Framing

We had family over for Thanksgiving, so we decided to frame the walls. Well, maybe a wall. Well. It was raining, and freezing, and everything was covered with a layer of ice. Seemed like a great day to build.

We set up to cut the boards. It kept sleeting. The toe-plate of the first wall is sitting in the right-hand foreground.

And then one wall is nearly put together!

One wall, tapered for the slope of the roof. Four corners all nailed together.

Having a hot-chocolate break.

We had to nurse the compressor to life every so often---it didn't like the cold.

Here is a list of all the sticks needed for the second wall.

We got the second wall section put together. We put both walls back on the trailer, and packed everything up. Then we went back inside where it was warm. We had to scrape the ice off the car, again.

Getting Lumber

We got a load of lumber! This is most of the walls:

 We ordered a whole bunch of boards, and later in the day, met a truck that carried them all.

The driver dumped the bed until the bundles slid down and the ends rested on the ground. Then the driver put some scrap wood under the bundles.

Then he drove forward, dropping the lumber bundles onto the scrap lumber, so it would be off the ground.

South Wall Diagram

I think I have the south wall layout complete. Is this too many windows?

The little hashmarks are where there is glass. The arrows show where I can put angle-braces: strap or all-thread.

Wall Layout

We are getting ready for a work day: Framing the walls. I'm laying out the studs and headers: here I'm partway done with one wall:

We are having a work day soon, so I need to know where all the wall studs go.

Subfloor Done; Pallet Walls

There had been some rain, so I had covered up the trailer. The Advantech subflooring is rated for 300 days of being exposed to weather, but I didn't want the water to flow through the cracks and fill up the "bathtub" of the trailer.

I scraped off the excess foam that had swelled up too much to put down the last sheet of subfloor.

Once we had the subfloor finished, we started building walls out of pallets--temporary, of course, just to give a feel for how things fit:

And, here is a video: