Paul Mallory Owner-Builder Support Project - Santa Fe, NM
We plan on installing very large windows, so of course we needed very large lintels. We paid a guy $200 to place the lintels on the walls. Best $200 ever spent. We did a 4-layer wooden bond beam and tied them into gringo blocks with a metal strapping. Then we had to figure out how to get 40' trusses on the bond beam. We pushed some up the side with four people and a few long crutches built from 2x4s. Once we ran out of room to slide them over the bond beam, we built a ramp on the back of the house and slid them up. Both methods worked really well as long as we had about 3 or 4 people.
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