Your ingenuity never fails to amaze me, Don! It seems you have fully embraced the "work smarter not harder" philosophy. I do so enjoy your updates. Take care!
She's a beaut Don. Definitely coming along and looking well built. Please don't strain yourself and take it easy. Take care buddy and have a great rest of your week.
Hi Don. Great to see you making such good progress on the big home.Your levels of ingenuity never fail to impress me.Improvise adapt and overcome must be your motto.It`s looking great sir. Very well done.
It is generally best practice for the OSB wall sheathing to cover the sill plate, band joist, and wall framing in one piece. This provides better structural integrity. Look at images of mobile homes after a tornado or high wind. The floor and frame are usually intact but the rest of the home is gone. This is because the wall studs and bottom plate are only connected by nails or screws. Overlapping all the framing with one sheet of sheathing adds a lot of strength. You can still add some hurricane straps on the outside of the wall framing to the band joist, just make sure the straps are connected to 2x6 wall studs with screws through the OSB wall sheathing and into the band joist. Tape all the sheathing seams with ZIP Panel System Tape before adding house wrap.
Good comment. That said my neighborhood doesnt seem to be prone to tornado type winds. So far no neighbors here for many years have lost homes. If you note when I put the osb on it is screwed into the bottom sill plate of the home. While not a guarantee against severe winds it should help a great deal I figure.
You are making such great progress Don. And I know that filming must be an added task that isn't always easy. I marvel at how far you have come. I am learning all about persistence and patience from you during this journey. I am amazed but not surprised. You are a man on a mission, thanks for sharing and taking us along Don, so great to see you! 🥰👋👍💥❤
I am AMAZED that anyone can get ANYTHING done with the tremendous amount of monsoon rains that are being experienced this year! It is making up for last year's " non-soon"! Folks have NO IDEA what your rainfall looks like when it is actively happening and just what a miracle it is that you have been able to make any progress at all!
It's impressive the job your doing, Considering the fact that you are a one man show, I congratulate you sir, I Just became one more subscriber And i want you to know i will be waiting for the next video,Keep them comin'.👍👍👏👏👏👏
Great progress! You're an amazing, innovating builder. You've engineered your building more than most licensed contractors would have done. I can't wait for Donlandia to get it's own zipcode!
So wonderful to see you Don! Wonderful progress, glad to see you get some help from time to time. I like those MacGuyer inventions to aid in hoisting the large & heavy OSB❗👌💯💚🌵
With an inexpensive block and tackle setup you could have raised that sheet with your pinky. I used such a setup to raise and lower 3 kayaks in my long narrow shed. Worked well for the 17 years I owned the property. Great to see you moving to get dried in. You have an excellent eye for details. I don't know anything about the other eye though. Maybe it had something to do with Mission Impossible. Thanks for a great video, Don!
Thanks so much for the input. Learning about block and tackle setups will have to be on my to do list if I need to do a similar project in the future. Thanks for watching.
Its great to hear from you again and seeing the progress you made, i bet you are way ahead of that video we just watched up a little over 2 hours and already over 400 views. Have a great week.
Thanks for all of the critique. Both valuable and premature. In the end there are not only 2 but 3 trimmer studs in place. This will be viewable in an upcoming video where I clearly state I revised the procedure in order to indeed make the frames more sturdy. I definitely will take the undersized header comment seriously. I made the header according to research the bare minimum size. You are correct and I will beef it up.
Looks good! I stand the sheathing up on its end so I don't have to do a top layer of sheathing. I like your idea of putting a screw at the base of the stud. That would also make it easier to find the stud when you've got them covered up.
I applaud you sir! Not only gettin the work done but creating video, editing and posting! It seems I can only try and just get the work done! DIY *JamLam*😂Cheers
Don, So great to see you are doing great and continuing to push forward on your dream home! Your videos are always informative and interesting. So glad...you got to go "Birding" and to take a well deserved break. Veteran Charlie.
