[Greenbuilding] Advanced Framing

[Chris Green]

Tom Wiprud wrote:
> If you are into advanced framing ideas, you MUST get the book  “Builders
> Guide to Cold Climates”. 
Thanks for the head's up on this one. I'll look for a copy.
> buy a level and square (since no carpenters use them anymore- their eyesight
> is a lot better that yours is)  and  be on the job site as much as possible
> to check them out.    My rule is “I don’t want to live with your mistakes”.
> Have them do it over if it is not done right. 
By coincidence, we had a slow day on the jobsite last week so as a 
make-do bit of work, the charge hand sent me into building #3 with a 
level and square to check all the rough outs for windows to see if they 
were level, square, and if we're lucky, plumb. It turned out to be a 
test to see how fussy I was.
I decided to reject everything that looked to be out approximately 
3/16ths to 1/4" per 4' or worse, and ended up rejecting more than half 
the openings on one floor.

The framing contractor's crew had to go back and redo those openings the 
next day.

That framing crew really shot themselves in the foot/ feet/ webbed 
appendages because we have 8 or 9 more townhouses to do with 3 units in 
each one, and there's a shortage of experienced workers in this area 
(anyone want to move up here??)

Tool Talk: I'm probably the only worker on the jobsite with an 
old-fashioned combination square, but I'll probably leave it in my tool 
bucket from now on: Speed squares have supplanted them now, and as a 
bonus can be used as a dandy precision sawing guide...

Cheers,

Chris Green.