Pictures of the window corners...

I was afraid we had some framing problems around the window and door openings so I had Marta take these and post them so Louie at FischerSIPS could see what was going on and give some input. After seeing the photos he decided that he should leave Louisville first thing in the morning instead of waiting till mid-afternoon.

Front window on the right side (facing the road). The problem here is the short stud really should have come up to the level of the top of the foam. Then another 2x4 would have been laid across the foam (supported by aforementioned stud). Then another stud would have been placed vertically up to... (see second picture below).

The hole in the jack stud and the channel in the foam are for electrical wire. (A jack stud goes up to the header and a king stud goes all the way up to the top plate.)

The second stud would/should have run up to the bottom of panel 103 (see below). Yet another 2x4 would then be run in the horizontal grove of panel 103 with yet another 2x4 running on up to the header. What all these little pieces do is to create a support structure for each other. As it is in the photo the beginning of the jack stud (the two pictures above wouldn't support anything as it is below the level of the foam. This crew seems intent on doing things in a temporary fashion until some later time when they will come back and fix things correctly.

These next two photos are of the opposite corner of the same window. The jack stud was proud of the surfact (slightly above the surface) and they just took a sawz-all and cut it down...still leaving the same problem with no support at the top of the foam. Aye carumba!!

This is the upper corner of the same side pictured just above. What you are seeing is a jack stud embeded in the SIPS panel with the fill in SIPS panel supported my a small chunck of 2x4 that doesn't run down to the level of the foam. There is a header (an engineered or structural piece of wood meant to carry a load) above the SIPS panel in the window area.

Below is another shot of the same thing.

Front window on the left side (facing the road). You can see here that at least the 2x4 spline embeded in the SIPS panel comes down to the level of the foam insulation. The stud next to it goes all the way to the top so it is a "king stud".

What you are looking at here is the lower part of the same window opening. In this case you can barely make out the top part of the hole in the king stud for a wire chase. The section of the jack stud has not been drilled out and you can see there is no channel in the foam for wire...the panel was put in upside down. The fix for that is simply to melt a channel in with the foam tool FischerSIPS sent.

Master bedroom window.

Below we have another jack stud peeping out at a sill plate. In this case as above the jack stud should have terminated level with the foam. The sill plate should run the full width of the window and another section of the jack stud run up to the next stud.

This is the other bottom corner of the same window...this looks correct...the other side should look like this as well.

Study/nursery room window in the back of the house. This window is even more messed up than the very first window mentioned above. A lot of these issues have nothing to do with using SIPS panels. They have to do with simple framing techniques that are pretty much universal regardless of whether one is stick framing or using panels. In addition to the same problems the other window had this window has a structural header above it. The header is not low enough for the sill plate to fit in. This means another redo. They will have to cut a chunk of the jack stud out, hammer the header down. Then they will have to cut the panel loose and push it up (currently there is a large gap as the header hasn't been pushed into the spline cavity of the SIPS panel).

The below photo shows the top of the header lower than the top of the panel edge. It actually should be even a bit lower. If you laid a top sill on the header in the current position the 2x4 wouldn't sink into the spline cavity of the panels on the side.