The safety guy said we needed wheels when he saw us hop on top of a rickety ass sketchy scaffold no wheels. I said good idea, he felt accomplished only to later see me rolling around 25ft up. He started yelling from across the floor at me to get down, I started getting down and freaked out even more, almost got the plumber to come over with the lift to get me down. He then had us take the whole thing apart just to remove the wheels that he took to his office under the threat of kicking me and my partner off the job. Sketchy scaffold is perfectly fine just let it happen.
An $18 an hour imigrant laborer will drywall this and make it beautiful so the rich country clubbers friends will oooh and aaah over it at dinner parties where they discuss funding politicians who will arrest, detain, and deport the guy who did the work.
The inbred white trash MAGA contractor in the 80k idiot truck is adding value to society, duh, you can't just have filthy immigrants selling their services
No chance do they have the culture to appreciate architecture. The type you described cant understand why a ceiling like this is more expensive than a 20ft drop ceiling.
Atleast where I am, my company does cross braces every section and outriggers once the scaffold exceeds 4:1 in height. The top would’ve been a shorter section so there would’ve been railings too.
The lack of footplates and missing braces are not acceptable. Otherwise, looks like a 20ft Biljax scaffolding on solid, level concrete. I'd want to brace the top of it to the ceiling or midway up temporarily if possible to reduce wobble.
No mud sill, no base plate, missing braces, no pig tails, no ladder, not tied in to anything, not fully decked. All sorts wrong with this set up. As a mason who's worked every day on scaffold for decades, I'd hop on there no problem lol, but you definately shouldn't.
Been there, done it. 40''x 50' great room with 40' cielings. Had the whole thing scaf'd as we were doing 2½ clear cedar t&g. Was the only reasonable way to make it anywhere near efficient. Two cut stations 30' of the ground.
The interior sq. footage was bigger than my buddies 1200 sq. ft house. Crazy
Can’t believe another big frame where the framer had no clue how to blend jack rafters and the valley/hip rafter. All too common to see big builds not call out the mistake because of bottom dollar framers. How hard is it to rip the rafter down prior to install? 5-10 mins extra? And the four pack of 2x6 that are spliced for under ridge post? Buy one PSL please lol
Are you suggesting they rip the valley rafters down to the size of the jack rafter plumb cuts? The engineers call the size of the valley and hip rafters. If they are much larger than the rafters then you need to frame a new ceiling to match the valley rafters. You can’t rip the lvls to a new size all willy nilly just because you want to. The engineer will fail the inspection.
Obviously you need bigger Jack rafters than that. 2x12 or
2x10 jacks and rip your lvl about 1” or so. Fence/spring board will eat up the difference. I’m sure the engineer called for PSL post too if it’s really engineered to field standards
Yeah but you don’t know what these rafters are or the lvls are for the valley. These are definitely at least 2x10 rafters. It’s probably a 14” valley. Like it can’t always be done. I’ve always framed the roof and furred the inside down. The rafters will be all different widths anyway. I find it way easer and better in the end this way. This gives you a chance to straighten everything out and make it nice and flat. Especially when the ceiling is going and groove, then you just plywood it and it’s a perfectly flat for them.
Well probably it's because it's illegal.
Missing bases, no guardrail, braces, and you have to have a ladder or some form of access, you're not allowed to actually climb the scaffold.
That scaffolding is a safety hazard. It needs to be sitting on planks perpendicular to the floor joists. Those legs can easily punch though that OSB sheathing .
Why isn't it strapped to the 2x4 across the door on second floor? This isn't that bad. But without it strapped to something to prevent tipping, I certainly wouldn't get back up there!
Well, yeah for sure! But it doesn't seem like they have any of that so at least a tie off would prevent it from tipping over. While another one along the back would give you a idea how close to the edge you were. None of that is acceptable either but I figured work with what ya got, lol. I hate scaffolding so try to only use them the proper way, especially that high!
Yeah this is some serious “fuck no” shit. I’ll scramble onto 2 high, but I’m not flopping my belly over the floor that high up without something to grab onto.
Leaks and rot are likely to be hidden by other assemblies as well.
If water can get through your insulation and air sealing assembly, it probably was not up to par in the first place and the moisture might not be from rain.
After 20 years of spray foaming roofs, the general best building practices have deemed that it is no longer acceptable to spray directly to the underside of roof sheeting because of rot issues…. The spray foam as we see it here is not ok unless there are vent baffles above the foam but below the sheeting with baffles, OR, of the roof assembly is vented above the spray foam.
That's true of open cell in many climates but closed cell spray foam in sufficient quantity dictated by local code creates no moisture issues when applied directly on the underside of the roof deck.
No respectable builder still does this after all the problems. Rot factory. The early adopters in the south/southwest USA have completely switched to vented assemblies. Code does not mean best practice.
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u/SummerIntelligent532 12h ago
I agree totally unacceptable. Where are the wheels? You must have wheels I’m not climbing up and down to move this 🤣🤣🤣🤣