hey everybody sam here and angela and welcome to our channel welcome to the next part of the
workshop build again whether it be a workshop for a granny girl homestead or the new home
of sam craft this is part two of that video i have my lovely assistant here again today
she wasn't with me with the foundation part that was a solo trip and that was rough okay
that was yeah nobody was having fun that day if you've not seen that video that's where
this whole project kicks off there's a link to it down below so make sure you check that out
and you know misery loves company so i'd like to see you over there otherwise what do we have
for them today so today we are going to frame out the floor and put down the plywood get an official
let's go we are ready to go and start framing up the floor of this building for framing i'm using
treated 2x6 lumber about 12 footers they're going to get cut down to 11 foot 9 inches
to give me 12 feet overall once the rim joists or band joists are put in place
what i'm going to do now is cut them all the link here right where they are where they got
dropped off by the truck because it's easier to cut them here and once they're done take them over
and they're at final length over there on the workshop base it's just going to
be easier so that's what we're going to do now cutting 16 of them at 11 foot 9 inches
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are we sure it was out here yeah
i have all of the floor joists cut to their length and i have them
roughly spaced out just really just placed out here on the skids i'm going to talk about a
couple of things as we frame up this floor and we do all of our attachments and stuff
we're using two by sixes for this floor structure which should be plenty strong enough
for my intended uses a lot of times storage buildings will be framed out of two by fours
and that's not enough in my book for this kind of a workshop you want something beefier than two by
fours now for storage or something that you're not really going to be in much and it's not 12
feet wide i guess two by fours will be okay but i would say at the minimum they should be 12 inch on
center since i'm using two by sixes i will space these out 16 inches on center which is perfectly
fine i have plenty of support below them since i did four skids the maximum span on that two by six
is around three feet two inches so that's plenty fine for what i'll be doing it's not gonna be any
problem it's plenty strong enough and it shouldn't be bouncy because i don't like bouncy floors
what i'm doing next is going through every single floor joist and looking for the crown of the board
what the crown of the board is is you want to see if it's kind of like a rainbow you want the
rainbows facing up and the reason you want that is over time as the weight pushes on that joist it'll
make it flatter and it will not be saggy if it looks like an upside down rainbow or a smiley face
you go to attach your floor it's only going to get worse over time so you always want to make sure
you do your crowns to the top or your rainbows or frowny faces however you want to think about it
that's what you want to do with your floor joists and so while this looks like kind of a
weird step or something that i don't know gonna make a big difference every time yes it will
as the lumber dries it moves and just ages it will make a big difference
with our crowns done and marked i marked a little c on the top of all of them in case we move them
they fall over we know which ones which we now start fastening things together for that i'm
going to be using my pads load cordless framing nailer this is what we use when we do our roof
over project and i think that's the last time this thing's been used so it's one of those specialty
tools that you really only use when you need it but when you need it you're glad to use it
so i have our little battery charged up this goes in here on this side because this thing does use
electricity as far as igniting the cylinder but for the main boom factor it uses these
gas cylinders so it's pretty much like a single cylinder gas engine in here that literally pumps
air fuel in when you pull the trigger it sparks ignites and blows a plunger down and shoots a
nail in your material to load the cylinder pull this back drop your fuel in that goes down and
you're done all right let's go and load this thing up with nails and start framing this floor
together that's going to be as simple as my lovely assistant grabbing one end of this ledger board
band board rim joist i forget what i'm calling it but that board and then i'll walk and work my way
down from here over lining the joists up with my marks and shooting three to four nails in a piece
as for nails we're using hot dip galvanized three inch long ring shank nails
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yeah that's why i marked them
if i'll go down where you are to help
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seriously
as you can see we've got a couple sheets of plywood here i'm using plywood as giant squares
i know they're rectangles but like framing mathematical square to make sure the corners
of the floor are 90 degrees and the edges are perpendicular i don't know square so i'm gonna fit
around with this a little bit longer it's just a hair bit off but basically what i'm doing is kind
of shimmying the frame around until everything matches and all the sides and edges are correct
with the plywood because plywood is 90 degree corners so it works great for giant squares off
camera elijah came over and i was like hey let's go ahead and see if we can tweak this a little
bit better we got out the larger tape measure we measured from corner to corner measured diagonals
and we got the whole flooring squared up so it's correct measured from corner to corner it's dead
on now i will go through and make sure my joists are spaced correctly mark on the skid with some
pencil line in case i bump them or the kids bump them and they move and then i'm going to go back
with the nail gun and i will toe nail which means going in at an angle all of the joists to the skid
they'll get probably four nails a piece at every single joint so we'll do that should have enough
