18 days...18 DAYS?! That's incredible, gives us a lot to think about. Awesome video Matt 👊

@lukemarks9132

Жыл бұрын

Y’all working in Texas yet?

@DaylenDOA

Жыл бұрын

I worked at one of the first panel plant locations in Ohio, back when it was under the Wolohan Lumber Company. They built the plant back in 1999 or so, and it's not really surprising to me that it's taken this long for panelized homes to catch on, since builders are notoriously slow to adapt and adopt. Good to see someone is starting to push panels into the mainstream.

@StudPack

Жыл бұрын

@@lukemarks9132 Not yet Luke, next month 👊

@lukemarks9132

Жыл бұрын

@@StudPack can’t wait.

@Esiddik

Жыл бұрын

Studdd packkkk is here !!!🤩

It’s great! My shed has been completed and it turned out nice looking and sturdy and it is way better than the sheds that many of my neighbors had put up. Of course, I'm pleased with the outcome and this Ryan’s kzread.infoUgkxGZedDTcDfgD7fG_uU4esfx_EgxzlY2_1 Plans was extremely useful to me as a guide.

I was a framer before I switched careers, and as a homeowner I’ve tackled a few remodels and one addition, but framing a whole house is kind of daunting. A system where everything is modeled ahead of time and it’s all pre-cut and bundled is the perfect on ramp to building my first complete home.

@Chris_at_Home

Жыл бұрын

I precut a remote cabin years ago. It was only 12x16 but I laid all the walls with window and door openings. I also did the floor, rafters and gable ends(3). I marked , weighted and bundled to a reasonable load behind a snowmachine or ATV. I pretty much built it myself. My arm got tired nailing it together because there was no saw breaks and I used a hammer.. My latest project is a duplex with double stud walls. I had neighbors help me stand the walls, trusses and roof. I did the wiring and plumbing. 1/2 is done and we live in it and I’m currently doing drywall. I didn’t have anything to do with building when I had a day job. Who said retirement is a vacation.

@darthslipknot91

Жыл бұрын

I may be crazy but I prefer hand cutting my own lumber and doing it old school. Might get beat up afterwards but I love the details that go with building the old fashion way.

@tjxc1477

Жыл бұрын

framing isn't shit and the fasted/easiest part of a build... pre.cut ?? take all the fun out of it and drive down the take home pay of a framer..good idea ... they.re already the bottom of the barrel... this dude doesn't care about anything but his sponsors..🖕

@rezzbuilds8343

Жыл бұрын

Getting to be the cut guy for a while is what makes the process less daunting over all. It doesn’t get easier it only gets faster, that’s it fuller good enough to make the system faster

@fishmonger6879

Жыл бұрын

@@darthslipknot91 So cool, by old school I hope you are using only non electric hand saws! This modern way sucks, its to easy.

The most impressive part about the dump bin was the lack of Beer cans in it. Nice to see a framing crew keeping it professional at the site.

@timconnelly6340

Жыл бұрын

Drink on the job, get fired !! That was the policy at Probuild/BFS...! I hate working around drunks..!!!

@TheMacroSlacker

Жыл бұрын

@@timconnelly6340 Most I know wait until after work. Still drunks though.

@rangerdoc1029

Жыл бұрын

That's because cannabis is now legal in half the states

My favorite uncle built one of the last Capp Homes shipped in the 1980s. To this day it's quiet, comfortable, and as well sealed as any house of its time.

Matt Risinger - Hands down the best channel on KZread for anything building - Love it!

When I built my house 30 years ago, it came as a kit from Myles homes. All the walls were already framed at the factory in about 12 foot sections. Once the floor was built over the basement we just put the sheathing on the wall and stand it up. As an owner/builder it was a great way to build a house.

@zacharyzambrana9360

Жыл бұрын

I’d bet money not a single wall was plumb/level either.

@nofurtherwest3474

Жыл бұрын

Why isn't this the norm? Seems like a much better system than measuring and cutting on site, and creating a lot more waste on-site to deal with.

Been doing this since 1998 in japan, we sheet our walls at the factory and use a crane to assemble the house, I have videos if you want to see the system we made.

@westleywest7259

Жыл бұрын

Please post links…?

@mjw9928

Жыл бұрын

Its called panel framed here. Its done quite often. You can have a house dried in in a week when the are pre built off site.

@technicalitems731

Жыл бұрын

Post some links to videos in this comment. I love to see Japanese stuff

Extremely fast for the complexity. Although it’s a budget build, the design is excellent. It has the luxury edges and corners. The diagonal single level mating to the 2-story structure is a great way to present that higher budget design. The window layouts are nothing short of perfect. You have one of the greatest architects in the country. His/her ability to change between your high efficiency build to your lower budget build and again maintain the design complexity is incredible. Kudos to your entire team. And congrats to your project manager on the new family home.

