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I have 3 doors planned for my build, a 16 ft, an 18 ft and a 12 ft. I had planned them all to be 8 ft high and my estimate was around $3000 total. At the last minute I decided to frame out for 10 ft high doors on the 16 and 18 wides, and kept the 12 ft door at 8 ft high. That change increased...

Here's the floor plan, for those interested. I'll post pics of the interior tomorrow if I can get decent shots. I designed it on www.floorplanner.com, very easy to use. The second floor will be attic only initially. I'll use it for storage, but I stubbed out for a bath and will have the...

Trusses are all up. The gaps you see are for dormers, to be constructed. I'm excited despite the hassles!

Thanks for the feedback Fred

I was at the jobsite watching the trusses go up. No one had a copy of the bracing instructions from the truss manufacturer, and they looked at me funny when I asked. I called the company and had them email the diagrams and instructions, then printed copies and gave to GC and framing sub. They...

Trusses going up:

By the way, the slab is perfectly level, not sure where the thought that the slab was sloped came from. Fred

The GC is a nice guy but he has not turned out to be very competent. He does no real oversight or quality control, just seems to think his job is to schedule the subs and be a gopher for them when they need some supplies and he is around. When I find a problem, his reflex is to make excuses...

Hallelujah, it's fixed. I just got back from the jobsite. All 4 corners dead on plumb both ways. The racked wall was dead on plumb both ways. The remainder of the walls were acceptable, with studs no more off than about a half inch over 12 feet, and most much better than that. The OSB was...

I agree GCshoukd be checking , not me , but that hasn't worked out yet

Not on site yet The wall won't be bolted down until finished then Titan bolts drilled and place per code I agree GC should have found it , not me At this point though if all is plumb and square I've gotta go with it Tried to get a pro framer thru a friend to check work but he didn't want to get...

I don't think it's the slab, but I'll check it for level. Anyway, even if slab was a little sloped, seems like the wall could be built plumb and square anyway. Firing the GC now is not my plan unless it isn't made right. I've got bad weather coming and 20K in materials on the ground at the...

Update: Told the GC it was obviously unacceptable, and that the building needs to be plumb, square, level and true. I said I shouldn't need to tell you that, and that it will affect everything. I said I didn't want any more work to progress until it is right. He texted me this am from the job...

It's a tough situation, as I am busy as heck at my real job, have family issues with teenagers, a daughter just out of surgery, and trying to deal with this too is a real cluster. I went back out to the site. Although dark I used the headlights of my truck and my cell phone "flashlight" best I...

Is there any kind of reference standard? I am being offered excuses by the GC and sub, and they act like I am expecting perfection.

Walls went up yesterday (12.5 ft). Looked pretty racked, but I figured when they sheathed it today they would square it up. I shouldn't have assumed. Drove up to the build site and the wall was visually racked to me from 50 feet away. I happened to have a plumb bob and hung it up on a random...

I agree. The problem is the politics of power. Take a good idea (requiring inspection of construction projects for safety) and then put power in the hands of local building permit offices and inspectors to make your life miserable or easy if they so choose. The result is a very big problem...

Talked to inspector and a local engineer. No one seems to think the 12 ft walls will be any problem, despite what the code seems to say. Very hard to figure. I gave the go ahead to frame the walls with 12 ft studs today. Fred

You would think so. However, I've run into bad information more than once in this project. For example, the permit office refused to give me a permit for a pole barn/post frame construction building as planned. I ended up redesigning using a full perimeter footing that they said I needed in...

My GC called and said he checked with the county inspector and was told 12 ft walls would be "no problem" So that's odd, because I am subject to IRC 2009 prescriptive code given that I am building this to qualify as a residence due to Zoning requirments. I'm paranoid about proceeding with the...