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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: boykster on December 05, 2007, 09:22:50 pm ---got a chopsaw?  That's what I use to cut my 2x4's.  Heck, as long as you're close, for most framing its good enough since it's gonna have sheetrock over it anyway.

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Oh, they're close, but I'm staring at it and it annoys me.  It's all measure one-cut one-attach one anyway since I can't assemble the wall and raise it into place.  It's bound to be this way because of slight variation in foundation, slight bump in the floor, etc etc.

I don't have a chop saw and am working in fairly tight quarters.

bfauska:
You can use a [urlhttp://www.swansontoolco.com/products/speed_squares.html]speed square[/url] as a guide for a skill saw. Either hold or clamp the square to the 2x4 and run the base of the saw along the edge of the square. It sounds more complicated that it really is, when I do it it only adds about 5 seconds to a cut.

ChadTower:

Not a bad idea.  I briefly entertained the idea of making a small sawboard type thing for it but this works too.

myntik1:
Chad this is the last time I hijack your thread

after 2 months of measuring and bs'n I'm finally starting my basement.  my goal is to have it done before the Super Bowl.  I've procrastinated because I hate long drawn out projects.  But for some reason the work isn't getting done with me just thinking about it.  So last night I started with the imitation drylok. I'm putting it on kind of heavy.  I only have about an hour a day to devote to this since I have:
(1) full-time gig
(1) part-time gig
(1) on-call gig (1 - 2 shifts a month)
(1) 2 yr old son
(1) demanding better half

When the basement is sealed tighter than a blank's poonanie I will begin construction and start a thread to document my progress.  Maybe someone else can find my advice and mistakes helpful.



ChadTower:

This isn't a thread for just my project, bro, so it's not a hijack.  It is for all of us who are working on this stuff, especially given that for some of us it is the first such project we've ever worked on.

I'm right there with you on the time thing.  I've been spending about an hour a night lately working on mine... almost done with the framing of that one wall now that I'm getting much faster at it.  Come home from work, measure for one vertical member, cut, align, toenail, repeat for one more, go back upstairs to give the kids baths. 

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