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Installing the Rafters

The architect visits for an update and Bob and Ryley begin installing the Paralam rafters. Ryley discusses the construction and preparation of the high-pressure man-made rafters.

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Installing the Rafters

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" It's important to get the architect in on the field visits during the course of construction. -- make sure things are being built the way you design them right autos and also because things that happened that. Feel that you don't I predict on drawings. And we really need to see what's going on helped to build if the case with the problem or to make adjustments that may have to be done the drawings and things that. It sure and here we've got critical pieces that last that are going to be custom cut to fit this sloped glazed roof vent. If there's a mistake and it doesn't fit I guess we call you up right that's right -- thought I had a single effects now -- why didn't cute design this with tubular steel in mind for these. For these rafters. Well we've got a wooden house we have a contractors used to dealing with a word residential construction yes. And we just want to stick and what it. McClellan looked a lot better and of course -- if we had used dimensional lumber regular two by twelve -- two by tens. I don't think it would work right well wouldn't because that lumber moves too good to lumber isn't dry enough -- war ups and the glass probably get a we keep the twisted right and -- Carol -- being mature men made you work with them before that's right front already made around -- strands and voids that are laid. You're going in the same direction into a press right and along with some -- they compress it all together and you end up with these very dimensional. High pressure high temperature laminated strands of wood that create -- beam that is not quite as strong as steel but. It's got other advantages right but so strong as steel but it's much stronger than any dimensional wouldn't -- so for the same distance it was a much smaller number yet. And the other advantages that it's not gonna absorb moisture that way irregular. Dimensional lumber -- it has all the -- that would -- and give up moisture and cause the wood to shrink -- filled with glue. You've done a lot of work to the we first got them. They were up Farina water inches wide yeah and -- glazing system is three inches wide to the first thing we had to do is have them playing down. The three inches right once we did that we took him into the shop and we filled them all with a Fella. Like you see here like we have right over here so that were there were any voids after the after writing process build those in right. And when you stand -- and we sanded it they were primed at one time sanded its second time primed -- a second time. And ended up with this coat of primer we use -- at the white primary and then we attended and -- and a second time yeah. So it almost looks now like its steel members. Are we ready to start putting some of these in place there was this is rafter right here we just got finished cut ready to stick and they give us a hand grant. I don't want to they're bowed and a lot of work back in the office and I think of them my life goes through the serial all right -- says that's in that conference here. Yes. Could you get up there a little bit -- could connect course they've been trimmed out. Cut to fit right into the tops of these. -- These custom fabricated steel posts. And of course the reason we put steel in there is that the steel is married into the concrete and we figure that's a lot better than using. Would then of course we just needs is both then. Now Ryley there's one more of these left to do right that's right so once you get started trimming out one out who can tighten this."

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