A lesson about Wall Sheathing in Residential Construction - TEACH Construction Trades Training 

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With so many people on You Tube giving bad advice while claiming they are experts it's refreshing to see Joe giving accurate information that will pass framing inspection. The debate for using either osb or fir plywood for wall sheathing has been going on for years, for structural strength I would give the edge to osb and for weathering to fir plywood. More important than that is to use 7/16" for a minimum thickness, I think 3/8 is too thin and 7/16 is just a bit more money. This is a little off topic but for subfloors I think the best product is 3/4" premium T&G osb, it's denser, heavier and more rigid than fir plywood which is exactly what you want for a floor.

Good info. May I make a suggestion? You typically build the wall on the deck - studs and plates. Square it while it's lying down, then sheath it while it's still horizontal. Now when you tip it up, it's still square and sheathed. No climbing ladders with a 4x8 sheet, nor renting scaffolds.

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Woohoo, after listening to you, I now know what the lines on OSB mean. My master didn't tell me before, maybe my master doesn't know either. Every time I drive a nail, I have to draw lines to set the nail on the Studs. thank you very much.

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I just rebuilt both the garage overhead door wall and 30' of wall in the master bedroom and half bath. The butt walls on both sides have Masonite lap board under the siding rather than sheathing and needs to be replaced.👍

I live in Japan and am doing my own renovations to a very old farm house. The biggest problem I have is sourcing materials to do this work; while there is a large Home Depot style store in town, it carries little to nothing of what I need. No vapor barrier material, no vapor barrier tape, no decent OSB or plywood sheathing, no siding material, and no window assemblies. It is without a doubt the biggest problem in my projects. Your channel has been very informative. Thank you very much.

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Love your content and learning so much from them.. Thank you mate Plz make a video for what comes after the sheating (vapor barrier, insulation, dry wall, cladding etc)

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This is great to find! Im in the process if having to sheath my damaged garage wall. Ive seen things listed as structural rigid foam like R tech rigid foil faced foam. I dont live where their is tremors but we do have tornados on occasions

Thank you. I’m about to redo the sheathing and cladding on my house and I’m starting from square one. Thank you. After this I’m moving on to tyvek house wrap. I’m in the Dallas area of North Texas.

Thanks for the information. As a DIYer, I always wondered why people put sheathing sideways.

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Hi, Thank you for the great video and the information within. I have a question, can I use 3/4” sheathing on 2X4 exterior walls?

Great video, should the gaps in sheathing be taped if using external WRB not ZIP. Also if using tongue and groove is the spacing still required? thanks and great video.

12:00 - re the 1/8" gap.... How is that handled in practice when after the first sheet, the edges no longer fall on the center of the rafters or studs and the discrepancy grows with every sheet? Are the sheets not 4x8 but rather 3'11⅞" x7'11⅞"?

This is great, thank you! But one question. I am trying to find an explanation on whether to align the sheathing flush with the top or bottom plates. Sheathing is 96" however, a rough framed wall is 97 1/8" from top to bottom.

For building a shed on a concrete slab, what is the recommended gap between the sheet and the concrete pad? Should flashing be used between baseplate and sheet to cover any base plate exposure?

would you use 1/2" OSB for roof decking? The framing is 24"OC.

thanks. does sheathing need to be flashed with sill plate or goes down the sill?

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Loving your videos, thank you! One thing I don’t understand yet is how OSB sheets can still fall on center / layout despite having to be flush at the edges of the walls or even overlapping with other sheathed walls in corners. Also, wouldn’t the 1/8 expansion gaps throw off the layout? Thank you!

Wood siding T -111 I believe. Removing some rotted pieces, realized that my home has no sheathing on this particular side of the home. Just a foam backer, then the interior insulation.

I am purchasing a David Weekley home in Katy, Houston. They us foam sheathing instead of OSB for most part of the house. Is it ok in Houston?

in order to make the sheathing flush with end stud, should I leave a smaller space between end stud and first common stud?

I have a specific question related to a personal remodel project I'm working on. The house is in moist Climate Zone 3 (right on the edge of CZ 4). It was built in 1974, 2x4, 16" OC, R11 faced insulation, fiber board sheathing, no vapor barrier, 3.5" brick siding. Here is my problem: a significant (35%) portion of the original fiberboard sheathing has disintegrated. Now what!? I do not have the budget to tear off the brick and redo the siding. Is there any possibly way to air seal and protect from shear forces now?

