Installing the floor joists

With all the steel beams in place, now it's time to install the floor joist.  I used engineered floor trusses ( also referred to as silent floors) which I feel is the way to go.  You can go longer spans and the wood won't warp so you won't have any squeaks.  Installing the joist is quite simple, an installation diagram is sent with the material which 

also has the engineered stamp on it, the building inspector will want to see this and put a

copy in your file. I put in my rim joist first and measured

the lengths of the floor joist that needed to be cut to length as they are shipped a bit longer than needed.I marked 16 inch centres on my sill plate so dropping the joist didn't take long. I did the main floor in 3 stages as you can see in the above pictures. I started on the right side which is going to be my kitchen and dinning area then moved over to the left side which is the master bedroom. I left the middle until last because those joists were longer and with both sides done, I could work off those sides.  It didn't take long to get all the joists into place, but putting the blocks between each joist did.  Doing this really beefed up the floor. The floor became very solid.
Now it was time to put the plywood down, I went
3/4 inch tongue and groove instead of the 1/2 inch.

Brian doing some detailed work

I didn't want any bounce in the floor so I went the extra mile, can't do it later.  I had my crew and good friend Marty, which is my platoon chief come up for the day to hopefully finish off the floor. My brother Ian was there as well, so we had 2 teams going.  We had 2 air compressors,2 air nailers and few screw guns going which made pretty fast work. I only had 1 caulking gun so sometimes there was a wait for the other team to finish using the caulking gun. The floor was glued,screwed and nailed down, we finished the floor by 3 p.m. It was a beautiful day, perfect weather and no bugs and that's a good thing because the wining would have been tremendous.



No, Marty that's a caulking gun not a real gun



Marty keeping his crew on the level





Jason admiring his work