Then he built up the side wall even further.
We got the first piece of sheathing in place and clamped on before lunch. While we were eating, we drove back down to the barn to pick up the giant ladder as well as Jim's side extensions for the scaffolding.
Using the bigger ladder, he took up the side pieces to install them.
These side extensions are nice but they aren't as secure as they probably could be - they attach to the scaffolding with a type of pinching connection instead of hooking all the way around the bar.
Jim made a platform for the extension out of wood...
...and put it into place.
From the bigger ladder, he was now able to go back and finish screwing down the first piece edges.
The screws are still being very frustrating - Jim talked to his rep at the cold-formed steel place a couple of times today and he is ordering Jim some new screws to try. Unfortunately, that will take a little while so until then he has to deal with the ones he has.
Cutting a piece of plywood to size to do the end piece on the second row of sheathing...
We got the corner piece in place and Jim is fastening it to the steel. Whew...it's a long way down from this point.
We redid the inside scaffolding that I stand on to clamp the sheathing to the steel - Jim needed the other pieces to build up even higher outside.
You can see we have two rows basically done now and were working on the steel strapping.
Then it was time for the start of the last row of sheathing. This was obviously the toughest piece so far. Jim got up on the top deck, cut the piece to size on the deck, attached a handle to help him hold on to it as he lowered it down onto the temporary ledger boards. Then I had to try and clamp it down - much harder than usual because I had to reach around the corner on the outside. But we got it into place. Jim went back out on the scaffolding to start fastening.
You can see how high the scaffolding is from this view. I know that we'll have to go even higher eventually but this is still nerve-wracking!
This last row of sheathing will extend above the deck. Eventually it will tie in to the upper level to allow for continuous carrying of the load downward.
The screws work the best when Jim can get good leverage and really push hard to drive them in. Unfortunately on this piece there was really nowhere for him to hold. As he pushes forward hard to drive in the screws, the scaffolding tower wants to move in the opposite direction - not good!
The inside looks so different with this sheathing on! Even with all of the scaffolding work and going down to the barn, we still got a lot done.
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