Can someone help me figure out my siding for this building.
I've already sheeted the first 2' feet horizontally (from concrete/grade) with Pressure Treated Plywood. Then I have 8' foot sheets vertically placed above that. So now I'm at 10' Feet. What I'm wondering now is should I add an 8' sheet above this and have my next break above the top plate? (total of 18') I was under the impression that sheeting usually breaks at the half way mark on the highest top plate? I'm trying not to create any hinge points, obviously.
What I'm trying to avoid is adding a ton of work for myself. My fear is if I go past the top plates then I'm likely to add a break where I have to add fire blocking all the way around the second floor walls. Ugghh!!
The sheeting goes up beyond the 8-1/8" part of the plans to cover the ends of the trusses, correct? But it doesn't show how tall the end of the trusses are, does it?
Last question I had is that it looks like on the second floor it only shows a single bottom plate, but on a second floor don't you normaly always have two bottom plates and two top plates? Also on your bottom plates don't you normally put a sill liner(thin foam padding) just so that there is air flow between subfloors and bottom plates?
Because my building has been taking a while (lots of drama.. to much to go into) my permits expired. Isn't there a way I can recativate them in Oregon without them trying to extort thousands to re-open them. My permits expired 2 months ago. I was welding, framing, and killing myself on the building and just didn't realize. I would think with all the covid stuff that there has to be some forgiveness for this kind of thing.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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I've already sheeted the first 2' feet horizontally (from concrete/grade) with Pressure Treated Plywood. Then I have 8' foot sheets vertically placed above that. So now I'm at 10' Feet. What I'm wondering now is should I add an 8' sheet above this and have my next break above the top plate? (total of 18') I was under the impression that sheeting usually breaks at the half way mark on the highest top plate? I'm trying not to create any hinge points, obviously.
What I'm trying to avoid is adding a ton of work for myself. My fear is if I go past the top plates then I'm likely to add a break where I have to add fire blocking all the way around the second floor walls. Ugghh!!
The sheeting goes up beyond the 8-1/8" part of the plans to cover the ends of the trusses, correct? But it doesn't show how tall the end of the trusses are, does it?
Last question I had is that it looks like on the second floor it only shows a single bottom plate, but on a second floor don't you normaly always have two bottom plates and two top plates? Also on your bottom plates don't you normally put a sill liner(thin foam padding) just so that there is air flow between subfloors and bottom plates?
Because my building has been taking a while (lots of drama.. to much to go into) my permits expired. Isn't there a way I can recativate them in Oregon without them trying to extort thousands to re-open them. My permits expired 2 months ago. I was welding, framing, and killing myself on the building and just didn't realize. I would think with all the covid stuff that there has to be some forgiveness for this kind of thing.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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