Wow Don your great your amazing man doing it all by your self that man helping you at the end bits they are hard good job hope you not doing the roof alone dont its dangerous up there get a few people ok wont be long till your inside !
Hi Donald Kimball. I've been sitting at Suncreek Village with your cousin, January. He apologizes that he can't come down there to do an building inspection.
Hi Linda give January a hug from me and tell him I think of him often. Yes indeed it would be so super to have my home inspected by him for sure! Say hello to any of the other kind cousins you see on your trip.
Super question. A home with just wall framing is generally not stable enough to support the heaviness of roof construction unless it has siding of some sort to lash it all together for stability.
If take two separate boards and add a cleat every 6 inches to them you can lean them against the house and walk the sheet up to where you need it. Its easy. They use that methods in log home building to get the heavy top wall logs to the top of the wall. Good luck..
U need some help but you’re doing a awesome job by yourself I’m rebuilding a slide in truck camper and a 78 F250 camper special truck to pull it with God bless be safe ✝️🇺🇸
Not sure where you live but rent or by a cheap drywall sheet hanger. It can be used for any sheets and also for hanging sheetrock on ceilings it is a life saver.
That water ponding on the floor, no place to drill a few drain holes? Giant floor squeegee to sweep? With the quantity of exterior siding work, maybe invest in a section of scaffold, maybe on wheels? (Rent, or purchase) OSB, house wrap, windows, flashing, exterior siding, roofing, gutters, I vote for scaffold of some type. Learning about your climate, monsoon season, I now know to when have the roof deck installed, to protect the sub floor.
4:04 You shouldn't have cut those 2x6. You should cut the nails with a sawzall at the top and bottom of both 2x6, that would have saved the full length of both 2x6 to be used somewhere else. Use short scrap 2x6 above the headers.
Good point and I thought about that. The good thing is in the end all cut 2x6 pieces of any sort seemed to end up with a home. Mostly as header material for the windows. Thanks for watching.
@1:14 Don, I don't want to sound like a complainer, but when you showed where you were putting the door to the porch & backyard, you stood in the way and I couldn't see the porch. (Or the backyard!) 😂 🥰
Hilarious Sean. Yep both are in my mind only at this point. But hoping they will develop as time goes on. Us geriatrics can only do so much you know.. grin.
Nothing wrong with using screws for this build. Try taking out a board that's nailed together and see how much you tear up. With a screw you just unscrew it and take the piece out. Add new screws. 👍🏾
Keep up the good work Don! You are an inspiration. I recently bought my own off grid property and am a senior who is looking forward to putting together my own little house. Remind me please, are you using 2x6s for the studs?
Yes indeed 2x6 Not that much more expensive and it makes your home sturdier and you can easily load up the insulation R value with larger wall cavities. Congratulations on your off grid purchase!
@@affordabledesertliving3487 thank you Don! I thought I remembered you did use 2x6's. Since my place is also in the desert, I thought I would also use 2x6 studs for the added insulation value. I am going with a 2/12 lean to shed type roof instead of the conventional type you have. I'm going to use metal roofing too. Have you decided what type of roofing material you will use?
Ordinary screws indeed. Structural rated screws are a different animal. But in fairness to everyone they have not been out a long time from what I know and code has to be re-written to incorporate them from what I have been told.
Dude you are awesome! The build is progressing nicely. Do you like the Bora Speedhorse saw horse and would you recommend it? I need to buy a new saw horse.
Thanks so much for the comments. I absolutely LOVE the Bora Speedhorse. Lets look at negatives and positives. Negative is if its a bit dirty inside it doesnt flip open with the press of a button like its suppose to. You just have to tamper with it a bit. Positives? Incredibly strong and stable. Wouldnt be without them. Worth every penny.
The standard method to do the sheathing is to leave the 4x8 sheets intact and stagger them. Naturally because of the stud placement you need to have two 4x4 sheets one at each end. It comes down to having the structure more solid with unbroken sheets.
