Building A House: Shear Wall Layouts & Tips For Walking Top Plate 

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Wow! I framed apartments and houses back in the mid to late 1980s but I've never seen framing up close in almost 40 years! Carpentry technology has come a long way over the last 40 years! Thank you for demonstrating and sharing!

You know it’s a good day when Matt uploads

Thanks Matt! Missed your absence and glad you are healing quickly. Cheers!

@MattBangswood I just wanted to let you know, you're an inspiration and i appreciate all the videos you upload. I am pouring my foundation for my home in a few months and because of a lot of questions I had were answered watching you. So I decided I am accepting the challenge of building my own house. Thanks!!

glad your back,i missed your vids.

Love your videos. Keep them coming.

Super glad to see back providing even more content. Thanks!

Love seeing all the content you are dropping! It’s great to have regular videos again

Glad your back! Best videos on RU-vid! Keep on keeping on.

Great content and editing style! Looks like a good crew too! Nice work!

So glad you are uploading again! Hope you are well Sir!

@Matt, Pro Tip, keep feet on top plate. Much love. 😎✌️

I love how you teach on the job. I’ve learned so much just from watching your videos. Thank you for all that you do.

Very interesting as always. Hello from France

Loved this style of video! The way you guys frame is very similar to how we do it here in Australia. Except our walls are typically only 90mm wide, makes walking top plates a little more fun haha

I learn a lot from your videos thanks

Great video!

You make good videos. Keep it up. 🤗👍

Ets go big MATT! 👏👏👏👏👏

Matt’s a stud

I see you have the badger trimmer set on. Did you just want a smaller set of bags? And do you miss the tape and chalk box holder on the top like the carpenter set.

I wonder with the increase of routers on jobsites, if we will see an electric brake added to them and the same trigger type added like our battery saws. Seeing that bit spinning for 5+ seconds after is like using a circ saw with no guard. (I don't use a router on site though)

how are you liking the badger belts matt? Glad to see you uploading more now.

Thank you for the height tip.

Where’s FOX 🦊 I missed him he reminds me of my uncle on anxiety mode making those little sounds and squeaky voice when he get excited 😅😅😅 Glad you’re back MATT. Keep it up 👍

Slab on grade walking exteriors doesn’t seem so bad. Living up in the PNW with snow load, I used to hate walking exteriors cause by the time you framed out the basement with pony walls it got to be a little rowdy. Usually had to have someone walk exteriors with a propane torch to melt the 1/4 of ice off the plates 😤 By the time you were passed the one floor mark that’s when the “mental” warfare started. But I appreciated the idea of giving yourself something to do. 👍

What router bit do you recommend? Appreciate it! Ours last so little use its disappointing

Please explain how you know how to cut out for window openings. Do you feel that you hit the stud?

def gonna try the router for cutting the plywood out

i am not a carpenter by any means but i do have a decent idea of what is going on but i have to admit i had no idea what a shear wall is. Being in the State of Georgia where we don't have Hurricanes or earthquakes ( sometimes but small and rare on earthquakes) i didn't have a clue about them. We do have plenty of Tornados but a shear wall would be useless at stopping that.

Hey Matt big fan of your videos I’m a carpenter here in Canada might be a stupid but what is your reasoning for standing your sheathing up? Just less joints or is that code?

Looking good Matt 😩

When u said at 5:43 sometimes ull see people use sheer panels on there sheer walls and they’ll fir out everything else what do you mean by fir everything else out?

Always found it faster to square up walls and sheet them on the ground. Just a little bit heavier.

do a toolbag whats in and review on the badgers

Great content! Btw Haven’t seen Fox on the last several vids. He go his separate way?

hey matt why not use the zip system on this project?

This is probably your best video I've seen. I did kinda trash you last time. If you have been framing within the last 20 years your gonna need some thick skin and you took it pretty well. I struggle finding guys who can walk plate and you hit the nail on the head about staying focused and not getting into your own head. It is 100 percent a mental thing. I have a fall from 22 ft onto a concrete sidewalk and broke my pelvis. I'm still up there doing it today. Plus I router all my windows too. It is faster and cleaner. Explaining what we deal with sizemic wise should help all the other out of state people understand why we build this way. You guys should ditch the metabo/Hitachi guns. We run the superframer Promax guns. They are 100 dollars cheaper and hit harder and the actual gun dimension is alot shorter and about 10 lbs lighter 😂 since it is shorter it actually fits in a standard stud bay.

Hi, what size of OSB sheet is used for walls? for the roof? Length and width. I want to compare it with European sheets

Hey, Matt. Why vertical with the 4x8’s rather than horizontal? Wouldn’t horizontal with a broken pattern be stronger? Thnx for all the vids!

It's all pretty easy. lol, yeah right. You make it look easy, but it definitely isn't easy walking a 2x4 plate.

Saludos desde Miami Florida para la próxima corta abajo primero

The fastener and hanger companies have you guys by the balls.

yeah, them shear wall patterns here in California can be annoying Matt, but I mean, we do get earthquakes from time to time, so I'll give it to the engineers/inspectors on this one

why the double ottom sill ?

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Where has fox been ?

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Whoa, the plight of the lowly construction worker. Love the video and info, but, the guys are using no hearing protection. I am glad to see some are wearing eye protection. I get it, I've been in their position, and now paying for it in the loss of perfect hearing. But I know this kind of work requires communication, so hearing protection is out. Whatever you are being paid to do this work, you deserve much more money.

Sup Bradda Matt how you doing

So do you guys ever use 2x10/2x12 headers? 2ply with 2x4 or 2x6 sill

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Im cool as a cucumber in the 20s but once we hit 30 ft i get that shaky leg😂

Hey, what's the reason you guys don't put the plywood on before standing up the exterior walls?

What happened to foxy?

Finde es ziemlich merkwürdig Bauweise. Bei uns in Deutschland dürfte sowas garnicht gebaut werden. Das Haus könnte bei uns nicht die Schnee und Windlasten aushalten weil die ganze Statik nicht unsrer Norm entsprechen.

If it ain’t sketchy,it ain’t fun.

Router is cutting windows out too slow I could mark and cut traditional way faster without sacrificing quality but I guess whatever makes the boys happy poo

Where is Foxy?

I'm a framer and while i love the work, the community/indstry is kind of driving me off of it. It seems like every company/jobsite i get linked up with is at least half comprised of burnouts who spend the day drinking, getting stoned, or talking shit about the women in their lives. (Theres a time and place) This might be naive to ask or expect of the trades but does literally anyone know how to avoid companies full of burnouts/drunks? Or is this something that i'm just going to have to take as a given with this line of work.

How many boxes of nails y’all be going thur 😬.

When walking on top plate, use feet.

you guys drop a coke jajajajaja

As you know Matt sometimes you can't shear all the walls because structural engineers have moment frames designed into some walls and if sheared the inspector will call it out as being "over sheared" WTF. Only in Cali!!

Wait who in the actual fuck buckles up in the Telly

2x6 top plates is easy I want to see you do all that on 2x4 like me. I run on 2x4 top plates. And 3 pm? That’s a half day for my crew.

The new guy is a lil too hollywood

Bang on brotha! @mattbangswood

Why is it that framers always have the most putrid tattoos !?!?

YOYO hook me up wid a date wid the fox and i want the same tool bags he use..ok make it happen captain....cheese cake factor .ill go as the construction work foxy can be da pro skater yo

Routering out windows???

2:38 RIP somebody's coke can

Where has fox been?