10-21-2013, 06:01 AM
OK, I am ONLY answering based on our odd structure as we have a much older SIP than the systems that Rob uses..
Ours are extruded aluminum frame systems done in a metric format..by who knows mfg company, came in pre-assembled 1 meter by 8' sections (with the odd 7.5cm panel depth, vs a more standard wall depth of 10cm (4") in a container & at least 4 of these were constructed in our neighborhood...only 1 was completely unmodified...ours was modified, by adding a permitted ohana & new (unfortunely larger) windows
Our actual SIP system walls needed only socket wrenches, & a screw driver, the bottom sill strip needed a system to attach to the slab (they used the bullet like bolts)...all of the individual panels have extruded erector set like connector plates...so in all reality, a pre-teen kid that can construct with an erector set & handle a socket wrench & screw driver could have put up the walls (the windows had been pre-installed, the doors were installing 3' pre-hung into a nailing strip that was installed in the door wall extrusions) the aluminum rafters are attached to the walls with bolt though & connector clips, redwood purlins were power nailed into the aluminum rafter channels, roof screwed into the purlins... change an interior (non-load bearing) wall, just unbolt the connectors, wiggle out the sill bolts, lift up the sill plate extrusion, re-attached the sill extrusion, set the wall in the sill extrusion, re-bolt the connector plates.... changing load bearing is much the same, as long as the rafters are supported.... but that is not a whole lot unlike stick....
The big problem is that OUR system was manufactured in a thinner wall, metric format, & some idiots permitted those windows to be replaced with larger ones... with no framing of any kind & no architect or engineer of any training SHOULD have allowed, & esp. PERMITTED that! But we should all know by now that training is not necessary in our building dept.!
ADDED: well, that AND much of the wood was completely eatern up by termites...every bit of bottom trim, plywood used in the carport ceiling, some of the redwood purlins, all of the door frames & wood doors were eaten, yet, oddly enough, none of the wood used in the door attaching nailstrips, actually screw strips, was eaten....have no idea why that wood has been totally ignored, all of that wood was surround on 3 sides by the aluminum extrusion, one side was to the eaten up doors...go figure!
Ours are extruded aluminum frame systems done in a metric format..by who knows mfg company, came in pre-assembled 1 meter by 8' sections (with the odd 7.5cm panel depth, vs a more standard wall depth of 10cm (4") in a container & at least 4 of these were constructed in our neighborhood...only 1 was completely unmodified...ours was modified, by adding a permitted ohana & new (unfortunely larger) windows
Our actual SIP system walls needed only socket wrenches, & a screw driver, the bottom sill strip needed a system to attach to the slab (they used the bullet like bolts)...all of the individual panels have extruded erector set like connector plates...so in all reality, a pre-teen kid that can construct with an erector set & handle a socket wrench & screw driver could have put up the walls (the windows had been pre-installed, the doors were installing 3' pre-hung into a nailing strip that was installed in the door wall extrusions) the aluminum rafters are attached to the walls with bolt though & connector clips, redwood purlins were power nailed into the aluminum rafter channels, roof screwed into the purlins... change an interior (non-load bearing) wall, just unbolt the connectors, wiggle out the sill bolts, lift up the sill plate extrusion, re-attached the sill extrusion, set the wall in the sill extrusion, re-bolt the connector plates.... changing load bearing is much the same, as long as the rafters are supported.... but that is not a whole lot unlike stick....
The big problem is that OUR system was manufactured in a thinner wall, metric format, & some idiots permitted those windows to be replaced with larger ones... with no framing of any kind & no architect or engineer of any training SHOULD have allowed, & esp. PERMITTED that! But we should all know by now that training is not necessary in our building dept.!
ADDED: well, that AND much of the wood was completely eatern up by termites...every bit of bottom trim, plywood used in the carport ceiling, some of the redwood purlins, all of the door frames & wood doors were eaten, yet, oddly enough, none of the wood used in the door attaching nailstrips, actually screw strips, was eaten....have no idea why that wood has been totally ignored, all of that wood was surround on 3 sides by the aluminum extrusion, one side was to the eaten up doors...go figure!