So Don... I am wondering...If your wall sill plates are screwed down to the Advantech or vice versa and you have properly caulked the plates with building adhesive as well and now have OSB exterior sheathing up, how will you squeegee the water out? Have you cut a temporary gap in the floor somewhere to push the water out and onto a slide to carry it away from the foundation? Are you using a shop vac or how are you getting the rainfall out now? I wish you had made it easier on yourself by just framing the walls up and bracing them temporarily in order to get a roof on asap. I worry about how you can get the rain water out of the house now...could you please enlighten us in your next video? When you poke a moisture meter into the Advantec after it is squeegee off and dry from the 90 degree heat, what percentage of moisture is the floor reading? As always, " there is more than 1 way to skin a cat", but I am curious about the floor situation now that there is such a limited air flow to dry it out with the OSB up. If it weren't monsoon season, the air would be hot and dry...but instead it is humid air...please let us know about that and I am guessing that the reason you completely covered your window rough outs was to add shear strength until you finish the roof? It is SO GREAT that improvements in quality of building material choices such as the Simpson framing screws, the Advantech Flooring and the various brands of composite quick shims, not to mention the vast array of wonderful and powerful cordless power tools...it sure makes a difference from when we had to race to get things done against the elements and be forced to take time to make ledger boards, scaffolding and run generators for tools. It's fun to show folks your " MacGyverisms"...you would fit right in out in the missionary field where Duct Tape is King and Quick Clamps would overthrow the monarchy! ;)
Hi Sheridan. Yes the Advantech is screwed down securely to the sill plates with 4" Timberlock hex screws. Plus 3" Large flat head Timberlock screws. Plus 3.5" regular screws. This is done in every 16" on center area. Always appreciate you Bro.
Curious why you didn’t do the roof first, would keep the rain from sitting in there every day potentially ruining the floor. If I missed it I apologize.
Excellent question. Even though I braced the walls the heavy 2x6 walls seemed to be unstable and adding the huge weight of a roof would have made the whole structure a bit on the shakey side. Once the walls were covered in OSB then the whole structure became solid I found. Thanks for watching.
It appears the Simpson framing screws you used are not approved for installing hurricane straps. The approved screw is called a connector screw and has a hex head.
Hi Dan. I also use Hex head 4" screws to batten down the sill plate to the floor structure but those are not visible in this particular video. Thanks for watching!
Your ingenuity never fails to amaze me, Don! It seems you have fully embraced the "work smarter not harder" philosophy. I do so enjoy your updates. Take care!
I like to watch Sam Holmes sailing for the same reason. These guys are great examples of ones with a “can do” attitude. So inspiring for all of us.
Another great project Sparky!!!
She's a beaut Don. Definitely coming along and looking well built. Please don't strain yourself and take it easy. Take care buddy and have a great rest of your week.
Fantastic progress, Don! 🙌
And I’m so glad you took a break to go birding!
Thanks Helene! This is a busy period for me for sure. So appreciate the encouragement!
❤❤❤. Hi Don. It’s really getting exciting. Take care and see you soon.😊
You are such a gentle man. Amazing job!! ❤
It is just as well, because when the full moon rises he turns into the werewolf and runs around and stuff. TOTALLY TRUE!!!!
@@omegaroyal I used 2 words. A man who is gentle. Passive-aggression these days.. lol
Don, Your amaze me to do this type of work alone and still manage to have such a good attitude. God Bless!
Your breaks are well deserved. The house is looking great. Have a wonderful week.
Don, you are inspiration that us older folks can get the job done and correctly too.
Thanks Gary. It certainly makes one super thankful for good health as well!
Hi Don. Great to see you making such good progress on the big home.Your levels of ingenuity never fail to impress me.Improvise adapt and overcome must be your motto.It`s looking great sir. Very well done.
Your encouragement means a lot Graeme. Many thanks!
Glad to see you posting your videos again. Stay safe.
