... and at the beginning of the day the job site is set up with everything your enterprising young house-builder might need: sunblock, framing boooks, nails, hammers, earmuffs, etc., all resting on a bunch of Simpson strongwall elements...
Once the preparation is complete, the work starts! Each wall going up is an exciting event. On Friday, the second wall went up at the back of the garage, giving us a real sense of how gargantuan the garage (and by extension, the house) will be when this is all done!
Then, they started framing the third wall...
... which involves cutting many lengths of wood to size- Sam is very happy with his saw and his back-saving-saw-holding-table!
Sam and Dan conferred about a plan of action...
... and Sam marked out where each stud should go...
... while Dan got some nice from Sioux!
There is a standard notation system for framing, with different markings indicating the location of different kinds of studs- king, cripple, etc. Having these marked out provides a 'road-map' for the assembly of the wall.
While there is quite a lot of hard physical work involved, there is also a lot of brain-work necessary. Planning and calculations take up a fair amount of time, too:
But soon, the third wall was taking shape nicely:
This wall was particularly exciting (and challenging) because it was the first one to incorporate windows, which have special framing requirements.
But soon that wall was up, along with another miniwall, right at the corner, which was challenging because the window spanned the break.
(in case you're wondering why there had to be a break, as I did... well, it's because that wall is longer than the longest lumber, so it had to be made in two parts.)
But then we had a very impressive third wall up, and we started to really get a sense of 'enclosure':
On Sunday, Sam tackled the next wall by himself! He got some of the across-the-street neighbors to help him get it up: this wall is the one that contains the door out to the side, where the garbage cans will be.
Sam likes his garage so far!
When we returned from the Del Mar races, after admiring everything Sam had accomplished, Michelle had to play with the nail gun:
And the cats patiently waited for dinner time!
I'm excited to see what is getting done today!! Soon, we'll be needing another delivery of lumber from Dixieline, because we're going through the first delivery at a rapid pace! Stay tuned...
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