this Framing Inspector seems kinda picky.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R15nJNwtEp0
Tagging all the cripples and calling for headers in the shower nook is a special kind of inspector.
why is he spraying base plates, is he retarded
>>2997130I assume he wants the transitions strapped or a block between the studs at the break. I'd also question if notching is ok when the stud is cornered to a perpendicular stud.
Eh, the drywall will hold it all together.
>>2997160For me it's load bearing EMT
>>2997160The ethos of framing is that 1/4" is tolerance, so 1/8" gaps are insignificant. There are 3" nails shooting everything to everything. This inspector wants them to rip everything out because an index card fits between the headers and studs. He shot red all over every cripple in the house, the short studs above and below windows and doors. He thought a top plate was undercut when walls are stood and fastened together with a level. He thinks the shower nook is load bearing. Every stud the electricians and plumbers drilled through got tagged, so all three trades will have to do over. The quality is not impeccable. There are things they can do better, but they can't rip the roof off and redo all the rafters. He's not wrong to tag many things, but he's also retarded.
>>2997165>load bearing EMTopen web trussed girders built with emt touched on coming into vogue but then the price got higher than nuts on a giraffe for the shit and now weve got chinkshit stamped steel web sections
>>2997171framing trade went to shit (Wetbacks) largely because unlike Plumbers and Sparkies, no matter how bad framing is you can always fix by adding new shit, if it gets "called", and its more or less "just as good" as if done right the first time, maybe even better. Illegally notched stud? Add another next to it and its "upgraded".Even drywall is kinda higher skill required because you will end up with lots of trash that can't be reused.
Lmao this is so sloppy Do you even have traditional carpenters/framers left in muttmerica? Maybe the luddites religious guys?
>>2997195Union jobs its pretty much exactly as sloppy as code allows.EVERYTHING is 1/4" out. Its like "don't give them anything they aren't paying for". :)Even red-iron frames will be the max out allowed by code/contract then has to be furred all the fuck so the stucco will meet flatness specs.
>>2997195PS-on a Union job is you see 3 guys together something is very wrong and if one of the 3 ain't the foreman he'll be there fast and asking "WTF???".These days I see Illegal Alien crews and they go around in a pack of 4-6 guys "working together" in close quarters like they are invisibly tethered. Its like 2/3s of the guys can't function outside the most immediate control of someone else.
>>2997184Shitty framing shows up later in a bunch of ways. Watch any of the DR Horton stuff and it's riddled with framing flaws. Wavy walls from crowned studs or crooked plates, squeaking floors, windows and doors jammed into rough openings that are out, drywall seams opening or cracking from settlement. Anywhere with tile deserves to be true. Two recent examples: Someone wanted a prefab shower door installed, but the opening was 5/8" narrower at 6' than the door. Another house's designer put a 90" pantry access cabinet with French door tight to a wall sans trim and the homeowner/builder was 1.5" out of plumb on said wall. Drywall finishing at least pays. The only person on a framing crew that could earn the same has to calculate all the rafters and stringers, layout, own all the tools, and save three or four idiots from themselves all day long. How do you sister a stud with 3" of pvc plumbing elbow through the dead center?
>>2997184Traders are a localized issue. All white where I am and its hit or miss. My new build as of 2023 is both good and bad. Framing was fine generally, only a few questions. Drywall, I'm still trying to figure out why they used nails and not screws. My environment fluctuates humidity a lot, so the nails are starting to move, push out. Its dumb. The HVAC/plumber, needs to be shot into the sun! Did finally find a great HVAC tech so I have that at least..
>>2997201low wage people cannot be trusted to work alone and not completely fuck things upIt's not like anyone is trained to do their job, just learn as you go
>>2997172>picWhat in the fuck, american construction is weird as shit. At that point just use all steel. Why the obsession with using wood anyway?
>>2997446>Why the obsession with using wood anyway?cheap and absorbs kinetic energy far better without failing.