daylight for that but we'll keep working and work until dark because that's what i do
welcome to the next day it is early in the morning and i'm ready to start working on this thing again
i have a sledgehammer and a piece of wood why because last night as i was looking at a couple of
pictures that i took to show friends and family of look what i did i noticed some of the blocks were
not exactly perfectly aligned like i liked so i want to take the time
to just kind of nudge them over make them pretty and then we'll continue building i
know at this point it's the best time because it's only going to get heavier from here so yes
sam's ocd is kicking in but i'm going to tweak some of these blocks make sure they look pretty
and then we'll go ahead with doing the floor framing next you mean covering it all up what
you're doing yeah yeah we'll spend some time doing some work and then we'll cover that up okay
wow i'm serious it's just me being super picky
okay that's acceptable we can now move on to the next level we are ready to go ahead and put
the plywood decking now for comparison these are the three inch nails that i use for the framing
and these are the two and three-eighths nails i'm gonna be using for the plywood decking
i'm using my paslode nail gun for the rest of this plywood as well this tool is so handy especially
out here where we're kind of running off grid well no we really are running off grid we have
solar panels and stuff i don't have air compressor don't have air hose to deal with it's really nice
to have the pads load gun to use for all of this stuff these are two and three eight inch nails
they're galvanized ring shank as well you don't necessarily have to have galvanized ring shake
nails for flooring in this application but since this will be exposed to the elements because this
is going to be a workshop that's what i'm doing so that's why sam went and got galvanized instead of
the non-galvanized regular nails all right i'm gonna load up my pass load nailer we're gonna
go over there and we're gonna start nailing down the plywood to build the official floor
so
well we are on new floor we are and it is not jiggly or wiggly it is not it is very sturdy
off camera i was having angela and isaac kind of hop scotch and run around and jump and things
and i was sitting on one end with my eyes closed trying to feel the earth and there was no wiggle
shakes or anything which is awesome which probably sounds really weird but my current workshop
there is so that's something i was testing with this one no doubt the floor stability
is in part because of the foundation so it was worth all the pain and annoyances to do that
i wasn't here for that part so it's okay to say yes it was yeah
i can say now yes that was totally worth it it was totally totally worth that
as far as frame up the floor i don't think i could have really asked for an easier
happy experience i don't know i would say again in part that's probably from the paz load uh-huh
the nail gun yeah because otherwise every other workshop and stuff we've put together we've used
screws and you have to take time to get it out and put it on and screw it in and this one's
just like pow pow pow let's go yeah yeah it is more expensive to buy a tool such as the cordless
framing nailer but that's a buy once cry once kind of mentality now that the tool has been purchased
the amount of speed that it gives us as we do any kind of project like this and the amount of
less wear and tear on me or strain or whatever i mean it's worth it for sure now given if you're
not the type to really do diy stuff like us maybe it's not the thing for you but for us
i think it's a good deal one of the cool things i saw while running the camera is sam was able to
put one down like carry the plywood over and completely nail it in in like three minutes
that would have taken like 15 or 20 if we had been using screws and stuff
so it was like well yeah it's definitely i mean you can see why professional construction crews
use tools of this style it's faster it's portable and yeah when when when when
so as far as the flooring there may be some of you wondering why i chose to do plywood instead of osb
there were two reasons one the price believe it or not sanded three quarter inch plywood is cheaper
than tongue and groove three quarter inch equivalent osb so that's that the second
reason is because this is true four foot by eight foot sheets they are not tongue and groove
which means when they're tongue and groove they're undersized so they're not tongue and
groove means all the joints line up perfectly it's a lot cleaner prettier looking floor and
i don't have any kind of weird shortcomings on the ends because you know the eighth inch has
transitioned across the floor to the other side that always drove me crazy when i did osb flooring
in my other workshop and so i didn't want to do that with this one that also being said
plywood is generally considered stronger than osb however it is not as weather rated as osb
so there's one thing we're concerned about with this floor now being wide open to the elements
we don't want it to get rain on a lot and kind of pucker and delay or have problems there so it's
definitely go time from here forward or we need to come up with a solution to cover and protect the
floor so that it's safe while we finish building this project well guys thanks for coming along as
we framed and decked the floor for sam's workshop if you have any questions or comments please leave
them below and otherwise we'll see you guys next time on one of our homesteads see you bye
down and shoot the nail on your material that was not supposed to come off
is there anything else here i'm waiting for you to look at the camera
about 12 footers they're going to cut
don't crinkle your granola bar there
meant to do that yep air filter looks good josh oh come on for real and you know misery loves
company so i'd like to see you over there otherwise what do we got to return to yep
no i got it now i just had to walk over
pretty much and otherwise we'll see you guys next time on one of our homesteads see ya bye
he says my workshop that time yeah of course that whole my soap shop that
whole our workshop thing was probably that first take that we lost it might have been