You're doing a great job. It looks good.
Glad to see you're back.
Good to see you Don. Take care.
Brilliant Don. I love watching the progress of your house.
A lot of progress, Don. Thank you, for sharing.
You're making great progress Don -- nice to see it! Always a pleasure to watch your genius ingenuity! :D
Thanks Michelle Always super to know you are watching the build.
You are truly an inspiration!
It is generally best practice for the OSB wall sheathing to cover the sill plate, band joist, and wall framing in one piece. This provides better structural integrity.
Look at images of mobile homes after a tornado or high wind. The floor and frame are usually intact but the rest of the home is gone. This is because the wall studs and bottom plate are only connected by nails or screws. Overlapping all the framing with one sheet of sheathing adds a lot of strength. You can still add some hurricane straps on the outside of the wall framing to the band joist, just make sure the straps are connected to 2x6 wall studs with screws through the OSB wall sheathing and into the band joist.
Tape all the sheathing seams with ZIP Panel System Tape before adding house wrap.
Good comment. That said my neighborhood doesnt seem to be prone to tornado type winds. So far no neighbors here for many years have lost homes. If you note when I put the osb on it is screwed into the bottom sill plate of the home. While not a guarantee against severe winds it should help a great deal I figure.
Wishing you best of luck and weather, thanks for your work!
Glad to see you back. Great ideas
That was nice of that fella to help😊
Yes thats friend and subscriber/supporter Engineer Ed.
You are making such great progress Don. And I know that filming must be an added task that isn't always easy. I marvel at how far you have come. I am learning all about persistence and patience from you during this journey. I am amazed but not surprised. You are a man on a mission, thanks for sharing and taking us along Don, so great to see you! 🥰👋👍💥❤
So very heartwarming to hear Martha. Many thanks.
'Snazzy' genuinely thought that was just a UK saying! I say often Lol. The build is looking awesome 🙌
So proud of you Don. Keep up the good work.
Such a wonderful sister and friend you are Carol. Thanks so much for all of the encouragement.
I am AMAZED that anyone can get ANYTHING done with the tremendous amount of monsoon rains that are being experienced this year! It is making up for last year's " non-soon"! Folks have NO IDEA what your rainfall looks like when it is actively happening and just what a miracle it is that you have been able to make any progress at all!
Your fabrication skills are good and getting better , better than the tent and inside the car for shelter , see on next videovery good
Yep so nice to realize I have now graduated out of the tent now for over 4 years.
So impressive Don! Thanks for sharing your progress.
It's impressive the job your doing, Considering the fact that you are a one man show, I congratulate you sir, I Just became one more subscriber And i want you to know i will be waiting for the next video,Keep them comin'.👍👍👏👏👏👏
What a delight to know of a new subscriber. Thanks so much for watching.
Great progress! You're an amazing, innovating builder. You've engineered your building more than most licensed contractors would have done. I can't wait for Donlandia to get it's own zipcode!
Wow such high praise for sure. Just super kind.
Things are looking good.
So wonderful to see you Don! Wonderful progress, glad to see you get some help from time to time. I like those MacGuyer inventions to aid in hoisting the large & heavy OSB❗👌💯💚🌵
So appreciate you faithfully watching these vids.
With an inexpensive block and tackle setup you could have raised that sheet with your pinky. I used such a setup to raise and lower 3 kayaks in my long narrow shed. Worked well for the 17 years I owned the property. Great to see you moving to get dried in. You have an excellent eye for details. I don't know anything about the other eye though. Maybe it had something to do with Mission Impossible. Thanks for a great video, Don!
Thanks so much for the input. Learning about block and tackle setups will have to be on my to do list if I need to do a similar project in the future. Thanks for watching.
This is exciting Don. I had been watching you ever since you moved to Az from Cali.
Nice progress on your Desert homestead
Thanks Nanny and more progress has been made since this video! Stay tuned...!
