I knew you would be a great carpenter I hv followed you from when u started a couple yrs ago ! Hey encourage your young friend who are not afraid of sweating or working in the cold to try out? I run a finish carpenter/ contractor business & for yrs it’s been just me! Absolutely no one interested in joining in the company unless they are felons with no options!
I was taught that a wall is a structure that among other things it bears a load, if it doesn't bear a load it's a partition, hence a load bearing wall is a redundant term. Since none of your partitions are structural, no carrying of weight, why not just frame the basement with metal? 20 gauge. It'd be quicker. Do your layout. Shoot your top and bottom track with a shotgun into the concrete and the the steel I-beam or screws if your top track is being fastened to wood. For your studs, cut however many you need for that particular run leaving off an 1/8 so they go into the track with out a fight. The studs come with openings on the flat, 12"o.c., so no need to cut holes into the wooden studs to run bx, just make sure you cut the studs uniformly. No need for a framing gun. The system is held together with zippies so a an impact is all you need. If you need a piece of metal for a header or cripples, cut it with snips. Weiss yellow handled. No need to go looking for a saw. For the ceiling, after your framing is up, run a 16" rip of Sheetrock and then screw on your molding or metal track or 90 at whatever elevation. I'm guessing it's a drywall ceiling (though a grid and tile system would give you much much more accessibility to the mechanical), you can use the metal studs as joists or Chicago bar or even 90. The thing about metal is that it is straight. No crowning, no whipping, none of that. All you need to carry on you is 3 C-clamps, snips, a screw gun, tape, speed square (which you won't use that much because it's a metal framing system), a pencil and a sharpie. Snap your lines and throw that chalk box back in the bag. I'm a NYC carpenter and I started with framing and rocking. We call it interior systems, acoustical. If you look at the all those skyscrapers in Manhattan, the offices and apartments that fill them are all framed like this, with metal. The high rise will go up steel or concrete (which is what I do) and the skin of the building will be either glass or fiberglass coated drywall. That drywall is screwed on to metal framing but heavier gauge, 15 or 12. If you're going to do interior framing like this where the super structure is up, a metal system is faster, material less expensive, and less labor intensive meaning less man power needed. Check it out.
Was the house built on bad soil or is it just how it is in Colorado. And what do they do for footings. Meaning how do they Enginer that. I from Wisconsin so not far from u so I’m just curious how u guys go about that? ✌️
