Pretty smart using the clamps to do this solo. 👍🏼 good video!

@PlatoonGarage

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

By far the soffit ladders were the toughest part of the framing for me. I used 2x2 thinking it would be lighter and easier to handle. That was true, but I had to battle bowing of the wood. When I put up the dry wall I'll have to shim some spots to make the drywall plumb in some spots. Tough lesson learned.

@PlatoonGarage

3 жыл бұрын

yeah someone had given me a heads up to build the soffits as strong as possible by using 2x4. i only did one small section using 2x2 but that was only one side of a soffit and it was due to the small area where it could attach to the joist

@keithmarlowe5569

2 жыл бұрын

What some do is use 2X2 or 2X3 and OSB. One board gets attached to joists, then OSB gets screwed to that, then bottom board screwed to OSB. This is done on both sides of whatever being covered, then piece of OSB connects the bottoms. Drywall is then glued and screwed to the OSB. I have not tried it, though I still have duct bulkhead to do on one side of basement and considering it.

@hanaparkhill3565

Жыл бұрын

.. thanks for the tip!

Good job sir, I enjoyed watching your video.

@PlatoonGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I LOVE THE VIDEO WELL DONE..

@PlatoonGarage

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

For the first 10 seconds I was like “Pedro Pascal does reno videos on YT??” This is the way…

@PlatoonGarage

27 күн бұрын

This is the way

Where did you get your lumber. And what is your longest bottom plate. Getting ready to start my basement

@PlatoonGarage

3 жыл бұрын

I got all of my lumber from Lowes. My longest bottom plate was 9 feet long because I built all of the walls myself and didn't want to try and stand up 12-16 foot sections and move them into place. good luck, you can do it!

Thanks for the video. How did your project turn out? I’m JUST ABOUT ready to begin my soffit ladder framing stage

@PlatoonGarage

7 ай бұрын

turned out great, i have a couple of videos on my channel of the finished product

I mean cool and all... But, there's these fancy inclined planes wrapped around a nail called screws, they're used for things like screwing soffits to ceilings so there's no chance of ever coming apart. You wouldn't nail drywall to a ceiling, so why nail a soffit?

@PlatoonGarage

Жыл бұрын

The soffits are nailed both vertically and laterally

Do u put plywood on the soffit or not a good idea since it's a basement?

@PlatoonGarage

3 жыл бұрын

You can do either, I've seen people do both ways. I did not wrap the soffit with plywood, only drywall

What size of the lumber you use?

@PlatoonGarage

2 жыл бұрын

there is a mix of 2x4x8' and some 2x4x104 5/8". vertical wall studs use the 104 5/8"

A soffit, specifically, is the underside part of an eve on the outside of a house. Some call the underside of an interior element such as this a soffit also. Whichever, the soffit is only the underside part. What you did here is actually a furr-down, and, but more technically correct, a chase because you did it to cover something running through it.

@jrod16sports

3 жыл бұрын

I always wondered about that. Everyone calls it a soffit though.

Did you do duck pipe work for heating/cooling yourself?

@PlatoonGarage

Жыл бұрын

No, I ended up subbing out the HVAC work

@vladb4727

8 ай бұрын

Was the first-level ductwork shared with the basement ductwork? Thank you !

Are you located in a warm climate? Are you planning on doing a subfloor?

@PlatoonGarage

3 жыл бұрын

I'm in the mid-atlantic region. so I'd say it's moderate, we get all 4 seasons here. I'm not putting down a subfloor. Part of the basement will be LVP and the remainder will be carpeted.

@phumes4783

3 жыл бұрын

@@PlatoonGarage I also get four seasons in Toronto. I was looking at the dricore subfloor panels for my basement.

@PlatoonGarage

3 жыл бұрын

@@phumes4783 can't go wrong with that

@ryanpaulsen5603

3 жыл бұрын

@@PlatoonGarage take a look at dmx airflow, I'm putting in down now and really like it

How did you estimate how much wood to buy?

@PlatoonGarage

2 жыл бұрын

I spent a good bit of time drawing out where I wanted to put walls and then calculated linear feet of walls. I then used that number to estimate the number of 2x4s and how many treated boards. The last part was when I estimated the soffits, basically using the same scheme. At the end of all that, I took the final numbers of 2x4s and added 10% to that 😂

@kayodej.ijalana6039

2 жыл бұрын

@@PlatoonGarage thank you

2:47 why is that steel beam so close to the exterior wall. What is the point of using a beam that is so close to the exterior wall. Exterior wall is better at carrying loads than any beam out there.

@PlatoonGarage

Жыл бұрын

Not sure. The home builder designed it and built it that way. I suspect it is built that way because that area is a 4 foot bump out and is where the original foundation wall would have been without the bump out. So maybe structurally the floors above are counting on having support in that area