Go and see my post in the JLC “rough framing” topic, and please comment. Thanks.
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Gene-
Why don't you copy and past your post from JLC and put it here?
It's kind of asking a lot to expect someone to chase your question into another forum.
Cheers
OK, here goes. It is three posts, each with some pics.
Architect wants a minimal corner post, to snug the windows close. We are committed to doing her will.We like to build, sheath, and paper or housewrap all our walls down, then tilt them up. Just like all of you. We need a method for this corner that will work so we can tilt without interference.Gangs of 1, 2, or 3 windows come into these corners, and fortunately, R.O.W. is only 2'-5". More than half of these corners have steel framed to them from the outside, with large reaction loads.The wall that has the steel coming at it goes up first. It is shown on the attached pic. I'm not showing all the windowsill cripples here.As you can see also, the archy wants minimal posting between windows, thus two studs.
We build the joining wall down on the deck, but the attached pic shows it standing up.You can see our header here is a lined pair of 2x6s, with a piece of 2-1/2" rigid foam between.Ignore the top plate shown. We'll top plate short 48" of the corner, then fill after everything is up and plumbed.I hate those little cripples, but we need that space, as I will show in the next post.This wall tilts up without interference, right next to the first one.
Here is a view of the two walls joined at the corner.You can see how the plated 2x6 header frames into the 2x5.5 block, and what you see there, under the end of the 2x6 header, lapping onto the block, is a Simpson HH6 header hanger.Once again, the sill crips are not shown, nor am I showing what we'll need to do to finish out that inside corner from the windowsill down, so we have sheetrock nailing.We managed to do two things here. The architect's vision of a 3-1/2" square corner post was realized, and we gave ourselves 3-1/2" of LVL right above the post, for all our Simpson SDS screws that are clipping those beam flanges to the structure.This ain't built yet. If you want to simplify things for me, please comment.
Well Gene,
it's looks like yer s o l here for that question.
Sorry I can't help ya.
Cheers
You're right. Didn't get any hits over at the JLC site, either.
Guess I'll just do it and post it here as a little photo essay.