Today was a lot of carrying trusses around. The people who delivered them put them right where we wanted them, parallel to the side of the basement right beside it but they put the front end at the back so it was a major pain in the ass to turn them all around. It hurt almost, some of these things were long. By the end of the day I actually managed to get a cramp in my forearm, that's never happened before. Bring on the jokes.
We finished the sill plate up by lunch, then Randy and Garrett both went and bought big boots because they're feet were getting cold. I already own a pair of -100 sorels so I was gtg. After lunch we started firing up the trusses, after a scare on the first one because we thought they were all 4 inches too short, turns out the labeling on the trusses was covered with ice and after looking at it properly we had taken a truss that was incorrect. After that we were rolling. We only really slowed down when we had to put in the beams that hold up the trusses around the staircase going to the basement. Getting those hangers on and everything going there took a while.
We worked 9 - 9, it was such a nice day out, -19 at least, 0 wind, balmy. After moving all those trusses I was sweating pretty good. Later in the day it got a bit colder, because the trusses had snow in them my gloves got all wet and in the evening the gloves totally froze up, it was ridiculous trying to handle anything when you're gloves are sheets of ice.
I had some fun thoughts during the day but I'm so tired that I totally forget what they are. Maybe tomorrow. -35 with the windchill for tomorrow: Hello Frostbite!
mark.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
My stiff frozen upper lip.
Schteeve. Stiff. I'm absolutely sure that the person who coined the phrase "stiff upper lip" was from a northern region and had a substantial amount of facial hair, especially in the mouth region. If I'm outside for more than 10 minutes my whole moustache turns to ice and it's hard, it feels like when you put a band-aide on your finger and it feels good and then you move your finger and it's all in the wrong spot. It freezes into one position and then all other positions are bad.
Anywho. Although yesterday was technically the first day building today was the first day we actually worked. The plan for today was to put the sill plate on, we got it about 1/2 done, things always pop-up that we forget about or think will take no time but they do.
So, the sill plate is a 2x6 that runs along the top of the cement basement walls, these walls are formed with logic blocks (i think that's a brand name) which are just styrofoam walls with a gap in the middle where the cement is poured into (after the metal has all been put inside them). They look like big lego pieces all fit together. So on top of the cement wall we put the sill gasket ( a rubbery, poly-something-o-fane-y thin flat layer of stuff), then the 2x6, then we drill holes through all of that, into the cement. Then we hammer anchor bolts into the holes with nuts on the end to hold the plate on, the bolts are placed about every 4 feet. We put the plate 2 inches from the edge of the logic blocks so that 2 inch styrospan (just another fancy name for 2 inch styrofoam) can be put against the floor trusses making the truss area even with the outside styrofoam from the logic blocks, our sheeting for the walls will come up against this outer wall of styrofoam.
After installing the sill plate we will lay our floor trusses onto the sill plate. Because these trusses have specific placements (it's an engineered floor so depending on what will happen in that area of the house ie. kitchen or bedroom, there may be more or less support meaning more or less trusses), we mark out where the trusses will be placed on the plate before drilling the anchor bolts to ensure that the bolts don't line up with where a truss should be placed -- if the two are in the same spot we'd have to cut the anchor bolt off and put it somewhere else which we don't want to do.
Tomorrow we'll finish the plate and hopefully finish getting the trusses in. After that sheeting the floor I think.
You can see the sill plate there and a beam that the guys are shimming up so it lines up nicely with the top of the cement. That's that. If you are looking for more pictures check facebook, I've been putting them up there.
Over and out.
mark.
Anywho. Although yesterday was technically the first day building today was the first day we actually worked. The plan for today was to put the sill plate on, we got it about 1/2 done, things always pop-up that we forget about or think will take no time but they do.
So, the sill plate is a 2x6 that runs along the top of the cement basement walls, these walls are formed with logic blocks (i think that's a brand name) which are just styrofoam walls with a gap in the middle where the cement is poured into (after the metal has all been put inside them). They look like big lego pieces all fit together. So on top of the cement wall we put the sill gasket ( a rubbery, poly-something-o-fane-y thin flat layer of stuff), then the 2x6, then we drill holes through all of that, into the cement. Then we hammer anchor bolts into the holes with nuts on the end to hold the plate on, the bolts are placed about every 4 feet. We put the plate 2 inches from the edge of the logic blocks so that 2 inch styrospan (just another fancy name for 2 inch styrofoam) can be put against the floor trusses making the truss area even with the outside styrofoam from the logic blocks, our sheeting for the walls will come up against this outer wall of styrofoam.
After installing the sill plate we will lay our floor trusses onto the sill plate. Because these trusses have specific placements (it's an engineered floor so depending on what will happen in that area of the house ie. kitchen or bedroom, there may be more or less support meaning more or less trusses), we mark out where the trusses will be placed on the plate before drilling the anchor bolts to ensure that the bolts don't line up with where a truss should be placed -- if the two are in the same spot we'd have to cut the anchor bolt off and put it somewhere else which we don't want to do.
Tomorrow we'll finish the plate and hopefully finish getting the trusses in. After that sheeting the floor I think.
You can see the sill plate there and a beam that the guys are shimming up so it lines up nicely with the top of the cement. That's that. If you are looking for more pictures check facebook, I've been putting them up there.
Over and out.
mark.
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