I took some pics yesterday of the house we are framing. Should be done the middle or end of this next week. This was a really fun project. It is 3000+sq home with the roof stick framed.
We had some long hips. 2 were 34’11” from ridge to the plate and the other was 33′ something. All the hips but 2 were doubled lvls. Same with the valleys, but 1 was 5 1/4″ wide lvl and the other was 5 1/2″ wide glulam.
It took 8 days for 2 of us to cut and frame the roof and 2 apprentices skip sheathing at the same time (they work parttime). My knees are telling me I did enough skip sheathing too :-). The framing was pretty much done a few days ago, but we’ve been skip sheathing to get the roofer here.
I calculated and cut nearly every piece on the ground (thanks Ken, Joe, Joe, Boyd, John, Pete, and others) This house is the most expensive I’ve framed on. I was lead on this house (it’s 600k) and it looks like we’ve got an 800K and one in that neighborhood to look forward to this summer. If you guys have any suggestions for me as far as supervising and running a crew on a project that big, I’m all ears. I could definitely use some insight.
The last pic is from the tee on the fairway this house sits on.
Hope you guys have a good weekend.
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Tim, truly a beautiful thing. Would be a shame to sheet those walls and stand em up, you'd mis that frame. You carry these through to finish?
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
I don't carry them through to finish, but the company I work for does. I'm just a framer, but we have a trim guy on the payroll. He can do pretty much anything. We ususally do the foundation, framing, siding, trim and sub most everything else. Sometimes we get to do flatwork and sometimes we (framing crew) get to trim, but that happens rarely.
We've been so busy that most of our concrete is being subbed. Thank goodness. I'm not fond of foundations.
We would have sheathed the walls while they were down, but our lumber salesman told us to wait because panel products were coming down in price. Now lumber is going back up. Criminy
Thanks for the compliments.
Can you explain skip sheathing to me? Around here everything is sheathed with sheet goods (osb or ply). Only thime I've ever seen skip sheathing was on a tear off of cedar shakes.
My vote would be for the lumber salesman to come out and help sheath walls after having you wait.
Thanks,
John
J.R. Lazaro Builders, Inc.
Indianapolis, In.
http://www.lazarobuilders.com
Lath on same centers as reveal to weather of cedar shakes..usually 1x3..
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So you're saying that skip sheathing like this is done for asphalt/fiberglass roofing? If so, what's the advantage of skip sheathing vs. sheet sheathing a roof?
Thanks,
John
J.R. Lazaro Builders, Inc.
Indianapolis, In.
http://www.lazarobuilders.com
No, I never said that. Cedar, shakes and shingles. Metal roofing too. Fiberglass and Asphalt go on solid sheathing.
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I see. Misinterpretation on my part.
Thanks,
John
J.R. Lazaro Builders, Inc.
Indianapolis, In.
http://www.lazarobuilders.com
I'll admit it -- I live in a small world. So, please explain to me the skip sheathing and how that gets shingled.
Nice framing job.
Nice job on the frame. But, as for cutting the roof on the ground, why would you ever want to cut one in the air? When I lived out in northern Indiana, all the framing crews, everywhere, were Amish, and a cutter, usually with a young boy helping, cuts the whole house. He is ahead of the crew and has the whole roof cut by the time the top plates are ready for the parts, so they are building per prints. He doesn't wait for the plate show to be over and then take measurements. And by the way, no calculators allowed! Framing square, pencil and paper, and a lot of full-scale drawings done on plywood, if there are tricky things happening.
That is my goal. Up until this time last year we would set our ridges and then meausre every stinkin rafter. Took forever. I've been slowly learning how to calculate the roof and cut it while the walls are being built or the ceiling joists are being nailed up. On a design the is simpler, I would start cutting before the walls were up, but this house was a little too cut up and tricky for me to jump ahead.
Someday I will, but for now I will do that on the easier houses.