how to frame a wall 16 inch on center
Bob Schmidt shows you how and why to lay-out a wall during construction to a standard 16 inch on center lay-out. When laying out a top and bottom plate for a typical wall a framing square is usually the most appropriate tool. To begin, flush up top & bottom plate ends, hook tape on flush ends. The first measurement is 15 1/4 inches to side of first stud placement. Each corresponding measurement should be 3/4 of an inch shy of stud marks on typical tape measure. This will give you studs that are on 16 inch center layouts. Sixteen inch center layouts are important for several reasons: many building materials are designed to fit in a 16 inch layout, ie. insulation, medicine cabinets some tile backing inserts & ironing board inserts; when installing cabinets or trim ie. crown, baseboard, these materials need to be attached to framing. If you stay true to 16 inch centers, all you really need to do in a wall is find the first stud and the rest of the studs in the wall are always multiples of 16 inches away. Another consideration when framing a wall is to match the existing structure as far as floor joist layouts, so as to allow space to run heat ducts, plumbing pipes, wiring to electrical panels, without having wall studs in the way and saving you time and money.
Good sound advice and nice tip on the square as well. (Duh goes out to myself).
Very usefull pages. Thanks.
MAN Bob sir, i wish my boss 2 years ago could have seen this video. of course old home re-models are always a little different, but my old bass WOULD NOT LISTEN to me and ended up paying me a lot of overtime fixing framing mistakes. you can imagine what other mistakes arose from poor framing layout. oh well, i did what the boss said and got a lot of overtime!!! LOL, Great video, as always.
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Nice very helpful. But what do you when your cement floor under you bottom plate is not level?
I’m planning on adding a wall in my shed to section it between the storage side and the workshop side. tired of heating the storage side when I don’t need to.
Thanks Jim
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I am taking Carpentry this semester in College… pretty fast paced..
One thing I have to say is, we were laying out roof joist, and one of the guys was telling me what to mark down. I really did not get time to ponder on why, he was doing it the way he was doing it. After watching this video. I get it.
Makes sense. Of course he didn’t explain any of the stuff that was mentioned in this video, which I found to be extremely important and informative info.
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As always, nice work.
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The first stud is 15 1/4 inch to lead edge of stud+++Bob
I see now why you need a 16″ spacing after you explained the part about the insulation which is cut to fit perfectly in between the wall joints. Thanks so much for this information.
great vid
Fantastic.
Thanks for your videos as always!
Is the 1st stud out of position in your example layout? You measured centers from the end of your plate, but the first stud is placed flush (rather than centered) with the edge of the plate. Please explain, this does not make sense to me.
Beautifully done. (Where’s the “Subscribe” button?)
Good, info normally I get this wrong???
A nice review of the basics, thanks!