Quality info Matt. Keep it coming!. This good for season builders, contractors and the on off DIY home builder too.

998k subs wow, almost at 1 million! very long time subscriber here Matt. Some day I'll build my own house and put all this knowledge you've given me to the test! Thanks for all your hard work

@thegurw1994

Жыл бұрын

Don't text or call that number, it's a scam.

@AnthonyCelata

Жыл бұрын

@@thegurw1994 No really???

Professor Risinger is a well spring of knowledge. And what a great team at Build and the Build Show!

This is awesome. The lack of waste is terrific. A couple of homes near us that are currently being built were like a mine field during the framing process. There was cutoffs all over the place. Not to mention the full size dumpster that is overflowing.

@buildshow

Жыл бұрын

That (lack of) waste alone is a reason to go Ready Frame

@Hedgehodge-

Жыл бұрын

@@buildshow but the waste is still there isn't it, just not on site. Do they keep and reuse the extra 2' sawed off each one of your boards for the next project ?

@dovahkindragonborn9827

Жыл бұрын

@@Hedgehodge- they can keep that 2' in the factory for another cut ... meanwhile a lot of wood on site is just going to the dumpster ... i saw a video of a prefab company that even uses the sawdust as fuel to heat up their factory

@jeffha4

Жыл бұрын

@@Hedgehodge- chances are they are value engineering every cut - getting as much material from an 8’, 10’, 12’, 16’, 20’, … board as possible. Seeing as they are selling it at a fixed package cost, they’ll do whatever to save on their end. Plus in their software it probably just calculates everything to use as little material as possible, where a framer is just going to grab either an 8’ board or a scrap that looks long enough and make a random cut and toss the rest.

@FJB2020

Жыл бұрын

Thats called a wasteful design.. builders should design to optimize standard cuts..

It is great to see a whole stage of building in one video, it provides more understanding of the process. Thank you.

Our new house is built like this. Saw a big pile of timber and trusses one day, a fully built frame the next. Neat stuff!

Matt!!!! You’re almost to 1 MILLION!!!!! So close!!! Cannot believe it’s taken this long, you’re content is so helpful.

Awesome video! It was brilliant that you showed this "value" build and walk us through it. Your frame time was way faster than guys around my area.......less time exposed to the weather is a major plus for later in the build process.

Love that you get some money issues out there Matt. That really helps brings everything in context. Great post.

What great way to see a 3-D scale and to correct and design features up front.. Amazing

I enjoy all the information that I have received over the years watching your channel. As an old carpenter who has tried to stay up with the technology. I cannot believe that you allowed the material to be placed on the job even with no clouds in the sky including trusses. No one wants to get dirt or mud on their hands or equipment.

I like the cost plus approach, I feel its a much more honest approach.

Awesome video Matt. Really like the Paradigm package. Make good use of time in design. Cleaner, safer, quieter build site is an intangible, but for residential infill builders, would seem to be a reputation and referral builder, too. Modified Monopoly Framing: really liking that evolution.

I recently transitioned from working on a construction crew to being a full time roof and floor truss designer. Your series has had some great info! For an apples to apples comparison of stock framing to building components check out the "framing the American dream" experiment. In it they had two crews build two identical houses, one with traditional framing and one completely out of building components, it is pretty interesting.

@gedionsamuel2256

Жыл бұрын

Just spent the last 30 mins watching Framing The American Dream. What a fascinating piece. Thanks for the recommendation. You helped me find a direction. Thank you!

@SD-xs3py

Жыл бұрын

Please attach a link.

@gedionsamuel2256

Жыл бұрын

@@SD-xs3py kzread.info/dash/bejne/gmSOo5RmlsXHqdo.html

@ToddBizCoach

Жыл бұрын

It would be interesting to compare this to labor involved with an ICF built up to the rafter house.

Awesome. It is the wave of the futer for sure. Homeowners can do it themselves too.

This was awesome to see, I’m interested to hear your thoughts on how this would work out from a production and cost standpoint if it could be done with t-studs. Love your vids Matt, super informative.

That dumpster looking great. Wow

In the 80's, I put a few of factory built houses together. they are fun to build. The walls were nailed together, with sheeting and windows installed.

This is such a simple but great concept! Can't wait until I can pick this up at my local Ikea

I have been doing a smaller version of this on every house I’ve framed and it is as you say a time saver. Waste is down and the on-site productivity goes way up. I preframe in my shop and deliver to the job site a couple of days before we start and I wouldn’t frame a house any other way. In my mind it’s the way of the future as laborers are getting harder to find.

