Building a Large Garage: Tips and Tricks For Framing Walls

hey what's up everybody welcome back to the channel I know it's been a little bit of time here between the last build series while we're back oh geez just about stepped over my line there and tripped myself we're on another one and yeah it looks a little bit different because I mean it's basically winter time we got about an inch of snow overnight our lumber was all delivered this morning our columns will be here by lunchtime ish and that means nothing is covered with snow that we got to work with so I'm gonna go around get all of the elevations on all of the brackets that we've set already that way we can make sure that they're you know perfectly in line with the grade and everything is level to that grade point and then we've got these lumber piles that will go ahead and get through get cut down and start prepping everything that way when our columns show up we make our columns and stand up our walls so this is gonna be a 40 by 64 shop so that that means it will be completely insulated it will have interior liner panel there'll be a black ceiling we'll have galvanized walls and black wanes coat there's going to be a porch that's gonna start 32 foot down the wall so halfway down this wall it's gonna come out eight foot and we're gonna wrap it all the way around when you look at it from this side you'll have two roof pitches coming up that will match the roof pitch on the main structure so you'll kind of have this porch coming out and the gable up there so it should look really good and the color scheme we're gonna use is burnished slate and red so very rich colors it's gonna look amazing we got you know a handful of windows handful of overhead doors to twelve by twelve s one on each end wall so you can go all the way through and then there's gonna be a little bit of a small overhead door that's gonna be in between one of these brackets here it'll be kind of like a little party barn mancave storage area so let's get to work I'm excited and I need to warm up to warm up so it requires a little bit of work Gregg's with us is axe with us and we're rocking the true work bibs comfortable and form-fitting well debatable that's debatable Zach's rocking some bibs over there what no no I mean oh I thought you said you look good yeah yeah okay yeah no big look good bit we're good now we know that perfect this is like getting near money no I'm one in like three quarters yeah which makes sense because we set the tops of these piers at two inches and our bracket is about a quarter-inch so in the perfect world that's pretty much so when when we dug these brackets in or the piers we set all the sonotubes to a designated number which was six inches below top of finished floor so our client is going to be doing a five-inch concrete slab on the inside that's a floating slab so what we wanted to do is we don't want those piers up in that slab we always go six inches below finish floor and you know when you pour your concrete when you set your bracket all that stuff there could be a little bit of movement so even though we took the time with the laser to set those tubes we're gonna come back through with the laser again and we'll check them I do get a lot of questions about how to set grade how to check grade how to mark out your columns I think the biggest thing is you know know where your grade mark is know where you're consistent that consistent measurement is for us it's this concrete pad that the client has their in-ground pool built into so that's what we wanted to match floor Heights to it's really easy anytime we need a dimension we can set our laser at zero there and and then you know take off from that dimension now that I've got all of those grade marks on every bracket that gives us a basically a benchmark anywhere on this project anytime from here on out so the good thing about that is we can use that to check maybe the height of where our porch is gonna go where our windows are gonna go and it should ensure that our trusses are all at the exact same grade point when we hang them if we you know make our columns up correctly so now that I have all of those benchmarks on my brackets the only way that that works for you efficiently is if you then use a story pole that you can set to that benchmark somewhere on each column and then have a repetitious efficient way to make all of your marks that way you know where all your trusses are your wall Gertz are where your windows are gonna go your grade board like all of those things can be determined one time which is what I'm doing right now with this story pole board and then I can use it throughout the entire life of the project and I know that based off of the benchmark it will be consistent on everything we do it was like perfect timing perfect timing Ohio Timberland Jamie way out there at the road showed up just when I was ready for these things I'll show you what I'm talking about with the center ply so you can see that these are laminated they're not a solid post people always ask me about the solid columns and why don't we use solid columns really there's a couple of reasons one because you can't really know what you have with a solid column there could be weak spots in them so by using you know lumber this is all southern yellow pine lumber they can splice together and glue them together to form a much stronger consistent column than with a solid column but there's other benefits as well now the major benefit that I have is you can see this Center block here that can come out and we cut it down to the exact height member we got all those benchmarks and every column and we can cut our Center block to the exact height of where our trust is gonna set and when it gets slipped in between those two outside plies the ears of what we call them we got a really good connection to the post at the trust location so that's another really big benefit and I guess the third benefit is that these are very dimensional so I know what the dimensions are and they're consistent so really I think it's a great benefit to use laminated columns stronger they stay straighter longer and um yeah they look better so there you go I'll give them on the sawhorses has got that story pull start put them together engine seven eight Inchon 7/8 inch and 3/4 those dimensions are the ones that we got from our laser at the beginning and all we're gonna do is hook the longest the longest ear or the longest ply that we