Progress has been slow lately - spent last weekend prepping for the sill plates.

Hit the tops of the curbs with the laser again (first time post pour) and there was more height variability than I was comfortable with. The max delta was about 5/8" with a max within a wall of 3/8". Not sure how it ended up that far out - the forms certainly weren't.

Regardless, we went back through and added a re-cap layer to level things out. Got it down to 1/4" max delta with a max of 1/8" within a single wall, so that'll be plenty close enough for a building this size.


Went through and straightened out all of the J bolts last night. The concrete place elected not to pour them in place on the supports I made, but rather inserted them after at the spots Id marked. I should've said something, but didn't - so I ended up with the J bolt heights all over the place and many of them crooked. I can deal with the height issues with washers (theres still plenty in the slab to meet code), but I had to straighten out the crooked ones so we're not fighting getting the walls on them.


Ordered the man door yesterday (1 mo lead time for the type I wanted) and the framing lumber for the main structure (didn't get any wood for the parapet yet as its all 2x4 vs the 2x6 main structure). Will order the wood in phases so I'm not working around a giant pile.

Took next week off work to hopefully get a big chunk of framing knocked out. Hard to make major progress just working weekends and the occasional night.

 

Making some progress again. Got the chalk lines snapped out for the perimeter to square up the building relative to the curbs. Fitted all of the sill plates.

Then finally got started on building some wall sections. Got 2 of them up before we ran out of daylight.

 

Making a bit more progress...

 

Little bit further...

 

AWESOME!!! Those are some awesome good signs of progress and hopefully you are feeling good about it!

 

Honestly, I feel like I got ran over by a truck lol. Thats the downside to doing office work for so long, turns you into a marshmellow. The 100+ degree heat isn't helping either though.

Kidding aside, at the end of the day when I'm sitting out there with a cold drink before calling it quits for the day, it does feel good seeing something that almost resembles a building for once. Sure helps the imagination visualize the end product.

 

I feel you on the topic of office work for a living and then doing something a bit more physical for your hobbies. Definitely has it's affect! Part of why I joke that my career is slowly killing me.

 

Baby steps



Left and right walls are done (minus top plates all around). Rear wall is done minus the frame work over the garage door. Starting on the front wall - got the first garage door frame up.

I've got a material lift rental coming Friday. Job 1 for it will be getting the LVLs up over the garage doors so we can finish the framing above them.

Also coming Friday is all of the wall sheathing and the 2x4 framing for the parapet walls on top. The hope is to get the final plumb/level measurements locked in, add the top plates, and get the shear walls sheathed so we can get these trusses up with the rental machine.

 

That is looking good! What is the total size and floor-to-ceiling height?

 

50 wide x 40 deep. Floor to ceiling inside is 10'6". Overall height is a little over 15' to the top of the parapet wall.