Exterior nailing inspection fail and pass

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Exterior nailing inspection fail and pass
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Exterior nailing inspection fail and pass Inspection failure follows failure.

Winter solstice very cold

Winter solstice, little daylight

Devising access to high walls

Hold downs

SE accepts the nailing but indicates mor

SE signs the beam

Exterior nailing inspection faisl and passs



1. Winter solstice very cold From Christmas onward the rain becomes intermittent. Though days are short and nights are cold, this dry spell must be exploited to finish the exterior nailing.
_25jan19-mcn_1556.jpg Building and feeding a fire take time. Usually I did without.	_25jan21-mcb_1017.jpg Early mornings are typically below freezing. In the shade the ground remained frozen around the clock.	_25jan21-mcb_1019.jpg
_25jan21-mcb_1021.jpg Extending access to the high exterior walls ate a lot of time.	_25jan26-mcb_1213.jpg	_25jan30-mcb_1339.jpg Accessing the high walls consumed much time. The framers had used a portable mobile scaffold they took with them.


2. Winter solstice, little daylight Of course work cannot stop at 4:30 PM when the sunlight fails. Quitting time is 7:00 PM. That means working with head lamp and work lights.
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3. Devising access to high walls A portion of every day is committed to devising or improving access to the tall exterior walls. From November through January I iterated through several methods of access. The early methods were flaky and risky. Around the solstice I acquired a lot more scaffold frames. This was a great help but scaffold is hard for one man to deploy. Scaffold alone diid not solve the problem, leaving room for more invention. My later solutions were bette. Much time was consumed by the earlier inferior methods.
_25mar08-mc_1342.jpg I had long wondered how to get access to this wall.


4. Hold downs Hold-downs are a component of the shear wall nailing inspection. Second-level hold-downs were 100% my responsibility by my choice. On this task I am probably as fast as a journeyman framer. Experience does not speed it by very much. I cost less than the $65/hour of a journeyman. Many hours were required by the 17 hold-downs of level 2.
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5. SE accepts the nailing but indicates more corrections Two weeks prior the SE (structural engineer) had visited to inspect and found the nailing deficient. On Feb 8 the SE visits again. He spots a handful of nail absences. Bruce marks the spots for subsequent nailing. The SE agrees to write the letter to the county.
_25feb08-mcn_1244.jpg Feburary 8. On this subsequent inspection the SE notices a few more nail absences but is satisfied as Bruce chalks the locations for follow-up nailing.	_25feb08-mcn_1245.jpg	_25feb08-mcn_1246.jpg
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_25feb08-mcn_1252.jpg The SE climbs up for a closer look.	_25feb08-mcn_1254.jpg	_25feb08-mcn_1303.jpg Bruce and SE discuss how to offset a dubious decision by the framers.
_25feb08-mcn_1313.jpg SE agrees to write the letter to the county.


6. SE signs the beam February 8; The SE adds his signature to the beam.
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