4. SNAPSHEET - LAYING OUT THE SNAPLINES FOR YOUR WALL PANELS 75% Professionals who produce your floor (slab, foundation, subfloor) will ensure it is
square and dimensioned to accommodate your decision regarding the thickness of the shear wall material, foam sheets, wire,
wrap, and stucco, brick or stone veneer. The distance from the edge of the floor to the chalk line which marks the wall layout is determined by the thickness and the weight of these layers. The panel layout plan of your FrameUpNow project is dimensioned to be perfectly aligned to the edge of the floor, and here we assume that the shear wall and additional wall build-up material extend past the edge of the floor. The following instructions for laying out the snaplines for your FrameUpNow wall panels apply to all types of floors, concrete slab or subfloor, and all levels - ground, first or subsequent levels. Before you install the wall panels, you need to make sure that the layout for your walls is square on the floor. You can’t rely on it being correct/square, because occasionally floors are a bit out of square.
The tools and technique for snapping lines
Prepare the chalk reel box, chalk powder, 100 ft measuring tape, chalk stick and a sharpie. To snap a perfectly straight chalk line, you need to pull it tight, like a string on an archery bow; not so tight that it breaks, but tight enough that it will give a good snap. Once pulled tight, hold the string against the surface at your mark. Pull the string away from the floor and let it go to snap a chalk line on the floor.
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