Some skylights

They really love huge skylights in the big houses I framed in Toronto

 

A nice front entry and skylight inside

A 7700 sqft in Toronto. Anne Murray was the neighbor! Her daughters are extremely hot...

 

My personal favorite

I framed this 6600 sqft in the fall of 2006. It is where I really learned how to frame nice houses.

 

Wow....That is a Beautiful house!

:thumbup:

 

Assorted pictures

Forgot to take pictures of the ceiling until it was drywalled.
Didn't take pictures of the next one until it was almost done. That quarter football roof was a real pain to frame.
Skylight a bit easier to frame the second time

 

Here is the biggest skylight I have done. It was finished extremely well. The last picture is the rear elevation. The windows in the middle were fun to install.

 

HHC: What a cool house to frame there. I have done a couple of those "football" roofs. Theay are a total pain and I was never satisfied with the look at the end. Love that round skylight inside the large circle. What is the roofing membrane going to be? Seems like that skylight may spend a lot of time covered with snow.

 

The roof around the skylight is a big flat (sloped to outside) covered with two layers of torched down membrane. I have some pictures. It may get covered with snow but will likely melt right away. It gets hot up there as heat rises and collects at the skylight.

 

Curious to know where these houses are? You mentioned Toronto but any more specific? I'm from Kitchener/Waterloo area and do similar type houses but nothing that way.

 

These houses are all near 401/Bayview or Yonge. My favorite was at Bayview/York Mills and the biggest was at Yonge/just south of 407. All the big houses I have framed in Toronto were between Bayview/Yonge and between Eglinton and Highway 7. It is the "zone". Business died at the end of 2008 though, that is why I moved to Ottawa.

 

really? I left ottawa because buisness got slow there. Now I'm busy here. What are you guys working on in Ottawa?

 

Ottawa has been going strong for over a year now. I have been doing small custom homes (2000-3000sqft) and subdivision to fill the time. It has been steady here until this spring but is picking up with the warm weather. It will be a busy spring/summer for sure. I have talked to friends in Toronto and things are still slow. Good to hear that you are busy! It is a miracle! I will not be leaving Ottawa anytime soon.

 

I am out of my league with most of you guy's.But I know my limits and what I do do,I do 100% right.
I came across these pics from a few years ago when people around here where still doing room additions.

 

so who are you guys framing for? What do you think of all the chainsaws? Your not framing Mattamy are you? I left that site a 1 1/2 ago. Work or not work I'm done with them.

 

Haha, Mattamy is what got me out here. I did three at Half Moon and left. That site was ridiculous. I was working for Royalwood from Toronto until a local guy Spadaccini got me out of there. Since then I have worked all over the place. Ashcroft would be the biggest ongoing but have done some for Phoenix, Metric, and Maple Leaf. Then there are the odd private jobs that come by. The chainsaws out here are crazy! I never knew you could do so much with one. I understand why they use them though, no power supplied at most sites. I could never use a chainsaw to frame a house though, picked up a generator.

 

Haha, Mattamy is what got me out here. I did three at Half Moon and left. That site was ridiculous. I was working for Royalwood from Toronto until a local guy Spadaccini got me out of there. Since then I have worked all over the place. Ashcroft would be the biggest ongoing but have done some for Phoenix, Metric, and Maple Leaf. Then there are the odd private jobs that come by. The chainsaws out here are crazy! I never knew you could do so much with one. I understand why they use them though, no power supplied at most sites. I could never use a chainsaw to frame a house though, picked up a generator.

Until I joined this site I didn't even know houses were built with circular saws. :laughing:

There is quite a bit of new construction going on in Ottawa now. I see Spadaccini all over the place.

Word of advice, Ashcroft and Claridge are probably Ottawa's two worst payers.

 

wait there are people literally framing houses with chain saws? :blink:

something against generators?

 

don't chainsaws run on gas?

we use generators here, sometimes 2-3 or more. each one will run all day on a couple gallons of gas.

sure there's noise, but chainsaws make noise too.

around here i'm pretty sure they don't want you using them, i've used one to cut out door plates in a big retirement community just to save time.

usually you can stick the generator somewhere you can't really hear it anyway, and occasionally on a big job you'll get a whole site diesel gennie.

maybe it's just the way we do things here but i can't imagine a situation where chainsaws would be a better choice than a generator.

 

I was working in a few homes built by monarch in Barrhaven and you couldn't breath for the thick blue chain saw smoke or talk due to the loud buzzing. It's definitely an Ottawa thing, and is probably due to the Quebec/Gatineau influence.

HHC, my favorite is when its time for lunch the boys just rev-up the chainsaw and drop the tip through the sheathing so it doesn't fall. On nearly every house there are chain-saw slots cut in all the roofs.

maybe it's just the way we do things here but i can't imagine a situation where chainsaws would be a better choice than a generator.