@affordabledesertliving3487 The windows looked well made too. Custom ordered?
Great stuff Don! I’m glad you’re doing well and making progress on your house.
Love to see experienced folks sharing their skills and knowledge. Will be building mine soon bit smaller than one shown here. Looking forward to it.
Glad to see you back and you finally got some help. Nice to have a few days away.
Great Job Don!!! She's coming along!!!
Hi Don, great to see all the progress, excited to see the finished home. Your work looks great.
Great job Don!
Its great to hear from you again and seeing the progress you made, i bet you are way ahead of that video we just watched up a little over 2 hours and already over 400 views. Have a great week.
Hi Don! I see you are getting more and more handy. I love your Mcgyver methods. Looking forward to seeing more of your builds.
Thanks Morten. No end to fun opportunities here for inventions for sure.
Wow! It’s really looking good at the big house 🤗
Lots of hard work 😁
Lots of love from South Africa 👌
One last dig. Your headers are undersized and you need two trimmer studs at each end for headers over 6'
Thanks for all of the critique. Both valuable and premature. In the end there are not only 2 but 3 trimmer studs in place. This will be viewable in an upcoming video where I clearly state I revised the procedure in order to indeed make the frames more sturdy. I definitely will take the undersized header comment seriously. I made the header according to research the bare minimum size. You are correct and I will beef it up.
Looking good Don. Shelley and I are back in AZ.
Welcome back Chris! Let's get together soon!
Looks like it’s really coming together!!!❤❤❤❤
Thanks so much Pam! Hope you and Brian are doing super.
Glad to see you got some assistance. That type of work can be very difficult for only one person.
I only got help with gable ends. Shout and thanks to Engineer Ed.
At this rate you'll be in by the end of the year or early next at the latest. Great progress!
So good to see you again!! Your big house is looking so great!!! Have a wonderful week!
What a great job Don. Judy
Glad to see you're doing good Don.
Looking snazzy, my friend!
LOL Thanks so much ED! Hope you are doing well.
Fantastic! Great to see so much progress Don:))
Lots of progress. You really should have help with the roof. It will go fast and you'll be safer. Take care Don. Blessings to you
Thanks Lee. I will be as safe as possible on the roof. Stay tuned...
Looks good! I stand the sheathing up on its end so I don't have to do a top layer of sheathing. I like your idea of putting a screw at the base of the stud. That would also make it easier to find the stud when you've got them covered up.
Love seeing the work!
U will have the big house dried in in no time!
Wow lots effort… hopefully the top get up soon
Stay tuned... more vids coming.
Good job Sir …..
I applaud you sir! Not only gettin the work done but creating video, editing and posting! It seems I can only try and just get the work done! DIY *JamLam*😂Cheers
Great job❤❤
Don, So great to see you are doing great and continuing to push forward on your dream home! Your videos are always informative and interesting. So glad...you got to go "Birding" and to take a well deserved break. Veteran Charlie.
Thanks for the great encouragement Charlie! I always look forward to seeing you here.
Wow Don your great your amazing man doing it all by your self that man helping you at the end bits they are hard good job hope you not doing the roof alone dont its dangerous up there get a few people ok wont be long till your inside !
Thanks so much Kriss my australian mate. So appreciate all of the encouragement.
So, I ask you sir, when are you gonna get your contractor license and start building homes for everyone? You my friend are doing an excellent job!
Morgan thats way too generous. I am way way below the level of most contractors. But I so appreciate all of that encouragement.
Wish the monsoon would come to Concho. So dry here and flooding nearby in Vernon.
Bravo!
Hi Donald Kimball. I've been sitting at Suncreek Village with your cousin, January. He apologizes that he can't come down there to do an building inspection.
Hi Linda give January a hug from me and tell him I think of him often. Yes indeed it would be so super to have my home inspected by him for sure! Say hello to any of the other kind cousins you see on your trip.
