time to frame walls

[OIIIIIIIO]

Hi,

I know a lot can affect how long it takes to frame up a garage...but can someone give me some idea of what to expect...whether its 2 hours a wall or 10 hours?

Some additional info...

It will be 2 guys...one who is a professional carpenter who has put up garages before but tends to do more interior work...and the other who is mildly to moderately handy but no real experience with putting up buildings.

One wall is 36' long with 3 windows...another wall is 36' long with 2 garage doors...another 28' long with a window and a door....another is 20' long with 2 windows...another that is 8 ft long with no windows...and finally a 16' wall with 2 windows...

Any input is great as I'm just trying to get a realistic expectation as to how much we can get done in 7-9 days...

Thanks!
Patrick

 

[Frank The Plumber]

Type of roof? Shingled and clad? Electrified? Doors hung? Type of nail application? How old are you? How old is he? Beer drinkers? Go to the gym ever? Smoker? Forget a lot of things? Will it rain much? Got power? Got proper ladders? Seems irrelevant but not really. I did my 27 x 25 in 4 days alone with a standard hammer and shingled it on day 5. That was a while ago, I'm more decrapid now.

 

[theoldwizard1]

That was a while ago, I'm more decrapid now.

Yeah, but I'll take your experience any day over a guy half your age who thinks it is all "easy" !

 

[holdover]

We are talking dry in here not final finish. 144 lin ft wall, 8 windows, 1 door, 2 garage doors. Where there are windows and doors you'll have to do headers and jack studs, so make sure you have all your measurements avail. I assume you are going to sheath it in either plywood or T111, are you going to nail or screw your siding, screwing takes longer, but especially when using T111 gives a better job, in my opinion. Are you going to use a nail gun or swing a hammer? Do you have a chop saw set up to cut jacks headers etc. trusses with shingles or purlins with steel roof? or rafters with storage space up top, I'll assume trusses. With nice weather, nail gun and your contractor can lay it out fast you should be putting up first truss end of 2 or start of day 3. Lifting a 36' wall is not too difficult with 3-4 guys, even easier if it is a slab and you have a tractor with forks like we use. I assume that the width is 28' from your measurements. therefroe trusses can be managed by hand, for long trusses we use an attachment on the tractor bucket which allows us to do 40-45' trusses with one person on the tractor, and two nailing them into the walls takes us about 10 minutes per truss, really. With 7-9 days there should be no problem. My 3 person crew would have it framed in 3 days or so. We have a roofer do shingles, but we do steel or standing seam roofs which takes time to do right Have everything on site when you start . good luck and have fun, keep the beer in the cooler till the end of the day!!!

 

[GarageEnvy]

When I briefly worked as a framer we were typically given 3 days to frame a house. They were 2 stories but we weren't doing the roof trusses and sheathing. If you roll out and layout early in the day and have all your materials on site and don't make any silly mistakes you should be able to stand your walls on day 1. It doesn't sound like much but you'll be surprised how long it takes just to get stuff where it needs to be, marked and nailed. Plus you'll need and hour or 2 to get things plumb and straight and braced. Setting trusses is pretty quick and easy but I'd give yourself at least 3 days with only two guys to get those things set and the sheathing on. Just getting the sheets up there is no small task and by this time fatigue will be a major issue. If you could round up one more guy as a grunt you could really make this job easier. A lot of effort goes into moving materials around and getting cords, tools, supplies, ladders where they need to be. Seven to nine days is realistic though.

 

[ducati]

Even if you are semi-competent you shouldn't have a problem building and sheeting your walls in one day with 3 people. A day to set your trusses and sheet the roof. You have one guy that used to frame, this should be a cake walk for him. Make sure you use the right fasteners for your green plate. It will eat standard nails.

 

[OIIIIIIIO]

Thanks for the input!

I wasn't thinking I would be able to get the whole thing finished in 7-9 days...just was hoping to get the roof sheeted...well...hoping to get it shingled too but wasn't sure if me being not experienced was giving me too optimistic of an attitude...

We may at times have others stop in to help...but I realize that this might actually slow us down as it may lead to more chit chat...

Gable roof...2 peaks that line up...kind of an "L" shaped garage...

Thanks for any other input!