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Framing Checklist - Hanover Township form

hey there Lynn curry here we wrapped up about 99% of the framing and are ready for our framing inspection so what that means is that we've done all the framing we have done the plumbing top out the interior electric the HVAC and the first-stage poly which a significant part of that is fire stopping so what we do here the City of Austin is we call in a third party framing inspector before we actually call in the city's framing inspection and today we have that third party inspection with a company called 80s here in Austin and I've got the checklist of things that he goes through and then the corrections that we need to make so let's go inside and I'll go through this list with you of some of our Corrections so that you can see the kind of things he's looking at so with the fireplace what we have here is a direct vent fireplace meaning it's a gas only not wood-burning and he came in and he checked to make sure the venting was correct it goes out the top that it goes up and out correctly and all that was done properly but what we did have here was that my framer came in and did the rough opening and the guy that came and installed it only attached the fireplace here and here so if you actually on this you can move it because what they didn't do was they didn't screw in down here at the bottom there's some base screws that they didn't put in so that's actually a really simple fix that can be done that will get handled really easily just an oversight on the installers but what it does is it creates a safety hazard because somebody can pull this out fire stopping in these houses is really crucial and one of the things that happens when you're framing up a house is that it is designed and framed in such a way that if a fire starts somewhere it can get stopped before it moves into other living areas so for example if a fire breaks out in this wall behind me they want to make sure if it climbs up this wall it can't get through to the second floor where the flooring will catch on fire one of the things one of the areas that the fire stopped wasn't put in already that got this inspection was underneath the traps under the under the bathtubs so if we look up here what you can see is a hole in the plywood around the trap so my plumber has to come back and put his fire stopping in right there so here's the tub trap from the upstairs we're two seconds ago we were looking at it from downstairs and you can see right here that the polyfill folks got the polyfill in here around the hot water line but you can still see here where this is wide open and this is where they've got to come and add the polyfill they're checking that the trusses are installed as the truss design is and they're also making sure that all the hangers and the connectors are done correctly what we have here is an area up above us that the joist hanger was put in but they didn't put the blocking behind it using every single one of the nail holes so what you've got is the two top nail holes done and the bottom four we're just left without nails in them so what these guys have to do is they've got to come back in put blocking behind it in the form of just another 2x4 and go ahead and put nails in the rest of those holes so when these guys are framing up when they start at what they do is the bottom plate is attached to the foundation to the concrete with with something called RAM sets which are these guys right here it's threaded rod that goes all the way into the concrete and comes up and they put the 2x4 and it put a put a nut and a washer on it and that's called a ramp set well right here we had originally framed out a door to go into this under under a stairway closet and then in the in the process of working through this decided that we didn't want the door here we wanted to put it in back over here in this other entry and when the guys came in and reframed it out they didn't put the ramp sets in so that was Dingaan here they've got to come tomorrow and put the ramp sets in another thing we're missing from this wall right here in this bathroom because of the door frame that was there is all of the blocking the visitability blocking is what it's called this is installed top tight I believe is 36 inches so that you got this 34 inch height right here that you can put a handrail in and in all the bathrooms we like to put it all around to open space so that anywhere somebody needs handrails at any point they've got something solid to screw into we're up here in the third floor which has an inhabitable attic and what we have here is this pony wall that goes up a little over a little under four feet and behind the pony wall we're using to run the ducts for the AC unit so this is all back here considered attic space and what we've got to do is make sure that this right here this wall goes all the way down to the bottom of these trusses right here in order to make the fire stock go all the way down so what we're going to do is right underneath it put what they call bird blocking which is more two by tens cut short and between each of the trusses underneath here one of the things that you've really got to keep an eye on when you're building a house are the stairs and your head Heights when you go and do this inspection the inspector is going to measure make sure each of the stairs is the right height per code and they're also going to be looking at what kind of flooring you're going to put in because the flooring is going to affect the bottom stair height and the top stair height so before your inspector comes hopefully way before your inspector comes you checked all that happy to report that we didn't have any problems with our stairs but I did want to go over this for you the other thing that you've got