In this video, I install the floor sheathing and start on the exterior wall sections. I'm using Zip Sheathing because the cabin is out in the weather unprotected for weeks at a time, and with the walls going up, I'm unable to properly cover it with a tarp.
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Hi, this is Daryl and welcome back to the Wood Haven.
So it's time to put the subfloor onto the deck.
And I'm using zip sheathing for this because once I start putting the walls up,
I'm not going to be able to cover this with a tarp and it's going to be exposed to the weather.
So I'm going with zip sheathing and we'll go from there.
So
of the edges taped so with this zip system I should be nice and waterproof
all the way around which is good because I'm if I start once I start putting the
walls up which is my next step I'm not going to be able to cover this with a
tarp um but with the zip sheathing and and the zip tape I shouldn't need to
okay the reason why I'm cutting a foot off of these is I'm creating nine foot
studs and they don't sell nine foot studs at the Lowe's where I shop so I'm
having to cut two by four by tens and turn them into nine footers
for the inside wall it's going to go up against that brace right there and since
the cabin the foundation is only eight feet and I've got a wall there which
takes up three and a half inches and a wall there that takes up three and a
half inches this wall is actually going to be seven inches shy of eight feet
wide and the best way to do that is to burn three inches off of each end but
I'm going to cut those off after the fact that way it made it really easy for
me to mark my 16 on centers and the way I do that is I come up to 16 which is
about well this one's 16 which is about right here and then I go back three
quarters of an inch and mark my line and then I just mark X where the board goes
I find that it's a lot more accurate doing it that way and then I come down
here and this board is longer than eight feet so I mark my eight foot mark
and then burn my three and a half inches and then mark where my stud goes so I'm
going to go ahead and make those cuts and that'll be my top plate and bottom
plate a couple of these boards have a little bit of a twist to them so I'm
just gonna put a clamp on that I'll use it as a lever and straighten it out
all right I've got two wall sections up I've got four more to go but I'm out of
lumber that's all the lumber that I can carry in my truck and they don't deliver
out here so I'm just gonna have to do it a couple sections at a time so that's
gonna do it for this video and I'll talk to you guys later
