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The first step in building a house is pouring footings. The footing width is determined by soil condition, the weight of your structure, and other factors. This will get poured for your perimeter and any other locations required. Then forms will be installed and your foundation will be poured. This will have J-bolts installed or something similar. Your foundation will typically have a beam pocket to accept your H-beam, LVL, or whatever your beam's going to be. These posts are installed on your footings and this is the main structure that handles all of your house's load. Now your pressure-treated mudsill This also gets installed on your beam. This sits on your J-bolts and gets tightened down. Then your band joist. This typically gets toe-nailed in place. Now your joists get installed. These get face-nailed from the outside and toe-nailed on the inside. This spans from exterior foundation to interior beam. Now your subfloor gets installed. It's 4x8 sheets. Stagger your seams on the joists and use 3/4 or bigger material. Now your walls will get framed with a single bottom plate and a double top plate. It's common to install your OSB or plywood first and use be 7/16 or bigger. And you want the sheathing to cover your rim joist and mudsill. As these walls are stood up, you want to be sure that your sheathing goes below your mudsill. You'll see how your top plate isn't ran fully and it'll have overhangs. These plates overlap and accept the other wall. This locks your corners in. A load-bearing wall will get installed in the middle. At this point, partition walls can be installed, stairways, and anything else that needs to be framed. While these three walls are considered bearing walls and transfer all this weight down into your foundation, some perpendicular walls are considered shear walls. And now we just repeat and put another band joist on. Another set of floor joists or ceiling rafters, more subfloor, and more exterior walls. Unlike the lower floor that requires a center bearing beam, if we use a truss, it can span the full length of the structure. Trusses get set with a crane or a telehandler. After trusses get set, roof decking will get installed. This will be a half-inch or thicker and installed with H-clips. Live and dead roof loads go from the roof, down your studs, down your first floor studs, and all the way down in your foundation to your footings. Roughly half your floor weight goes down your stud and then into your beam and down into these footings in your basement. Because this roof and wall has sheathing, this structure is very strong from front to back. Because neither gable end has sheathing, this structure is not strong this way. So, even though your gable walls don't bear as much weight as these walls, they still carry their own loads and are very important when it comes to shear loads. This can also be the case for interior perpendicular walls. Always follow codes and plans and don't be afraid to hire a professional. Thanks for watching.