Building A House: Wall Framing, Layout & Details 

Nice 🤙

Glad someone appreciates them. Have to hold through the dark times to find the light. Crypto is back! 🤣

Same here I’m looking for him too 🤔

Ditto. His absence is noticed.

He's ****

People trip out on why I don't shear on the ground. It's tough enough getting the walls up and over the embeds and penatrations.

No kidding you would need a crane or pay for a bigger crew.@@MattBangsWood

Sheering on the ground is easy if you have a Lull or crane to lift your walls into place, but for small and tight jobs where it’s just a few carpenters on site, you sheet after they’re vertical. As for how to know where the holes need to be drilled, I know of two ways. The first is to lay your bottom plate next to the location, mark where the bolts are laterally, then measure up to mark the location in the other direction. The second is to figure out where the plate is supposed to be, lay it across the bolts and hit the board with a hammer hard enough to make a dimple. I’ve seen both used, depends on the framer I guess.

Doubled up 2x6 is for our shear break. I have to have edge nailing for sheathing and it has to be minimum 3x.

Makes for a pretty bad cold spot .

I live in the pnw myself, I have a feeling it’s a climate thing, we build things a certain way for our particular climate, and if I’m not mistaken they are based in cali where it’s a different kind

@@Robmich I've seen guys on the East Coast, New England mainly, locating headers down at the window also. Some say it's just old school and it's a similar climate to here, so....just curious.

@@jamaalrose6354 The header is there whether you hold it up to the top plate or down to the top of the window so that seems irrelevant.

I personally miss it as well, the videos you're going to be seeing over the next few weeks are more of this style.. but I GoPro'd a lot of the building of the roof, upstairs, and other projects. Not straying far from where I came from, it'll make a comeback!

You’re doing great Matt. I’m a builder in Tennessee and you guys to do so much extra stuff then we do here

Fox has been with another builder in town since I ripped my stomach open. I took a good portion of Q1 and Q2 off this year to heal from a torn abdomen. He went to work for someone who could keep him busy through the year. Happy for him.

Dude, how did you tear your stomach open?@@MattBangsWood

Not new, cousin was with me 8 or 9 years ago up until a few years back. He took a break and came back. Alex was with us when Fox was around too.