How we install Permanent Bracing while Framing! Major Partnership Announcement

hey what's up everyone welcome back to the channel you'll see behind me this is a 48 by 80 shop and i will turn this into probably a full time lapse build but i'm not going to be doing a daily build series build on this project i've done other daily build series on very similar projects i didn't want to bore you guys but i also wanted to use it as an opportunity to share with you maybe some individual little like tutorial type videos and today i thought i've never really shared with you guys the process of installing our permanent bracing so the stuff up in the trusses that stays there forever and adds to the rigidity of the structure now before i get into the video and the meat and potatoes of our permanent bracing i wanted to also say that this video is a sponsored video itw paslode has partnered with rr buildings for the year in the process of showing you guys our permanent bracing i'm also going to share with you some of the benefits to the paslode fuel battery combo system as the power source for their tools their cordless tools i'm going to share with you some of the kind of unique differences the perks and benefits to using the pass load system over a battery only system so let's get into it now before we talk about permanent bracing i guess i should start by kind of explaining what the point of this video is so if you are installing a truss and let's say you're going to build yourself a little garage and you've got a bunch of trusses to put up if that truss is not installed properly it's actually not very strong so the bracing is what holds it up keeps it rigid and able to do its job now behind me you'll see our trusses up in the air they're bearing all the weight of that roof system so when we install our trusses we're going to use temporary bracing first so you've probably seen the chains if not you can look back behind me and maybe see some of the chains that are hanging down from our trusses we'll put those up temporarily just to hold the building tight imagine if you were to take all the skin off of your body your bones would crumple into a big pile well a building like this is somewhat the same and until we get the skin on our building which is going to give us all of our diaphragm strength and all of our bracing a big wind storm could come and knock this building down trusses are very weak until installed properly and braced properly so with that being said i'll take you up into the roof system and i'll show you some of the things that we do here's our truss and as you can see if i move it and without a lot of effort the bottom cord is not very stiff now i've actually got some of our framing already installed greg worked on that yesterday and we're going to be finishing it off these what we're installing now are called wind ties so i'll show you what we do so just to get it out of the out of the comments section because i know i'm going to get asked that question you're building it's moving a lot well yes it does move a little bit like i can shake the truss which is why we're installing the truss web bottom cord web stiffener which is what we call our wind tie but also you guys are mounted in the scissor lift and you can tell here i can shake the scissor lift it's not going anywhere it just has some looseness to it the building however it's not going to go anywhere because we do have it permanently braced so just to get that out of the way i know i always get that question [Applause] you'll see at the very end down there it's attached right on a post location so we mark out all the bottom cord of our trusses so that this wind tie can run from one end of the building to the other end and our posts are lined up and what that does is adds a bunch of rigidity to the bottom cord so once this is all nailed together remember how much that shook now i can't shake that and that's important because when the load is applied let's say a big snowfall and it tries squishing down the top cord the bottom cord will kind of get squashed out of the way and when you don't keep your truss perfectly over top of each other that's when they collapse this bottom cord stiffener is very important most the time your truss manufacturer all the time actually they should give you a piece of paper or print out or something that shows you where you need to apply stiffeners after using a battery only nailer those are great they do operate very well they drive nails very well but the first time anybody picks one up they're gonna say the same thing wow this is heavy because they almost weigh i think 50 percent more than the pass low so this weighs in around seven pounds and the battery powered milwaukee which is a great nailer i think it weighs in over 11 pounds that's a big difference when you're carrying it around when you're using it above your head when you're up here in these trusses and so by using the fuel with the battery you get to shave off a lot of weight this uses combustion to fire a piston you don't have all these electronics and these things that are going on inside of a battery only nailer weight is going to be the biggest positive the weight and ergonomics of the pass load versus a battery only nailer [Applause] now here on the end i'm going to take a 60 penny and i'm going to drive it straight into this column there's something that the pass load can't do and that's it's not driving a 60 penny nail at all it can max out at three and a quarter so we're not going to be driving any 60 pennies anytime soon all right so i think you guys probably get the picture these are the wind ties that you maybe hear us talk about these are important for the bottom cord stiffening and i'm going to go ahead i've got two more rows to do over here and then the next thing will be what we call a kicker and i'll show you that as well that's going to support or i should say it's going to connect the bottom cord to the top cord so that way they can be uh together and not move independently which adds a ton of rigidity when an end wall is getting hit with a large windstorm even though it is winter uh it's below freezing right now that's not that cold and most tools should operate however some of the battery powered nailers don't work very well when it gets cold with pads load uh put the battery in put the fuel in and you're usually good to go down to 14. now i will say one thing i've always done to help with that go ahead and take your fuel make sure it's warm first but if you're out on site just stick it down in your in your coat get it close to your body get the fuel warm that way when you start it's good to go and as long as you're continuously using your nailer the nailer itself will stay warm just by the sheer combustion and heat that is generated when using it but with the battery powered nailers uh sometimes the electronics they just have an automatic shutdown not sometimes they do have an automatic shutdown at a certain temperature don't have to worry about that a ton here in northern illinois although it does get pretty cold sometimes