Precutting your framing is the Holy Grail of simplifying on-sight construction; the less job sight storage space you have the more important this becomes.

Excellent information. Thanks Matt

Nice looking project!

We built Super 8 motels in Montana back in early 80’s like this. It was awesome.

They come on the truck already nailed together, like putting a jigsaw puzzle together in aus

Loving that "long format". 🤩

Matt, could you do an episode breaking down that house design? It’s def an intriguing build so far!

So close to one million subscribers, congratulations!

Wow, that is exactly right. The spiders were actually getting in my attached garage from under the sill (between the PT plate and sill seal. At this point, I used PL400. I layed a bead on the interior of the garage sill to the block. It worked. It was not my first choice but it worked. The wolf spiders in upstate NY are a constant battle and I am winning finally.

My parents built their own home in 1972. They bought a kit house from Cap Homes (long defunct). 2000 Square, post and beam. They had a crew familiar with Cap Homes, build the frame, do the siding and roof it. It took only 1 week. Only a few boards needed cutting. I think the rafters needed trimming. Also my parents had an onsite mod to make the center section upstairs a cathedral ceiling. Another amusing problem was the stair treads where never correct. After the third shipment, my dad gave up and made do. The upside was many of our bookshelves where made out of stair treads. This was all pre-nail gun. All the framing was done by extra heavy framing hammers. As I recall the guys could drive in a 16 penny nail in two hits after starting it. It wasn't as fast as nail guns, but close. I as a second grader was no where near as fast. My dad gave me a 50 pound box of 8 penny nails a chalk line and hammer. Showed my how mark the floor sheathing, told me to pound a nail in every 6 inches.

Where I live the frames come pre assembled. Builders just stand them up. Has been industry standard for the last 20 years. That house would be up in a few days

Well sequenced kits are a welcomed sight!

I also noticed that you have graded around the structure for rain and drainage for the weather. You do so many good things. So pay attention to the details

brilliant presentation. thankYou Matt and Commenters 🦘

Awesome video! Very interesting that we now call pettybone/rough terrain fortlift a “telehandler”

Excellent commentary.

hi matt god to see framing is hard. good to see . wish you wrere around when i was framing .good to see. have a good day

Thanks for posting! The way to go but staging area is important !

I’m fascinated

Hello from Australia Matt! Great video

Man. Cutting the dumpster expensive would be HUGE with this!

G,day from Sydney Australia. Full marks for the minimal site waste in the "trash." 🌏🇦🇺

I know you don't want to hear this but prefab is taking over it's just so much better

You’re nearing 1 million subscribers Matt.

I feel like I would have had some trouble had I gone with this while building my home. Concrete a little off here and there could certainly cause an issue it seems. Also, sometimes sticks are acceptable in one spot and not another. Maybe the quality is far superior to whati have experienced! Like the videos Matt!

The company I work for is building houses with steel studs. All prefab panels. Goes up in a day. Scaping dirt to turn over keys in 8 weeks. Now, these are not high end homes but we are does some great thing. These are houses for the homeless in my area.

Like the video I was waiting for the cost. I would want to go the direction you showed. I don't want to be overpriced, someone quoted me a price of 60,000. For a three seasons addition 16' × 24' and I was going to pay it until I found your KZread channel about 2 years ago. And your content is so informative that I just been learning while deciding.

pretty cool system

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Would be great if the manufacture gave a layout plan for the site for building various components. Speeds up process even more.

We use pre built wall panels where the walls are broken up into 4 or 6 foot sections with the osb already attached and interior walls also pre built once you snap lines you can have the whole floor done in a day usually I’d say it’s definitely the fastest way to still traditionally build a house

This video was / is great.

In Australia, the framing comes completed, AND in a day, the frame is up.

That’s exciting

The best content

Wow so close to 1M subscribers!

Be cool if BFS sold optimized plans that are predone and cheaper than doing your own custom house. Almost like the Sears house catalog.

@jonathang6920

Жыл бұрын

Also would be nice if they were regular conventional homes, and NOT some modern, flat roof, all glass, expensive buildings.

@Josh.1234

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathang6920 ha well i like modern houses but yeah anything under 2/12 or heck 4/12 pitch does make me cringe.. getting into epdm craziness. If they made install instructions, almost any novice carpenter could do it, atleast for the more standard/simple houses.

Very cool. Truss plates need nails in them. Code in many places. Extremely important.

It's come a long way since the old Sears catalog kit homes. 😁 Some of the larger builders my have the resources to someday have their own precutting operation. With enough software development you could even have it auto generate changes as the home designer works on new models or custom homes.

