Building a new gun shop for Highlander Arsenal – Part 3

Well I now have a wall!
The shop is starting to go vertical with the completion and rasing of the front wall of the shop.

The wall has an opening for the front door on the left.  To the right of the door are two openings.  The one on the top is of course for a window and the one on the bottom is for the PTAC that will provide heating and cooling.  To the far right is an opening for another window.

If you don't know what a PTAC is, it stands for Packaged Terminal Air Conditioner.  These are the units you see in the walls of motel rooms.

This wall took about 6 hours of labor to complete.  The basic structure was pretty simple and easy to construct only taking about 2 hours or so.  The long drawn out part was cutting all the parts for framing the openings.  The openings for the PTAC and the window above it was the most complex.  You don't know how many parts go into framing out an opening until you actually have to do it.

Rasing the wall is the only thing I have had to have help doing so far.  It took three people to raise, plumb and brace the wall.  Thanks to Kevin and Hootie for the help!

Coming next will be the back wall.  Fewer openings so it should be easier.