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By: capt_nemo in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (3)
Thu, 17 Sep 20 10:00 AM | 26 view(s)
Boardmark this board | 6th Edition Pope Board 		Msg. 06068 of 60014
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Calculating where to drill the holes so they'd fit around the bolts and not screw the boards up was harder than you might think.

PIECE OF CAKE DE. Just snap a line on the inside of the slab, from the outside of the slab, the width of the boards you are using. Lay the boards in their position, use a speed square and slide along board and mark the bolts position on the board. Then measure from your snapped line to each bolt and mark the boards, VIOLA you have done a professional job on the sill plates. NO problem........... and those are called wet anchor bolts


All this is assuming your slab is the right dimensions and square. Bad slab pours screws up everything.....




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A busy day
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Thu, 17 Sep 20 12:10 AM 		Msg. 06062 of 60014

I had a great day. It was easily the most work I've done in 11 months… since I had that little medical melodrama.

My builder started framing the house at property #2 yesterday, and today I went up to help. I wound up staying for seven hours. I may have even done something useful - because I was given a specific job by the builder while he worked on other things.

My assignment was to set pressure-treated boards on the concrete perimeter walls, drilling holes through them so that they would fit bolts already fitted vertically into those walls. The boards were 2 x 12s, mostly 14 feet long (so they were heavy for an old, out-of-shape guy like me). They didn't all meet at 90 or 180 degree angles. Calculating where to drill the holes so they'd fit around the bolts and not screw the boards up was harder than you might think. At one point, I was standing on a 15" wall fourteen feet high (on both sides) drilling a guide hole into wood and concrete, swapping the bit so it could hold a 3" masonry screw, then fastening the wood down with the screw.

And it was extremely blustery weather - a little scary at times but I had a blast! Wow. I'm sore. I may regret this but I agreed to help again tomorrow. I'll finish what I started, though, and maybe come home after that if I'm tired.

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