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.
>>2997230>How do you sister a stud with 3" of pvc plumbing elbow through the dead center?Fucking kek
>>2997446North America has an absolute fuck ton of trees because we didn't cut them all down to heat our houses 1000 years ago.
>>2997446>Why the obsession with using wood anyway?Easy to fasten to and is compatible with traditional building methods. If the trusses had steel chords the mexican framers would have no idea how to get them on.
>>2998218Boomer mythology. My country (Serbia) is like 30% forest and we still barely build out of wood anymore, though it used to be the norm for single family housing before WW2 (half-timber frames). Our forests are not old growth, sure, but you don't need old growth for viable structural lumber. I can say the same for all of Europe pretty much, only the UK has a shortage of trees and they are still like 15% forest. It's not about material shortage or lack thereof, but what the average contractor is most well versed in.That being said though, what kind of insane anal spans are you building for that you even need steel trusses to begin with? That looks very unintuitive and frankly overkill to me.
>>2998282ah yes, serbia, famous for its high standards in building
>>2998218?theres literally no old growth left in north america either idiot
>>2998360The fuck are you talking about? This is just Mount Hood, Willamette, and Siuslaw National Forests in Oregon alone, green is old growth. Yeah, there's a lot less than there once was, but it's not "literally no old growth."
>>2998394nta but from that area and adjacent to the timber industrythat big wood doesnt get cut except on private property and usually for land clearing. mostly because its about worthless as timber because theres only a couple little mills with head rigs big enough to cut it so its niche market shitthe new $200m mill down the road can only take a 29" stem butt
>>2998360>canada's entire boreal forest was cut down and regrownAre you retarded? And yes, Canada counts too because the states are always crying that the stumpage fee on crown land isn't high enough.>>2998282Serbia is fucking tiny. Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake and Lake Winnipeg combine to be the same size as your entire country while Lake Superior on its own is also the same size.
>>2998282>My country (Serbia) is like 30% forest and we still barely build out of wood anymoreWe have Buc-ee's bigger than Serbia, you motherfucker
>>2998307Actually, believe it or not, it is. Assuming you get it done legally, which used to be optional in the past and also a massive headache with completely arbitrary inspection standards that are more anal than even Swiss ones lol... It's not optional anymore with this ZOG oligarch gubmint that seeks to extract value out of every little thing being done, but that second part is still true.>>2998551>>2998583>what is per capital aggregate demandSure, it's small, but so is the population, hence why it's overall usage of all kinds of construction materials is fairly paltry despite timber harvesting and shitty American stick frame hackstruction having increased massively as of late. I'm exclusively an old school timber frame fan myself, but what can you do. My ancestral farmhouse was built that way in the 1830s and is still standing, and I doubt this will be the case for any house built in the Weimerican fashion.
>>2996845none of that would pass a norwegian inspection it wouldnt even be sendt off in the first place. thats close to a total rebuild claim. and you can claim that up to 5 years by our laws so you better do it right to begin with.
>>2998926These houses are built for bottom dollar labor and materials. He sprays everything as though it's structural and needs to be unmolested and cut tight. Notching the shower rough in valve isn't going to cause the roof to collapse. There doesn't need to be an LVL header to hold the tile to the shampoo nook. You can't have it both ways. If you want everyone on the crews to be 40/hour union staff held at higher standards, then you're going to triple the cost of the build. Framing is labor and skilled subs do large portions of the other duties. >5 yearswhoa look out! I'll probably be upgrading to a forever home in the next 4. Then again, they're floating pex into this mc tract home. That might fail in the next five. It won't only be the framing that's sloppy.
>>2997195it's fast like fast food
Now that the inspector has painted all the framing red, which inspector are we on the side of Preston or Cy?https://youtu.be/ltbKzjPAxukhttps://youtube.com/shorts/h7B_4160-2E
>>2999734>needs lube to masturbatedo americans really?
>>2999747No more. I've been taking enough dick pills from the gas station I'm constantly lubed up and ready