can when it goes in the column that'll be the longest spot that's touching the ground so on this guy I met two inches I'm just gonna hook make a little crow's foot at two inches this one's inch and 7/8 and so on and so forth so you can see here the center ply and should be very easy to see this guy here is loose it comes loose and now that we have these marks here for our trust location and all of our Gert location I can just take my square thanks man thanks for being thanks for being a team player I do I thought you'd never asked so what that's gonna do now is it just generated my trust pocket the trust will sit in here and sit right perfectly at trust height which is 14 feet above grade yeah that's cuz it's got a sick Diablo blader - dude that's like the first thing that you should always do that's a brand new blade for Texas I put that in for Texas demo demon with the amp tracking blade carbide I don't know but it sounds amazing doesn't it got carbide tipped teeth obviously which is really nothing new I mean it seems like everything is going carbide but also it's got a special unique design on the teeth the way the geometry is that it keeps you going straight for longer exactly which is you know very common with like thin crappy blades geez I need put my ISO tubes in yeah nothing works as good in the wintertime now for those of you that are curious we're using the Jumbo nailer and I've shared it many times but this is the nail we're shooting and I wish I had a regular strip of nails you got one Gregg oh yeah this is your standard framing nail that you see a lot of guys used to frame houses with that's the Jumbo nail okay so that is why you can't just use any nail gun if you're gonna post free this has zero power of holding compared to this guy and I should do a test to show you the difference but this blue coating it's a what is it Diamond coat yeah fasco which is Beck fastening group these things are quite amazing they're galvanized and this this coating not only adds additional holding power but it also helps drive that nail in a lot more efficiently the amount of time it saves from having to drive in a twenty penny ring shank nail is definitely worth your you're a little bit extra money because it definitely saves on the body and here you can have that back Gregg I don't want that well I'm your first day on the job site you have a couple choices you can run as fast as you can and get a bunch of stuff done that looks good and that's called instant gratification what we did was we spent most of the morning actually all of the morning till lunch just prepping cutting and getting things ready so we knew our columns weren't gonna be in till lunchtime and so when they showed up we started just building things putting it together today doesn't look like much but by the end of tomorrow as long as the weather's nice as long as it's not crazy and you know something doesn't break knock on wood tomorrow you should see quite a bit of change here on this site our trusses should be in tomorrow morning first run so that's gonna be good and we've really got like everything kind of prepped so once we start hanging these walls it'll be game on and we'll start making a building out of this all right we're gonna go ahead and do something we don't normally do and that is this is a 64 foot wall usually we cut it off at 56 foot but first thing in the morning we're feeling good it's only a 14-foot wall so I think we're good we got straps on these three columns here in the middle this will go up naturally with these columns and then we're just gonna help lift up these ends probably the biggest struggle will be holding it level or plumb while I'll just have to get out and then we'll get your side or whatever and then we'll go vice versa we got screws we're good we've got plate level and drill so let's go ahead and let's go ahead and lift this thing up just remember to always be on the edge so if something were to happen good easy exit right [Music] [Music] dude that was smooth as butter dude not bad for our second pic huh that was Jerry who's Jerry who's Jerry that was awesome that is the way that you want the pic to go nice evenly balanced the thing just goes up naturally and that does that does showcase I think why it is so important to just build your post frame this way we did all that work on the ground and the machine just put it into place so now we're gonna go ahead and get it fastened we're just gonna make sure that this frost is off so it doesn't mess up our spring your you plumb your plumb dang yeah all I'm gonna do is bump this column out make sure it's plumb with our stabile a plate level and I don't want to touch the line I want to be just barely on it and the reason you don't want to touch it is because if you touch this line the next one's gonna be out just microscopically more because you're gonna be pushing this line out and down the line you can make yourself a nice little bow so we always stay just off the line [Music] okay that was extremely sad guys this is a two bar battery maybe it had four bars but we're gonna have to get a new drill or new battery this thing is dead is doornail de D so what we've got here these are some quarter by threes and these are spax so I use a lot of gr k but my column manufacturer the midwest perma column bracket manufacturer they send these out with the brackets and it's just a lot easier to use what they have already SPECT and we put one on the top and one on the opposite corner and they're on both sides so this is kind of the temporary hold it's not the end all structural hold that we're gonna do on this so once we have our SPAC slags in there those quarter by threes then we're gonna go ahead and drill a half inch hole from one side to the other and throw in some half inch bolts and if you do this enough it's a it's not too difficult to line them light them up from one side to the other now one thing that we always do is we make sure that on every bracket these bolts are facing the same way not just on each bracket but on the entire wall so we'll always come this is the west side will always come from the west and go out the east just for a nice uniform look even though this is gonna get an interior finish on it okay now that ain't going nowhere and I know people are always asking about these brackets about the fact that they're what set into concrete without a j-hook on the bottom only thing I can say is I have footage somewhere we messed up on