Sheathing Installation and Wall Squaring

the sheathing will barely hold. When you're nailing sheathing, you want to be sure that you're using ring shank nails. And you also want to be sure you're using a shorter nail. These are usually 2 and 3/8 and have rings on it to resist pullout. Here's a smooth shank. Here's a ring shank. For the smooth shank, they pull easily out. For the ring shank, a little bit harder. Overlap your sheathing and snap a line. And this is where you'll cut. And just take this sheet down to the other side and mark out your openings. Sheathing on the ground makes walls heavy. But sheathing after can be a lot [clears throat] more work. Before we stand up walls, to help you get started, you can pry the plate up and slide under a 2x4. And this gives you space to get under the plate. We'll screw in a side brace. Depending if you set your brace higher or lower, will determine how much kickout it has when you lift the wall. So, now when you lift the wall, now we can adjust our brace, plumb our wall. If we pull the rim joist and install a wall parallel with the joist, when you nail the bottom plate, nails need to go into the bottom plate and down into the rim joist. On the side where the joists run perpendicular and there's also the rim joist, and nails also need to go into the joist. So, one nail in the rim and another one in the joist. Now, we'll just bump over our plate until we're on our line. Now, install your double top plate. The top plate seams don't have to land on a stud, but when you can, it's best to land them on a stud. Installing top plates is easier when the wall's on the ground, but doing it after sometimes is easier and leaves room for adjustment. Wall intersections need to be properly tied together. This plate will overlap the other and this plate will lock these together. And the second double will just butt right up. If we don't fasten these corners, these walls can fail. You can cut double top plates at the same angle as your roof pitch and calculate your take. You'll just take your stud spacing, times it by your pitch, and then divide it by 12, and this will give you your take. If you hit inch twice, it gives you 9 and 5/16. All this is is how much more length each stud has from the outside stud. For the seven pitch, it was 9 and 5/16, and that's how much each one of these studs gains until you get to the peak. So, if these are all 9 and 5/16, this is one, this is two. Now, over here, it would be three. And this will go until you make it to your peak. Trust…