How To Work With Your Framers To Build Your Home

To know and understand your framers is key to working with them. Framers are independent, take pride in their trade and love to work and play outdoors-a real red-blooded folks. Hire the good ones and you will get the benefit of their knowledge and experience to make a solid framing of your house-everything will be true, straight and plumb.
Moreover, it is amazing how far the framers’ tools of the trade have come. In the past, framers used hammers and hand-saws. Now it’s pneumatic nail guns and circular saws. Even more surprising is how carpenters in the past were able to craft a work of art with simple hand tools. And they were using folding wooden rulers!
To get started, try to get a proposal on a bid-not on an hourly basis-subject to approval from the building inspector. To avoid any misunderstanding, the bid should include fees for change orders or for extra work such as creating a new window or moving a wall. Check also if it includes installing the windows.
Once the framers get started, it’s time for “rock and roll.” They work hard often accompanied by loud music. Don’t be surprised if your neighbors complain to the city and a cop shows up.
If you have questions or wish to talk to the head framer, a good time would be during lunch break. Since he likes to display his knowledge, the head framer will be happy to discuss any issue with you. And the crew would love it if you bring some cookies and cool drinks.
Once they get the floor done, the framers follow the blueprint to lay out the walls on the floors by using chalk lines. Then they lay the 2×6 for the exterior walls and 2×4 for the interior walls as plates on the floor.
When they are finished with plating, you should walk the floors with your head framer to review the layout to make sure nothing is out of line. For example, the depth of closets should be at least 24 inches, and the hallways should be a minimum 36 inches wide.
Long before they are finished with the framing of walls, a truss company should be contacted so a man can be sent out to measure the house and to check with the head framer on the date of delivery.
When a boom truck with trusses arrive, the driver will use his crane to lay the trusses on top of the walls. You can pay the driver to stick around to help install each truss one by one or he can lay a group of trusses and let the framer install them one by one.
Once the trusses are braced and in place, your framers will lay 4×8 of 5/8 inch (not 1/2 inch) plywood (roof sheathing) on trusses.
Next, your framers will install the windows making sure these are done properly as this is where most water leakage comes from.
If you are on good terms with your framers, they will go the extra miles to get your house properly framed.
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