one of these we had to move it and we couldn't pull it out without pulling the entire concrete pier out of the ground with a backhoe loader and that was with a half inch bolt we just hooked a chain around the bolt yanked it and this is not coming out without this coming out and those things probably aren't coming out before these snap in half so it's gonna take a lot of force from Mother Nature but this is a super strong connection and when the diaphragm of the building is complete it just really adds to the structural integrity and the fact that you won't have to worry about posts being four feet in the ground routing off over time here you can line up your top you can get it squared up you ever heard that saying put your best foot forward well for us it's put your best board on the bottom and just made that up you like that yeah I like it we do that because we know that the most visible line on the building will be that wainscot line the one that has that nice crisp trim line it's right at like eye level everybody comes up to the building and they can kind of get over just look right down it and confirm how nice the building is so we always put our best boards at the bottom and at the top so our facial line or our soffit line is important and our wainscot line is important lumber is never perfect therefore we can't you know we can't make every board dead-on perfect let's get the first one on and we'll square it up now you can probably see this detail right here this is on our corner column and what we're doing is we're nailing off a block and obviously this block is giving us additional shear strength when we set our trust right here so because it's on the outside we're putting four of these 20 penny ring shanks in to that trust and then once our steel diaphragm is applied to this whole end wall it kind of becomes all-in-one so the whole wall becomes one and that trust is attached to all these columns just like all of our wall Gertz are so we find it to be a very strong detail there's not any worry about you know sag over time because we are you know we've got this block here for additional support we've got this Gert that's going to be underneath of it and then you got to remember once the steel is all applied to it believe it or not you could come through once it's done cut one of these columns off and it ain't going nowhere because that just rigidity of all those sheets of steel being screwed together it can't really sag the shear strength is quite high now what I noticed was when I put these on it's like my legs go from being I wouldn't say irritated but you know like when you're cold like you have that like kind of tingle feeling where like whatever this almost like puts a warm blanket on them without being warm it's like yeah the transit pants are where it's at I will be needing to get like five pair it's the future when when somebody invented a microwave and said dude you no longer have to like cook your meal like the world changed well you no longer have to wear insulated pants underneath your bibs and what's amazing is they're no they're flexible dude I just cleaned up in that wall and I'm bending over yeah yeah it's not a sales ad for true work guys they just are that good and what they do really well is they they build layer above system so you know you're gonna go spend you know I don't know look at this saw this all cost me like a thousand dollars and it changed the way we cut our Gertz because it allows us to be amazingly efficient and accurate every cut is a perfect 90 and yeah I'm not going to get into everybody saying oh well if you're a good carpenter you cut a perfect cut every time it's not gonna happen guys and this is rough carpentry so a lot of people don't care they don't do a perfect cut what I'm getting at is that $1,000 right there for that tool the gear the bibs are you know maybe a couple hundred dollars but they're gonna last you and they're gonna be on you every day if you work outside so why would you not spend a couple hundred dollars to be more comfortable more efficient and not to mention I just think they look badass so why not from here if you want to start taking that off at 8 foot buddy so that's a good tip one of the things that we do to ensure that as we are constructing these walls on the ground we try to keep them as square as possible we already know that our layout our brackets we squared that up and it's precise so we've got our grade mark on the bottom of our column that line that we put down that was based off of the number that we shot with the laser we make sure that is flush with the outside edge of our column and then what we do is we measure the column off of our bracket on the end wall to be 7 10 and 1/2 we know that's where we want it and that makes sure that we're nice and square while we're constructing it so when it goes up it's not all wonky official term wonky [Music] alright I'm up here framing this corner connection detail two things I wanted to share one is I've been asked to share how we frame our corners and we always you can see here we've got one board that's overlapping and extending out an inch and a half and then we've got the other board that dies flush on the post edge so our side walls we always run the full dimension so instead of cutting it back to seven ten and a half so that you know the post is at seven ten and a half edge but the building is at eight-foot edge so everything is is taken off of the exterior of this corner right here for the full dimension of the building so this is a sixty four foot wide or long building so to the edge of this is sixty four edge to edge but our columns are 63 foot nine inches anyway I wanted to share that point but when you're framing these up the goal is you don't go off of where they're at you put them where you want them this lumber is about three-eighths shy from being on the face of this piece of two-by-six here and I want it to be perfect so the easiest way to do that for us we drive a nail almost all the way in on the side that is in from where you want it and then we're gonna take another nail and get it set now all you do is take another hammer and just crank it just like that you see that and that's gonna put your board right where you want it another nice thing is with the Martinez the side puller does give you just a little bit more leverage and you got to be careful you don't want to pull your nail out wow this is super awkward so that puts the lumber right