Got it. The engineers I worked always required 3x blocking at sheerwall edges. I always used 4x because it was less expensive.Just easy nailing. It is a braced wall line with OSB that requires blocking at all horizontal joints, part of the prescriptive design.
Dang looks like that floor structure is going to be 'waterbed rated/ready'.
Looking good! I don’t remember…square footage?Last picture from 2024, looking more house-like all the time.
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Wow...that's a lot of room for the two of you...and your herd of fur kids.2720 on floor 1 and 2. This is the official finished SF.
The ~1500 SF basement is technically unfinished.
It dries out pretty fast once the house is dried in.So how does it work with exposed wood and all the rain? It doesn't absorb enough it matters later?
Looks like it is coming together really well. Yes equipment always seems to breakdown at the most inopportune times.We stood the last straight wall, built the longer piece of rake and used the telehandler to stand it.
Then the telehandler broke down, FAAAACK!
It moves and steers, but the pilot controls are kaput. The forks are about 4' out and 5' off the ground and not responding.
The timing is bad. I can't reach that last beam with the excavator and I don't want to hand job a 500 pound beam 12' up on scaffolding. They will be out to look at it Monday.
When I worked as the boom truck operator at the Seattle job, I brought home various materials that were heading for the dumpster. These 5 stainless handrails are an example. Mary has arthritis and climbing stairs is a challenge. I asked her yesterday which hand she wanted to climb with and it was the left.
The rails are really shit, the mounting flanges are two gauges too thin and bend with normal loads but not too shabby for temporary.
We stood the last straight wall, built the longer piece of rake and used the telehandler to stand it.
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Then the telehandler broke down, FAAAACK!
It moves and steers, but the pilot controls are kaput. The forks are about 4' out and 5' off the ground and not responding.
The timing is bad. I can't reach that last beam with the excavator and I don't want to hand job a 500 pound beam 12' up on scaffolding. They will be out to look at it Monday.
When I worked as the boom truck operator at the Seattle job, I brought home various materials that were heading for the dumpster. These 5 stainless handrails are an example. Mary has arthritis and climbing stairs is a challenge. I asked her yesterday which hand she wanted to climb with and it was the left.
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The rails are really shit, the mounting flanges are two gauges too thin and bend with normal loads but not too shabby for temporary.
We had a coyote ALMOST take our little yorkie a few years back. Luckily my wife was outside with him and saw the "prairie wolf" creeping...got to within 2 feet of him. Wife let out a screech...I ran out, saw what was happening, jumped of the back deck, grabbed some rocks and started chucking them. Hit the ah heck twice before he got out of range. We fenced our back yard.Looks like it. I will have to put up a fence for doggies to go outside at night, or they would be Scooby snacks.