How-To: Scaling Plans To Measure Beams For Rough Framing

Follow along as I measure out a few key beams in this project, review plans and get prepared to tear open this multi million dollar beach home. We’ve got dozens of beams to set and it’s going to get invasive.
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[@xXiiBet]

Can't wait for more episodes of this house. Loved your renovating 1900s building videos.

[@cubbysrig]

I’m impressed and amazed,Matt, at your skill level and dedication to doing things right. I wish you were here, in Texas, to build my house! Thank you for showing everyone how it’s done right. 🙂

[@Adam_824]

Just being able to read and decipher those blueprints is amazing enough let alone building off that 😆 huge props my man

[@tomroe2861]

Bang up with great stuff

[@BobbyJett1]

I have been a Structural Engineer for 47 years. I worked with several architects over the years on very similar projects where there were no original drawings of the structure. Thus, all dimensions were obtained by waving a tape measure around. Therefore you will not always find the information as 100% accurate, let long things in place not being square, level, or plumb. Thank you for sharing this project - extremely difficult yet very interesting. If you are used to measuring off the drawings, I would suggest investing in an architectural scale and even a civil scale. Also - the drawings are sometimes intentionally not to scale - NTS means "not to scale". I like to think of it as "NEVER to scale". Keep up the good work.

[@dustinkrebs8229]

Lets go big MATT! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@stefboulas]

Great Material Matt!

[@davitoor6117]

How do you quote a project like this, can you please share the quotation tips as it would really helpful!!

[@Carl-LaFong1618]

Dang... BIG job.

[@tracycolorado]

Hardly wait to see you jack it up 😊

[@zephyr1408]

Curious as to when it was built? Obvious they had an engineer, architect, plans and key? Inspector? Or Matt is this built and DIY came in? Nice to have that back story even though I am just a finish contractor/ carpenter, still nice to understand! Thank u for the video they R great!

[@MattBangsWood]

This is 1986, I found the plans. Interesting to see how it was built..

[@luisfvazquez09]

Im an engineer and it hurt watching the framing on this job.. love your vids

[@stevenyeo5481]

🤘👍🤘

[@waltk9067]

👍✌

[@grunff]

that hvac butchery 😆

[@MattBangsWood]

Isn’t that something? They could not have cut bigger holes.

[@shanesouza4303]

​@MattBangsWood , they don't need an inspector. They need a framer standing behind them saying do you think that's a good idea? Doesn't that look strux to you? 😜🤘

[@lorenrickey5481]

Elevator?? Wow, that sounds expensive!

[@TheJoker-ex5rb]

Wouldn’t it be cheaper for man hour reasons to tear down and rebuild?

[@guyrandom7861]

Were there existing plans or did the architect have to pull dimensions and draft them from nothing?

[@MattBangsWood]

House was built in ‘90’s so plans existed for it, but doesn’t help it from being a bit of a disaster with how much they’re changing!

[@guyrandom7861]

@@MattBangsWood I only asked because remodelling 1870s house, structurally a mess and no existing plans. Due to the lack of uniformity or square it’s a nightmare for the drafter. Your video is super helpful, regardless of the age difference of the two houses, thank you

[@sailingjano]

I love your comments, but i must all you measurements change to metric. And that makes it complicated.

[@Kevin-wj4ed]

Junk tear in down!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JustAChippie]

Absolute idiots drilling those holes through the joists and beams.

[@actafool4187]

The channel name should just be MattTalks…

[@Kevin-wj4ed]

Who were the losers that build this??????????

[@kickyourfaceandlaugh607]

So what’s 3/16ths on a 1ft is 1/4 scale? What’s 3/8ths on a 1/4 scale? I always have weird numbers like that.

[@Kluberus]

So on an architectural scale, if you run into those numbers, you shift the whole scale to the nearest whole number, and the scale has marks denoting inches before the 0 on the scale. Kinda hard to explain without photos, but say the measurement is 8.56 inches, you move your scale so that the 8 inches lines up on what you want to measure, and the marks before the 0 will tell you how many inches.