We got the first walls up today. Man, were these things heavy!
I also wrote a little spreadsheet this week to calculate the heights of studs on a sloped roof wall. We experienced this math problem on the last house — say you have a wall that’s 12 feet long and it’s 95″ tall at one end and 100″ tall at the other (to provide for a low slope roof). What are the stud lengths at 4″, 12″, 24″, etc. all the way down the wall? Now we have a nifty little calculator that lets you plug in the wall length, the high and low measurements, and stud positions. Then it cranks out the length for each one.
Say, is there an app for that?
curious, did you not like the prefab/pre-insulated walls you used in the guest house?
The SIPs were fine, but we’d always planned to do the 2nd building this way. It’ll be a lot less expensive, and we have time to do it this way. (Speed was a big consideration with SIPs.) By double-framing the walls with insulation between, we’re basically building our own insulated panels this time. And the walls will be thicker, which is an architectural look we wanted on the main house.