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Putting Up the Second Floor Exterior Wall

Bob is on the second floor of the addition where the crew is putting up twenty four foot long sidewalls. Bob and the crew push the sidewall up and Ryley nails the brace into place. The top and bottom plate and studs for the next wall is laid out on the subfloor and then nailed together. Ryley explains that the door and window headers should be nailed in first as a rule of thumb. Bob puts a backer in for a partition that will run perpendicular to the exterior wall. Next plywood is laid on top of the wall and set several inches above the bottom of the wall. This is done so that the next sheet overlaps with the first floor and strengthens the bond between the floors. Finally Ryley cuts the window hole, and the wall is ready to go up.

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Putting Up the Second Floor Exterior Wall

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" Here we are on the second floor ready to put up some of these bit the inside walls for the addition and one that I'm walking on has just about ready to go off its 24 foot nine which is the length of the addition. The height to the top plate and seven foot eight. And there's really only one window opening in it right here in part of the bedroom ready go up with a -- About 1234. Guys. We should be able ago we're going to call it I got off already on do. About it. A little bit of away and nobody wanted to get that figure it right away. At the worry of not leveling it right now. I think that. All right this next well off on the addition. Is our second floor here is all the edition uses the existing house and the second where again -- only one window and it. Everything's pre cut -- ago on. Yeah well I'll let out the -- that's right here and this is the bottom -- the top -- is going to move the top plate back at start putting it together all right. Yeah yeah. So Ryley are there any rules as to where you get started when -- laid out that I did to forests that frame in your windows and doors. Reason being that. You've got a had a right enhances the look for the one window -- yeah and we want to. Nail it from the side of the studs are in right now with the in the way of nailing it. All right now of this particular piece is nailed together is called a backer. And don't. It goes right there at what point and it eventually. It is the backer we're apart -- The -- the wall between the bathroom in the bedroom will go perpendicular to the outside law office here why have these blocks in the all right and we're almost ready for plywood. It. You might wonder why we can't navigate the a few inches from the actual bottom of the partition. And the answer that is so that we can overlap the next -- Between this level and the lower level and that way we get a stronger bond between an uproar in the congress more time and --"

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