Hello. You're very ingenious, however, I'm buffled why you did the wall before the roof considering the rains. You're doing a great job. Cheers
Super question. A home with just wall framing is generally not stable enough to support the heaviness of roof construction unless it has siding of some sort to lash it all together for stability.
@@affordabledesertliving3487 thax. That makes a lot of sense.
Get'er Dun!
Scaffolding might help, you may even be able to get Scaffolding steps. Would be nice to get on/off roof.
If take two separate boards and add a cleat every 6 inches to them you can lean them against the house and walk the sheet up to where you need it. Its easy. They use that methods in log home building to get the heavy top wall logs to the top of the wall. Good luck..
Thats a super idea! Many thanks.
U need some help but you’re doing a awesome job by yourself I’m rebuilding a slide in truck camper and a 78 F250 camper special truck to pull it with God bless be safe ✝️🇺🇸
YEP! "Snazzy" has to be a boomer era slang term. I'm solidly gen X and my mom used "snazzy" and I'll throw it in for comedic effect here and there
LOL thanks for sharing about your Mum Mark. great stuff.
Had you thought about putting billboard tarps up to help deal with the rain
I have some but they are very worn and the wind would peel those off in about an hour.
Starting to look like a "longhouse " there Don.
Not sure where you live but rent or by a cheap drywall sheet hanger. It can be used for any sheets and also for hanging sheetrock on ceilings it is a life saver.
Great tip many thanks.
You get the Rube Goldberg Award for structural engineering.
Thanks so much for watching!
That water ponding on the floor, no place to drill a few drain holes? Giant floor squeegee to sweep?
With the quantity of exterior siding work, maybe invest in a section of scaffold, maybe on wheels?
(Rent, or purchase)
OSB, house wrap, windows, flashing, exterior siding, roofing, gutters, I vote for scaffold of some type.
Learning about your climate, monsoon season, I now know to when have the roof deck installed, to protect the sub floor.
spoilier alert. stay tuned on that...
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better get crackin, rainy season is getting closer
Already here and then some. Very wet year.
That's good bc you have your tank full and your solar panel trough full too.
The land looks green and fresh!
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Those clamps sound like 2 frogs on their honeymoon !
4:04 You shouldn't have cut those 2x6. You should cut the nails with a sawzall at the top and bottom of both 2x6, that would have saved the full length of both 2x6 to be used somewhere else. Use short scrap 2x6 above the headers.
Good point and I thought about that. The good thing is in the end all cut 2x6 pieces of any sort seemed to end up with a home. Mostly as header material for the windows. Thanks for watching.
Personly, would make morning porch n evening porch 😊
Stay tuned. It can happen.
Seriously impressed. But a pity he's doing by himself. You'd think a few neighbors would lend a hand.
@1:14 Don, I don't want to sound like a complainer, but when you showed where you were putting the door to the porch & backyard, you stood in the way and I couldn't see the porch. (Or the backyard!)
😂 🥰
Hilarious Sean. Yep both are in my mind only at this point. But hoping they will develop as time goes on. Us geriatrics can only do so much you know.. grin.
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Nothing wrong with using screws for this build.
Try taking out a board that's nailed together and see how much you tear up.
With a screw you just unscrew it and take the piece out. Add new screws. 👍🏾
My thoughts exactly. So far there are very few nails in this whole building.
Keep up the good work Don! You are an inspiration. I recently bought my own off grid property and am a senior who is looking forward to putting together my own little house. Remind me please, are you using 2x6s for the studs?
Yes indeed 2x6 Not that much more expensive and it makes your home sturdier and you can easily load up the insulation R value with larger wall cavities. Congratulations on your off grid purchase!
@@affordabledesertliving3487 thank you Don! I thought I remembered you did use 2x6's. Since my place is also in the desert, I thought I would also use 2x6 studs for the added insulation value. I am going with a 2/12 lean to shed type roof instead of the conventional type you have. I'm going to use metal roofing too. Have you decided what type of roofing material you will use?
the difference between screws and nails is that a nail when under stress will stretch a screw will snap off thats why carpenters use nails
Ordinary screws indeed. Structural rated screws are a different animal. But in fairness to everyone they have not been out a long time from what I know and code has to be re-written to incorporate them from what I have been told.
