Sunday, November 28, 2010

Build'em straight and steady..

Here you can see here and the video how we were building, cutting and nailing our support walls together. The walls are mainly 8 feet long and 41 inch's heigh. The 2x4 section walls are 2 foot apart which is plenty support for our needs. Regular home construction calls for 16 inch on centre walls, but perhaps more weight is used there. Here we are estimating weight of concrete and steel to be 40kg per sq foot which isn't much considering when I stand on it I am at least 60kg to 65kg per square foot, so thats how we test the material.

We clamp several together, we found two was practical to work with. Then I nail from the top two nails in each stud wall. The clamps help to keep the piece steady at least on one side.


10 walls built and ready for use.


Cutting 4 pieces of 2x4 at once, this is a handy feature of this saw.

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