Just like the first floor, the second floor needs something to hold it up. We did not need to
build a woodbeam like we did in the basement as the first floor has walls that are close enough
to the middle of the house that we could use them instead.
Here are the 2nd floor floor trusses being put into place
This made it simpler as we did not have to build a beam, however it also made it more difficult to
get the floor trusses into the house as you had to manuver them around the walls. Once again it
would have been very simple to rent a crane and have the floor trusses lifted up into place, but
as mentioned before, cost and schedules did not permit that.
Since renting a crance was not an option, the floor trusses had to be lifted into place by hand.
We did this by setting up some scafolding and first lifting a floor truss up on to that and then
after climbing onto the scafolding, lifting the truss from there the rest of the way up.
Everything that you would do on the first floor needs to be repeated for the second floor. Make
sure that everything is straight on the outside edges and check your dimensions corner to corner.
Here is a good sideview of both the first and second floor floor trusses.