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Reviewing the Home's Layout

With the first floor deck framing underway, Bob orients viewers to the home's layout and provides a progress report on the construction so far. Engineered wood products feature heavily in the framing process, and Bob makes special note of the engineered I-joists, fabricated from laminated veneer lumber (LVL) and oriented strand board (OSB), which provide span capabilities far greater than could be achieved with dimensional lumber.

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Reviewing the Home's Layout

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" Well we've got a jump start on some of the framing for that the first floor deck, the structure for the first floor of the whole house, and I'm standing in the middle of what will be a great room with an incredible view of the mountains, and then beyond me is the kitchen and the dining area, and behind me is a bedroom with its own master bath, and this house has the possibility of having a ground floor or master bedroom or a second floor master bedroom. Beyond that of course, we have yet to frame the area that will be a breezeway and part of master bathroom and in beyond that, no more framing because that is where we have to pour a slab for the garage floor. But the entire process of putting this together involves a lot of engineered wood products. We're looking at I-joists; this is basically a combination of LVL Veneer Lumber with oriented strand board that provides the kind of span capabilities that you wouldn't be able to get with ordinary dimensional lumber. This all started a couple of days ago. Once the foundation was ready in the sill plates were in place, some of the girts had to be put up"

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