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residential-house-framing
or floor joists
today are engineered floor joists
and consequently much stronger





floor joists As the framers begin your residential-house-framing or floor joists, it is so exciting to see the house you've been planning for so long,come up out of the ground.




We had only two people building our house, and it went together quite quickly. Engineered floor joists




Floor joists seen from the basement looking up



The floor joists or engineered trusses, go on after the sill plate is in place. This pix shows the floor joists from below. If you look closely, you can see the sill plate.

Then the ¾ inch tongue and groove chip board is placed on top of the joists.



Each sheet is supposed to be glued to the floor joists, and nailed or screwed down about every 3 inches.on every floor joist. This should minimize the squeaking floors later on, altho we still get a little noise in our house, but then RL was unable to be there when those boards were being installed.





sub flooring When the framers are putting down your subfloor it is a very critical time for you to be inspecting your framers at work, unless you like squeeky floors. Watch for both the glueing down and nailing or skrewing down every 3 inches.

sheathing floorjoists



Floor joists are being covered with sub-floor boards


It is important that your framing crew works speedily towards what is called “dry-in” That is when you are completely enclosed with doors and windows in place. There are two major reasons for dry-in to occur quickly:



  1. Bad weather can damage the floor boards making them swell and be uneven to walk on.
  2. The home can be locked up to keep tools and supplies from “walking off” from the job site at night when no one is around.