Good Morning Friends,

After the rain we had last night and we are going to install top plates on the cement block garage my friend built to carry on with them so we can install trusses. Is it OK to layout and place trusses on the plates that were installed and are wet from the rain? The plates we are going to install today are dry because he had them covered with plastic.

They won't change in LENGTH, just in width, and thickness.   A day or two in the sunshine would help out.   Layout marks may have been washed out, though.    Is this a single top plate, or are they doubled up?    Wet plates might effect the height of the wall, though.  Then when they dry back out, things MIGHT change (warpping?)  IF you have the wall sheathing on.

 

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How long had the concrete been curing before the rain. Might want to allow it to dry so you don't pull the anchor bolts lose.

Anything worth doing is worth postponing.  I'd wait until everything dried out well.

Good morning Fellows,

Hi Doug, glad to see you on board. Now since the plates that are already bolted onto the concrete block walls and the acceptable moisture content is 19% for framing materials and with the sunshine we had yesterday they dried out well enough to lay out for the trusses. They were in fact doubled on top of the walls and we are going to wait till Saturday to mount the trusses.

Thanks for your support.