Perhaps you've heard whisperings about staggered stud walls, possibly by people in trench coats and sunglasses pretending not ...

Don’t Forget the Connectors Structural connectors are designed to hold framing members to the foundation and to one another. They help a building withstand heavy loads, strong winds and earthquakes.

Q. I'm trying to educate myself about new construction, as I'm thinking of building a new home. I see carpenters nail on large sheets of wood onto the wall studs. What's the purpose of this funny ...

A:The material you probably saw was OSB sheathing. The OSB stands for oriented strand board. This building product has become the mainstay material to cover both exterior wall studs and roof ...

Sheathing, which is used the transfer the in-plane force. Blocking, which stiffens the wall and increases shear capacity. Chords, which are at each end of the wall and are composed of hold downs ...

Frame and raise the remaining walls without sheathing. After nailing together the corner studs, add the top plates. Apply the remaining plywood sheathing (Photo 10). At the side walls, keep the ...

The vertical wall studs need to be the same height. Doing this allows you to square up the wall on the ground before you begin to add sheathing to the wall. Before you add the plywood or oriented ...

Q: I have a stucco house built in 1959, and there is no sheathing under the ... and bottom plate as well as the studs. They provide lateral stability to the wall, but they aren't enough for ...

Be sure to snap vertical chalk lines to indicate the center of each stud. Staple building paper to the wall sheathing. Install the building paper by following the stud location marks. Starter ...

The space that this design feature creates between the back side of the second story exterior wall and the underside of the roof sheathing is usually left hollow. It is between the studs on the ...

studs are basically large vertical beams that help make up stud walls, whether they be structural or to partition rooms. Studs can be wood or metal, but wood studs are generally used in ...

The wall everyone knows how to build is the standard 2x4 stud wall with fiberglass insulation, sheathing on the outside and a poly vapour barrier under the drywall on the inside. It has a nominal ...