New Home Construction / Residential Framing

New Home Construction: Residential Framing, Load-Bearing Walls, True Dimensions, Correct Stud Heights, Custom Homes

Choose a Qualified Framer Services New Home Construction Residential Remodeling Window Installation / Replacement Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) Framing Bedroom Framing Kitchen Framing Bathroom Framing Floor Framing Wall and Ceiling Framing Basement Framing Deck Framing Garage Framing Light Framing / Carpentry

The framer's job on a new home construction project is to build the entire structure; to get it put "under roof" and to get the structure dried-in temporarily until the shingles are in place.

Residential framing mainly refers to a single-family dwelling, often right in the middle of an existing neighborhood. A variety of additional considerations must be taken into account to prevent excess disruption to normal routine.

Proper Planning Avoids Difficulties and Neighbor Annoyance

Difficulties we can encounter on residential construction projects: Lots that are tucked back into wooded areas. Long, narrow driveways with trees lined up to the edges, which makes it difficult to get trucks and materials back to the work site.

• Zero lot-line clearances with very space between buildings, which makes it difficult to complete exterior work. With these types of situations, we have to be aware that there are other people living close by.
  

  • We must be sympathetic to the people that live adjacent to the jobsite, and to those that live close by.

  • We cannot start work earlier than 8 AM o If the house needs trusses, we have to be concerned with material delivery.

  • We have to carefully schedule lumber loads to prevent materials from piling up in one area, and making it difficult to move materials around the jobsite.

  • Need to keep jobsite clean to keep from annoying neighbors.

  • If the building uses trusses, we might have prefabricate the overhangs, the sheathings and the top wrap of the building and stand it as one unit so we have minimal ladder work after that truss is set.



• Some of the houses that we build are very large structures set onto wooded lots. We love working in that atmosphere, but some of the problems that can come with that can include:
   
  

  • Long, winding driveway. Picture a semi truck filled with lumber trying to get back through something like that.

  • Many times there is no driveway, so we have to schedule material drops on dry days when there is no mud. Recent government regulations prohibit mud from being tracked onto paved roads from a jobsite, which can back up storm drains and cause other problems.

  • We may need to cut down tree limbs before we can raise a wall or to put a roof up if there is overhang.