to watch out for is head height if you've got something like this lvl that we have right here that hangs a little bit low and and your height for these is measured from the bottom of this to actually the plane of the stairs not the stair tread height so for instance you would measure like this by putting the tape measure on the stair tread the way it works is you've got this plane on your stairs it goes like this so when you measure from this head height you've got to hit where the plane would be so really what you're missing here is possibly three inches and if you measure that incorrectly you guys tear out your stairs and redo them completely right here we're missing a truss hanger now we knew that we were missing this we had to order it we only had one of these guys right here and we needed another one for right here so we've ordered it but it just shows that the inspector that that we use is checking everything and you want them to notice these things these guys are your friend they they find mistakes that your crews make and so if they find something like this be happy because that means he's gone through and looked at every single one of these hangers and every single one of these joists they're also looking for these hurricane hangers right here they've got to be on every single one of these that doesn't have a joist hanger on the exterior walls so of course your plumber and your electrician and your HVAC team all come in after the house has been framed up and they have to drill holes in the studs and through sometimes you know the trusses and the beams and the lvls so one of the things you've got to do after the fact is come through and make sure that everything that they drilled they drilled safely and that they put the correct support around any of the larger holes there's a couple places that you need to check you've got to watch the bottoms right here where you're going to put in baseboards and make sure that over any of these the pipes or anything like this that is a peer scible piece of plastic these this PEX right here you want to cover with these metal plates so that when the baseboards come in and they start shooting through with a nail gun they don't pierce these things you end up with a water leak it's really easy to happen and this stops there's nails in this tracks so right here what we've got is one of the vent pipes that they drilled a three-inch hole into this 2x4 to run it through from here over to here and what they put on here is this little piece of flat plate right here and it just this is not enough for a 3-inch hole so we're gonna have them switch this out with what's called a shoe and what shuh is is it's a wraparound piece of steel 18 gauge ski of Steel that nails in from the side to make this stronger because after this hole has been drilled all you have is a little bit over a half an inch right here so as part of your wind shear design when you're building these houses and you're cramming these houses you put these 1 by fours in here angled at some of these walls and the plumber when he came in went ahead and decided to cut part of this 1 by 4 which structurally makes this windshield wind shear device unusable so we're going to replace it it's kind of a big no-no but it's done my framer will come back in pull this off and replace this entire board all the way up and down the wall so that's it that's the list it's actually a really short list a few minor things that the guys have to come back and fix which is really great this is a this was a pretty complicated house to frame up and so this is it this is a really good sign that the guys all did it did a really good job so what I'm going to do is I'm going to leave this list here I'm going to go ahead and hang it on a piece of wire in the house so that as the crews come back they each have this list to work off of they'll be here tomorrow both of them my plumbers coming in and my framers coming in they'll be wrapping it up by the end of the day and then we'll call in the city inspection as soon as that's passed the installation crews come in they'll insulate the house will have another inspection and then we move on to drywall the pool crews came in yesterday with the shotcrete and went ahead and formed up the pool it's it's really similar to pouring a foundation only slightly different the the cement is a little different the the rocks that they use are smaller and there's a little bit more sand in it so that it can stick to these vertical surfaces here and they come in and they pull a bunch of wires which we have down here to get there straight lines they take a hose and they spray the concrete on and then they come with these long straight edges and my hand go ahead and form the shape and smooth everything out they go ahead with these straight edges and make the stairs form them all by hand what we'll do at this point is come in and cover all with plywood during the construction of the house and we'll do all the finish out work after the house is done so after the house is done they'll come in and put a product called pebble tech which is the finishing product on the surface of the pool it's smoother but it still has a little bit of grit to it so people won't smoke slip we'll go ahead and build the walls do the coping install all the pool pumps run the pumps around to the side of the house and get it ready for her pool opening it's pretty cool when they're doing all the vertical stuff you've got to have something for to hold the backside of the concrete so what they do is they put up pegboard and they put up the pegboard and they shoot to it and they let it dry just for a few minutes and then they can take the pegboard off and it stays smooth and vertical we're going to keep following along with the build of this house you can find me at Lynn Currie builds calm