Square up your wall layout in the basement with the 3-4-5 method. Can also be used to layout a wood framed foundation.
Use this 3-4-5 method to square up your concrete pour forming as well!

What are the advantages of having a square foundation to work from. Accuracy is always priority one! Other things you gain are optimum use of materials having consistent measurements at all points. Another thing is the ability to cut multiple framing members to the same dimensions, over and over as needed, because you have an exacting area that does not change. It doesn't start out at 12 feet wide and end up 11 feet and seven inches.

Layout of a square foundation also allows the use of 4'X 8' sheet-goods to be placed directly on the framed foundation and to line up the edges with the exterior perimeter and have it fall directly on these exterior points. No cutting to get the material hacked into place because you have an out of square wall or foundation. The video further explains how to square up a wall or floor foundation for this much needed accuracy.

Think for a moment if you have taken no time to square up a foundation for your shed you are building for all your home improvement tools and home overflow items. You frame this foundation up, then build and frame walls, stand the walls and secure them. Whenever you start cutting joists and rafters you get an irritating sense of "what is going on here"?

How to frame a room ( A really nice set of video to help further your goal of getting an accurate square, level and plumb structure.)

Because the foundation is racked out of square the walls transfer this out of square-ness to the upper top plates. Your widths may be different lengths for your joists and your rafter pairs have to be cut individually due to the constant change in measurements of this oversite. Even the plywood that lays on the final framed rafters will have to be cut individually because the rafters will tend to drift out of layout and also may be higher and lower on plane.

It is just more beneficial and much easier to square the foundation, re-square the wall layout and have it all work out. And if this is your first DIY framing job, you may not be able to think your way out of these issues. And what will the neighbors think!

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