Update on New Home

[Hellrazor]

House wrap is stapled on (5/8" staples). Still need to do some of that on the second floor, easy to do probably take less than 2 hours.

If i was you, I would reinforce corners and verticle seams with nails. The kind you use with foam insulation sheets, with the plastic washers, seem to work well. High wind can be a real pain with the staples only. They tend to rip through faster than nails. I've cheated with adjusting my roofing nailer to not countersink the heads and used that to reinforce things.

[ragswl4]

If i was you, I would reinforce corners and verticle seams with nails. The kind you use with foam insulation sheets, with the plastic washers, seem to work well. High wind can be a real pain with the staples only. They tend to rip through faster than nails. I've cheated with adjusting my roofing nailer to not countersink the heads and used that to reinforce things.

Thanks for the suggestion, easy to do and worthwhile. Don't want to have to redo it.

[Crash2510]

Hey guys haven't posted in a while. Rags if you are going to do the cap nails you might look into an air cap nailer for that monster of a house. I think even HF sells one.

[ragswl4]

Hey guys haven't posted in a while. Rags if you are going to do the cap nails you might look into an air cap nailer for that monster of a house. I think even HF sells one.

AH! Reason to buy another tool! I am going to have to build another building just to hold all the tools I have purchased to build this house.

[crokett]

AH! Reason to buy another tool! I am going to have to build another building just to hold all the tools I have purchased to build this house.

Wait... you mean a shop isn't already in the plans somewhere?

[ragswl4]

Wait... you mean a shop isn't already in the plans somewhere?

Oh yeah, there's a 13x22 area in the rear of the garage for the shop. However I can fill it up with the power tools I had before we started the house. Bought a lot of nail guns, generator, air compressor, saws of all kinds, ladders, scaffolding, 97 hammers ( just kidding). House building kind of stuff that I probably won't ever need after we are done.

Actually the garage is a three car garage turned 90 degrees so there's room in the rear for the shop. Also have the same 13x22 below the shop for storage and thinking of using that as a finishing room for spraying, etc.. We also discovered that we have an area under the house that is 12x18 with a 7ft ceiling so we are gonna cheat and turn that into an extra storage area, think wine cellar. It's not on the plans so we will wait until after the final inspection to turn it into a room.