where you want it leverage is the name of the game and post frame and when we're done we got this nice super crisp corner and that's because we took the time to make it right not just run it where it well there you go if you can't see the benefit of building your walls on the ground doing some preparatory work everybody likes to just show up to the site and start building and that's usually what I hear from other builders is yeah but when I when I don't do those piers like I'm building walls the first day you know yes we we do have to come dig our holes pour our brackets or pour up here set our brackets that usually takes us a day so we lose that day but when it comes to the actual construction of the walls you know this is all done in the morning we can and in good weather we've put up 40 by 60 for buildings which is this building we've we've put all the walls and the trusses up in one day and it's not just about the the quickness aspect of it but everything is very precise we don't have to go back and cut off the tops of our columns because maybe they're not exactly where we wanted them and it's at least as perfect as we are as carpenters to make all of the correct marks make all of the correct cuts but it sure makes it a lot easier huh yeah I see it I see it I see it cut it off yeah the price is way too high now when installing a door header on an end wall you're not as much worried about structure at least we aren't because we use a structural end truss and that means that the truss is made and designed engineered to carry the load on the end a lot of guys will just put a an entrance on that's got the correct framing to fasten their steel but it actually isn't engineered to really carry any load because they're relying on their end columns I personally never know down the road if somebody's gonna put a door on their end wall it's very easy to do so it's something that guys do so we just across the board every truss is structural and that means we don't have to worry too much about the specific header on our end doors it's more of we use a couple two by twelves for blocking on the back side of our door for the tracks the springs and all that good stuff keep going keep going right there about yeah leave that right there for now that side Greg is gonna have to come downhill that whole columns got to come downhill yeah man oh my god not that much dude notnot go back down down down right there hold that thank you appreciate that okay give me a crank I need this column crank I'm out of I'm out of square up here Greg let's bring that guy back to square good all right now go ahead and find Center there should be six foot yeah six foot from the inside should be Center go six foot three quarters yeah and I've got the this square here that's nice isn't it I probably come off the bottom dude you got a screw for your bro okay I just want to all right I'll take put these in my pouch for later you're a nice guy what's her bottom look like I'm here take this guy run it on the bottom tell me where got it we're going to lift it up guys and bring it back because it's gonna catch those so come on this bottom and just lift it up [Music] that's pretty good huh I love it man I just honestly wish Kubota would make a JCB or JCB just needs to get the same controls as Kubota easy Square lids and like a Rubbermaid type thing that the handle light goes and it latches over the side did you just think you had like a million dollar idea or something all right we are at the point now where we're able to start trusting and our trust has got delivered this morning we use mainly a company out of Rockford Illinois called Atlas trusts and there's an engineer there Karl that's just a super good dude does a great job engineering what we want and what we've come up with over the years I'll show you here I'll flip you around so these trusses first off on the top you can see what I mean by structural end frames so you see those horizontal Gertz those are running through our trust so we can nail our steel on a nice like 2 foot or 30 inch stagger and that does change on the trusses I could probably specify that a little better but I kind of leave it up to my engineer but then what you'll notice is these guys here these structural webs that are going you know making the triangles that's where the strength comes in this truss and it's the exact same as all of our intermediate trusses now another thing to note on our trusses are these ends so you can see how big they are that's 15 that's 15 and a half inches and what it does is it gives you a good connection at the truss to post connection there at the top we already talked about how on our three ply laminated column we were able to set that trust in between the two outer plies and then we are able to you'll see later on in the videos where we drill to half inch through bolts top and bottom of that heel and that's going to give us a lot of strength so when the wind is pushing on the side of our building that connection detail is helping resist a lot of that load and we're not doing knee bracing instead we're spending a little bit more money on our truss engineering however the thing to note is that everything that I try to do not saying I'd do it well or do it perfect but everything I try to do is simplify our labour process I'll spend more money on materials or machinery as you've seen if it means that my labor is cheaper and I say that because not that I don't want to spend money on labor I mean I don't I want to run a business I want everybody to make money but when you have to work less to do the same task you can get more done and you feel better about that process when you are done so as a worker when you know you have to like do this tedious work like a knee brace it's just a fatiguing thing mentally so I think by doing the trust connection detail that way we're able to put our bolts through and forego having to cut and install knee bracing so now we're ready to go and put those trusses up we'll get that end trust mounted first to the end columns and then we'll work our way outwards and the thing to remember is that you want to start straight and straight so spend a little time on that first baya trusses make sure it's straight make sure you've got things locked down and then work your way out through the rest of the building

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Length: 35min 5sec (2105 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 11 2020