FRAMING THE BACK ROOM
Equally amazing was the way they put together the walls. First they flopped the 2x4s on the floor. Next they nailed "plates" on top and bottom. That was it--they lifted the assembly and nailed it in place, and voila! there was a wall! Perhaps the most spectacular step was when they lifted a wall onto the foundation and the holes in the lower board dropped precisely around the studs embedded in the concrete. Let's see...my procedure would be: "measure twice...drill once...measure again...drill again..."