I feel like I have been going to school watching The “L” Shaped House being built. From the excavating to the footings and foundation to the framing there have been abundant opportunities for learning. The Tappe guys are no exception. Their “build in place” framing technique is fascinatingly simple. Its humbling to realize I’m only learning about it now.
Brody starts the back wall of master bath by laying out the wall section on the floor decking. He then carefully aligns the bottom wall plate to the snapped line and “toe-nails” it on edge to the decking from the outside. He then builds the wall section according to the plan…
He then attaches the wall sheeting (except one section on the end) and house wrap (Tyvek) leaving enough extra folded back to overlap to the adjacent walls…
Next he “stands up” the wall, aligns it, and nails it to the adjacent walls. The nails in the bottom plate are automatically pulled out as the wall is tilted into place and simply snipped off with a diagonal cutter…
Finally working on the other side the last section of sheeting is installed, the Tyvek unfurled and stapled, and the wall is complete.
The finished wall section in place.
- Almost all the work goes on “inside” on the nice clean, flat, floor (no ladders).
- There is little (if any) of the “measure here…work over there” business that always seems to get me in trouble.
- There is no hanging off the edge of a ladder with a unwieldy roll of house wrap on your shoulder.
- Satisfying an obsessive desire (Barry’s…?) to have all the Tyvek logos aligned…priceless
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