When you space the sheathing 1/8", do you trim off a 1/6th from each sheet or do you cheat a few sheets and take 1/4 off one to get back on your 16 or 24 layout. It has always puzzled me why they don't simply make the sheathing 1/6th short. I suppose you could calculate this 16th into your layout but I've never seen anyone do it. I just picked up 24 sheets today and I will make the effort to leave the spacings. And, thanks for the perimeter nailing factor on horizontal installations. I was going to do some horizontal installations to help pull together a long wall and I didn't consider the blocking, which I will do.

Question I know this would add a lot to the cost of a build but would it be worth it to sheath both the outside of the house with OSB and the inside of the wall then hang sheetrock with the goal being to build a stronger wall and quieter house?

Hi I have a project of a tiny house 16x40 my question is when I build a wall I should build it in different pieces every 8' wall or I have to build a wall every 16' until I complete the 40' long?

Would adding sheathing to both sides of the wall increase its strength?

I read that you should put the smooth side outside for better moisture resistance, but the lines are on the rough side, so my gut tells me the smooth-rough thing is bogus & the lines are most important. Am I right? Another thing: we’re supposed to put 1/8” space between panels, but the panels are 4’x8’, & the studs are 16” on-center, therefore the junction is going to move 1/8” each & 4 sheets are going to be off by 1/2”, and 3/4” after 6, which brings you to the edge of the stud. Should people be offsetting the studs or trimming the sheathing!

If you line up the sheathing flush with the outside edge of the edge stud then how would a 4' sheet of osb fall on center on the common stud?

Can i use fiber cement boards to close a back porch without sheathing?

Sir do you have a video on how to replace a top sill. I have termite damage

Can somebody explain how the first sheet which covers the entire 1.5" width of the first stud properly lands in the middle of the 3rd stud as it's supposed to? For example, I get that with 16" OC studs a panel which lands *in the middle* of one stud will properly land in the middle of the 3rd stud down and so on. But the first panel needs to totally cover the first stud (not land in the middle), which means it breaks on the EDGE of the 3rd stud, no? What am I missing here? Or do you just get around this by making a custom first sheet that lands in the middle of the second stud, 32" over, and then use a full sheet after that?

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In your talk about nails you never mentioned construction screws. Are they not legal to use? If so, what are the parameters? BTW, i'm not in the trade. I'm building a 12X24 Workshop at my house. Thanks.

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Staples are not permitted by the IRC for exterior wall sheathing unless adopted by the AHJ.

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Why does my OSB have tong and groove if they need spacing?

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These Wood Panelings Have Odor Especially the OSB. I Am Highly Sensitive to Odors. It Makes Me terribly Sick. I'm building a Small Room in the back of My House, I've Spent a Better part Of the past Weeks Browsing the Internet for Alternative to Wood Framing Panels. But Everything seems to be some type of Wood or Engineered wood. I would ideally like something with PVC or FRP that would have the Strength and Rigidity of Wood but without Odor. Do you have any ideas/suggestions??

Where do we find an inspector, framing inspector…

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I'm rebuilding an existing house. Major termite damage.

Im having a hard time understand how to work with the 1/8 in gap if the sheets are 4' even. At every four sheets, the fifth sheet no longer start on a stud. The sheets really should be 47.875" width.

What if I have 9’ walls

Help 8 ‘ osb doesn’t span 8 foot wall It is the same length of the 8 foot studs Leaving gap of 4 1/2 inches WHY?

According to APA you cannot just rotate OSB whenever you feel like there is actually a way that it runs and the wood chips within the OSB should be to be perpendicular to the studs. For proper wall strength. The information you're giving out around minute 10 is incorrect. Otherwise nice video and content I can't do any better.

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Great way to use trash materials add the term "sheathing" public is sold. Throw some osb backed lp siding you can throw em up fast. 5k-6k sq ft dream home starting at the 900's. Good luck 10 years from now when the subs come on the weekend skip steps your sheating will swell and lose its original purpose. Fail steps on the deck Sill plates will rot out.