so now the next thing that we want to do is kind of connect our roof deck to our bottom cord and we do that with what we call a kicker so here on this side of the post we're going to run some 2x6 material on an angle from the bottom cord all the way up to the top cord on an angle so that's going to in in essence if wind hits the side of or the end of this building what that's going to do is it's going to lock in the roof diaphragm strength that we're going to have with that steel and the bottom when tied together so that it doesn't it's not able to push independently the wall and move this whole bottom cord while keeping the roof solid because you got to remember once all of our steel is on the exterior and we get that full building diaphragm the wind hitting the roof is not going to be able to move it because it's all locked in to our walls and that's locked into our foundation but the end could push and i've seen this in a heavy windstorm with older buildings the end gets pushed in and these wind ties can get pushed right out the other side so i'm going to do a bunch of math i'm not going to bore you with the math because i think i've done that video before but i'm going to figure out where this triangle is based on where all my post locations are and we'll cut those down on the sawhorses so the beauty of it is i've actually got a note on my phone here and i've you know been doing this a long time and i used to figure it out every time and then i thought why don't i save the dimension because it never changes so i actually have down what i need to cut these at i'm gonna cut one just because i'm always like uh i think this is the right one five and an eighth pitch [Music] and i'm actually going to do the exact same pitch on the other end kind of opposite each other so eight foot six should be my point all right so that is probably worth checking just to make sure it's uh it's right before i do all of them well that's good news being safe up there greg yeah okay i just wanted to make sure well the good news is that's a perfect cut so we're going to go ahead and cut three more because i've got four of the same post and then i got to go to the next size up because as my posts get closer to the peak my angles get longer all right i'm going to go ahead and do this anyway because i know people are going to want to know we're going to be looking at this like so this is the wall okay this is the post going way up and i got my truss that's installed kind of on the outside and then over here i've got another truss and another truss being this being my ceiling okay and then way down here i got another wall and in between here more trusses but what we're worried about is we want this that we just installed with all those wind ties and this which is all of our purlins to kind of act together so that when wind forces are being pushed on this wall it doesn't just bow it in and pop out the other side so what we're going to do is install cross braces or angle braces we call kickers like this so now when wind hits this it's going to hit this angle brace and go up and push against the roof which this diaphragm is tied into our walls everything is nice and solid vice versa if it comes in from the other way we've got all this nice bracing and to figure this out it's just you got to use um you got to use your pythagorean theorem or your math and in my case i use the app on my calculator but i know this height here by calculating rise over run so at each post location i know each post is you know from the end eight foot centers on the ins you know from the end it goes eight foot sixteen foot twenty four foot so i can find from from the outside let's say we're looking at a truss nice triangle i know and i've got a post and a post and i've got posts like this i know my first post in is eight foot so this is a 4 12 pitch which will give me my height here so once i know this location that means now i know this location i know this distance here because it's eight foot from this edge so all my trusses are eight foot so i can use this dimension in this dimension to determine what this dimension is and then that's how i get the angle dimension the diagonal cut for my kickers and i'm going to do that for each post location so the goal is that we did our math so that the bottom of this point here goes right here at the bottom of the heel and the equal but opposite uh point on the other end of this board is going to go up at the top cord of the truss and that's a good sign when it sits i mean you can see that i'm not faking that that sits perfectly right where it belongs you can see right here where it goes up it's seated also very nice and if you look at the very top of that board you'll notice that it's sitting right where the top cord meets that kicker board so we know that everything is right because math never lies now the other thing that we're going to not do yet is we're actually not going to fasten that top and the reason is we don't want to lock our roof in at this point because we haven't had time to square it to plummet to plumb the building the walls square the roof structure square the peak to the eaves all that stuff will come at a later date when we're ready to put our roof steel on and then once we have everything locked in we get our first couple sheets of steel from the end we'll go ahead and nail those because then we know everything is where it needs to be and where we want it to be permanently locked down you know especially when you're working overhead like this it's just really nice to have a little bit of a lighter weight tool all right so we just wrapped up our wind ties we got our kickers done our angle braces up in our trusses now the one thing i want to say don't just follow our set of rules i guess on our permanent bracing you want to make sure that you work with whoever is engineering your design to make sure that you're doing the proper bracing so that being said we now have one more set of permanent bracing we need to do and it involves these chains back here so greg's back here getting our corner bracket ripped off so we can run our grade board and once we get that grade board installed but then we can start installing our wall permanent bracing okay so you're going to see what we do here but basically where these chains are those chains are holding our walls perfectly plumb and where we want them during this framing stage but i'm going to install some x bracing that will be permanent inside the wall cavity and we'll maintain that plumb not just until we get our steel on but it will add additional rigidity to the wall structure for the life of the building now with our corner boards our x bracing it's gonna be the exact same process as our kickers i'm gonna use my square i used some math and actually i've already got the uh i've already got my side walls in my phone note and i don't have the end walls figured yet so i'll have to figure those we'll go ahead and cut up our sidewall double x and we'll go ahead and get that installed first always do a test cut especially if you're going off of