2020-03-23

First angley wall

A lot of the walls that I'm putting up will need to have an angled portion to go along with the roof line, so they're more tricky to build.  At least the roof is a 30 degree slope so it's relatively easy to cut everything.  I put this wall up and down every time to make sure everything fit, this is one of the earlier dry fits:

And this is how I "measured" the length for each of the angled studs:

To secure the wall to the existing wall I used a piece of 2x4 as a spacer with a few of the old nails that have to be 4.5" long to go through all of it.  After cutting out the hole for the vent, putting on the crown plate, and nailing everything together, here it is:

While I was up on the ladder I found one of the places the bats might have come in... Where the new wall is is on the right of this picture:

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