Green Power
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Nice work on the pony wall!
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Hey Bo,
Great thread. I appreciate the time you are taking to share your experiences. How are you moving your joists? I was guessing you would rig a sling and move them into place with your telehandler.
matt
Great thread. I appreciate the time you are taking to share your experiences. How are you moving your joists? I was guessing you would rig a sling and move them into place with your telehandler.
matt
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BoFuller
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24 of 25 joists are in. I'll have to do some fabricating and make some headers for the center joist. My engineer was daydreaming that day and sketched 12 inch support logs standing upright between 16 inch centers. Problem is, the logs are 24 inch in diameter. That won't fit in 16 inch space.
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BoFuller
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My engineer said he wanted 5/8 gypsum board under the insulation above my crawl space. Why? I don't know.
I talked the inspector into letting me rip it into 15 9/16 strips and just laying it on the bottom ledges of the TJIs instead of screwing full sheets from underneath. I got that about half done today. 4X8 sheets of anything is getting to be too much for this old man.
I took pictures but they are on my iPhone and I'm sitting out by the fire with my iPad. I'm just too durn tired to get up and get my phone.
I talked the inspector into letting me rip it into 15 9/16 strips and just laying it on the bottom ledges of the TJIs instead of screwing full sheets from underneath. I got that about half done today. 4X8 sheets of anything is getting to be too much for this old man.
I took pictures but they are on my iPhone and I'm sitting out by the fire with my iPad. I'm just too durn tired to get up and get my phone.
Kyle_in_Tex
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Progress! Bo, hang in there. You're going to be the strongest man in the county when your done with all that physical labor.
dave1949
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Can't say I've ever heard of that. It is usually used as a fire stop or slowing barrier, such as in attached garages. In that use, the exposed lower edge of the TJI's would not pass inspection here.
Is is not going to rain before you get the roof on it? Seems like rain would be the end of exposed gypsum with or without the OSB subfloor.
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BoFuller
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It's a gamble. We could go until August without rain, or it might rain next week. I'll cost the OSB with water sealer and then cover the whole floor with. 6 mil plastic. Then pray for the best.
dave1949
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Covering seems like a good idea. You could lay down some scrap lumber under the plastic in the center of the floor area to create some drainage slope to the edges.
srs
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Bo, just wondering but will you put down plastic over top the dirt in the crawl space? Why I ask in Maryland (very humid) I had a 4 foot tall crawl space with a dirt floor. It got so humid in there, even though I had screened vents in the block wall that the insulation overhead was dripping water. I did not have any sheets of drywall though. When I covered the dirt with two layers of heavy plastic it stopped all moisture. I also installed a humidistat controlled fan in the screened vent to remove any humid air in the crawl space. Of course you being in Arizona have a completely different climate but plastic is cheap and it might also keep small insects/critters from coming up in the dirt. Just curious what you are going to do. Love your project and thanks for keeping us posted. Stanley