maybe memory or something like that instead of in my case cutting eight boards and realizing i messed up now this this uh detail this permanent bracing detail came from a commercial building that we had to build it was an 80 by 200 they had us do this double x brace on this end wall with a monster door and i thought to myself if that is the engineered design on an 18 foot tall wall maybe a 34 foot end door on an 80 foot end wall if that is the design that they're telling me to do then i could i could implement that into all of our buildings there's not usually a need for that kind of strength and i would be covered i just always say if it's good enough for that at this high level where we're doing a more extreme case then we're more than good enough so this detail isn't needed per se in order to get the kind of engineering for this build it's just one of those things that we do and i always am going to do it there's eventually going to be a rat board down here is what we call rat board and it planes in with the bottom of the grade board comes into the inside and then we connect it with another piece of grade board essentially giving us a cavity inside the wall a protection against anything coming in and going up the wall like a rat and something for our interior floating slab to go against so what i got to do is when i put these x braces in and i install them like so i need to make sure that it doesn't go low it needs to be up a thickness of a piece of grade board before i get ahead of myself i also pulled out the stabila plate level and we're going to check these walls for plumb the plate level is a great way to do that because it is 12 foot tall and uh if you check a wall like this with a four foot level it's not going to be very accurate so we want to make sure it's as good as possible yeah i'd say right there right there is good okay i'm just going to put one in there for now then what i'm gonna do is do like a i just call it a star pattern but basically i'm gonna put one two three four and then one right in the middle so down here because we are out an inch and a half we're separated by this inch and a half connection right here i'm actually going to use another piece of treated this will give me something to install my blocking on would you look at that so since we are talking about pass load in this video um i figured this was a perfect time so i ran out of fuel okay that's gonna happen i actually was able to get uh all the nails that came in the box with the fuel i got so you can rest assured that if you if you buy the nail fuel combo packs you're gonna get all the nails shot with one fuel that comes with that nail pack however eventually you are going to run out you're going to have to change it but it's super simple it's no big deal and the benefit that comes with the fuel and the battery combo one of the big advantages is also something that most people don't think about maintenance service the things that seem so far down the road when you buy a tool that you don't necessarily think about it but by doing the pass load battery fuel system combo for your nailer based on the statistics if you're running a battery only nailer you're going to have more issues long before you have an issue with a pass load and the reason is because those battery-only nailers have a lot of electronics inside they have a lot of things to go wrong whereas this system is pretty simple it's got a firing mechanism that's charged by the battery and it uses that fuel like a combustion engine to slam that piston down and fire nail that's it so yes you do have to do a little maintenance to your paslode nailer it's super easy maybe in another video i'll take you through the cleaning process a little bit of maintenance is not a big deal and it takes no time at all get some of that pass load cleaner spray it on all the components it's electronically safe so you're good to go you're gonna get on average 200 000 nails through a pass load before it needs any serviceable work done to it and a lot of the battery nailers out there on the market personally i had to send one of mine in because it was not shooting properly probably not even 50 000 nails but that's kind of the number that people have talked about and the number i've heard this is probably the most or i should say the least serviced gun out there for cordless and i can't quantify that that's just the statistic that i've heard so take it as you want to oh that chain might be in my way no it's not nice [Applause] i tell you what the tip of the pass load is great for doing toe nailing which is how we connect it back to the wall we've got a toe nail and we've got a nail that goes straight straight through the point at the top oh getting muddy out here well guys that is the video on our permanent bracing so i'm not saying this is the only way the right way this is the way we do it we've had success with it and i wanted to share that with you guys because i've never actually made a dedicated video about our bracing now like always i appreciate your guys's comments and feedback if you see something that maybe could improve our bracing or what we could do different i'm all ears drop that down below in the comments i'd love to read that i'm sorry if the wind got a little bit bad here today but with that being said let's just recap we've got our wind ties that are at the bottom quarter of the truss and then we've got our kickers or our angle bracing that go from our end post bottom cord truss up to the top cord on the first truss in and last but not least we always make sure that we do some wall bracing such as this double x behind me uh which right here you can see the double x you can see the angle kicker bracing up in the roof system and once this is all done we put our steel exterior on the building it's not going anywhere man big shout out to paz load thank you for sponsoring the channel being a support for our buildings we do genuinely like this gun this is not just a an ad for paslode yes they do sponsor me they they support me but i agree to that partnership because i like this tool because i would recommend it to you guys and good lord once you use it you're not going to be disappointed with the ergonomics of it compared to the battery nailers on the market so whatever you guys take from this video is fine by me hopefully it helps somebody both on the construction side and if you're in the market for a new nailer uh i'd love for you guys to give me some feedback make sure you hit that thumbs up if you enjoyed the video maybe let me know what the next video should be about as far as content on instruction or how we do something and i'd love to do that for you if i can so i'm gonna get out of here get back to work now that i've got that one double x behind me i can do the other three one on this corner and then two on the opposite corner over there and then we'll be locked down ready for steel see you guys later have a good one

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Length: 24min 28sec (1468 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 06 2021