7.3.2015

Jim designed and then had Bryan make these brackets to be used for the trusses - Jim painted one side of them this morning.  Thanks, Bryan!

Jim got me started on taking apart a little bit of the shoring this morning because he needed some of the trusses - very exciting!  But it's a crazy puzzle to take down even.  Everything has to be taken down in a certain order because all of the shoring is under load from the concrete right now. 



Jim loosened up the side piece a little so that we could work on some of the middle shoring pieces.

One of the big vertical pieces coming down!

While I was up on the scaffolding working on unscrewing, Jim had me try to actually screw on in.  As hard as I tried, I couldn't screw even one in!  Certainly gave me even a greater appreciation for all the work Jim did on the shoring as well as all he is doing on the framing - not an easy task!  Unscrewing them is much easier!

Which led to my next task - taking apart some of the shoring pieces so that Jim could reuse the studs in the framing.

The afternoon was spent working on getting the studs all to the right height - such a tedious and time consuming task.  One that shouldn't have had to be done if the concrete job had been done better.  But we have to move on.

Here Jim is cutting shims to add height to those studs that need it. 

Of course, adding shims requires taking the top apart again, measuring and then putting everything back together again.

We got almost all of the redo work accomplished - just a few more to work on tomorrow.  Since Jim had been working in this corner, he decided to put the nailer piece in.  This piece of steel basically brings the corner to the same plane so that there is something to attach the drywall to when it's time for that.

Nailer all in - kind of hard to tell but now the back wall is all on the same plane.

At the end of the day, Jim wanted to see how the strapping would work out.  These pieces will be attached to gusset plates and provide stabilization.  The sheathing will go on the outside of the strapping.  For now, Jim just put it up temporarily.  He will probably want to actually put it together from the outside which will require scaffolding.

 

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