The Walls

Day 3 of the build found us putting up walls already! Can you believe it?! Helping hands and a lot of know how really go a long way. We started with the end walls.

The floor made a really nice work space on which to layout our walls. 

We used 16" centers for the studs. (For those of you who don't know, walls need support studs at regular intervals, usually 16 or 20 inches. You center the studs over each 16 inch mark. That's call 16" on center.) Our rear end wall has no windows so we started there. We built the six wall pieces that do not go over the wheel wells before putting them up on the trailer. Two of the side wall sections had extra long top plates to extend over the wheel wells and connect to the front sections. 

Dad, and my wonderful friend Dana bracing one of the side walls.

We check often for plumb (straight up and down) and squareness (90 degree angles) when putting up the walls and we used a lot of bracing to keep them that way. 

Once we had the wall pieces up, we built a bottom plate around the wheel wells and inserted studs to brace those sections of the walls. 

After that we added a second top plate for stability and anchored the side walls using 5/8" bolts and self locking nuts. Under the door frame we drilled a hole to drop the head of the bolt down into the 2x4.

Door frame. 

This nut is not fully tightened.