Building a couple more walls

Saturday we went for a night out on the town with our friends Peter and Laura .

Three beers and a mess of BBQ ribs and Chicken , including all the trimmings at Salvage Barbecue , and then later a chocolate tart and a glass of 10 year old Port had me stuffed to the gills . So Sunday morning I was dragging and we got a bit of a late start . The weatherman had it all wrong and it turned out to be a nice day , so we loaded up my tools and made the fifty minute run up to Richmond to see what we could get done . After about twenty minutes to set up our gear . . .

 . . . a bit of hustling had the front wall laid out and nailed together

The official photographer was on-site today so we got the action shots of the wall lift .

One twelve foot wall without sheathing goes up a whole lot easier than a sixteen footer with the sheathing on .

Almost there .

Kick it in to place and lined up with the blue chalk line .

Bottom plate nailed in to place , corners plumbed and stitched together , I nail down the top doubler plate .

We have a front wall with a four foot wide doorway .

Ben cuts us some more studs for the back wall . . . .

. . . . and sets them on the deck while I lay out the marks on the top and bottom plate .

I nail off the bottom plate to the studs .

The window header need a bit of persuasion to get it to line up nicely .

And it is up as we kick it in to place to line up with the chalk line . Yes we were short a couple of 2x4s to fit as cripples under the window . We'll fill them in later .

Nailing off the bottom plate on the back wall .

Ben strikes a pose , doubler ready in hand , while I reload the nailgun .

Corners plumbed and stitched together I set the top double plate .

Nail on some T-111 sheathing on the front .

With the middle board tacked temporarily over the doorway for proper spacing , we wrestle the other piece in place .

After sheathing the back wall we tarpped it all over to keep the rain out for the next couple of days .

One big box covered in tarps . Rafters and roof sheathing go on next .