FWIW, those holes in the gable end came that way from the plant. It wasn't us:banghead:

 

Last couple houses, the last one had a couple 35 degree walls, nothing too complicated in these though.

And we have Tyvek crews here. Thats is all they do..

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Last couple houses, the last one had a couple 35 degree walls, nothing too complicated in these though.

And we have Tyvek crews here. Thats is all they do..

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Are those Headers in the second pic on partition walls?

 

Yes, not actually bearing anything, this builder just requests we use 2x10 instead of cutting cripples


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Outdoor living space.

 

Haha looks like the keyboard was set to French