If you have never seen a chain-saw crew in action the speed will impress you....the shoddy crap work will also amaze you.

 

If you have never seen a chain-saw crew in action the speed will impress you....the shoddy crap work will also amaze you.

i didn't wanna assume, but i did assume

does everyone wear chaps?

i'd have to see it to believe it.

last company i worked for was also named monarch, seems a popular name for construction companies.

 

they all think they can go faster with a chainsaw. How fast did that house get framed when yeah sure it went up in 5 days but they spent 2-3 weeks fixing all there mistakes. Theres a lot of butchers out there. It makes me sick just thinking about it.

 

I can't imagine a chain saw frame would be too clean looking for some odd reason? Although I could see the speed

 

I am in the hunt for a big chainsaw, to frame with. Only thing I am looking to use it for is cutting joists that are in place on the walls. I joists that is. We set 1 end, attach ringer and let other side run wild. Right now its cut with circular saw and sawzall bottom half of joist. Chainsaw would be quicker, and accuracy is close enough. I see no problem is that use.

Now for the cutting roof sheeting/overlay ect ect with a chainsaw, that boggles me. How? And better yet, why? I have worked on Mattamy sites, and it is pretty much a standard tool. Hell, the backframers from what I saw used them to "remove and repair" issues of QC. Maybe we were setting the bar too high there...because they is just stupid in my opinion.

 

I saw a plumber show up with a chainsaw to cut in the toilet flanges. He made a mess and got sent packing.

Other than that, never seen a chainsaw put to use for general carpentry. Maybe those Canada boys have logging in their blood. Prolly got a chainsaw for their 6th B-day.

 

If I ever broke a chainsaw out on a job, I'd better have been notching pilings. I've never done framing for a builder who would allow a chainsaw on a framing job.:no: Timuhler may have been able to twist their arms into allowing it with a few of his pics though.:laughing:

 

i've used one a few times to cut I joists for roofs when we had a lot of them to do, between that and the big foot, you can rack up a whole mess of rafters or floor joists and cut them fast with the bigfoot plate attachment for chainsaws. the big foot saw cuts the birds mouth and the chainsaw cuts the plumb cuts at the ridge and fascia. once you build a sturdy set of racks, it goes fast. square them up, screw down your straight edge and you can cut a lot fast and you use a full tooth chain the cut is as good as a circ saw. I have only used it a few times for i joists, but next job I will be using it for normal dimensional lumber. It doesn't replace my circ saw but it's something new i wanted to try to speed things up and I did like it.
Tim Uhler rocks at mass producing cut lumber and efficiency on jobsites. my hat will always be off to him.

 

I keep an electric chainsaw in my van, I don't use it often but when I do I'm always happy to have it. Chainsaws are bloody fast for demo too, and don't cause the vibrational damaged that recip saws do.

I can't imagine a chain saw frame would be too clean looking for some odd reason? Although I could see the speed

No it looks like hell actually.:laughing:

I saw a plumber show up with a chainsaw to cut in the toilet flanges. He made a mess and got sent packing.

Other than that, never seen a chainsaw put to use for general carpentry. Maybe those Canada boys have logging in their blood. Prolly got a chainsaw for their 6th B-day.

A toilet flange! Yikes, that's like using a pick-axe to do brain surgery. Gus you may be right, but its not nearly as prominent in other parts of the country either. I should mention that you only see it on cookie-cutter row houses, not high-end custom homes.

Honestly a chainsaw is a very useful and efficient tool and has a place on the job-site....just not for every cut.:shifty:

 

the canadian bashing isnt cool gus lol. weve got an electric one for cutting sills nothing else it wears out too many sawzall blades, but as soon as we're finished the hvac guys hack our framing into pieces. my favourite is when they start cutting something and then change there mind

 

the canadian bashing isnt cool gus lol. weve got an electric one for cutting sills nothing else it wears out too many sawzall blades, but as soon as we're finished the hvac guys hack our framing into pieces. my favourite is when they start cutting something and then change there mind

Yeah...What's all the Canadian bashing aboot?

 

There are times a chainsaw suits. Or maybe you'd rather do this cut with a sawzall? :whistling

 

i'd rather not do it at all lol. i did the same not to long ago to a couple of 2x4 in a basement where the spray foam forced a huge crown in the studs

 

I must admit, when I first began framing over ten years ago we used to chainsaw a whole stack of joists at the same time. It was around the time I-joists were hitting the market strong. It was great for townhouses when they were all the same size and had to be firecut 2" at one end. Stack them all up flush on the road, run lines down both sides and go for it! Haven't used a chainsaw since for anything other than cutting door plates or windows though.

 

does anyone else cut there OSB with a chainsaw?

 

I had forgotten that we shot a short clip using the chainsaw to cut I-Joists.

 

I had forgotten that we shot a short clip using the chainsaw to cut I-Joists.

Now i can see doing something like that