Hi Jackie and Shawn. Thanks so much for the wisdom in the video. I am building a house on a heavy duty trailer. The subfloor frame I built to put the floor sheathing on is not a perfect square. Should I make the AdvanTech sheathing square with the trailer or square with the deck I built on top of the trailer?
I think it depends on how far out of square you are. If you get things fitting nicely on the trailer, you're probably better off just making sure your walls are square to each other and have them a little off-square with the subfloor/trailer. Assuming I'm understanding your question correctly! We didn't pay too much attention to how square the trailer itself was. We built the subfloor frame to sit tightly inside the trailer, them made sure the bottom plates were independently square, and fit the sheathing inside those. Hard to describe, but check out this video if you want to see it: ruclips.net/video/YuLSSRhl6kY/видео.html Doing the bottom plate before sheathing is backwards from typical construction, but it made it much easier to cut the plywood for the subfloor and the end result was just a double bottom plate once we got the walls up. We could have just sheathed to line up with the trailer flange and done a single bottom plate on top of that, but we would have needed to trim off excess plywood because the trailer wasn't perfectly square.
Very nice work however had you visited an actual job site where a house was being framed with a nail gun and watched an experienced carpenter lay out their walls you would have saved a lot of time and money and not had to use a sawsall to compensate for mistakes. Your bottom and top plates in your kitchen should have been continuous pieces instead of spliced on the butt ends. I would also use a lot more nails or screws for you two at each stud on one side to anchor your bottom plate to the floor. In the future I would also highly suggest using your chalk line clear at the top of your top plates and measure from there because you can be on at the bottom and way out at the top. Squaring the walls at the top plates bring all walls plumb and saves a huge amount of time. I assume you did crowns up and crowns out on your framing studs?
Thank you for sharing
My pleasure!
Hi Jackie and Shawn. Thanks so much for the wisdom in the video. I am building a house on a heavy duty trailer. The subfloor frame I built to put the floor sheathing on is not a perfect square. Should I make the AdvanTech sheathing square with the trailer or square with the deck I built on top of the trailer?
I think it depends on how far out of square you are. If you get things fitting nicely on the trailer, you're probably better off just making sure your walls are square to each other and have them a little off-square with the subfloor/trailer. Assuming I'm understanding your question correctly!
We didn't pay too much attention to how square the trailer itself was. We built the subfloor frame to sit tightly inside the trailer, them made sure the bottom plates were independently square, and fit the sheathing inside those. Hard to describe, but check out this video if you want to see it: ruclips.net/video/YuLSSRhl6kY/видео.html
Doing the bottom plate before sheathing is backwards from typical construction, but it made it much easier to cut the plywood for the subfloor and the end result was just a double bottom plate once we got the walls up. We could have just sheathed to line up with the trailer flange and done a single bottom plate on top of that, but we would have needed to trim off excess plywood because the trailer wasn't perfectly square.
What software did you use for the drawing
SketchUp. There’s a free, web based version. Pretty easy to use, I just watched a couple tutorials.
Very nice work however had you visited an actual job site where a house was being framed with a nail gun and watched an experienced carpenter lay out their walls you would have saved a lot of time and money and not had to use a sawsall to compensate for mistakes. Your bottom and top plates in your kitchen should have been continuous pieces instead of spliced on the butt ends. I would also use a lot more nails or screws for you two at each stud on one side to anchor your bottom plate to the floor. In the future I would also highly suggest using your chalk line clear at the top of your top plates and measure from there because you can be on at the bottom and way out at the top. Squaring the walls at the top plates bring all walls plumb and saves a huge amount of time. I assume you did crowns up and crowns out on your framing studs?
It's true, if we were professionals, we'd have done better!