Building Update #14 - Two Walls Are Up...Waiting for Wind

Jake and I spent this past weekend getting ready to get the walls up.  The sill plates and bottom plates took longer than expected, mostly due to all the piping penetrations on the north wall and a general learning curve.  It doesn't look like we accomplished much, but all the prep work allowed Jake to frame the north and the south walls single-handedly on Monday, and to put up two walls on Tuesday with the help of his friend Jason and my Dad.

Measuring in order to cut pipe penetrations in the sill plate.

After the sill plates were fitted, we removed them and added silll plate sealer on the bottoms, and then re-installed them. 

The entire perimeter sill plates in place.  Jake would end up removing the side wall sill plates when he started framing the long walls because they were in the way. 

The north and south walls framed up.  The pneumatic framing gun was well worth the money.

The north wall up and braced.

Jake and my Dad raising the first section of the south wall. 

One more section to go today.  There is a wind advisory in effect through tomorrow with gusts up to 50 mph.  Fingers crossed that our walls will hold.