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Securing the Modular Walls

Michael Shiels and Bob review the joining of the four main sections of the modular home. They review the marriage points where gusset plates are added to insure stability and rigidity. Several engineered wood beams insure the strength of the home.

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Securing the Modular Walls

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" For Michael. That's the first modular house you've ever felt no -- tells us. But basically it's. People think of a double wide we've got four to win two -- and -- the the other side and this is what you call the marriage point right that's right what's going on here and -- boxes for the gusset plates secure the walls together numbers for the drywall on top of that now looking at. -- went -- for micro labs which are engineered wood products and they of course. Mean there's really gonna be no motion -- that's correct as big span due -- tests. He can be across here and we secure the look what happens anchor bolts in between yet to see the bolts of this. And then she's just essentially. The same thing down here on the vertical members. Now we put the -- every sixteen inches business and on wall. Now what happens with a pour these get lifted out yet this is the temporary wall between the two boxes will remove these plates when we're all innocent here. Then just patch in the hardwood flooring certified and either side yet so that this. -- Thirty by fifteen -- think that's correct very good size lyrics. OK and then the sunroom itself is you can see the double Walters an additional. Box -- this is another matter of law. Another American law and how has this been attached to. The other ones this is secured at the top and the lower plates where it's secured at the foundation and at the ceiling height OK and what is the ceiling had a -- that had. He's going to trial all right over these two by -- Well no these are temporary worshipping these will be removed and -- vaulted ceiling here so look insulation and in the drywall supplied to the rafters above -- What's the size of the room fourteen by sixteen and the ridge. That's a fourteen n.'s Michael -- the spanning of the room because it's engineered wood we don't need any collar cuts so you're gonna have one very nice room -- a great size yet by an eighteen foot height. Cathedral -- that's what it is."

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