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Laying Tongue and Groove Plywood Decking for the Subfloor
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Laying Tongue and Groove Plywood Decking for the Subfloor
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" These plans for the house we're building include this large columned porch on two sides of the house. If you remember last week we got the foundation finished we used engineered wood for the girt and I joists now let's get together with Bob Ryley and our general contractor Kevin -- and get to work on the first floor deck."
" Okay we'll Ryley is putting down adhesive on the tops of the -- with what we're working on right now is what we call the decking. And that doesn't really refer to building an outside deck it refers to putting sub flooring down over the joists the sub flooring of course will receive either carpeting or vinyl floors or hardwood floors and you can see that this is a tongue -- groove plywood its southern yellow pine instantly taken normally industry. His it used to be twenty years ago we used CD -- for a plywood. And opted delaminate a little bit this is still in the mid twenty dollar range per sheet and it still does a very good job it holds the water. Why is it so important Ryley to put down the panel adhesive uniformly before you put down a sheet of plywood. Well really going to adhere the plywood to the -- and it's gonna take all that bounce out of it stiffen up the flawed right eliminate any squeaks that you may have and it right -- nail it off right away because the stuff sets up fast yeah and see what happens is when you put down the sheet of plywood. -- It goes on top of the adhesive. You're kind of switching the adhesive. And almost creating a gas getting effect on the whole thing they get there does."
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" that breath and then Kevin just nail it off. -- what candidacy is it will be using ring shank eight. Now are those the nails that haven't he's on the other it's are Paslode nails they are. Got -- they're an eight -- We tend over and nail we go for six -- just on them right but that's eliminating the possibility of squeaks attempt to all the look like the number one call back. -- contractor's life. Squeaks leaks. Drywall pops and a nightmare squeaks leaks and pops right they're they're a nightmare. OK well anytime that we aren't putting up the plywood deck is that we want to -- it. You'll have. Some overhanging plywood like you have in here. That's coming when your lending out putting the plywood down sometimes it makes sense to overhang. You know whatever it is. For reasons of layout its plan. We want to stagger the joints of our plywood Bob claw -- senate don't -- relay a full eight foot sheet. The next sheet that comes nominally that -- what -- probably the -- aren't. And the situation like this -- starting out with a four foot piece here are eight foot piece actually hung over the end of the deck. The lot easier to strike a line -- around the perimeter of the building. And that's sock -- the excess piece than a column that without the cut guy in the field exactly and that's where you get a little waste but it makes the job go more quickly. And then we got another when to cut over here. I had recall the little waste but somebody will make -- doghouse out of it. So at this point. We've really have almost two thirds of the testing and."
