
▲ 105 r/Carpentry
What would you do? Squaring a post frame structure.
I’m DYI’ing a 50’x32’ barn. Posts are 12’ above grade. At grade, I’m square. At the top my two sides are 32’ 1/2” and front side is 50’ 1”. Back wall is exactly 50’. My diagonals are off by 1”.
Rookie mistake: I’ve already nailed in my headers/beams. So what would you do?
A. Send it and try to adjust for the 1” when setting the trusses.
B. Cut the ring shank nails and free up the post(s) that need to move and then ratchet them into place, brace, and re-nail?
C. The thing you’re going to tell me because you’ve done this before and I haven’t so I don’t know to think of it.
u/Paraklesis — 1 day ago