Here's a quick rundown of the past few days.
Friday I decided to just jump in and start building. I grabbed the bottom plates and marked for the anchor bolts, then drilled and test fitted. I didn't want to have a wall built and it not slide in place.
Marked the top and bottom plates for studs and started framing. I decided since I was working mostly solo to build the walls in sections for easier lifting. Also decided that I'd like to sheathe them first because it's way easier to work on the flat.
Checking crown of studs.
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About noon we grabbed the first half of the North wall and stood it up.
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And went back to framing to get the second piece ready to go. I got it sheathed and didn't have help I needed to stand it up, so commenced work on the South wall sections.
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When I stood up the second piece of the North wall I noticed the top plates didn't line up.
Stood and stared, scratched my head a few minutes, then went out and looked at the sheathing. The bottom plate had some warp in it and my not getting it out and nailing sheathing on I had locked in that warp.
OK, so saving time cost time and I had to take that piece of sheathing loose from the bottom plate and 2 studs to let the weight of everything press the plate flat to the concrete.Saturday we stood up walls and Baby Girl bugged out to the mountains as she got a better offer than hanging out with me and hauling lumber. After she left I got to work framing the West wall with a single garage door.
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Sunday was a wet sloppy mess. Rain, rain, and more rain. It cleared up briefly and I called my Brother in Law to help stand up the West wall. It started raining again as soon as he got here, so we stood the wall up and called it a day.
Yesterday was BEAUTIFUL, so I called my boss and told her I wanted to take a day off.
I roughed the East wall including the cripples to support the LVL header then Anne and I stood the wall up, squared and plumbed and nailed that sucker in place.
Second top plates went on 3 walls. I can't do the last one until I have the big header in place.
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It's a box. Sometime today I'll sneak away from the computer and see if I can hang some sheathing.
There isn't an attic, but there is a good bit of storage for boxes less than 18" tall or so.