A wall in two frantic hours

I mentioned the wall separating the upstairs bedroom from the bathroom and storage closet yesterday. Here's how it went up:

Step One -- 11:30: After you've laid out the chalk lines on the floor, measure and mark the top and bottom plates -- the horizontal boards -- where they'll meet the studs.


















Step Two: -- 11:42: Make box headers -- two 2-by-6s and two 2-by-4s nailed together into a very heavy, sturdy unit -- to bear the loads over the doors.













Step Three -- 11:55: Install the jacks (the studs supporting the box headers), the studs and the joint where the wall separating the bathroom and closet will go.

















Step Four -- 12:43: Fix the top corners so the design works. You can't put up a purely rectangular wall because of the knee walls and dormers. It was a lot of tricky measuring and trimming -- and then again on the other side.













Step Five -- 1:30: Stand the damn thing up by brute force, sledgehammer it into place, plumb it -- and then nail it like crazy. (Don't worry about that 2-by-4 where the sliding door goes; it's just for some stability while the wall was being pulled up to vertical.)