I was really excited (was being the key word here) about Ready-Frame when BMC first introduced it. Spoke with my local Ready-Frame rep, and they explained to me that this type of service is really geared towards the production builder -- not the one of house -- and that my ground up SFR 4,000 house wouldn't qualify for the setup, etc. etc. -- bums me out since I was absolutely thrilled at the prospect of using it on one of my builds.

@mjw9928

Жыл бұрын

Yep, I work for a large production builder. We met with BFS about ready frame. But we just didn't see the savings, given that we were already building with panels pre built.

Hey Matt, how did you address any issues with the slab not being 100% level? I’ve seen builders cut each stud custom to ensure the top plate is level. Did this require any shimming to make this work?

@BuildersFirstSourceBFS

Жыл бұрын

Hi Daniel - from our experience, depending upon the severity of the slab being out of level, shims may be needed.

Matt, I love this style video. I know you gotta pay the bills but please...I emplore you...kick some more of these 20-30min. videos out. This is what I watch. (Ex. Perkins Brothers). The point is that this is great and keep them coming

Yeah Matt its dry here in Austin so long seems like its never wants rain and when does just bounces off the ground back to the sky.

Here in AZ the walls come already framed stacked on the trailer and the framers just stand them up and nail them together. They frame a house in like 3 days maybe 4.

Thanks for the great video. You mentioned maybe a 5% increase for the ready frame. And then a cost savings in labor of maybe 20%. So do you think you came out higher or lower in the end based on those numbers?

We just finished building in January 2022, our experience was that Builders Source (Houston and Conroe) wouldn't even give us a quote as an owner contractor. We did get some quotes from other companies but the final installed cost of buying a pre-cut package was 40-50% more than standard framing. Our house is only 2550' under roof and 1750' heated and cooled with a 4/12 pitch hip roof with 2' overhangs.

@BuildersFirstSourceBFS

Жыл бұрын

BFS is not immune to market conditions and although we would love to be able to say yes all the time, we still have to manage our businesses and taking on more work than the yard can handle (then everyone suffers). Labor rates very widely across the country and to have a 40 to 50% variance in material cost then the material estimates need to be reviewed.

Something caught my eye, that slant-top drafting type table that you use for the working plans - wonder if you have directions for building that somewhere? I'll have to look for something like that, it looks like it's just knocked together from some lumber, but sturdy and practical, I could see that being a handy design to have.

@andrewhurst6360

Жыл бұрын

Scam 👆

You can also get entire walls pre-built--with electrical and plumbing already run. These systems arrive fully insulated. You do have to interconnect the plumbing and electrical.

Heck ya Matt can't wait till we can compare costs vs regular framing.

@Rocco101

Жыл бұрын

Nevermind you answered my question. It's a great concept for subdivisions for sure but $30 a ft ouch for my wallet Thanks Matt great video though super knowledgeable

In Australia it has been standard to use prefabricated frames in all new builds and most "substantial" extensions/remodels. This includes wall and roof trusses. Interested in where it is not the norm. For a non messy "silll seal" wouldn't a 6" wide (or whatever the frame is) 1/2" thick low density foam on top of the "water exclusion membrane provide air sealing?? - or at least reduce the amount of caulking needed - like a wide backer rod.

Could you please comment on the cost savings in labor vs. the increased cost of the pre-cut framing package?

I love this bfs product and one of your early videos on it got me interested originally. I see this as a much better technology than many of the other trendy things like 3d masonry printing. Random question: what not install the sheathing on the walls before standing them up? I have seen some crews fly using an extendable loader and fully building the walls on the ground as well as the soffits, etc.

@ThisIsNotAVideo

Жыл бұрын

Awesome Framers has a video where they sheathed when horizontal and many others where they sheathed after. I, too, want to know the logic. seems like standing walls up is still a dangerous job or at least hard on the body - would like to see a video dedicated to just that topic and any innovations in the space

@Josh.1234

Жыл бұрын

@@ThisIsNotAVideo So i watched a video where they zip sheathed it on the ground, used a cordless router on a stick to cut out all the openings. Then they used one of the extendable lifts to raise it into place.. They were saying with the right equipment like this lift and the ready built package 2-3 carpenters can be super efficient.

@BuildersFirstSourceBFS

Жыл бұрын

You are spot on that technology is not something that you think about when GC would go to the local lumber yard. As an industry, we need to do a better job and BFS is committed to leading the way.