Dude you are awesome! The build is progressing nicely. Do you like the Bora Speedhorse saw horse and would you recommend it? I need to buy a new saw horse.
Thanks so much for the comments. I absolutely LOVE the Bora Speedhorse. Lets look at negatives and positives. Negative is if its a bit dirty inside it doesnt flip open with the press of a button like its suppose to. You just have to tamper with it a bit. Positives? Incredibly strong and stable. Wouldnt be without them. Worth every penny.
Very nice! How do you size up those angled OSP cuts perfectly?
the router simply travels along the window and door frames as a guide.
Nice jigs for the second row OSBs, but why didn't you just cut the sheets in two to make them lighter?
The standard method to do the sheathing is to leave the 4x8 sheets intact and stagger them. Naturally because of the stud placement you need to have two 4x4 sheets one at each end. It comes down to having the structure more solid with unbroken sheets.
So many questions….. why can’t you put the roof on first to keep the water off the floor and walls??
Rent scaffolding. Cheaper than hospital visit.
So Don...
I am wondering...If your wall sill plates are screwed down to the Advantech or vice versa and you have properly caulked the plates with building adhesive as well and now have OSB exterior sheathing up, how will you squeegee the water out? Have you cut a temporary gap in the floor somewhere to push the water out and onto a slide to carry it away from the foundation? Are you using a shop vac or how are you getting the rainfall out now? I wish you had made it easier on yourself by just framing the walls up and bracing them temporarily in order to get a roof on asap. I worry about how you can get the rain water out of the house now...could you please enlighten us in your next video? When you poke a moisture meter into the Advantec after it is squeegee off and dry from the 90 degree heat, what percentage of moisture is the floor reading? As always, " there is more than 1 way to skin a cat", but I am curious about the floor situation now that there is such a limited air flow to dry it out with the OSB up. If it weren't monsoon season, the air would be hot and dry...but instead it is humid air...please let us know about that and I am guessing that the reason you completely covered your window rough outs was to add shear strength until you finish the roof?
It is SO GREAT that improvements in quality of building material choices such as the Simpson framing screws, the Advantech Flooring and the various brands of composite quick shims, not to mention the vast array of wonderful and powerful cordless power tools...it sure makes a difference from when we had to race to get things done against the elements and be forced to take time to make ledger boards, scaffolding and run generators for tools. It's fun to show folks your " MacGyverisms"...you would fit right in out in the missionary field where Duct Tape is King and Quick Clamps would overthrow the monarchy! ;)
Hi Sheridan. Yes the Advantech is screwed down securely to the sill plates with 4" Timberlock hex screws. Plus 3" Large flat head Timberlock screws. Plus 3.5" regular screws. This is done in every 16" on center area. Always appreciate you Bro.
doing so well for a old un but why not put a temp tarp over the foof to keep your flooring dry
Excellent question. I did that and the water seeped around the edges of the tarp and soaked into the sill plate. So I abandoned the idea.
Curious why you didn’t do the roof first, would keep the rain from sitting in there every day potentially ruining the floor. If I missed it I apologize.
Excellent question. Even though I braced the walls the heavy 2x6 walls seemed to be unstable and adding the huge weight of a roof would have made the whole structure a bit on the shakey side. Once the walls were covered in OSB then the whole structure became solid I found. Thanks for watching.
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It appears the Simpson framing screws you used are not approved for installing hurricane straps. The approved screw is called a connector screw and has a hex head.
Hi Dan. I also use Hex head 4" screws to batten down the sill plate to the floor structure but those are not visible in this particular video. Thanks for watching!
You probably should block those trusses over the wall as you have missed the bearing point of the trusses