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Watch Jeff Satterwhite’s video to learn more about the process and materials involved with Framing a home.

(Watch the first two steps of Home-Building in Jeff’s other Centerline Construction Chat episodes, the Footings and the Foundation.)

Framing – The exterior and interior walls that build the frame of a home.

This is a typical wall section. Most walls are built laying flat on the floor because they’re easier to build and then you can erect them into the vertical standing walls you see. The basic construction material is called a Stud, which goes from the bottom plate to the top plate.

The other is called a Corner which is where another wall will come up and marry to the wall and they will be joined at the top.

Jacks sit underneath Headers which hold up the openings. So the headers are the support for the entire system in the Framing section. Jacks are essentially used to hold the Headers up.

The header is typically designed with two 2-by-10’s which are the main support of the Header with plywood spacer and the bottom is a 2-by-4 which gives the Header strength and makes up the Header unit. The header sits on top of the Jacks and will be nailed at the side and the top. Normally there is a double-top plate, so there will be two 2-by-4’s for strength to make the unit.

The bottom plate on a slab construction home is a pressure-treated item. It is code in NC that any wood that comes in contact with a concrete surface has to be pressure treated. Therefore, the bottom plate on the entire structure is pressure-treated.

The other items are made up of framing materials that are not pressure-treated. There are a lot of species of wood used for these. These particular pieces in the video are made of Spruce.

This home will be a 10-foot high home, with the height on the first floor being 10 feet and the second floor being 9 feet.

The framing crew will take the basic dimensions of the floor plan and lay out the walls to build the home.

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Centerline Construction Chat, Episode 2 – Foundations

Watch as Jeff Satterwhite explains the process and materials involved with building the Foundation of a Home, the second step in the home-building process.

(The first step is the Footings, which is explained in Episode 1 of Centerline Construction Chat.)

There are Several types of foundations and materials in the foundation.

The blocks in the video are Masonry blocks, a 12-inch block and an 8-inch block. There several other types but these are the 2 main materials in Foundations in Coastal North Carolina.

They are used in several different areas. The 12-inch blocks are often used in porches or other areas where there is a slab. You can set an 8-inch block on top of a 12-inch block which gives you a ledger to hold the concrete.

In this case, we used the 12-inch block at the bottom to create a ledger for the brick. This will be an all-brick home so the bricks will set on the ledger of the 12-inch block and will follow up the face with a 1-inch air gap between the wall and the back of the grip to create the exterior wall.

The other type of block is called the Header Block, which is a special type of block designed for slab construction, the slab will be poured in the middle all the way to edge and the notch part of the header block will catch the concrete for the floor.

With the 5-inch threaded rod and the 8-inch block, the holes are filled with mortar. The type of material that is between each head and bed joint in the foundation and that gives it strength.

We use an S-type mortar whereas on veneer, you use an N type. S is stronger than N.

This is going to be a Slab Construction Home, the other type is called a Crawl Space, where the space at the bottom would be open rather than filled with sand – otherwise known as an Open Crawl Space.

The threaded rods in the exterior walls of the Foundation are for wind hold-down. So each one will have a big square washer with a 5-inch nut to hold down the walls of the home for the 130-mile-an-hour wind zone.

What we did on the inside of the garage is called Parging. This is a cement treatment that is put n the face of the foundation which will give it a smooth appearance.

For more information or questions, go to www.gocenterline.com or contact Jeff Satterwhite at (910) 620-8883 or Jeff@gocenterline.com Thank you for watching