With the outside framing up, today we were to stand the last of the inside walls, square it up, brace it and nail it home. First thing we did was go around checking on our temporary wooden piles (sapouz) under the boundry joist on the outside. Some had been kicked and moved and the house had sagged in those bits.We ran a string line along to get a true reading. Then with a jack, we hoisted up the part of the house, re adjusted our sapouz and set it back down. Not long before we had the FFL sitting right again. From there we went along nailed in the bottom plate, making sure it wasnt poking in or out with our packer. Around the whole house we went till the whole bottom plate had been nice and squared up.
From there we ran a Plum Bob from the top corner of the frame stud down, to get our verticals right. Corner by corner, moving and adjusting just a little bit then bracing it down with a piece of 4by2. With the corners now standing straight. We set the string line on the top plate. Noticing that in places it was out, we tacked a brace (4by2) to the top plate, using a packer to find our measurement. We pushed or pulled to get it flushed then tacked the other end in to keep the brace froming moving. All the way around the top plate we went.
Along the way Lynsey and Cam taught us some good little trade tricks. The 4inch nail trick- when you hammer a 4inch nail into one side of a double joist. On the angle, then when almost in, bend the head back down slightly. Sit the back of your hammer on the other stud and pull slightly with your claw hammer. This, leveling the two studs and keeping a hand free for the nail gun.
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