@Josh.1234

Жыл бұрын

@@BuildersFirstSourceBFS I hope you guys can get more builders to use the service and potentially with that volume might come price reductions so smaller builders can afford that upfront time/money investment. Talk about good planning and risk mitigation.. working out the complete framing frame down to the board has to bring to light alot of problems you wouldn't have realized till you were building it.

Ran into that issue with a builder. He was very very picky, and asked my framers to do numerous things above code. There was never a objective finish line on his jobs. It got to the point where his projects were not profitable for me. Told him on the next job that I would have to charge unit rate, or give him a sky high bid to factor in the extra time that he wanted on details that we don't even see on custom homes.

It's about time this idea of packaged home comes back it used to be you could order house package from Hudson Bay T Eaton or McCloud hardware store they came complete with electrical plumbing gas and HVAC everything came in crates and the crates were used in the roof a homeowner could go in and pick their floor plan and all the trim all the owner needed was a hammer and a brace and bit I've taken apart a few they were a marvel of enginouity and design one I took apart had no nails in the walls it was all 2×6 tongue and groove with notches at all corners and a peice put 45degres across the corner to stiffen the corner unfortunately while the design was OK back when heating was cheap as a 2x6 has no insulation value and with insulation it eventually got expensive to heat but the thing that finally got it was new land density all the old 50 ft lots are now being converted to infills either semi detached or 2 homes on a 25 ft lot

Hello. Totally new to home building as a whole but how does this system deal with foundation height offsets? Watch a video where you have to make sure to accommodate your cuts for the imperfections of foundation.

Matt! Long time watcher here. This is a weird question. A little off the wall so to speak. 😊 I want to do an interior framing in a 200 year old Italian farm house (stone and plaster walls). What do you think of this idea: use a prefab framing system like this inside the gutted shell of the farmhouse? It's mainly for retrofit support of the interior walls, and building a second, and possibly a third floor. (Attic living/studio space) I think we could use less lumber for support against the walls than you’d need for a free standing structure… What do you think? Has it ever been tried? Want to come to Italy to film it…? 😀🤔😉

Would love to see a walk through of Ready Frame factory

@westleywest7259

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

I am sure some people will say no it's not "No Waste" because there are still drop cuts at the factory. I will correct them now. The factory has resources the on site contractor does not have to recycle those drops.

Always great content, whatever camera your using always leave me feeling nauseous from the image stabilization

Why did you decide, or what is your thought process on not sheathing the walls before standing them up?

So do you do as built drawings of the foundation before ordering kit ?

I'm surprised the lumber package was so cheap. I've been debating about putting up a post-frame building to use as a house because they are typically around $20/sqft and go up in a couple of days thus preventing getting rained on, but not all engineers, architects, etc are familiar with it. If I can get a shell of a house framed normally for $25-30 sans labor if might make since to just be normal *insert thinking face*

looks pretty cool, It is to bad the utility ditch in the middle of the driveway was open for most of the framing!

Matt: You mentioned some snafus. Any chance of a hypothetical discussion on those? Here in Atlanta when I investigated Ready-Frame and visited some building sites I was not impressed with their wood. You don’t have the opportunity to reject sticks as you do with a lumber drop-off. Their costs were problematic given the quality of the product. But with the winter weather coming, I do like the reduced time to dry-in. If I were to use Ready-Frame, I would still have to keep a stack of lumber, sawhorses, pencils, and a saw nearby for replacement pieces of rejected lumber.

@BuildersFirstSourceBFS

Жыл бұрын

We spend a good amount of time looking at the material that goes through the READY-FRAME saw. However pre-cut studs are shipped in quantity and do not pass through the saw which would mean you still have some cull, but again the jobsite waste is reduced significantly.

Aloha, How thick is the foudation? How strong is the framing to handle high winds like Tornado's and Huricanes? Awesome Video always learning!

Matt, does the ready frame package include the bracing material?

Matt I have seeing you use this acoustic sealant before but what is the brand and is it paintable? I'm thinking about some other uses for it. Thanks!

Just curious, do they mark direction of crown? That could also save a few minutes on every wall lay out.

Framing kits seem like they could make good sense depending on the ease of ordering, cost, exc.

Another great video as always, Matt. Just looking for a little bit of clarification but you said that the ready framed package on a per square foot cost, did that include any of the structural engineering for the project? And does that include roof trusses and floor trusses along with all the decking materials for the floors and roof?

@BuildersFirstSourceBFS

Жыл бұрын

A typical READY-FRAME package would include the RF cut packs, header materials, loose lumber, EWP for first and second floor, rim material, beams, sheet good for both walls and floors, back out frame pack materials and loose lumber for the roof pack along with roof sheet goods.

I'd like to see the factory where all the cutting and labeling is being done.