House Framing 101 - Timber Frames Explained 

We build very differently here in Australia than in America and yes for an American we do certainly sound funny to you guys lol

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Fridgy here too, love these videos. You're right, Carpentry is truly a very fascinating trade!

Hey KaesOner, I’m a licensed carpenter that’s been doing 1st fix carpentry for 20 years here in Adelaide. Let me tell you if you don’t like hard work then carpentry isn’t for you. It’s extremely hard on the body and it’s more for men who are in their 20s and 30s not 40 and above. It’s extremely dangerous pretty much all the time you’re constantly walking on top of wall frames with 6-metre drops right next to you when you’re building the roof. I’m also constantly lifting roof trusses, LVL beams, and fibre cement sheeting, and HEBEL that weigh 40kg, 50kg, 60kg, and even 80kg plus on some occasions while walking up a ladder with that weight on your shoulder. Then you’re cold all the time during winter and walking in mud and then you’re always sunburned in summer and sweating all day. And the risk of injury is always there because of how dangerous all the tools are. I’ve sh0t myself 3 times with the nail gun and fell of the ladder before and broke a rib. And I had a guy cut his thumb off with a power saw right in front of me and I got worse stories than that! The money is very good but so many people say they want to be carpenters and then they quit for all the reasons I’ve said above. Or I have to fire them because they simply can’t keep up with the workload and pace and have difficulty understand how it all works. But Carpentry is the premier trade of all the trades and you could say we are the shot callers on site because we have the most detailed understanding of the entire construction process. And we can do every other trade but other trades can’t do our trade because how complex & detailed it is. Hope that was helpful mate 👍

Oh and I forgot to say as well that even though I did wear ear protection I now have permanent ringing in my ears (Tinnitus) and hearing loss because of 20 years of daily using of petrol generators, nail guns, power saws, angle grinders, masonry drills, air compressors, explosive power tools, electric routers, electric planners etc etc. Your ears get hammered all day!

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Thanks mate! Awesome to hear that you’re loving the videos, cheers!

A guy I worked with always put them over the window, flush with internal face if they weren't full depth. His reasoning was you have solid blocking for curtains/blinds over every window. I like your point though haven't thought of that.

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Don’t know why we’re doing it differently in Victoria, your way is so much easier!

235mm studs is insane! Do you know how the framers stand these walls up? Would hate to know how heavy they are

The wall, floor and roof prefab elements are very heavy, so in the production hall they use a overhead crane for turning the prefabs around. On site they use mostly a telescopic crane or sometimes a tower crane. A residential building is set up in 2 or 3 days. Mind you that the prefabrication time is the same as you are making your buildings in place as a carpenter.

Most house frames are pre- fabed in a factory in Australia and delivered to site . Stood up by hand .

@@stewatparkpark2933 In Adelaide, we never use prefabricated wall frames ever. We make all our own wall frames on-site by ourselves. And because of everyone always using roof trusses, I’d say 90% of carpenters don’t even know how to build a conventional roof!

Every is done completely different here in Australia mate. And all the terminology is different too.

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Thankyou, I appreciate it! I’d love to do that and also a full walk through on how to build a deck! Just waiting to get my next deck job

Yes, it’s all untreated. The only time you use treated timber is for building anything outside the house where they will be exposed to termites balconies, decks, pergolas, stairs, fencing etc.

That's crazy you need noggings to stop the timber wall studs from bowing under load.

The engineering plans for the job will have a table showing you how many studs they want under the lintel or beside the lintel. Depending on the job the engineer sometimes wants them to be done differently, typically for a triple stud, they call for 1 under the lintel and 2 running the full way up next to the lintel

I agree with you, I don’t think it makes much sense having 1 stud under the lintel and 2 running besides it. We just have to trust the engineers know what they’re doing 😂

As a carpenter mate we got more work than we can keep up with it’s insane. Too many people and not enough houses to put everyone!

It’s just personal preference and the more expensive the better the quality.

Yeah doesn't look like timber, looks like acrylic