Here Jim is marking the tracks where the studs go as well as the rough opening for the window in this section. Then I would transfer the marks to the outside where Jim could see them when he was screwing them in place.
Before we started on the wall, Jim put some more screws in the first section. At this point, he's only putting one screw on each side of the truss, top and bottom, until we see if we have to remove any for trimming because of the slab.
Time to build the next wall!
There are no pictures of us lifting the wall into place since we are both busy actually putting the wall into place and making sure it doesn't topple over the side! We have a pretty good system now but Jim still has to do the brunt of the work.
He's also skilled at doing the limbo while he fastens the studs into place!
Getting the corners all set is key.
It's much better when he can work on the scaffolding and screw the top studs in place - otherwise, he's standing on the top of the ladder with me bracing it just in case!
Using the hammer drill to drill into the concrete to attach the track.
On this wall, every other stud is a double stud that we made a few weeks ago. These are the areas that the trusses will sit on so it needs to be extra strong to carry the weight of the next story too!
The view of Jim working from down below is pretty crazy!
At this point, the wall is pretty well fastened down and is still tied to the scaffolding. Jim is putting a brace attached to a stake down below to make sure everything is supported.
Then he fastens the brace to the wall.
Time to start the next section!
Assembling the wall.
Jim put a temporary track on top of the wall so that once we put the wall up, he can quickly clamp the top track to this temporary piece and hold things together until he can get them screwed down.
The wall is in place - Jim also put a brace on the far side.
Time to screw the other side of the studs to the track.
Then use the hammer drill to attach to the concrete.
Then we can fill in the rest of the studs!
The two sections were joined with a double stud.
Making all the connections...
Wow!! Another wall is done! There's still lots of detail work to be done but it's so exciting to see walls now!
The view from the driveway is amazing...
...as is the view from the back!
As the afternoon grew to a close, the skies looked a bit threatening but we kept pressing on. Here Jim cuts the track for the next section.
Starting to assemble the wall...
It's in place! This one was a little less scary because there wasn't a 10 foot drop on the other side.
Jim braced the wall to the temporary decking over the stairwell as well as to the other piece of bracing.
All done - the winds picked up and rain started spitting so it was time to clean up. We were thrilled with how much we got done today.
View at the end of the day...can't wait til tomorrow! (Unfortunately, rain is in the forecast but we have our fingers crossed that we can still work!)
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